BEHIND THE IRAN HEADLINES Series, June 7, 2024, Alireza Jafarzadeh, NCRI-US Deputy Director The late May death of Ebrahim Raisi, known as the “Butcher of Tehran,” was an irreparable strategic blow to the clerical regime and its Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei. This event has massive
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By Shahram Golestaneh, Originally published International Business Times, June 6, 2024 The death of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has once again brought the focus on the role of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as the fulcrum of the survival of the regime. Raisi became
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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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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 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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