Iranians in Paris on Saturday held a protest and photo exhibition to expose and denounce the rapid rise in the rate of executions in Iran under the presidency of Hassan Rouhani and call on European governments to make human rights the focus of their Iran policy. The gathering coincided with the 27th anniversary of the 1988 massacre of Iran’s political prisoners.
IRAN: Suppressive forces destroy Sunni mosque in Tehran
The Iranian regime on Wednesday destroyed a Sunni prayer hall in the capital Tehran, the National Council of Resistance of Iran reported.
In the early hours of the day on Wednesday, suppressive forces (police), raided and destroyed the Sunni ‘Poonak’ prayer hall in Tehran and further searched the premises of the mosque’s Sunni imam Abdullah Moussa-Zadeh and confiscated his mobile phone.
After the Iran nuclear agreement, a ticking clock
Alireza Jafarzadeh, the deputy director of the Washington office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) and the author of “The Iran Threat” (Palgrave MacMillan: 2008), has written an important article on the Iran nuclear deal in today’s edition of Roll Call.
He writes:
Mogherini ignoring human rights abuses in Iran
Alejo Vidal-Quadras, the former Vice President of the European Parliament, wrote in the United Press International on Tuesday that the trip today by the European Union’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs, Ms Federica Mogherini, puts in peril Europe’s democratic values.
“It is an illusion to imagine that the nuclear agreement will lead to an improvement in the human rights situation in Iran. All the signs indicate that the agreement will embolden the mullahs to further abuse their citizens and to prevent an opening of the political atmosphere which could lead to a repeat of the upsurge of anti-government sentiments that took place in the 2009 uprisings,” Dr. Vidal-Quadras wrote.
Iran spying on PMOI (MEK) and NCRI – German intelligence
Germany’s internal security service has exposed Iran’s fundamentalist regime of spying on Iran’s largest democratic opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, PMOI (Mujahedin-e Khalq, MEK), and the main opposition coalition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).
Germany’s domestic intelligence service, the Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Bundesamt für Verfassungsschutz, or ‘BfV’), said in its annual report, dated July 2015, that the PMOI (MEK) and NCRI are the primary targets of spying activity by Iran’s notorious Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS).
More than 200 protesting teachers arrested in Iran: NCRI
More than 200 teachers were arrested on Wednesday during a protest outside the parliament in Tehran demanding the release of their colleagues from jail, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) said on Wednesday
A report by AFP said: “Authorities launched a crackdown after over 2,000 teachers from across Iran gathered outside parliament carrying placards and chanting ‘Free those arrested,’ the Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) said.”
Don’t repeat history’s mistake in Iran deal
The fundamentalist regime in Iran came to the negotiating table from a position of utter weakness and not due to a change of heart by Tehran’s leadership over its nuclear project, Ambassador Ken Blackwell rightly points out today.
“It had its back against the wall.”
Over-stretched by three regional wars, with a restive population, particularly among the young and the women, and an economy on the verge of collapse, the regime in Iran was not in any position to seek concessions, he said.
West should push for a solution for Iran’s destabilizing role in the region
The role of the West now is to push toward a solution not only to the “one particular problem” of Iran’s nuclear program, but also to the overall problem of Iran’s destabilizing effect on the Middle East and the world, Prof. Raymond Tanter says.
“Iran has always avoided revealing the details of its nuclear program until the weight of intelligence from foreign agencies and domestic dissidents made it impossible to keep up its denials. The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) revealed sites that Iran has shielded from foreign scrutiny over the past 13 years. And it took years of UN resolutions and economic sanctions before Iran would concede to negotiate on restrictions to even a fraction of these sites,” he wrote in Daily Caller.
Khamenei vows to continue export of terror to cover up his retreat from nuclear red lines
Four days after reaching a nuclear deal with the world powers, the Iranian regime’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei attempted to “cloak his retreat from his nuclear red lines” by saying that the nuclear accord will not affect the regime’s policy of export of terrorism and fundamentalism throughout the region, according to Iran’s major opposition coalition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).
Maryam Rajavi: Iran nuclear deal neither prevents mullahs bomb nor ends their deception
Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran says the Iran nuclear agreement with six world powers that is circumventing six UN Security Council resolutions will not close the mullahs’ path to deception and access to nuclear bomb.
However she said that the Iranian regime’s supreme leader’s retreat from his redlines will shatter his hegemony and undermine the entire regime
Despite many shortages and illegitimate concessions to the mullahs, the nuclear deal struck by P5+1 and the Iranian regime forces Khamenei to retreat and violate the declared redlines he had repeatedly insisted on over the past 12 years, including in recent weeks, said the Iranian Resistance’s President-elect Maryam Rajavi.
