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
BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, May 17, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director Besides engaging in hostage diplomacy and terrorism-by-proxy tactics, the clerical regime has consistently played the nuclear blackmail card over the years to pressure Western countries into continuing their policy of appeasement. Last
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BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, May 13, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director Following the missile and rocket attack on April 13th by Khamenei’s regime, it is unequivocally clear that Tehran is indeed the epicenter of the war, terrorism, and instability in the Middle East.
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BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, May 10, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director The execution spree continues in Iran under the religious fascism ruling. Khamenei’s henchmen hanged 11 prisoners on May 1 and 5 prisoners on May 2, bringing the total number of prisoners executed
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BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, May 8, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director The International Atomic Energy Agency’s chief Rafael Grossi told reporters following his trip to Iran that Tehran’s cooperation was “completely unsatisfactory… We are almost at an impasse… and this needs to be
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BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, May 7, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director Executions are on the rise, local protests over economic and social issues continue across Iran, and political disarray is spreading throughout the regime, even among circles closest to its supreme leader. Iran’s
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