BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, September 28, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director Twelve years ago today, on September 28, 2012, the U.S. State Department revoked the designation of the main Iranian opposition movement, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. This momentous
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BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, September 18, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director On September 10, United Kingdom lawmakers gathered in Parliament for a conference titled “Human Rights in Iran and the Call for Accountability,” focusing on the escalating human rights abuses under the Iranian
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BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, September 16, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director On September 9 and 11, 2024, Iran’s regime executed at least 12 prisoners, including Morteza Yousefi, a former national Greco-Roman wrestling champion. Yousefi, who had spent 10 years in Noshahr Prison, held
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BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, September 9, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director Shocking reports have emerged from Iran about the torture and death of Komeyl Abolhassani, a political prisoner, in the northern city of Tonekabon on August 30th. Fearing a public backlash, the regime
More Death and Torture in Detention under Pezeshkian Read More
BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, September 6, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director Following Professor Javaid Rehman’s final report as the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Iran, the Iranian regime has launched an aggressive campaign of character assassination against him. Released in July
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BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, September 4, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director September 5 marks the anniversary of the founding of Iran’s most enduring and best-organized opposition movement, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), also known as the Mojahedin-e Khalq or the MEK.
MEK’s Six Decades of Struggle for Democracy and Justice in Iran Read More
BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, August 30, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director Since the beginning of summer, a wave of unprecedented protests by nurses and medical professionals has swept across Iran, highlighting the dire working conditions within the country’s healthcare system. These protests have
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BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, August 28, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director On August 26, a prisoner was barbarically executed in public in the city of Shahrud in Iran, according to the regime’s judiciary news agency. Less than a month since Massoud Pezeshkian, the
Appalling Rise in Iran Executions as Protests Spread Read More
BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, August 14, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director On the momentous day of August 14, 2002, the world awoke to the horrific nuclear threat posed by the Iranian regime. On that day, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI),
22 Years Since NCRI Exposed Secret Nuclear Sites in Iran Read More
BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, August 12, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director Masoud Pezeshkian, the new president of the Iranian regime, submitted his proposed cabinet list to the regime’s parliament for approval over the weekend. The list is a muddled assortment of incompetent, corrupt,
Pezeshkian’s Proposed Cabinet Fuels Infighting Read More