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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: Regime security forces attack women seeking to watch a soccer match

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 By Mahin Horri Iranian regime security forces attacked hundreds of female soccer fans seeking to enter a stadium in Mashhad, northeast Iran, for a World Cup 2022 soccer qualifying match on Tuesday. The regime’s oppressive security forces used tear gas and pepper spray to disperse the crowd. Regime officials had sold around stadium tickets to 2,000 women, according to state-run ISNA news agency on Tuesday. The Iranian Football (Soccer) Federation, however, claimed on the same day that only nine women had purchased match tickets. This bears the signs of the mullahs’ regime attempting to deceive FIFA by reporting the sale of 2,000 to Iranian women, while in practice prevent the women from entering the stadium. “We were following orders from Tehran,” said the regime’s governor in the city of Mashhad to state media. Regime supreme leader  Ali Khamenei  knows very well that even the slightest crack in his high wall of domestic crackdown, especially a rift caused by Iranian women, will have
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Iranians Bode Farewell To, and Honored the Legacy of a Great Man and the Power of His Intellect

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  Written by   Sedighe Shahrokhi On Monday evening, March 28, the body of the preeminent intellectual, acclaimed writer and literary scholar, Dr.  Manouchehr Hezarkhani , was laid to rest at the Cimetière d’Auvers-sur-Oise, France. The last resting place of one of the most celebrated artists in the world, the Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh, the cemetery once again witnessed hundreds of Iranians, both supporters of the Iranian Resistance as well as friends, family members, and admirers of Dr. Hazarkhani’s work. They came from all over Europe and wanted to say farewell to a brave soul who had devoted his entire career to those who had blessed him with praise and trust: his people. Following the funeral, a commemoration ceremony was held for Dr. Hezarkhani at the headquarters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran in Auvers-sur-Oise. Thousands of members of the People’s  Mojahedin of Iran Organization  (PMOI/MEK) joined the event online via Albania. Mrs.  Maryam Rajavi , President-
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Consequences of Rewarding Tehran for Its Double Speak Diplomacy

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  Written by   Shahriar Kia In his memoir in the late 1980s, Ali Akbar Velayati, the Iranian regime’s former foreign minister and a senior advisor to the current Supreme Leader wrote, “Once, I went to Imam Khomeini (former Supreme Leader), complaining about the daily Kayhan’s editorials that are derailing our diplomatic efforts to reconcile with the world. But the Imam answered, ‘Let them do their job and you do yours. If some people are listening to you, it is because of their work, not yours.’” For more than four decades, Tehran has spoken in two languages. This “double speak diplomacy” has always been a consistent doctrine of how the clerical regime in Iran has engaged with the outside world. It is a mindset that envisions terrorism on the ground as leverage at the negotiating table. When the regime took power in 1979 it did not initiate its first foreign policy encounter with a high-ranking delegation traveling abroad. It made headlines by storming the United States embassy in Tehr
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IRGC must remain on America’s terrorist blacklist

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  By Dr. Majid Rafizadeh The Biden administration is reportedly considering removing the Iranian regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps from America’s foreign terrorist organization blacklist, but this move would be a dangerous miscalculation for several reasons. Tehran has made it crystal clear during the nuclear deal talks in Vienna that its ballistic missile program, military institutions and regional policies are non-negotiable. As a result, the Biden administration should also avoid giving any concessions that are not linked to the nuclear deal, also known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action. The events of 1979 gave birth to the IRGC. Ali Khamenei gave considerable power to the organization after he became the country’s second supreme leader in 1989, while sidelining other powerful clerics. Khamenei declined to merge the IRGC into the nation’s regular army and made a robust alliance with it in order to control those who oppose him and to export the regime’s revolutionary
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Concessions Embolden Tehran’s Aggression, Ignore Its Vulnerability

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  Earlier this month, the Iranian regime fired a volley of missiles into northern Iraq, near a US consulate and a residential compound it alleged belonged to an Israeli national. The  Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)  took responsibility for the attack. The move could therefore be easily interpreted as an open threat to other countries of the region. Of course, those warnings also confirm that the regime is committed to the preservation and further expansion of its aggression in the surrounding region. Ironically, this is happening just as nuclear talks are reaching their end in Vienna. Specifically, they are on the verge of a conclusion that lifts a number of sanctions on Iranian entities and allows the regime to once again benefit from open access to international oil markets, in exchange for few, if any, meaningful concessions on its own side. The prime beneficiary of lifting sanctions would be IRGC and powerful financial institution belonging to Khamenei’s office. Now there
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British Lawmakers Call On UK Government To Designate Iran’s IRGC and Support Mrs. Rajavi’s Ten Point Plan

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  Written by   Mohammad Sadat Khansari Celebrating Eid Nowruz, the new year on the Persian calendar, members of the United Kingdom Parliament and members of the Iranian community living in the UK held a gathering in London on March 24. The event, held at the British House of Commons, was attended by several members of the Lower as well as the Upper House, who congratulated the Iranian people and the Iranian Resistance on the New Year while condemning the growing human rights abuses in Iran. British lawmakers called for the prosecution of the Iranian regime’s officials, including the regime’s president  Ebrahim Raisi  for his active role in the Death Commission and ordering mass executions in the 1988 massacre of political prisoners. They also called on the UK government to recognize the right of the Iranian people to fight the regime and officially engage with their organized resistance. The speakers pointed to the crucial role of the regime’s Revolutionary Guards in exporting terroris
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The fallacy of Khamenei’s promise of “knowledge-based growth”

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  By   Farid Mahoutchi In his  Nowruz address , the Iranian regime’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei claimed that all the country’s economic problems would be fixed through the development of a “knowledge-based production.” And accordingly, he declared the new Persian year as the year of knowledge-based production, adding, “To achieve economic growth and reform the economy, we must move toward a knowledge-based economy.” Khamenei’s remarks come at a time that Iran’s economy is beyond bankruptcy, with millions of people struggling with growing poverty, unemployment, inflation, and skyrocketing prices. Taken at face value, the move toward knowledge-based production is a good proposition. But when looked at from the perspective of Iran’s economy and the nature of the mullahs’ rule, Khamenei’s recommendations are no less ridiculous and inconceivable than the ones he made in his previous Nowruz addresses. Knowledge-based economy The term “knowledge economy” was coined by economist Peter Drucker
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