BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, June 6, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director The Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) is debating the status of Tehran’s nuclear program, considering significant violations of the regime’s obligations and commitment. The report by the
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Irene Victoria Massimino, Originally published in Townhall, May 29, 2024 Article 1 of the United Nations Charter states that a core purpose of the institution is to “achieve international co-operation… in promoting and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms.” However, in a
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Alireza Jafarzadeh, Deputy Director of the National Council of Resistance in Iran, joins Tim Constantine Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi was killed this past week along with Iran’s Foreign Minister in a helicopter crash. What will the impact be on relations with America and the west?
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IRGC-Qods Force provides array of missiles, drones and training to Houthi terror proxy By Beth Bailey, Originally published in Fox News, May 25, 2024 FIRST ON FOX – An exiled Iranian resistance group has uncovered damning evidence showing top regime officials’ direct involvement in supporting the
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Alireza Jafarzadeh, NewsMax, May 25, 2024 First, the death of Raisi is a strategic blow to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and the entirety of this regime because Raisi was groomed by Khamenei for years, especially because of the direct role of Ebrahim Raisi in the well-documented 1988 massacre of 30,000 political prisoners
By Chris Pandolfo, Originally published in Fox News, May 21, 2024 Video shows fireworks, sweets and cheers celebrating Iranian President Raisi’s death Video shows several Iranians celebrating President Ebrahim Raisi’s death in the streets even as thousands participate in mass demonstrations mourning the controversial leader. Fireworks are
By Ken Blackwell, Originally published in Townhall, May 22, 2024 Last weekend, the Iranian regime was thrust into turmoil with the deaths of President Ebrahim Raisi and Foreign Minister Amir Hossein Abdollahian in a helicopter crash in Iran. This represents a significant setback for Supreme
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By Struan StevensonStruan Stevenson, Originally published in International Business Times, May 21, 2024 The antics of Reza Pahlavi, the son of the deposed and detested Shah of Iran, remind me of a line from the poem “The Man Who Wasn’t There” by the American Hugh
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By Ivan Sasha Sheehan, Originally published in Stars and Stripes, May 21, 2024 With the untimely death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, the so-called “Butcher of Tehran,” and the country’s foreign minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian, in a helicopter crash in an eastern province of Iran near
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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