By Pooya Stone
Iran is intolerant, warmongering, fundamentalist, paranoid, corrupt, suppressive, and violent. It is made up of only the worst kind of people; those who do not respect the rights of others, who would do anything for power, who believe that their lives matter more than those of the millions they hurt on a daily basis.
By Pooya Stone
The US produced on Wednesday limpet mine fragments that it said came from one of the oil tankers attacked in the Gulf of Oman last week, claiming that the mine looks to be Iranian.
In Fujairah, the United Arab Emirates, the US Navy exhibited pieces of limpet mines and a magnet that American personnel took off one of the tankers – the Japanese Kokuka Courageous – that the US says were left behind by the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).
London, 20 June – On Monday June 17, Ghasem Mirza Neko, a Member of the Iranian parliament, called the “export of revolution” and “waging war against the world” as reasons for the tough situation faced by ordinary Iranians inside the country. Apparently, this was a reaction to the critics of hard conditions inside Iran.
“When you want to live in a cave, when you want to fight the whole world and export the revolution to everywhere, you have to accept hardships, not just for 14 years, but for much longer than that.”
The word “export of revolution” is a reference to a speech by regime founder Ruhollah Khomeini in the first year of the 1979 revolution, which overthrew the Shah’s monarchy. Iranian officials, especially the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) commanders use this term to justify Tehran’s export of terrorism and fundamentalism to neighboring countries, according to Iran experts.
According to both domestic and international institutes, this year, Iran’s economy growth reached minus five percent and the inflation rate increased by 30 percent.
On the other hand, tensions between Iran, the U.S. and regional states have increased after Iranian forces sabotaged oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman. Meanwhile, Instex, a European financial instrument that was supposed to allow Tehran to circumvent U.S. sanctions on its banking and oil sector, has not yet become operational.
U.S. president Donald Trump offered unconditioned negotiations with Tehran, but Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei refused this offer during a meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Tehran.
By Jubin Katiraie
United States Republican Senator Lindsay Graham said that if Iran tries to disrupt shipping activity in the vital sea lanes of the Middle East again, whether through attacks on cargo vessels or blocking the Strait of Hormuz as they have threatened to do, then the Trump administration should consider taking serious action.
Graham, who chairs the Senate Judiciary Committee, advised that President Donald Trump create an Iranian “target list” in case Tehran puts the US, its allies, or its interests in danger.
By Pooya Stone
The Iranian government has admitted that its economy fell into a worse recession in 2018 than international organizations predicted after the US started reimposing sanctions on Iran’s oil industry and other financial sectors.
The Statistical Center of Iran published a report Sunday that said Iran’s gross domestic product decreased by 4.9% in the last Persian year, which ended on March 21.
By Jubin Katiraie
Three women’s rights activists in Iran have been summoned to the Evin Prison’s Prosecutor’s Office for questioning in the past few days, according to the Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI). Their names are Maryam Mohammadi, Esrin Derkaleh, and Nargess Khorrami.
By Pooya Stone
For 40 years, the Iranian regime brought nothing but oppression for the Iranian people, and terrorism and chaos for the Middle East. A quick glimpse at the long list of its crimes against humanity underlines the importance of supporting the great march of Iranian-Americans in Washington DC on June 21 in solidarity with the movement for a free Iran.
This rally is a call for regime change in Iran by the Iranian people and their organized resistance, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) and the Mujahedeen-Khalq (MEK or PMOI), as the only solution to counter the dictatorial and warmongering regime ruling Iran.
By Pooya Stone
German Chancellor Angela Merkel has said that there is “strong evidence” that Iran was responsible for the attacks on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman last week, which supports the comments previously made by the US.
At a news conference in Berlin on Tuesday, following talks with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Merkel said: “We, of course, take these explanations very seriously, and there is strong evidence.”
Outside view by Amir B.
On Friday, 21 June, Iranian-American communities will hold a massive rally in support of the popular protests for regime change in Iran. The rally will be held in Washington DC a week after supporters of the main opposition group People’s Mojahedin (Mujahedin-e Khalq, MEK) held a “Free Iran” rally in Brussels and were supported by many European dignitaries.
In addition to supporting Iranian people’s desire for regime change, the rally will send a strong message to the international community to change their policy on the Iranian regime and support Iranian people’s wishes for a free Iran instead of appeasement.
By Pooya Stone
Iran said today that it wouldn’t give European powers any more time to save the nuclear deal, by helping Tehran evade US sanctions after July 8.
The representative for Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization said that Tehran was ready to enrich uranium beyond limits set under the 2015 deal, which would violate the deal.
