Spring of freedom

An investigation into a dossier of crimes committed by the Iranian dictators has been called for, as a result of a statement issued by Amnesty International and published by the United Nations General Assembly. According to the statement, “Between late July and September 1988, the Iranian authorities forcibly disappeared and extrajudicially  executed thousands of prisoners  for their political opinions and dumped their bodies in unmarked individual and mass graves… Since then, the authorities have tormented the relatives by refusing to tell them when, how and why their loved ones were killed and by keeping their remains hidden. To reinforce secrecy, they have also destroyed mass grave sites and forbidden commemorations.” It is believed that over 30,000 political prisoners were killed — most of them members and supporters of the Iranian opposition People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran ( PMOI/MEK ). Now, Amnesty International is asking all countries to extend the miss...

Iranian political prisoner  Mehdi   Farahi Shandiz  The Iranian regime has transferred Mehdi Farahi Shandiz, teacher and political prisoner in Karaj Central Prison, to solitary confinement. Farahi Shandiz has been kept in solitary confinement for an entire week for unknown reasons. There’s no news of his conditions. Farahi Shandiz has been in prison for eight years and has been under constant torture and persecution by Iranian regime authorities and prison guards.  In 2011, Farahi Shandiz was sentenced to three years in prison. But after eight years, he was given an extension until 2023 under trumped-up charges and made-up allegations. A few weeks ago, Farahi Shandiz sent a message on the occasion of Iran’s National Student’s Day, in which he encouraged his compatriots to keep the flame of protests and uprisings alit. “Presently, under the evil shadow of the religious dictatorship, it is the students who are uniting with the unprivileged workers of ...

Massoud Rajavi, calling for resistance until victory The mullahs ruling Iran are trapped in political, social and economic crises as the result of their long-standing policy of domestic suppression and exporting terrorism abroad, immensely wasting the national wealth. This destructive policy has culminated in Iranian people’s uprising. People are unable to make their ends meet because the regime is providing its proxies and terror operations abroad using the wealth that should have provided its people.  Reimposing economic sanctions by the US has deteriorated the regimes economic condition. In this circumstances, a recent promising message from the Iranian Resistance’s leader Mr. Massoud Rajavi, on entering the phase of readiness for regime change, has strengthened the Iranian people’s spirit. As expected, the message has been widely welcomed by the members of the resistance units, the network affiliated to  the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI / MEK) ...

Nowadays, the noose has become tighter around the fundamentalist regime ruling Iran, and all signs indicate that the storm of overthrow is looming on it. From a political point of view, as the figures speak, the regime has internationally become more isolated and has plunged deeper into a dire situation; consequently, a growing radical public anger has surged in an explosive Iran. The trend of regime’s overthrow and its isolation accelerates even more. The political scene, both regional and international, is rapidly and tangibly turning against it from day to day. Regime’s economic condition; a witness to the fact Regarding the economy, which deals with figures, we are witnessing a situation in which the value of the country’s currency has fallen to one-third. In less than a month the value of one US dollar has risen from 100,000 to about 200.000 rials. This is not a gradual phenomenon, but a sharp fall which leads to an economic collapse, turn to social unrests and the ‘ov...

US economic sanctions against Iran   A significant portion of the sanctions imposed against the Iranian regime following the U.S. withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal will become active after 90 days and others after 180 days. The new U.S. Treasury sanctions, however, go online immediately. The economic impact of these sanctions can be witnessed in a rush to the exit door by numerous foreign companies involved in business with Iran. Many foreign companies one after another are currently pulling out of Iran and/or completely ending their contracts with Tehran. “Eight large European firms are determined to exit Iran,” according to the semi-official Tasnim news agency, affiliated to the Iranian regime’s Revolutionary Guards Quds Force. There are numerous reports in the media of large, multinational European companies exiting Iran. This slate includes Total, Reliance, Eni, Siemens, Airbus, Maersk, Allianz and…, proving the United States’ influence to neutralize Euro...

The funeral ceremony of Naser Malek Motiei, turned into an anti-regime demonstration.   Naser Malek Motiei, an Iranian actor and director who starred in numerous films and television shows, passed away on Friday, May 25 th . He was 88 years of age. Motiei was first a sports instructor and began his work as an actor in the early 1950s. In addition to playing in around 100 movies, Motiei was also very active in theater and enormously popular amongst Iran’s poor class for his chivalric roles. Following the 1979 revolution in Iran, Motiei was a target of the Iranian regime’s censoring due to his unwillingness to promote the mullahs’ mentality. Motiei began a pastry business due to the pressures imposed by the mullahs’ apparatus. He was deprived of any and all access to the profession he loved and the Iranian regime would never provided him the necessary authorization. “I loved the cinema. I loved my work for forty years. Nothing ever distanced me from the cinema....

political prisoner Golrokh Iraee The father of hunger striking political prisoner Golrokh Iraee got to visit his daughter on Sunday, April 8, 2018, under heavy security conditions. Ms. Iraee has been hospitalized in the Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Baghyatollah Hospital in Tehran after some 70 days of wet and dry hunger strike and losing 22 kilograms. She keeps fainting and her life is at risk. Since coming to, she has avoided accepting IV serum injections and told her father that she would continue her hunger strike. Earlier on Friday, April 6, the Iraee family had referred to this hospital to visit their daughter but were insulted, threatened and violently turned away. A large number of political prisoners from Gohardasht Prison in Karaj and the Central Prison of Orumiyeh in northwestern Iran, have sent messages of solidarity to Golrokh Iraee and praised her firm will and determination to insist on her rightful demands.

The activities by the agents of the Iranian regime in the European Parliament is a political cover for terror acts against the Iranian opposition in Albania Coordinator for Campaign for Iran Change (CIC) in a statement warned today that the activities by the agents of the Iranian regime in the European Parliament is a political cover for terror acts against the Iranian opposition in Albania. According to Struan Stevenson, a well-known European politician who was a member of the European Parliament for 15 years “Iran’s deep frustration after the organized transfer of thousands of members of the main democratic opposition movement from Iraq to Albania and the loss of the opportunity to massacre them is not a secret.  This transfer was the result of an unprecedented campaign by the Iranian opposition and its supporters in Europe and the United States. It took place under the noses of the theocratic fascist regime while the mullahs in Tehran had put all their efforts into ...

Social and Economical protests have turned political  As protests recently began to consume Iran, European capitals were at a seeming loss for words. After several days of silence, Europe’s leaders issued curt statements of sympathy for the protestors — but with a notable tinge of moral equivocation. A  European Union  statement and Britain’s foreign secretary separately called on “all concerned to refrain from violence.” Germany’s foreign minister urged “all sides” to abstain from bloodshed. What accounts for Europe’s apparent conflation of victim and oppressor? Previously, European leaders have expressed their determination to raise difficult issues with Iran, including human rights. After concluding the 2015 nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), European leaders hailed the beginning of a new era in EU-Iran relations. A 2016 resolution passed by the European Parliament voiced the hope that a “substantial improvemen...

Posters of Albert Nisman are hung during a ‘Silent March’ marking the one-month anniversary of the suspicious death of special prosecutor Nisman on February 18, 2015 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Every so often, a report surfaces in Latin America about the growing influence of Iran and its ally Hezbollah, from importing terror operations and wooing locals through “charities” to fueling nefarious activities via the lucrative drug trade. Former Drug Enforcement Agency Chief of Operations Michael Braun warned Congress last year in a hearing that Hezbollah had “metastasized into a Hydra, with international connections that the likes of [Islamic State] and groups like al-Qaeda could only hope to have,” moving “multitons of cocaine” and cash “in the most sophisticated money laundering schemes that we have ever witnessed.” Iran and Hezbollah pass off their interest in Latin America as diplomatic and economic, with outward gestures that include building Islamic centers and piping i...

In Commemoration of the 1988 Mass Execution of Political Prisoners in Iran EPA, Geneva  - People protest in front of a wall of photos of victims of the 1988  Massacre of political prisoners  in Iran during an exhibition at the Palais des Nations in front of the  United Nations  (UN) European Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, 15 September 2017. The shoes with flowers represent the victims of the mass execution. In the summer of 1988, some 30,000 Iranian political prisoners were massacred in a matter of a few months on the basis of a fatwa issued by Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic. Human rights organizations and jurists are demanding the UN to conduct an independent international investigation of the 1988 massacre.