Ali Safavi, Forbes, 3 February 2017 In autumn of 1985, I attended a hearing on Iran at the House Foreign Affairs Committee. “Who is this Iranian leader who wants to change Iran’s policies?” one lawmaker asked the expert, referring to Parliament Speaker Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani
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Eric Shawn & Ben Evansky, Fox News, 15 January 2017 Watch the latest video at <a href=”http://video.foxnews.com”>video.foxnews.com</a> Facebook Twitter Email Print Facebook Twitter Email Print EXCLUSIVE: Nearly two dozen former top U.S. government officials have urged President-elect Donald Trump to work with Iran’s opposition once
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By Patrick Goodenough, CNS News, 16 January 2017 A bipartisan group of prominent Americans including former senior administration officials, diplomats and generals, has handed President-elect Donald Trump a letter calling for a new approach towards Iran that includes opening a dialogue with the outlawed opposition. The
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John Gizzi, Newsmax, 16 January 2017 A bipartisan group of former top U.S. officials is calling on Donald Trump to establish a dialogue with Iranian exiles to counter the deal Obama made with Iran. In a three-page letter to the president-elect, the officials called on him
Alireza Jafarzadeh, Fox News, 13 January 2017 Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, one of the founding fathers of the Iranian regime, died last week on January 8. He served as President, Speaker of Parliament, Deputy Commander of the Armed Forces, head of the Assembly of Experts–the
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Soona Samsami, IJR, 12 January 2017 Earlier this month, it was reported that the Iranian judiciary had granted temporary release to Golrokh Ebrahimi. A political prisoner, Ebrahimi made international headlines after she was brought up on charges stemming from the “dissident” sentiments expressed in an unpublished, fictional short
Ali Safavi, TheHill, 9 January 2017 On Jan. 4, the reports came from within Gohardasht Prison, near the Iranian capital Tehran, that activist and political prisoner Ali Moezzi, still behind bars despite completing his term, had disappeared.Moezzi has faced repression from the Islamic Republic since its
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Ali Safavi, TheHill, 30 December 2016 Nearly a year after the implementation of the nuclear deal with Iran, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), and the ensuing fanfare regarding the possibility of an age of reform within a feeble theocracy, Tehran’s behavior has
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Formed in 1965, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), the largest and best-organized Iranian opposition movement, is the main component of the coalition, National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), which acts as the parliament-in-exile The NCRI and MEK, have been committed to a secular, democratic, non-nuclear republic; gender equality; freedom of religion, thought, press, and association; ……
Myth 1: The State Department designated the MEK as a Foreign Terrorist Organization because MEK engaged in terrorism.Fact: On October 9, 1997, a day after the MEK’s designation, the Los Angeles Times quoted a “senior Clinton Administration official” that the designation of the MEK “was intended as a goodwill gesture to Tehran….
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