On Tuesday, May 10, the Antwerp Court of Appeals in Belgium issued its final ruling on sentences approved for three accomplices of Assadollah Assadi, a mullahs’ regime terrorist diplomat, for plotting to bomb an Iranian Resistance rally in Villepinte, Paris, on June 30, 2018. Assadi had been sentenced to 20 years in prison previously. The sentence for the other three agents of the clerical regime’s Intelligence Ministry under Assadi’s command was confirmed by the Court of Appeals on Tuesday.
May first marked International Workers’ Day. People yearned for better working conditions, and protests were held all over the world. In Iran, however, Labor Day was different. Iran’s protests received less media attention. This is not because Iranians enjoy their working conditions, which are described as “modern slavery” by many state-run media outlets.
On May 5, the prices of bread and pasta, two foods that the Iranian public could still afford, skyrocketed dramatically. Many economists and regime officials blame the increase on the elimination of the “preferential rate” for grain imports. Protests have been called by people from all walks of life, and locals in Khuzestan have taken to the streets.
Ebrahim Raisi, the Iranian regime’s President, promised to build one million houses per year to meet demand after taking office last year. “It is necessary to build one million housing units annually, and this is not just a slogan,” he said during a visit to Qazvin. After nine months, however, it has become clear that this, like all of the regime’s promises, was a ruse. This comes at a time when rental property prices are rising in comparison to previous years.
The supreme leader of the Iranian regime, Ali Khamenei, issued a fatwa many years ago, declaring that the development of any kind of nuclear weapon is haram [forbidden in the Muslim faith]. This fatwa is clearly inconsistent with the regime’s actions in recent years, particularly when it comes to its nuclear activities.
Kenneth Lewis, the lawyer for plaintiffs in the Hamid Noury case from the People’s Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI/MEK), presented his closing arguments in a Stockholm, Sweden, court on Monday, May 2. Noury, one of the perpetrators of the 1988 massacre of Iranian political prisoners, is being tried for crimes against humanity.
The projection of images of the leaders of Iran’s main opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), on walls in Iran’s cities is one of the Iranian regime’s main concerns these days. The regime was alarmed by the projections in Tehran, prompting media outlets to write about them and warn about the security implications.
Despite dozens of meetings, the prospects for a nuclear agreement between world powers and Iran’s regime remain dim. Iranian observers believe Tehran is squandering time in its efforts to either extract a further concession from its western allies or develop a nuclear weapon because obtaining a nuclear weapon is critical to the country’s long-term survival.
On Thursday, April 28, 2022, on the eve of Eid al-Fitr, a conference entitled “No to Belligerence and Fundamentalism” was held in London, with the presence of Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). Several political and religious dignitaries from around the world spoke at the conference, some in person and others via video. Members of the People’s Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI/MEK) in Albania’s Ashraf 3 also took part in the conference via the internet.
Security officials at Tehran University pressed female students to wear the Maghna’eh, a black cloth covering their head, forehead, chin, and chest, as universities reopened in Iran.
