Spring of freedom

An overview of the opening of an extraordinary session of member-states of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague Nov. 28, 2018  - Up until recently, the Iranian regime had a lot of visible and invisible support, and some Western countries even ignored Tehran’s terrorist attacks on their own soil in exchange for lucrative trade deals and cheap oil. But since the new administration took office in the U.S., as hard as Iran’s lobby in the West tries and as cheap as the regime itself sells Iranian interests abroad and in the region, one would have a hard time to find a country which offers more than rhetoric to support the ruling mullahs in Iran. The most recent blow against the Iranian theocracy happened just a few days ago when the U.S. ambassador to Netherlands Kenneth Ward accused Iran of failing to declare chemical weapons-related activities in violation of its commitments to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Wea...

Di Mahmoud Hakamian In Occidente, è opinione diffusa che ci siano due modi per affrontare il regime iraniano: l'accondiscendenza o la guerra. Dal 1979, la politica di accondiscendenza ha vinto e la maggior parte dei paesi ha voltato la faccia per ignorare le atrocità del regime, al fine di evitare la guerra a tutto campo, che avrebbe dato i suoi problemi. Tuttavia, vi è una terza opzione, avanzata da Maryam Rajavi, il presidente eletto della Resistenza Iraniana, che sostiene il cambio di regime in Iran causato dal popolo iraniano e dalla resistenza iraniana. Maryam Rajavi ha sempre asserito che nessuna concessione avrebbe fermato i mullah dalla loro disastrosa strada, poiché il regime è "una teocrazia medievale che non ha la capacità di riforma". Dopo tutto, il principio della regola del clero assoluto è un pilastro della costituzione che non può essere mai cambiato, non che i mullah l'avrebbe mai permesso in ogni caso. Questo principio mina qualsiasi nozio...

Maryam Rajavi: “La teocrazia al potere in Iran deve essere isolata dalla comunità mondiale, il suo dossier presentato al Consiglio di Sicurezza dell’ONU e i suoi leader devono affrontare la giustizia per crimini contro l’umanità”  “Nel condannare le sistematiche e massicce violazioni dei diritti umani da parte del regime teocratico al potere in Iran, la risoluzione dell’ONU conferma ancora una volta che questo regime calpesta palesemente i più fondamentali diritti del popolo iraniano in ogni ambito politico, sociale ed economico”, ha detto Maryam Rajavi, la Presidente eletta del Consiglio Nazionale della Resistenza Iraniana, salutando la 65a risoluzione dell’ONU che condanna le violazioni dei diritti umani in Iran. “Il regime iraniano non è in alcun modo consono al 21° secolo e deve essere isolato dalla comunità mondiale”, ha aggiunto Maryam Rajavi. La risoluzione dell’ONU sottolinea “l’allarmante alta frequenza” dell’uso della pena di morte, anche nei confronti dei minorenni...

The most common form of violence against women in Iran is the state-sponsored measures to impose the compulsory veil. Dozens of video clips were posted on the social media over the past year, revealing the savagery of the so-called guidance patrols in dealing with Iranian women on the streets and parks. A report published in summer by the research center of the mullahs’ parliament (Majlis) indicated that some 70% of Iranian women do not believe in the compulsory dress-code, namely the head-to-toe black veil or  Chador , imposed by the regime. They are among the “improperly veiled” and protest the compulsory veil. The report confirms that Iranian women observe the veil only through coercion and harsh restrictions. [i] As the center puts it, more than 85% of the “improperly veiled” do not believe in the value of Chador and do not approve of government intervention to control this issue. The research indicated that young educated women residing in large cities and metropoli...

Strike and demonstration of Ahvaz Steel and Haft Tapeh Sugarcane Mill workers Strike and demonstration of Ahvaz Steel and Haft Tapeh Sugarcane Mill  workers against oppression of the clerical regime On the morning of Tuesday, November 20, the strike and demonstration of the brave workers of Ahvaz Steel and Haft Tappeh Sugarcane mill continued. Haft Tappeh Sugarcane workers rallied on the 16 th  day of their strike in front of the regime's governorate in the city of Shush, protesting the arrest of their colleagues. They chanted on the march to the city market: “Imprisoned worker must be freed; We are workers of Steel, we stand together; Lest we accept humiliation” In Ahvaz, steel workers rallied in front of the Governorate on the eleventh day of their strike, despite the presence of a variety of repressive forces. They chanted: “We, the steel workers, fight against oppression; unemployment, inflation, the plight of people; inflation, high prices, respond Rouhani; b...

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran On Wednesday morning of November 21, the inhumane clerical regime, in a brutal act, hanged three prisoners collectively in public in Shiraz on the Mullah-made charge of moharebeh (fighting with God). While in spite of arbitrary arrests and all kinds of suppressive measures, protests by the various strata of the population, including the strikes and demonstrations of brave workers of Ahvaz Steel and Haft Tappeh Sugarcane, have been spreading, the clerical regime has resorted to public executions in order to step up the atmosphere of terror and to prevent an outbreak of people's anger. The Iranian Resistance calls on the all international human rights advocates, in particular the High Commissioner for Human Rights, the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran and the rapporteur on arbitrary executions, to condemn these brutal executions and to take immediate action to stop this medieval sentencing...

Iran regime FM, Javad Zarif is under fire from MPs for admitting of money laundering in Iran  As the Iranian regime’s internal disputes flare into crisis mode over remarks made recently by Iranian regime Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif over money laundering skyrocketing in recent weeks, Iranian regime President Hassan Rouhani also acknowledged this reality by saying such cases of money laundering has become common in Iran. All the while, Sadegh Amoli Larijani, head of the regime’s so-called judiciary and a figure very close to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, described such revelations as a “dagger in the heart” of the mullahs’ regime. The regime’s parliament, known as the Majlis, is weighing the possibility of impeaching Zarif, Larijani added. In a recent cabinet meeting Rouhani, however, resorted to actually justifying Zarif’s remarks. “… The whole world has money-laundering problems. Show me one country not having problems with money laundering… Yes, we have cases...

Workers of Haft Tappeh Sugarcane and Ahvaz Steel demonstrate Angry workers of Haft Tappeh Sugarcane and Ahvaz Steel factories rallied on Monday, November 19 th , in protest at the arrest of a large number of sugar cane workers. On their fifteenth day of strike, disregarding repressive measures and the tight presence of repressive forces and riot police, Haft Tappeh workers rallied. People from various walks joined them on their path. The protesters chanted in front of the governorate: Imprisoned workers must be freed; Threats and imprisonment do not work anymore. Chanting slogans, the people called for the release of the workers in front of the regime's court. At the same time, Ahvaz Steel workers rallied in front of the provincial governorate in the second week of their strike and in support of the Haft Tappeh workers. The workers chanted: Haft Tappeh worker must be freed; We, the Steel workers, fight and fight against oppression and tyranny; No nation has ever seen suc...

Demonstration by the workers of the Haft Tapeh sugar cane company in Iran  On Wednesday, the workers of the Haft Tapeh sugar cane company in Shush, Khuzestan, began the 17 th  day of their demonstrations in protest to unpaid wages, the arrest of their colleagues and the government’s lack of response to their demands. The protesters were chanting, “Imprisoned workers must be freed.” The protesters were holding pictures of imprisoned workers. Last week, the Iranian regime’s security forces arrested several of the protesters and their spokespersons. On Monday, under the pressure of mounting tensions and expanding protests, regime officials released all but four of the protesters and a local reporter. The regime has yet to respond to the demands of the workers. Haft Tapeh is the largest sugar cane factory in Iran and one of the largest in the Middle East. But due to the destructive economic policies of the Iranian regime, the company is on the verge of bankruptcy. Thi...

File photo of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The internal power struggles in Iran have not stopped since 1979 Islamic Revolution that toppled the Shah’s regime and was monopolized by the religious establishment that controls all joints of the Iranian government. The conflict between the wings of the reformist and militant regime has reached bloody levels against the backdrop of the Green Movement of 2009, which would have almost overthrown the hardliner conservatives loyal to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei, had the bloody crackdown by reformist not been suppressed. Today and while Hassan Rouhani who is a moderate president with balanced relations with the moderate reformists on one hand and with the moderate conservatives on the other hand, who is at the helm of the executive power, at a time when the Islamic Republic is facing qualitative challenges in the face of harsh US sanctions, the hardliner conservatives left no chance but to ignore Rouhani...

Independent judiciary; What the Iranians expect to have in a free Iran Human social evolution history tells us there is no dictator, who would not attempt to preserve its power over people through all kind of suppression, deception, and crime. In this regard, dictators the law enforcement to an oppressive organ, although they pretend that they respect an  independent judiciary . Religious dictatorship ruling Iran has deprived its own people of their basic human rights, this regime does not even respect the international human rights conventions, which it is a signatory of, let alone recognizing an independent judiciary. Thus, the Iranian people will not benefit from an independent judiciary until the mullahs are ruling, because hawks will not pick out hawks’ eyes. Therefore, exacting an independent judiciary on mullahs is an important factor to help Iranians’ struggle for achieving freedom and justice. Mullahs justify their human rights violations on the pretext of the...

  Maryam Rajavi , the president-elect of the Iranian Resistance As we have seen time and time again over the course of this year – and to be honest the past 40 years – the Iranian Regime has tried to attack the Iranian Resistance using terrorist groups and shadowy murder plots. This should frighten anyone with a commitment to human rights and especially freedom of expression, but how can the West – or indeed, the world at large – target the Iranian Regime and hold them accountable for their crimes? Well, luckily,  Maryam Rajavi , the president-elect of the Iranian Resistance, has a simple plan; one that she laid out for the world in a video message to the Brussels-based conference “Iran’s New Wave of Terrorism – The EU and US responses” in October. Maryam Rajavi says that the only way to effectively counter the mullahs’ terrorism is to stand firm against the Iranian Regime, rather than being compelled into “silence and surrender”. Maryam Rajavi said: “The mullahs ...

Iranian teachers in   numerous   cities began the second day of their nationwide strike On Wednesday, Iranian teachers in numerous cities began the second continuous day of their nationwide strike. The strikes began yesterday in protest to the deteriorating living conditions, suppression of teachers, high inflation rates and declining purchasing power of Iranian consumers. The teachers are also demanding that the regime stops discrimination against working and retired teachers. The Iranian regime has arrested and incarcerated several teachers for standing up to their rights. The strike follows several similar strikes by teachers in the past months and is happening against the backdrop of nationwide protests and strikes by different classes of the Iranian society that have been ongoing since the beginning of the year. Yesterday, students across Iran expressed their support for their protesting teachers. Iranian opposition leaders Maryam Rajavi also voiced her s...