Iran: Several Members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization (PMOI/MEK) Arrested During Attack on Judiciary Headquarters in Tehran

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  The leadership of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) inside the country announced that several members of the organization were arrested on the evening of Friday, October 16, 2026, during clashes with security personnel from the judiciary and police patrols, while an attack was underway targeting the central headquarters of the Iranian regime’s judiciary in Tehran. According to the statement, the clashes took place at around 9 p.m. local time on Abdollahzadeh Street, off Keshavarz Boulevard, near the judiciary’s central headquarters. Resistance Units Mobilized Following Reports That Mohseni Ejei Was Heading to the Headquarters The PMOI leadership inside Iran explained that, several hours before the operation, information had been received indicating that Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Ejei, head of the Iranian regime’s judiciary, was on his way to Keshavarz Boulevard to proceed to the central headquarters. The statement added that, immediately upon receiving this info...
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UN Must Shun Iran’s Mass Murderer

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 The Iranian regime’s president, Ebrahim Raisi, is scheduled to take his first trip abroad on Thursday. According to state-run media, Raisi is slated to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in Tajikistan. This is despite the fact that Raisi is on the US sanctions list because he is a serial human rights abuser.

Since Raisi’s installment as the illegitimate mullahs’ president, there have been ringing condemnations and growing calls by human rights organizations for his prosecution as a criminal. In 1988, he was involved in the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners, most of whom were members of the main opposition Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK). The victims’ families have been seeking justice for the past 33 years.



But the culture of impunity that has reigned in Tehran for criminals and human rights abusers has allowed the rise of Raisi to one of the most senior positions in the clerical regime. As the global rights group Amnesty International declared, “That Ebrahim Raisi has risen to the presidency instead of being investigated for the crimes against humanity of murder, enforced disappearance and torture, is a grim reminder that impunity reigns supreme in Iran.”

The lack of international investigations into Raisi’s role in the murder of thousands of innocent civilians has emboldened the regime. Prior to taking office as the president, Raisi played a key role in the suppression of protesters and activists as the head of the judiciary.

So, it would not invite the least amount of controversy to demand that instead of being accepted in various international forums, Raisi must be investigated and prosecuted. Mass murderers must not be legitimized in global forums.

The European Union, and in particular the EU’s foreign policy chief Josep Borrell, have strengthened the culture of impunity for the mass-murdering mullahs. Borrell even sent a senior EU official to attend Raisi’s inauguration in August, which featured well-known global terrorists.

That embarrassing gesture, followed by the EU’s serial concessions to the regime in the hopes of winning its agreement on the nuclear deal, was an outrageous affront to millions of Iranians suffering under a brutal theocracy. It also defied Europe’s own values of defending human rights, justice, and personal freedoms.

One is reminded of Winston Churchill’s warning that appeasers keep feeding the crocodile hoping it will eat them last. The regime has taken Europe’s nuclear concessions to the bank. The UN’s nuclear watchdog has repeatedly decried the regime’s violations, most recently in two damning reports published this month. Both Brussels and Washington have looked the other way.

“Nothing is so cruel as impunity,” it has been said. Indeed, as cruel as murdering thousands of people was in 1988, the cruelty of allowing the murderers to freely travel the world cannot be overstated.

This article was first published by ncr-iran

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