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
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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, 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 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
Ali Safavi, Originally published in Newsmax, July 26, 2024 The recent elevation of Masoud Pezeshkian to the presidency in Iran has sparked some misguided optimism among increasingly isolated quarters of the global community. Branded as a “reformist” by Tehran’s lobby and proponents of the long-discredited
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BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, July 17, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director In the recent Iranian presidential sham election, a staggering 91% of the population boycotted the vote, according to the monitoring of over 2,000 polling stations in 248 cities and 60 villages across
Khamenei’s Regime Shaken by Historic Election Boycott Read More
BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, July 15, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director The three-day Free Iran World Summit 2024 in Paris, France, featured distinguished figures, parliamentarians, former world leaders, and government officials from the United States, Europe, and the Middle East. Never before has
Free Iran World Summit Showcases the Alternative Read More
By Dr. Ramesh Sepehrrad, Originally published in The Hill, July 14, 2024 The recent presidential election in Iran, marked by historically low voter turnout and pervasive public rejection, underscores the profound disillusionment and frustration coursing through society. Masoud Pezeshkian, while touted by some as a reformist, epitomizes
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BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, July 7, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director During the Free Iran 2024 Summit in Paris and Berlin, a bipartisan group of members of the U.S. House of Representatives announced that a House Resolution had surpassed the support of the
House Majority Support for Maryam Rajavi’s Ten-Point Plan for Future Iran Read More
BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, July 5, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director During the Free Iran 2024 Summit in Paris and Berlin, prominent bipartisan U.S. Senators announced the introduction of a Senate Resolution titled “Protecting the Iranian political refugees, including female former political prisoners,
The US Senate Expresses Bipartisan Support for Ashraf 3 Read More