Earlier this week, Reuters Television broadcast coverage of a rally in Paris which protested a visit by the Iranian Regime’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif.
The protesters, including supporters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) and People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or MEK), highlighted the execution rate in Iran- the highest per capita in the world- and the regime’s interference in the Syrian civil war.
A leader in the Syrian Resistance movement has pleaded with Western governments to stop accepting the lesser of two evils in Middle Eastern governments.
Members of the Iranian Resistance have condemned the Iranian Foreign Minister’s visit to Paris and The Hague. They state that Mohammad Javad Zarif is an instrument of the regime, which destroys human rights, democracy and peace in the country and the Middle East.
June 22nd 2016, Iranians living in Paris protested in conjunction with the visit from the Iranian regime’s Foreign Minister, Javad Zarif. They held a protest against the widespread medieval style executions that are actively taking place in Iran. The protestors also voiced their thoughts on the mullahs’ continued and unwanted interference in Syria.
London, 20 Jun – Mark Williams, a Liberal Democrat MP, has written an opinion piece for The Hill in which he decries the regimes’ treatment of ‘morality crimes’.
He said: “Under the system of clerical leadership, virtually anything can be criminalised if it is deemed to be out of step with the regime’s perspective on what it means to be authentically Muslim or Iranian.”
The National Council of Resistance of Iran has published a moving open letter from Jafar Azimzadeh, the imprisoned labour activist who has been on hunger strike for two months.
On June 15, in an interview with ILNA news agency, Behrouz Khodarahmi, the Secretary General of the Iranian regime’s Institutional Investors Association, stated that “the status of Iran’s stock exchange reflects the economic reality of the country.” Furthermore, Khodarahmi admitted “the expectations the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) put in place with regards to economic prosperity were high and far from the country’s reality.”
The signing of the nuclear agreement with Iran seemed to some Iranians as a new epoch, as they sought more social and political shifts in the Iranian government, to embrace a more liberal and pragmatic approach. However, despite all the optimism that came with the signing of the nuclear agreement, Iranians haven’t seen much change one year later.
On Thursday 16th June 2016, at 10am, a large group of Kashan (central Iran) market traders lodged a sit-in protest in Imam-Sadeq mosque against the municipal contractors who do not comply with the health and safety issues.
On Tuesday, June 14, the state-run Tasnim news agency affiliated with the IRGC terrorist Quds Force revealed a salary of 520 million Tomans ($170,000 US) for the CEO of Refah Bank.
