iran panorama

By: Ivan Sascha Sheehan Faced with unprecedented international isolation, economic hardship, social revolt, and an increasingly hostile relationship with regional powers, Iran’s supreme leader and permanent head of state, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, put a final nail in the Islamic Republic’s power sharing coffin this month by backing a hardline regime insider with a murderous reputation for president. In his first press conference, Ebrahim Raisi, the new president-elect and former Chief Justice vowed to continue diplomatic talks on the nuclear issue while making a push for relief from sanctions imposed by the global community to contain the regime’s malign nuclear pursuits. That six prior rounds of talks between China, Russia, France, the United Kingdom, plus Germany, also known as the P4+1, and the United States have yet to deliver tangible results is hardly surprising to astute observers. What is unusual is the Biden administration’s seeming eagerness to rejoin  nuclear negotiations ...

  By Struan Stevenson June 28 (UPI) — It surely cannot be a case of “business as usual” with Iran after the sham election of a president linked to mass murders? The Biden administration appears desperate to resume talks in Vienna aimed at re-establishing the deeply flawed and now wholly redundant nuclear deal. Iran’s newly elected president, the so-called “Butcher of Tehran” Ebrahim Raisi, notorious for his role in the death commissions responsible for the 1988 massacre of more than 30,000 political prisoners, has crowed that he will never meet U.S. President  Joe Biden . Raisi has nevertheless demanded that the Americans lift all the sanctions imposed by former President  Donald Trump  under his “maximum pressure” campaign, when he unilaterally withdrew the United States from the  Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action  deal. Facing the reality of its looming downfall, the theocratic dictatorship and its elderly supreme leader Ayatollah  Ali Khamenei...

  By Shahriar kia The Iranian regime’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei  selected Ebrahim  Raisi as the new president of the regime since the regime faces Iran’s restive society which is determined to topple the dictatorship by any means. The Iranian people have shown their desire for a regime change in numerous uprisings. The last uprising was in November 2019 in which Khamenei ordered the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) to massacre protesters. In mid-December, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK)  revealed  that the IRGC killed over 1,500 protesters during the November uprising. In December 2019, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran ( NCRI ) Mrs. Maryam Rajavi  stated , “the number of martyrs definitely exceeds 1,500. Of course, the actual number is much higher. This means that the regime has killed at least 60 times more than the number of people slain during the uprising of December 2017-Jan...

  By Dr. Majid Rafizadeh For decades, the overwhelming majority of the Iranian people have hoped they could change the theocratic establishment from within — peacefully. But the latest social and political developments reveal that their hopes have been dashed. One of the methods many Iranians used in an attempt to alter the Iranian regime peacefully was voting in presidential elections, even though they knew that the Guardian Council disqualified many candidates. A large number of people would still go to the ballot box to prevent the regime’s favored candidate — a hard-liner or someone affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) — from becoming president. They also hoped that a pragmatist, moderate or reformist candidate would fulfill his promises, bring fundamental change, and address people’s grievances. People first tried to change the system in 1989 by voting for Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who campaigned on the ideas of privatization and prioritizing the econom...

 Author: Mahmoud Hakamian The appointment of a  mass murderer  as the president of the mullahs’ regime in Iran continues to draw condemnation across the world. In a press release, Pierre Bercis, the president of France-based Nouveaux Droits de l’Homme organization, wrote, “The so-called presidential elections in Iran is just a show, and its goal was to appoint an obedient person as the head of state to be a pupil to the supreme leader Ali Khamenei, who is the successor of Ruhollah Khomeini, the fundamentalist founder of this regime. “The foreign interlocutors of this regime must know that Raisi is the main perpetrator of the 1988 massacre, whose victims were first and foremost members and supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), the only resistance organization to stand up against this regime. Raisi later made himself further known in the crackdown on peaceful protests. “In line with its 40-year commitment, Nouveaux Droit de l’Homme calls on t...

 Written by Mohammad Sadat Khansari Following the June 18  presidential election  in Iran, policymakers throughout the world must grapple with the reality of the Iranian regime’s next president being a notorious violator of human rights. While most high-ranking Iranian officials have some connection to past human rights abuses by the theocratic regime,  Ebrahim Raisi  is regarded as one of the leading perpetrators of the Iranian regime’s single worst crime against humanity. In 1988, Raisi was a deputy prosecutor in the capital city of Tehran, and in the summer of that year, he was assigned to serve on the “ death commission ” that was tasked with implementing Ayatollah Khomeini’s recent fatwa in Evin Prison. As home to the largest population of Iran’s political prisoners, the facility was the prime venue for Khomeini’s effort to stamp out organized opposition, particularly from the  People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran  ( PMOI/MEK ). Toward that end...

  The  Iranian Resistance  urges the United Nations High Commissioner and the UN Human Rights Council, and UN rapporteurs to take urgent action to prevent the criminal execution of Hossein Shahbazi in Adelabad Prison in Shiraz. He has been in prison for three years and was 17 years old when he was arrested for an alleged crime. Reports indicate that he will be executed on Monday, June 28, by the regime headed by henchman  Ebrahim Raisi . After his arrest, Shahbazi was tortured and mistreated, and sentenced to death by the Third Branch of the Criminal Court of Fars Province. Execution of persons under the age of 18 at the time of their arrest (minors) is another routine violation of human rights by the clerical regime, and more juveniles are on death row in regime prisons. These disgraceful crimes are a clear violation of international treaties and conventions to which the Iranian regime is officially committed. The Iranian Resistance once again urges the United Natio...