Iran news in brief, September 20, 2019
Iran news in brief, September 20, 2019
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Regime Change in Iran Is Sole Solution to End Regime's Terrorism
Regime Change in Iran Is Sole Solution to End Regime's Terrorism Written by Mansoureh Galestan on 21 September 2019 . Not content with bombing six oil tankers in the Gulf and the shooting down of an American drone, the Iranian regime's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) seized a British-flagged tanker -- the Stena Impero -- in international waters. Now it has mounted a drone and missile attack on Saudi Arabia 's Abqaiq oil-processing plant, the world's largest, and the Khurais oilfield, causing huge disruption to Saudi oil exports and a massive spike in global oil prices, writes former European lawmaker Struan Stevenson. U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo described the attack as "an act of war." The latest spate of criminal attacks follows a year in which a senior diplomat from the Iranian Embassy in Vienna was charged with handing over explosives to three Iranian agents with instructions to bomb an opposition rally in Paris,...
Saudi Aramco attack: An old page in the Iranian regime’s playbook
Saudi Aramco attack: An old page in the Iranian regime’s playbook On September 13, 2019, the Saudi Aramco complex was targeted with dozens of missiles coming from Iran Analysis by PMOI/MEK Iran, September 21, 2019 —Since they rose to power in 1979, Iran’s mullahs have kept their regime afloat based on two pillars: domestic repression and the export of terrorism abroad. These two implements have been key to the survival of the Iranian regime. Whenever the regime is faced with internal and international crises, it has sought the solution in spreading war and chaos to neighboring countries, and intensifying domestic repression in parallel. This is a tactic that worked well for the mullahs during their devastating eight-year war on Iraq, when their fledgling regime needed an excuse to repress and slaughter Iranian opposition groups, such as the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran ( PMOI/MEK ), who were standing up against their fundamentalist rules. The regime used the...
The Iranian regime at a political and economic dead-end
The Iranian regime at a political and economic dead-end Iran’s regime facing a dead-end Analysis by PMOI/MEK Iran September 20, 2019 —Observers and political analysts believe that the tightening noose of economic sanctions has led the Iranian regime to attack Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities. Iranian regime’s pundits call their current situation an “ economic suffocation ” or an “economic and political dead-end.” Similar signs of the Islamic Republic’s dire situation are spread across Iranian media in their authorities’ own words. On September 17, Fars news agency, close to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), quoted Iranian regime President Hassan Rouhani’s first deputy saying the regime’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has given the green light to withdraw $300 million from the regime’s Development Fund. According to Eshaq Jahangiri, the money will be used to build t...
Iran protests: HEPCO workers demonstrate in front of Arak Central Prison
Iran protests: HEPCO workers demonstrate in front of Arak Central Prison Dozens of HEPCO workers' protest in front of Arak prison, demanding the release of their co-workers. (File photo) Analysis by PMOI/MEK Iran, September 20, 2019 —On Thursday, a group of workers from Iran’s HEPCO company gathered in front of Arak Central Prison and demanded the release of their co-workers. On Monday, the Iranian regime’s security forces cracked down on the protests of the workers, injuring dozens of people and arresting 28 of the protesters . While local authorities denied any violent treatment of the protesters, pictures and videos posted on social media showed the brutal behavior of the Iranian regime’s repressive forces toward the workers of HEPCO. People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) @Mojahedineng Employees of # Iran 's HEPCO industrial complex attacked by security forces for demanding their rights. # IranProtests https:// english.mojah...