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Iran: HEPCO, Azarab workers protest in Arak

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Iran: HEPCO, Azarab workers protest in Arak Iran, September 4, 2019 –A large number of HEPCO factory workers and employees of the Azarab company in Arak, central Iran, held a protest rally on Monday, September 3. HEPCO factory workers have been holding numerous rallies during the past few days. Along with Azarab employees, these workers a session held on Saturday with the regime’s Ministry of Industries. They poured into the streets accusing company officials of seeking secret deals with the regime’s minister. The workers are protesting possible plans under the pretext of “ privatization ” that are actually aimed at plundering their assets and refusing to provide for their delayed paychecks. The workers were heard protesting that they are barely making ends meet for their families. In Iran, privatization is a process of regime officials handing over the control of various small and large companies to regime insiders. This process is destroying the country’s economy. ...

They’re all the same from top to bottom, says an Iranian MP

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They’re all the same from top to bottom, says an Iranian MP Scenes of the Iranian regime’s Majlis, the so-called parliament Iran, September 4, 2019 –The title is what Masoud Pezeshkian, the first deputy speaker of Iran’s parliament, said recently, expressing his concerns for the plummeting legitimacy of the Iranian regime among ordinary Iranians. Iranian state-run media from all the ruling factions are full of controversy and infighting about corruption.  “Transparency is responsibility”, “Embedded supervision”, “the rule of law”, “people’s participation”, and most recently “fighting corruption”, are all fancy terms that increasingly pop up in Iranian media and serve two main purposes: Covering the true culprits of  corruption  and putting pressure on opposing factions to obtain a greater share of the economic pie for one’s own faction. While the main culprit in corruption is the Iranian regime Supreme Leader  Ali Khamenei  himself, running a mu...

Iran’s Ballistic Buildup: The March Toward Nuclear-Capable Missiles

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Iran’s Ballistic Buildup: The March Toward Nuclear-Capable Missiles Buy it on Amazon Here Buy it on Barnes and Noble Here This unique manuscript surveys the regime’s missile capabilities, including the underlying organization, structure, production, and development infrastructure, as well as launch facilities and the command centers operating inside Iran. This report has been compiled based on intelligence and information obtained by Iran’s main organized opposition movement, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), from inside the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and other regime military institutions in charge of missile development. The book exposes the nexus between the regime’s missile activities and its nuclear weapons program, including Tehran’s ties with Pyongyang. Contrary to the spirit of the July 2015 nuclear deal, the clerical regime increased the number of tests of ballistic missiles capable of carrying a nuclear load. This, coupled with illicit exports to othe...