The Iranian regime’s parliament swiftly authorized removing the official exchange rate of 42,000 rials for a dollar as part of Ebrahim Raisi’s budget plan for 2022-2023, after months of flip-flopping. After extensive debates and various warnings from regime authorities about the implications of such a decision, the relocation was completed in less than 2 minutes.
Over 60 notable women politicians from 35 nations spanning four continents, as well as many more women from 54 countries around the world, addressed and participated in a seven-hour-long online global conference on March 5 ahead of International Women’s Day on March 8.
Iran’s state media is increasingly expressing concern and despair as the nuclear talks enter their last hours and the Iranian regime remains resolute in portraying positive progress. They claim that the negotiations have reached a ‘dangerous, steep, and bumpy turn’ at their ‘final turn.’
The failure of the Vienna talks is now being discussed in the media. “The position of the talks has changed slightly since Tuesday afternoon,” Ali Bigdeli, one of the regime’s international affairs experts, stated in an interview with the state-run daily Jahan-e Sanat on March 3. The reason for this change may be partly due to our comments and positions on Russia. In other words, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine greatly affected the negotiating environment, which is why Mr. Ulyanov has left the negotiating path. On the other hand, the Westerners have said because of the positions and statements of our senior officials in support of Russia that they may leave the negotiating table by the end of the week if the talks do not reach the desired result.”
Thousands of women commemorated the contribution of Iranian women in the struggle for freedom in Iran and equal rights around the world during a conference on International Women’s Day. Politicians, MPs, women’s rights activists, and members of the Iranian Resistance spoke at the conference in Berlin, Ashraf 3 (Albania), and online on recent events in Iran and the globe, as well as the role women may play in freeing Iran from tyranny.
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of Iran’s National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), spoke on the resilience of Iranian women in the face of the mullahs’ misogynist rule.
Protests by individuals from all walks of life have spread across Iran in recent days, according to reports collated by Iran’s opposition, the People’s Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI/MEK). These protests are taking place in response to Iran’s economic woes, which have grown intolerable as a result of the regime’s corruption, ineptness, mismanagement, and wasting of national money for its nefarious objectives.
The final session of an appeals court in Antwerp, Belgium, for Iranian regime terrorists implicated in the thwarted 2018 bombing plot targeting an Iranian Resistance gathering staged just north of Paris was place on Friday, March 4. Following arguments from bomb experts, lawyers delivered their conclusions during this session. The final court decision is expected on April 20.
The Court of Appeal of Antwerp in Belgium convened on Friday, March 4 to re-evaluate the various dimensions of an Iranian intelligence apparatus terror plot against the Iranian Resistance in 2018, which was eventually foiled by German, Belgian, and French police, who arrested an Iranian diplomat in Vienna and three of his accomplices. Terrorists were prosecuted and given severe prison sentences.
The court convened hearings on December 9 to investigate explosives experts’ findings on the technical features of the bomb built by the Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS) in Tehran, which a sleeper cell planned to detonate at the Free Iran Summit in Villepinte, near Paris, on June 30, 2018.
Over 518,800 people have died of the novel coronavirus in 547 cities checkered across all of Iran’s 31 provinces, according to reports tallied by the Iranian opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) as of Sunday afternoon local time, March 6. The official death toll declared by the regime stands at 137,948, around a fourth of the actual figure.
The Iranian regime’s officials and media have expressed alarm in the hours since the Russian invasion of Ukraine that the crisis could derail nuclear talks to the regime’s detriment.
The Iranian government’s concern about the Ukraine conflict and its impact on the Vienna nuclear talks was conveyed in an article on the state-run Diplomacy Irani website titled ‘The revival of the JCPOA was sold to the Ukrainian war.’
Leaving aside the economic and political dimensions of this issue, if one considers the Vienna nuclear talks to be the world’s second most sensitive international issue after the Ukraine crisis, it is safe to conclude that it will have a significant impact on the Vienna discussions.
The mullahs have established another means to loot the wealth of the Iranian people. These are government-run charities that are heavily involved in money laundering, tax-free import-export, and other nefarious financial activities.
The state-run Aftab-e Yazd daily published an article headlined “Why Iranian politicians are interested in creating a charity” that highlighted regime leaders who are launching private organizations to further plunder Iranian society. “Most of these non-profits are exempt from paying taxes under the guise of engaging in cultural and economic activities,” the daily stated. Other services, such as a construction license, are also provided.” “These charities should explain to the people what they have done so far?” said MP Behrooz Mohebi, according to the state-run Fars news agency on February 12. What are the sources of their charitable contributions? And how are they putting them to use?”
