Ali Safavi, Originally published in Townhall, February 22, 2023 February 11 marked the anniversary of the overthrow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s monarchy in Iran in 1979. I have lots of bittersweet memories of that time. I began my career as a political activist as an
Anniversary of Iranian Revolution Should Remind West of What Is Possible Read More
By Ambassador Ken Blackwell, Townhall, February 20, 2023 The past six months have witnessed a sweeping popular uprising in Iran, marking an unmistakable beginning of an end to the oppressive theocracy that has governed the country for four decades. However, amidst the persistent protests, a
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By Struan Stevenson, International Policy Digest, February 18, 2023 When it comes to making historic mistakes, history has a nasty way of repeating itself. Last weekend at the Munich Security Conference, one of the world’s most important gatherings to discuss peace and international security, a
By Maryam Rajavi (originally published in New York Post, November 22, 2022) Brave Iranian women, supported by a generation of young men, educated and knowing their inalienable rights, have openly and ferociously rejected the brutal religious dictatorship of Ali Khamenei and all his loyalists and apologists,
Soona Samsami, Originally Published in Washington Times, October 11, 2022 The Iranian people’s uprising against the misogynist theocracy celebrates its third week. Despite a brutal state onslaught, protests are surging, shaking the theocracy’s fragile foundations. Indeed, Iran is on the precipice of change, with women and youth
Mehdi Oghbai, Originally Published on the NCRI’s Website, October 4, 2022 After 18 consecutive days of nationwide protests in Iran, the regime’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, broke his silence, only to voice support for his security forces and their oppressive measures in a bid to
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Mehdi Oghbai, Originally Published on the NCRI’s Website, October 3, 2022 Protests are surging across Iran. Sparked by the death of a young woman at the hands of the regime’s morality police, demonstrations soon turned into what many observers consider the Iranian revolution. Iranian people have shown
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Zahra Afshari Amin, Originally Published in New York Post, September 18, 2022 Thirty-four years ago, the Iranian regime systematically executed my husband and many of my dearest friends, burying them in secret mass graves. On Wednesday, the person arguably most responsible for those killings, Iran’s
By Alireza Jafarzadeh, originally published on Prolific Solutions, September 11, 2022 In August 2022, the opposition coalition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) initiated and facilitated a federal complaint on behalf of several individuals who were subjected to torture or had their loved ones executed in
By Alireza Jafarzadeh, Originally Published in Townhall, August 13, 2022 From late 2001 the network inside Iran of the Iranian Resistance was examining the information that they were compiling on the Iranian regime’s nuclear weapons program. The focus was on two very unlikely locations, Natanz
Tehran’s President Raisi Wants the Bomb and Terror Read More