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CHILD DETAINEES IN IRAN SUBJECTED TO FLOGGING, ELECTRIC SHOCKS AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE IN BRUTAL PROTEST CRACKDOWN Amnesty International     |     March 16, 2023 Iran’s intelligence and security forces have been committing horrific acts of torture, including beatings, flogging, electric shocks, rape and other sexual violence against child protesters as young as 12 to quell their involvement in nationwide protests, said Amnesty International today. Marking six months of the unprecedented popular uprising in Iran, sparked by the death in custody of Mahsa (Zhina) Amini, Amnesty International reveals the violence meted out to children arrested during and in the aftermath of protests. The…

Bipartisan House Resolution Rejects Monarchic, Religious Dictatorship, Endorses a Republic in Iran Townhall     |     Majid Rafizadeh     |     Feb 15, 2023 As we marked the 44th anniversary of the 1979 revolution in Iran, we were reminded of the transformative power of people’s movements to bring about change. The overthrow of the Pahlavi monarchy and the establishment of a republic in Iran held great promise for the people, but it was quickly subverted by Khomeini and his reactionary mullahs, who have since been responsible for unimaginable human rights abuses, terrorism, regional destabilization, and the pursuit of nuclear weapons. Since September, the Iranian…

Bipartisan Senators Support Iran Uprising, Call for Increased Pressure on Iran Ayatollahs by OIAC      |     December 8, 2022 At the US Senate Kennedy Caucus Room, bipartisan Senators expressed support for Iran protesters seeking democratic change & called for more sanctions WASHINGTON, DC – At a briefing held in the historic Senate Kennedy Caucus Room, bipartisan Senators and prominent policy experts expressed support for nationwide protests for democratic change in Iran and called for additional pressure on the clerical regime. Addressing the event virtually, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-Elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran said, “All evidence suggests…

The U.S. and EU should help facilitate the outcome of unrest sweeping Iran The Washington Times      |     By Ivan Sascha Sheehan     |     12/28/ 2022 Three months have passed since the beginning of anti-regime protests in Iran. Today, the slogans chanted in the streets and the graffiti adorning public buildings reflect the people’s universal calls for democracy. At the outset of the now-nationwide uprising, “woman, life, freedom” was the rebellion’s initial call to arms. But over time, the protesters’ demands conspicuously shifted to rejecting the Iranian establishment altogether. Today, ubiquitous calls for “death to the dictator” have opened a bold new…

Women have been the main target of the Iranian regime — now they’re leading the revolution to bring it down New York Post     |     By Maryam Rajavi     |     November 27, 2022 Brave Iranian women, supported by a generation of young men, educated and knowing their inalienable rights, have openly and ferociously rejected the brutal religious dictatorship of Ali Khamenei and all his loyalists and apologists, in pursuit of justice and equal rights. They are organized, inspired, self-sacrificing and ready to bring about fundamental change: the regime’s downfall and the establishment of democratic rule that will ensure their life, liberty and…

Activists say prisoners chanted antigovernment slogans; Parliament clears police in Mahsa Amini’s death. The fire Saturday at Evin Prison in Tehran, which the U.S. says is a political prison for dissidents and foreigners and is known to hold demonstrators from recent protests. WSJ     |     By Benoit Faucon and David S. Cloud      |      Oct. 16, 2022 The protest movement sweeping Iran spread to a Tehran prison known as a symbol of political repression in a new challenge to the Islamic Republic, with detained dissidents chanting antigovernment slogans before violence erupted and a deadly fire engulfed the facility, activists said. Authorities said the fire…

OC Register      |     By MITRA SAMANI      |     October 9, 2022 The preamble to the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that in absence of the rule of law, individuals and societies are “compelled to have recourse, as a last resort, to rebellion against tyranny and oppression.” That is precisely what we are currently witnessing in Iran, and in line with the UN’s declaration, the people’s uprising must be recognized as legitimate and as deserving international support. To their credit, major world powers have appropriately condemned the Iranian regime’s backlash against the ongoing protests, which began in response to…

Thousands Rally at the UN, Voice Support for Iran Uprising, Condemn Raisi’s Presence OIAC      |     September 23, 2022 New York, September 23, 2022 – Capping a weeklong series of exhibitions and daily picket lines, some 3,000 Iranian Americans from across 40 U.S. states held a major rally at New York’s Dag Hammarskjold Plaza to denounce Raisi and stand in solidarity with the ongoing nationwide protests in Iran calling for regime change. According to the latest reports by the main Iranian opposition group, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), dozens have been killed by the Revolutionary Guards in protests in 100 cities and…

Lawmakers urge Biden to deny Iranian president entry into US for UN meeting over ‘gross violations’ of rights Over 50 Democrats and Republicans are urging Biden to keep the Iranian president from attending the UN assembly in New York By Kelly Laco     |     Fox News     |     Sept. 8, 2022 EXCLUSIVE: A bipartisan group of House lawmakers is urging President Biden to deny necessary “entry visas” for Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his delegation to attend the upcoming 77th United Nations General Assembly in New York City due to the foreign president’s record of supporting terrorism and violating human rights. “We write to strongly urge you…

France 24     |     8/28/2022 Washington (AFP) – An exile group announced a New York lawsuit against Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi Thursday, challenging US authorities to take action against him as he is expected to arrive next month for the UN General Assembly. The National Council of Resistance of Iran said the suit accused Raisi of torture and murder in a 1988 crackdown on Iranian dissidents. Echoing similar complaints filed in England and Scotland, the civil lawsuit says that in 1988 Raisi was a member of the so-called “death commission,” four judges who directly ordered thousands of executions as well as torture…