BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, October 5, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director The missile attacks carried out by the Iranian regime once again highlight that the driving force behind terrorism and warmongering in the region is the religious dictatorship ruling Iran. Indeed, the head
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BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, September 30, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director September 29 marks the anniversary of ratifying the constitution and platform of the democratic opposition coalition, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), in 1981. The NCRI was founded on July
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BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, September 28, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director Twelve years ago today, on September 28, 2012, the U.S. State Department revoked the designation of the main Iranian opposition movement, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. This momentous
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BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, September 18, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director On September 10, United Kingdom lawmakers gathered in Parliament for a conference titled “Human Rights in Iran and the Call for Accountability,” focusing on the escalating human rights abuses under the Iranian
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BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, September 16, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director On September 9 and 11, 2024, Iran’s regime executed at least 12 prisoners, including Morteza Yousefi, a former national Greco-Roman wrestling champion. Yousefi, who had spent 10 years in Noshahr Prison, held
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By: NCRI-US Staff Washington, DC – September 10, 2024. An expert panel titled “Iran: Confronting the Threat and Securing a Solution” was held on Capitol Hill. The speakers included former military generals and foreign affairs experts, with several U.S. House members opening the event. The
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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, September 4, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director September 5 marks the anniversary of the founding of Iran’s most enduring and best-organized opposition movement, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), also known as the Mojahedin-e Khalq or the MEK.
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BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, August 30, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director Since the beginning of summer, a wave of unprecedented protests by nurses and medical professionals has swept across Iran, highlighting the dire working conditions within the country’s healthcare system. These protests have
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