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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...

Maryam Rajavi, the beacon of light in this misogynistic Iranian context.

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  By Anna Rita Canone Maryam Rajavi and 8 March: Maryam Rajavi is an Iranian politician, elected in 1993 by the exiled parliament. She is the president of the MEK / PMOI, the Iranian Mojahedin. Her battles for freedom and democracy over the years have had great international echoes and today she can count on many supporters among politicians and diplomats from all over the world. The Iranian regime – comparable to our darkest medieval years, those under the Inquisition – following the brutal murder of Mahsa Amini (stopped, arrested and killed on 13 September 2022 because she did not wear the veil correctly) raised the bar. After arrests, torture and murders of protesters, for several days you have been attacking girls’ schools with gas and bacteriological weapons, with the intention of not letting the students go back to school. In this dramatic misogynistic context, Maryam Rajavi is a real beacon of light. Here is her post on International Women’s Day: “The Plan on Women’s Rights ...

Women are leading the battle for Iran’s future

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By Dr. Majid Rafizadeh As the Iranian regime prepares to confront a host of domestic crises by installing Ebrahim Raisi as president, it finds itself fighting another losing battle, this time against growing resistance at home and a determined opposition force seeking its overthrow.  This seminal battle stands to define Iran’s future, and with it, the fate of the Middle East, which is now threatened by the Tehran regime’s religious extremism as well as by its militia, terror and proxy groups. Since 2017, the regime has been shocked by at least four major popular uprisings against its shaky extremist rule. In November 2019, Tehran carried out a massacre in the streets, killing at least 1,500 protesters. At the time, authorities, shaken by the protests’ organized nature, blamed the main opposition group Mujahedin-e Khalq for leading the demonstrations. Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei pointed a finger at the group in one of his speeches, saying: “The protests were prepared months ago. The...

Mullah’s Latest Reprisal Against Maryam Akbari Monfared Is Further Evidence of the Iranian Regime’s Inhumane Nature

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 By Mansoureh Galestan On Tuesday, the Iranian regime’s judiciary abruptly and forcibly transferred female political prisoner Maryam Akbari Monfared from Evin Prison to Semnan Prison, sparking protests from fellow detainees over continuing mistreatment for Ms. Monfared now in her 13th year of a 15-year sentence. Maryam Akbari Monfared  was arrested in 2009 and was held in solitary confinement for the first 43 days and denied all contact with her loved ones for a further four months after that. Her detention conditions seemed to worsen once again in 2016 after she penned an open letter following up on a formal complaint about unresolved human rights abuses from earlier in the history of the Iranian regime. The letter highlighted that two of Monfared’s siblings – one brother and one sister – had been executed by the Iranian regime in the summer of 1988 as part of a  massacre of political prisoners  that have claimed over 30,000 lives. After presenting various details o...

Message from Ms. Maryam Rajavi to the virtual Conference ine UK on International Women's day

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  Maryam Rajavi : I urge all advocates of gender equality to support the arisen women of Iran The Right Honorable Baroness Verma, Distinguished Members of the British Parliament, women’s rights advocates, Dear friends and sisters, On behalf of the Iranian people and Resistance, I extend my warmest congratulations on  International Women’s Day . And I salute all women who have fought and sacrificed for the cause of equality. I pay tribute to this struggle’s pioneers, great women such as Berty Albrecht, Clara Zatkin, and Olympe de Gouges. Women’s struggle and sacrifice have been and are the foundations of progress and the guarantee for democracy in our world. And henceforth, a world without injustice, oppression, fundamentalism, and poverty hinges on women’s struggle. Women’s struggle in Iran This year, International Women’s Day coincides with the Coronavirus pandemic. Within  Iran , the people are extremely dissatisfied. The February 22 uprising by the people of Sistan and...

Ramping up violence against women in prisons

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  Iran’s clerical regime ramps up violence against women in prisons One of the indicators of  violence against women  in the month of December, was ramping up pressure as well as physical and psychological pressure on  political prisoners . Brutalizing political prisoners, abrupt relocations and detaining women in  prison  without holding their trials are systematic examples. The regime also continued to summon civil activists and issue long-term prison sentences for them. The clerical regime also executed two women in the month of December. An  unidentified woman  was hanged in mid-December in Sepidar Prison of Ahvaz, and  Zeinab Khodamoradi  was hanged in the Central Prison of Sanandaj on December 27, 2020. Anti-riot guards raid female political prisoners in Qarchak Prison Qarchak Prison authorities accompanied by some 20 male and female guards entered Ward 8 on Sunday, December 13, 2020. They  brutalized ...