BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, May 4, 2021 Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director: The leaked audio tape of Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif confirms what we already knew: The mullahs’ foreign policy is centered around terrorism, regional destabilization, and hostage- taking. Zarif has in effect acted
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
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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
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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BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, April 20, 2021 Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director: On April 19th, The UN nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, the IAEA, began talks on what they say is “clarifying outstanding safeguards issues” on the origin of uranium traces it
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By Mansoureh Galestan, Originally published in NCR-Iran.org, 19th April 2021 Iran’s state-run media on Sunday and Monday acknowledged how the regime had destroyed Iran’s economy, people’s lives and warned about another social turmoil. Iranians now face rampant inflation, skyrocketing prices, and the coronavirus outbreak. “The most damaging consequence of
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By Hamideh Taati, Originally published in NCRI-Iran.org, 15th April 2021 On Monday, the European Union imposed new sanctions on eight figures in the Iranian regime’s security establishment, including the head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC). The announcement of those sanctions explained that Hossein Salami
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BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, April 13, 2021 Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director: The decision by the European Union to designate eight commanders of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and the Iranian regime’s suppressive forces, as well as three notorious prisons is welcome, yet long
BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, April 13, 2021 Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director: The Iranian regime’s announcement that it will start enriching uranium to 60% is actually further proof that Tehran should have never been allowed any enrichment at all. It also confirms that its entire
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