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ARD Investigation Exposes Violent Campaign by Supporters of the Son of Iran’s Ousted Shah

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  Written by Farid Mahoutchi In light of mounting global exposure by major media outlets—including The Guardian , Politico , the Atlantic and Le Monde —documenting the aggressive and coercive tactics of his loyalists, the political ambitions of Reza Pahlavi, the son of Iran’s ousted monarchial dictatorship, are coming under intense scrutiny. Adding to this international chorus, an investigative report by the German ARD television program Kontraste , broadcast on May 28, 2026, reveals a disturbing pattern of physical violence, severe threats, and systematic harassment orchestrated by Pahlavi’s supporters against journalists, human rights activists, and political dissidents. While Pahlavi attempts to position himself as the potential leader of a transitional government and a beacon for a “free and democratic Iran,” critics increasingly question his democratic legitimacy and his failure to curb his radical base . Intimidation of the Press and Human Rights Defenders According to the re...
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Fear of MEK Makes Iran Regime’s Propaganda More Visible

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  Written by  Aladdin Touran In January 2018, Iran was in the midst of a virtually unprecedented nationwide uprising which saw residents of more than 100 cities calling  “death to the dictator”  and making no secret of their desire for regime change as the means of securing a democratic future for their country. The regime’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei responded with a speech that begrudgingly acknowledged the organizational role of the leading pro-democracy opposition group, the People’s  Mojahedin Organization  of Iran (PMOI/MEK) Khamenei’s speech undermined literally decades of propaganda spread by himself, his subordinates, and a vast state media network with outlets extending their reach across much of the world. In 1988, Khamenei’s predecessor Ruhollah Khomeini set out to destroy the MEK by issuing a fatwa that declared its members guilty of “enmity against God” and thereby called for them to be summarily executed. As a result,  30,000 political ...
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Iran’s Regime President Actually Did Deliver What He Was Missioned For

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  Written by  Mehdi Oghbai In recent weeks, there has been a veritable outpouring of  terrorist threats  from the regime ruling Iran. That fact should serve as a wake-up call to Western officials regarding both recent and longstanding failures of Iran policy. Even if it has no impact on the pending agreement to revive the 2015 nuclear deal, it should at least prompt the West to turn away from the underlying assumption of good faith on Tehran’s part and to recognize that by treating Iran as a normal country, they only embolden the behaviors that mark it as anything but. Since Ebrahim Raisi was appointed by the regime’s Supreme Leader Khamenei as the new president, the overall climate of repression intensified throughout the country. Khamenei had selected Raisi for the presidency on the expectation that he would implement practices similar to those which guided the 1988 massacre. Naturally, this entails phenomena like mass arrests and the rapid implementation of capita...
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Tehran Repeats Unspecified Demands While Blaming US for Delays to Nuclear Deal

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  Written by  Alejo Vidal Quadras Last Friday, the Iranian regime submitted its formal written response to what the European Union had presented as the  “final text”  of an agreement to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal or Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). On Sunday, American officials spoke with counterparts from the deal’s European signatories – Britain, France, and Germany – about the prospects of that revival, as well as the need to jointly support Middle Eastern allies and constrain Tehran’s role in the region. And by Monday, Iranian officials were publicly accusing the United States of delaying the finalization of the process for resuming mutual compliance with the JCPOA. These accusations are ironic, considering that the Iranian regime has widely been considered responsible for a number of prior delays. Serious efforts to restore the JCPOA began in March of last year, but negotiations in the Austrian capital of Vienna were halted suddenly in June aft...
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A Complaint Filed Against Iran’s Regime President Ebrahim Raisi in New York

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  Written by  Mansoureh Galestan Today, August 25, at a press conference in Washington D.C., the  National Council of Resistance of Iran  announced its firm resolve to hold Ebrahim Raisi, the Iranian regime’s President, to account for crimes against humanity and genocide for his key role as a member of the Death Commission during the massacre of political prisoners in the summer of 1988 inside Iran. In light of  Ebrahim Raisi ‘s scheduled trip to the United States to attend and address the U.N. General Assembly in September 2022, lawyers representing the NCRI and a group of victims of atrocities committed by Raisi have filed a complaint against him in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The plaintiffs are all supporters of the Mujahedin e-Khalq Organization ( PMOI/MEK ) and the National Council of Resistance of Iran. They are former political prisoners, survivors of the  1988 massacre , and families of MEK martyrs. More plaintiffs...
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