By Shahriar Kia, Originally published in NCR-Iran.org, 24th May 2021 In recent months, Iran’s state-run media have acknowledged that a low turnout in the upcoming sham presidential election will challenge the regime’s legitimacy. Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi, one of the regime’s top clerics, had said: “Democracy only matters for Western
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By Shahriar Kia, Originally published in NCR-Iran.org, 19th May 2021 Registration for Iran’s regime sham presidential election ended last week, and it is widely assumed that Ebrahim Raisi will be firmly established as the frontrunner. The longtime clerical judge and current head of the Iranian judiciary are understood
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By Amir Taghati, originally published in NCR-Iran.org, 11th May 2021 Iran’s sham presidential elections will be held on June 18. As the election date approaches, the regime’s infightings increase. Thus, state-run media warn of the consequences of the factional feuding. In recent days, the regime’s Guardian Council
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By Shahriar Kia, Originally published in NCR-Iran.org, 28th April 2021 There is a resolution pending in the House of Representatives which calls for a more assertive set of policies toward the Iranian regime. H. Res. 118 was presented to the public in a news conference on Tuesday, by
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By Shahriar Kia, Originally published in NCR-Iran.org, 29th April 2021 On Sunday, an audio recording was leaked across Iranian state media which seemed to include the regime’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif making rare critical statements against Qassem Soleimani, the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’terrorist Quds Force, who was killed in a US
Iran: Zarif Promotes False Narrative of Competing Factions in Iran’s Regime Read More
By Amir Taghati, Originally published in NCR-Iran.org, 25th April 2021 On April 18, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps issued a vague statement announcing that the deputy head of the organization’s foreign special operations division, the Quds Force, had died. The statement said only that Brigadier General Mohammad Hosseinzadeh Hejazi had
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The Biden administration must understand it is dealing with a government in Tehran deep in survival mode. By Ali Safavi, originally published in the US News & World Report, 22nd April 2021 For the past two weeks, delegations from the United States and Iran have continued indirect meetings in Vienna to
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By Mansoureh Galestan, Originally published in NCRI-Iran.org, 21st April 2021 As the Iranian regime’s sham presidential elections draw closer, state-run media acknowledge how people would boycott the regime’s sham elections and warn of its consequences. “According to political activists, the overall public satisfaction of the country’s
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By Shahriar Kia, Originally published in NCRI-Iran.org, 21st April 2021 On Tuesday, April 20, 2021, the state-run ISNA news agency published an article titled “More dangerous than the Natanz explosion!” While warning against such explosions, the piece emphasized that such explosions are very dangerous for the
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By Shamsi Saadati, Originally published in NCR-Iran.org, 20th April 2021 Over 257,600 have lost their lives due to the novel coronavirus outbreak, spreading across Iran because of the clerical regime’s inhumane Covid-19 policy. According to the state-run media, the regime continues this inhumane policy by not procuring vaccines or using
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