Iranians opposition supporters inside Iran supporting #FreeIran convention

Iranians opposition supporters inside Iran supporting #FreeIran convention

MEK supporters inside Iran campaign for #FreeIran

Report by: PMOI/MEK inside Iran

Iran, June 20, 2018 - With only 10 days left to the Iranian opposition convention planned for June 30^th in Paris, a long list of videos are arriving from inside Iran showing many groups of people going against all odds to voice their support for this movement and the upcoming event.

People in numerous cities from provinces across the country are increasing their efforts and showing the world how they yearn for regime change. This initiative is gaining strength significantly following the Dec/Jan protests that swept over 140 cities throughout Iran.

Najaf Abad – Zarrin Shahr – Fulad Shahr

Footage from Isfahan Province show PMOI/MEK supporters holding posters reading, “Free Iran – 1,000 Ashrafs – Paris, 2018” with the Iranian flag and the embedded lion and sun symbol.

Ahvaz

A member of the PMOI/MEK network in Ahvaz has provided footage of writing graffiti in support of the Free Iran convention.

Another video from Khorramabad shows PMOI/MEK supporters distributing posters of the Free Iran convention throughout this city in western Iran. One of these posters contained this writing:

“I have a dream: Free Iran”

Shahr-e Rey

More graffiti writing by PMOI/MEK supporters in support of the Free Iran rally in Paris.

Shiraz

A PMOI/MEK supporter is seen distributing leaflets of the Free Iran convention throughout the Shiraz Engineering School and writing graffiti on various walls throughout the city during the night.

Mashhad

“Free Iran – Uprising to Victory” is the slogan written on the hand of a PMOI/MEK supporter in the city of Mashhad.

Tehran/Karaj

PMOI/MEK supporters in Tehran, the capital of Iran, and the city of Karaj are seen distributing Free Iran leaflets and raising the lion and sun flag.

Arak

In a courageous measure, leaflets in support of the Free Iran convention was distributed and put up by PMOI/MEK supporters in various areas of the city.

Bushehr

PMOI/MEK supporters put up posters of the Free Iran convention and Iranian opposition leader Maryam Rajavi in this city, filming and voicing their support for the upcoming rally.

Iran: Female political prisoner calls for justice for victims of 1980s

Prisoner of conscience Golrokh Iraee sent an open letter from Evin Prison where she is detained calling for justice for the perpetrators of the 1980s massacres in Iran. The letter comes in the wake of the acceptance by the UN working group on enforced or involuntary disappearances of the complaint filed by political prisoner Maryam Akbari Monfareddemanding information about the fate of her siblings executed during the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in 1988. In parts of her letter, Ms. Iraee writes:
“Some recall the 80’s, some have heard about it, but Maryam has lived through it…
With a simple yes or no answer, they executed thousands with a firing square or the gallows. They then piled their bodies, some of which still had life in them, on top of each other in trucks dripping with blood destined for mass graves without gravestones in the dead of night …
And now, this common pain will not subside until all is said and a compelling response is given instead of the denials and the excuses…
Maryam is not just one person.
She is (the voice) of thousands who have lost their family members to the firing squad or the gallows, or in street clashes or under torture, or to the hate of the despotism which has laid the foundations for this tyranny.
Today Maryam is looking for justice for a family that they have tried to kill off, but they are remembered and they have gone down in history.
Maryam’s three brothers and one sister gave their lives for the freedom of their country…
It is merited that we become the voice of those who have been crying out all these years in the skies of this sleepy city, and declare that we all want justice for the bloody crimes of the 80’s…
Hoping for a tomorrow in which the silence has been broken, the unsaid has been said, and justice has prevailed for the innocent who were slain.
Golrokh Ibrahimi Iraie
Women’s Section of Evin Prison
November 2017. “
source:Iran: Female political prisoner calls for justice for victims of 1980s

Tehran's futile attempts at discrediting the cause for regime change in Iran

No longer having the tacit support of a U.S. administration inclined toward rapprochement, the regime of Tehran is gradually facing the consequences of its unrestricted incursions in the neighboring region and brutal crackdown on domestic dissent in past years. With regime change in Iran gaining increasing support both at home and abroad, Tehran is frantically resorting to the oldest trick in its book: demonizing the opposition.

While Khodabandeh’s rant is no different from the dozens of articles he has published in his Huffington Post column against the MEK, he expresses the true nature of his ire in between the reiteration of debunked and unproven claims about MEK: In the past year, Sen. John McCain, a separate U.S. Senate delegation, and several other prominent U.S. 
politicians have met with MEK’s leadership in Tirana, Albania, where the group’s members relocated to from Iraq in 2016, and voiced their support for MEK’s goals to establish freedom and democracy in Iran.
source:Tehran's futile attempts at discrediting the cause for regime change in Iran

Iran worryingly recruits teenage children in its wars

It has been reported that children as young as fifteen are being recruited by the Iranian regime to participate in armed conflicts. This is a blatant disregard of international law and the UN Security Council has reminded Iran that the UN Charter on children’s rights is applicable.
The International Criminal Court sees the recruitment of anyone under eighteen years old for any activities related to armed combat as a war crime.
It is scandalous that this is happening with such frequency in Iran, yet it is facing no obstacles.
Children have not developed fully enough to participate in war and these children being recruited by the Iranian regime are at extreme risk for major physical and psychological consequences. It takes an extreme toll on the child, the family and society as a whole.
International laws are in place to protect children, but they can only be protected if they are enforced. It is major negligence that the international laws are failing to protect these minors.
Many of the children being recruited in Iran are from refugee families. They are sent to conflict zones, in particular Syria, where they will fight alongside Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad’s forces and allies.
The shocking reason behind such a high number of child recruits is that the Syrian and Iranian regimes are trying to lower the number of reported government casualties and deaths to minimise the loss of morale within the troops. The lives of the children are not valued and the Iranian regime treats them as expendable.
source:Iran worryingly recruits teenage children in its wars

Time to establish a united front for change in Iran

At the request of Saudi Arabia, foreign ministers of the Arab League gathered on Sunday, November 19th for an emergency meeting in Cairo. This assembly came at a time when the Middle East and the world over can no longer tolerate Iran’s meddling and support for terrorism and fundamentalist.

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) was designated as a terrorist entity by the U.S. Treasury Department, and many of its affiliated forces in the region have been targeted as a result. This has left the IRGC, considered the main entity for Tehran’s domestic crackdown and interfering in other countries, to become extremely weak.

Tehran is currently going the limits in hollow saber-rattling and behind-the-curtain talks in its attempt to return to the previous balance of power obtained after two decades of appeasement. Currently, however, there is no path left for Iran other than succumbing to the will of the international community and the Iranian people for a change.
source:Time to establish a united front for change in Iran

Time for Reckoning a Long Hidden Massacre

This week, Tehran announced it would continue a missile development program that defense analysts say could allow Iran to launch nuclear weapons. It was a public threat that has understandably stirred strong response from the U.S. and the west: the risk of nuclear proliferation by a fanatical regime is indeed a threat to millions across the region. But there is another, potentially greater threat from within Iran, one made more insidious by the fact that no one outside of Iran seems to care but which nonetheless imperils the values and moral conscience of the civilized world. I am speaking of the massacre of some 30,000 Iranians—including my uncle— at the hands of the state in 1988. And the arbitrary killings and executions continue.

In 1981, during the early years of Iran’s so-called “Islamic Revolution” my uncle Mahmood ‘Masoud’ Hassani was 21 years old and in his second year studying Economics at Tehran University. On June 30, my uncle never returned home from school.

Nearly two traumatic months passed before Masoud called my family to say he had been in jail since his disappearance and had been sentenced to serve ten years in the notorious Evin Prison. Even in absence of any evidence, he was convicted of ‘acting against national security’ and ‘spreading corruption on Earth’ all because he had distributed pro-democratic pamphlets near his campus.
source:Time for Reckoning a Long Hidden Massacre

Experts: ‘Persian Spring Is Possible’ in Oppressed Iran

WASHINGTON, DC – Former Sen. Joseph Lieberman and retired General Charles Wall laid out their visions for the “the way forward” regarding the United States’ policy on Iran during a panel discussion at the National Press Club on Tuesday.

The event was the second in a series of discussions on the matter.

“We find ourselves in a time of great promise and of great peril,” Ivan Sheehan—an associate professor at School of Public and International Affairs, University of Baltimore, Maryland—who moderated the event, told those gathered.

He said “a Persian spring is possible” and noted that, while the formal designation of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization was “valuable,” there is a need for increased action to cripple the regime so it can no longer engage in its terrorist activities.

Lieberman, who served in the U.S. Senate from 1989 to 2013 and was the Vice Presidential nominee in the 2000 election, said he does not see the Middle East conflict as a Sunni versus Shiite battle as much as a face-off between extreme radical dictatorial terrorists versus modernizers who believe in the rule of law and human rights. “And throughout the Middle East now, we see a response growing to the Iranian support for terrorism … and the subjugation of the new democracy in Iraq by Tehran.”

He noted that this “is part of a clear desire, a plan by the government in Tehran, to attain hegemonic power over the region. To rise again and pose its own extremist version of Islam, its dictatorial governmental form on as many of the nations in the region as possible. … So much of the instability in the region is now being centered on Tehran,” he said, adding that the U.S. State Department has stated over and again that the Islamic Republic of Iran remains the number one state sponsor of terrorism in the Middle East and beyond.
source:Experts: ‘Persian Spring Is Possible’ in Oppressed Iran

Free Iran Gathering 2017: Regime Change Is Iran Is the Only Option

Iran Focus

London, 2 Jul - The overwhelming consensus at the Free Iran Gathering in Paris is that Regime Change in Iran is best for the people of Iran and the world at large, and that this change is coming faster than the Regime thinks.

In her keynote address, Maryam Rajavi, the president of the Iranian Resistance forces (NCRI and MEK), announced that in order to achieve a free and democratic Iran, the Regime must be overthrown.

She told the Free Iran Gathering that this overthrow is not only coming, it is coming soon. She also asserted that the Iranian Resistance, who have been fighting for freedom of the Iranian people since before the 1979 Revolution in which the mullahs took power, is the true force capable of toppling the Regime.

Why must the Regime be overthrown?

The Iranian Regime does not believe in human rights, incarcerates its political opposition, and poses a grave threat to world peace.

The Iranian Regime does not respect its own people and regularly violates their human rights, as evidenced by the 1988 Massacre in which the Iranian Regime killed 30,000 political prisoners, most of whom were members of the MEK.

Giulio Terzi, the Former Foreign Minister of Italy, spoke before the Free Iran gathering to warn the international community not to “forgive or forget” the massacre, in which the Regime tried to exterminate their opposition.

Zinat Mirhashemi, a member of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, and Central Committee member of the Cherik-hay-e Fadaii Khalq Organization of Iran, said: “We must support the movement of justice for the victims of the 1988 massacre.”

The Iranian Regime does not respect the other nation-states of the Middle East, as evidenced by their interference in Syria, Iraq, and Yemen.

Prince Turki bin Faisal Al Saud, of Saudi Arabia, said: “The regime is looking for more crises and is therefore using militias to pressure other countries. This is how the regime pursues power.”

Their rule is a threat to the whole world.

British MP Theresa Villiers said: “The Iranian regime is a source of evil in the world. We want a brighter future for the people of Iran.”

Maryam Rajavi said: “The conclusion is what the Iranian Resistance has emphasised since the outset and many in the world have reached today: The solution, and the only solution, is regime change.”

But why can’t we reason with them?

For nearly four decades, the international community has kowtowed to the Regime, waiting for reform from within, providing concessions, and even attempting to contain the Regime.

John Baird, the former Member of the Canadian House of Commons and Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada, said: “The people of Iran demand and deserve better than the religious fascism ruling Iran...The money spent by the regime on nuclear weapons and terrorism is being stolen from the Iranian people... The policies of appeasement let the people of Iran down.”

Maryam Rajavi said: “The winds of change have started blowing in our homeland. The ruling regime is in disarray and paralysed as never before. Iranian society is simmering with discontent and the international community is finally getting closer to the reality that appeasing the ruling theocracy is misguided.”

Former U.S. ambassador to the UN, John Bolton, promised that the “Iranian regime will NOT reach its 40th birthday”.

Why must the Iranian Resistance be the ones to overthrow the Regime?

The Iranian Resistance (NCRI and MEK), which enjoys widespread support within Iran, has consistently supported the Iranian people’s quest for freedom and have worked tirelessly to expose the Iranian Regime, like the Regime’s secret nuclear weapons programme and the terrorist training camps.

They serve as a government-in-exile, with its leader Maryam Rajavi, serving as the president-in-waiting for Iran; ready to implement their 10-point plan for bringing Iran into the 21st century.

Bernard Kouchner, the former French Minister for Foreign and European Affairs and co-founder of Doctors Without Borders (MSF), said: “The Resistance’s determination about gender equality and freedom and separation of religion and state is what makes the movement successful and stand out.”

Over 100,000 human rights activists, national security experts, and supporters of the Iranian Resistance gathered today to support the notion that Regime change in Iran is not only necessary, but will happen soon. We must stand with them.