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Senior U.S. Senate Delegation Meets with NCRI President-elect Rajavi

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Senior U.S. Senate Delegation Meets with #NCRI President-elect #Rajavi https://themediaexpress.com/2017/08/14/senior-u-s-senate-delegation-meets-with-ncri-president-elect-rajavi/ In a move that must frustrate the Iranian regime and its mullahs, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) President-elect   Maryam Rajavi hosted a senior Senate delegation   from the United States on August 12, 2017. The meeting was held in the Albanian capital of Tirana. During the gathering, the two groups discussed the current situation of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) in Albania, the latest developments in Iran and the Middle East, and solutions to end the current crisis sweeping that region. The Senate delegation was comprised of Senators Roy Blunt, Vice President of the Republican Conference, and member of the Appropriation, Select Intelligence, Rules and Administration, and Commerce, Science, and Transportation Commi...

The EU disregards human rights in Iran

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 The EU disregards human rights in #Iran http://www.iranfreedom.org/en/human-rights/2107-the-eu-disregards-human-rights-in-iran The formal inauguration ceremony of Rouhani’s second presidential term was held earlier this month. The High Representative of the Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Federica Mogherini, attended the event as a special guest.The Italian Commissioner is known to be one of the EU officials who supports a policy of appeasing the Iranian regime. The EU’s foreign policy chief also met President Hassan Rouhani, Foreign Minister Javad Zarif and the Foreign Policy Advisor of the Supreme Leader, Ali-Akbar Velayati. Mogherini’s presence at the ceremony sends a shameful message and gives a green light to the Iranian government to continue its suppression of human rights in the country. Economically, it is a fact that Iran presents a tempting opportunity for the EU. But aside from Iran’s malign actions in the Middle East and continued su...

Why is Tehran terrified of US senators meeting with the Iranian opposition?

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 Why is Tehran terrified of US senators meeting with the Iranian opposition? http://www.iranfreedom.org/en/opinion/2105-why-is-tehran-terrified-of-us-senators-meeting-with-the-iranian-opposition Sens. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., John Cornyn, R-Texas, and Thom Tillis, R-N.C., met with National Council of Resistance of Iran President Maryam Rajavi and members of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran. Rajavi thanked the senators for their firm position toward Iran, especially the adoption of new sanctions against the ruling regime and the Revolutionary Guards for their human rights abuses, Iran's ballistic missile program, and the export of terrorism. The Iranian regime has constantly tried to downplay the role and influence of the opposition coalition, the National Council of Resistance of Iran, and its main constituent, the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), by portraying them as marginal and insignificant. Yet, its mainstream media and top officia...

Michael Reagan: The follies of appeasement

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 Michael Reagan: The follies of appeasement http://www.iranfreedom.org/en/opinion/2097-michael-reagan-the-follies-of-appeasement Record Courier, Aug. 14, 2017 - Haven’t we learned yet that appeasement  doesn’t work? I’m not talking about when the weak-kneed leaders of Britain and France went to Munich in 1938 and essentially gave Czechoslovakia to Hitler to buy a brief period of peace before Europe and the rest of the world went to war.  I’m talking about our more recent dealings with Russian, Iran and North Korea. We’re in the trouble we’re in with North Korea today because of our continual policy of appeasing the thugs who rule that oppressed and starving Communist paradise. Most people don’t remember, but we started appeasing North Korea’s dictators in the 1990s when Jimmy Carter was out office and still felt he needed to play global peacemaker. Carter went to North Korea behind the back of the sitting president, Bill Clinton, and sat do...

All the President’s Men: Iran’s Cabinet Candidates

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All the President’s Men: #Iran’s Cabinet Candidates https://raddingtonreport.com/presidents-men-irans-cabinet-candidates/ W hile humans lack the ability to see into the future, we do possess the power to analyze our world to predict what the future has in store for us. The result of Iran’s so-called presidential election back in May rendered a second term for the incumbent Hassan Rouhani. During Iran’s short election season, lasting no less than a month, the mullahs’ cunningly downgraded crackdown measures, decreasing executions and increasing social freedoms to lure the general public into polling stations. Nevertheless, the all-male slate of cabinet candidates presented by Rouhani to the parliament for approval provides a dark insight of what awaits the Iranian people and the international community. To make a long story short, these are names consisting of former Revolutionary Guards ( IRGC ) members, hostage takers, executioners, torturers and thieves. This is a sig...

Iran: Aliyeh Motallebzadeh sentenced to three years in prison

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#Iran: Aliyeh Motallebzadeh sentenced to three years in prison http://women.ncr-iran.org/iran-women-news/4197-iran-aliyeh-motallebzadeh-sentenced-to-three-years-in-prison      Tehran’s Revolutionary Court issued a three-year prison sentence for Aliyeh Motallebzadeh, a women's rights activist in Iran, on the charge of association and collusion to commit crimes against national security. Motallebzadeh was   arrested   by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence on November 26, 2016, and transferred to Evin. She was held in solitary confinement in ward 209 of Evin Prison and interrogated for 25 days. As for the content of the interrogations, her husband said, “Aliyeh was asked about her trip to Georgia, where she had participated in an educational workshop on empowering of women. Only a day after she returned, Intelligence Ministry agents came to our house.” Motallebzadeh is a photographer, a women’s rights activist, a member of the One-Million-Signat...

Before Anyone Further Appeases Iran...

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 Before Anyone Further Appeases #Iran... http://www.iranfreedom.org/en/opinion/2122-before-anyone-further-appeases-iran After decades of appeasement policy regard Iranian regime and disappointment of emerging a moderate faction from within the regime, the condition is changed. Even the whisper of regime change in Iran can be heard by the policy makers.   For apologists of appeasement policy, who, by accident!!!, have vast economic benefits in Iran, ‘regime change’ is the most hatred topic and scramble to find ways of stopping the rising tide of desire for democracy and regime change in Iran.   Heshmat Alavi, a political activist wrote an article in Forbes over the topic.    The pro-Iran deal camp is recently making much noise about how the Trump administration and critics of the pact, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), are making rightful complaints of the text failing to address Iran’s destructive belligerence i...

Before Anyone Further Appeases Iran...

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 Before Anyone Further Appeases #Iran... http://www.iranfreedom.org/en/opinion/2122-before-anyone-further-appeases-iran After decades of appeasement policy regard Iranian regime and disappointment of emerging a moderate faction from within the regime, the condition is changed. Even the whisper of regime change in Iran can be heard by the policy makers.   For apologists of appeasement policy, who, by accident!!!, have vast economic benefits in Iran, ‘regime change’ is the most hatred topic and scramble to find ways of stopping the rising tide of desire for democracy and regime change in Iran.   Heshmat Alavi, a political activist wrote an article in Forbes over the topic.    The pro-Iran deal camp is recently making much noise about how the Trump administration and critics of the pact, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), are making rightful complaints of the text failing to address Iran’s destructive belligerence i...

Opinion: Couple US sanctions with Middle East expulsion of Iran

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 Opinion: Couple US sanctions with Middle East expulsion of #Iran http://www.iranfreedom.org/en/opinion/2114-opinion-couple-us-sanctions-with-middle-east-expulsion-of-iran Riyadh Daily, 16 August 2017 - The Iranian regime is attempting to secure a corridor through Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon, providing a supply route for its numerous terrorist proxies in the region.Iran’s clandestine nuclear and ballistic missile drive, support for terrorism and domestic crackdown are all aimed at maintaining the Tehran’s fascist mullahs in power and pursue their regional policies. This notorious objective, in direct conflict with those of the regional and global coalitions to fight terrorism and extremism, can be stopped. Eviction of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps ( IRGC )   and all its proxy forces from the Middle East must complete the new US Congress sanctions. With President Donald Trump signaling his approval, this first and foremost step should be taken with hesitation ...

Iran & Neighbours Saudi Arabia: We Never Asked for Mediation With Iran Ir

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#Iran & Neighbours #Saudi Arabia: We Never Asked for Mediation With #Iran http://www.iranfocus.com/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=31900:saudi-arabia-we-never-asked-for-mediation-with-iran&catid=45:iran-and-its-neighbours&Itemid=123 London, 17 Aug - A Saudi official announced that they have never requested Iraqi mediation in its affairs with the Iranian Regime and that any claim to the contrary was just fake news. In a statement on Wednesday, the SPA official   said : “Saudi Arabia affirms its strong stance which rejects any association in any shape or form with the Iranian regime which spreads terrorism and extremism in the region and internationally, and interferes in other countries’ matters.” Earlier this month, comments attributed to the Iraqi Minister of Interior, Qassem al-Aaragi, suggested that during the recent visit of Iraqi Prime Minister, Haydar al-Aabadi, to Saudi Arabia, Saudi Prince Mohammed bin Salman, had...