Chairman Royce and Leader McCarthy Announce New Iran, Russia, and North Korea Sanctions House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Chairman Ed Royce Washington , D.C. JULY 23, 2017  – House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (CA-39) and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (CA-23) released the following statement on an agreement between the House and Senate to impose sanctions on Iran, Russia, and North Korea: “North Korea, Iran, and Russia have in different ways all threatened their neighbors and actively sought to undermine American interests. Earlier this year the House passed sanctions on North Korea by a vote of 419-1. Several weeks ago, the Senate passed sanctions legislation on Iran and Russia. Following that vote, the House worked diligently with our colleagues in the Senate to strengthen the bill with the inclusion of the House-passed sanctions that target the Kim regime’s ballistic missile program, which could soon put American cities within range of a...

Iran’s Most Feared Mullah Acknowledges Massacre of Political Prisoners Iran massacred over 30,000 political prisoners in summer of 1988 and kept a lid on this atrocity for three decades. In this year’s presidential election a conservative cleric by the name of  Ebrahim Raisi , one of the perpetrators of the massacre, was selected as a main candidate, resurfacing the 1988 massacre and forcing regime officials, one after another, to confess about the carnage. Last week in an unprecedented  interview , former Iranian intelligence minister Ali Fallahian revealed the mindset behind the 1988 mass execution. Fallahian, described as  “perhaps the most feared mullah in Iran”  by  Newsweek , is wanted by  Interpol  for his involvement in the 1994 AMIA bombing that killed 85 people in Buenos Aires, Argentina. In his interview Fallahian explains whoever had any relation with the Iranian opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran ( PMOI/MEK ) was...

SOLIDARITY WITH THE HISTORIC RESISTANCE OF THE PEOPLE OF IRAN FOR FREEDOM A number of personalities and delegates paid tribute to a monument of the history of more than half a century of struggle of the people of Iran against tyranny at the residence of Maryam Rajavi, and signed a book in solidarity with the campaign for “Free Iran with 1000 Ashrafs; our goal: regime change.” The event followed the Iranian Resistance’s grand gathering at Villepinte where numerous personalities and parliamentary delegations had participated from around the world. Maryam Rajavi welcomed the guests and international personalities. She appreciated their efforts to guarantee the safe relocation of Ashraf residents and added, “The change of circumstances of the Iranian Resistance, their growing activities inside Iran and the aggravation of the regime’s situation made it clear that regime change in Iran is within reach. “Today, there is a powerful and organized alternative in a suitable positio...

SOLIDARITY WITH THE HISTORIC RESISTANCE OF THE PEOPLE OF IRAN FOR FREEDOM A number of personalities and delegates paid tribute to a monument of the history of more than half a century of struggle of the people of Iran against tyranny at the residence of Maryam Rajavi, and signed a book in solidarity with the campaign for “Free Iran with 1000 Ashrafs; our goal: regime change.”The event followed the Iranian Resistance’s grand gathering at Villepinte where numerous personalities and parliamentary delegations had participated from around the world. Maryam Rajavi welcomed the guests and international personalities. She appreciated their efforts to guarantee the safe relocation of Ashraf residents and added, “The change of circumstances of the Iranian Resistance, their growing activities inside Iran and the aggravation of the regime’s situation made it clear that regime change in Iran is within reach. “Today, there is a powerful and organized alternative in a suitable position to im...