Maryam Rajavi: We can free our occupied homeland In a message on December 30, 2017,  Maryam Rajavi , the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, sent a message to Iranian women and men, admiring their courage. She reiterated that there is a price for freedom that every nation must pay. Here is the text of her message: Fellow courageous protesters across Iran, Brave women and men who rose up on December 28 and 29 and spread the message of freedom to Iranian cities, Hail to you and hail to our beloved cities who have risen up against poverty, hunger and unemployment, under the mullahs’ repressive occupation. Hail to Kermanshah, Hamedan, Khorramabad, Qom, Isfahan, Rasht, Sari, Qazvin, Shiraz, Ahwaz, Bojnourd, Qaemshahr, and Zahedan; Hail to Mashhad, Neyshabur, Kashmar, Quchan, Birjand, Shahrud and Yazd. You showed that despite massive repression and widespread arrests, the Iranian people’s freedom movement is simmering like amber beneath ...

Iran: Nationwide protest by education staff in 20 provinces on the occasion of International Teacher's Day National Council of Resistance of Iran On Thursday, October 5, on the occasion of the International Teacher's Day, at least 28 cities in 20 provinces of the country witnessed protest gatherings of the education staff. In Tehran, employed and retired education staff along with labor activists, retired workers and other retirees and families of political prisoners gathered in front of the regime's planning and budget organization. The presence of about 3000 women education staff frustrated of the mullahs’ tyranny in the gathering was impressive. The rallying slogans were: 'teacher stand up to eliminate discrimination,' 'the imprisoned teacher should be freed,' 'Never has a nation seen such injustice,' 'one less embezzlement, our problems will be resolved,' 'Fair budget, is our certain right 'and' Our ta...