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57 Million Below the Poverty Line: Iran Regime Parliament Predicts By Jubin Katiraie The Iranian Parliament’s Research Center published a report in which figures for the next 12 months show that between 23 and 40 percent of Iran’s population will soon be living under the absolute  poverty line . This report displays the damage that runaway inflation has caused the Iranian economy over the last couple of years. In fact, the Iranian calendar year, which began March 21st, 2018 and ran through March 20th, 2019, saw the inflation rate reaching 47 percent, and the economy dropping to a negative growth rate. Last year the rate of absolute poverty only applied to 16 percent of the Iranian population, according to the report. This rate has increased to between 23 and 40 percent and continues to rise. The declining real income in households during the current year will find more Iranian people having difficulties paying for basic necessities. Iran’s increasing unemployment...

Tehran Admits Strength of Iran’s Democratic Resistance Iran’s ayatollahs can be made to come to terms with the demands of the international community. And this is much more attainable than it might seem. By  Giulio Terzi  On August 5, the spokesperson for the Iranian president’s cabinet, Ali Rabiee, held a briefing with journalists and explicitly mentioned the clerical regime’s longstanding conflict with its domestic enemy, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK). This represents a departure from the government’s normal policy of remaining silent on that issue in order to downplay the threat that the MEK poses to the theocratic system. Established as a movement against the Shah’s regime in the mid-20th century, the MEK was a major force in the Iranian Revolution but immediately broke away from the emerging government after that movement was co-opted by Ayatollah Khomeini. The MEK was then and now remains a leading voice for democratic g...

Iranian political prisoner exposes the corruption of prison authorities Iranian political prisoner Soheil Arabi exposes the corruption of prison authorities in his letter from inside Evin Prison Iran, August 18, 2019  — Iranian political prisoner Soheil Arabi, who has been behind bars since 2013, recently released an open letter from inside the notorious Evin Prison titled, “When corruption is legitimate and legal.” In the letter, Arabi details how prison officials benefit from intensifying restrictions on prisoners. In his letter, Arabi describes the changes in the conditions of prisoners as such: “It’s been more than two months than phone cards are only available in the black market of the prison and at five times the normal price. In addition to the price hike, which has limited prisoners’ access to phone calls, for some, it has become impossible to obtain the cards. The main motive of prison guards for this new restriction is to prevent information from going out o...

Iran: PMOI/MEK network targets icons of IRGC, paramilitary Basij PMOI/MEK network inside Iran setting fire on posters of regime icons Iran, Agust 18, 2019  - As regime authorities are escalating security measures across Iran, members of “ Resistance Units ,” a network associated directly to the Iranian opposition group People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran ( PMOI/MEK ), have increased their efforts in the month of August. This includes targeting various icons of the mullahs’  terrorist-designated Revolutionary Guards ( IRGC ) and its paramilitary Basij units. In Gilan Province, northern Iran, members of Resistance Unit 320 set fire to a large banner of Iranian regime Supreme Leader  Ali Khamenei . In Behbahan, southwest Iran, members of Resistance Unit 688 set fire to the entrance and poster of an IRGC Basij base. Members of Resistance Unit 685 set fire to the entrance of a regime site. In East Azerbaijan Province, northwest Iran, members of Resis...

The just demands of Iranian workers and the regime’s brutal response Workers protests in Iran Iran, August 18, 2019  —The statistics center of Iran has recently released a report which states more than 2 million workers have been removed from the labor market. This means unemployment in Iran has increased sharply. Why? One of the main reasons for the increase in unemployment is the shutdown of factories and workshops due to lack of material and the unbridled import of products by the Iranian regime. In the current situation, we’re witnessing an increasing number of labor protests across the country, which shows that the economic crisis is taking its toll on all segments of Iran’s labor community. In July, more than 250 labor protests were recorded across Iran. 130 of these protests were associated with workers who were demonstrating because they hadn’t received their salaries, whose salaries had been reduced, or who had been fired. The most underprivileged workers to...

Iran Sentences Workers to Jail, Lashes for Protest about Salary Arrears Aug 18, 2019 Iranian authorities sentenced seven workers to eight months in jail and 30 lashes for peacefully participating in a one-hour protest on May 9th, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) reported. The workers of Haft Tappeh Sugarcane Mill protested to denounce the non-payment of wages and demanding better working conditions. The workers, who were not identified, were tried and sentenced by the 102nd Branch of the regime’s Criminal Court in Shush on Tuesday. Last Wednesday, August 14th, witnessed 14 other factory workers who were tried with the charges of “disrupting public order by leading and being present in illegal gatherings and preventing the company’s activities.” The workers had similar demands to their counterparts who received jail sentences, including demanding their two-month overdue wages, solution for labor contract problems, and the creation of a plan for jo...

Senior Iranian officials dispute on how to become a nuclear power The controversy is about how to become nuclear power in Iran Iran, August 18, 2019 —The controversy about the 2015 Iran nuclear deal (known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action –  JCPOA ) and  INSTEX  has increased once again in Iranian politics. Iranian regime President Hassan Rouhani’s so-called reformist faction is calling for a continuation of the talks with Europe and even negotiations with the U.S. under some conditions, while the rivaling conservative faction close to the mullahs’ Supreme Leader  Ali Khamenei  calls for the restoration of the regime's nuclear program. “Considering the JCPOA and decreasing our obligation in the agreement, first of all, these days the Americans have realized once again the greatness of parts of the JCPOA which they were apparently ignorant about and didn’t pay much attention to in the past two years,” Rouhani said in a speech on August 1...

REGIME’S FEAR OF MEK LEADS TO ESCALATION OF CYBER-TERRORISM CAMPAIGN BY MOIS Written by  Admin  on  August 17, 2019 . Posted in  NEWS Free Iran rally in Washington D.C. held on June 21, 2019- Over 10,000 supporters of MEK  rallied in the streets of Washington D.C. and ended up their rally in front of the White House. The rally was in solidarity with the Iranian people’s uprising and to voice the Iranian people’s  quest for regime change by Iranians in Iran. The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)  Committee on Security and Counterterrorism  released a new report on Thursday detailing the cyber campaign against the  MEK  by the Iranian regime’s Ministry of Security and Intelligence (MOIS). NCRI-FAC ✔ @iran_policy Iran MOIS’ Futile and Disgraceful Ploys Targeting Iran Resistance Crazed acts of Iran’s cyber war machine to counter Resistance’s international campaig...