By Azita Carlson
Maryam Rajavi, the president-elect of the Iranian Resistance, has welcomed comments made by the United States Secretary of State Michael Pompeo in Cario last month, where he declared that the US would no longer protect Iran’s ruling mullahs and instead would support the Iranian people.
By Staff writer, SF
Every day, the Iranian Regime gets closer to complete social, economic, and political bankruptcy – having achieved moral bankruptcy in February 1979 – and it keeps having more doors slammed in its face.
By Atousa Pilger
Almost all of Iran’s advanced centrifuges, which are used to enrich uranium needed for Iran’s nuclear programme and potentially a bomb, are failing, according to a leading nuclear weapons expert.
By Staff writer, SF
Transparency International is a non-governmental anti-corruption organization. It rates country’s governments and public services based on findings of experts and public opinion studies regarding perceived corruption.
The Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) uses a scale of 0 to 100 to rank countries, where 0 is highly corrupt and 100 is pure.
By Armin Baldwin
Iranian officials may call for “death to America” in public, but in private, they send their children and families to live in or visit the land of the “Great Satan”.
A cleric who currently represents Qom in the Iranian Parliament, Mojtaba Zonnour, alleges that former US President Obama gave Iran 2,500 US citizenships as a favor to the regime as part of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). “Some gentlemen and officials competed with each other to have their children be among the 2,500,” the conservative politician alleged.
By Staff writer, SF
Toward the end of the war between Iran and Iraq, during the summer of 1988, the first Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, Ruhollah Khomeini, issued a fatwa that resulted in a nationwide massacre of Iranian political prisoners. All people who remained loyal to supporting the People’s Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI/MEK) were executed.
By Azita Carlson
Recent remarks by President Hassan Rouhani regarding Iran’s policies of compulsory hijab and Internet filtering have incurred the ire of two Grand Ayatollahs.
It’s been reported that at a meeting with the Minister of Communications and Information Technology on January 21st, Rouhani said, “Regarding hijab, the Koran addresses men first, forbidding them to look at women in lecherous ways; but, sadly, we go after women and girls, and arrest them for their [improper] hijab.”
By Staff writer, SF
When the controversial Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPoA), or 2015 Iran nuclear deal, was signed, there were high hopes from the then US President Barack Obama that Iran would become more moderate and would start to occupy a rightful place in the international community.
By Atousa Pilger
“The U.S. Army in the Iraq War” is an assessment by the army of the United States on the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The assessment is very comprehensive and involves extensive scrutiny of numerous interviews and a large amount of data.
The assessment was ordered in 2013 by Army General Ray Odierno and it is considered to be one of the most detailed studies of the conflict with Iraq.
By Armin Baldwin
The Poland conference, planned for next month, will focus on Middle East security, and more importantly, the behavior of the Iranian regime, which is a concern both globally and for the region.
The Iranian officials’ concerns over their main organized opposition, PMOI/MEK and NCRI, is on display for the Poland summit. For instance, Mardom Salari newspaper, affiliated with President Hassan Rouhani’s faction, wrote on January 19th, regarding the Warsaw summit, “PMOI becoming active isn’t a good sign.”
