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Countering Iran’s Threat, Strategies for Regional Stability

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  Written by Mahmoud Hakamian Two-minute read On Sunday morning, April 14, the Iranian regime launched an unprecedented attack against Israel, escalating tensions in the Middle East. Despite military experts’ assessments that the attack failed, it underscores  Iran’s role as a focal point  of regional conflict. The October 7th attack sent shockwaves globally. Despite ample evidence implicating the Iranian regime, Western governments dismissed Tehran’s involvement, adhering to a flawed appeasement policy toward the primary state sponsor of terrorism. They disregarded explicit statements from Revolutionary Guards  (IRGC) commanders boasting  about their direct role in the attack. For decades, the Iranian Resistance has urged the international community to adopt a resolute stance against the Iranian regime’s aggression and terrorism. Despite persistent calls, the failed appeasement policy of the West allowed Tehran to escalate its belligerent activities, including financing, arming, train
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Why Iranians will reject this sham presidential election

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  By Dr. Majid Rafizadeh Iran’s presidential election will be held in less than three weeks and the Guardian Council has approved seven individuals. Candidates in the Iranian regime’s June 18 election include alleged mass murderers, corrupt embezzlers, subjects of both European and American sanctions due to human rights abuses, and people who have been implicated in foreign assassinations and bombings. The presumptive front runner is Ebrahim Raisi, who was one of the leading perpetrators of the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in 1988. No wonder the majority of Iranians are expected to reject the election entirely. Various Iranian officials and state media outlets have already warned of this possibility. Beyond that, the election, which is widely regarded as a sham, takes place against the backdrop of major uprisings. In the final days of 2017, protests broke out in the second city of Mashhad before immediately spreading to dozens of other cities, with democratic change being the
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Iran Election 2021: State Media Warn About Low Voters’ Turnout Amid Infightings

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 Written by Shahriar Kia On Tuesday, the Iranian regime’s Guardian Council eliminated most of the regime’s sham  presidential  election candidates at the behest of the regime’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Therefore, the state-run media and officials of the rival faction warn about the consequences of the regime’s contraction policy.   Khamenei’s action once again confirmed the Iranian Resistance’s longtime saying that the  elections  in the mullahs’ regime are just shows and serve as a façade of the vicious regime.   Khamenei intends to pull  Ebrahim Raisi  out of the ballot box and pursue his contraction policy. Thus, he could not tolerate his closest officials, such as Ali Larijani, the former Parliament Speaker.   Now the regime’s infightings have reached a new level.   “What happened during the qualification process in the presidential election is anything but ‘election.’ The Supreme Leader’s ‘selection’ does not need my vote,” said Mostafa Tajzadeh, one of the eliminated candidat
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Rouhani’s legacy of death and destruction

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  By Dr. Majid Rafizadeh In less than a month, Iran’s presidential election will be held, with a new president due to replace Hassan Rouhani on Aug. 3. It is now time to examine Rouhani’s legacy as his second term comes to an end. When Rouhani first ran for president in 2013, he projected himself as being very different to his predecessor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and the hard-liners. Rouhani pledged to improve the nation’s economy, people’s living standards and their human rights, while also promising greater political and social freedoms, and improved ties with the rest of the world. Rouhani did improve the Iranian regime’s ties with the West in his first term, as he helped seal the nuclear deal with the P5+1 powers. Four rounds of UN sanctions against Iran were lifted and Tehran rejoined the global financial system. Billions of dollars subsequently flowed into the regime’s treasury. But the only beneficiaries of Iran’s improved relationship with the West were government officials, those
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COVID-19 Claims 300,000 Victims in Iran

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  Written by Amir Taghati According to the  People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran  (PMOI/MEK), the number of fatalities of coronavirus has reached a staggering number of 300,000. Official estimates from the Iranian Health Ministry put the death toll at only about a quarter of that number, but those estimates have been unreliable since the very beginning. Furthermore, the  MEK’s  detailed account of the pandemic’s impact on Iran is inherently more plausible and more consistent with the infection rates and death tolls are seen in other countries that struggled to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus. While the death toll has declined in other countries due to vaccination, the death toll has risen to almost double in Iran because the regime’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei has banned importing American and European vaccines. Iran has long been recognized as the worst-affected country in the Middle East, but credible reports elevate it to one of the worst-affected in the entire world
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Inaction Regarding Last Year’s Iranian Terrorism Will Make the Regime More Unruly

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  By: Alejo Vidal-Quadras  The Ontario Superior Court of Justice has just  ruled  that the downing of Ukraine International Airlines Flight 752 was an intentional act of terrorism perpetrated by Iran’s  Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).   The announcement immediately prompted renewed calls for Western governments to designate the IRGC as a  terrorist organization  and to adopt other measures that might hold Tehran accountable for such incidents. Somewhat ironically, though, the Canadian court’s ruling came just a day after British, French, and German diplomats held their latest talks with Iranian counterparts and signaled that their top priority remains to salvage the 2015 nuclear deal and restore sanctions relief for the Iranian regime.   The European delegates to the Vienna talks invariably expressed optimism in their remarks to international media on Wednesday. But one has to wonder where that optimism came from considering that there were no signs of compromise on the Irani
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UN’s Chief Nuclear Monitor Hints at Impossibility of Salvaging Iran Nuclear Deal

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  Written by Mohammad Sadat Khansari This week, the informal Iran  nuclear  talks in Vienna faced new complications from an unlikely source: one of the individuals most responsible for keeping the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action on life support since the US pulled out of the seven-party agreement in 2018.  Rafael Grossi , the director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, said that Iran’s ongoing lack of transparency and its extensive violations of the JCPOA makes it difficult to regard the Iranian regime as credible or to accept the prospect of simply resuming enforcement of the existing agreement in the wake of the Vienna talks. That return to the status quo was ostensibly the purpose of the latest discussions, which are being held between representatives of the Iranian regime and the six current participants in the JCPOA, while representatives of the United States remain positioned nearby to give and receive indirect communications through their European counterparts
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Iran Election 2021: Calls for Boycott Amplifies as Khamenei Tries To Consolidate His Regime

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 By Shahriar kia On Tuesday, the Iranian regime’s Guardian Council  disqualified  many candidates of the regime’s sham presidential election. By purging those loyal to his regime, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei showed his intention of consolidating power and pursuing his contraction policy to control the restive society and possible uprisings. This massive purge of the regime’s candidates underlines the Iranian Resistance’s statements that the  elections  in the regime are just a façade. Therefore, many Iranians  join  calls to boycott the regime’s election in June 2021.   In this regard,  Mrs. Maryam Rajavi , the President-elect of the  National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) said : “Disqualifying individuals such as IRGC Brig. Gen.  Ali Larijani , the architect of censorship and repression, the speaker of the regime’s parliament for 12 years, and always a part of Khamenei’s inner circle, will render the regime’s power base narrower and more fragile, unprecedentedly aggravate the r
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