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29 September 2025 GENEVA – Over 1000 people have been killed in less than nine months of 2025, UN experts said today, warning that the figures represented a dramatic escalation that violates international human rights law. “The sheer scale of executions in Iran is staggering and represents a grave violation of the right to life,” the experts said. “With an average of more than nine hangings per day in recent weeks, Iran appears to be conducting executions at an industrial scale that defies all accepted standards of human rights protection.” At least 1,000 executions have been documented since 1 January 2025…
Miami Independent | Dr. Majid Rafizadeh | Aug. 20, 2022 On August 1, 2025, Reza Pahlavi unveiled what he describes as a roadmap for Iran’s future — a document allegedly crafted by experts under his supervision and disseminated through NUFDI, his promotional apparatus. Marketed as a post-regime transition plan, it reads less like a democratic blueprint and more like a manual for consolidating unchecked power in the hands of a single unelected figure. At the heart of the proposal lies an 18-to-36-month “Transitional Period,” which can be extended indefinitely. During this time, all branches of state authority would report to…
Free Iran Scholar Network | Shirin Nariman | Aug. 22, 2025 Shirin Nariman is a former political prisoner in Iran during the 1980s. As a former political prisoner in Iran, I witnessed horrors that remain etched into my memory, nightly executions, the shouts of tortured inmates, and the constant fear that any moment could be your last. I survived the blood-soaked decade of the 1980s, only to later learn that during the summer of 1988, thousands of my fellow political prisoners including members of my own family and closest friends were systematically murdered in one of the darkest crimes of…
Dr. Ramesh Sepehrrad | Defense Opinion | July 8, 2025 With a fragile ceasefire now holding between Iran and Israel following the June 2025 escalation, headlines have temporarily shifted away from the regional tension. Yet the most consequential struggle involving the Islamic Republic is not in the skies over the Middle East but in the streets of Iran itself and the Iranian people’s fight for liberty. Since August 2024, Iran’s regime has executed more than 1,350 people-many of them women, youths, and ethnic minorities, according to Amnesty International. Repression is not a glitch in the system; it is the system. The regime has arrested more than 700…
Speech at the European Parliament, Strasbourg | June 18, 2025 Honorable Members of the European Parliament, Dear friends, I am honored to once again stand before you — the elected representatives of the people of Europe — who have stood firmly with the people of Iran and the Iranian Resistance in their struggle for freedom and democracy. Seven months have passed since I had the privilege of addressing you here in the European Parliament on the situation in my homeland, Iran, in late November 2024. Today, I would like to begin by reaffirming and expanding upon the message I shared…
May 8, 2025 NCRI Reveals Secret Iranian Nuclear Weapons Facility under Petrochemical Cover New Intelligence Uncovers Tehran’s Advanced Warhead Development with a potential for Hydrogen Bomb capability Washington, DC – May 8, 2025 – At a press conference, the U.S. Representative Office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI-US) unveiled critical new intelligence about a clandestine nuclear weapons facility operated by the Iranian regime. The findings, presented by NCRI officials, expose Tehran’s continued pursuit of nuclear weapons capabilities under the guise of petrochemical activities. Soona Samsami, U.S. Representative of the NCRI, revealed that the facility—known internally as the Rangin…
‘Solution to ending the Iranian regime’s threats is the establishment of a secular, democratic, and pluralistic republic,’ the resolution reads Fox News | By Morgan Phillips | February 26, 2025 A bipartisan group of 151 lawmakers is rallying around a resolution to support the Iranian resistance movement ahead of a hearing with an opposition leader. The resolution, led by Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif., expresses support for the Iranian people and their stated desire for a “democratic, secular and non-nuclear” Iran through regime change. “The developments of the past year have left no doubt that the source of terrorism and warmongering in the Middle…
Almost half of executions took place in last quarter, with 12 prisoners hanged on New Year’s Day Fox News | By Beth Bailey | January 3, 2025 The Islamic Republic of Iran executed over 1,000 prisoners in 86 prisons across the country in 2024, according to a report by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). The report says the death toll is “an unprecedented figure in the past three decades,” and represents an increase of 16% from the 864 executions conducted in 2023. Most of the regime’s executions took place in the latter half of the year. Almost 70% occurred after…
Telegraph | Maryam Rajavi | December 30, 2024 With the fall of Syria’s dictator, one of Tehran’s most crucial allies, the overthrow of Iran’s theocratic regime has become more plausible than ever. In response, regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei is likely to pursue the most perilous course imaginable: equipping the world’s foremost sponsor of terrorism with nuclear weapons. Recent revelations from the Iranian Resistance indicate that Tehran has accelerated its pursuit of an atomic bomb. This reckless gambit is aimed at deflecting mounting domestic crises while compensating for its strategic failures across the region. For over four decades, Iran’s ruling mullahs have…
MEF Director Gregg Roman Lays Out a Strategy for Regional Stability and Democratic Change in Iran Middle East Forum | Gregg Roman | December 27, 2024 Iran’s status as the most destabilizing force in the Middle East presents a pressing need for change. Today, the Islamic Republic is a regional hegemon that uses proxies in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Yemen to destabilize neighboring states and challenge US interests. The October 7, 2023, Hamas-led massacre and subsequent regional escalation serve as reminders of the Islamic Republic’s ambitions and its nuclear aspirations, making it the central challenge to US policy in the…