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FTO Designation of IRGC Weakens Pillars of Clerical Dictatorship in Iran The following article by Elham Zanjani, from the Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, on the role of the IRGC in suppression of women in Iran, appeared in the  newsblaze.com  on Tuesday, April 16, 2019. Last Monday, the US announced it designated the Iranian Regime’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO). This designation was a major blow to the theocratic regime by limiting its future actions. IRGC is the main apparatus of repression of the Iranian people, especially Iranian women, the primary driver of war and export of terrorism, and is responsible for pursuing nuclear weapons and missile projects. Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, described the inclusion of the suppressive Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) in the State Department’s list of Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO) as...

Thousands of women are held in horrible situation in Assad regime’s prisons The Syrian Network for Human Rights on Friday, March 8 th  issued a statement to mark the Women’s Day calling for the release of 7,721 women who have been detained by the Assad regime. The statement reads: “sexual exploitation of female inmates in prisons is continuing. At least half million people including 13,500 women are held in Assad’s notorious prisons.” Syrian Network for Human Rights said many dissidents in Assad prisons have been either killed under torture or have been executed. Syrian Network for Human Rights is an independent, neutral, non-governmental, non-profit human rights organization, which aims to document the ongoing human rights violation in Syria. Read more: Orient News reported on March 9, 2019, that thousands of demonstrators took to the streets on Friday (March 8) in Aleppo countryside, calling for the immediate release of women detainees at the Assad regime’s detenti...

Iranian opposition leader Maryam Rajavi addresses a meeting at the European Parliament in 2017. Photo courtesy of - Maryam Rajavi  There are about 40 million women in the Islamic Republic of Iran, over half under age 30. At a time when women in the West have achieved political, economic, personal and social equality, Iranian women are among the most repressed in the world, ruled by a regime dominated by elderly, bearded misogynists. It is little wonder that the nationwide protests, which have continued in almost every town and city in Iran for the past 14 months, have often been led by or involved the participation of thousands of women. Female teachers, medical staff, students, factory workers and pensioners have taken to the streets to demand an end to corruption, an end to discrimination and repression and an end to the clerical regime's aggressive military adventurism across the Middle East. The chants of the protesters now openly call for regime change. It is clear ...

Iran Facing Educational Crisis Iran’s academic year begins at September 23 rd  each year. Though Iran enjoys having geniuses such as late Maryam Mirzakhani, a math genius, the only women recipient of the Fields Medal, the most prestigious award in mathematics, Iran’s educational system has been in crisis for years. In this short paper, I want to focus on the crisis that Iran’s educational system has been facing, plunging for worse in the past decades. At the end of September, millions of students in Iran go back to school. But unfortunately, this year, many families were forced to send their children not to school, but to work, because they are not able to pay the costs of their children’s education and they cannot see ends meet. Iran Facing Educational Crisis In many cities and villages of Iran, though the children yearn to start a new academic year, they end up working at local brick kilns or weaving carpets to support their families. The Iranian regime’s tr...

Two Young Women Arrested in Iran for Riding Motorcycle  According to IRNA News, the commander of the law enforcement of Dezful (southwest of Iran) stated, 'Two girls whose pictures were released in the social media while motorcycling have been identified and arrested.' According to the regime's officials, motorcycling is forbidden for women.    Two girls whose pictures were released in the social media while motorcycling have been identified and arrested Colonel Ali Elhami added, 'These two girls are originally from Dezful and they have been summoned for guidance and admonition. Concerning the detention of the two motorcyclists colonel Elhami claimed: The Disciplinary Police were gone to Sardasht-Dezful Rout to implement the moral laws and to cope with irregularities and anomalies, and in their absence the two girls used the opportunity for motorcycling in Dezful Forest Park which is opposed to the values and norms of the society and the Revo...