The NCRI’s Blueprint for Iran’s Future
BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, September 30, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director September 29 marks the anniversary of ratifying the constitution and platform of the democratic opposition coalition, the…
A Landmark Triumph for the Iranian Resistance
BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, September 28, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director Twelve years ago today, on September 28, 2012, the U.S. State Department revoked the designation of the…
UK Lawmakers Join NCRI President-elect to Call for Blacklisting of IRGC
BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, September 18, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director On September 10, United Kingdom lawmakers gathered in Parliament for a conference titled “Human Rights in Iran…
Widespread Protests Across Iran as Executions Rise
BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, September 16, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director On September 9 and 11, 2024, Iran’s regime executed at least 12 prisoners, including Morteza Yousefi, a…
More Death and Torture in Detention under Pezeshkian
BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, September 9, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director Shocking reports have emerged from Iran about the torture and death of Komeyl Abolhassani, a political prisoner,…
Tehran’s Furious Backlash Against UN Report Uncovering Genocide
BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, September 6, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director Following Professor Javaid Rehman’s final report as the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran, the…
MEK’s Six Decades of Struggle for Democracy and Justice in Iran
BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, September 4, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director September 5 marks the anniversary of the founding of Iran’s most enduring and best-organized opposition movement, the…
Iran’s Nurses Hold Unprecedented Protests
BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, August 30, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director Since the beginning of summer, a wave of unprecedented protests by nurses and medical professionals has swept…
Appalling Rise in Iran Executions as Protests Spread
BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, August 28, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director On August 26, a prisoner was barbarically executed in public in the city of Shahrud in Iran,…
22 Years Since NCRI Exposed Secret Nuclear Sites in Iran
BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, August 14, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director On the momentous day of August 14, 2002, the world awoke to the horrific nuclear threat posed…