The Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) control Iran’s automobile industry. Meanwhile, regime officials, including members of parliament, are squandering public funds by importing the most expensive automobiles. The Iranian regime’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei invited the IRGC to plunder Iranians even more by entering the car manufacturing business on May 6, 2020.
An explosion and fire at the Kavoshgaran Petroleum Refining Company, one of the Mahshahr Petrochemical Complex’s sites in southwestern Iran, severely injured two members of the unit on Thursday, March 31.
Amnesty International released its annual report on the state of human rights around the world on March 29. This comprehensive report, which spans four pages, sheds light on Iran’s appalling human rights situation under the ruling theocracy.
Apart from addressing the Iranian regime’s systematic human rights violations, such as the country’s high rate of executions per capita and the use of torture to extract confessions from detainees, Amnesty’s report also mentions the Iranian regime’s worst crime against humanity. Over 30,000 political prisoners were executed in the summer of 1988. The majority of them were members and supporters of Iran’s People’s Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI/MEK).
Tehran’s double speak diplomacy has relied on a “give and take” strategy for more than four decades. This “double speak diplomacy” has always been a consistent doctrine of the Iranian clerical regime’s interactions with the rest of the world. It is a mindset that sees terrorism as a negotiating tool.
The regime did not begin its first foreign policy encounter with a high-ranking delegation traveling abroad when it took power in 1979. It made headlines when it stormed the US embassy in Tehran and held 54 Americans captive for 444 days. Unfortunately, the story did not end there. It formalized the hostage-taking policy, established dozens of militant organizations, and terrorized four continents.
Despite initial warnings about possible increasing inflation and inevitable economic collapse, the Iranian regime’s Majlis (parliament) passed a motion agreeing to abolish the subsidized currency (the US dollar exchanged at a reduced price of 42,000 rials) from this fiscal year’s budget. Around 270,000 rials per dollar is the current market exchange rate.
Officials from the regime’s Health Ministry have made contradictory statements about abolishing the subsidized dollar, which was used to import medicine at lower prices, prompting widespread alarm among ordinary Iranians about the quick rise in the cost of medicine.
Hamid Noury’s trial entered its 80th session on Thursday, following his arrest in Sweden in 2019. Noury, a prison official in Iran, was apprehended for his role in the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners mostly members of the People’s Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI/MEK).
Despite being the country’s main source of economic and scientific progress, as well as infrastructure strengthening, oil is now a major source of corporate fraud. The heads of the regime’s oil industry are all accused of corruption, money laundering, and embezzlement in various cases.
Following many disputes between the Iranian regime’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) and the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), the dictatorship has decided to develop a new entity known as the “Command Corps for the Protection and Security of Nuclear Centers.”
In responding with the assaults on the regime’s nuclear installations, each of the regime’s security and military groups accused their counterparts of demonstrating weakness and negligence. As a result, the regime decided to build a new organization in order to address the security breaches, in the hopes of preventing further attacks.
Amnesty International warned in its latest annual report on the state of human rights around the world that Iran’s regime has continued to violate the Iranian people’s basic human rights.
The trial of Hamid Noury in Sweden entered its seventy-seventh session on Wednesday, March 23. Noury, an Iranian prison officer, was detained in Sweden in 2019 as a result of his involvement in the 1988 massacre of over 30,000 political detainees, predominantly members and supporters of the People’s Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI/MEK).
Ms. Shadi Sadr, an international law specialist and one of the founders of the Justice for Iran Organization (JFI), testified at the hearing on Wednesday.
JFI “aims to hold perpetrators of significant human rights violations, including but not limited to crimes against humanity, torture, enforced disappearances, a war crime, and genocide, perpetrated in Iran or by Iranian officials, accountable,” according to its website.
