Iran spends billions on weapons programs, terrorism while ignoring Iranians' basic needs, report finds Iran is spending billions of dollars on its weapons programs and supporting terrorism around the globe while it ignores the basic needs of its people, a new report asserts. The report, issued by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), states that this month’s uprising against the regime was due to what it states are the “grueling high prices and economic strains on an array of social sectors.” It claims that this is a result of the regime putting its resources, “toward domestic suppression, warmongering and expansion of terrorism abroad,” which the report points out has led to poverty and deprivation among Iranians. The report is titled “Primary Causes of Poverty and Popular Uprisings in Iran.” It says the report is based on a “high-level assessment” which revealed that the annual minimum cost to Iranians of keeping the “clerical regime in power” is about $55

What You Should Know About Iranian Resistance Leader Maryam Rajavi Jubin Katiraie   Blog 27 January 2018 Maryam Rajavi is the leader of the combined Iranian Resistance forces, which fight for freedom and democracy in Iran. She is president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), a broad coalition of resistance groups, with has the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) as its largest member, which serves as the government in exile for Iran. Maryam Rajavi first  joined  the MEK in the early 1970s- not long after its founding- when they were fighting against the brutal regime of the Shah. Her family were also involved in the struggle against the Shah; her brother Mahmoud was also a member of the MEK and was held as a political prisoner during the Shah’s reign, while her sister Narges was tragically murdered by the Shah’s secret police (known as SAVAK) in 1975. Still, her family fought on to attain freedom for all Iranians. Shortly after join

A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE PEOPLE’S MOJAHEDIN ORGANIZATION OF IRAN (PMOI/MEK) The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) is a political group dedicated to a#chieving a free and democratic Iran, but how did it start and why? The MEK was founded on September 6, 1965, by three engineers: Mohammad Hanifnejad, Said Mohsen, and Ali-Ashgar Badizadgan. The trio had previously been involved in the Freedom/Liberation Movement, led by Medhi Bazargan, which advocated for the democratic principles of the Iranian constitution created after the 1905 revolution. The group  lasted  for two years before the Shah outlawed all pro-democracy groups and imprisoned their leaders, following the 1963 June Uprising, in which pro-free speech and anti-monarchy protests broke out across Iran before being violently put down by the Shah’s police. Bazargan w#a#s sentenced to ten years in prison. The fight for freedom in Iran was far from over, but the MEK founders knew that they could not repeat

THE MEK’S WRONGFUL TERRORIST DESIGNATION After 15 terrible years, the US finally  removed  Iranian Resistance group People’s Mujahedin of Iran (MEK/PMOI) from its list of foreign terrorist organisations in September 2012, following countless court cases that found in the MEK’s favour and previous removals of the MEK from terror lists by the UK, France and the European Union. But the MEK should never have been placed on any terrorist watch list in the first place, so how did they end up there, what effect did this have on the MEK’s fight for freedom in Iran, and how did the MEK finally get removed from the terror watch list? Let’s explore.   How did the MEK end up on terrorist watch lists?   The Iranian Regime claimed that the MEK was involved in terrorism, but could provide no actual evidence to support their lies. However, the international community wanted to build a relationship between the mullahs and the international community, because they didn’t see the Resista

#Iran : A woman was executed in Noshahr. She is the 82nd woman executed under so-called moderate Rouhani. http:// women.ncr-iran.org/iran-women-new s/4736-iran-a-woman-executed-in-noshahr   … 1:20 PM - 30 Jan 2018

We Should Listen Closely To # Iran by via @forbes http://www. forbes.com/sites/heshmata lavi/2018/01/25/we-should-listen-closely-to-iran/#3ebeb240560f   … #IranProtests #FreeIran 1:36 PM - 25 Jan 2018

Shocking footage of a mother whose child dies in the freezing cold of earthquake area of Kermanshah province due to negligence of the regime's officials in the region who didn't do anything to avoid the tragedy #Iran #Iranprotests #IranianProtests 0:45 1,278 views 10:09 AM - 29 Jan 2018

More RT @ USUN : Great meeting with the President and the Security Council— we discussed many issues including North Korea, Iran, Syria, Yemen and foreign aid. 2:11 PM - 29 Jan 2018

Ambassador Haley following the @ UN Security Council's visit to Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling: “We believe what the Council saw today makes it clear that the evidence continues to grow that #Iran is blatantly ignoring its international obligations." More → https:// go.usa.gov/xnGHU     1:40 PM - 29 Jan 2018

THE U.N. MUST INVESTIGATE IRAN'S 1988 MASSACRE, OR DETAINED PROTESTERS TODAY FACE SAME FATE 1/30/2018 5:34:30 PM Tahar Boumedra, a former UN official stressed that a UN inquiry into the 1988 mass executions of political prisoners in Iran is overdue. BY TAHAR BOUMEDRA News Week- 30 Jan. 2018-   The  United Nations  (U.N.) is often criticized for not acting or not intervening promptly to rescue victims of gross violations of human rights. This is an observation I came to register when I was in the field as chief of the U.N. Human Rights Office in Iraq. This week, I will attend a civil society hearing in Geneva for the purpose of investigating the 1988 massacre of political prisoners in Iran, yet another case where the global body of nations failed to act in a timely manner. Nearly 30 years after the massacre of as many as 30,000 political prisoners, a group of NGOs are holding a civil society hearing to investigate this atrocity for the first time, n

An End to the Iranian Regime Is Coming 1/30/2018 9:10:41 AM Protests in several Iranian cities 30 January 2018-  Iran’s so-called Assembly of Experts recently expressed concerns about the consequences of the widespread Iranian uprising in a meeting of its senior board. In this meeting assembly chief Ahmad Jannati and spokesman Ahmad Khatami highlighted three crises facing the Regime in response to the protests; the legitimacy of the people's demands, the blowback that the Regime is facing internationally because of its crackdown against the protests, and the Regime’s failure to censor and control the internet. The truth is the Regime were unprepared for the Iranian people’s protest which clearly demanded regime change and they were also unprepared for the international community to largely support the Iranian people. Mehdi Abrishamchi, Chair of the Peace Commission in the Iranian opposition coalition, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (  NC

Over 100 PACE Members Call for Immediate Release of Iran Protesters 1/30/2018 9:46:22 AM Over 100 PACE members supported a Written Declaration on Iran Press Release: Over 100 PACE Members Call for Immediate Release of Iran Protesters Strasbourg -  On Wednesday, 24 January 2018, President-elect of the Iranian resistance, Mrs.  Maryam Rajavi  , attended and addressedthe official meetings of the European People’s Party (EPP), the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe (ALDE), and the Unified European Left (UEL) at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) in Strasbourg. She elaborated on the latest developments in the Iranian people’s uprising against the religious fascism ruling Iran and answered questions by PACE members. “Over 100 PACE members supported a Written Declaration on Iran that I sponsored during the 2018 Winter Session to express our serious concerns over the brutal crackdown of the nationwide anti-regime protests in Iran”