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  MARYAM RAJAVI: EU POLITICAL AND MORAL OBLIGATIONS Addressing the EP conference, Iran, Ongoing Crimes Against Humanity Honorable representatives, I thank you for having this opportunity to speak to you. I appreciate your continued attention to the plight of the  people of Iran  and their desire for freedom against the religious dictatorship. Dear friends, Dozens of political prisoners are on the death row in  Iran . Political prisoners are under torture. Today, you can hear families of thousands of those killed in recent protests, calling on Europe and the world to stand by them. This regime is facing the anger and discontent of the vast majority of the Iranian people. In addition to thousands of large and small protests, five major uprisings have erupted in  Iran  since January 2018. Truck drivers, teachers, nurses, college students, factory workers and oil workers, time and again, rose up and cried out their protest. The Resistance Units and courageous y...

La Présidente élue du Conseil national de la Résistance iranienne, Mme Maryam Radjavi, a exhorté le Secrétaire général de l'ONU, le Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU, le Conseil des droits de l'homme de l'ONU, le Haut-Commissaire des Nations Unies aux droits de l'homme et les organisations internationales de défense des droits de l'homme à prendre immédiatement des mesures pour empêcher le régime iranien de détruire systématiquement les tombes des victimes du massacre de 1988 en Iran et de supprimer les traces de ce massacre dans tout le pays, en particulier à Ahvaz. Alors que les efforts du régime clérical pour empêcher la croissance du mouvement de l'Appel à la justice ont échoué et qu'il n'a pas réussi à faire tomber dans l'oubli le massacre des prisonniers politiques iraniens, les mollahs au pouvoir tentent désespérément d'effacer les traces de ce massacre dans le but d'échapper aux conséquences de ce génocide et de ce grand crime c...

Par Behzad Naziri Au début de l’année, de larges manifestations ont embrasé plus de 140 villes en Iran ; certaines sont issues de grèves qui se poursuivent. Les analystes ont étudié l’histoire de 40 ans du régime pour identifier les raisons derrière de tels évènements sans précédent. Deux différents points de vue ont fait surface : le premier est la transformation rapide de ces manifestations générales en manifestations politiques. Par exemple, les habitants de Machhad ont scandé «  non à la cherté de la vie  » le premier jour, puis «  mort à Khamenei  » le deuxième, avec une radicalisation net des slogans. Par exemple, les habitants de Kazerun (à l’ouest de Chiraz) qui ont manifesté contre la division administrative de la ville, ont fini par entonner «  prenez garde au jour où nous serons armés ! » Un autre exemple est celui des agriculteurs d’Ispahan qui ont manifesté contre le manque d’eau (notamment l’assèchement de la rivière Zayanderud) ainsi que la de...

• Nassrin Sotoudeh, lawyer of human rights defendants, was rearrested Nassrin Sotoudeh, lawyer of human rights defendants, was rearrested. Ms. Sotoudeh was arrested at home in Tehran on Wednesday, June 13, 2018, and transferred to the Prosecutor's court of Evin. There is no information available on the reason for detention of Nassrin Sotoudeh. This is not the first time Nassrin Sotoudeh, a jurist and lawyer and winner of the Human Rights International (HRI) Award, is arrested. • Canada’s House Of Commons Votes against Relations with Iran The government of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has reversed Canada’s long-stated goal to improve relations with the Islamic Republic of Iran. On June 12, the government sided with an opposition motion in parliament demanding that Ottawa "immediately cease all negotiations or discussions" on restoring diplomatic relations with Iran. • Mazda, Hyundai Leave Iranian Market, Affecting Cars and Shipping A week after it was a...

ncr-iran Le rassemblement du régime intégriste organisé chaque année pour « La Journée Qods (Jérusalem) » s'est transformé en un échec, avec un boycott général de la population. Malgré les mises en scènes frauduleuse, les chaines de l'Etat n'ont pas été en mesure de montrer des scènes de foule. La population, complètement dégoûtée par les politiques agressives et les interventions militaires du régime dans la région sous le couvert trompeur du soutien aux palestiniens, ont refusé de descendre dans la rue et n’y sont même pas descendus pour vaquer à leur routine quotidienne. Ce boycott généralisé a eu lieu alors que les dirigeants du régime et leur machine de propagande soulignaient l'importance du rassemblement de la Journée Qods ces dernières semaines et invitaient la population à y participer massivement. Les autorités ont essayé sans succès d'entasser les rues en offrant des services gratuits de bus et de métro à Téhéran et dans d'autres villes, en...

ncr-iran Jeudi, l’organisation italienne de défense des droits humains, EveryOne, a publié une déclaration en partenariat avec  Iran Human Rights Monitor , demandant la libération urgente de tous les prisonniers politiques détenus en République islamique d’Iran depuis ces six derniers mois. La déclaration souligne «  les arrestations massives  » et le meurtre de «  prisonniers sans défense  » qui ont débuté en même temps que les «  manifestations prodémocratie  » le 28 décembre 2017. Les manifestations initiales dans la ville de Machhad ont mis le feu aux poudres dans près de 140 villes et villages dans tout le pays. Lors de ces manifestations, les manifestants ont entonné des slogans provocants tel que «  mort au dictateur  » et «  mort à Rohani  » se référant ainsi respectivement au Guide suprême iranien et son président. S’appuyant sur les réseaux de renseignements du régime, le Conseil national de la Résistance iranien...

US News & World Report, Jan. 18, 2018  - The recent unrest in Iran has confirmed what many attuned to domestic conditions in the Islamic Republic have long known: that an explosion was not a matter of if, but of when. The destructive reach of the Islamic Republic of Iran from Africa to South America and via Lebanon, Yemen, Syria and Iraq is hardly disputed. Yet this destructive influence serves the hesitance of many in the West to confront what appears as a strong and threatening regime. The riots and demonstration may have faded – but not the realities that created them. And this might provide an important policy lesson: Islamic regime's power posturing is designed to hide its true weaknesses. Iran's economy is in shambles. The days of high oil prices are long gone, and national resources are almost depleted. Despite the JCPOA – an agreement aimed at opening the Iranian market to international investors – Iran's economy remains in stagflation, with very little pros...

New York Times, Jan. 14, 2018  - The village of Zaras lies in a valley circled by the Zagros Mountains in southwestern Bakhtiari Province of Iran. An hour’s ride from Izeh, the nearest town, Zaras is home to about 60 families, who make a living from farming, pastoral nomadism and working as migrant laborers in Iranian cities. On a September afternoon in 2014, I sat by the mud wall of a hazelnut garden with Darab, a 50-year-old farmer in Zaras. Darab, a man with a charming face and rough, calloused hands, cultivated potatoes, beans and onions on a plot of land slightly larger than an acre. Yet the harvest wasn’t enough to feed his family — his wife, his six children and his elderly parents. Iran imported grains and potatoes on an enormous scale, and the prices fell each year. Darab supplemented his meager earnings by digging wells and working for a few months at construction sites in nearby cities. He would make less than the equivalent of about 20 American dollars for 10 hou...

By Raymond Tanter and Ivan Sascha Sheehan 14 Jan 2018  -- On Jan.12, 2018, President Trump renewed the nuclear deal with Iran. National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster was the lead official in helping Trump rollout the decision. The President extended sanctions relief under the deal, keeping it intact for at least another 120 days, but said he would not issue any further waivers, as he negotiates a modified deal with European allies.  In extending the deal, Treasury also issued new sanctions on Iran; the president set a four-month window for Congress and our European allies suggest ideas for a new “pact,” which was neither a treaty nor a signed document. The head of Iran’s judiciary, Sadegh Larijani, is named on the sanctions lists, as is a Chinese network helping Iran procure weapons. The measures are meant to pressure Tehran over ongoing missile tests and its crackdown on Iranian protesters. At the end of 2017 and beginning of this year, Iran has seen its largest dem...

By Pamela Geller January 14, 2018 -- This is a historic moment. Thank heaven that to meet it, we have a president in the White House who stands for freedom and individual rights. Thanks to Barack Obama, the Iranian people who marched for freedom back in 2009 were routed, raped, and defeated en masse. The contrast couldn’t be more vivid between Trump’s immediate declaration of support for people yearning to be free versus Obama’s shrug, then silence, and ultimately support for the murdering mullahs. The brutality of the 2009 crackdown on the Iranian people marching for freedom, for one man one vote, was impossible for those of us in the West to fathom. We heard the horror stories. We saw unarmed people meeting bullets with sheer will. But you cannot win this way. We watched our president of the United States sanction the crushing suppression of a people who were yearning to be free. We witnessed our president sanction mass rape, torture, and the public hangings of innocent peop...

MARIO TONEGUZZI THE GLOBE AND MAIL JANUARY 14, 2018  - Recent protests in Iran over economic policies are giving a boost to two Canadian companies offering virtual private networks and other software that can circumvent government moves to censor internet traffic. Virtual private networks, or VPNs, can be used to mask the online IP address that could identify a user. Ryan Dochuk, co-founder and chief executive of Toronto's TunnelBear, said that, over the past few years, the company's software has been downloaded by people who have experienced censorship in countries including Turkey, Venezuela and Uganda. In Iran, as protests that began in late December spread throughout the country, the government has been blocking an increasing number of websites. People have been turning to TunnelBear to continue to get access to chat rooms and social media, Mr. Dochuk said. 'TunnelBear is an application that people are downloading today en masse in Iran. We would estimate tha...