NCRI-US Staff, 30 May 2018 On Wednesday, May 30, 2018, the U.S. Treasury Department designated Hanista Programing Group pursuant to E.O. 13606. But what is the background to this and how significant this designation is? On February 15, 2018,…
NCRI-US Staff, 2 May 2018 On Tuesday, May 1st, the Iranian regime blocked the popular messaging app Telegram from the country. Iranian regime authorities claimed that the messaging app, used by over 40 million Iranians, posed significant threats to…
NCRI-US Staff, 25 April 2018 A number of different activist movements have been steadily gaining traction in spite of the clerical regime’s well-known history of repression. In late December images of a woman named Vida Movahed spread throughout Iran’s…
NCRI-US Staff, 25 April 2018 On Tuesday April 10th, the Iranian government declared the exchange rate for the United States Dollar (USD) to be 42,000 Iranian Rials (IRR) and prohibited sales extending beyond this price. The regime claimed to…
NCRI-US Staff, 22 April 2018 On April 17, 2018, a new wave of protests broke out in Iran in the cities of Baneh, Marivan, Saqqez, Javanrud, Sardasht, Kazerun, Saman, Ahvaz, Rasht, and Tehran. The demonstrators protested against Iran’s warmongering…
NCRI-US Staff, 18 April 2018 Just a few months after protests erupted in Iran, Professor Ivan Sascha Sheehan of the University of Maryland published a comprehensive report and analysis of the uprising that made global headlines around the New…
NCRI-US Staff, 15 April 2018 At four in the morning on Saturday, April 14, 2018, the sounds of explosions were heard across the city. The United States, France and Great Britain launched airstrikes against Syrian military facilities in Damascus…
NCRI-US Staff, 15 April 2018 Iran’s currency, the rial, has experienced unprecedented inflation since the regime’s president, Hassan Rouhani, took office in 2013. The rise has not slowed as economists predicted after certain sanctions placed on Iran for its…
NCRI-US Staff, 13 April 2018 The Assad regime’s recent chemical attack against innocent civilians marks another atrocity in Syria’s multi-year human catastrophe. Hospital reports indicate that the victims all showed signs of chemical exposure. In total, there were over…