Soona Samsami, The Hill, 2 October 2017 For 40 days, 22 political prisoners staged a hunger strike in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj, 30 miles west of the Iranian capital of Tehran. Most are serving sentences for dubious political charges. In dire circumstances, they were only demanding their return back to bad conditions. Their
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NCRI-US Staff, 25 September 2017 New York, September 25–On September 19th, 2017, President Trump gave his first speech before the United Nations (UN) General Assembly, which included scathing remarks on the Iranian regime. He stated, “The Iranian government masks a corrupt dictatorship behind the false
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NCRI-US Staff, 20 September 2017 New York, September 20 – The voice of the Iranian people was in full force this week as protesters rallied in front of the United Nations on Wednesday, in a unified call to end the oppressive Iranian regime. Thousands of
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Alireza Jafarzadeh, Fox News, 21 September 2017 On September 19 and 20, the United Nations General Assembly hosted two competing speeches, one of which could have a dramatic impact on global policy-making and the future of the Middle East. President Donald Trump expressed a predictably
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NCRI, 19 September 2017 Recognition of the NCRI as the only democratic alternative to the clerical regime is indispensable for rectifying the U.S.’s past disastrous policy on Iran In a portion of his address to the 72nd session of the UN General Assembly on September
Shabnam Madadzadeh, Wall Street Journal, 20 September 2017 The regime executed an estimated 30,000 people. Their ‘trials’ usually lasted minutes. When Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani speaks to the United Nations Wednesday, I will be thinking about the events of 1988, which the regime has tried
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Ali Safavi, The Hill, 11 September 2017 Amid the White House review of its Iran policy and subsequent to the signing into law of H.R. 6634, which imposes tough sanctions on the Iranian regime and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), familiar voices in Washington
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Alireza Jafarzadeh, Washington Examiner, 1 September 2017 Two years ago, nuclear negotiations concluded between Iran and the P5+1 group of nations, with the U.S. at its head. The resulting Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, or the Iran nuclear deal, has accomplished little in the time
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Alireza Jafarzadeh, Fox News, 13 August 2017 On the second anniversary of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), or the Iran nuclear deal, some argue that the agreement succeeded in slowing Iran’s progress toward a nuclear weapon. However, the restrictions on the Iranian nuclear
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National Council of Resistance of Iran, 12 August 2017 On Saturday, August 12, 2017, a senior delegation from the United States Senate meet with Maryam Rajavi, in the Albanian capital, Tirana, and discussed the situation of the members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran
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