Maryam Ranjavi, NCRI, 21 March 2017 In a grand gathering on the occasion of the Persian New Year, the Iranian Resistance’s President-elect Maryam Rajavi congratulated all Iranians in Iran and abroad. She wished that the New Year would be the year of breaking the chains
Rowan Scarborough, Washington Times, 8 March 2017 Iran has spent up to $100 billion the last five years financing operations in Syria that were instrumental in keeping President Bashar Assad in power, according to a new book on the hard-line Islamic theocracy’s vast business holdings and wealth. The
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Alireza Jafarzadeh, Fox News, 8 March 2017 Over the past decade, a significant portion of Iran’s economic institutions have been handed off to the office of the Supreme Leader under the guise of “privatization.” The driving force behind this stunning power grab is the expanding
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Soona Samsami, The Hill, 5 March 2017 In January, a young woman in Iran committed suicide. Now, sadly, suicides have become increasingly common among Iranian women due to a variety of social ills, including state-mandated misogyny. But, in Mahdis’s case, it happened one day after she
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IRGC Has Monopolized Iranian Economy. It’s a Terror Entity and Should be Blacklisted. WASHINGTON, DC – On Wednesday March 8, 2017, the Washington office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI-US) held a panel to discuss the growing economic dominance of the Islamic
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Ali Safavi, The Hill, 28 February 2017 For days now, large swathes of western Iran have been covered in dust — literally. Dust storms have overwhelmed the oil-rich province of Khuzestan. Air quality is reportedly some 30 to 60 times the healthy level. Power stations
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Alireza Jafarzadeh, Foreign Policy Blog, 22 February 2017 Barely a week after President Donald Trump was sworn in as U.S. president, Iran commenced another round of ballistic missiles to test his tough campaign rhetoric. The most recent launch took place even after the administration officially put
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Ali Safavi, Huffington Post, 14 February 2017 Last month, the US imposed new sanctions on Iranian entities involved in weapons procurement. The move came two days after the administration of Donald Trump officially put the regime “on notice” for its provocative ballistic missile tests. In response,
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Rowan Scarborough, The Washington Times, 14 February 2017 Iran’s hard-line Islamic regime has escalated its overseas terrorist operations, establishing a network of over a dozen internal training camps for foreign fighters, the regime’s largest resistance group said at a press conference on Tuesday in Washington.
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PR Newswire, 15 February 2017 The U.S. Representative Office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI-US) held a press conference to share details of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) terrorist training bases in Iran. Alireza Jafarzadeh, Deputy Director of the NCRI-US, explained that the intelligence
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