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IRAN UNLAWFUL KILLINGS IRAN: SHOCKING STATEMENTS BY SENIOR OFFICIAL HIGHLIGHT IMPUNITY FOR 1988 PRISON MASSACRES 30 July 2019 , Index number: MDE 13/0815/2019 Recent statements by Mostafa Pour Mohammadi, advisor to Iran’s head of the judiciary and a former minister of justice, defending the mass extrajudicial executions of 1988 provide shocking confirmation of the authorities’ wilful flouting of international human rights law both at the time and now and a stark reminder of the sense of impunity that senior officials linked to the killings enjoy, Amnesty International said today. View report in English DOWNLOAD PDF

Six protest rallies reported in numerous cities across Iran Clients of regime linked credit firms protesting outside the office of Iranian regime president Hassan Rouhani – Tehran, Iran Reported by PMOI/MEK Iran, July 31, 2019  - Protests by people from all walks of life are increasing across Iran. In  Tehran , clients of the Caspian credit firm – linked to the  terrorist-designated Revolutionary Guards ( IRGC ) – rallied outside the office of Iranian regime President Hassan Rouhani. The participants in this rally were protesting the lies and deceptive tactics of Rouhani’s cabinet members who claimed to have resolved a portion of the demands raised by the credit firm clients who are demanding their stolen money returned. Iran- State-backed credit and financial institutions are plundering the Iranian people’s wealth. Iran’s credit institutions have dealt severe blows to the country’s economy, as t...

Iranian MP: Economic conditions breaking people's backs Long lines of people seeking to purchase meat in Iran Analysis by PMOI/MEK Iran, July 30, 2019  - As social crises grow, infighting in the ranks of Iran's regime increases. Iran’s Majlis (parliament), during its public session, was another scene of clashes between regime’s factions. Majlis member Mohsen Biglari addressed regime President Hassan Rouhani, while also acknowledging the dire  economic  and  social  situation stemming from the mullahs’ in capability. “Mr. Rouhani, please consider the economic and industrial situation of the country. People are under heavy economic pressure; quit referring to any social problem to the [U.S.] sanctions, we all know that 80% of the crises are due to mismanagement. With a 300% inflation rate, the 450,000 rials subsidies won’t help people,” Biglari said. “Mr. President, farmers, livestock farmers, employees, workers and teachers and m...

Iran: How hard-earned U.S. dollars are  smuggled out of the country More money is being smuggled outside of Iran Analysis by PMOI/MEK Iran, July 31, 2019  - In May, Hossein Mirshojaeean, former deputy minister of economy in Iran, said that about $30 billion of the total $40 billion that Iran made through exports has never returned to Iran, neither as imported goods nor as money. More recently, according to Eghtesad Online, an Iranian website specializing in economic news, Iran’s director of the Central Bank reported that about $18.5 billion from last year’s $40 billion in exports have returned to Iran. While even taking the comments of Iran’s Central Bank director into account leaves out the fate of 11.5 billion dollars, other governmental statistics suggest that more than 70 percent of the earned money through exports never returns to Iran. No need to say that the major problem here is the very same governmental institutions that function with im...

Iran: Inflation and corruption are two sides of the same coin Corruption and skyrocketing inflation are hallmarks of the regime ruling Iran 7/29/2019  Analysis by PMOI/MEK Iran, July 29, 2019  - While Iranian regime President Hassan Rouhani expressed his optimism for Iran’s economy in a cabinet meeting on July 23 and his first deputy, Eshaq Jahangiri, claimed that the mullahs have overcome the  economic crisis  and reached the shores of stability, Iranian media announced the next day that inflation has crossed the 40 percent threshold. Iranian state-run media reported on July 24 that inflation is 40.4 percent. “The government is the main culprit for increasing prices because by changing the price of the U.S. dollars that are used to import meat from 42,000 rials to more than 80,000 rials, they’ve created the conditions for increasing prices in the market,” they wrote citing Tehran’s pundits. Mohammad Gholi Youssefi, an Iranian ...

Iranian regime official admits extrajudicial executions of opponents July 30, 2019 Ali Razini, a judiciary official admitted on July 29, 2019, that extrajudicial executions in summer 1988 were carried out on Khomeini’s emphatic order “without being held up by red tape.” Deputy of Legal Affairs and Judicial Development of the Judiciary,  Ali Razini  considered the trials that led to the extrajudicial executions of thousands of political prisoners as one of Khomeini’s last major decisions. Speaking to Jamaran, a website close to the family of Khomeini, Razini examined the circumstances that led to the issuance of the decree. He also explained how the executions had benefited the regime. On July 24, 1988, Khomeini issued a secret edict to hold emergency trials under the pretext of “investigating war crimes.” He appointed Ali Razini as head of this court. The complete text of this secret edict was divulged three months later by the Iranian Resistance. In t...

Former Iranian Justice Minister Defends 1988 Massacre of Political Prisoners 30 JULY 2019   By Jubin Katiraie Iran’s former justice minister has defended the  1988 massacre of 30,000 political prisoners  in the media recently. Mostafa Pourmohammadi, who served in the cabinet of President Hassan Rouhani until 2017, told state-run Mosalas Magazine that the regime was “at war” and should not be expected to follow “legal procedures and consider citizen’s and human rights”. He then  described  the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran ( PMOI or MEK ), whose members and supporters were the main victims of the massacre, as “the worst kind of enemy”. He said: “They have destructed our image in the whole world. In the past 40 years, nothing has happened against us that the [MEK] did not play a direct role in.” Pourmohammadi, who is now Advisor to Iran’s Judiciary Chief, was in 1988 a member of the notorious “Death Commission” in Tehran, which s...

Iranian political prisoner marks 1988 massacre 1988 massacre of political prisoners in Iran Reported by PMOI/MEK Iran, July 30, 2019 -  Iranian political prisoner Mrs. Fatemeh (Houri) Ziaie sent a message on the anniversary of the  1988 massacre of 30,000 political prisoners  by the regime of Iran. Below are excerpts of her message, in which she commemorated the memory of those “freedom-lovers who said no to tyranny and kissed the noose.” There are some unforgettable chapters in history that will never be erased from our memories, such as the summer of 1988 when the blood of the most beloved and talented young people of our country was shed to strengthen an idea. Those freedom-lovers who kissed the noose and continued their journey with smiles on their faces; those relentless souls who were executed for defying the darkness and defending their beliefs.  Those days, no one realized what happened to those freedom-loving youth in the regime’s prisons;...

Iran’s IRGC units involved in piracy, seizing UK oil tanker UK oil tanker seized by the Iranian regime’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Analysis by PMOI/MEK   Iran, July 30, 2019  - An exclusive Iranian opposition report unveils the units of Iran’s regime involved in seizing a British oil tanker, according to Egypt’s al-Bayan daily on July 29. Subterranean facilities in Qeshm Island were also revealed and it is worth noting that Tehran uses the coasts of this island to store sea missiles. Seizing the United Kingdom oil tanker was a political decision made by the regime ruling Iran, according to a report obtained by Majid Hariri, a member of the Defense and Strategic Research Committee in the Iranian opposition coalition National Council of Resistance of Iran ( NCRI ). Three days before the British oil tanker’s seizure, Iranian regime Supreme Leader  Ali Khamenei had specifically promised retaliatory measures in response to the seizing of Iran’s “Grac...

Iran’s Emissaries of Terror BUY BOOK HERE BOOK RELEASED ON MAY 1 – PRESS BRIEFING INFO HERE View the  Fox News Article  or the  Washington Times article  about the book and event Iran’s Emissaries of Terror  explains the extent to which Tehran’s embassies and diplomats are at the core of both the planning and execution of international terrorism targeting Iranian dissidents, as well as central to Tehran’s direct and proxy terrorism against other countries. To this end, Tehran’s embassies and consulates serve as hubs, while its diplomats act as controllers and operatives. The year 2018 witnessed a marked surge in Tehran’s terror and espionage plots and operations on the Western soil, from the United States, to France and Albania.  Thankfully, these terror plots were neutralized, but they served as a wakeup call for Europe and the U.S. The escalation of terrorist acts in 2018 targeting the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), also k...

A Little Prince in the Land of the Mullahs: The True Story of a Teenager Who Stood up to  the Mullahs’ Regime in Iran BOOK RELEASED ON JUNE 18 The true story of a teenager who stood up to the mullahs’ regime in Iran, recalled in the words of his surviving sister and told through drawn pictures. Ahmad, the hero of this story, was killed in 1988 at the age of 24, while in captivity but the perpetrators of the murder remain in key positions of power in Iran. The story of A Little Prince in the Land of the Mullahs reveals to the reader the human tragedy facing millions of Iranians. With Ahmad, we can go through this tragedy, live it and try to understand why, and most importantly what can be done so that justice can be served, and freedom can be achieved by the Iranian people. “A Little Prince in the Land of the Mullahs  revives the little hero in the reader by telling the story of a brave young man who wants nothing more than to live the life that all boys and g...

Britain rules out seized tanker swap with Iran Iran detained the UK-flagged Stena Impero and its 23-strong crew as they sailed through the Strait of Hormuz on July 20 (AFP Photo/HO London (AFP) - Britain on Monday ruled out swapping seized oil tankers with Iran as a second UK warship arrived in the Gulf to conduct convoys that have irritated Tehran. A sense of crisis in the world's busiest oil shipping lane has been building up for weeks as Iran responds to US President Donald Trump's "maximum pressure" campaign. The US economic sanctions and stepped-up military presence are designed to force Iran to renegotiate a landmark 2015 nuclear pact from which Trump pulled out last year. Britain further outraged Iran by seizing one of its tankers -- the Grace 1 -- on July 4 on suspicion of it carrying oil to Syria in violation of EU sanctions. Iran vowed to retaliate and it's Revolutionary Guards stormed and detained the UK-flagged Stena Impero and its...