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‘I chose beatings over solitary confinement’ this is what it was like to be locked up in prison in Tehran Yahoo News | Mostafa Naderi | 10 September 2021 Last week, leaked surveillance footage showed shocking abuses of prisoners in Iran’s Evin prison. Watching the videos reminded me of my years in Evin – with one notable difference: the guards of my time seemed even more barbaric. I want to explain why what happened 33 years ago matters today. Iran’s society has changed, but its regime has not – in fact, Iran’s new president, Ebrahim Raisi, is one of the leaders of the horrific…
AP | By JON GAMBRELL | August 23, 2021 DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The guard in a control room at Iran’s notorious Evin prison springs to attention as one by one, monitors in front of him suddenly blink off and display something very different from the surveillance footage he had been watching. “Cyberattack,” the monitors flash. Other guards gather around, holding up their mobile phones and filming, or making urgent calls. ”General protest until the freedom of political prisoners” reads another line on the screens. An online account, purportedly by an entity describing itself as a group of…
Nearly 3,000 miles from Tehran where mass executions were carried out in 1988, a murder trial in Sweden could produce new revelations that complicate life for Iran’s president-elect. New York Times | By Farnaz Fassihi | July 30, 2021 He was a 28-year-old student and member of a communist group in Iran serving a 10-year prison sentence in 1988 when, according to his family, he was called before a committee and executed without a trial or defense. Family members said they did not get the body, a will or the location of a burial site. They received a duffle bag with…
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https://youtu.be/xbEGSx54fTY Iran: The Untold Story Segment 9 August 15, 2019 ENJETI: Welcome to our series, Iran: The Untold Story, and our continuing look at the main Iranian opposition group. I’m Saagar Enjeti, I’m filling in this week for Buck Sexton. Today, we examine Maryam Rajavi, the president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran. NARRATOR: Born into an educated, middle-class family in Tehran, Maryam Rajavi began her activism in college. She called for freedom, justice, and the end of the Shah’s dictatorship. The Shah’s regime imprisoned her brother, an MEK member, in the ‘70s. The secret police, or SAVAK,…
https://youtu.be/BfQWrF87TYY Iran: The Untold Story – Part Eight June 13, 2019 BUCK SEXTON: Welcome to our series, Iran: The Untold Story, and our continuing look at the main Iranian opposition group. This week, we examine the growing international support for the MEK and NCRI. Video: At its giant Paris rallies, and at demonstrations around the globe, the MEK and NCRI have become an international presence, advocating for democracy and change in Iran. John Baird, former foreign minister of Canada: “We come together to support the people of Iran in their great struggle.” They organize street protests in the US, Brussels,…
https://youtu.be/jhu2f691Vnw Iran: The Untold Story, Segment 7 June 6, 2019 Buck SEXTON: Welcome to our series, Iran: The Untold Story, and our continuing look at the main Iranian opposition group. This week we examine how a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators and House members have supported the MEK and the NCRI for nearly four decades. US political support for the MEK and National Council of Resistance of Iran runs deep and spans nearly four decades. Senator Gary Peters: “… And move to a democratic regime where the people of Iran actually have a say, we have to be united. Thank…
https://youtu.be/gMbWU_pmga8 Iran: The Untold Story, Part 6 By the early 1980s, the MEK was organizing massive rallies to protest the growing dictatorship in Iran. Meanwhile, MEK leader Massoud Rajavi [RAJ-a-vee] formed a broad coalition—the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)—inviting opposition leaders to join. But with arrests and attacks of supporters mounting, in July 1981 the MEK moved to safety in Paris. SOT: The Iran-Iraq War was raging, and the NCRI proposed a peace plan that picked up international support. But by 1986, Tehran pressured the French government to expel the NCRI and MEK. Rajavi and his supporters were…
https://youtu.be/W-9VDEy-j3M Iran: The Untold Story, Part 5 On the streets of modern Iran… open dissent: NAT SOT: “Down with Dictator! Down with Khamenei! Down with Rouhani!” TRACK: Who was behind this gutsy rebellion against an authoritarian state? Iran’s Supreme Leader left no doubt: It was the outlawed MEK. SOT: “They were prepared months ago. The media of the MEK admitted to this…” TRACK: In Iran… in 1965… three Muslim university graduates created the MEK, or People’s Mujahedin of Iran, to foster social and political change. TRACK: Iran was ruled at the time by the Shah… a US-supported monarch whose corruption…
https://youtu.be/pAJ8R-TRZIQ Iran: The Untold Story – Part Four May 16, 2019 Today, Moustafa Ahmady (AH-meh-dee) happily runs a parking business in Los Angeles. But in the 1980s, he says the Iranian regime imprisoned him for nearly 8 years—just for his political beliefs. Ahmady: “When I was in prison, I saw with my own eyes how violently the regime treats anyone accused of supporting the MEK.” As a young man, Ahmady supported the MEK, the main Iranian opposition group. The prisons were full of MEK supporters, who were tortured and executed. Today, he cries and says he is not lucky to…