Posts

Showing posts from August, 2022

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

Image
  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...

Fear of MEK Makes Iran Regime’s Propaganda More Visible

Image
  Written by  Aladdin Touran In January 2018, Iran was in the midst of a virtually unprecedented nationwide uprising which saw residents of more than 100 cities calling  “death to the dictator”  and making no secret of their desire for regime change as the means of securing a democratic future for their country. The regime’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei responded with a speech that begrudgingly acknowledged the organizational role of the leading pro-democracy opposition group, the People’s  Mojahedin Organization  of Iran (PMOI/MEK) Khamenei’s speech undermined literally decades of propaganda spread by himself, his subordinates, and a vast state media network with outlets extending their reach across much of the world. In 1988, Khamenei’s predecessor Ruhollah Khomeini set out to destroy the MEK by issuing a fatwa that declared its members guilty of “enmity against God” and thereby called for them to be summarily executed. As a result,  30,000 political ...

Iran’s Regime President Actually Did Deliver What He Was Missioned For

Image
  Written by  Mehdi Oghbai In recent weeks, there has been a veritable outpouring of  terrorist threats  from the regime ruling Iran. That fact should serve as a wake-up call to Western officials regarding both recent and longstanding failures of Iran policy. Even if it has no impact on the pending agreement to revive the 2015 nuclear deal, it should at least prompt the West to turn away from the underlying assumption of good faith on Tehran’s part and to recognize that by treating Iran as a normal country, they only embolden the behaviors that mark it as anything but. Since Ebrahim Raisi was appointed by the regime’s Supreme Leader Khamenei as the new president, the overall climate of repression intensified throughout the country. Khamenei had selected Raisi for the presidency on the expectation that he would implement practices similar to those which guided the 1988 massacre. Naturally, this entails phenomena like mass arrests and the rapid implementation of capita...

Tehran Repeats Unspecified Demands While Blaming US for Delays to Nuclear Deal

Image
  Written by  Alejo Vidal Quadras Last Friday, the Iranian regime submitted its formal written response to what the European Union had presented as the  “final text”  of an agreement to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal or Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). On Sunday, American officials spoke with counterparts from the deal’s European signatories – Britain, France, and Germany – about the prospects of that revival, as well as the need to jointly support Middle Eastern allies and constrain Tehran’s role in the region. And by Monday, Iranian officials were publicly accusing the United States of delaying the finalization of the process for resuming mutual compliance with the JCPOA. These accusations are ironic, considering that the Iranian regime has widely been considered responsible for a number of prior delays. Serious efforts to restore the JCPOA began in March of last year, but negotiations in the Austrian capital of Vienna were halted suddenly in June aft...

A Complaint Filed Against Iran’s Regime President Ebrahim Raisi in New York

Image
  Written by  Mansoureh Galestan Today, August 25, at a press conference in Washington D.C., the  National Council of Resistance of Iran  announced its firm resolve to hold Ebrahim Raisi, the Iranian regime’s President, to account for crimes against humanity and genocide for his key role as a member of the Death Commission during the massacre of political prisoners in the summer of 1988 inside Iran. In light of  Ebrahim Raisi ‘s scheduled trip to the United States to attend and address the U.N. General Assembly in September 2022, lawyers representing the NCRI and a group of victims of atrocities committed by Raisi have filed a complaint against him in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs are all supporters of the Mujahedin e-Khalq Organization ( PMOI/MEK ) and the National Council of Resistance of Iran. They are former political prisoners, survivors of the  1988 massacre , and families of MEK martyrs. More plaintiffs...