IRAN’S REGIME FAKE GOVERNMENT REPORT

Written by Admin on September 25, 2019. Posted in NEWS

Iran’s regime fake government report: putting ordinary Iranians in a better economic position.

The Iranian regime’s administration of Hassan Rouhani published a report last week, which claimed that the earnings of Iranian families have increased above inflation, putting ordinary Iranians in a better economic position.

The report of earnings and costs of urban and rural families in 2017-2018 and its statistics are so glaringly false that even the state-run media has had difficulty presenting it as is.

The Siasat-e Rooz newspaper, which is close to the Rouhani faction, wrote that the survey had “strange results” and claimed that the average family in an urban area has a yearly income of 43.4 million tomans, while they have costs of 39.3 million tomans, which would mean that families could save an average of 4.2 million tomans per year. (This works out monthly as an income of 3.6 million tomans and costs of 3.3 million tomans.)

The report of earnings and costs of urban and rural families in 2017-2018 and its
statistics are so glaringly false that even the state-run media has had difficulty
presenting it as is.

The article wrote:

“These statistics are published while the Center for Statistics has repeatedly published reports about skyrocketing inflation in Iran’s economy, announcing it at 42.2 percent in for last month. This means that living costs have increased by 42.2 percent over the past year!… These claims are made while based on facts on the ground and the living basket of ordinary people shrinking with each passing day, especially because of unchecked rising costs for products like meat, poultry, dairy, and rice.”

Meanwhile, the Arman newspaper, which is also close to Rouhani’s faction, wrote:

“The poverty line threshold is three times above a worker’s minimum wage!”

The Iranian main opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI, Mujahedin-e Khalq or MEK) wrote:

“To outsiders, it may appear surprising or even dumb that the ruling mullahs in Iran don’t even wait until a little bit of time passes over their previous statements before making such ridiculous claims about their “prosperous” economy. After all, won’t that have a negative impact on their reputation and image among their base and ordinary Iranians? Fact is that for many years now the vast majority of Iranians don’t listen and believe in any remarks of Iranian authorities.”

Yes, the Iranian people know that these reports (and all previous ones) are fake. The Regime knows the people know that. After all, Iranian officials saw in the popular uprisings of 2017 and 2018 that their scheme of pretending to divide the regime into two opposing camps of conservatives and moderates has failed. The Iranian people were out in the streets chanting, “Reformists, principlists, Game Over!”, because they know there is no difference between the two.

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New York – Second day of “No to Rouhani” rally outside the UN

Supporters of the Iranian opposition group PMOI-MEK holding a “No to Rouhani” rally in New York, objecting Rouhani's presence at the United Nations

Reporting by PMOI/MEK

New York, September 25, 2019 – Members of the Iranian American community, supporters of the Iranian opposition group People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), rallied for a second day in New York on Wednesday, September 25, gathering outside the United Nations saying “No to Rouhani” and voicing their utter opposition to the mullahs’ regime ruling Iran.

The demonstrators demanded the expulsion of Iranian regime President Hassan Rouhani and the mullahs’ delegation from the UN. The participants in this rally described Rouhani as the representative of a warmongering regime that has the world’s highest number of executions per capita. This regime considers its survival conditioned on a continual support of terrorism, human rights violations, attacking oil facilities, piracy, and nuclear blackmail. The delegation of such a state should be expelled from the UN immediately.

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At least 3,800 people including 94 women, were executed during Rouhani’s tenure. This ranks Iran 2nd in the world in terms of number of people executed, and first in terms of the number of executions per capita.#No2Rouhani#UNGA@UNHumanRights @antonioguterres@POTUS

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The protesters held various posters emphasizing the UN seat currently held by the Iranian regime should be handed to the Iranian people’s resistance movement and democratic alternative to the mullahs’ regime, is the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). The Iranian people’s right to resistance and overthrowing the mullahs’ inhumane dictatorship should be acknowledged, they added.

The PMOI/MEK supporters rallying on Wednesday announced their comprehensive support and solidarity with popular protests and Resistance Units members to overthrow the mullahs' regime and establish freedom and the rule of the people in Iran.

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The religious fascism in Iran is indeed the greatest threat to peace in the world today.
The mullahs’ regime has declared war on people of Iran and the region for past 40 years.

ROUHANI SHOULD NOT BE REPRESENTING THE GREAT PEOPLE OF IRAN#No2Rouhani#BlacklistRouhani#UNGA

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On Tuesday, Iranian Americans, joined by Iranians from Europe and Canada, gathered in New York for a major protest rally to voice their opposition to Rouhani’s participation in the UN. The demonstrators condemned the criminal terrorist mullahs in Iran, emphasizing this regime does not represent the Iranian people and Tehran’s seat in the UN belongs to the true representative of the Iranian people, being the opposition coalition NCRI led by Maryam Rajavi as President.

In further developments, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo attended a conference held by the United Against Nuclear Iran organization, further condemning the Iranian regime’s malign activities and announcing new sanctions targeting Chinese individuals and entities involved in transporting the Iranian regime’s oil.

Secretary Pompeo accused the Iranian regime of flat out lying, adding the September 14 attack on the Aramco oil facilities was an attack on Saudi Arabia and the international economy. Iran’s regime has always launched attacks on neighboring countries, and continues to fund Hezbollah and Houthi militias, he added. The United States will continue to tirelessly apply the policy of sanctions on the mullahs’ regime and the more they lash out, the greater our pressure will be, Sec. Pompeo continued.

Washington is taking new action to disentangle the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) from the Iranian economy and the U.S. imposed new sanctions on Chinese entities on Wednesday for knowingly transporting Iran's oil.

Scenes of the Iranian American community’s second day of the “No to Rouhani” rally in New York – September 25, 2019

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Iran: The Leading State Sponsor of Terrorism

Iran: The Leading State Sponsor of Terrorism

The United States government classifies the Islamic Republic of Iran as the “leading state sponsor of terrorism,” alleging that Iran and its terrorist proxies pose a significant threat and demonstrate global reach. The U.S. has designated Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism since 1984.

What is state-sponsored terrorism?

State-sponsored terrorism is a state’s deliberate use of terrorism or assistance to terrorist organizations as a foreign policy tool against other countries or groups. It can refer to either direct attacks by the state or support of terrorist organizations through the provision of weapons, funds, training, and sanctuary.

Overview of State-Sponsored Terrorism by Iran:

Since the Iran Hostage Crisis in 1979, the Iranian regime has been defined by its habitual use of terrorism against the U.S. and its allies throughout the world and its ties to terrorist organizations. In addition to carrying out direct attacks, Iran has engaged in terrorism by proxy through Hezbollah; Hamas; the Taliban; militias in Iraq, Syria, Bahrain, and the Gulf; and numerous other terrorist groups. 

The U.S. State Department noted in its most recent Country Reports on Terrorism that “Iran and Hizballah are emerging from the Syria conflict emboldened and with valuable battlefield experience that they seek to leverage across the globe.” The 2018 Worldwide Threat Assessment of the U.S. intelligence community also highlighted Iran as an emerging cyber threat, assessing that “Iran will continue working to penetrate U.S. and Allied networks for espionage and to position itself for potential future cyber-attacks, although its intelligence services primarily focus on Middle Eastern adversaries—especially Saudi Arabia and Israel.”

As the timeline below illustrates, Iran has accelerated its support for terrorism in recent years, particularly since July 2015, when it agreed to a nuclear deal with the U.S., United Kingdom, France, Germany, China, and Russia. Rather than moderating the regime, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) has emboldened Tehran to escalate its destabilizing activities and enhanced its ability to bankroll terrorism and proxy wars.

New Timeline Entries:

1.March 22, 2018: Iranian operatives caught surveilling MEK in Albania

Albanian authorities arrested two suspected Iranian operatives who were caught in the act of surveilling a site where exiled Iranian opposition figures from the Mujahideen-e Khalq group were set to hold a Persian Nowruz celebration. In December 2018, Albania expelled Iran’s ambassador and another Iranian diplomat, reportedly in connection to the aborted terrorist plot

2.October 21, 2018: Iran-linked suspect arrested for a foiled Danish assassination plot

Denmark’s primary intelligence agency announced the arrest of a Norwegian man of Iranian descent for allegedly taking part in an Iranian intelligence service’s plot to assassinate an Iranian Arab separatist activist on Danish soil. On September 28, Danish police thwarted Iran’s plans through a major security operation carried out with Sweden. Authorities shut off access to and from the island that Denmark’s capital, Copenhagen is situated on for several hours to launch a manhunt for the suspect, who had been seen photographing the homes of members of an Iranian Arab separatist movement residing in Denmark. Denmark recalled its ambassador to Iran in response to the incident.

3.May 2019: Iran greenlights attacks on U.S. personnel, interests in the Middle East by its proxies

Intelligence indicates that Iran has given its proxies the go-ahead to target U.S. military personnel and assets in the Middle East in response to the U.S. designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a foreign terrorist organization and the revocation of waivers for buyers of Iranian petroleum exports. It is later reported that IRGC Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani summoned Iran-backed militias in Iraq and told them to “prepare for a proxy war.” The reports precede an uptick in Iranian terror activities and regional destabilization over a span For several months.

 

4.May 12, 2019: Four tankers allegedly sabotaged by Iran

Following reports that Iran and its proxies could target maritime traffic, four tankers off the coast of the United The Arab Emirates suffer damage in apparent sabotage attacks. The tankers—two Saudi, one Emirati, and one Norwegian— were apparently struck by explosive charges. The U.S. claims to have forensic evidence tying Iran or its proxies to the attacks.

5. June 13, 2019: Twin attacks on Japanese, Norwegian oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman

A Japanese and Norwegian oil tanker was attacked in the Gulf of Oman within 45 minutes of each other. According to the U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, Iran was the likely culprit based on “intelligence, the weapons used, the level of expertise needed to execute the operation, recent similar Iranian attacks on shipping, and the fact that no proxy group operating in the area has the resources and proficiency to act with such a high degree of sophistication.”

6.July 22, 2019: Iran’s Supreme Leader hosts Hamas delegation

Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei hosted a delegation of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas in Tehran and reaffirmed Iran’s support for the group. Khamenei called upon the group to use its “precision missiles” to resist the Trump administration’s Middle East peace plan. Several weeks after the meeting, Israeli media reported that Iran had upped its annual support for Hamas from $100 million to $360 million.

7. July-August, 2019: Iranian hackers infiltrate Bahraini infrastructure, security agency

Over a span of several weeks, Bahraini authorities identified hacker intrusions into the country’s Electricity and Water Authority, Aluminum Bahrain, National Security Agency, Ministry of Interior, and first deputy prime minister’s office computers. Bahraini authorities suspect Iranian involvement in the cyberattacks, which briefly granted the hackers' command and control access over critical infrastructure.

 

8. July 25, 2019, Israel breaks up Iranian effort to recruit spies from Palestinian territories

Israel’s Shin Bet intelligence service announced it had broken up an Iranian espionage network’s effort to use social media to recruit West Bank and Gaza Palestinian operatives “for the benefit of Iranian intelligence.” The spy network was based in Syria under Iranian guidance and used fictitious profiles to establish contacts in the Palestinian territories. Iran reportedly sought intelligence on sensitive Israeli military and security sites for use in potential future terrorist attacks.

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Iran news in brief, September 25, 2019

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Iran news in brief, September 24, 2019

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Senior Iranian official throws Yemen’s Houthis under the bus

Iranian regimes arms Houthis in Yemen

Reporting by PMOI/MEK

Iran, September 25, 2019—On Tuesday, Mohammad Hossein Bagheri, the Iranian regime’s Chief of Staff of Armed Forces, tried to divert attention from his regime’s crimes while laying the blame on Tehran’s proxies in Yemen.

“Today, [the Houthis] have transformed from simple fighters who didn’t have a simple rifle to have weapons that can down strategic airplanes of their enemies and target their oil facilities a thousand kilometers away from their borders,” Bagheri said in a Majlis (parliament) hearing, referring to a recent missile and drone attack on the facilities of Saudi oil giant Aramco.

Bagheri’s comments come against the backdrop of a slate of undeniable evidence that the attack on the Saudi complex was in fact launched from Iran.

Since the attack took place, the Iranian regime has been under intensifying pressure and criticism for its destabilizing and destructive role in the Middle East region. Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), described the attack as an “act of war.”

On the prior day, France, Germany and the UK issued a joint statement in which they officially attributed the attack to the Iranian regime.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said the attack on the facilities of Saudi Aramco was a "game-changer." He reiterated that the claim of responsibility for the attacks by Yemen’s Houthi Shiite rebels is “hardly credible.”

The Iranian regime has a history of fanning the flames of war whenever it finds itself in a difficult situation. The regime’s attack on Saudi Aramco came at a time that Tehran is grappling with intensifying unrest and protests inside Iran and the expanding activities of the Iranian resistance inside the country and across the globe. The regime is also faced with a solidifying international front against its terrorist activities and its defiance of global norms and values.

The precarious situation has pushed Tehran to resort to desperate methods to divert attention from its illicit activities and to exude power to boost the morale of its officials and rank-and-file.

But the backlash and outrage from the terrorist attack against Aramco have caused the regime to deny its role in the attack while also trying taking credit for it. Bagheri’s attempt to throw the Houthis under the bus for the Aramco attack can be seen in this context.

Last week, Iranian regime President Hassan Rouhani also tried to take advantage of the attack while also presenting the Houthis as responsible.

“They attacked an industrial site to warn you (the U.S., Arabic and European countries) and teach you a lesson,” he said in a cabinet meeting on September 18, resorting to the mullahs’ language and making Iran’s role crystal clear in these unprecedented assaults.

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Iran: Who’s putting “maximum pressure” on the people?

Archive photo: Iranians take to the streets protesting the dire economic conditions. Tehran, June 2018

Analysis by PMOI/MEK

Iran, September 25, 2019—In his latest speech just a few days ago, Iranian regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei used the term “maximum pressure” 20 times. Now, whenever Iranian officials talk about maximum pressure and the pressure that the current sanctions regime is placing on the Islamic Republic of Iran, they try deceitfully to pretend that the target of this maximum pressure campaign is ordinary Iranians, especially poorer ones.

There is no doubt that ordinary Iranians are under maximum pressure that is even increased by the day. However, this pressure is actually exerted by the corrupt Iranian regime itself, which has impoverished Iranians to a point where more than 70 percent live under the poverty line.

What Iranian officials mean by “economic pressure” and “maximum pressure” is first and foremost the pressure that the regime feels on itself from the inside and outside, and its first solution to compensate this pressure is to further insert its corrupt hands into the pockets of Iranian families.

Referring to protests by Iranians who lost their savings in financial institutions affiliated with the Iranian regime, Saeed Laylaz, an Iranian economist close to the faction of Iranian regime President Hassan Rouhani, said on September 22: “In an attempt to calm down the situation and escape these uprisings, the government dedicated 330 trillion rials [around $2.75 billion at the current rate of approximately 120,000 rials per dollar]."

“However, the money landed mostly in the pockets of gangs that are behind these financial and credit institutions. These 330 trillion rials of powerful money that the government had to print created the equal of 2.55 quadrillion rials of liquidity (around $21.25 billion) in this short period of time. At the time of printing, this was equal to 14 to 15 percent of the overall liquidity that was created in the entire history of Iran from day one until 2017. This number created unchecked inflation across the country,” Laylaz continued.

Referring to the regime’s manipulation of foreign currency exchange rates in 2017 under the pretext of containing the first round of sanctions against the Iranian regime, Saeed Laylaz further said: “We witnessed how the price of the U.S. dollar reached 180,000 to 190,000 rials in the market. The rate of foreign currency shouldn’t have crossed the 80,000 rial threshold, under any condition and measure. This incident created one of the rarest cases of corruption in Iran’s economic history, in terms of quantity.”

“I guess that from early 2018 until early 2019, a total of 7 to 9 quadrillion rials (equal to $58.3 to $75 billion) of corruption, embezzlement, and misuse has been inflicted upon the Iranian economy,” he concludes.

Revealing the true source of “maximum pressure” on poor Iranian families, the economic expert continues by saying that this unprecedented corruption “places unprecedented pressure on the impoverished branches of the Iranian society.”

“When in April 2018, the inflation rate reached 52 percent and the inflation rate for food items reached 70 to 80 percent, I guess that the inflation rate for segments of Iran’s poor people, meaning the first and second deciles, was in the three digits. This is a national catastrophe,” Laylaz said.

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Iran: A crisis that can’t be cloaked

Iranian regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei knows his regime is sinking deeper and deeper into a variety of crises

Analysis by PMOI/MEK

Iran, September 24, 2019—Creating a new crisis to cover and escape the previous one has been the Iranian regime’s typical response since its early days under regime founder Ruhollah Khomeini.

And to this very day, his successors followed in his footsteps by exporting their revolution—read death and destruction—to other countries.

Their latest endeavor in the business of running an oil-rich country that lacks nothing but normal leadership and a transparent, up-to-date political system, is attacking Saudi Arabia’s Aramco oil facilities. The mullahs’ Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei hoped that such a measure would force the U.S. to back down from its maximum pressure campaign and render some economic relief for his suffocating finances. However, it appears that the aftermath of the attack is creating more disorder and mayhem inside his own regime.

Hossein Ghadiani, one of the leaders of the regime’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Basij paramilitary forces, implicitly acknowledged Iran’s role in the Aramco attacks one day after the incident. “The Zulfiqar-like view of the leadership of the Muslims around the world made its magic on the Yemeni Janbiya!”

The Zulfiqar is the sword of Imam Ali ibn Ali Talib, the historical spiritual leader of Shiite Muslims, including Iranians. “Leadership of the Muslims around the world,” is how the regime’s fanatics address Khamenei, revealing their expansionist worldview.

“This is the ‘international cells of resistance’ that Khomeini so much desired!” he added.

But the party was short-lived.

Ali Bigdeli, an Iranian political pundit close to the faction of Iranian regime President Hassan Rouhani, described the region’s response to Tehran as “dangerous.”

The Ebtekar newspaper wrote: “Washington will exploit this situation to facilitate its oil sales and this is something that economic powers don’t like in terms of strategic interests.”

The Iran newspaper, the official mouthpiece of Rouhani’s government, expressed its concerns about “Aramco explosion’s wave over the oil market” and wrote: “This is a rare incident that not only points to the vulnerability of the Middle East but also other countries across the globe. We hope that this issue will increase the U.S. doubts in its approach vis-a-vis Iran.”

Fereydoon Majlesi, another Iranian pundit, warns those who have celebrated the attack on Saudi oil facilities. “The excitement of some individuals and domestic media about the attack on Saudi oil facilities isn’t in your national interests… The U.S. and Europe claimed that the destination of Adrian Darya 1 was Syria. A claim that turned out to be true at the end,” he said, referring to an Iranian oil tanker confiscated by the United Kingdom back in July off the coast of Gibraltar on the suspicion of Tehran transferring oil to Syria’s Bashar Assad regime. This would be a violation of European Union sanctions. The mullahs had pledged the oil was not destined for Syria, which turned out to be yet another lie from Iran’s regime.

The former Iranian diplomat who is close to Rouhani’s faction, adds: “The contradictions in statements made by our country’s officials about the destination of this oil tanker didn’t make a good image for Iran on the international stage. Now this same issue is repeating itself in another manner and with different dimensions regarding the attack on Saudi Arabia’s Aramco oil facilities.”

“The Houthis accepting the responsibility for this attack can also be challenging for the [Iranian] regime, because the Ansar Allah movement is among the [Iranian] regime’s allies and while our country needs to engage the world, this type of attacks can put our country’s active diplomacy at risk,” he concluded.

Mehdi Motaharnia, another political pundit of the Iranian regime, says: “The United States is trying to refer Iran’s case to the Security Council.”

Acknowledging the Iranian regime’s export of terrorism, he further says: “The Americans are trying to highlight the dangers of the [Iranian] regime for the countries in the region and create conflict between us and other players in the Middle East in order to portray the [Iranian] regime as an enemy to international peace and security.”

He concludes: “That’s how the U.S. can, at least compared to the past, act more easily to refer Iran’s case to the Security Council.”

Some political circles also warn about the societal consequences of the warmongering attack against Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities.

In its editorial on September 18, the Arman newspaper writes: “The situation right now is that whenever you enter a group of people, the first question asked is what will happen next? This is a question that everybody asks everyone and there is no answer to it.”

“This question is asked continuously whether there will be a war between Iran and the United States or not? Unfortunately, every day, something new happens that increases this concern and anxiety,” the editorial continues.

“One day, it’s the oil tankers in the Persian Gulf and the next day it’s something new. These issues raise concerns and doubt among people. It’s very sad for them to spend every day under such high levels of uncertainty and stress, both in terms of their mental and economic situation,” the piece concludes.

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