NCRI-US Staff, 5 June 2018 On December 28th, 2017, a wave of mass protests against the Khamenei regime erupted, spreading to 142 cities in all 31 provinces. Now, a new study published by E-International Relations fleshes out several key aspects of the last December-January uprising […]
Uprising Study Says a “Revolution” is Brewing in Iran Read More
NCRI-US Staff, 30 May 2018 On Wednesday, May 30, 2018, the U.S. Treasury Department designated Hanista Programing Group pursuant to E.O. 13606. But what is the background to this and how significant this designation is? On February 15, 2018, in a press conference in Washington,
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Ali Safavi, The Daily Caller, 24 May 2018 In his Iran policy statement earlier this week, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo quoted President Trump as saying, “The Iranian people long to reclaim their country’s proud history, its culture, its civilization, and its cooperation with its
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Soona Samsami, Townhall, 22 May 2018 On May 8th, US President Donald Trump announced an American withdrawal from the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. Up until the last moment, European officials were urging the administration to change course. Now, the discussion needs to widen its focus.
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NCRI-US Staff, 2 May 2018 On Tuesday, May 1st, the Iranian regime blocked the popular messaging app Telegram from the country. Iranian regime authorities claimed that the messaging app, used by over 40 million Iranians, posed significant threats to national security. The ban on Telegram
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NCRI-US Staff, 25 April 2018 A number of different activist movements have been steadily gaining traction in spite of the clerical regime’s well-known history of repression. In late December images of a woman named Vida Movahed spread throughout Iran’s social media networks, spurring a women’s
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NCRI-US Staff, 25 April 2018 On Tuesday April 10th, the Iranian government declared the exchange rate for the United States Dollar (USD) to be 42,000 Iranian Rials (IRR) and prohibited sales extending beyond this price. The regime claimed to not have a foreign exchange problem,
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NCRI-US Staff, 22 April 2018 On April 17, 2018, a new wave of protests broke out in Iran in the cities of Baneh, Marivan, Saqqez, Javanrud, Sardasht, Kazerun, Saman, Ahvaz, Rasht, and Tehran. The demonstrators protested against Iran’s warmongering in neighboring countries, the water crisis
No End in Sight: A New Wave of Protests Read More
NCRI-US Staff, 18 April 2018 Just a few months after protests erupted in Iran, Professor Ivan Sascha Sheehan of the University of Maryland published a comprehensive report and analysis of the uprising that made global headlines around the New Year. The arguments he makes in
Iran: An Overview of the Uprising Read More
NCRI-US Staff, 15 April 2018 At four in the morning on Saturday, April 14, 2018, the sounds of explosions were heard across the city. The United States, France and Great Britain launched airstrikes against Syrian military facilities in Damascus in response to a chemical attack
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