Spring of freedom

Iranian regime officials are concerned over how to compensate for the lack of foreign currency.  While international sanctions against the regime ruling Iran increase and every venue for exporting oil comes to a close, the ruling theocracy in Iran is going into a panic mode. Petrodollars, in addition to covering Iran’s hegemonistic ambitions and its export of fundamentalism throughout the Middle East, also provided for part of the government’s budget. Now that the U.S.’ zero-export-policy is firmly implemented, Iranian regime officials are concerned over how to compensate for the lack of foreign currency. This prevailing issue looms large over the already hot internal debates between Iran’s opposing factions inside the ruling elite weighing the right approach towards the international community. In response to the new no-waiver policy for Iran’s oil exports, the mullahs’ Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and President Hassan Rouhani claim Iran will sell as much oil as it wa...

Seyed Yousef Tabatabaie Nejad, representative of Iranian regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Isfahan, central Iran Seyed Yousef Tabatabaie Nejad, representative of Iranian regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in Isfahan and Friday prayer imam of this city of central Iran expressed grave concerns over the increasing activities and measures of Iranian opposition People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran ( PMOI/MEK ) in line of toppling the mullahs’ regime. “Media channels and outlets that insult the state are taking steps in line with the objectives of the world arrogance and the  monafeqin, ” he said, using a term used by Iranian regime officials for the PMOI/MEK. “It is quite possible that the [PMOI/MEK] are behind many of the [social media] channels launched in Isfahan because they are aiming to target the clergy… the enemy has various media outlets inside the country and abroad. They are allocating a considerable budget and have high planning capabilities, aiming to deceive ...

Iranian regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei   On Wednesday, the price of the U.S. dollar soared to 136,500 rials in the currency markets of Tehran, once again raising concerns about the regime’s destructive economic policies and unbridled corruption. According to the regime’s economic experts, the launching of a new round of talks by the Paris-based Financial Action Task Force ( FATF ) and the possibility of re-designating the Iranian regime in this international entity’s blacklist, along with the limbo status of FATF resolutions in the regime’s Expediency Council, are among the reasons behind this price hike. The  Expediency Council  decided to halt all evaluations of FATF resolutions and Iranian regime Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif failed to preserve the 2015 nuclear deal during his visit to Munich. As a result, Bahram Ghassemi, spokesperson for the regime’s Foreign Ministry, desperately called on the European Union to understand the regime’s status quo....

Warsaw, Poland  Next month’s Poland conference, focused on Middle East security and containing the negative influence of the Iranian regime, has become increasingly a source of concern for the Iranian regime. But a particular point that always reveals the truth behind the Iranian mullahs’ tough play about stability and power is their fear of their main organized opposition, PMOI/MEK and NCRI, which shows boldly among Iranian officials’ concerns for the Poland summit. On January 19, Mardom Salari newspaper, close to Iranian regime president Hassan Rouhani’s faction, showed the regime’s fear of PMOI becoming involved in the Warsaw summit and wrote: “PMOI becoming active isn’t a good sign.” Meanwhile, newspapers close to Iranian regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei are already declaring the defeat of the summit before it has started out of fear that it would succeed. “The anti-Iranian summit of Poland is a failure even before it even begins,” writes Keyhan newspaper, widely...