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Tehran is changing tack with its domestic opponents Demonstrators hold portraits of Iranian politicians Massoud Rajavii and his wife, Maryam Rajavi, at a rally held by the Organization of Iranian-American Communities in support of a regime change in Iran, in Washington, D.C. on March 8. File Photo by Kevin Dietsch/UPI By Gen. James Conway Aug. 20 (UPI) --  In recent months, Iranian officials have begun to acknowledge a threat to their rule, which has existed for a long time -- but has been denied just as long. Institutions like the Iranian judiciary and the  Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps  have begun raising alarm within their own ranks about the influence of their country's leading democratic resistance organization: the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK). If you have not heard of the MEK (its Persian abbreviation), you are not alone. It was relegated to the margins of Western foreign policy discussions shortly after the 1979 Iranian ...

The arrest of student and labor activists The number of detainees in the Haft Tapeh protest rally increased to six. Hirad Pirbadaqi, Raham Yeganeh, Farid Lotfabadi, were three of those present who were detained by security forces in front of the Tehran court along with the family of those detained in the Haft Tapeh protests and taken to the courthouse. Witnesses also said that at least four other people were arrested. The Haft Tapeh Independent Workers Telegram Channel reported that, as the trial took place; A number of "plainclothes" officers, while controlling the records of "Raham Yeganeh" and "Hirad Pirbadaqi" student and labor activists, arrested the two "without a warrant". Sahar Shahrabi Farahani Verification of another detainee in Haft Tapeh detainees court Sahar Shahrabi Farahani, civil activist, and painter;  resident of Tehran, educated in Persian literature, is another detainee. On Saturday, August 3, 2019, a...