Spring of freedom

AFP, Washington Hundreds of people turned out in Washington Friday demanding regime change in Iran and denouncing “atrocity toward the people” under Tehran’s regime. Protesters waved Iranian flags as they chanted for “regime change now” – with some holding portraits of Maryam Rajavi, leader of the People’s Mujahedin, an Iranian opposition group banned in the country. “The regime inside Iran is doing so much atrocity toward the people. Iran in whole has been destroyed by this regime,” said Michael Passi, an Iranian-American engineer. “There are a lot of executions, a lot of tortures and a lot of export of terrorism by this regime,” he alleged. “We want separation of religion and the state,” added Mina Entezari, an Arizona-based designer who was a political prisoner in Iran for seven years. “We want freedom for people.” Effigies of President Rouhani and Supreme Leader Khamenei march with the Organization of Iranian-American Communities on March 8, 2019 in Washi...

Sunday, January 13, 2019, Maryam Rajavi attended a New Year ceremony entitled, “Solidarity with the Iranian People’s Resistance and Uprising,” where French mayors, elected representatives and supporters of the Iranian Resistance were present. Mrs. Anissa Boumediene, former First Lady of Algeria; Mr. Dominique Lefebvre, former MP; Bishop Jacques Gaillot, a number of Paris district mayors, the mayor of Val d’Oise, and a number of French personalities participated. Maryam Rajavi  welcomed the audience and extended her New Year felicitations. She briefly reviewed the events of the past year and elaborated on the prospects of 2019. Following is the text of her speech: Elected ladies and gentlemen, Very dear friends of the Iranian people’s Resistance, I wish you all a year filled with happiness, health and prosperity. A year when the people of France could overcome all hurdles. Happy New Year to you who have been the friends and supporters of this Resistance in the past 1...

Ahvaz, SW  #Iran National Steel Group employees marching & rallying for the 32nd day, protesting delayed paychecks & corrupt policies. #IranProtests Dec 11 - Tehran,  #Iran Workers rally in support of National Steel Group employees in Ahvaz & demanding the release of Esmaeel Bakhshi, Ali Nejati & Ms. Sepideh Gholian of the Haft Tapeh sugarcane mill in Shush, both in Khuzestan Province, SW Iran. #IranProtests Dec 11 - Ahvaz, SW  #Iran National Steel Group employees rallying for the 32nd day, protesting delayed paychecks & officials' corrupt policies. Chants: "No to life in shame" "Jailed workers must be released" "Jailed students must be released" #IranProtests Dec 11 - Tehran,  #Iran Outside the public prosecutor's office Clients of the Caspian credit firm (associated to the Revolutionary Guards - IRGC) demanding their stolen savings returned. #IranProtests Dec 11 - Ahvaz, SW  #Iran National Ste...

Maryam Rajavi  (pictured) , the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), has hailed the uprising by the people of Tehran, Isfahan, Shirza, Mashhad, Ahvaz, Karaj, Arak, Shahin-Shahr, Najafabad and other cities. “By defying the criminal Revolutionary Guards, Bassijis، and plainclothes agents once again today, the arisen women and youth represent a defiant generation which will not rest until the Iranian people and nation are free. They displayed the anger and hatred of the Iranian people toward the religious dictatorship ruling Iran,” Rajavi said. People in different cities came out onto the streets on Thursday, 2 August, chanting: “Death to the dictator”, “cannons, tanks and machine guns are no longer effective, the mullahs must be killed,” and “today is the month of blood, Khamenei will be overthrown.” Rebellious cities are joining ranks one after the other. The cry by people who yearn for freedom is growing louder and the uprising is spreadi...

National Council of Resistance of Iran Two other people arrested in the popular uprisings in Iran were killed by the torture of the henchmen of the Velayat-e faqih regime in Arak and Sanandaj. Seyed Shahab Abtahi, a 20-year-old young man who was arrested in Arak two weeks ago, died under the torture of the henchmen. The tormentors left the martyr’s body 10 days after his arrest in front of his father’s house, while signs of the baton blows on his body were visible. Before him, another man arrested in the popular uprising in Iran, Vahid Heidari, a 22-year-old deprived street vendor, was martyred by baton blows. The police of Markazi Province alleged in a stupid lie that he had been arrested on charges of carrying drugs and committed suicide at the detention centre of police station 12 of Arak. The detainees of the uprising in Arak were first transferred to the central prison of Arak and then to the Basij garrison in the so-called resistance square. A number of detainees ha...