Spring of freedom

Bipartisan senators and senior former American officials joined Iranian Americans at a Senate briefing to embrace the promise of a free Iran. Nowruz, as it’s celebrated around the world, demonstrates Iran’s rich cultural roots and shows us that the future of Iran always belongs to its people.” — Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) WASHINGTON, DC, USA, March 19, 2019 / EINPresswire.com / -- Bipartisan senators and senior former American officials joined senate staffers and members of the Iranian-American community at a Senate briefing to embrace the promise of a free Iran. The event, which also included the celebration of the Persian New Year, Nowruz, hosted sitting senators and staff members from both sides of the aisle. Distinguished personalities delivered remarks, including former senator Joseph Lieberman, former National Security Advisor General James Jones, former Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge and former Assistant Secretary of State Lincoln Bloomfield, Jr. The Senat...

Representation of the National Council of Resistance of Iran in Germany DER SPIEGEL published an article on February 16, 2019, titled "Prisoners of the Rebellion," containing a wealth of shameless lies and allegations defaming the opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) and the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). This article is a blatant betrayal of responsible journalism, misleading rather than enlightening, defaming rather than doing justice to the truth. Grossly violating professional principles, its authors aid and abet the terrorist and religious dictatorship ruling Iran, paving the way for Iran's mullahs to legitimize and pursue terror and bloodshed against the MEK on the European soil. In 2018, the regime’s intelligence service used European countries, from France to Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Norway, Austria and Albania, to plot terror on the MEK, Europeans, and Americans by its spies and terrorists. Amnesty Internation...

Speaking at a rally by Iranians in Warsaw Senator Robert Torricelli said: “The thousands and thousands of Iranians who have risked their lives have taken to the streets of the cities and towns of Iran, they are your choice. The thousands and millions of people of diaspora across Europe, but in America they are the choice, the NCRI is the choice, Maryam Rajavi is the choice. There is a choice for new leadership in Iran.” The rally by Iranians supporting the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) on Wednesday was held on the first day of the conference on Middle East in Warsaw Poland. Test of speech by former Democratic US Senator Robert Torricelli follows: In all the world, there is no better place to meet to speak of freedom than in Warsaw, Poland, For 70 years, the Polish people did not negotiate with their oppressors. They didn't hope for change. They didn't accommodate their loss of freedom. They never gave up the idea that Poland would be free. Today we come...

Hundreds of people, including a large number of women, were arrested in the protests gathering of dervishes in Tehran Seventy of the women arrested during the dervishes’ gathering in Golestan Haftom Ave. in Tehran, have been brutalized and taken to the Quarantine Ward 3 of the notorious Qarchak Prison in Varamin. With 40 women already detained in this ward, the addition of the new arrestees makes the ward overcrowded. There is no information available on the fate of other women arrested in the dervishes’ gathering. Hundreds of people, including a large number of women, were arrested in the protests gathering of dervishes in Tehran when suppressive forces attacked them on Monday night, February 19. The raid lasted until Tuesday morning, February 20, 2018. The Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran strongly condemns the mass and arbitrary arrests of protesters. It calls on relevant international organizations defending human rights and women’s...

In a meeting in Paris, Jan. 19, 2018, former US House Speaker Newt Gingrich expressed his support for the Iranian people’s uprising and for the organized resistance under the NCRI The prominent Republican and former presidential candidate was addressing a meeting with representatives of Iranian communities from Europe, which was held at the  NCRI  ’s headquarters in a northern suburb of Paris. Maryam Rajavi  , the President-elect of the NCRI, addressed the meeting, titled “Regime change in Iran.” The meeting took place in the wake of a popular uprising that erupted in Iran on December 28. According to the network of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK), the NCRI’s main constituent group, the protests rapidly spread to 142 cities across the country. The MEK network reported that some 50 protesters were killed and at least 8,000 were detained. A growing number of are found to have been tortured to death. In his speech on January 9, Iran’s Supreme ...

An Iranian military truck carries parts of an air defence missile system during a parade on the occasion of the countrys Army Day NEWSMAX,  20 Jun 2017 --  On June 18, Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) launched several midrange missiles from western Iran across Iraq and hit sources in Syria of Islamic State (ISIS) attacks on Tehran on June 7. In the context of these strikes, consider revelations about Iran’s missile sites on June 20 by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (  NCRI  ) office in the United States (The People’s Mujahedeen Organization of Iran, PMOI aka Mujahedeen-e-Khalq MEK is the largest unit in the NCRI.) Nuclear negotiations between Iran and the major powers began during 2013 and culminated in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in 2015. Thereafter, the IRGC intensified its activities to develop and expand Tehran’s missile program based on orders of the regime’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, per the NCRI revelat...