By Azita Carlson
The Iranian regime executed its first woman in 2020 and its 104th under the presidency of supposed moderate Hassan Rouhani, it was announced on Tuesday.
The woman, identified only as Sara M, was executed in Mashhad Central Prison last week, according to the state-run Rokna news agency. She’d been sent to prison in 2016, aged 32, and spent three years on death row. The exact date of her execution was not announced.
Navid Felker
Counterterrorism scholar and expert on US policy towards Iran Professor Ivan Sascha Sheehan has written a book about the journey of a bipartisan delegation of senior US officials into the heart of the Iranian Resistance, in Ashraf 3, Albania, home to 3,000 members of Iranian opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK).
By Armin Baldwin
Iran is facing some huge challenges. It has to face the international community after its notorious Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) admitted that it shot down a commercial plane by accident. However, it faces huge challenges on a domestic level too.
By Atousa Pilger
Iran saw 3,530 recorded protest in 2019, according to Iranian Resistance sources, which works out at an average of 294 protests a month and 10 protests a day.
By Azita Carlson
Lawmakers from the United States have been voicing their support for the Iranian people as they continue their anti-regime protests across the country.
These latest protests began on Saturday after regime officials admitted that the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) downed the Ukrainian commercial flight on January 8, killing all 176 passengers and crew. The regime tried to deny responsibility for three days, blaming the plane crash on technical issues, but this lie was soundly rejected by the Iranian people and other governments.
Navid Felker
Following the acknowledgment made by the Iranian regime’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Aerospace Force chief Amir Ali Hajizadeh on shooting down the Ukrainian airliner, thousands of Iranians in Tehran and a number of other cities protested against the Iranian regime leaders by chanting “Down with the dictator!” and “Down with Khamenei!” This is a direct reference to the regime’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei.
By Armin Baldwin
Notorious terrorist Qasem Soleimani’s funeral on Monday showed that the Iranian regime is incredibly isolated both regionally and internationally.
By Atousa Pilger
On January 3, US rockets hit two cars in Iraq; one carrying Iranian Quds Force leader Qassem Soleimani and one carrying the leader of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (Hachd-o-Chaabi), Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. All occupants were killed.
By Azita Carlson
Iranian regime’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei lamented yesterday the death of notorious terrorist Qassem Soleimani, in a particularly fawning speech where he called the murderer of hundreds of thousands of civilians “brave”. This acknowledged that Soleimani was the regime’s second-in-command and that this had dealt a major blow to the regime.
Navid Felker
The Iranian regime launched ballistic missiles at two US bases in Iraq on Wednesday in retaliation for the US killing Iran’s top terrorist Qassem Soleimani in a drone strike in Iraq on Friday.
