Spring of freedom

Maryam Rajavi's speech at the New Year celebration On Thursday, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), delivered a speech at the New Year celebration event of the Iranian Resistance along with members and supporters of the PMOI/MEK. Following is the text of her speech,  orignially posted on her website : Happy New Year to the people of Iran who refused to lose hope even under the oppressive and dark rule of the mullahs. Congratulations to my compatriots in all cities and villages across Iran and to Iranian across the world on the advent of the Persian New Year 1398, Congratulations on Nowruz to the families of martyrs, to the resistance units, to supporters of the Iranian Resistance, to political prisoners, to members of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, to  PMOI  freedom fighters and to  Massoud Rajavi . Congratulations on the year of uprisings, the year of hope and exhilaration, and the yea...

The 'Ashraf 3' Conference in Albania, on 25 November 2018. [Handout photo] The EU High Representative Federica Mogherini’s response to the series of Iranian terror plots on European soil has been a total silence, writes Jaromír Štětina. Jaromír Štětina MEP, is a Czech journalist, writer and politician. He was a war correspondent for the conflict areas of the former Soviet Union. He is currently Vice-Chair of Subcommittee on Security and Defence in the European Parliament Last week, together with colleague MEP Tunne Kelam, and former MEP Struan Stevenson,  I visited “Ashraf 3”  the new site of the Iranian democratic opposition PMOI (MEK) in Albania outside Tirana. This visit was truly an inspiring journey and an eye-opener to how misinformation and fake news can deceive the general public about the reality when states like Iran use their vast financial resources to divert the truth. Nearly 3000 members of Iranian democratic opposition, many of whom have dedicated...

In this Friday, Sept. 7, 2018 file photo, protesters burn an Iranian flag after storming and burning the Iranian consulate building in Basra, Iraq. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani, On a recent business trip to  Albania , I was invited to visit the new camp of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of  Iran , or the  Mojahedin-e Khalq  (MEK), still being built about 45 minutes outside of Tirana, on the way to the Albanian coast. I accepted the invitation, although I must admit, I had no idea what to expect upon reaching the sprawling facility which is the new home for approximately 3,200 of the Iranian resistance movement’s personnel, after being forced out of Iraq by violence from the Iranian-backed government. I want to write more about the group and its agenda in the near future, but today I just want to explore what I found at ‘Ashraf 3’, which is the name the  MEK  has given the new camp, after the first Ashraf on the Iraqi border, where the group launch...

The annual Grand Gathering of the Iranian Resistance and its president-elect for freedom and democracy, Maryam Rajavi The unprecedented coverage given to the annual  Grand Gathering  of the Iranian Resistance by the international media is what can be described as a testament to the Iranian Resistance and its president-elect for freedom and democracy,  Maryam Rajavi . The great and sensitive role she has played in attracting the attention of the whole world to the despotic regime of the Islamic Republic and exposing its mal-behaviors and plans that effected both the Iranian people and the region, and for that matter, the world as a whole. So, the following is the article posted in the Al-Arabiya website titled 'Is it still possible to coexist with the Tehran regime? 100,000 gather in Free Iran in the biggest gathering of its kind, thousands of Iranian dissidents, in presence of former high-level foreign officials Al Arabiya, 8 July 2017  -- Over the we...