At a news conference in Washington, the representatives of the NCRI described a 62-acre site named Lavizan-3, which they said included four underground tunnels below a building used by Iran’s intelligence agency (MOIS).
Iran’s Repression Targets Kurds, Other Minorities
Hamid Yazdan Panah is an attorney focused on asylum and immigration in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is also a human rights activist focused on the Middle East and Iran.
Unconfirmed reports suggest that Iran has secretly executed Kurdish political prisoner Saman Naseem, despite a global campaign to save his life. Naseem, was a member of the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK), a Kurdish resistance organization in Iran, and arrested when he was still a minor. He was convicted of moharebe, or, “enmity with God” and sentenced to death. Although there has been no official announcement by the Iranian government, reports indicate that the regime informed Naseem’s family that he had been hanged on Friday, and ordered them not to hold a funeral. The execution serves as another example of the Iranian regime’s willingness to flout international law during its ongoing war against Kurds and other ethnic minorities in Iran.
Former UN official urges action to end humanitarian crisis for Iranians in Camp Liberty
The former Special Representative of the UN Secretary General for Iraq, Ad Melkert, expressed his concerns regarding the violation of the rights of Iranians in Camp Liberty by Iraqis and presented a set of recommendations in his report on the humanitarian crisis at Camp Liberty.
Tuesday in Washington: NCRI reveals Iran secret parallel nuclear program
The U.S. Representative Office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI-US) will hold a press conference on Tuesday (24 February 2015) in National Press Building, in Washington DC to expose ‘highly critical and reliable intelligence on the existence of an active and secret parallel nuclear program in Iran.’
Syria War Crime Suspects to Be Named
February 20th, saw a radical change in the change of strategy by war crime investigators .The United Nations war crimes investigators announced that they were planning to publish names of suspects involved in Syria’s four-year war, where this would ultimately cause uproar amongst the countries closely associated with it.
Poverty in Iran reaches new heights
When the workers belonging to the middle and low economic class go home in Iran the majority of them cannot even get respite from a hard day’s work, with food in their belly since a majority of them (estimated 70%) are surviving under the poverty line.
Rahmatollah Poormoussa, who is the head of Iran’s state labor organization, says that, “Many workers cannot even afford the basic products they need for survival, and many of these items are now considered luxuries”. The economic crisis that Iran faces has drowned a majority of the population in poverty; even those with two jobs cannot stay afloat.
New wave of executions in Iran
As Iran engages in negotiations with P5+1 countries over its controversial nuclear program, it continues to commit human rights violations with impunity at home.
Two Iranian Kurdish political prisoners were executed in the central prison in the city of Orumiyeh at the dawn on Thursday.
Democratic Iran necessary to defeat religious fundamentalism: David Jones
Conservative MP for Clwyd West and member of the British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom, David Jones, has warned that religious fundamentalism will remain a global threat if international powers fail to re-evaluate their approach towards Iran.
Mr Jones observed that the sudden emergence of the Islamic State (IS) should not be a matter of surprise considering that fundamentalist roots had taken hold in 1979, when Khomeini seized power after the Iranian revolution ousted the Shah. The rise of religious fundamentalism is not random or spontaneous as erroneously believed by some. It is a result of a deliberate effort on the part of the Iranian regime, which sponsors terrorism abroad.
Iran’s destructive role in Syria
Hamid Azimi is the Communications Director for the Iranian American Community of Northern California. Azimi has been actively promoting Human Rights and democratic change in Iran, exposing and combating the Iranian Ayatollahs’ Islamic Fundamentalism. His writings and interviews have been covered by many California based news outlets as well as major national news agencies
From 2003 onwards, the Iranian regime’s influence has spread rapidly across the Middle East. The regime’s foreign policy is ambitious and seeks to expand Iranian influence in order to preserve power and fulfill ideological goals. Regime officials have admitted on record that Iran is fighting across the Middle East so that it doesn’t have to fight at home. While this aggressive, interventionist policy may be suitable for the regime, it is certainly damaging to the subjects of its meddlings and undermines global efforts towards peace and stability in the region.
Health at rick in Iran
Iran has yet again made headlines, this time over reports from across the country, suggesting unprecedented spread of illnesses caused by dust storms and high concentration of dust particles. Terrorizing, large areas in Iran, they have threatened the health of millions of citizens.
It has been reported that, acute respiratory infections and diseases, obstruction of the respiratory tract, middle ear infections, lung cancer, cardiovascular diseases, allergies and allergic reactions are among the complications of this dire situation.
