Spring of freedom

Archive photo: Struan Stevenson, former MEP, and coordinator of the Campaign for Iran Change (CiC), speaking at the Geneva Conference on the situation of human rights in Iran The former member of the European Parliament Struan Stevenson published an  op-ed for UPI  on Thursday, April 25. He used the opportunity to urge the US government to maintain its application of financial pressure on the Iranian regime and end its reign of violence and tyranny. Stevenson called President Trump’s decision to end waivers for Turkey, Iraq, India, Japan, and China that permitted them to continue purchasing Iranian oil “the final nail” in “the mullahs’ coffin.” For Stevenson, this was a necessary move to slash Iranian oil exports closer to “zero” goal. STRUAN @STRUANSTEVENSON My article in @ UPI Decision to cancel the temporary waivers that had enabled some countries to continue purchasing # Iran 's oil has hammered the final nail into the mullahs' coffin # MEK @ Se...

Flags flutter outside the venue of a preparatory meeting between Arab foreign ministers in Tunis on Friday. Cairo: As Arab leaders are gathering in Tunisia for their annual summit, one of the key issues is going to be Iran, according to observers. Iran’s destabilising interference in the Arab world is a major problem as the region is struggling with several devastating conflicts. An Arab quartet this week voiced “grave concern” over Iranian moves in the region. The quartet comprises Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt. The committee, which met on Friday in the capital Tunis, accused Iran of “stoking creed and sectarian” tensions in Arab countries. Iran’s proxies are seen as being active in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen and Bahrain. Addressing an Arab ministerial meeting in Tunis, Saudi Foreign Minister Ebrahim Al Assaf was sharply critical of meddlesome Iran. “The most dangerous form of terrorism and extremism is Iran’s flagrant interference in our Arab affairs...

PMOI-MEK members in celebrating Nowruz, the Iranian calendar new year The Iranian opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) celebrated Nowruz, the Iranian calendar new year (the year 1398), along with their supporters and many distinguished guests. Iranian opposition President  Maryam Rajavi  of the National Council of Resistance of Iran ( NCRI ) welcomed the new year and delivered a speech analyzing the past 12 months and providing a perspective for the year ahead. Mrs. Rajavi iterated the problems that different segments of the Iranian population are facing, including teachers, workers, farmers and more. “In the final moments before the turn of the year, we are standing with Iran’s workers whose table spreads are empty. We are standing beside the farmers whose farms are dry and dehydrated. We are standing with the honorable teachers of Iran who are discriminated against and humiliated, who have been doomed to live under the poverty line, and wh...

Iranian women's struggle on the eve of International Women's Day The 20 th  century was the era of both the formation and escalation of women’s liberation movements in course of realizing women’s equal rights in all of its aspects, to put an end to gender discrimination. It was for these struggles that despite major hurdles on its way, women’s equality could take steps forward. From the 1908 strike of women workers of a textile factory in New York, where women protested against working conditions, which turned to a symbolic day for women’s equality movement, up to now, a long path has been paved. But, unfortunately, the achievements are not the same everywhere in the world. In this regard, we review the situation of women in Iran on the eve of the International Women’s Day. After more than a century of struggle for equality, Iranian women are still suffering from gender discrimination and violence against women. Their status-quo under the mullahs’ regime ruling Iran is ...

Iranian opposition leader Maryam Rajavi addresses a meeting at the European Parliament in 2017. Photo courtesy of - Maryam Rajavi  There are about 40 million women in the Islamic Republic of Iran, over half under age 30. At a time when women in the West have achieved political, economic, personal and social equality, Iranian women are among the most repressed in the world, ruled by a regime dominated by elderly, bearded misogynists. It is little wonder that the nationwide protests, which have continued in almost every town and city in Iran for the past 14 months, have often been led by or involved the participation of thousands of women. Female teachers, medical staff, students, factory workers and pensioners have taken to the streets to demand an end to corruption, an end to discrimination and repression and an end to the clerical regime's aggressive military adventurism across the Middle East. The chants of the protesters now openly call for regime change. It is clear ...