Senior U.S. officials slam Iranian regime’s malign activities

Senior U.S. officials slam Iranian regime’s malign activities

White House National Security Advisor, John Bolton Slams Iran Regime

Analysis by MPOI/MEK

Sept. 26, 2018 - The Iranian regime finds itself the target of stern and unprecedented warnings issued by senior U.S. administration officials on Tuesday at a session held on the sidelines of the 73^rd United Nations General Assembly.

Supporters of the Iranian opposition People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) were holding a rally outside the UN building protesting the presence of Iranian regime president Hassan Rouhani at the event.

Hours after U.S. President Donald Trump’s GA speech focused on the Iranian people’s outrage of the mullahs’ regime plundering their resources for their own benefit and spreading mayhem across the region and beyond, U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton emphasized “we are watching, and we will come after you” if the mullahs’ regime continues its dangerous course.

Tensions are on the rise between the U.S. and its regional allies against the Iranian regime. This comes especially after the mullahs’ Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei accused Gulf states of organizing a recent attack in Ahvaz, southwest Iran, and receiving support from Washington. An allegation flatly denied by the mentioned parties.

Ambassador Bolton made it clear that the Iranian regime’s ruling mullahs “have a choice to make. We have laid out a path toward a bright and prosperous future for all of Iran, one that is worthy of the Iranian people, who have long suffered under the regime’s tyrannical rule."

The Iranian regime, he added, "brazenly supports the criminal Assad regime in Syria" and was "complicit in Assad's chemical weapons attacks on his own people."

“The days of impunity for Tehran and its enablers are over. The murderous regime and its supporters will face significant consequences if they do not change their behavior. Let my message today be clear: We are watching, and we will come after you,” Ambassador Bolton added, signaling Washington’s seriousness in confronting Tehran’s ongoing bellicosity.

US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo speaks during UANI summit.jpg

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was another speaker at the UANI summit, criticizing other countries for "enabling" Iranian-sponsored terrorism through their cooperation with Tehran to bypass U.S. sanctions.

"Just a few months ago, authorities across Europe arrested several Iranian operatives ... as part of a plot to plant a bomb at a political rally in France," Pompeo said, adding that France is also implementing other measures against Tehran.

“The United States will continue to coalesce international efforts to change Iranian behavior through pressure, deterrence, and support for the people of Iran,” he said, while adding the following remarks directly to the Iranian people: “The United States hears you; the United States supports you; the United States is with you.”

Iran: 3rd day of truck drivers’ protests expands to over 169 cities

Iran: 3rd day of truck drivers’ protests expands to over 169 cities

Shapur Isfahan – Truckers' strike

Reported by PMOI/MEK

Iran, Sept. 25, 2018 - Truck drivers across Iran continued their nationwide strike on Tuesday, protesting low wages, skyrocketing spare parts prices and authorities refusing to provide answers to their legitimate demands.

The cities of Urmia, Yazd, Qazvin, Borazjan, Neyshabur, Kermanshah and Dorche (of Isfahan Province) are currently witnessing more truckers joining the strike. During the past two days, drivers in 157 cities throughout all of Iran’s 31 provinces have been on strike.

On Monday, reports showed drivers refusing to accept any new loads, bringing all the load stations across the country to a standstill.

Kazerun Truck drivers continue their strike for the second consecutive day

In the city of Mahabad, western Iran, drivers of mini-trucks have also joined the strike.

This strike is a continued movement witnessed in June and August of this year. Drivers of fuel tankers in various cities including Tabriz, Kerman, Bandar Abbas, and Arak have joined the strike in various.

Imam Port Truck drivers continue their strike for the second consecutive day.

The drivers continued their strike despite regime authorities resorting to various threats and bogus pledges in an attempt to prevent them from protesting.

The Iranian regime even hired operatives to force the drivers into loading their trucks. This initiative also failed.

Drivers have even set up their own checkpoints to control the roads at nights and prevent the regime from pursuing its own conspiracies and threats.

Iranian opposition President Maryam Rajavi sent a message hailing the courageous truck drivers who are on strike, saying the mullahs’ regime neither intends nor seeks to respond to their demands.

These demands will only be provided for through freedom and the people’s sovereignty. Mrs. Rajavi called on all Iranians, especially the youth, to support the truck drivers on strike.

From early Sunday morning truck drivers in 112 cities across Iran launched a nationwide and coordinated strike after similar measures the day before. This protest is in response to previous calls for such pre-planned measures.

  

According to eyewitness reports, most of the loading stations are empty in numerous cities and the truck drivers have not shown up for new deliveries. The Amir-Kabir and Shapur-Jadidterminals in Isfahan, similar sites in Bandar Abbas, Khomeini-Shahr and Zanjan are among these locations that are reporting strikes and are completely closed down.

Kangavar Truck drivers continue their strike for the 2nd consecutive day

Truckers in various cities including Ardakan, Hamedan, Arak, Nahavand, Saveh, Shahrud, Neka, Borujerd, Kermanshah, Bardsir, Sirjan, Shahr-e Babak, Sanandaj, Kerman, Qom, Qazvin, Shiraz, Marvdasht, Abadeh,Ahwaz,Kazerun, Zahedan, Chabahar, Kashmar, Taybad, Sabzevar, Neyshabur, Mashhad, Garmeh, Nehbandan, Lordegan, Shahr-e Kord, Tehran, Bushehr, Ilam, Semirom, Shahreza, Isfahan, Najaf Abad, Shahin Shahr, Zarrin Shahr, Mobarakeh, Ardabil, Urmia, Tabriz and many more are currently on strike. Signs indicate other cities will join the strike in the upcoming days.

Ahwaz Terminal on strike for the 2nd consecutive day

Drivers are protesting low paychecks, high prices for spare parts and not receiving any responses to their demands. This is a new round of strikes after the August episode.

In cities such as Sabzevar, Malayer & Nahavand, angry drivers are seen standing on the road and preventing any driver to leave with loads in their trucks.

Maryam Rajavi’s Message on Iran New Academic Year 2018-2019

Maryam Rajavi’s Message on Iran New Academic Year 2018-2019

Maryam Rajavi calls for a year of protests, uprisings

Sept. 24, 2018 - The Iranian opposition president, Maryam Rajavi called on the Iranian youth and students to turn the coming school year in a year of protests and uprisings. In her message to the high-school and university students titled "The year of uprisings with Resistance Units expanding in schools, universities" Maryam Rajavi said:

"Fellow students, the vanguard generation creating the uprisings,
Honorable teachers and university professors,

I salute all of you in the beginning of the new academic year, and commend you for your desire and determination in achieving Iran’s freedom and progress, and in bringing up a generation that yearns for the establishment of a society based on freedom, democracy and equality.

On the eve of September 27, let us remember and pay tribute to the generation of Iranian youths who created a glorious battle on this day in 1981. Let us remember Abdollah Safa, Soudabeh Pazak, Fereydoon Bakhshi and Afsaneh Shamsabadi whose names will shine for ever in the history of resistance for freedom. On that day, they sacrificed their lives to socialize the mantra of “death to Khomeini.” Hail to those shining stars of the sky of Iranian revolt for freedom.

The opening of schools and universities is particularly important this year as it is entwined with the uprisings and the protest movement.

The uprisings in 142 cities last December-January, the uprisings in at least 27 cities in August, and the major uprisings in Tehran, Kazerun, Ahvaz, Khorramshahr, and Borazjan bear a significant message. These uprisings say that more than any other time, the best and most important lesson for Iran’s youth is freedom; the first lesson is the lesson of freedom.

The second lesson is sacrificing for freedom. 120,000 of Iran’s valiant children have given their lives in the struggle against the clerical regime, including the 30,000 political prisoners massacred in 1988, as well as dozens of martyrs and thousands of young souls who were arrested this year during the uprisings. This is the price the younger generations of Iranians have paid and will continue to pay for freedom.

And the third lesson is unity and solidarity for freedom which culminates in the formation of resistance units and councils, and advances the uprisings and the protest movement.

Today, Iran’s students as well as the education and university communities are fed up with the retarded state of schools and universities and the drastic state of economy and society.
Every year, a greater number of children and youths are left out of schools, becoming victims of barbaric exploitation. It is estimated that the number of child workers in Iran has reached 7 million.

The growing number of students, particularly girl children, leaving schools and universities pervaded by suppression, has crippled and rendered the country’s education inefficient. An estimated 25million Iranians are purely or functionally illiterate.

On the other hand, the mushrooming of universities, their plummeting quality of scientific level, and the unemployment of at least two thirds of university graduates, have made higher education a failure.

Iran’s younger generations wonder why has the country’s educational system collapsed?
What is the business of so many spies and suppressive mercenaries in universities?
Why are Iran’s honorable teachers and high school instructors so much discriminated against and suppressed? Why are the majority of them living under the poverty line?
Why are students, teachers, and professors totally stripped of their right to participate in the administration of affairs in schools and universities?
Why are they deprived of forming their associations, freedom of expression, and assemblies?

An advanced and democratic educational system can be achieved only after the overthrow of the velayat-e faqih regime (absolute clerical rule). Iranian teachers’ demands for freedom and justice, formation of their associations, end to imprisonment and exile of their colleagues, and alleviation of poverty and discrimination, all depend on bringing down the mullahs’ religious tyranny.

The right solution lies in the hands of the democratic alternative to this regime, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). The solution lies in the hands of a generation risen in this path demanding the regime’s overthrow. As the Iranian Resistance’s Leader Massoud Rajavi has said, “The days of Khomeini’s heirs and the brutal mullahs are numbered. The dawn of freedom and justice is on the horizon.”

Fellow high school and college students,
The opening of schools and universities injects fresh force to the uprisings and the protest movement and it can besiege the mullahs’ rotten regime.

Rise up to continue the uprisings and to free your homeland occupied by the mullahs. This is what you owe to your oppressed and deprived countrymen and women and especially to the children who have been victimized by this regime.

Expand the resistance units to all schools and universities.

Turn every school and college into a resistance unit and every Iranian city into a risen and revolting city.

Freedom and victory are in your hands!

Iran’s currency surpasses 160,000 rial per U.S. dollar

Iran’s currency surpasses 160,000 rial per U.S. dollar

Iran’s currency in a steep plunge

Analysis by PMOI/MEK

Sept. 25, 2018 - The U.S. dollar price skyrocketed in Tehran’s markets on Monday, soaring over 160,000 rials. The euro was selling between 175,000 to 189,000 rials. The British pound had increased to over 210,000 rials.

The state-run ISNA news agency described these escalating statistics as “strange” and added, “Today, trading for the U.S. dollar began at around 149,000 to 150,000 rials and even reached the 155,000 rial mark.”

These statistics were registered in authorized currency exchanges. In Tehran’s black market, however, the prices reached over 160,000 rials.

In February, the U.S. dollar was trading at 38,500 rials, increasing to 53,400 rials in less than a month and reaching 67,530 rials in June and even higher in July.

In August, these numbers reached 120,000 rials per U.S. dollar and the average of September was floating between 145,000 to 150,000 rials. The Iranian regime even announced a new currency policy, only to fail in providing any significant impact.

Currency rates are known to directly reflect a country’s political/economic stability. Despite the fact that many regime officials and so-called experts had promised the price of essential goods would not increase, corruption has reached a point that the regime has no solutions.

Many involved in the country’s main edible goods market believe the currency policy adopted by the regime has actually increased the currency instability.

Under this new policy, 25 goods are considered essential items that can be purchased from abroad with the regime providing U.S. dollars at a rate of 42,000 rials. This includes rice, wheat, red meat, poultry, eggs, edible oils, corn, and others such items. Some of these items are being stocked by the individuals linked to regime officials to then launch a monopoly in the market.

“Allocating U.S. dollars at 42,000 rials for importing foodstuffs was a grave mistake by the government. Doing so results in corruption of all kinds across the country,” said Ghasem-Ali Hassani, Secretary-General of the Food Stockers Association.

A civilian told “Jahan-e San’at” daily on September 6^th, “I earn around 22 million rials a month. With a mortgage of 9 million and two children, how can I buy 1 kilogram of rice for 100,000 rials, red meat at 600,000 rials and fruits at least 80,000 rials for each kilogram?”

Analyzing the increasing price of essential goods, the state-run ILNA news agency reported on September 11^th reported, “In September, an average worker’s family must spend 72% of their earning to simply remain alive. At the end of the day, this family has less than 4 million rials to provide for their essential necessities, such as mortgage, transportation, and education. But how?”

Terrified of PMOI/MEK, Iran installs security cameras in Tehran cemetery

Terrified of PMOI/MEK, Iran installs security cameras in Tehran cemetery

Arrows show security cameras installed at the famous Behesht-e Zahra cemetery in Tehran

Analysis by PMOI/MEK

Iran, Sept. 24, 2018 - In fear of youth and the majority of Iranians supporting the Iranian opposition People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) and their struggle for freedom, and seeking to prevent people from paying their respects to the graves of PMOI/MEK foundersand other martyrs of this organization, Iranian regime authorities have installed security cameras in certain locations of Tehran’s famous Behesht-e Zahra cemetery.

One of these cameras is specifically focused on the graves of PMOI/MEK founders in section 31 of this large cemetery.

Security cameras are hidden among tree branches – Tehran, Iran

Two other cameras, one with 360 degree viewing capability and another used to control traffic (with high zooming capability), were installed between sections 31 and 33, again facing the grave of PMOI/MEK founders.

Arrows show the location of the 360-degree security camera – Tehran, Iran

Alireza Al Davoud, said to be social media analyst for the Iranian regime, expressed concern about the PMOI/MEK’s vast influence in these networks.

“The [PMOI/MEK] are using social media networks, such as Instagram, and messengers such as Telegram alongside VPNs, to create insecurity in social media networks, spread rumors and cause psychological insecurity. They’re able to do so due to the encrypted nature of these platforms. Confronting and identifying these users is very difficult, complex and time-consuming,” he said.

Mohseni Ejei, spokesman of the Iranian regime’s so-called judiciary also expressed his concern over the potential impact of social media networks.

“Today, enemies of the state seek to destroy the people’s trust in the system through launching hundreds of satellite networks against the Islamic republic, portraying our officials to be incompetent… Their final objective is to cause popular riots, provide military support for the insurgents and carry out military measures against the country,” he said.

Gholamreza Jalali, head of the Iranian regime’s Civil Defense Organization, referred to the mullahs’ economic crises that have rendered social protests this year.

“Based on our analysis during the past year, we are forecasting significant issues to rise again this year, including with the currency and economy… Therefore, we need to evaluate various scenarios regarding about what the enemy can do against our country and choose the necessary countermeasures,” he said.

Khamenei envoy in IRGC: PMOI/MEK behind unrest in Iran

Khamenei envoy in IRGC: PMOI/MEK behind unrest in Iran

Scene of a Dec/Jan protest in Tehran, Iran

Analysis by PMOI/MEK

Iran, Sept. 22, 2018 - Fearing the link between the Iranian opposition People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) and increasing popular protests across the country, the representative of Iranian regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei recently said, “[PMOI/MEK] have the pulse of this unrest.”

A state-run outlet referred to Abolghasem Alizadeh’s remarks and wrote:

“… traveling to Shiraz recently, Alizadeh referred to weaknesses in the past four decades after the [1979 revolution] and said, ‘In the fourth decade after the revolution we are suffering from neglect. Our instincts are not working as they should… Today we are facing circumstances where the [PMOI/MEK] have revived and are active on the ground. These people are behind much of the unrest across the country.”

“The enemy has taken advantage of our neglect and is currently organizing the youth to launch what they call ‘resistance units’… According to the [PMOI/MEK], these resistance units have a directing role in creating the current unrests. They are both organizing, sparking and directing these protests,” this outlet added.

Valiollah Nanvakenari, a member of the Iranian regime’s Majlis (parliament), provides more input about the PMOI/MEK’s link to the ongoing protests and uprising.

“In times of crises, how are we to take action to prevent groups such as the [PMOI/MEK] and others from taking advantage of the people’s demands,” he said. “Infiltrators will inevitably penetrate into our ranks and files. This is one of the issues that we cannot completely prevent, nor forget about.”

The Iranian regime’s official news agency, IRNA, issued a report on social media posts focusing on overthrowing the mullahs’ apparatus.

“Robots and fake accounts on Twitter, using hashtags such as “overthrow and “Regime change in Iran,” “Free Iran” and others – which are an anti-state propaganda campaign aimed at changing the state – are active despite restrictions imposed by Twitter. All the while, Twitter has recently closed a number of accounts belonging to real individuals in Iran, claiming they are part of the infiltration current.”

Morteza Mobalegh, another element linked directly to the Iranian regime, made the following remarks:

“It has been some time since an organized and systematic current based outside of Iran has significantly played a direct role against the Islamic republic.”

Iran’s regime facing major dilemma over anti-money laundering pact

Iran’s regime facing major dilemma over anti-money laundering pact

Iran’s regime grave concerns about the FATF

Analysis by PMOI/MEK

Iran, Sept. 21, 2018 - Iran’s state-TV recently aired a roundtable discussing the country’s domestic crises over the issue of succumbing to the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) and the threats Tehran faces in either case of joining this convention or not.

Majid Shakeri, an economy expert linked to the Iranian regime, made interesting remarks over the increasing number of sanctions targeting the mullahs.

“We are a country engulfed in the strongest sanctions in world history. There is no doubt about it that the Americans are imposing a new version of sanctions, targeting name by name and even sanctioning specific positions of our government. They sanctioned Mr. Seif (former Central Bank chief) and then the very position,” he said.

Money laundering has become so rampant that the regime’s own economic experts are acknowledging this dilemma.

“Right now our problem is that a branch of our currency institutions, our banking institutions, they’re involved in money laundering. Even the President said this when he proposed the last budget bill to the parliament. I quote him saying 25 percent of our liquidity is controlled by unorganized financial institutions and they are white-washing money. Dirty money is entering our economy. What is dirty money? Money coming from drugs, money coming from the smuggling of goods,” said Mehdi Pazouki.

This round table also shed light on the Iranian regime’s international network involved in financing terrorism.

“I refer you to [Lebanese Hezbollah chief] Seyed Hassan Nasrollah… I saw his interview with an international network. To prevent sanctions on Lebanon’s banks he said we are very fond of the Islamic republic. We receive our money from the Islamic republic, but not through the banking system. The money arrives in suitcases filled with cash. To the extent that I’m aware, Hezbollah doesn’t receive its money from the banking system,” Pazouki added.

He was referring to an interview delivered by Nasrollah in the summer of 2017 acknowledging the fact that the Iranian regime provides all the funding for the Lebanese Hezbollah.

These remarks further prove the deep crises facing Iran’s regime over the FATF.

The Iranian regime parliament on Sunday voted for a two-month postponement of a bill vote over the regime joining the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). Tehran seeks time to allow the result of its talks with Europe reach a conclusion and decide afterward.

The FATF is a convention aimed at fighting to disrupt money laundering and funds for terrorist groups. Various FATF regulations will bring about major restrictions for the Iranian regime’s banking systems.

“We cannot neglect the FATF and say we will not join the convention. The FATF is an internationally recognized framework and if we intend to work with the world’s bank we are forced to adapt ourselves with its conditions,” said the Iranian regime’s deputy economy minister, cited by the state Vatane Emruz daily.

Kayhan daily, known to be the mouthpiece of Iranian regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, had this to share.

“Joining the FATF will provide new legal tools at our enemies’ disposal, establish a world consensus against the state and realize increasing sanctions against the country’s state institutions, such as the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC)… Will this not lead to a blow to the heroic [Lebanese] Hezbollah and the state’s strategic depth?

“The U.S. is seeking to overthrow us; Europe pursues its own economic interest and stopping our missile and regional power, and the FATF will provide tools to these powers that are looking to gain influence over our economic/political security and regional influence,” the piece explains.

The faction close to Khamenei in the regime’s parliament issued a statement saying:

“Bearing in mind the fact that the world’s major powers consider the Lebanese Hezbollah, Hamas in Palestine, Yemen’s Ansarollah [Houthis], Iraq’s Hashd al-Shaabi (Popular Mobilization Forces) and other similar groups as terrorist entities, and instead at least covertly support the [PMOI/MEK], joining the FATF will render endless international measures and increasing sanctions against a variety of our state entities, including the IRGC. Our state institutions and officials will be divided into two classifications of sanctioned and non-sanctioned entities. As a result, there will also be entities sanctioned inside the country. At the end of the day, Iran’s dossier will be referred to The Hague and United Nations Security Council.”

Tehran’s grave concerns about the FATF, and their lose-lose situation evolved further through the remarks of another regime MP.

“If we choose not to join this convention, we will not be able to monitor the hypocrites or the so-called People's Mojahedin Organization, in any country. However, by joining [the FATF] we can pursue the measures taken across the globe against the Islamic Republic, our country, our national interests,” said Iranian lawmaker Mostafa Kavakabian.

Interesting is how Tehran claims the PMOI/MEK is a group with no roots in the country and is facing complete demise. And all the while, with the FATF placing the regime before damning circumstances, the case of monitoring the PMOI/MEK’s measures against the Iranian regime is linked to the mullahs joining this international platform or not.

Iran: Diaspora rallying in New York against Rouhani visit

Iran: Diaspora rallying in New York against Rouhani visit

Iranians preparing for demonstrations in New York against the mullahs' regime President Hassan Rouhani

Analysis by PMOI

Sept. 21, 2018 - Signs indicate the upcoming New York visit planned for Iranian regime President Hassan Rouhani, planning to attend the 73^rd United Nations General Assembly next week, is already becoming a demonstration by freedom-loving Iranians.

Members of the Iranian Diaspora preparing for this rally are seen informing the public opinion about the crimes committed by this devious mullah.

Freedom-loving Iranians are demanding Rouhani, being the president of a state sponsor of terrorism, not be allowed into New York and the UNGA session.

As a member of the regime’s Supreme National Security Council, Rouhani has for more than three decades been approving all of the mullahs’ terror plots against the Iranian opposition People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) and the Iranian people, both inside the country and abroad.

The Iranian regime’s recent terror plot targeting the Iranian opposition’s annual rally in Paris on June 30^th, specifically seeking to deliver a severe blow to the PMOI/MEK and the Iranian Resistance as a whole, was also approved by Iranian regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

The Iranian regime’s plot to bomb the Iranian opposition convention – “Free Iran 2018” – in Paris was foiled two weeks ago. And yet the subject continues to gain international coverage and growing attention.

Liberation in France cited Agence France Presse on July 11^th saying the French government will be extraditing one suspect to Belgium soon, adding an Iranian diplomat is in detention in Germany after a failed plot against the Iranian opposition. This dossier is now entering the new phase and yet specifics in this regard remain very vague.

Raising a significant diplomatic uproar, Belgium’s investigation enjoys cooperation from judicial authorities in France and Germany.

Mehrdad Arefani, an Iranian-Belgian man, was arrested in France and is considered an accomplice. On Wednesday, in court, he agreed to be extradited into the custody of Belgian authorities.

This Iranian regime terrorist, a member of a sleeping cell for years and in contact with Tehran’s intelligence apparatus, was arrested on June 30^thwhen the PMOI/MEK were holding their annual convention in Villepinte just outside of Paris. Former US House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Mayor Rudy Giuliani, two figures very close to US President Donald Trump, were among those taking part in this rally.

On July 3^rd a Belgian judge issued a European arrest warrant for him on charges of acting to commit terrorist murder and preparing an attack. This individual will be extradited in a maximum of 20 days. However, the Iranian regime, considering its established relations with Vienna, is demanding the suspect be sent to Austria as soon as possible.

Based on Belgian judiciary intelligence, judges are saying Mehrdad A., who will possibly face 30 years behind bars, was arrested in a hotel room following intelligence from an unknown source. He had a mobile phone with an Austrian SIM card with only one Austrian phone number in its records.

French prosecutors had launched an investigation into participation in criminal terrorist activities two days prior to the Iranian opposition rally and the French security apparatus received orders to see into this matter.

German federal prosecutors issued a statement on July 11^th announcing the arrest warrant for the Iranian regime’s diplomat terrorist Assadollah Assadi on charges of espionage and conspiracy to commit murder. Prior to this, he was arrested on July 1^st based on a European arrest warrant.

Assadi was a member of Iran’s Intelligence Ministry, an entity mainly tasked to take severe action against dissidents inside the country and abroad, and the German judiciary arrest warrant does not in any way contradict Belgium’s extradition request.

The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) issued a statement shedding new light on this developing matter:

According to reliable intelligence from inside the regime, this terrorist act was decided months ago by Iran’s supreme leader, the president, foreign and intelligence ministers, the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, the Revolutionary Guards, the Quds Force, the IRGC's intelligence Organization, and the deputy for political-security affairs of Khamenei's office. The Ministry of Intelligence and Assadollah Assadi, the MOIS station chief in Austria, were assigned to carry out the operation. Since a few years ago, the MOIS station in Vienna had become the coordinator of the MOIS stations in Europe.

Assadi is one of the MOIS’s veteran agents who was stationed in Vienna since 2014 under the guise of a Third Counselor. His office was at room No 200 on the third floor of the embassy. His main task was espionage and conspiracy against the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), and he has been traveling to various European countries in this regard. Before Assadi, Mostafa Roodaki was in charge of the MOIS station in Vienna. Roodaki was first transferred to Tehran and then in 2017, he was dispatched to Tirana in order to engage in a conspiracy against the PMOI in Albania.

In fear of the consequences of the exposure of its terrorist operation against the mass number of innocent civilians, and paranoid about the revelations of its other terrorists, the mullahs’ regime seeks to see Assadi would be extradited to Austria and subsequently be transferred to Iran. As such, the clerical regime has resorted to intimidation, blackmail and offering concessions. This is while this terrorist diplomat was active in the preparation for a crime against humanity at the heart of Europe and was directing it.

During their visit to Austria last week, Rouhani and Zarif met with Austria's former minister of defense, who has had very active and close relations with the mullahs’ regime since years ago, in order to have him take the lead to try to free Assadi. The regime’s foreign ministry has claimed in its internal reports that the Austrian government is willing to close the case quickly and will utilize its resources for this purpose.

Iranian Resistance warns against the regime's attempts to divert the investigations and to help its terrorist diplomats in general, and Assadi, in particular, escape the justice and calls for the closure of regime’s embassies and representative offices, and the expulsion of terrorist diplomats and the MOIS and Quds Force agents. This is in accordance with the decision of the Council of Europe on April 29, 1997, which stipulated that the mullahs’ mercenaries and intelligence and security agents should be expelled from European Union Member States and not allowed to enter the EU Member States.

The Iranian Resistance reiterates on the need to disclose and publish all details of the terrorist attack against the grand gathering of Iranians. Public awareness of these details is essential for securing the security of the Iranian dissidents and refugees in particular, and the security of Europe in general.