iran panorama

  On August 5, the Iranian regime’s new president Ebrahim Raisi was inaugurated. Raisi’s ascendence to the presidency once again showed that impunity over human rights violations reigns supreme in Iran since Raisi is a mass murderer. He was one of the leading figures who led the 1988 massacre of 30,000 political prisoners. The regime’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, chose Raisi to consolidate power in his regime of mass murderers and thieves. But was this choice out of the regime’s strength or a sign of desperation and weakness?    In an article published on the  Townhall  on October 25, Mr. Mohammad Mohadessin, the chairman of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) Foreign Affairs Committee, delved into this matter and shed light on the regime’s desperation in choosing Raisi as president.    Below is the full text of this article.   On Monday, an Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman announced that the regime’s President  Ebrahim...

  By Struan Stevenson Oct. 25 (UPI) — Clearly there is a sense of panic in Tehran. The previous bullish rhetoric from the newly appointed President Ebrahim Raisi has been radically toned down. He repeatedly claimed that the Iranian regime would never return to the nuclear negotiations in Vienna until all the American sanctions imposed on Iran by former President  Donald Trump  were lifted. Now, in a late-night interview on state television, he has admitted that Iran is “serious and committed” to return to Vienna to resume “result-oriented” talks aimed at restoring the  Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action . A spokesman for the Iranian foreign ministry later clarified that this means the country has “no pre-conditions” for returning to the negotiating table. Raisi’s humiliating climbdown may be because he has woken up to the fact that as president, he has inherited a poisoned chalice. The Iranian economy has collapsed due to corruption and incompetence. There is ma...

 Written by Shamsi Saadati In a recent interview with  NBC News , the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency acknowledged that monitoring at an Iranian nuclear facility in Karaj has not been “intact” since surveillance equipment there was damaged.    The world powers continue their efforts to revive the deal while Tehran continues its provocative actions, confirming that any weak approach toward the regime would embolden Tehran to continue its nuclear extortion.    Mahmoud Nabaviyan, a member of the Special Commission for the Investigation of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) and a member of the board of the Article-90 Commission of the regime’s parliament recently  acknowledged  that Arak Reactor gave the regime 9 kg of plutonium annually, enough for a bomb.”   “How important [Arak] reactor is to us? It produced 9 kilograms of plutonium a year, enough for a bomb… Depending on their technology, countries can produce a bom...

Written by  Shahriar Kia Our world today is stained with hostility and division. Unlike so many things we humans have in common, we grow apart on every occasion. Yet there are those who can’t bear to live the comfort of their own success, they wish to overcome the differences and go extra light-years to share their joy with others. Sid David Amess a representative of the people in the House of Commons for 38 years was one of those people. He remained at the lower house for almost four decades and never claimed a ministerial or shadow governmental position. He loved to serve and serving he did. Sir David went beyond constituency and among other things, he befriended with the Iranians in diaspora, those who have suffered and weathered inhuman storms. Sir David, stood by the  Iranian Opposition  for the most part of his precious political life. When events in the Middle East took a wrong turn and the shadow of doubt cast over the horizon, he wasn’t the kind of man to turn hi...

  By Dr. Majid Rafizadeh The EU has been pursuing a soft policy toward the Iranian regime, offering economic and political incentives and concessions, for the six years since the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, commonly known as the Iran nuclear deal, was reached between Tehran and the P5+1 world powers. Initially, the EU lifted nearly all its economic sanctions, helping the Iranian regime reintegrate into the global financial system. It also made many concessions, such as agreeing to sunset clauses in the nuclear deal that set an expiration date for restrictions on Iran’s nuclear activities. Among the European countries, Germany and France appeared to be the first to rush to rekindle business with Tehran. Immediately after the nuclear deal came into effect, Sigmar Gabriel, Germany’s former economic minister and vice chancellor, joined a business delegation from Siemens, Linde, Mercedes and Volkswagen on a visit to Iran, while many other large European companies, such as Royal ...

 Written by Amir Taghati This week, Iranian expatriates in Sweden continued a series of public demonstrations calling for the international prosecution of leading figures in the Iranian regime, including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and his new President  Ebrahim Raisi .    Nearly all of the demonstrations in Stockholm have coincided with separate sessions in the trial of Hamid Noury, a former prison official who was arrested upon traveling to Sweden in 2019, with authorities citing the principle of “universal jurisdiction” to justify the action.   The charges against Noury including war crimes and mass murder,  stem from his role in the torture of political prisoners at Gohardasht Prison before and during the massacre of 1988, which claimed the lives of over 30,000  political  prisoners across the country, over the course of about three months.   The Stockholm demonstrations and accompanying statements from the...