Iran: Locals lay to rest young man murdered by state security

Reported by PMOI/MEK

Iran, July 31, 2019 - The funeral procession of Mohammad Hosseini Mojiri was held in the city of Isfahan, central Iran on Tuesday with thousands of people taking part in the ceremony.

The regime’s state security forces murdered this 19-year-old young man on the city’s famous Khaju Bridge last Thursday. Many people were witness to the horrific scene where state security forces opened fire and gunned down the young man.

Terrified of the possibility that this ceremony evolves into an anti-regime demonstration, local authorities dispatched many plainclothes agents to the scene. The funeral was held in Isfahan’s Jui Abad district.

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The Iranian regime: Evil from the top down

One can never convert an evil nuisance like Iran through being careful

Activists gather at the State Department and watch a message on the screen from Maryam Rajavi before a march to the White House to call for regime change in Iran, Friday, June 21, 2019, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

By Lord Maginnis of Drumglassis

The Iranian regime is, currently, high among the most trouble-making regimes of the world if not the highest in terms of pure nuisance value.

It sabotaged, contrary to the accepted diplomatic norms, a tanker carrying oil to Japan on the very same day that Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was meeting Ayatollah Khamenei; it sent its own oil-tanker to Syria in violation of the EU sanctions and then seized a British oil-tanker at the direct order of the ayatollah in an illegal and destabilizing behavior in alleged retaliation at Gibraltar’s legal detention of its oil bound for Syria. 

When its IRGC offensive drone was recently destroyed by the United States, it denied that it ever had any drone. Iran’s foreign minister blatantly criticized a BBC interviewer who told him that Iran gave millions of dollars to Hezbollah every year by saying “Who says that Iran gives money to Hezbollah?”

Apparently, he had forgotten his own presence with that cynical smile on his face in a meeting where the terrorist leader of Hezbollah threatened the West that they could by no means cut the organization’s funds through sanctions of bank transactions — “because we received cash money from Iran for everything.”

One can produce an endless list of such behavior by the Iran regime which has proved, beyond doubt, its shameless mastery of sheer lies and deceitful acts. Surely, there can no longer be any question remaining as to why think of resolving any matter with such a regime through talks and dialogue? 

How could the world’s democracies ever trust a government which, for four decades, has demonstrated that it recognizes only its own right to violate others’ rights and freedoms — most obviously those of its own citizens? What forces us to do so?

People like Jack Straw who dedicated his political career to the diplomatic dialogue once encouraged fellow citizens to appease and rescue the mullahs at a time of their severe international isolation, but even he must now, despite his sincerity, recognize the impossibility of being able to approach the mullahs of Iran positively and constructively.

However, some may argue that nuisance though they may be, we must be careful with a very important Middle East country and we are not going to remove them anyway. But that is exactly where they are mistaken.

One can never convert an evil nuisance through being careful and sending a signal that one is frightened by its threats. Instead, one should highlight, as one better understands the language of force and power, one is not taking those threats seriously.

Iran does have an Achilles Heel. That is a well-organized resistance movement — the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), led by the courageous and constructive Maryam Rajavi. 

This movement has a large network of supporters in exile who in their great numbers echo the voice of the voiceless Iranian people inside the country — those who have been brutally oppressed by the mullahs for four decades, as well as a sizeable support base that has become more discernible in light of the regime’s more public acknowledgement in recent months.

Iran’s regime was, initially, successful in demonizing the NCRI to make sure that it would not receive any attack from that side. They had it deemed ‘a terrorist organization’ but history has largely answered that. The NCRI’s erstwhile forebearers, the MEK, has proven to be responsible and viable. 

Sadly, our politicians and media have been fooled and duped for long enough to take the demonization seriously and even to echo it. But now it is time to stop echoing the mullahs, not least within the United Kingdom.

France, Austria, and the United States, to name but three nations, have openly welcomed the constructive Maryam Rajavi and given shelter to her followers. But, shamefully, the United Kingdom has been tardy, failing even to acknowledge the mullahs 30,000 pogroms of 1988.

We must confront our outdated and ill-informed prejudice and begin to listen to Maryam Rajavi and her brilliant super-democratic 10-point plan for future Iran; we must recognize the Iranian people’s legitimate right for regime-change and, bluntly, move our misinformed prejudice into the 21st century. The NCRI wants nothing more from us.

On Saturday, Maryam Rajavi’s supporters marched in the streets of London in big numbers after they did so in Brussels, Washington, Berlin, and Stockholm. Our politicians and media should grasp the opportunity to stand with them. Let those of us, who value our freedom, support such events and listen carefully to the message. It’s time to listen to the Iranian people and the opposition. A different Iran is not unthinkable. The Iranians have made up their mind to bring about change. The question is on whose side we want to be? 

• Lord Maginnis of Drumglassis a prominent member of the British Committee for Iran Freedom and member of the U.K. House of Lords

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Second Official Admits to Iran’s 1988 Massacre of MEK Political Prisoners

Written by Shamsi Saadati on 31 July 2019.

A second Iranian regime official has admitted to the 1988 massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in Iran.

Ali Razini, the Deputy of Legal Affairs and Judicial Development of the Judiciary, spoke to the Jamaran website, which is close to the family of Khomeini, on July 29, 2019, and confirmed that the extrajudicial killings were carried out on Khomeini’s order “without being held up by red tape.” He said the trials that led to the massacre was one of Khomeini’s last major decisions.

Razini explained that on July 24, 1988, Khomeini issued a secret decree about holding emergency trials under the pretext of “investigating war crimes” and that Razini was appointed as head of this court.

Razini said: “One of the most important benefits of this edict was that the opponents who had taken part in the Mersad Operation were dealt with by these courts. That is, we did not bring any of those arrested to trial in Tehran or Ahwaz. In the same war zones, they were arrested, tried and punished.”

In the days after this edict, the court rapidly shifted its focus from war crimes, which was a lie, to begin with, and began to target members and supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), also known as the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), in western Iran. Razini explained that most of the people tried in these courts were young and most of the trials didn’t observe the formalities of a trial (i.e. access to a lawyer, ability to present a defense, judged by a jury of their peers).

On August 17, 1988, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) President sent a telegram to the UN and leaders of the five permanent members of the Security Council – the US, the UK, France, China, and Russia – to warn them about the widespread executions of individuals who supported the MEK. But the massacre was not stopped.

When asked about the number of those executed, Razini said: “I do not remember. Back then we were busy and didn’t have time to count.”

This comes just days after Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi, Advisor to the Iranian regime's Judiciary Chief and a former Interior and Justice Minister, defended the massacre to the state-run Mosalas magazine.

Pour-Mohammadi sat on the Tehran Death Commission, alongside current Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi, and sent thousands of political prisoners to their death for continuing to support the MEK.

He said: “We have not yet settled the score with the MEK. We will discuss these matters after we eliminate them. We are not joking... Now is the time to fight them, now is the time to subdue them. Now is the time to conduct prosecutions.”

He then said that this was not the time to give “legal answers,” assess the conduct of the judges, or look into improperly closed cases, asking why people were so concerned about “why [he] threw a grenade into the wrong place or [acted] incorrectly” and if he was just supposed to “defend” his mistakes.

The answer, of course, is that he should be held accountable for the mistakes.

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Tehran Student Begins Prison Sentence for Peaceful Activism

Written by Hamideh Taati on 31 July 2019.

A student at the University of Tehran was arrested by the Iranian regime’s intelligence forces on Sunday, July 28, and taken to the notorious Evin Prison to begin her sentence for peaceful activism during last year’s protests.

Leila Hosseinzadeh, an anthropology student, had her sentence of two and a half years in prison and a two-year foreign travel ban upheld by the Tehran Province Appeals Court on June 24.

Hosseinzadeh, who served as the secretary of Tehran University students’ central council, was arrested during the nationwide uprisings in 2018 but was released on bail.

She was previously sentenced to six years in prison and a two-year ban on leaving the country by Branch 26 of the Court of Tehran on March 7, 2018.

Her trial began on October 22, 2018, and her revision hearing was held on May 14. Then, on Monday, June 24, Branch 36 of Tehran Appeals Court told Hosseinzadeh that she was sentenced to 30 months in prison on the charge of “association and collusion against national security” and another year for “propaganda against the state”. She is also prohibited from leaving the country for two years after her prison sentence ends.

There were a particularly high number of students arrested and prosecuted during the December 2017/January 2018 protests; something that even Iranian regime officials are admitting.

On July 10, 2018, Parvaneh Salahshouri, a Member of Parliament, told the state-funded Iranian Labor News Agency (ILNA): “A list has been put together of the students detained in the December 2017 incidents and they number more than 150. So, we’re not talking about just 55 or 90 students. Unfortunately, the issue of student detentions is much more extensive.”

Now, while this does suggest that young Iranian people, who have known nothing except for the regime, are politically active and want the regime is gone, which is true, it’s important to remember that the regime also went around universities as the protest began and locked up students who hadn’t even been involved. This is because they see young people as a threat to their regime.

Salahshouri said at the time that 17 students had already been sentenced to prison terms.

She said: “The Intelligence Ministry is involved in some of the cases against these students and therefore the government and the ministry itself should explain what’s going on here.”

The Iranian regime’s Intelligence Ministry, headed by Mahmoud Alavi, is operated under regime’s President Hassan Rouhani. The Ministry spends a lot of time cracking down on the Iranian people and any potential activism.

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Iranian regime's interior minister forewarns of further protests

A scene of the Dec 2017-Jan 2018 uprising in Iran

Reported by PMOI/MEK

Iran, July 29, 2019 - Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli, the Iranian regime's Minister of Interior, warned of the possible eruption of popular uprisings.

“We shouldn’t neglect, ignore the protests and unrests, and not take preventive measures and proper responses. Any incident could turn into a great event,” Rahmani Fazli said in an interview with the regime’s state-run TV network.

“The enemy attempts to trigger these incidents by imposing sanctions. They have repeatedly said that they should do anything to escalate protests and social unrests. This policy began right after the protests at the beginning of 2018,” he added.

At the end of 2017, protests erupted across Iran. Demonstrations over economic woes quickly turned into anti-regime protests that spread to more than 140 Iranian cities. The regime has constantly attempted to quell the protests through sheer suppression, imprisonment, and torture of protesters and organizers. Various segments of the Iranian society, however, continue to take to the streets and challenge the regime and its apparatus of suppression.

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

Published on 30 January 2019.

Mrs. Rajavi had warned about the mullahs’ deceptions

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 30th, 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, was 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 program was uncovered by the Iranian opposition in 2002.”

Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
30 January 2019

Iran Regime's Lies and Concealments in Atomic Projects After the Nuclear Agreement. Mrs. @Maryam_Rajavi had warned about the mullahs’ deceptions.#Iran. #IranRegimeChange. #FreeIran https://t.co/5XyK6VKI41

— Mohammad Mohaddessin (@Mohaddessin) January 30, 2019

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MARYAM RAJAVI: WE URGE BRITAIN AND EUROPE TO STAND ON THE SIDE OF THE PEOPLE OF IRAN FOR REGIME CHANGE

CATEGORIES // Messages: freedom and democracy in Iran

Message to the Iranians’ rally in London

 

Fellow compatriots,
Friends and supporters of the Iranian Resistance who cry out the desire of the people of Iran to overthrow the regime and achieve freedom.
Distinguished lawmakers, human rights advocates and prominent political personalities in Britain who have found the genuine solution to the issue of Iran in Resistance for freedom and democracy,
I would like to salute you all.
I would also like to pay tribute to the brilliant conscientious individuals from among the people of Britain and their contemporary history whose names will remain eternal, including Lord Corbett, Lord Slynn and Lord Russell –Johnston who lent their unsparing support to the Iranian Resistance over the past four decades.

Also Lord Archer, Lord Waddington, Lord Renton, Lord Avebury, Lord King, Lord Fraser, Baroness Turner, and Baroness Gibson. And Rudi Vis, Jim Dobbin, David Vaughan and Elizabeth Sidney whom we never forget.
Robin Corbett was the noble conscience of the British people and parliament who defied the policies of his government and party to revoke the unjust proscription of the PMOI.
Lord Slynn was a radiant beacon of justice, an epitome of defying the darkness of oppression and injustice, advocating the rights of the victims and the oppressed who were falsely accused in the political wheeling and dealings, which he said was what he hated the most. 
Our deepest and greatest tributes to all these unforgettable friends of the Iranian people and Resistance.

Fellow countrymen and women,
Your demonstration today in London marks the peak of a series of Free Iran rallies taken place over the past one-and-a-half months in Brussels, Washington, D.C., Berlin, and Stockholm.
It is also an extension of the Iranian Resistance’s 5-day annual gatherings, two weeks ago, at Ashraf-3.

The clerical regime has again unleashed another barrage of fake and misleading news against the Iranian Resistance through a fake Twitter account presumably belonging to a French Consul General. The Foreign Ministry of France issued an official statement denying the news, and Twitter also shut down the regime’s fake account.

The mullahs’ regime has reiterated time and again that speaking out, even against Khamenei, is not a red line and will be tolerated. But as was the case when political prisoners were massacred in 1988, PMOI/MEK is a forbidden name and a red line.
This is the identity, path, and tradition which terrifies the religious dictatorship even inside the regime’s jails and torture chambers. Khomeini issued a fatwa ordering the massacre of anyone who remained loyal to the name and ideals of the PMOI. But the victims cried out Massoud Rajavi’s name even at the gallows.
Hossein Ali Montazeri, Khomeini’s heir at the time, said the PMOI cannot be eliminated through killing, but will further spread.

Today, we see that the PMOI is spread in Iran by the expansion of resistance units and 1,000 Ashrafs.
The message of the people of Iran and supporters of Ashraf is the same everywhere: freedom and a free Iran. The mullahs must go. Regime change and regime change… And we do not get tired of repeating and insisting on these calls. We will cry out and repeat them again and again until the day they are realized. And of course, they would be certainly realized with your support.
Why and for what reason? As Massoud Rajavi said, because of remaining loyal to our pledges and making the endless sacrifice in Iran’s history.
A glance over the list of execution victims, particularly the list of the victims of the 1988 massacre, reveals the truth of this statement.
Our people, our Resistance and the Mojahedin of Ashraf, have proven that they are prepared and ready to pay the price of freedom.

Let us take a look at the events which took place years ago on this day and on upcoming days, and the price paid for each of them.
The attack on Ashraf on July 28 and 29, 2009, simultaneous with the uprisings in Iran, where 13 Ashraf residents were killed and more than 500 wounded.
And the great patriotic epical operation in 1988 called the Eternal Light.
We salute and pay tribute to the martyrs, the heroes and heroines, and the freedom fighters of the National Liberation Army.

When Iran was burning in the fire of Khomeini’s unpatriotic war, the Army of Peace and Freedom rose up and poured the poison chalice of the ceasefire down Khomeini’s throat. The price was some 2,000 martyrs from among the most valiant children of Iran who gave their lives in the battles of the Liberation Army. This is something that we are proud of. 
Also the Iranian Resistance’s incessant revelations of the mullahs’ bomb-making program and confronting their warmongering in the region.
Our Resistance has proven that peace and freedom can only be earned through fighting the mullahs’ religious dictatorship. This is in diametric opposition to the proponents of appeasement who defend the regime under the guise of peace.
Recently, the mullahs welcomed the publication of a book by Jack Straw, one of the proponents of the policy of appeasement. He has projected firmness against the mullahs’ religious fascism, as a prelude to a full-fledged war.

It is easy to guess that if it was the time of Hitler, how far he would go, as Winston Churchill said, to feed the crocodile.
It is not coincident that he was among the sponsors of the terrorist designation of the PMOI as well as their bombing and slaughter in 2003. Khatami and Kharrazi said he was the man who said it was acceptable to demand the extradition of PMOI members and hanging of at least 20 of their leaders. According to the Daily Telegraph, to curry favor with the mullahs, he had the list of the 12 Shiite Imams in his pocket when he visited Tehran. And when the name of the Prophet of Islam was mentioned anywhere, he sent him the Muslim greetings.

These gentlemen’s hollow calls for peace are tantamount to safeguarding the regime against the Iranian people’s desire and against human rights. 
Genuine calls for peace, however, can be realized only by peace and human rights. Its prerequisite is the overthrow of the ogre of war and oppression, i.e. the Velayat-e faqih dictatorship.
Really, are the mullahs and IRGC’s attacks on shipping in the Persian Gulf, jeopardizing regional and international security, in any way related to the policy of appeasement, the clampdown on the PMOI, and overlooking the violations of human rights in Iran in the nuclear deal? Didn’t concessions to the mullahs from the account of the Iranian people and Resistance further embolden the mullahs?
How did the proscription of the PMOI, disarming the Liberation Army, and bombardments of their basecamps in those years, with UK’s assistance, change the balance of power on the ground and in whose interest? Did they benefit peace and security or working against them? Indeed, has the clerical regime given up on its hostage-taking of European and American citizens and nationals?
Why has the regime increased the level of uranium enrichment and why has it added to the range of its ballistic missiles?
Which regime benefits and for what purpose from the demonization of the PMOI and the Iranian Resistance?
Indeed, what happened to the moderate and reformed mullahs you encouraged and advocated for four decades? What happened to so much propaganda and investment on charlatans such as Mohammad Khatami? Didn’t the people of Iran put an end to the political theatrics of fundamentalists vs. reformists by their uprisings?
Why do some people in Britain continue to subscribe to and relay the fake news and propaganda of the religious fascism in Iran?

Isn’t it shameful to let Mullah Khatami brazenly claim in the Guardian that he had spent all his life on dialogue among nations and civilizations, and on peace, democracy and human rights? This impostor mullah ordered the Iranian press not to mention even one word about the massacre of political prisoners. He also gave free rein to the IRGC to do whatever they wanted to the students involved in the 1999 uprising and advised them just to wear plain clothes.

Khatami who claims to be promoting civilization, culture, and peace, is the one who zealously supported the regime’s export of fundamentalism and was Khomeini’s propaganda minister in the eight-year war when according to the regime’s Education Minister 450,000 high school students were sent to the war front's to run over the minefields.

Shame on the anti-human mullahs and their proponents. They are at war with the people of Iran but impudently call for a peace coalition, of course, to preserve the regime’s rule.
Six months ago, Mr. Tony Blair wrote in the Washington Post, “Hopes that this would lead the Tehran regime to moderate its behavior have proved misplaced.” He wrote that they had intensified their malign policies around the region, in Syria, in Lebanon, in Iraq, in Yemen, in the Persian Gulf, and in the Palestinian territories…

And then he concluded that 40 years of disappointment should make us clear-eyed. because the regime has turned into the “single biggest destabilizing force in the Middle East.”
Yes, the policy of giving maneuvering room to the mullahs has been and continues to be totally disappointing and a disaster, and it will continue to be so. This policy is not only against the people of Iran but against regional and global peace and security.
The Iranian Resistance has paid the heaviest price and has always reiterated that the mullahs understand no language except the language of force and firmness.

We urge Britain, Europe, and all governments to halt giving concessions to the mullahs. Do not help them decrease the sanctions. Stand up to them. Place the Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and the mullahs’ Gestapo (MOIS), Khamenei’s office and Hassan Rouhani on the terror list.
We urge you to set aside the policy of overlooking the main force in Iranian society and history. Instead of complicity and shaking hands with the religious fascism, stand on the side of the people of Iran for regime change.
Then as Tony Blair wrote, “we will be astonished at how the challenge of extremism in the Middle East and beyond abates.”

I specifically urge the new UK government to support human rights, namely the suppressed human rights of the people of Iran. I urge them to take action to send an international fact-finding mission to Iran to visit the regime’s prisons and the political prisoners particularly, the women.
Baroness Boothroyd, the former speaker of the House of Commons, once said that the massacre of political prisoners in Iran, which took place after Khomeini was forced to accept the ceasefire in the (Iran-Iraq) war, has been the greatest crime against humanity since the Second World War. She said this crime remains unaccounted for but there will come a day when we would witness the truth get rectified.

My fellow compatriots,
The ruling regime is surrounded by an impatient nation confident that her liberation will not be realized unless the mullahs are overthrown. The clerical regime has no more strength or resources and is struggling in a quagmire which will lead to its overthrow. 
The era of religious fascism is coming to an end; Iran will be free. We will take back our most beautiful homeland by the resistance units and the Army of Freedom.
Hail to all of you.

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The Litigation Movement Justice for victims

The Litigation Movement Justice for victims

bahar mehr

Joining this movement, for humanity and human values 

With the beginning of August and the anniversary of the 1988 massacre, Purmohammadi, a former minister of the so-called Mullahs' Justice, defended the 1988 massacre in an interview last week, saying in an attack on the petition movement: "We have not settled our accounts with the Mojahedin yet. We will take this into account after the filing. No joke either.

Of course, Pourmohammadi's talk was evident in his fear of the activities of the Mujahideen rebel centers and the widespread support for the Mojahedin in the community and environment created after the inquest movement began inside.

The widespread image of this criminal regime must now be revealed, and in particular, Pourmohammadi's speeches should reveal the true face of this bloody regime's repression and antichrist, and attract the attention of the international community. Specifically, Pourmohammadi's words did not go back to the past and emphasized the continued execution, suppression and "settlement of accounts".

Political prisoners in 1988 rose up and defended their identity and emancipating cause with the utmost pride.#1988Massacre #Iran pic.twitter.com/Sg3CbAicDY

— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) July 31, 2019

Amnesty International has stated in connection with Pour Mohammadi's recent interview, calling it shocking and strongly condemning.

Iran News: IRAN: SHOCKING STATEMENTS BY SENIOR OFFICIAL HIGHLIGHT IMPUNITY FOR 1988 PRISON MASSACRES @SecPompeo @USAdarFarsi #IStandWithMaryamRajavi #WeSupportMEK #Iran @realDonaldTrump https://t.co/LbBIopkgw1 pic.twitter.com/LORueEvdYg

— mehba1346 (@mehba13462) July 31, 2019

In this campaign, we call on the international community and human rights organizations to:

The international community will end three decades of immunity of the leaders of the mullahs from responding to their crimes.

Referral to the United Nations Security Council on human rights abuses in Iran, particularly the 1980s executions and the 1988 massacres.

Khamenei and other leaders of the regime should be brought to justice for committing crimes against humanity.

The United Nations to form an international commission of inquiry into the 1988 massacre.

The world recognizes the right of the Iranian people to resist and fight for the overthrow of religious fascism.

As Ms. Maryam Rajavi stated in her speech at the hearing, the petition movement is not just about the 1988 massacre and the past crimes of the regime.

These crimes continue and "this is the oppressed people movement. This is the movement of the repressed people. This is a movement of griefers. "Everyone in this regime has tasted of prison and captivity, anyone who has been flogged, and every woman who has been abused and humiliated, and anyone whose conscience has suffered so many crimes is a member of the petition movement."

In response to this call, the noble Iranians have announced that they will hold a sustained campaign in support of the petition and the above-mentioned goals.
Joining this movement, for humanity and human values 

We urge Britain, Europe and all governments to halt giving concessions to the mullahs. #FreeIran https://t.co/QsH4xDv9yl pic.twitter.com/m4adgnUSvv

— Maryam Rajavi (@Maryam_Rajavi) July 27, 2019

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Iran’s skyrocketing inflation rate

Inflation reaches 48 percent in Iran

Iran, July 27, 2019 - A report published by the Statistical Center of Iran on July 24 indicates that the official rate of inflation at the end of the fourth month of the Iranian calendar year 1398 [July 2019] reached a record high of 48 percent. The report says Iranian families are spending 48 percent more this year compared to the same period last year for purchasing the same type of goods and services.

Meanwhile, according to the same report, the inflation rate in the 12-month period ending the Iranian calendar year 1387 [July 2019] reached 40.4 percent.

The Statistical Center of Iran report also says that in July 2019 the price index for edible goods witnessed a 71.8 percent increase compared to the same month last year. This increase in non-edible groups of goods and services was 38.4 percent.

In the current situation of Iran’s economy, the point-to-point inflation can indicate the depth of the country’s economic crisis in a more transparent way.

The increase in the rate of inflation has been steadily high since the United States withdrew from the 2015 nuclear deal back in May 2018.

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Iranian regime's artificial manipulation of dollar prices

Iran’s regime is controlling the price of the dollar and decreasing it artificially to save face

Analysis by PMOI/MEK

Iran, July 30, 2019 - The Iranian regime's artificial decreasing of the U.S. dollar's exchange rate and the relatively high price of the euro is helping the government make profits.

Currently, the Iranian market is dealing with the phenomenon of selling the U.S. dollar at cheap prices and the euro at high prices. It has created such a situation that if someone purchases a U.S. dollar in the official market, exchanges it to euro outside of Iran and sells it back in Iran's market, they will have a daily 2.34% profit, Euronews reported, while calculating the currency rate's movement in the recent days.

Meanwhile, regime’s state-run media Rouydad 24 wrote: "The liquidity giant has awakened recently and has transformed from quasi-money to real money, trickling to nonproductive markets such as the currency, coin, and more recently the real state sphere. This has caused inflation and disorder to take the entire market."

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Who is Ebrahim Raisi, the Iranian regime’s new chief of judiciary?

Who is Ebrahim Raisi, the Iranian regime’s new chief of the judiciary?

Ebrahim Raisi

Iran, March 20, 2019 

Severing hands has been our greatest pride

(Ebrahim Raisi - October 26, 2010)

On March 7, 2019, after weeks of delay, Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader of the Iranian regime, appointed Ebrahim Raisi as the head of the judiciary. Raisi is a cleric known as a criminal for participating in the largest massacre and genocide after World War II, the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in 1988.

Before joining the judiciary, he was the Special Attorney General for clerics, caretaker of the Astan-e-Quds-e-Razavi charity foundation and a member of the Assembly of Experts. During the presidential election of 2017, Raisi was nominated as Khamenei’s favored candidate. But as a result of persistent revelations by the Iranian Resistance and PMOI/MEK about his role as a perpetrator of the killing and massacre of 30,000 political prisoners, he faced serious obstacles in his goal to climb to power.

Who is Ebrahim Raisi?

Ebrahim Raisi, in the early years of the 1979 revolution

Ebrahim Raisosadati, known as Ebrahim Raisi, was born in Mashhad’s district of Noghan in 1960. After completing elementary school, he went to the Cleric Institute of Mashhad. His school education is only up to the sixth grade. At the age of 15, Raisi left Mashhad to study in Qom’s seminary.

After the 1979 Revolution, Raisi, then 18, attended Qom’s Haqqani School to study the senior management of the judiciary, intelligence and security services of the clerical regime with other clerics such as Ali Fallahian, Roohollah Hosseinian, Mostafa Pourmohammadi, and others.

After the revolution, Ebrahim Raisi became one of the elements of the main core of power, the machine of repression in the newly established religious dictatorship in Iran.

In the first days of the establishment of the mullahs’ regime, Hadi Marwi, a representative of regime founder Ruhollah Khomeini in the city of Masjed Soleyman, invited Raisi to join the prosecutor’s office of mullahs’ regime, where his duty was suppressing dissidents and opposition groups.

After all the repressions in Masjed Soleyman, Raisi, while he wasn’t any more than 19 years old, was sent to the prosecutor's office of Karaj, where his work was essentially interrogating the opponents of the Iranian regime. After a few months, Ali Ghodosi, then-Attorney General, appointed Raisi as the prosecutor of Karaj after his 20^th birthday. In 1983, after months of committing atrocities and crimes in Karaj, he was also appointed as a prosecutor of Hamadan. As the cities were 340 Kilometers apart, he spent half a week in Karaj and the other half in Hamedan, until he was completely relocated to Hamedan after four months.

Raisi continued the crackdown on the opposition groups as the prosecutor in Hamedan until 1985.

After that, the 24 years old cleric was promoted to the General Prosecutor's Office as the “associate deputy.” The Attorney General had three deputies back then: The Economic Deputy, the Deputy Director of Drug Trafficking and the so-called "Associate deputy," whose duty was to crack down on opposition groups, including the PMOI/MEK. During the summer 1988 massacres, as a Deputy Prosecutor General, Raisi was a member of “Death Committee” that put thousands of political prisoners to death.

 

Death Committee

Ebrahim Raisi (right) along with judiciary spokesperson Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Eje' i (center) and Hossein Ali Nayeri, another member of the 1988 Death Commission

In the summer of 1988, on Khomeini’s orders, more than 30,000 political prisoners were executed in Evin prisons in Tehran, Gohardasht, Karaj, and other prisons across Iran. Ebrahim Raisi, then successor of the Attorney General of Tehran, along with Hossein Ali Nayeri (The judge of Shari’a), Morteza Eshraqi (Prosecutor of Tehran), Mostafa Pourmohammadi (Ministry of Information deputy), and Ismail Shooshtari (head of the Department of Prisons) were the central decision-makers of these executions, known as the Delegation of Death. The delegation was commissioned by Khomeini to clarify the situation of those political prisoners who did not change their opinions against the clerical dictatorship and in support of PMOI/MEK.

The speed and volume of executions were so terrible that this crime against humanity and genocide created divisions and disputes within Khomeini's own officials. The most notable case was Hossein Ali Montazeri, who was Khomeini's successor at that time. Montazeri objected to Khomeini's approach to dealing with the PMOI/MEK. Montazeri believed that the solution to the PMOI's actions was not executions and that PMOI should be suppressed in other ways. Montazeri said that the PMOI is an ideology which exists in the society and would not cease with executions.

On August 9, 2016, Ahmed Montazeri, the oldest son of Hossein Ali Montazeri, published his father's meeting with “Delegation of Death” on August 15, 1988, on his website. In a critical remark of executions, Hossein Ali Montazeri addresses the “Death Committee,” saying: "We will be condemned by the history and our name will be recorded as criminals."

In the audio file, Montazeri says: "It was the first of Muharram; I called Mr. Nayeri, Mr. Ishraqi, Mr. Raisi, and Mr. Pourmohammadi, and told them that now it is Muharram. At least keep the executions at the minimum in Muharram; Mr. Nayeri answered: ‘We have executed up to 750 people in Tehran, we separated 200 people from the rest as well, when we get rid of those, then we will follow what you say.’"

Thus, Raisi, who had been entered in regime's killing machine when he was 18, took one of the main roles in the “Delegation of Death,” the most important role of this bloodshed committed by the religious fascism ruling Iran since 1979. Some of the survivors of those executions have reported that Akhund Raisi could be seen walking in the corridors and torture chambers of the prison without his religious attire and turban, overseeing executions.

After proving his cruelty during the massacre of 1988, Raisi earned Khomeini’s trust and was honored by him frequently.

On January 30, 1989, after considering the cruelty and devotion of Ebrahim Raisi, who was officially deputy of Tehran's Revolutionary Court, Khomeini promoted him to a two-member delegation along with Hossein Ali Nayeri, another member of the notorious Death Committee. The task of these two was issuing sentences of execution and cutting off hands and feet to create suppression and repression in the country "free of administrative obligations."

Khomeini was not satisfied with the brutality and cruelty of the judiciary system that had just disengaged from the killing of political prisoners. While expressing surprise at the stagnation of the judicial authorities, he appointed Raisi and Nayeri two weeks after the above verdict was issued to speed up his medieval laws.

"In the name of God, the merciful and the compassionate. Since the high judicial authorities of the country have no sensitivity over the current shocking issues, Hojatoleslam Nayeri and Raisi have been appointed to take necessary actions in the framework of dear Islam, according to the above cases. It is a surprise that such events occur in the Islamic system, but the execution of God's laws is shut down indifferently, and other judicial issues are preferable. "

01/12/1989- Rohullah al-Musawi al-Khomeini (The same source)

Mousavi Ardebili, the head of the Supreme Judicial Council of the regime, saw his position in danger after Khomeini's letter to Raisi and Nayeri. As in that letter Khomeini had said that "The high judicial authorities of the country have no sensitivity," Ardebili decided to save his position and quickly went to Tehran's Friday prayer and said:

"The encumbrance of the judicial system prevented the sentences from being issued and recently it was informed to [Khomeini] that this task would be extended due to these problems. He considered the problem and sent us a letter that the execution of God's commandments should not be delayed. Once Imam had said this and we felt that we have the permission given by Imam himself, it was performed in 24 hours: Two people were executed, two hands were cut and three people were sent to jail. The tracking office is open all day long, and the issues can be informed by a telephone call. Just tell us that something has happened, we will quickly prepare courts using Imam's administration. In three, four, five days, we will end the problem." (Mousavi Ardebili - Friday prayer, January 19, 1989)

One day after the speech of Akhund Mousavi Ardebili announcing his public stand, Khomeini issued a new decree and to extend the authority of Raisi and Nayeri all the stagnant files to execute the death sentences, whipping, cutting off the hands and feet, and so on, as soon as possible.

Raisi only gained Khamenei’s trust and special attention after putting behind a violent history: Interrogator at the Masjed Soleyman Prosecutor's Office, prosecutor-general of Karaj, prosecutor of Karaj, prosecutor of Hamedan, prosecutor general of Hamedan and, after the massacre of the summer 1988, prosecutor of Tehran, The head of the State Inspectorate, the First Deputy Chief of the Judiciary, the Special Prosecutor of the Clergy, the chairman of the Supervisory Council for Television and Radio (Seda va Sima), and the Attorney General.

During nationwide uprisings in 2009, Raisi was the first deputy of the judiciary and one of the main elements of the suppression against protesters. In one instance, when public opinion was against the Kahrizak detention center, a place where the physical and psychological torture of arrested youth was taking place during the uprising, the regime was forced to issue a response to the events. Raisi was selected by the head of the judiciary with two other people to examine the issue of sexual harassment in the prison. Despite the presence of eyewitnesses, on September 12, 2009, the three pretended the torture of detainees was a rumor. When Raisi, as one of the perpetrators of the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners, was assigned to investigate torture in prison, the result was easily predictable. Ebrahim Raisi called the Kahrizak issue "marginal" and said that the main point is that this is a great oppression to the Islamic system.

On February 26, 2019, Raisi, who was the Attorney General of the country, was appointed as the leader of Astan-e-Quds of Razavi by the order of Ali Khamenei. Astan-e-Quds is one of the largest economic empires in Iran, which holds a large part of the capital and companies in the north-east of Iran. Astan-e-Quds is a financial contributor to the Revolutionary Guards and is only accountable to the supreme leader.

On April 14, 2017, and during the elections for the presidency of the regime, Raisi introduced himself as an ideal candidate for Ali Khamenei’s faction. Immediately after his candidacy was announced, because of the deliberate revelations of the Iranian Resistance, the issue of the massacre of 1988 became fresh on people’s minds and the people and the hatred towards Raisi was renewed. As it aroused a wave of disgust and hatred in the society, people made slogans against Raisi such as "killer of ‘88". This made him face many difficulties on his election campaign and caused him to lose the election on May 19, 2017.

After losing the presidential election and looting the property of the people of Iran in Astan-e- Quds, Khamenei appointed Raisi as the head of the judiciary on March 7, 2019. Therefore, despite a life full of slaughter and cutting hands which he calls it his honor, he has been positioned in a place with more freedom to suppress and loot.

The people of Iran have responded to Raisi’s appointment as judiciary chief by burning his pictures alongside those of Khamenei and Khomeini.

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