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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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Iran Election Proves No Hardliner/Reformist Distinction

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  By Mostafa Aslani The Iranian election resulted, predictably, in Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s preferred candidate  Ebrahim Raisi  becoming president, while the majority of the population stayed away from the polls in line with the campaign by the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). The MEK and the Iranian people have l ong noted that there is no difference between the reformists and hardliners in Iran, citing that the conditions in Iran have gotten worse no matter who occupies the second-highest office of the land. In fact, while domestic and foreign policy has pursued the same goals, the only change was which group got the majority of benefits from corruption. This can be seen in the promises of civil freedoms and economic stability made by ‘reformist’ President Hassan Rouhani in 2013, which were never fulfilled. In fact, the situation has only gotten worse. But even as Rouhani was a loyal ally of Khamenei, the members of his faction were eliminated from this electi
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Free Iran 2021: Assertive Western Response Needed After Iran Selects Human Rights Abuser As President

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 Written by Mahmoud Hakamian With its sham election on June 18, the Iranian regime appointed one of its worst criminals as its next president.  Ebrahim Raisi  established his reputation for brutality very early in the history of the theocratic regime, as one of the key figures on the Tehran “death commission” in the  1988 massacre  of the political prisoners that were responsible for most of the approximately 30,000 political prisoners who were killed nationwide. In March 2019, Raisi assumed leadership of the Iranian judiciary, on appointment from the regime’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Soon thereafter, he was given an opportunity to reaffirm his commitment to violent repression as a tool for securing the regime’s hold on power. As judiciary chief, Raisi had primary influence over the government response to mass demonstrations that emerged in November 2019. Although the spark for that nationwide  uprising  was the announcement of a sudden hike in gasoline prices, its message was much
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Iran: Calls To Hold Raisi Accountable For 1988 Massacre Grow

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  Just days after the Iranian election, which saw Judiciary Chief   Ebrahim Raisi  named as the new president, calls to   hold him accountable   for his role in the   1988 massacre   of 30,000 political prisoners and other human rights abuses have grown louder. The most recent (and loudest) call came from United Nations Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran  Javaid Rehman , who made the case for an international investigation into the massacre when he spoke to Reuters on Monday, June, 29. He advised that his office has gathered evidence on the massacre and is ready to share them with the United Nations Human Rights Council or any other body that wishes to launch an impartial investigation. Rehman said: “We will have very serious concerns about this president and the role, the reported role, he has played historically in those executions… We have made communications to the Islamic Republic of Iran because we have concerns that there is again a policy to actually destroy the graves
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Khamenei’s failed attempt to legitimize the boycotted election

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 Author: Farid Mahoutchi While the nationwide boycott of the Iranian regime’s sham presidential election has become a recognized fact—including by the regime’s own analysts and experts—some regime leaders and officials are trying to put a positive light on the disastrous low turnout to save face. On Monday, ten days after the June 18 election, regime supreme leader  Ali Khamenei  held a meeting with judiciary officials, in which he tried—and unsurprisingly failed—to twist the truth in his own favor. “The election was honestly epic, this past election was literally an epic by the people,” Khamenei said in his remarks. According to the regime’s engineered stats, the voter turnout was 50 percent, which is already low in comparison to the fake reports that the regime’s own institutions published about previous elections. Khamenei tried to steer away from this fact by saying, “At least 10 percent of those who didn’t participate were due to the coronavirus situation, and if we take that into
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Free Iran 2021: Election Confirms Absence of Reformism, Strength of Organized Resistance

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 Written by Mahmoud Hakamian The sham election ended as most experts anticipated it would: with a resounding victory for the regime’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei’s favored candidate, but also with a wildly successful boycott of the polls, organized in large part by Iran’s main opposition, the  People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) .   With last week’s “ selection ” of its next president,  Ebrahim Raisi,  the Iranian regime brought an end to a phenomenon that countless Iranians had condemned in previous years as a power-sharing “game” involving two political factions with no differences in political ideology.   Previously, the MEK played a leading role in the  nationwide uprisings  of January 2018 and November 2019, which featured far-reaching chants of anti-government slogans including, “Hardliners, reformists: the game is over.”   Iran Election 2021: Empty Polling Stations Across the Country (Compilation vol.1) That slogan sought to focus attention upon the fact that Ira
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Iranian Terrorism will Intensify with the Appointment of President Ebrahim Raisi

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The regime is now facing Iran’s restive society, which is committed to overthrowing the dictatorship by any means, after the Iranian regime’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, chose  Ebrahim Raisi  as the president-elect. In previous events, the Iranian people have shown their desire for a regime change. Khamenei ordered the  Revolutionary Guards (IRGC)  to slaughter protestors during the most recent rebellion in November 2019.   the People’s Mujahedin  of Iran  (PMOI / MEK Iran) , announced in mid-December that the IRGC killed approximately 1,500 protestors. (PMOI / MEK Iran)  and (NCRI): the MEK released the names of 28 more martyrs of the uprising, bringing to 504 the number of those killed in 56 cities. Mrs. Maryam Rajavi , President-elect of  Iran’s National Council of Resistance  ( NCRI ), declared in December 2019 that “the number of martyrs definitely exceeds 1,500.” The true figure is, of course, substantially greater. This means that the authorities have killed at least 60 times
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