By: NCRIUS staff, February 6, 2024 In the January 22nd, 2024, Wall Street Journal article written by Alireza Jafarzadeh, the Deputy Director of the Washington Office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, outlines how decades-long appeasement of Tehran by Western nations has emboldened the
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BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, February 3, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director Iran’s clerical regime, skilled in deceit and outsourcing terrorism and nefarious activities, presents itself as pious and pro-poor in Islamic nations while secretly supporting paramilitary groups to influence politics abroad. This regime
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BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, January 31, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director On January 29, Khamenei’s regime ruthlessly executed four young Kurdish prisoners in the notorious Qezelhessar Prison. They were Mohsen Mazloum, Mohammad Faramarzi, Vafa Azarbar, and Pejman Fatehi. Arrested in August 2022, they
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BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, January 29, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director Iran’s presidency of the UN Disarmament Conference, led by its rogue regime, stands as a glaring contradiction to the principles of peace and disarmament. The Iranian regime, widely recognized as a primary
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BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, January 26, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director As Iran’s society is simmering in outrage over the cowardly executions of anti-regime protesters Mohammad Ghobadlou and Farhad Salimi, there are increasing signs that the revolting spectacle billed as March 1st “elections”
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BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, January 25, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director Earlier this month, the Iranian regime launched ballistic missile attacks on Iraq, Syria, and, notably, Pakistan, all within a 24-hour period. These attacks represent a desperate move by a regime whose façade
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BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, January 24, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director In the early hours of Tuesday, January 23, the henchmen of Iran’s religious dictatorship cowardly executed Mohammad Qobadlou, a 23-year-old imprisoned during the 2022 protests, on charges of killing a regime’s repressive
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By Ali Safavi, Townhall, January 22, 2024 In September 2023, a seismic revelation shook the foundations of U.S. national security when credible reports exposed a disturbing infiltration of the U.S. government by agents of the Iranian regime. The damning report by Semafor laid bare a
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BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, January 11, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director According to reports compiled by the network of the People’s Mojahedin Organization, the MEK, the ruling religious dictatorship executed 834 people in 2023, the highest number in the past eight years and
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BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, December 18, 2023, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director The scheduled visit of Ebrahim Raisi to Geneva faced cancellation due to the unwavering efforts led by Mrs. Maryam Rajavi and the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). Additionally, mounting pressure
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