Spring of freedom

INU - Iran is the world leader in executions per capita and torture is routine in the Regime’s prisons, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Maryam Rajavi, the leader of the Iranian Resistance and future President of Iran for the transitional period. would ban the death penalty as soon as she got into office. Her plan for a future Iran is a country the devoid of the death penalty, all forms of torture, and any human rights abuses. Many years ago, Maryam Rajavi and the Iranian Resistance called for the abolition of the death penalty, the end of torture, and the halting of all human rights abuses in Iran. The mullahs have never agreed and their abuses have only grown over the years. Maryam Rajavi said: “Our plan is to revive friendship, conciliation and tolerance. Our plan for the future is to put an end to the mullahs’ religious decrees. We reject the inhuman penal code and other abusive laws of this regime. We believe Retribution is an inhuman law.” Maryam Rajavi and the Iran...

London, 25 April - The US recently placed Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) on its list of foreign terrorist organisations, which is a bold move that complements the Treasury Department’s previous listing of the IRGC as a banned terror group. It was the first time that an entire division of a foreign government was formally labelled as a terrorist organization. This move was made because of increased Iranian aggression and regional interference in recent months, ever since Donald Trump took office, and that is a worrying prospect from the world’s leading state sponsor of terror. The IRGC was founded in 1979 to safeguard the revolution, which basically translates to crushing any and all detractors. Now, the 125,000-strong militia holds incredible influence over the political and economic spheres, with financial interests in the telecommunications, construction, energy and auto industries. They have their own army, air force and navy, control Iran’s nuclear and inte...

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...

Secretary Pompeo, during the State Department Press Conference, emphasizing that U.S. Will Not Renew Sanction Waivers to Countries that Import Oil from Iran On Monday, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo held a press conference in which he announced that the United States government will no longer issue waivers to countries that import oil from Iran exempting them from sanctions. Secretary Pompeo ✔ @SecPompeo Maximum pressure on the Iranian regime means maximum pressure. That’s why the U.S. will not issue any exceptions to Iranian oil importers. The global oil market remains well-supplied. We’re confident it will remain stable as jurisdictions transition away from Iranian crude. 14.3K 2:49 PM - Apr 22, 2019 Twitter Ads info and privacy 6,651 people are talking about this Exemptions for Japan, South Korea, Turkey, China, and India are set to expire on May 2nd and will not be renewed, according to Secretary Pompeo. Th...

By Mohammad Sadat Khansari The Iranian Regime has  threatened  to close the world’s busiest shipping lane in response to the US decision to remove the sanctions waivers on the country from May 2. On Monday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo vowed that the US would not extend sanctions waivers on eight countries – China, India, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Greece, Italy, and Turkey – who had been allowed to keep buying Iranian oil after the sanctions snapped back last November. The sanctions came into force after the US withdrew from the nuclear deal, citing Iran’s violation of the UN resolution surrounding the deal. What did Iran Regime do? Alireza Tangsiri, a commander in Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), which was recently designated a terrorist organisation by the US, vowed that they would block off the Strait of Hormuz, severely impacting the flow of goods, especially oil. This would make shipments more dangerous and more expensive. Tangsir...

Mohammad Reza Sabbaghian, member of Iran’s Majlis (parliament) A member of Iran’s Majlis (parliament) acknowledged on Monday that people are increasingly frustrated and are literally cursing regime official wherever they appear in public. Describing this  phenomenon  to other Majlis members during an open-door session, Mohammad Reza Sabbaghian said, “We need a closed-door session to be able to say things we cannot talk about in an open-door session.” “There are some things that, due to the reactions it could create, cannot be said in public. People are really having problems and wherever they see us, start cursing us and calling us bad names… people are unhappy. They live in poverty while we are paid a few million tomans (referring to the Iranian currency) and we are not happy, let alone the people who get a fraction of this amount!” Sabbaghian added. Explaining an encounter he had with a woman in a market, he said this woman approached him and said “I have to ...