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Immediately following the reelection of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani last month, the country’s Oil Ministry began boasting about its expectations that new investment deals with European nations would be signed before Rouhani took the oath for his second term later this summer. There doesn’t appear to be much concrete information to back up these claims, and the Islamic Republic of Iran has a demonstrated track record of exaggerating its own prospects, both in terms of economic outcomes and military development. Yet, the latest rhetoric reflects political and diplomatic realities, including the likelihood of some Western policymakers and businessmen taking Rouhani’s reelection as a cue to expand their relations with the Iranian regime. This is something that the whole world should be alarmed about.

Iran Focus London, 30 Jun - Political prisoners have always  embodied  the aspirations and desires of their nations under the yoke of dictatorships. In Iran, too, political prisoners put their lives on the line to express what many people do not dare to express. As the Iranian opposition is about to hold its greatest gathering ever in Villepinte, Paris, on Saturday, July 1, political prisoners have sent their messages of solidarity and support for the MEK and the Iranian opposition from inside their prisons. One such prisoner is Mr. Ali Moezzi, 66. He was also a political prisoner in young age, in the 1980s for supporting the MEK. Now, his two daughters are with the MEK, and he has been imprisoned on and off several times since they joined the MEK in Ashraf.

(CNSNews.com) – Ahead of a large annual “Free Iran” gathering in Paris on Saturday, the exiled Iranian opposition movement says hundreds of incidents of risky expressions of support have been taking place inside Iran – from distribution of pamphlets to the appearance of posters and graffiti. The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)/People’s Mujahedeen Organization of Iran (MEK) says hundreds of videos and photos of the incidents have been taken in dozens of towns and cities, and compiled a sample in a video clip.

Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), met Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Friday, June 30, at the NCRI headquarters in Auvers-sur-Oise, northwest of Paris. Mayor Giuliani pointed to the Iranian regime’s malign activities in the region, stressing that the mullahs are the source instability and crisis in the region, and have kept their grip on power in the past 38 years through widespread repression and blatant disregard for human rights at home and the export of extremism and terrorism abroad.

The Algemeiner, JUNE 27, 2017 - An intergovernmental organization created by G7 nations to combat financial crimes including money-laundering and terrorism financing is to keep Iran on its economic blacklist, in a major blow to the Tehran regime’s hopes of gaining unfettered access to the international financial system following the 2015 nuclear deal with six major world powers. At its plenary in the Spanish city of Valencia last week, the Financial Action Task Force – made up of 37 member states and two observers, Israel and Saudi Arabia – decided to keep Iran on its “Public Statement” – effectively a blacklist that prevents those countries listed on it from accessing banking and other financial services.

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley lambasted the Security Council for failing to take any action against Iran, which she said had "repeatedly and deliberately violated" sanctions imposed by the body. "The Security Council has failed to even take minimal steps to respond to these violations," Haley told a council meeting on June 29. "We must...show Iran that we will not tolerate their egregious flaunting of UN resolutions." Most UN sanctions were lifted 18 months ago under a deal Iran made with world powers to curb its nuclear program. But Iran is still subject to an arms embargo and other restrictions, which are not technically part of the nuclear agreement. UN political affairs chief Jeffrey Feltman briefed the council on Secretary-General Antonio Guterres' third report onimplementation of the remaining sanctions against Iran, enshrined in resolution 2231.

By  ALI M. LATIFI BAMIYAN, AFGHANISTAN — War and poverty have scattered Afghans across the globe like pieces of shrapnel. Millions of Afghans came of age in refugee camps in Pakistan and Iran or as workers in the Persian Gulf nations. The migration continues. The past few years have added a new lethal geography to the Afghan tragedy: the battlefields of President Bashar al-Assad’s Syria. Two years ago, Abdol Amin, 19, left his home in the Foladi Valley in Bamyan, one of Afghanistan’s poorest provinces, to find work in Iran. Two million undocumented Afghans and a million Afghans with  refugee  status already lived in Iran. His sister and brother-in-law lived in Isfahan. He hoped to improve on his life of subsistence farming in impoverished Bamyan.

Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), met Mayor Rudy Giuliani on Friday, June 30, at the NCRI headquarters in Auvers-sur-Oise, northwest of Paris. Mayor Giuliani pointed to the Iranian regime’s malign activities in the region, stressing that the mullahs are the source instability and crisis in the region, and have kept their grip on power in the past 38 years through widespread repression and blatant disregard for human rights at home and the export of extremism and terrorism abroad.

Iran Focus London, 27 Jun - What happened 29 years ago in Iran, and why after all these years, we are witnessing a crisis and a rising conflict among rival factions in the ruling class over that in Iran? Throughout the summer of 1988 in Iran, some 30,000 political prisoners, the bulk of whom were MEK members or sympathizers, were executed. This year marks the 29th anniversary of that horrible Crime Against Humanity. Last summer , an audio tape was revealed by the son of  Hossein-Ali Montazeri . On August 9, 2016, the recording was heard for the first time, and thereon Khomeini’s former heir can be heard telling a gathering of members of the “Death Committee” that they're winding up a crime against humanity, 28 years ago, on august 15, 1988. Wrote M. Hakamian in INU on June 24, 2017 and the following are excerpts of the article. The tape sent shockwaves through Iran, as it adds new knowledge of the breadth and scope of the massacre and confirms that it involved the...

By INU Staff INU - Over 100,000 dignitaries, politicians and activists will gather in Paris this Saturday to support the Iranian people and their call for regime change in Iran at the Free Iran rally. The annual rally, organised by the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), has attracted supporters of the Resistance from around the world, as far afield as Saudi royalty, US lawmakers, and European national security experts. The MEK is the biggest member group within the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), a coalition of Resistance groups, which together serve as a government in exile in France.

On July 1, the Iranian opposition will be holding its annual rally to give voice to the Iranian people and their popular resistance movement and to reiterate the call for regime change in Iran. This is, of course, a message reflecting the true desire of the Iranian people and is widely endorsed by policymakers around the world, as evidenced by the hundreds of dignitaries who will attend the event. The “Free Iran” rally has significant implications for the policies being advanced around the world by persons with a clear understanding of the danger the Iranian regime poses to global security and the stability of the Middle East. This is especially important in the current historical moment, when assertive policies regarding the clerical regime in Iran are returning to the mainstream the world over. The gathering, with the National Council of Resistance of Iran at its center, takes place at the Villepinte Exhibition Center outside of Paris, and brings together critics of the tota...

By Mahmoud Hakamian For the Iranian regime, staying power means oppressing all voices that challenge their rule, particularly the human rights abuses and strict laws on everything from who you can socialize with to how you dress in public. Yet, one group has been the main focus of the regime’s efforts to suppress and undermine their voice in support of a free Iran. That group is the MEK. When the MEK was removed from the U.S. list of terrorist groups, Iranian regime House Speaker Ali Larijni  said  during his speech on June 23, “Now it’s you (the United States) who are sponsor of terrorism and even mother of terrorism, yet you accuse the Iranian regime of sponsoring terrorism. Your accusations are shameful…Today, the Americans removed the MEK from their list of terrorist groups.” News agencies, including the Fars agency under the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), have revealed the concerns of the regime over what they see as a dangerous turn of events, now t...

We Want fundamentalist regime, cruel, and totally corrupt Iranian regime with a democratic regime based on the separation of Religion held, Ulm Apr 22, 2017 The Iranian regime has gone too far by starting a game much bigger than its role, while not being afraid of insulting Jordan. “Our next responsibility should focus on shattering the Iranian regime’s influence in Syria and Iraq “, adds the newspaper, “and putting an end to regime’s interventions in the affairs of (Persian) Gulf States. We should turn to international community to come up with binding resolutions for condemning Iranian regime’s measures in the region, and deploy every possible means to ensure their implementation, while emphasizing on good neighborly relations, mutual respect, and non-interference in the affairs of others, something Iran is violating every single day.”

We  must  uprising  For The rights of the oppressed people of Iran Jun 05, 2017 About the Campaign For nearly four decades the Iranian people have been faced with systematic suppression, vast imprisonment and torture, and subjugated to the mullahs’ daily executions, as the ruling theocracy struggles to keep its power via suppression and destabilizing the region through its terrorism. For 38 years Iran has been turned into a large prison where today, 80 million have been taken hostage within their own country. There is something YOU can do about it!

The main demands of Iranian people is overthrow of the mullahs' regime NCRI - Chief of the Kurdistan Province Labor Council acknowledged widespread unemployment among young men and women. “Kurdistan Province is in very poor conditions in regards to employment. A large number of young men and women, and college graduates are seen selling goods on the streets or carrying heavy loads through border crossings,” Shaker Ibrahim said on Friday. “On social media we see video footages of educated Kurdistan men with heavy loads on their backs trying to make ends meet. Should there be any planning to create jobs for these young men and women who have spent years studying in the country’s most credible universities?” he asked.

Sunday June 25, 2017. On the occasion of  Eid al-Fitr and the conclusion of the Holy month of Ramadan, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi the president elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran sent a message to Muslims all over the world, particularly the people of Iran. the following is the full text. Congratulations for Eid al-Fitr and the conclusion of the Holy month of Ramadan to Muslims all over the world, particularly the people of Iran wherever they are.

It is a fact.I read this.You read.To see this fact. by Ken Blackwell Thirty years after President Reagan seized upon an historic opportunity to bring down the Iron Curtain, there are growing indications that President Trump can make similarly historic strides in the conflict between the US and the new Evil of our time: Islamic extremism. In its first five months, President Trump’s presidency has witnessed dramatic shifts from the policies normalized by the Obama administration.Few are as significant or wide-ranging as the changes in American dealings with the Islamic Republic of Iran. The new attitude enjoys rare bipartisan support in Congress, and with good cause. The conciliatory policy of Trump’s predecessor resulted in an ineffectual nuclear agreement and tens of billions of dollars in sanctions relief for a regime that remains the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism.

بينما تستعد المعارضة الإيرانية لمؤتمرها العام المزمع عقده في الأول من تموز/ يوليو 2017 في العاصمة الفرنسية باريس، عرضت المقاومة الإيرانية فيديو يُظهر جدران وشوارع المدن الإيرانية وقد انتشرت فيها صور رئيسة المقاومة الإيرانية، مريم رجوي، وشعارات تعبر عن دعم الإيرانيين للمؤتمر.  بطيخ إيران "المسموم" يصل سلطنة عمان منظمات حقوقية تدعو من جنيف للتصدي لـ"الإرهاب الإيراني" وتقول المقاومة الإيرانية إن "المؤتمر الضخم المزمع عقده يمثل جميع شرائح الشعب الإيراني الرازح تحت وطأة الملالي، ليصرخوا بصوت واحد وبملء حناجرهم ليرددوا هذه الشعارات المكتوبة على اللافتات الملصقة على جميع الجدران في مختلف المدن الإيرانية، من إصفهان إلى طهران، ومن أورمية إلى خرم آباد، ليعبروا في هذا المؤتمر عن تمنيات الشعب الإيراني، التي يكتبونها في كل مكان، ترحيباً بمشروع المجلس الوطني للمقاومة الإيرانية لايران الغد الحرة". ويتوقع المجلس حضور عشرات الآلاف من أبناء الجاليات الإيرانية في مختلف أرجاء العالم إلى المؤتمر السنوي العام للمقاومة الإيرانية في باريس، الذي "سيطالب بإسقاط النظ...

Iran Focus London, 23 Jun - Reports of the divide between the regime factions, which is based only on a struggle for power and not the moderates v hardliners myth that is so often cited, mean that Hassan Rouhani’s “election” may well spell the end of the Iranian Regime. When incumbent President Rouhani was announced as the winner in the recent Iranian “elections”, it caused quite a stir around the world. Ali Safavi, a member of Iran's Parliament in Exile and the National Council of Resistance of Iran, wrote an op-ed for the  Raddington Report  on why Rouhani’s presidency will not save the crumbling mullah’s regime but only hasten its downfall. He wrote: “Usually, the hope is that after an election a country can move forward, the new leader’s agenda bolstered by a popular mandate. That is not the case with Iran. Hassan Rouhani’s second term as president was far from a win for Iran’s economy, Iran’s international standing, and certainly not for Iran’s people.”

There is a Persian proverb saying those fearing the dark scream to overcome their fears.  Iran, considering its domestic and foreign dilemmas, resembles that very individual who is afraid of the dark and is screaming to overcome its fears. On Wednesday, June 7, Iran was  attacked by terrorists  in a twin assault that ISIS claimed responsibility for, targeting the parliament and the tomb of the regime's founder.  In contrast to others victimized by terrorism, Tehran actually welcomed this attack and portrays itself as the victim. Iran was under intense pressure from an international coalition against its measures in the Middle East and needed an escape route.  Tehran sought to cloak the reality of being the central banker of international terrorism.  The position taken by U.S. president Donald Trump and a recent  Senate resolution  became impassable hurdles.  To this end, Iran began broadcasting fake news accusing the U.S., Saudi A...

We must not resort to reprisals following terror attacks, writes Struan Stevenson The Finsbury Park mosque attack in London is the latest horrific outrage to stun public opinion. So many innocent lives have been taken in recent terrorist attacks that many people in the UK are now clamoring for an appropriate response. The tit-for-tat nature of these events plays perfectly into the hands of the terrorists, whose aim is to set one section of society against another. We must not allow this to happen. It is too easy to get caught up in debates about the proportional value of solutions that involve an increased security presence and those that call for deeper engagement with, for example, Muslim communities, to identify and root out extremist voices within. But following the Finsbury Park atrocity, should we also be calling for deeper engagement and surveillance within primarily white, British communities to root out extremists? Following the Manchester and London Br...

Thirty years after President Reagan seized upon an historic opportunity to bring down the Iron Curtain, there are growing indications that President Trump can make similarly historic strides in the conflict between the US and the new Evil of our time: Islamic extremism. In its first five months, President Trump’s presidency has witnessed dramatic shifts from the policies normalized by the Obama administration. Few are as significant or wide-ranging as the changes in American dealings with the Islamic Republic of Iran .

By Jubin Katiraie Mr. Jubin Katiraie is an editorial staff member of Iran Focus. The views expressed in the article are his own. It is sometimes now that many US officials have been talking about Iran and the actions that US must take towards Iran. In a hearing in the congress, the Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, in response to a question about the US policy towards Iran said: “Well our Iranian policy is under development. It’s not yet been delivered to the president, but I would tell you that we certainly recognize Iran’s continued destabilizing presence in the region, their payment of foreign fighters, their export of militia forces in Syria, in Iraq, in Yemen, their support for Hezbollah. And we are taking action to respond to Iran’s hegemony. Additional sanctions actions have been put in place against individuals and others.” “We continually review the merits both from the standpoint of diplomatic but also international consequences of designating the Iranian Revolution...

By INU Staff INU - In a press conference on Tuesday at its Washington DC office, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) presented new information  gathered  by MEK about missile development and testing in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Officials of the NCRI reported that Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, ordered the acceleration of missile expansion from relevant institutions after the nuclear agreement went into effect last year, in January. Iranian ballistic missile testing has caused an ongoing dispute among those who are attempting to keep the nuclear deal enforced. These tests are alleged to be in violation of United Nations Security Council resolutions that call on the Islamic Republic to avoid work on weapons that are nuclear capable. However, several tests of such missiles have taken place since negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 concluded in July 2015.

By INU Staff INU - In a press conference on Tuesday at its Washington DC office, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) presented new information  gathered  by MEK about missile development and testing in the Islamic Republic of Iran. Officials of the NCRI reported that Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, ordered the acceleration of missile expansion from relevant institutions after the nuclear agreement went into effect last year, in January. Iranian ballistic missile testing has caused an ongoing dispute among those who are attempting to keep the nuclear deal enforced. These tests are alleged to be in violation of United Nations Security Council resolutions that call on the Islamic Republic to avoid work on weapons that are nuclear capable. However, several tests of such missiles have taken place since negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 concluded in July 2015.

By INU Staff INU - On Tuesday, a  press conference  was held in Washington DC by the US representative office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) where it was revealed that on orders of Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, Tehran has accelerated its missile activities and tests since the Iran Nuclear Deal, known formally as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action of JCPOA. Based on detailed intelligence obtained by the Iranian opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) from inside Iran — specifically reports obtained from the Defense Ministry and the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) — Khamenei has tasked the IRGC’s Aerospace Force with executing this mandate. For a long time the Iranian opposition has established itself as one of the main sources for exposing secret aspects of Iran’s nuclear  activities , as well as the regime’s Weapons of Mass Destruction program.

Iran Focus London, 22 Jun - Forty-Six US Congressmen and women have sponsored a resolution which calls on the US Government and its allies across the world to publically condemn the 1988 massacre of Iranian political prisoners and calls on the UN to launch an investigation into this crime against humanity. Unlike much in Congress nowadays, Resolution 188 (officially titled: The condemnation of the Iranian government for the massacre of political prisoners in 1988 and the invitation to call for justice for the victims) receives wide bipartisan support. The main victims of the massacre were members of the People's Mujahedin of Iran (PMOI/MEK), an anti-fundamentalist group who espoused equal rights, a secular government and a ban on the death penalty, whom the Regime wanted to exterminate because the opposition was becoming too strong.

Iran Focus London, 22 Jun - The Iranian Resistance group, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) held  a press conference  in Washington on Tuesday, to expose the real threat of the Iranian Regime’s ballistic weapons programme. It appears that in the wake of the nuclear deal, which severely limited the research and development of nuclear weapons in Iran, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei ordered the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to focus on their ballistic missiles instead. Members of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), the largest faction within the NCRI, revealed 42 sites related to the production, testing, and launching of ballistic missiles. Alireza Jafarzadeh, Deputy Director of the NCRI’s US office, said: “A dozen of these sites were revealed for the very first time. Among the 42 sites, 15 are part of the regime’s missile manufacturing network. These 15 centres include several factories related to a missile industry group an...

US President Donald Trump’s visit to Saudi Arabia and the Riyadh Summit, with leaders of over 50 Muslim nations taking part, was a major turning point in the Middle East’s balance of power. This development also signaled the end of eight years of the Obama administration’s unbridled appeasement vis-à-vis Iran. And Tehran has very specifically received the message. For the first time in many years the world is taking steps to stand on the right side of history and alongside the Iranian people in their quest to realize their rightful demands of freedom, democracy and peace in the region.

We have witnessed over the past four decades Iran’s desperate need to create turmoil inside its own borders and abroad to quell dissent, justifying all measures to achieve this. Through such a perspective we can analyze the unseen truth behind the events of the June 7th twin ISIS attacks in Tehran. The surfacing of more facts and evidence have raised speculation that this entire turn of events was a scenario blueprinted by Tehran. Both parties benefited, with Tehran finding pretexts to portray itself the victim of terrorism and to thus justify any and all following actions domestically and abroad. And for ISIS, suffering major setbacks in Iraq and Syria, staging such an attack in the heart of Tehran would be a necessary boost in morale amongst its dwindling rank and files.

NCRI - Children with autism are harmed and annoyed at its center in Mashhad, a news outbreak that hurt public opinion. After disclosure of the torture of children patients suffering autism in Northeastern city of Mashhad, the deputy director of the rehabilitation department of the Iranian welfare organization, blamed the ministry of health, while the adviser to the health minister also stated: the center had only the principled consent for operation, which did not mean a license for the institute. Last week, News reports about grievances of a number of families of children with autism were surfaced about torture and harassment by children rehabilitation center in Mashhad. According to the revealed news, there are indications of bone fractures, throat bleeding, and signs of beatings on three children who have been brutally harassed at this center.

by  Heshmat Alavi A military truck carries a Sejil medium-range missile during the annual military parade marking the anniversary of the start of Iran 's 1980-1988 war with Iraq , on September 21, 2016, in the capital Tehran.The Iranian opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) has a record of unveiling the secret plans of the Iranian regime in diferent aspects. Relevant to the latest activity in this regard Heshmat Alavi has more in the Forbes. Iran has been pursuing an extensive ballistic missile program through dozens of very important sites, including twelve unknown to this day and one specifically linked to its highly sensitive and controversial nuclear program, the Iranian opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) revealed at a press conference Tuesday in Washington  Then he gives a brief about the history of the Iranian resistance attempts to hinder the devastation program of the Iranian regime. The NCRI, citing sources of coa...