By Struan Stevenson, Originally published in The Scotsman, May 20, 2024 I t is somewhat ironic that Ebrahim Raisi, the “Butcher of Tehran”, met his end in an American helicopter. When the US-made Bell 212 helicopter plummeted into a mountainside in northern Iran on Sunday, it ended the
BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, May 17, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director Besides engaging in hostage diplomacy and terrorism-by-proxy tactics, the clerical regime has consistently played the nuclear blackmail card over the years to pressure Western countries into continuing their policy of appeasement. Last
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BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, May 15, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director MEK Continues to Expose Secrets of Tehran’s UAV Program Over the weekend, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, the MEK, revealed evidence of a highly secret site run by the IRGC for
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BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, May 13, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director Following the missile and rocket attack on April 13th by Khamenei’s regime, it is unequivocally clear that Tehran is indeed the epicenter of the war, terrorism, and instability in the Middle East.
BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, May 10, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director The execution spree continues in Iran under the religious fascism ruling. Khamenei’s henchmen hanged 11 prisoners on May 1 and 5 prisoners on May 2, bringing the total number of prisoners executed
BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, May 8, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director The International Atomic Energy Agency’s chief Rafael Grossi told reporters following his trip to Iran that Tehran’s cooperation was “completely unsatisfactory… We are almost at an impasse… and this needs to be
BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, May 7, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director Executions are on the rise, local protests over economic and social issues continue across Iran, and political disarray is spreading throughout the regime, even among circles closest to its supreme leader. Iran’s
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BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, May 2, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director Last week, the criminal theocratic regime ruling Iran continued its relentless campaign of executions in a desperate bid to quell dissent and stifle opposition. In the past fortnight alone, the theocracy took
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BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, May 1, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director According to horrific documents released by the BBC World Service, four agents of Khamenei’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) were involved in the arrest and subsequent sexual assault of 16-year-old protester Nika Shakarami.
BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, April 29, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director As expected, Iran’s theocratic regime has intensified social and political suppression of citizens following the disastrous military and geopolitical outcome of its April 13 missile and drone attack on Israel. The regime’s
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