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Activists Warn Against Over-Stating “One Small Victory” for Women’s Rights

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By Pooya Stone

On Tuesday, Quartz published an editorial by Kelly Nascimento-DeLuca, who is the daughter of the football star known as Pele and is presently working on a documentary about women’s soccer.

Even Iran Officials Admit HEPCO Privatization a Mess

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By Jubin Katiraie

Back in September, workers of Iran’s Heavy Equipment Production Company (HEPCO) marched through the streets of Arak and blocked the north-south railroad to protest months of unpaid wages and the privatization of the company, which has destroyed the once productive factory.

Iranian-American Communities Condemn NBC’s Bias Reports Against the MEK

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MEK gathering in New York

Iranian regime’s apologists who see the imminent downfall of the clerical regime desperately try to justify the regime’s 40 years of crime via demonizing its only legitimate and viable alternative, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI, Mujahedin-e Khalq or MEK).  

Recently, the NBC website parroted blatant lies about the MEK and repeated the Mullah’s 4-decade long-debunked allegations, while refusing to publish the MEK’s rebuttal to this article. NBC’s article is the latest in a series of organized attacks against the MEK via outlets with pro-engagement and pro-appeasement tendencies towards the Iranian regime. 

State terrorism: Albanian police says MEK targeted by Quds force team sent to Albania from Iran

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A big gathering of the MEK members in Albania

Albanian General Police Director Ardi Veliu said Wednesday that an active cell of the foreign operations unit of the Iranian QUDS force, an extraterritorial section of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), had been discovered by Albania’s security institutions.

NCRI Reveal Shocking Medicine Shortage in Iran Due to Corruption

Iran medicine shortage

By Jubin Katiraie

In a comprehensive report released Tuesday, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) revealed shocking details about the Iranian government’s inhumane practice of stealing medicine. The report explained that the shortage of medicine has become a major crisis in Iran, with some medicines becoming extremely scarce and prices rising considerably.

Iranian Government Sentences Christians to Prison

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Iranian Government Sentences Christians to Prison

By Pooya Stone

An Iranian Christian pastor will spend at least five years in prison after being sentenced by a judge who is well-known for being extremely unfair to those who are on trial for evangelizing.

Pompeo Derides Iran’s “Corrupt, Kleptocratic Regime”

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pompeo herritage foundation

By Pooya Stone

US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo on Tuesday spoke out against the international threats posed by Iran. Pompeo delivered a speech on “Trump Administration Diplomacy: The Untold Story” at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C., on October 22, 2019.

European Parliament: Maryam Rajavi Reveals Names of 5000 MEK Victims of 1988 Massacre in Iran

Conference at the Parliament of Europe – Strasburg: European policy vis-à-vis Iranian regime’s suppression and warmongering, massacre of political prisoners in 1988 - October 23, 2019

Strasbourg – Members of the European Parliament, joined by other dignitaries from across Europe called for a strong European approach vis-a-vis the Iranian regime’s human rights violations and warmongering.

A conference organized by the European Parliament Friends of a Free Iran Intergroup also called for accountability of Iranian regime officials regarding the 1988 massacre of over 30,000 political prisoners in Iran. Most of these victims were members and supporters of the Iranian opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK).

The US Looking to Bolster Security in the Region Amid Increased Iranian Tensions

US Defense Secretary Mark Esper

US Defense Secretary Mark Esper arrived in Saudi Arabia on Monday amid rising US-Iran tensions.

Iranian President Admits Regime Is at an Impasse

Iran nuclear

By Jubin Katiraie

In other developments in Iran, the country’s Atomic Energy Organization has said that within two weeks, the secondary circuit of the heavy water nuclear reactor in Arak will be operational.