On Friday, the Iranian regime officially responded to a US proposal regarding the “final text” of the agreement to reinstate the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action or 2015 nuclear deal. However, regime officials and state media outlets have been evasive on the subject, avoiding deadlines and firm commitments while explicitly stating that the negotiating process could last until September.
These leading women have become indispensable to the Iranian opposition in its fight for regime change and democracy over the years. As a result, at each critical juncture, Iran’s leading women are seen playing an important role in the movement. On September 1, 2013, Ashraf experienced a watershed moment.
This allowed him to carry out the supreme leader’s fatwa, which called for the execution of anyone who supported the leading democratic opposition, People’s Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI/MEK), or opposed the clerical regime. Raisi aided in the interrogation of political prisoners at the Evin and Gohardasht Prisons for about three months that year, after which the death commission commanded the immediate hanging of anyone found responsible for “enmity against God.”
Ebrahim Raisi, the president of the Iranian regime, held a press conference on Tuesday, August 30, boasting about his administration’s blatantly non-existent “achievements” one year into office. His long list of lies includes absurd claims like lowering the rate of inflation, raising the employment rate, covering the budget deficit without printing money, and environmental improvements. The harsh reality in Iran is in sharp contrast to Raisi’s assertions.
Locals protested the water shortage in Hamedan, western Iran, last week. Protests erupted a few days after regime security forces suppressed protesters in Shahr-e Kord, the capital city of Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province, following days of water-related protests.
As a new strategy to impose even more control over the Iranian people, and the nation’s economy, the regime in charge of Iran has launched an initiative to place thousands of mullahs in various organizations across the country. According to State TV, this plan has recently gained momentum after starting two years ago.
Ruhollah Khomeini, Khamenei’s predecessor, began his campaign to dismantle the People’s Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI/MEK) in 1988 by issuing a fatwa that called for its members to be summarily executed because they were guilty of “enmity against God.” As a result, 30,000 political prisoners were executed over the course of three months, and the regime began peddling the narrative that support for the MEK was virtually non-existent and that the MEK was a fringe group made up mostly of exiles.
On Thursday, the Iranian opposition coalition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) announced a New York lawsuit against Iranian regime President Ebrahim Raisi, urging US authorities to deny him a visa and take action against him.
The general atmosphere of repression has gotten worse across Iran ever since the Supreme Leader of the regime, Khamenei, named Ebrahim Raisi as the new president. Naturally, this results in events like mass arrests and the quick imposition of the death penalty. However, the regime’s repression of dissent also has a foreign policy component, and this has proven crucial in the face of numerous uprisings over the past few years.
The regime’s supreme leader frequently uses social media to portray the regime’s dangerous nature, as seen in a tweet about two weeks ago stating that the regime, with the help of its proxy forces, “is able to crush the enemy.”
