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.
Four political prisoners in Evin prison inmates of Iranian political prisoner Jafar Azimzadeh have supported his demands in a statement on 14 June 2016. The statement entitled “Not everyone would die by execution” is as follows:
A rally will be held in Paris in July to expose the lies and myths surrounding the supposed moderation of the Iranian regime.
The rally, which will be held on July 9th, is an annual one which is attended by dignitaries from around the world including senior politicians, religious leaders, human rights activists and women’s rights activists.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) wants Western governments to understand that the Iranian regime is not ‘moderate’.
In fact, they say that the human rights situation has deteriorated since Rouhani took office and cite torture, cruel punishment and executions.
