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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…

Iranian Americans’ rally calls for prosecution of Ebrahim Raisi. The rally will take place at the United Nations Plaza on Wednesday, September 21, protesting Tehran’s president Ebrahim Raisi’s presence at the United Nations General Assembly. Iranian Americans from across the country will gather to voice opposition to Raisi, calling for his prosecution for his part in 1988 massacre of 30,000 political prisoners. A crime against humanity. On July 14, 2022, Hamid Nouri, a prison aide to the “Death Commission” members, including Raisi, was sentenced to life, after ten months of court proceeding in Sweden. It was the very first case…

NEW YORK TIMES    |     BRET STEPHENS     |     AUG. 23, 2022 A lot has been written about the broader meaning of the attack this month on Salman Rushdie, for which a Muslim religious fanatic has been charged with attempted murder. Not enough has been said about the evil of the regime that presumably inspired the deed and so many others like it — or of what it says of the wisdom of trying to strike a nuclear deal with it. The Islamic Republic of Iran did not take responsibility for the murder attempt on Rushdie. But Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s 1989 fatwa…

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL     |     July 14, 2022 Responding to today’s landmark decision of Stockholm’s District Court sentencing a former Iranian official, Hamid Nouri, to life in prison over crimes related to Iran’s 1988 prison massacres, following a trial carried out under the principle of universal judication, Diana Eltahawy, Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for the Middle East and North Africa, said: “Hamid Nouri’s conviction and sentence today in Sweden for crimes related to Iran’s 1988 prison massacres is an unprecedented step towards justice for crimes committed in Iran and sends an unequivocal, and long overdue, message to the Iranian authorities that those…

Boston Herald     |     Dr. Kazem Kazerounian     |     June 25, 2022 Kazerounian: To support Iran’s people, engage with the Iranian Resistance https://twitter.com/Maryam_Rajavi/status/1540068695384399872 In his recent trip to Albania, former Vice President Mike Pence showed world leaders and politicians how they can play a leading role in supporting the people of Iran in their struggle for freedom and democracy. Mr. Pence visited Ashraf 3, the main headquarters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), the longest-standing and most organized opposition to the tyrannical regime ruling Iran. The visit comes as Iran is on the verge of a monumental change. People from…