U.S. Should Turn Up The Heat On Iran

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called the support of "elements inside of Iran that would lead to a peaceful transition of" power. He made the comments in a hearing on State Department budget for next year before the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Secretary Tillerson’s testimony on Iran, coupled with that of near unanimous Senate vote on “Countering Iran's Destabilizing Activities Act of 2017” bill condemning mullahs’ missile proliferation program, human rights record and destabilizing role in the Middle East, was received in Tehran as a recipe for disaster.

It is for the first time in nearly four decades of mullahs’ rule that a U.S. Secretary of State clearly calls for regime change. It might be a coincidence that at the same time the strongest Senate vote to date against Iran’s religious dictatorship is passed with 98 votes out of 100.

US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson holds a press conference on Iran in the Treaty Room of the State Department in Washington, DC on April 19, 2017. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images)

The bill is also unique because while it targets the most important issues involving the Iranian regime’s provocative actions, it has not violated the nuclear deal or Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPA) struck by the Obama administration. It is an important reminder since the deal is often used as an excuse to give the regime in Tehran a free pass.

FREE IRAN GATHERING: ENDING TERRORISM STARTS WITH REGIME CHANGE IN IRAN

FREE IRAN GATHERING: ENDING TERRORISM STARTS WITH REGIME CHANGE IN IRAN

INU - At the Free Iran Gathering in Paris on Saturday, a series of panels were held to discuss the ousting of the barbarous Regime and how this would end war and terrorism in the Middle East.

Iran Opposition Leader’s Call for Regime Change Gains Moment

Supporters of the Iran opposition movement met in Paris, and we have some highlights for you here.

On Saturday the Iranian opposition held a very organized and massive meeting in a huge auditorium north of Paris. Members of the Iranian community outside the country gathered from five continents to support the Iranian opposition’s effort to establish democracy and freedom in Iran under the banner of #FreeIran.

Iran Regime Are The "Godfathers" of Terror

London, 3 Jul - Ex-Scottish MEP and Iranian expert, Struan Stevenson, accused Iran of being the “godfather” of terror at a recent conference calling for freedom of the Iranian Regime.

At the Free Iran Gathering last weekend, over 100,000 politicians, activists, and heads of state came together to condemn the Iranian Regime for their support of terrorism and call for the freedom of the Iranian people.

Stevenson said that the world did not know fundamentalist Islamist terrorism until the Iranian Regime seized power until 1979, and now all of the different Islamist terror groups around the world are the result.

He said: “You have Daesh (ISIS), the Taliban, al-Qaeda, al Shabaab, Boko Haram, Hezbollah – they all have difficulties with each other, yet we categorise it in the West as a Sunni/Shiite conflict. It is not. All of these different [factions] who also fight like cats in a sack, they look to Tehran as the godfather of international Islamic fundamentalism.”

However, Stevenson expressed hope that this too shall pass.

He said: “When the Soviet Union collapsed, we saw communism fade away. There were a few pockets left, like North Korea, Cuba, perhaps Venezuela, but it has almost faded from the international picture. And if we achieve a regime change in Iran, I believe the same fate will occur to fundamentalist Islam – I think it will slide off the international agenda.”

The Paris gathering, organised by the People’s Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (MEK), the largest opposition movement in Iran, had the overarching message that the only way to achieve Regime change in Iran is to oust the current Regime.

The MEK, which supports a secular government, human rights, and a non-nuclear Iran, has long provided the Western World with evidence of the Iranian Regime’s crimes including a secret nuclear weapons programme, terrorist training camps, and the 1988 Iranian massacre, in which the Iranian Regime executed 30,000 political prisoners in just four months.

Last year, following the implementation of the 2015 nuclear agreement, the international community lifted sanctions against the Iranian Regime that had been in place since the 1980s.

The idea was that in exchange for sanctions relief, the Iranian Regime would halt development of nuclear weapons, however, the Iranian resistance has uncovered evidence that the Regime simply moved the research to a different facility, which is off-limits to the international inspectors.

According to leading military figures, like General Jack Keane, the former Vice Chief of Staff of the US Army, it is a case of now or never when it comes to tackling the problems posed by Iran.

He said that the Iranian Regime is moving closer to its goal of “regional domination”, which could have a disastrous effect on global politics.

He said: “What Iran wants, they want the south part of Yemen, a naval base right there. That navy base is the entrance to the Suez Canal so they can impact world trade.”

The Suez Canal is the shortest link between the east and the west, making it crucial in terms of transporting goods, and the worry is that Iran would threaten trade ship there,, as they already do in the Strait of Hormuz.

The MEK is calling on the international community to increase sanctions against Iran and end the nuclear deal.

Maryam Rajavi, the President of the Resistance forces, argued that true democratic change in Iran could only be achieved by supporting the resistance so the Iranian regime can be overthrown from within.

FREE IRAN GATHERING: ENDING TERRORISM STARTS WITH REGIME CHANGE IN IRAN

FREE IRAN GATHERING: ENDING TERRORISM STARTS WITH REGIME CHANGE IN IRAN

INU - At the Free Iran Gathering in Paris on Saturday, a series of panels were held to discuss the ousting of the barbarous Regime and how this would end war and terrorism in the Middle East.

MEK's Role in Iran and How It Can Help the Global Peace

London, 2 Jul - Experts and scholars, prior to participating in #FreeIran gathering, joined a panel discussion, held in Paris to discuss the current social-political situation in Iran and the role of the Iranian opposition (MEK) in this regards. The meeting was organized by the “Foundation for Middle East Studies (FEMO)”, and the “Alliance for Public Awareness, Iranian Communities in Europe(APA)”. The panel was moderated by Ambassador Lincoln Bloomfield, former Assistant Secretary of State for Military Affairs, who was joined by Kenneth Blackwell, former US Ambassador to the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva, Linda Chavez, Founder and Chairwoman of the Center for Equal Opportunity and former White House Public Relations Liaison, Ramesh Sepehrrad, scholar practitioner from George Mason University in the US, Robert Torricelli, Member of the US Senate from 1997 to 2003 who also served 14 years in the U.S. House of Representatives, and Mohammed Alsulami, head of AGCIS and expert on Iran.

PRESIDENT MACRON: IRAN IS NO PARTNER TO FRANCE

PRESIDENT MACRON: IRAN IS NO PARTNER TO FRANCE

INU - On June 17, 14 years ago, the French anti-terror police raided offices of the Iranian main opposition, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) and its principle member, the Mujahedin-e Khalq or MEK, near Paris. Hundreds were arrested and building were torn down. 

THE MEK AND THE FREE IRAN RALLY

THE MEK AND THE FREE IRAN RALLY

INU - Over 100,000 dignitaries, politicians and activists will gather in Paris this Saturday to support the Iranian people and their call for regime change in Iran at the Free Iran rally.

The annual rally, organised by the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), has attracted supporters of the Resistance from around the world, as far afield as Saudi royalty, US lawmakers, and European national security experts.

The MEK is the biggest member group within the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), a coalition of Resistance groups, which together serve as a government in exile in France.

MEK Beginnings

The MEK can be traced back over 40 years, before the fall of the Iranian Shah in 1979. They helped to overthrow Shah Reza Pahlavi’s in the hopes of establishing a democratic government who would rule on behalf of the Iranian people, however, this was not to be.

Ruhollah Khomenei and his supporters co-opted the popular revolution in order to further subjugate the people of Iran. They took over and established a theocracy, which imposes a fundamentalist reading of Islam onto the people, rather than a democracy that was needed.

The MEK spoke out against this, noting that the Iranian Regime was barely even paying lip service to democracy by holding sham elections and having Khomenei take over as Supreme Leader and essentially serve as the dictator of Iran.

The Regime did not take kindly to this and quickly began to persecute the MEK for speaking out against them, eventually criminalising association with the MEK and imprisoning many. Most of the leaders of the MEK were forced into exile in Iraq, where they tried to bring down this second dictatorship.

Unfortunately, these efforts just led to violence of behalf of the Regime.

The Massacre

In 1988, Khomenei issued a fatwa that ordered the execution of political prisoners, who were mainly members of the MEK. This began the greatest crime against humanity since WW2.

On Iran Focus, Jubin Katiraie wrote: “The regime convened what came to be known as the Death Commission, assigning three judges the task of briefly interviewing prisoners to determine whether they retained any sympathy for the MEK or harboured any resentment toward the existing government. Those who were deemed to have shown any sign of continued opposition were sentenced to be hanged.”

It did not matter to the Regime whether a prisoner had served their sentence in full (many had), were under the age of 18, or indeed was pregnant. They slaughtered 30,000 people over a matter of months without even the semblance of justice.

The Regime hoped to eradicate the MEK, but you cannot kill an ideology. Those who survived, mainly due to not having been in prison or being in exile, were able to spread the truth about the Regime and recruit more supporters.

MEK Today

The MEK is the best resource that many international governments have for knowing what exactly goes on within Iran, as many of its members have managed to covertly infiltrate the Regime and gain access to highly classified files and locations.

In 2017 alone, the MEK has revealed that Iran is still working on the nuclear programme in breach of the 2015 nuclear deal, has a network of 14 terror training camps, and has a much more advanced ballistic missile programme than most people thought.

Their efforts are helping to shift US policy on Iran in favour of the Resistance who are warning the US about the dangers they face. It has already led to increased sanctions against the country for its support of terrorism, human rights abuses, and ballistic missiles programme, but could soon lead to the designation of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organisation, which would mean further sanctions, or a public support for regime change in Iran.

The MEK also broadcasts news and events about the Iranian Resistance to the people of Iran, through banned satellite channels. They will do this again on Saturday, so that the people of Iran, whose internet and media is highly censored by the Regime, know that they are not alone.

Maryam Rajavi, the elected President of the Resistance, receives a great deal of support among the Iranian people, because of her ten point plan to create a non-nuclear, secular Iran, with human rights and gender equality.

Iran's Desperate Deed Against, Increasing Popularity of MEK

London, 27 Jun - What happened 29 years ago in Iran, and why after all these years, we are witnessing a crisis and a rising conflict among rival factions in the ruling class over that in Iran?

European Parliament Condemns Human Rights Violation in Iran

London, 27 Jun - In a statement, dated Monday June 26, 265 members across all political parties in the European Parliament have come together to condemn the egregious human rights violations in Iran.

THE MEK AND THE FREE IRAN RALLY

THE MEK AND THE FREE IRAN RALLY

INU - Over 100,000 dignitaries, politicians and activists will gather in Paris this Saturday to support the Iranian people and their call for regime change in Iran at the Free Iran rally.

Free Iran Rally & the Role of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK)

A major gathering is being held at the Villepinte Exhibition Center outside of Paris, France. The gathering is focused on Iran policy and at the center of the case is the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran. The People’s Mojahedin is also known by its Persian name, Mojahedin-e Khalq or MEK and it is the main constituent group in the National Council of Resistance of Iran, the leading coalition advocating for the cause of regime change driven by the Iranian people and their expatriate allies.

IRAN TAKES ACTION AGAINST INCREASING POPULARITY OF MEK

IRAN TAKES ACTION AGAINST INCREASING POPULARITY OF MEK

IRAN TAKES ACTION AGAINST INCREASING POPULARITY OF MEK

During the summer of 1988 in Iran, some 30,000 political prisoners, the majority of whom were MEK members or sympathizers, were executed. The year is the 29th anniversary of the 1988 massacre.

Are U.S and Iran moving towards a military conflict?

Are U.S and Iran moving towards a military conflict?
freerepublic | Keyvan Salami 
Posted on 6/24/2017, 3:44:41 PM by Keyvan Salami
On June 19, Iran Launched 7 medium-range ballistic missiles targeting ISIS in Syria. The same day a US Navy Super Hornet shot down a Syrian Su-22. On June 20, a USAF F-15E blasted Iranian Shahed-129 armed drone out of the sky. The drone was shot down as it advanced toward the coalition-backed rebel outpost of At Tanf, near the southern Syrian border. In addition, Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, in a speech, harshly attacked the US and posted hostile tweets. “That US arms a terrorist group is what causes instability. Who created #ISIS? The US!... That the US joined the anti-ISIS coalition is a lie. They're against an unrestrained ISIS but agree with a controlled ISIS…US president accuses Iran of terrorism, while terrorism in this region has American roots…” The supreme leader twitted.