WHY ARE SUPPRESSION AND ARRESTS RAMPING UP IN IRAN?
Sunday, July 9, 2017
Linda Chavez: Iran Resistance Gives Me Hope
7/8/2017 10:04:50 AM
Linda Chavez, Chairwoman of the Center for Equal Opportunity and former Director of the Office of Public Liaison, praised the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (MEK), an activist branch of the Resistance, and the National Council of Resistance of Iran ( NCRI ), which serves as a government-in-exile, for their commitment to the cause.
She said: “I want to salute you today for your courage and for your perseverance of the MEK and the NCRI. You are the ones who remain committed to freedom and to democracy for Iran and to eradicate the suppression, the terrorism, and the regime’s demonising campaign that has been directed at you. Your perseverance gives up hope that we shall in the end defeat the phenomena of Islamic fundamentalism, whose heart beats in the clerical regime in Iran. I wish you a good meeting and I wish that your message will be carried throughout the world.”
ربما
هذه من الحالات النادرة، التي تتفق فيها مصالح الغالبية العظمى من الشعب الايراني،
مع المصالح العربية على هدف واحد ، وهو ضرورة إسقاط نظام الملالي ، فالشعب
الايراني يعاني من ظلم وقمع غير مسبوق ،وإهدار مقدراته على حروب عبثية خارجية ،
والعرب يتعرضون لارهاب هذا النظام عبر تدخلاته المباشرة ونشر «فيروس» الطائفية ،
من خلال ميليشيات طائفية تعيث فسادا في عديد الاقطار العربية مثل العراق وسوريا
واليمن ولبنان، ويسعى لتغذية الفتنة الطائفية في بلدان أخرى ، وهو في الحقيقة يشكل
الوجه الآخر ل»داعش «من خلال استخدام الدين والمذهب كمنهج لحكم بوليسي ، بل أنه
للمفارقة يرفع شعار» المقاومة والممانعة» ضد اسرائيل ،لكنه يتفق معها في عنصر
مشترك ،وهو إقامة دولة على أسس دينية !
يوم السبت في الاول من تموز الحالي ،عقد في باريس المؤتمر السنوي للمقاومة الايرانية ، وبقدر متابعتي للاحزاب والحركات السياسية ، لا أظن أن أي حركة معارضة تعمل في المنفى، تستطيع حشد هذا العدد الهائل من أعضائها ومناصريها.. ما يزيد عن مئة ألف شخص،جاءوا من مختلف جهات الارض وعلى نفقتهم الخاصة، يشاركون وينظمون المؤتمر بحماس منقطع النظير ، فضلا عن مئات الشخصيات السياسية والثقافية والاعلامية من مختلف دول العالم ، حتى الاجراءات الامنية لهذا التجمع الهائل كانت من مسؤولية عناصر المنظمة !
نفقات المنظمة تعتمد على تمويل وجهد ذاتي، لا يوجد دعم من أي دولة أو جهة سياسية ، ومصادرها التبرعات التي يجمعها أعضاء المنظمة ومساهماتهم الشخصية، ولذلك فهي تمتلك قرارها المستقل، ولا تخضع الى إملاءات من أي طرف. وتمنيت أن يكون لدى العرب منظمة مجاهدي خلق ،أو مجاهدي الشعب «عربية» !
يوم السبت في الاول من تموز الحالي ،عقد في باريس المؤتمر السنوي للمقاومة الايرانية ، وبقدر متابعتي للاحزاب والحركات السياسية ، لا أظن أن أي حركة معارضة تعمل في المنفى، تستطيع حشد هذا العدد الهائل من أعضائها ومناصريها.. ما يزيد عن مئة ألف شخص،جاءوا من مختلف جهات الارض وعلى نفقتهم الخاصة، يشاركون وينظمون المؤتمر بحماس منقطع النظير ، فضلا عن مئات الشخصيات السياسية والثقافية والاعلامية من مختلف دول العالم ، حتى الاجراءات الامنية لهذا التجمع الهائل كانت من مسؤولية عناصر المنظمة !
نفقات المنظمة تعتمد على تمويل وجهد ذاتي، لا يوجد دعم من أي دولة أو جهة سياسية ، ومصادرها التبرعات التي يجمعها أعضاء المنظمة ومساهماتهم الشخصية، ولذلك فهي تمتلك قرارها المستقل، ولا تخضع الى إملاءات من أي طرف. وتمنيت أن يكون لدى العرب منظمة مجاهدي خلق ،أو مجاهدي الشعب «عربية» !
لننصر المعارضة الإيرانية.. ولنسقي إيران ماتسقينا به من مرارة
السبت 08/يوليه/2017 - 08:57 م
"إن تغيير النظام الإيراني أمر ضروري وفي متناول اليد، وهناك
بديل ديمقراطي وكفء، بجانب ضرورة إدراج قوات الحرس في القائمة السوداء، وطرد
الملالي من المجتمع الدولي وتسليم كراسي إيران إلى المقاومة"..هذا ما ذكرته
مريم رجوي رئيس منظمة مجاهدين خلق الإيرانية في بداية كلمتها أمام مؤتمرها السنوي
للمعارضة في باريس الأسبوع الماضي. وبينما تعلن رجوي هذا المطلب من باريس يرد وزير
الخارجية الإيراني محمد جواد ظريف علي نشاط المعارضة الإيرانية على الأراضي
الفرنسية متهما إياه بأنه نقطة إبهام في العلاقات الثنائية بين طهران وباريس!.الأمر
الحيوي في هذا الحدث أن إيران ذاقت نفس مرارة ما نشعر به من تدخلاتها في شؤوننا
الداخلية نحن معشر أهل منطقة الخليج، فمجرد استضافة باريس مؤتمرا للمعارضة
الإيرانية أغضب حكومة طهران وحكام قم، فما بالنا بما تفعله إيران بكل تصرفاتها
وسلوكياتها نحونا منذ سنوات طوال، فصبرنا نفد وحان الوقت الذي نذيق فيه
إيران ما أذاقتنا منه.
ومن
هنا أضم صوتي لصوت توصيات مؤتمر "مجاهدين خلق" بتأييد مشروع الجماعات
المعارضة الإيرانية لإسقاط النظام في إيران ووضع حد للدور الإيراني في منطقة الشرق
الأوسط عموما والخليج خصوصا. ولهذا علينا أن ندعم كافة حركات المعارضة الإيرانية
خاصة "مجاهدين خلق" التي كانت من بين الجماعات المعارضة المهمة لحكم
الشاه السابق ولكنها انشقت عنهم احتجاحا علي سرقة الخميني للثورة الشعبية
وتأسيس نظام ولاية الفقيه.
News - Iran News
The Baghdad post, July 06 2017 -Dhahi Khalfan Tamim, the Head of General Security for the Emirate of Dubai, has expected that the Iranian youth will revolt against the Mullah Regime in December as Iran is hit by bankruptcy
He called on the UAE people, via his account on Twitter, to work hard and stand shoulder to shoulder with their leaders to rid the Middle East of Iran terror.
He also called thee Gulf nations to stop dealing with Qatar as it chose Iran, not the Arab countries, including Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the UAE, and Bahrain.
On Jun 5th, 2017, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt and Bahrain cut ties with Qatar, accusing it of destabilizing the region.
On Jun 5th, 2017, Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Egypt and Bahrain cut ties with Qatar, accusing it of destabilizing the region.
THOUSANDS OF IRANIANS AND INTERNATIONAL FIGURES AT FREE IRAN GATHERING
Dr. Majid Rafizadeh
Created: 08 July 2017
Thousands of Iranians gathered in the giant auditorium in Villepente Exhibition Center, just outside in a massive expression of support urging the world to adopt a firm approach toward the Iranian government. The gathering featured an array of speakers from all over the world and across the political spectrum, including Saudi Prince Turki bin Faisal and a large delegation from the Syrian democratic opposition.
Iran’s media outlets, such as Royesh Melat, reacted by criticizing the gathering.
WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD FOR IRAN?
Heshmat Alavi
forbes, JUL 6, 2017 - With developments regarding Iran and the Middle East on fast forward recently, voices are heard speaking of winds of change in Iran. Iran’s society, described as a powder keg due to social discontent, is literally simmering.
And after far too many years, the international community is gradually but surely realizing how appeasement will only yield further destruction.
Catapulting events further is Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s failure to engineer the recent presidential election to unify his regime for the tsunamis ahead.
Iranian opposition leader Maryam Rajavi was the keynote speaker of a recent convention in Paris where she delivered a very different and new perspective on how to resolve the Iran dilemma.
We are also only a week away from July 14th, marking the second year of the Iran nuclear deal signing. Despite a windfall of over $100 billion dollars pouring into Iran, this agreement has failed to provide meaningful change in people’s lives.
And yet, Tehran has in fact allocated these funds to fuel turmoil across the Middle East, in Syria, Iraq,Yemen and beyond.
Returning to Iran’s milestone May 19th presidential “election”, Khamenei attempted to end his regime’s impasse by placing his weight behind conservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi in that race.
Considering Raisi’s notorious role in the 1988 massacre of over 30,000 political prisoners, and a massive campaign launched by activists of the Iranian opposition People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) inside Iran, Khamenei’s candidate stood no chance.
Saturday, July 8, 2017
What terrifies Iran the most?
By: Keyvan Salami
Friday, July 7, 2017 4:45
The annual Iranian resistance gathering took place on July 1, 2017. Over 100,000 members of the Iranian Diaspora from all over the world participated in the event. In addition to Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of Iranian resistance as the keynote speaker, many prominent personalities form all over the world also delivered speeches. The main message of the meeting and its speakers was that the time has come for regime change in Iran.
In previous years, Iran, by putting a media blackout over the event, would ignore the resistances’ gathering. There is a well-known policy in Iran that publishing the name, picture or any news of Rajavi and the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), the main opposition of Iran, is a red line and prohibited. But this year, in an unprecedented manner this red line was ignored and in only three days over 500 news reports about the gathering were published in state run media, reflected the Iranian regime’s unprecedented fear.
The visit by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif to France topped Tehran’s reaction to the event. Just a day prior Zarif went to Paris for the signing of a $5 billion dollar contract with the French oil giant Total.
The main purpose of Zarif’s trip was to ask the French government to cancel the resistance’s annual gathering, according to Iranian state media. One outlet even claimed the entire convention had been cancelled.
“In our talks with the French officials we raised the issue of the MEK and their presence as a vague point in our relationship,” Zarif said while departing France.
Now the question is why Iran is so terrified of the annual Iranian resistance gathering, and what can be concluded about their hysterical reaction about this event.
Newt Gingrich: Trump Will Work with Democrats to Shut Down Iran’s ‘State Terrorism’
News - Iran News
7/7/2017 11:59:42 AM
PARIS, France, Breitbart, 6 Jul 2017 – Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich says he sees “a new round of resistance” on the horizon for Iran during Donald Trump’s presidency.
“I think that what’s happening is the [Iranian] regime is getting weaker,” Gingrich told Breitbart News at the annual “Free Iran” rally, organized by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) near Paris on Saturday.
“I think that what’s happening is the [Iranian] regime is getting weaker,” Gingrich told Breitbart News at the annual “Free Iran” rally, organized by the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) near Paris on Saturday.
“I think it’s getting more desperate, I think it’s alienating more and more young people, and I would not at all be surprised to see a new round of resistance in the next three to four years.”
He added, “You’re going to have a Trump administration [that is] eager to be helpful. And with people like Secretary [James] Mattis and National Security Advisor McMaster–people who understand in a realistic way the nature of the Iranian dictatorship.”
He added, “You’re going to have a Trump administration [that is] eager to be helpful. And with people like Secretary [James] Mattis and National Security Advisor McMaster–people who understand in a realistic way the nature of the Iranian dictatorship.”
Earlier in his speech to the crowd at the Free Iran rally, Gingrich said, “I think it’s safe to say that the Trump administration has much fewer illusions about the nature of the Iranian dictatorship.”
Giulliani Shows Support for Iranian Resistance at Free Iran Rally
The Media Express, July 6, 2017 - Throughout his long political career, Rudy Giulliani has spoken out against the Iranian regime. America’s mayor of New York during the terrorist attacks in 2001, Giulliani has repeatedly condemned the Iranian regime for its exporting of terrorism throughout the region and the world.
He has been supporting the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) for many years, encouraging the resistance in its efforts to gain international support. Prior to this year’s “Free Iran” gathering, Giulliani met with the NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi.
During his speech at the rally, Giulliani made a few key points regarding the policies of the Western nations toward the Iranian regime.
“It has been a long road and there are still a few miles to travel,” said Giulliani. “There have been over 120,000 that have been martyred and they are why we are where we are today.” He also complimented the leadership of President-elect Maryam Rajavi of the NCRI.
He also praised the combined efforts that allowed the MEK members to leave Iraq to Albania, thus getting them out of harm’s way.
PARIS CONVENTION CALLS FOR EVICTING IRAN FROM MIDEAST
By Heshmat Alavi
Created: 07 July 2017
Paris — A vast convention hall located north of Paris was the scene of a massive Iranian Diaspora gathering who voiced their demand for a better future through regime change in Tehran.Hundreds of dignitaries from the Arab World, United States and Europe stood alongside the Iranian opposition coalition National Council of Resistance of Iran
(NCRI) and its President Maryam Rajavi in condemning Tehran’s meddling throughout the Middle East as the main obstacle to establish peace and security in at least four regional states.
Saturday’s keynote speaker was Rajavi, who called on the international community to recognize the NCRI as the voice representing the Iranian people, evict Iran from the Middle East end the appeasement policy and welcome a strong strategy of standing shoulder to shoulder with the Iranian people’s call for regime change.
Regional support
“The Iranian people are the first victims of Khomeini’s dictatorship,” said Turki Al-Faisal. “Your effort in challenging this regime is legitimate and your resistance for the liberation of the Iranian people of all ethnicities, including Arabs, Kurds, Balochis, Turks and Fars of the mullahs’ evil, as Mrs. Rajavi said, is a legitimate struggle.”
In a sign of a united Middle East position in the face of Iran’s belligerence, numerous Arab delegations including many former and current officials from more than a dozen regional countries participated in the convention.
In their colorful array of speeches these representatives of hundreds of millions of people who have suffered from the mullahs’ support for terrorism placed their fists down saying enough is enough. Following four decades of endless destruction and misery brewed by Tehran’s mullahs across the region, these nations are more than ever supporting the NCRI platform advocating regime change.
Regional support
“The Iranian people are the first victims of Khomeini’s dictatorship,” said Turki Al-Faisal. “Your effort in challenging this regime is legitimate and your resistance for the liberation of the Iranian people of all ethnicities, including Arabs, Kurds, Balochis, Turks and Fars of the mullahs’ evil, as Mrs. Rajavi said, is a legitimate struggle.”
In a sign of a united Middle East position in the face of Iran’s belligerence, numerous Arab delegations including many former and current officials from more than a dozen regional countries participated in the convention.
In their colorful array of speeches these representatives of hundreds of millions of people who have suffered from the mullahs’ support for terrorism placed their fists down saying enough is enough. Following four decades of endless destruction and misery brewed by Tehran’s mullahs across the region, these nations are more than ever supporting the NCRI platform advocating regime change.
Friday, July 7, 2017
Women lead the force for change for a free Iran
The annual gathering of the Iranian opposition for a free Iran convened in Villepinte, Paris, in the afternoon of Saturday, July 1, 2017, lasting for 10 hours.
Tens of thousands of supporters and hundreds of distinguished personalities, elected representatives and activists for human and women’s rights activists from U.S., Europe, Asia, Latin America, Africa and Australia participated in the rally in solidarity for a free Iran.
Speakers stressed regime change as the only viable solution not only for a free Iran but to end the crisis in the Middle East and terrorism and extremism.
Keynote speaker the Iranian opposition leader Maryam Rajavi underlined in her speech the three fundamental truths which are significant to obtaining freedom for Iran and establishing peace and tranquility in the Middle East.
Maryam Rajavi said, “The winds of change have started blowing in our homeland. The ruling regime is in disarray and paralyzed as never before. Iranian society is simmering with discontent and the international community is finally getting closer to the reality that appeasing the ruling theocracy is misguided. The same volatile situation speaks to three fundamental truths for obtaining freedom in Iran, and peace and tranquility in the region. First, the imperative of overthrowing the ruling religious dictatorship. Second, the regime’s overthrow is within reach. And third, a democratic alternative and an organized resistance exists, which is capable of toppling the theocracy in Iran.”
Mrs. Rajavi addressed women and youths in Iran as well as other sectors to rise up and erect 1000 bastions of rebellion to overthrow the religious dictatorship and bring freedom, justice and equality to the nation.
Are the winds of change blowing in Iran?
Thursday, 6 July 2017
Tens of thousands of supporters of Iran’s main opposition group, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), gathered in a massive convention hall in Villepinte, Paris over the weekend to call on the international community to back the Iranian people’s democratic aspirations and recognize the NCRI as a real alternative to the mullahs’ theocracy.
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