Nearly 20 years after the attack on Khobar Towers near Dhahran in Saudi Arabia, the pan-Arab daily Asharq al-Awsat claimed that Ahmed al-Mughassil had been apprehended for playing a key role in the terrorist attack according to the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).
Thirteen years after the revelation of Natanz and Arak nuclear sites
“Thirteen years after Natanz, I fear that the JCPOA has only served to enable more of the same. The assumption that the cunning mullahs have had a sudden change of heart is wrong,” says Alireza Jafarzadeh who first made public the existence of the site on 14 August 2002 relying on information compiled by the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK).
Silver lining on the Iran Nuclear Deal
Sir David Amess is the Conservative MP for Southend West in the House of Commons and co-chair of the British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom (BPCIF).
He writes for the Business Insider and is of the opinion that the nuclear deal is a weak deal. It is a step backward and Tehran could have been pressured for more concessions had the negotiators stood their ground.
Poverty fuelling organ trade in Iran
The National Council of Resistance if Iran (NCRI), has reported gross human right violations due to poverty in Iran.
Shahin Gobadi, spokesperson for the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, PMOI (Mujahedin-e Khalq, MEK) has stated that: “The bitter reality is that the overwhelming majority of Iranians are living in poverty and destitution due to the regime’s policies and conduct, such as spending an estimated $300 billion on its nuclear weapons program; and plundering astronomical amounts of the nation’s wealth has become common practice among the regime’s top officials who live a lavish life of luxury.”
Kurdish dissident hanged by Iran’s fundamentalist regime
The regime in Iran on Sunday hanged a Kurdish dissident in the central prison of the city of Tabriz (north-west Iran) without first informing his family.
Sirvan Nezhavi, was arrested on July 5, 2011 in Karaj (north-west of Tehran) and was charged with ‘Moharebeh’ (waging war on God) for membership in a Kurdish group that opposes the Iranian regime.
US must uphold commitments to Iranian dissidents in Camp Liberty
Three retired U.S. Colonels who were in charge of protecting Camp Ashraf, Iraq, between 2003 and 2009 have urged the U.S. government to live up to its moral and legal obligation to protect the several thousand members of the main Iranian opposition People’s Mojahedin (PMOI), or Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), who are being subjected to inhumane abuses by the Iraqi government at the behest of the Iranian regime.
Iranians in Paris hold exhibition to expose human rights abuses
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.
