Iran Regime's Lies and Concealments in Atomic Projects After the Nuclear Agreement

Arak Reactor Site

Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Atomic Agency of the mullahs’ regime confessed that the mullahs had concealed parts of the banned nuclear equipment. In an interview with a state TV station, he said: "the tubes that the fuel goes through them there, we had bought similar tubes previously, but I could not declare them at the time, only one person knew about it in Iran". He continued: “Only the highest authority of the regime (Regime's Supreme Leader Khamenei) was aware of this and no one else ... His Holiness had said that you should be careful about these people (P5+1), they are not trustworthy and won’t keep to their promises. Well, we had to work smartly and intelligently, in addition to not breaking the bridges behind us, we also had to build a bridge that would enable us to go faster if we were to go back. It was a tube of two or three centimeters in diameter and three or four meters long ... We had bought similar tubes, the same quantity, we were told to fill the main tubes with cement, so we poured cement in those tubes ... but we did not say that we had other tubes because if we did, they would have said, sir, pour cement in those as well ... We are going to use the same tubes now. Now we have those tubes." (Channel 4 State TV, January 22, 2019). https://bit.ly/2RLqSHH

On Wednesday, January 30^th, Salehi told the state news agency, IRNA: “We had some substitute parts and bought some more and these were not against the rules. There was no need to announce that we have substitute tubes”. He then explained that the concealment and breach of the agreement were done under the order of regime's Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei. He said: “We have to be alert and calculate the process of possible return. In other words, we should not eliminate all the bridges behind us.”

These remarks clearly show that the regime's intention in the nuclear negotiations, especially with the P5+1, were based on falsification and concealment, and had no purpose other than gaining more opportunities to obtain the nuclear bomb.

Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, immediately warned after the agreement on July 14, 2015: "This agreement does not close the mullahs’ path to deception and access to a nuclear bomb". And before that, on November 24, 2013, she had said: "Any leniency, hesitancy, and concessions by the international community will prompt Khamenei to once again move toward manufacturing through deception and cheating.”

In his book, "National Security and Nuclear Diplomacy" Rouhani, president of the clerical regime, wrote: "In 2002, the activities were moving in a calm atmosphere, but the Mujahedin (PMOI/MEK) suddenly made a lot of noise by making false accusations… while our Atomic Energy Organization wanted to … notify the IAEA in a fait accompli".

Sunday Telegraph March 5, 2006, disclosed that in a public speech Hassan Rouhani had “revealed how Teheran played for time and tried to dupe the West after its secret nuclear programme was uncovered by the Iranian opposition in 2002.”

Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran

30 January 2019

Labor activists arrested in Iran

Labor activists arrested in Iran

Ms. Parvin Mohammadi and Mr. Jafar Azimzadeh

Reported by PMOI/MEK

Iran, Jan. 30, 2019 - On January 29, Iranian regime intelligence and security agents arrested the Mr. Jafar Azimzadeh, Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Free Union of Iran Workers, at 5:30 pm local time.

According to reports, Azimzadeh is detained at the 11^th police headquarter in Karaj, west of the capital, Tehran, and will be kept there until the judge's announcement. The agents confiscated Azimzadeh’s laptop, cell phone, and personal belongings.

A few hours later, security forces also arrested Ms. Parvin Mohammadi, the Vice President of the Free Union of Iran Workers, in Fardis district of Karaj and confiscated her belongings, as well.

Airing the news, the Free Union of Iran Workers condemned the arrest of its members.

Ms. Parvin Mohammadi and Jafar Azimzadeh participated in a labor rally

Azimzadeh was previously sentenced to 17 years behind bars for defending workers’ rights against the Iranian regime’s corruption and mismanagement. However, the Iranian regime considers these measures as acting against the regime’s security and propaganda, and against the mullahs’ rule in Iran. In 2016, Azimzadeh went on hunger strike in prison for 63 days.

“Where else in the world is a worker whose wage is four times below the poverty line forced by the police to work?” Azimzadeh asked in his August 2018 video message posted on Telegram, a popular messaging app used extensively in Iran. “This is a crime. This is slavery,” Azimzadeh said in his description of the workers’ situation in Iran.

Parvin Mohammadi was a former representative of Iran Metal Industries. In December 2018, she published an open letter strongly criticizing the clerical regime for ordering nightly raids targeting the houses of workers of Iran National Steel Industrial Group (INSIG) in Ahvaz and arresting them. In parts of this letter, Mohammadi addressed the oppressive rulers of Iran and wrote:

“Gentlemen, you arrested and incarcerated (some workers). From now on, however, what will you do with the rage and fury of thousands of INSIG workers and their families, and millions of workers and toiling wage earners across the country whose lives have turned into hell at your hands?

“Gentlemen, if the arrests and imprisonments of dozens of INSIG workers have put them in a position to stop their street protests for several days, you should rest assured that this is not the end of it.

“Because these are only moments and days when the rage and fury of INSIG workers and all workers throughout Iran are accumulated to soon erupt like a giant volcano.”

Iran’s FM: Hold a parliament session behind closed doors so we can talk

Iran’s FM: Hold a parliament session behind closed doors so we can talk

Iranian regime Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif

Analysis by PMOI/MEK

Jan. 29, 2019 - The Iranian regime’s Majlis (parliament) summoned Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Monday for questioning over economic issues and the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). Zarif made interesting remarks in response to questions raised by one Majlis member, “Hold the session behind closed doors so I can raise some issues… otherwise, I will not be able to raise all the necessary subjects.”

Mohammad Dehghan, a member of the Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission asked, “What is the reason all the nine conditions raised in a Majlis bill in regards to the JCPOA?”

Zarif: “The measures carried out by the Foreign Ministry have been mentioned in numerous letters from the beginning of the JCPOA implementation. To this day we have seen the U.S. go back on its word over the JCPOA. Measures have been taken. As I’ve said before, in this regard the Foreign Ministry acted based on its authority and reported the matter.”

Majlis member Ali Adiani: “The JCPOA was the most important event in the country’s history following the 1979 revolution. The agreement was to be implemented based on the Majlis’ nine conditions bill. If everything is as simple as Mr. Zarif explained, then everything should be all well across the country… I didn’t intend to raise this issue here in this open-door session. On March 4, 2018, Mr. Zarif, we agreed on some issues and you were scheduled to provide me the necessary documents within two weeks for review. Other Majlis members are witness how not even one single piece of paper has been provided to me. The Iranian people know far better than I that the JCPOA is the only agreement with foreign countries in our history that we have lived up to our end of the bargain on the spot and agreed to only relative commitments from our counterparts. Where in Iran’s history have you seen us hand over everything on the spot with full trust and accept to receive our share only in promises? This wasn’t the case even in the Treaty of Turkmenchay. Iran took part in the talks with the specific objective of lifting the cruel economic and financial sanctions… Mr. Zarif, you must answer this question: Did we get enough guarantees? The statement issued by the European Union and the U.S. President must specify clearly that these sanctions are fully lifted. Did we witness such a development? If so, where is the document? If it’s confidential, bring it for us to see. If it must not be published, the document will remain classified.”

Zarif said in response, “Criticizing our accomplishments is quite easy. However, it’s necessary to take a look at the circumstances on the ground and understand the fact that the Foreign Ministry is missioned to carry out state orders. If necessary, the Majlis speaker should arrange a session behind closed doors so I can raise certain issues. I have a duty to defend our country’s national interests in the face of foreigners. Therefore, I cannot express all the necessary issues. Hold a session behind closed doors and I’ll answer the questions.”

Iranian officials confess to regime’s role in bombings and terrors

Iranian officials confess to regime’s role in bombings and terrors

Debate between Alireza Zakani and Mostafa Tajzadeh

Analysis by PMOI/MEK

Jan. 27, 2019 - A debate between former Iranian officials from rivaling factions has been surfacing damning realities about the crimes committed by the mullahs’ regime.

In a public discussion broadcasted by state-run media, Mostafa Tajzadeh, former political deputy of the interior minister during the presidency of Mohammad Khatami, and former MP Alierza Zakani, discussed different matters of state and the history of the Iranian regime.

During the debate, Tazjadeh, who is tied to the so-called “reformist” camp, challenged Zakani, a renowned “principalist,” the faction that is close to Iranian regime supreme leader Ali Khamenei, on two issues that have haunted the regime for decades.

“Regarding the chain murders, Mr. Zakani, who has to be exposed? Who was opposed to keeping the issue silent and solving the issue in another way? They suggested to Mr. Khatami to carry out a scheme just like in Mashhad, find two [MEK members] and say they did it. They wanted to extract confessions in ways that they know, and we would execute them,” Tajzadeh said.

The rare comments have touched on two contentious issues that have been the sources of heated debates between regime officials for decades. The first, the chain murders, was a series of assassinations carried out by government operatives against dozens of Iranian intellectuals in the 1990s. When the murders came to light, the Iranian regime’s supreme leader Ali Khamenei denied his regime’s involvement and blamed them on “foreign enemies.”

The second event which Tazdeh refers to is the 1994 bombing of the Shrine of Imam Reza in Mashhad. Imam Reza, one of the descendants of the Prophet Mohammed, is among the 12 historical leaders of Shiite Muslims. After the bombing, the Iranian regime made several arrests and broadcasted forced confessions from people who claimed to be associated with the PMOI/MEK and had carried out the bombing on the orders of MEK leaders. As Tajzadeh makes clear in his remarks, the entire process was staged and made up by the regime.

Tajzadeh’s remarks reveal a recurring pattern in the Iranian regime’s tactics: committing crimes and blaming them on the MEK to defame the main opposition.

In recent years, Iranian regime officials have made many similar remarks, claiming that the MEK have conducted missile attacks on their own bases and have carried out bombing plots on their own conferences. The mullahs’ regime founder Ruhollah Khomeini even claimed that the MEK set fire on the fields and crops of Iranian farmers. These claims and their absurdity only indicate where the real fears of the Iranian regime lie and who their real opposition is.

Tehran has lied to world powers about its nuclear program, official admits

Tehran has lied to world powers about its nuclear program, official admits

Ali Akbar Salehi

Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Atomic Agency of the mullahs’ regime, said in an unprecedented confession that the mullahs lied in nuclear negotiations with the P5+1 countries about the Arak nuclear site and in fact concealed a part of the banned equipment.

"In those tubes we had, the tubes that the fuel goes through them there, we had bought similar tubes previously, but I could not declare them at the time, only one person knew about it in Iran," he said in an interview with the government television. “Only the highest authority of the regime (Khamenei) was aware and no one else ... His Holiness (Khamenei) had said that you should be careful about these people, they are not trustworthy and don’t keep to their promises. Well, we had to work smartly and intelligently, in addition to not breaking the bridges behind us, we also had to build a bridge that would enable us to go faster if we were to go back. It was a tube of two or three centimeters in diameter and three or four meters long ... We had bought similar tubes, the same quantity, we were told to fill them with cement, so we poured cement in those tubes ... but we did not say that we have other tubes because if we ded they would have said, sir, pour cement in those as well ... We are going to use the same tubes now. Now we have those tubes." (Channel 4 State TV, January 22, 2019). https://bit.ly/2RLqSHH

These remarks clearly show that the regime's intention in the nuclear negotiations, especially with the P5+1, were based on falsification and concealment, and had no purpose other than gaining more opportunities to obtain nuclear bomb. Hiding unauthorized equipment on Arak site is one of the latest   of series of 30 years of deception and clamor by the mullahs’ regime in nuclear projects under the control of the regime's leaders, especially Khamenei and Rouhani. An issue that the Iranian Resistance has consistently exposed since 1991 and has warned against its threats.

Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President elect of the Iranian Resistance, immediately warned after the agreement on July 14, 2015: "This agreement does not close the mullahs’ path to deception and access to nuclear bomb", and before that, on November 24, 2013, after a temporary nuclear agreement with P5+1 countries she said, "the regime's compliance with international obligations depends precisely on the degree of decisiveness and firmness of the world community vis-à-vis the regime’s evil intentions and its intrinsic deceptiveness.”

Mrs. Rajavi emphasized that, "any leniency, hesitancy and concessions by the international community will prompt Khamenei to once again move toward manufacturing through deception and cheating. The clerical regime has never volunteered to report its nuclear activities to the IAEA according to the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), the Iranian Resistance has been the first party that revealed the regime’s clandestine facilities and its nuclear deception."

In his book "National Security and Nuclear Diplomacy" Rouhani, president of the clerical regime, wrote: "In 2002, the activities were moving in a calm atmosphere, but the Mujahedin (PMOI/MEK) suddenly made a lot of noise by making false accusations… Our Atomic Energy Organization's view was to complete the Natanz facility and then notify the IAEA in a fait accompli ... in 2000, the Atomic Energy Organization promised the [Iranian] authorities that until March 2003, by employing 54,000 centrifuges, would be able to produce 30 tons of enriched fuel of %3.5."

Sunday Telegraph March 5, 2006 disclosed: " In a speech to a closed meeting of leading Islamic clerics and academics, Hassan Rowhani, who headed talks with the so-called EU3 until last year, revealed how Teheran played for time and tried to dupe the West after its secret nuclear programme was uncovered by the Iranian opposition in 2002.”

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran

24 January 2019

Here’s why Rouhani is retracing his steps on dealing with Iran’s problems

Here’s why Rouhani is retracing his steps on dealing with Iran’s problems

Iranian regime president Hassan Rouhani

Analysis by PMOI/MEK

Jan. 26, 2019 - In his speech on January 14, 2019 in Gonbad-e Kavus (Golestan Province), Iranian regime president Hassan Rouhani said, "We are facing difficult days…. We have plenty of problems."
What are these problems and difficulties that not only Rouhani, but also a whole spectrum of the regime's officials, from Rouhani's cabinet members to Friday Prayer Leaders and representatives of Khamenei talk about? To provide a tangible picture of the extent of these difficulties, let us use the crippling economic sanctions as a point of reference. This is the same Rouhani who, hours after U.S. renewed sanctions against the Iranian regime, said there was no problem and "Iran would proudly circumvent the US sanctions." (Tasnim News Agency, November 5, 2018)

What are these difficulties and problems?

Two factors, one domestic and the other international, have continued to gain momentum, despite the regime's efforts and expectations; the uprising and the sanctions.

Referring to the uprising in December 2018, and January 2019, Ali Rabie, Deputy Intelligence Minister of the Iranian regime and a former Labor Minister said:

“I consider the Dec/Jan 2018 incident was … was an unprecedented experience in social unrests we had not seen before in the past four decades… If there is a leak anywhere in the dam, there will be a devastating catastrophe and floods.”

“The butterfly effect resulted in protests to spread to 160 cities …In response to questions about will these protests and events be repeated, and can they play the role of an alarm siren, my answer is yes."

On August 8, 2018, after eight months of failure by the regime in suppressing the demonstrations and the resistance, Rabie warned the regime's Majlis (Parliament): "Given my forty years of experience with crises, I know we have very difficult days ahead."

The second element of devastating impact on the regime is the continuation of economic sanctions. The regime was more than hopeful to break or ease the sanctions. However, its international behavior, including terrorist activities on European soil, backfired. Instead of an intimidated Europe as the regime hoped for, now it is facing new sanctions by European countries too.

Who does the regime fear?

It does not take a lot of research to find the answer to this question.

Everyone in the regime, from supreme leader Ali Khamenei to Rouhani, and from foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to Rabie have explicitly mentioned MEK as the "dangerous enemy."

On official Friday Prayers of January 25^th alone, the word "Monafeghin" (the regime's term to refer to the MEK) was used 10 times in addition to 50 times of usage of the word "enemy."

On January 17, 2019, Alaeddin Borujerdi, Khamenei's special envoy for regional war mongering policies, and a senior member of Majlis (parliament) and former chairman of the Commission on Security and Foreign Policy, was very clear in putting his observations into perspective. He said," “[PMOI/MEK] is part of the American puzzle against the Islamic Republic in the Warsaw security conference. Recently, we have seen European countries take measures against the Islamic Republic under pressure from the U.S."

He also warned against the relocation of members of PMOI/MEK to Albania and recent measures by European countries to counter the terrorist activities of the Iranian regime in their countries.

What is the regime's solution?

Simply put, nothing. The main two worrying factors for the regime are becoming more and more effective. The regime has resorted to further domestic suppression and foreign terrorism.

Despite all economic crises, manifested in 1,000-trillion-rial budget deficit, Majlis has asked for a 300-trillion-rial increase in the military budget, while Rouhani's government had already added 20% to the budget of the Revolutionary Guards.

However, the point is that the uprising did not start in a free or even semi-free situation to cease by suppression. It was ignited under the most brutal repression. There is no sign of the regime being able to contain the unrest and demonstrations, or the activities of Iranian resistance units. The sanctions show no signs of relief either.

Rouhani was right. The regime is in deep trouble.

Former Iranian official: Evidence of Tehran’s terrorist activities in Europe can't be denied

Former Iranian official: Evidence of Tehran’s terrorist activities in Europe can't be denied

Ali Majedi, the Iranian regime's former ambassador to Germany

Analysis by PMOI/MEK

Jan. 2019 - In an interview with state-run ISNA news agency, Ali Majedi, the Iranian regime’s former ambassador to Germany, confessed to the Iranian regime’s terrorist activities in Europe. “To back their claims, the Europeans have produced evidence that we can’t deny. They have witnesses for their claims. There are some who think they can serve their country’s interests through arbitrary acts,” Majedi said.

Majedi’s comments come against the backdrop of a series of measures by European authorities against the Iranian regime’s terrorist activities in their countries.

Recently, the European Union slapped new sanctions and imposed asset freezes on a subset of the Iranian regime’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) and two of its staffers because of their involvement in terrorist activities on European soil.  The two persons are deputy minister and director general of intelligence Saeid Hashemi Moghadam and Vienna-based diplomat Assadollah Asadi.

Assadi is a veteran of the Iranian regime's foreign terrorism and the orchestrator of a failed bombing attack against the Iranian opposition’s Free Iran rally in Paris in June 2018. He is currently in the custody of Belgian authorities and being tried for his rold in the attack.

“EU just agreed to enact sanctions against an Iranian Intelligence Service for its assassination plots on European soil. Strong signal from the EU that we will not accept such behaviour in Europe,” Denmark’s Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen said on his Twitter account when the sanctions were declared.

At the same time, Dutch authorities accused the Iranian regime of carrying out two terror plots in Netherlands in the past three years. Along with France and Denmark, Netherlands is the third EU country to denounce the Iranian regime’s terror activities on their soil.

Albanian officials have also raised alarm over Tehran’s terror activities and recently expelled the Iranian regime’s ambassador and another Iranian diplomat from their country for having plotted terror attacks against members of the PMOI/MEK. In 2016, thousands of members of PMOI/MEK were relocated from Iraq to Albania. Subsequently, the Iranian regime increased its spying efforts in the country and expanded its embassy, dispatching some of its top intelligence agents to carry out plots against the Iranian opposition.

In March 2018, Albanian authorities foiled a terror attack planned against the Persian New Year celebrations by the members of PMOI/MEK in Tirana, Albania.

Also in 2018, U.S. authorities arrested two persons who were involved on spying activities against members and supporters of MEK and NCRI on behalf of Tehran.

The Iranian Resistance has warned time and again against the Iranian regime’s increased terrorist activities and has emphasized that as long as European authorities don’t expel the Iranian regime’s diplomats from their countries, Tehran will continue to undermine the security of their countries and their peoples to carry out its terror plots.

Tehran’s savior deal is triggering more disputes

Tehran’s savior deal is triggering more disputes

The time has come for the ruling mullahs to read the funeral prayer for the JCPOA

Analysis by PMOI/MEK

Iran, Jan. 20, 2019 - After three years, a faceoff between different ruling factions in Iran over the fruitless Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) shows the dead-end the Iranian regime finds itself stuck in as the sanctions regime and international isolation of the Islamic Republic intensifies.

The grandiosely touted deal between Iran and the P5+1 countries, which was supposed to cure the Iranian regime’s dilemmas—especially the economic one—has turned into a corpse which Tehran doesn’t know what to do with.

From day one, economic suffocation was the single most important reason why the Iranian mullahs—and their Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei at the forefront—sat behind the negotiation table. Now, at the doorsteps of the third anniversary of the agreement, the nuclear deal has become a self-defeating venture that has backfired against the mullahs themselves.

The JCPOA was a point of disagreement between the different ruling factions from the start but when the current U.S. administration pulled out of the deal and the economic benefits that the mullahs have reaped over the past years started to evaporate, things started to change.

In a bid to debunk rivals’ arguments, Javad Zarif, Hassan Rouhani’s foreign minister, recently said that the goal of the deal wasn’t economic at all.

The Assembly of Experts, a powerful supervising body close to Khamenei, didn’t agree with this viewpoint in its recent statements: “Officials, especially the foreign ministry, are expected to act with regards to the nuclear deal to lift the sanctions. The goal of the negotiations is specifically to unconditionally lift all the economic, financial, banking, and nuclear sanctions completely and one shouldn’t back down on this goal.”

The January 17 statement further says that the foreign minister, and contrary to the stated path of the negotiations by Ali Khamenei, “has announced that he goal of the JCPOA was not economic and lifting the sanctions. This means backing down in front of the enemy and aberration from the main guidelines of the negotiations that was lifting the sanctions.”

On the same day, Ahmad Jannati, Chairman of the Assembly of Experts and the Guardian Council, attacked Rouhani’s faction and said that “being hopeful of the Europeans to do their JCPOA obligations is stupidity”.

“Some say that after the U.S. leaving the JCPOA, Europeans will do something for us, while they drag their feet and will never do anything in our favor,” Jannati said.

Although he was lying but he revealed the Islamic Republic’s true fear of the existential threat it feels and said: “The very same France invites [MEK/PMOI] and organizes a summit for them, and hosts them and empowers them against the Islamic Republic.”

Jannati even took one step further than Khamenei and said: “The Supreme Leader has said that if they tear up the JCPOA, we are going to burn it but we didn’t and now [is the time] to do it.”

Mohsen Kouhkan, an Iranian MP, also referred to statements by some individuals close to Rouhani’s faction arguing that they should continue negotiations with Europe about Iran’s ballistic missiles program and said: “We went down the pit of the JCPOA with the rotten rope of the Europeans and these people need to first say what benefits we had from the JCPOA so that we continue these negotiations.”

Regardless of the opposing interests between different factions about the JCPOA, the fact is that the deal has turned into a problem for the Iranian regime and they don’t know how to deal with it.

Mohsen Jalilvand, an Iranian analyst close to the conservatives sums it up and says: “We should do our funeral prayers for the JCPOA and we should think about post-JCPOA. It’s very strange that Iran is still waiting for the JCPOA to revive.”

After the ban on Mahan Air, all economic relations with institutions linked to Iran IRGC must be terminated

After the ban on Mahan Air, all economic relations with institutions linked to Iran IRGC must be terminated

The NCRI in Germany calls for the cessation of all trade and economic relations with Iran

Jan. 22, 2019 - The Representative Office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in Germany welcomes the ban on flights imposed by the Federal Government on Mahan Air to Germany and calls for the cessation of all trade and economic relations with the Iranian regime, in particular with companies and institutions directly or indirectly linked with the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC).

Experience has shown that this regime exploits every opportunity that exists in Western countries for espionage, terror, technology theft, drug smuggling and other illegitimate purposes. On the other hand, the income from foreign trade is spent mainly for the oppression of the Iranian population, for warmongering and export of terrorism, and in short to bolster the mullahs' reprehensible rule.

The National Council of Resistance of Iran has already revealed in several reports, including a report released in October 2017 that Mahan Air is part of the Quds Force of the Revolutionary Guards and has called for sanctions to be imposed on the airline. According to these reports, Mahan Air is used to transport members of the Revolutionary Guards and their militias and weapons to Syria and other countries involved in terror and warfare.

After the emergence of terrorist acts and espionage activities of the mullahs’ dictatorship in Europe, they should not be allowed to take advantage of any means to advance their ominous terrorist and warmongering ploys.

The entire IRGC and the Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS) must now be included in the list of terrorist organizations and all their agents and spies must be brought to justice and expelled from Europe. This is the only way to stop the conspiracies of this regime in Europe and the threats it poses.

German representative office

National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) - Berlin

22 January 2019

Iranian mullahs are concerned about the Poland summit and the Iranian opposition’s activities

Iranian mullahs are concerned about the Poland summit and the Iranian opposition’s activities

Warsaw, Poland

Analysis by PMOI/MEK

Jan. 22, 2019 - Next month’s Poland conference, focused on Middle East security and containing the negative influence of the Iranian regime, has become increasingly a source of concern for the Iranian regime.

But a particular point that always reveals the truth behind the Iranian mullahs’ tough play about stability and power is their fear of their main organized opposition, PMOI/MEK and NCRI, which shows boldly among Iranian officials’ concerns for the Poland summit.

On January 19, Mardom Salari newspaper, close to Iranian regime president Hassan Rouhani’s faction, showed the regime’s fear of PMOI becoming involved in the Warsaw summit and wrote: “PMOI becoming active isn’t a good sign.”

Meanwhile, newspapers close to Iranian regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei are already declaring the defeat of the summit before it has started out of fear that it would succeed.

“The anti-Iranian summit of Poland is a failure even before it even begins,” writes Keyhan newspaper, widely known as the mouthpiece of the supreme leader.

Arman newspaper interviewed Hassan Khomeini, the grandson of deceased regime founder Ruhollah Khomeini, under an article titled, “The defeat of Warsaw’s summit is definite.”

But beneath the show of power and indifference, the cracks are showing through the façade the regime has put up.

Ali Khoram, the Iranian regime’s former ambassador to the UN, warns about an international consensus in the Poland summit and expresses his concern about Iran’s isolation on a global level.

“If Mike Pompeo succeeds in transforming the propaganda summit of Poland into a political summit, it will be the prelude of a military coalition against Iran. At this time, agreements with Iran’s friends will be very helpful. For instance, PMOI’s connections with Afghanistan’s central government is a stark warning about friends separating [themselves] from Iran,” Khoram says.

“Although such a summit in Poland is opposed to principles of international laws and the Charter of the United Nations, but if the majority of the invited countries announce their readiness for a goal and consensus is reached, it will become an unwritten international law that could even be used against Iran by other countries,” Khoram further says.

“All the parties are swiftly overcoming their opposition to the U.S. invitation, so they become enemies of the [Iranian] regime. Meanwhile, it doesn’t appear that the [Iranian] regime has even one true friend who stands against this heavy political wave and supports the [Iranian] regime. Our friends usually stick with us until the limits of their own fleeting interests are reached, and when they receive compensation from the U.S., they will abandon their friendship with the [Iranian] regime,” he further complained.

In an interview with Arman newspaper on January 19, Fereydoon Majlesi, a former Iranian diplomat, also says: “John Bolton, [U.S. President Donald] Trump’s National Security Advisor, and [Mike] Pompeo, U.S. Secretary of State, have also said that the sanctions against the [Iranian] regime must continue to the point where this country [Iran] is crushed! They’ve used a term that’s not usual in diplomatic parlance.”

Majlesi expresses the necessity to back off and further says: “EU countries want the Islamic Republic to start a new policy on the international stage and act on different levels of politics and economy and decrease some of its activities. This issue is very sensitive and important to the west. In this regard, Iranian officials need to choose a path to decrease sensitivities.”

According to state-run ISNA news agency, a few days earlier, Alaeddin Borujerdi, member of the security commission in the Iranian regime’s Majlis (Parliament), drew a connection between the Warsaw summit and the PMOI and said: “Recently, among anti-[Iranian] regime policies by European countries under U.S. pressure, we’ve witnessed the transport of PMOI to Albania and some other scenarios by European countries, that show these U.S. policy is supposed to continue.”

These statements show that on the one hand, the Iranian regime is facing an unprecedented international isolation and on the other hand, the Iranian opposition is gradually advancing its cause on the global level.

These recent developments have also increased the internal fight among the ruling political factions in Iran.

If the Poland summit, as Khomeini’s grandson and Ali Khamenei’s mouthpiece, the Keyhan newspaper, boldly say, is already doomed to fail before it even started, why the complaints and warnings by Iranian officials about the summit in the first place?

If the Iranian regime is as stable and powerful as its minions like to claim, why can’t it just ignore the Warsaw summit and continue to spread its twisted version of “freedom” and “equality”—read death and destruction—throughout the world? Why bother at all?

Truth is that the Iranian regime faces a growing popular dissent on Iranian streets that results from four decades of kleptocracy and nepotism, blatant mismanagement of the economy and corruption. Its Islamic propaganda that used to boost its base’s moral and justify its politics find less and less credibility and its organized opposition, culminated in the PMOI and the NCRI, have gained increasing international recognition and respect.

Considering the situation, a global consensus and coalition against the Iranian regime’s meddling and interference, is the last piece of a puzzle that cold possibly lead to disposing a regime that is a reminder of the dark ages in the 21 century.

Who is Marzieh Hashemi, the Press TV anchor whose arrest has frustrated Iranian regime officials?

Who is Marzieh Hashemi, the Press TV anchor whose arrest has frustrated Iranian regime officials?

Hashemi is reportedly an agent of Ministry of Intelligence and Security under the cover of a TV anchor

Report & Analysis by PMOI/MEK

Iran, Jan. 20, 2019 - Last week, an American-born TV anchor who was working for Iran’s state-run broadcasting channel was arrested by FBI when she landed at St. Louis Lambert International Airport in Missouri.

Marzieh Hashemi, born Melanie Franklin of New Orleans, who is working for the English-language arm of Iranian regime’s state-run TV channel, graduated in broadcasting field in 1979, when the Iranian people overthrew Shah and Khomeini seized the power in Iran. Franklin then chose her pro-Khomeini husband’s family name, Hashemi. She converted to Khomeini’s extremist perversion Islam and became a radical supporter of Khomeini. “For me, embracing Islam is directly in relation to Islamic revolution of Iran and the characteristic of Imam Khomeini,” Hashemi told ESTEBSAR Iranian English state-run website on February 14, 2015.

Hashemi has lived in Iran since 2008, where she became an anchor for Press TV, Tehran’s principle English-speaking broadcasting channel. During her tenure, Hashemi has played a major role in helping the Iranian dictatorship’s propaganda campaigns. As a fanatic supporter of then-president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, she defended his presidency and justified his regime’s crackdown on the Iranian people who took to the streets in 2009 to protest against rigged elections results. “I witnessed demonstrations that were demanding security forces to actually crack down. They were saying give us, you know, we want security,” Hashemi told National Public Radio on July 4, 2009.

Hashemi is reportedly an agent of Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) under the cover of a TV anchor. Previously, the regime’s former intelligence minister Ali Fallahian told a regime’s TV interviewer, “The MOIS needs cover for collecting information inside and outside Iran. This means that we don’t dispatch intelligence agents to Germany, Russia or the U.S. to say, OK, I’m an intelligence agent, please deliver your information! MOIS agents are working under the cover of merchants, or mostly correspondents, most of our agents are under the cover of correspondents.” Fallahian also added, “We are working under many covers.”

According to Fars News Agency, run by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Hashemi enjoyed promotion and paved the steps of progress in the regime’s state-run media after producing her so-called documentary against the 2009 uprising in Iran. In the documentary, she tried to whitewash the crimes the Iranian regime committed during the uprising.

In her so-called documentary, Hashemi tried to prove that PMOI/MEK was involved in the murder of the iconic martyr of Iran’s 2009 uprising Neda Agha-Soltan. Neda Agha-Soltan was shot in the chest and killed by paramilitary agents of the Iranian regime (Basij) during the 2009 uprising.

The video of Agha Soltan’s death, recorded by other protesters who were present at the scene, went viral and was spread all around the world. Agha Soltan became a symbol of Iran 2009 uprising. Faced with public anger from the horrendous scene, the Iranian regime tried to deny the event. First, Tehran claimed the video was fabricated, and then it pushed forth a conspiracy theory about the CIA and a foreign country being involved. The regime also floated rumors that other protesters had shot Agha Soltan. At last Tehran tried to fish in troubled waters, claiming through its agent Hashemi that the PMOI/MEK had murdered Agha Soltan.

After Hashemi’s arrest, the Iranian regime demonstrated its full-scale support for its agent. Regime-led efforts included creating a hashtag on Twitter, official statements made the regime’s Foreign Minister Javad Zarif using hifalutin words about the same freedoms his regime has deprived the Iranian people of.

Iran's state-run television network IRIB officially runs Press TV. Press TV which is targeting non-Iranian audience, is one of the Iranian regime’s propaganda levers for justifying the regime’s destructive role in the world and whitewashing its crimes in Iran as well as reaching a wider global audience for its ideological standpoints.

In 2012, the European Union imposed sanctions against the head of the Iranian regime state broadcasting network (IRIB) for playing a “key role in serious human rights violations.” In the aftermath of the European sanctions, the leading satellite platform Eutelsat removed Press TV from its satellite.

In 2003, the U.S. Treasury sanctioned IRIB and its then-director Ezatollah Zarghami for trampling dissents. “According to human rights groups, Iran is using state-media transmissions to trample dissent.  They point to distorted or false IRIB news reports and the broadcasting of forced confessions of political detainees,” stated the U.S. Treasury’s announcement. The result was taking Press TV off the air in North America from the Galaxy 19 satellite broadcaster.

In addition to the above, the Spanish government also banned Press TV’s Spanish channel Hispan and ordered it to be taken off air from the Hotbird satellite.

Under Velayat-e Faghih theory (uncontested rule of clerics), the Iranian regime is representing itself as a Caliphate of Muslims all around the world. So one of the press TV’s tasks is to provoke ethnic wars in Muslim communities and prepare the ground for the Iranian regime and Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to interfere and execute its destructive agendas. For instance, such measures helped the regime in bringing its proxies to power in Iraq after the Iraq invasion in 2003.

In September 2010, the Government of India banned Press TV for its intentional measures in provoking ethnic tensions. A report aired by Press TV inflamed Muslim anger. CBS reported, “Indian forces killed 14 protesters and wounded scores of others Monday in confrontations across Kashmir fueled in part by a report that a Quran (Koran) was desecrated in the United States.” The report added, “[The protesters in Kashmir] were inflamed by reports on the Iranian state-run channel Press TV that the Quran was desecrated over the weekend in the United States.”

The UK government-approved Office of Communications Ofcom also removed Press TV from Sky in January 2012 and slapped a £100,000 fine against it. BBC reported, “Iranian news network Press TV has had its licence revoked by the media regulator Ofcom and will no longer be allowed to broadcast in the UK. Ofcom said the state broadcaster's English language outlet had breached several broadcasting licence rules over editorial control of the channel.” BBC also mentioned that the fine was imposed after the network broadcast an interview with an imprisoned journalist, which the Ofcom said had been conducted under duress.

In 2017, The Telegraph reported that “A Conservative candidate has been awarded a £338,000 payout after winning a libel case against Iranian state television channel Press TV. The channel falsely accused Nadhim Zahawi, who is of Kurdish background and was born in Iraq, of facilitating the trade in oil between Isil and Israel.” In his statement, Mr Zahawi said, "In my role as a member the Foreign Affairs Committee, I have often spoken out against the malign influence Iran.”

Among the Iranian people, the Iranian regime’s national broadcast IRIB is known as a notorious organization that oppresses the true voice of the people and spreads fake news about the reality going on in Iran. In their protests, the Iranian people describe IRIB as a disgrace to the people and the mouthpiece of regime officials and their whims instead of the true issues of the nation. As a subsidiary of IRIB, Press TV and its devoted newscast are part and parcel to the crimes the regime commits.