Amr Gohar, 7D News, 23 November 2019 The Iranian opposition seeks to unify and mass political support for the peaceful nationwide protests currently raging in Iran. The Deputy Director of the Washington Office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, Alireza afarzadeh, spoke to
NCRI-US Staff, 5 June 2018 On December 28th, 2017, a wave of mass protests against the Khamenei regime erupted, spreading to 142 cities in all 31 provinces. Now, a new study published by E-International Relations fleshes out several key aspects of the last December-January uprising
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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 national security. The ban on Telegram
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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 social media networks, spurring a women’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 not have a foreign exchange problem,
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 in neighboring countries, the water crisis
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 Year. The arguments he makes in
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 nuclear capabilities and testing were lifted
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Professor Ivan Sascha Sheehan, Modern Diplomacy, 10 April 2018 In late December 2017 and in January 2018, massive protests erupted throughout the Islamic Republic of Iran. The largest countrywide uprising since 2009 started in the northeastern holy city of Mashhad, the second largest city in
Mitchell B. Reiss, Richmond Times, 27 March 2018 In Iran today, men and women, young and old, rich and poor, are courageously taking to the streets in ever-greater numbers and frequency to protest a clerical regime that continues to deny them the basic human rights
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