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Senior US Senators meet Iran opposition leader in Albania

Senior US Senators meet #Iran opposition leader in #AlbaniA

While August seems usually a passive time of the year in politics, it has been quite the opposite for Iran and the wide variety of developments around this controversial international dossier.

A senior delegation of United States Senators travelled to Tirana, the capital of Albania, today, August 12, 2017, to meet the Iranian opposition leader Maryam Rajavi, who heads the National Council of Resistance of Iran.

The delegation, Senators Roy Blunt, Vice President of the Republican Conference, and member of the Appropriation, Select Intelligence, Rules and Administration, and Commerce, Science, and Transportation committees; John Cornyn, the Majority Whip, and a member of the Judiciary, Select Intelligence, and Finance committees; and Thom Tillis, a member of the Armed Services, Judiciary, Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs and Veterans’ Affairs committees, also visited members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) in the Albanian capital.

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Tirana, Albania, August 12, 2017 - Mrs. Maryam Rajavi (center), the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran meeting a senior delegation from the United States Senate. From right: Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC), Roy Blunt (R-MO), and John Cornyn (R-TX).

The NCRI is a political coalition calling for regime change in Iran and considered the main threat to Tehran’s mullahs. The MEK is the main member of this coalition of a variety of Iranian dissident groups and individuals.

“Led by Senator Blunt, the delegation congratulated the safe and secure relocation of all Camp Liberty residents outside of Iraq and wished them success in their struggle for democracy and human rights in Iran,” according to an NCRI statement.

Rajavi expressed her gratitude for the tireless efforts of the U.S. Senate, particularly Senator Blunt, regarding the protection of thousands of MEK members in Iraq, and their safe relocation to Albania.

Senator Blunt was among several American dignitaries, including senior former officials, who at a July 2014 Senate briefing strongly condemned Iran’s highly destructive role in Iraq. While describing Tehran as part of the problem plaguing Baghdad and the entire country, Senator Blunt joined the initiative in demanding the urgent transfer of PMOI/MEK members stationed in a former US military base known as Camp Liberty near the Iraqi capital.

Senator Blunt and his colleagues John McCain (R-AZ) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), and former Senator Carl Levin had urged former Secretary of State John Kerry to “press for the protection of Camp Liberty and to expedite the resettlement of the Camp Residents to countries outside Iraq, including the United States.”

Tirana, Albania, August 12, 2017 - Mrs. Maryam Rajavi (center), the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran meeting a senior delegation from the United States Senate. From right: Senators Roy Blunt (R-MO), John Cornyn (R-TX), and Thom Tillis (R-NC).

ANALYSIS: Congress is taking the lead on Iran policy

ANALYSIS: Congress is taking the lead on #Iran policy

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A visit by a high-profile delegation of American Senators to Albania, home to members of the Iranian opposition, is sending major signals and messages to Tehran about growing consensus in Washington over the necessity to adopt regime change policy in the face of the mullahs’ belligerence.

The Senate delegation consisted of Senators Roy Blunt, Vice President of the Republican Conference, and member of the Appropriation, Select Intelligence, Rules and Administration, and Commerce, Science, and Transportation committees; John Cornyn, the Majority Whip, and a member of the Judiciary, Select Intelligence, and Finance committees; and Thom Tillis, a member of the Armed Services, Judiciary, Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs and Veterans’ Affairs committees.

The delegation met with Iranian opposition Maryam Rajavi, President of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in Tirana, discussing recent developments in the Middle East and Iran’s menacing role.

“Maryam Rajavi thanked the Senators for their decisive position vis-à-vis the Iranian regime, especially the adoption of a new resolution which imposed sanctions on the clerical regime and the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) for human rights abuses, the ballistic missile program, and the export of terrorism. She expressed gratitude for the efforts of the U.S. Senate, particularly Senator Blunt, regarding the protection of thousands of MEK members in Camp Liberty, Iraq, and their safe relocation to Albania,” according to a NCRI statement.

US Senators with Maryam Rajavi in Tirana, Albania. (Supplied)

Destructive meddling

Back in July 2014 several senior American figures, including Senator Blunt, staged a Senate briefing strongly condemning Iran’s destructive meddling in its western neighbor, Iraq. Characterizing the Iranian regime as part of the problem and not the solution, Senator Blunt emphasized on his demand for the PMOI/MEK members’ urgent and speedy transfer from Camp Liberty – a ransacked and deserted former US base near Baghdad International Airport west of the capital – to countries abroad in an effort to save their lives.

Senators John McCain and Jeanne Shaheen, joined by then Senator Carl Levin, former chairman of the Armed Forces Committee, issued a strong letter to former Secretary of State John Kerry seeking “protection of Camp Liberty and to expedite the resettlement of the Camp Residents to countries outside Iraq, including the United States.”

Senator McCain himself had back in April became the most senior US official to visit the PMOI/MEK in Albania. McCain is known to be a very vocal critic of the Iranian regime’s policies and actions, and a staunch supporter of the Iranian opposition in their struggle for regime change to establish freedom and democracy.

During his visit to Tirana McCain met with Iranian opposition leader NCRI President Maryam Rajavi, evaluating issues in relations to Iran’s belligerence across the Middle East and the struggle of the PMOI/MEK’s residency in Albania. His participation in a PMOI/MEK event sent alarm bells across Tehran, terrifying of the mullahs Washington coming in line with the Iranian opposition was receiving after their departure from Iraq.

Comprehending fully the potential threats posed by their opposition, the Iranian regime had long sought to annihilate the PMOI/MEK during their stay in Iraq. These Iranian opposition members were stationed in Ashraf, a city north of Baghdad, which they had built from scratch from 1986 onward. Ashraf residents were, however, forced to transfer to Camp Liberty following three ground attacks by Iraqi government forces and a logistical/medical siege from 2009 onward, all at the best of Tehran.

The delegation consisted of Senators Roy Blunt, John Cornyn, and Thom Tillis. (Supplied)

Tehran’s proxies

Tehran’s proxies continued their onslaught by launching five rocket and missile attacks targeting Camp Liberty, parallel to the Iraqi government continuing its blockade. More than 160 Ashraf and Liberty residents lost their lives and over 1,000 others injured. These attacks prompted the international community to support the PMOI/MEK in their transfer from Iraq to safe havens in numerous European countries. Most have currently settled in Albania.

Saturday’s significant meeting comes at a major turning point in US-Iran relations. Congress recently adopted new and comprehensive sanctions and President Donald Trump immediately signed the measures into law.

Tehran is extremely concerned over the NCRI and PMOI/MEK gaining growing recognition, especially considering the fact that the Trump administration is in the midst of weighing its comprehensive Iran policy. More than ever before regime change is becoming the most likely option for Washington’s Iran dogma.

Only a year ago the Iranian regime was placing its entire weight behind measures aimed at having its opposition – then seeking to pull out its last remaining members from Iraq – completely annihilated.

Many consider the progress made by the NCRI and PMOI/MEK as unprecedented and the necessary campaign to turn the tide against Tehran’s regime. After nearly 40 years of rendering havoc and destruction, it is high time the international community acknowledge the Iranian people and their organized opposition in their endeavor to bring about change in Iran with the objective of establishing freedom and democracy in Tehran.

US Senators with Maryam Rajavi in Tirana, Albania. (Supplied)

Destructive meddling

The delegation consisted of Senators Roy Blunt,John Cornyn, and Thom Tillis. (Supplied)

Tehran’s proxies

محمد إقبال – إيلاف: التغيير الحل الوحيد لايران والمنطقة

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محمد إقبال – إيلاف: التغيير الحل الوحيد لايران والمنطقة

۱۳۹۶ مرداد ۲۲, یکشنبه

مقتل قيادي بارز في #الحرس #الإيراني #بسوريا.. و"فارس": كان يدافع عن المراقد

أعلن مسؤول بفيلق القدس التابع لقوات الحرس الإيراني في محافظة كيلان شمال إيران، عن مقتل العقيد مرتضى حسين بور شلماني، خلال اشتباكات مع الفصائل المقاتلة في سوريا.

ونقلت وكالة "فارس" الحكومية الإيرانية أن "مرتضى حسين بور شلماني، قُتل أثناء قيامه بخدمات استشارية؛ دفاعاً عن المراقد الدينية في سوريا"، دون أن تحدد مكاناً دقيقاً لموقع مقتله.

وأضافت أن "الضابط كان أحد أفراد الحرس الإيراني، وهو القتيل الـ 20 من بين المستشارين العسكريين في سوريا من أبناء مدينة كيلان".

وكان المجلس الوطني للمقاومة الإيرانية كشف مع نهاية العام الماضي أن عدد قتلى قوات الحرس والمليشيات التابعة لها في سوريا، بلغ أكثر من 10 آلاف شخص منذ التدخل الإيراني إلى جانب نظام بشار الأسد قبل 6 سنوات.

وأكدت المقاومة الإيرانية أنها حصلت على تقارير من داخل البلاد، تؤكد أن عدد قتلى قوات الحرس وعملائها من اللبنانيين والأفغان والباكستانيين والعراقيين المؤتمرين بإمرة الحرس يتجاوز 10 آلاف شخص.

يُذكر أن وسائل الإعلام في إيران تعلن بشكل شبه يومي عن مقتل عناصر من قوات الحرس بمعارك سوريا، كما تتحدث بانتظام عن سقوط قتلى أفغان وباكستانيين بسوريا تنقل جثثهم إلى إيران.

إيران تعدم 13 سجيناً في يوم واحد بينهم مراهق

#إيران تعدم 13 سجيناً في يوم واحد بينهم مراهق

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حذرت المقاومة الإيرانية من الخطر الذي يهدد سلامة السجناء السياسيين المضربين في زنزانات انفرادية والعنبر الرابع في سجن جوهردشت، وطالبت في بيان الهيئات الدولية المدافعة عن حقوق الإنسان باتخاذ إجراء عاجل لإنقاذ حياة هؤلاء السجناء.
وذكر البيان أن أبو القاسم فولادوند، وحسن صادقي، وسعيد ماسوري، ورضا أكبري منفرد، وجعفر إقدامي، وأمير قاضياني، وخالد حرداني، وزانيار مرادي، ولقمان مرادي القابعون في حبس انفرادي وعدد آخر من السجناء في القاعة 10 في العنبر 4 هم من السجناء الذين أضربوا عن الطعام للاحتجاج على الممارسات القمعية بحق السجناء السياسيين، وحرم الجلادون السجناء المضربين عن حقهم في اللقاء بعوائلهم ومارسوا الضغط عليهم لكسر إضرابهم، وفقاً لصحيفة الرياض السعودية.
وتعرض المضربون للهجوم وسوء المعاملة والاعتداء بالضرب المبرح من قبل جلادي السجن، ونقلوا عنوة إلى القاعة 10 للعنبر، كما منع محترفو التعذيب السجناء من الحصول على الدواء والمقتنيات الشخصية بحيث لا يمتلك السجناء حتى المستلزمات الصحية الشخصية أو الحد الأدنى من الألبسة المناسبة ويعيشون في وضع صعب وبألبسة غير لائقة.

وأعدم نظام الملالي يوم الخميس ما لا يقل عن 13 سجيناً شنقاً في سجن بيرجند، وكان أحد السجناء الذي أعدم في سجن عادل آباد في شيراز شاباً يُدعى علي رضا تاجيكي كان عمره أثناء الاعتقال 15 عاماً حيث تم شنقه أخيراً بعد تحمل 6 سنوات من الحبس.

مجاهدي خلق تكشف عن عنابر الموت في إيران

#مجاهدي خلق تكشف عن عنابر الموت في #إيران

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حذرت المعارضة الإيرانية "مجاهدي خلق" من الخطر الذي يهدد سلامة وأمن السجناء السياسيين المضربين في زنزانات انفرادية والعنبر الرابع في سجن جوهردشت، وطالبت في بيان لها عموم الهيئات الدولية المدافعة عن حقوق الإنسان خاصة المفوض السامي لحقوق الإنسان والمقررة الخاصة المعنية بحقوق الإنسان في إيران والمقرر الخاص المعني بالتعذيب باتخاذ إجراء عاجل لإنقاذ حياة هؤلاء السجناء.

وذكر البيان أن أبو القاسم فولادوند، وحسن صادقي، وسعيد ماسوري، ورضا أكبري منفرد، وجعفر إقدامي، وأمير قاضياني، وخالد حرداني، وزانيار مرادي، ولقمان مرادي القابعين في حبس انفرادي وعدد آخر من السجناء في القاعة 10 في العنبر 4 هم من السجناء الذين أضربوا عن الطعام للاحتجاج على الممارسات القمعية بحق السجناء السياسيين، وحرم الجلادون السجناء المضربين عن حقهم في اللقاء بعوائلهم ومارسوا الضغط عليهم لكسر إضرابهم.

وتعرض المضربون يوم الأحد 30 يوليو للهجوم وسوء المعاملة والاعتداء بالضرب المبرح من قبل جلادي السجن ونقلوا عنوة إلى القاعة 10 للعنبر، كما منع محترفو التعذيب السجناء من الحصول على الدواء والمقتنيات الشخصية بحيث لا يمتلك السجناء حتى المستلزمات الصحية الشخصية أو الحد الأدنى من الألبسة المناسبة ويعيشون في وضع صعب وبألبسة غير لائقة.

وحسب المعارضة الإيرانية "تدور رحى المشانق والتعذيب وحملات الاعتقال في النظام المتشدد الحاكم في إيران، ولهذا الاستبداد القروسطي وجهان وجه يمثله خامنئي الولي الفقيه ووجه آخر روحاني رئيس الجمهورية المتلبس بنقاب الاعتدال".

ودعا البيان لمثول قادة النظام أمام محاكم دولية للعدالة بسبب جرائم يرتكبونها بلا هوادة بحق أبناء الشعب الإيراني، وأكدت المقاومة الإيرانية أن أي علاقة مع هذا النظام يجب أن تشترط بتحسين وضع حقوق الإنسان الكارثي وإطلاق سراح السجناء السياسيين في إيران

وأوضحت مجاهدي خلق أن النظام الإيراني، أعدم الخميس الماضي ما لا يقل عن 13 سجينًا شنقًا اُعدم 11 منهم في إعدام جماعي همجي في سجن بيرجند، وكان أحد السجناء الذي أعدم في سجن «عادل آباد» في شيراز شابًا يُدعى «على رضا تاجيكي» كان عمره أثناء الاعتقال 15 عامًا حيث تم شنقه أخيرًا بعد تحمل 6 سنوات من الحبس في السجون الوحشية للنظام وأخذه مرات عدة للإعدام في تجاهل لطلبات أسرته المتكررة لإعادة محاكمته بسبب الغموض الذي كان يلف ملفه.

كما تم إعدام سجين آخر في «متى كلاي بابل» (محافظة مازندران) شمالي إيران.

MEK’S POPULARITY AMONG IRANIAN YOUTH, REGIME’S NIGHTMARE

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For many associated with the Iranian lobby and appeasers of the clerical regime in Tehran, the best way to prop up the regime is to discredit any alternative options presented to the international community. In addition, the lobby and appeasers continue to stress that regime change will lead to war. As an example, they point to the struggles of the Iraq government since the removal of Saddam by the U.S. and its allies.

However, history teaches us that any regime’s existence is limited when it begins with a violent upheaval. The current Iranian regime was born out of a revolution to end the rule of the Shah, but that revolution’s goal was to create a secular, pluralistic, and democratic Iran. However, the mullahs hijacked the revolution, creating a theocracy and suppressing any alternative political voices, including the MEK/PMOI.

Instead, to consolidate their power, the Iranian regime has relied on the typical tools of oppression, including the creation of a paramilitary and judiciary system that touches every section of Iranian society. The regime, using its lobby and appeasers, have been quick in attacking any publication or personalities that dare to speak up about the quest of the Iranian people to achieve their original dream of a democratic Iran.

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MARYAM RAJAVI: NO TO COMPULSORY VEIL: NO TO COMPULSORY RELIGION, NO TO COMPULSORY GOVERNMENT

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sogeny is the core of Islamic fundamentalism. In the case of Iran, she argues that misogyny under the cloak of religion has become systematic and persistent because it is a lever to maintain the monopolistic domination of the velayat-e faqih. Misogyny is the purpose for dozens of the regime’s suppressive agencies. It justifies the permanent surveillance operations in the streets, the actions of street patrols and the conduct of such agencies as the “Office to Combat Vice,” or the “Morality Police Force” and 20 other police entities.

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In solidarity with Iran’s young generation on International Youth Day

In solidarity with #Iran’s young generation on International Youth Day

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In solidarity with Iran’s young generation on International Youth Day

August 12 marks International Youth Day to recognize and draw attention to the issue of “Youth Building Peace”. It celebrates young people’s contributions to conflict prevention and transformation as well as inclusion, social justice, and sustainable peace.

In Iran, however, the atmosphere of growth and advancement for the younger generations have been eliminated by the Iranian regime’s suppression of their freedom of speech and the press, closure of universities, sending young people to war, and plundering the public’s wealth. Thus Iranian youths have found no opportunity for contributing to global peace.

A population of 23 million people between 15 to 29 years of age has made Iran one of the world’s largest young nation.

This young nation, however, faces soaring unemployment as one of its main problems. Almost 15 million people have no jobs, at least 4.5 million of whom are university graduates.[1] In 1986, almost 70% of university graduates could find jobs shortly after leaving school. By 2011, that rate dropped to less than 50%.[2]

That is, more than 50% of Iran’s educated are unemployed while the rest are employed in menial jobs such as construction workers, street peddlers, repairmen, etc. which are not compatible with their professional training and studies.

Under such hopeless circumstances, the majority of Iran’s at least 14 million[3] drug users are young men and women. The average age of addiction in Iran has dropped to 20, according to reports published by state media. [4]

The number of people suffering from drug addiction has more than doubled since 2011, according to a survey by a drug control group.[5]

However, the figures published by the state should be considered as minimum with the actual figures being considerably higher. Disappointingly, the Iranian regime has no short or long-term plans to contain the unbridled spread of addiction especially among the young populace.

Experts argue that easy access to cheap narcotic drugs has contributed to the horrific number of drug addicts in Iran. It is common knowledge that narcotics can be purchased much faster than a loaf of bread.

Unfortunately, the regime in Iran and specifically its Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) are actively involved in drug trade and distribution as they find this as one of the most effective ways to quell and paralyze the country’s disgruntled and rebellious youth, posing an existential threat.

In addition, the human rights situation in Iran has been constantly deteriorating over the past 39 years. The clerical regime has a long history of crackdown on youths for demanding their basic rights. Atena Daemi, Arash Sadeghi, Majid Assadi, Golrokh Iraei, Ramin Hosseinpanahi are amongst the countless people who have been suffering long years in jail for daring to stand up for their own and their people’s rights.

Iran holds the highest rate of per capita executions in the world. Despite increasing international censure, executions are carried out relentlessly on a daily basis hitting an unprecedented record by hanging 101 prisoners in July 2017, alone.

The majority of those executed were under 30 years old including two young men, 24 and 27, who were hanged in public. In a controversial act of execution, a man who was arrested as a minor was hanged in Adelabad Prison of Shiraz, southern Iran. Execution of Alireza Tajiki was carried out despite wave of international criticism at Iran’s human rights violations.

In a recent study, a third of all 16 to 25-year-olds said they would leave the country, if given the opportunity. Iran ranks world’s first in brain drain with the flight of 150,000 elites per year.

Those who cannot escape the inferno created by the mullahs in Iran, however, are awaiting any opportunity to settle their score with the mullahs.

In a recent case, Asghar Nahvipour, a young Iranian athlete, beat up a mullah who was disturbing a young woman in a metro station in south Tehran. Eyewitnesses say he was fired at point blank range by the police while he was crying out, “We don’t want these mullahs. We don’t want this Islam. What kind of a country is this? What kind of Islam is this?”

The news of this arbitrary murder outraged the nation and aroused great sympathy.

Tributes to the victim poured in on social media, with many youths writing, “The heroes do not die”, “Fly high hero, you will be never forgotten” or “we will continue your path.”

These mottos bespeak of the determination of Iran’s courageous youth to realize a humane future for themselves and the whole nation. The International Youth Day is an appropriate opportunity to call on the international community to support their demands and help them reach the peaceful society they deserve.

As we celebrate the young people building peace across the world, lest forget the young men and women who dream of a world with equal human rights.

Iran Regime Change: A New War or Preventing One

#Iran Regime Change: A New War or Preventing One

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The bipartisan passage of the sanctions bill H.R. 3364 by both houses of Congress, and the Trump administration’s approach to Iran have raised questions over the right policy toward Iran.

Meanwhile, a grand gathering of Iranians in Paris suburb on July 1st with 100,000 participants, recited the desire of millions of Iranians: regime change.

Accordingly, Iran apologists, concerned that the appeasement policy is coming to an end and the new administration may adopt a policy of regime change, have become active to portray this bloody picture that such a policy will drag America to another Middle East war.

To prove their point, they refer to the US-led invasion of Iraq or the Libya regime change campaign. Due to catastrophic consequences of Iraq’s invasion for the US and the region, this reasoning could convince many Americans that regime change policy is not the right policy.

Nonetheless, this comparison is merely aimed at exploiting a wrong policy to adopt yet another wrong policy. Sending troops and invading Iraq by the US was a wrong policy, but worse is naively comparing that failed policy to the current situation in Iran, and denying the right of Iranian people to change the tyrannical regime.

U.S. Military Action Not Needed

Contrary to what Iran apologists portray, the regime change policy means neither military invasion nor military intervention by US in Iran.

It simply means stopping the appeasement policy and recognizing the right of the Iranian people for regime change. The Iranian people and their resistance movement can and will change the regime in Iran, and ask for the US to stop standing alongside this regime.

“We reiterate and emphasize that regime change and establishment of freedom and people’s sovereignty, is solely the task and within the powers of the Iranian people and Resistance and no one else. Having relied on the suffering, struggle and endurance of this movement and this alternative, today we are most confident in the victory and liberation of our homeland” said Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of Iranian Resistance in her opening statement at a recent Interim Session of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).

Obama Supported The Mullahs

For years, Iran apologists, by adopting the appeasement policy, have denied such a right for the Iranian people. In the 2009 uprising while millions of Iranians were in the streets demanding regime change, the Obamaadministration was busy exchanging letters with senior regime officials, including Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

Iranians in their street demonstrations were shouting, “Obama! Are you with us or with them?”

Obama’s response was clear. Through the appeasement policy he sided with the regime and allowed the mullahs cheat their downfall.

Now that the new administration’s policy is shifting in the right direction, the same apologists continue their support for the Iranian regime by claiming any regime change policy will lead us to another war in the Middle East.

The Evil Mullahs Rule By Terror

During their rule, the mullahs have executed more than 120,000 people for political reasons. Hundreds of thousands more have been imprisoned and tortured.

Corruption is raging throughout the ruling system while poverty has increased and reached an unprecedented level in Iran’s history. The regime has also destroyed this nation’s culture.

Due to this regime’s terrorism Iran has lost the respect it deserves in the international community.

The people of Iran have the right to change such a regime. Denying them is tantamount to suggest the Iranian people should continue suffering torture and execution under the mullahs’ regime.

“We say that the struggle of the people of Iran for regime change is legitimate, righteous and imperative. We urge you to recognize this ‘resistance against oppression.’ The same notion that is stipulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in France’s Declaration of Human Rights and Citizens’ Rights. This has also been stated in the American Declaration of Independence where it says, ‘whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of’ the people’s rights, ‘it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government’ of their liking.” Said Maryam Rajavi in her speech at Paris gathering.

Iran Is Unlike Iraq and Libya

Contrary to Iraq, Libya and other countries, Iran has a democratic, powerful and organized opposition with the capacity of mobilizing and organizing the people of Iran for another uprising.

The NCRI and the People’s Mujahedin of Iran (PMOI-MEK) enjoy widespread popular support inside Iran and abroad.

The NCRI has a clear democratic platform, calling for a secular republic, gender equality, no capital punishment, rights of religious and ethnic minorities and a non-nuclear Iran.

The right Iran policy is to support the NCRI. This is the only way to prevent another war in the Middle East.