By Pooya Stone
The latest monthly report by OPEC says Iran’s oil output in June has dropped by 142,000 barrels per day compared to the previous month and reached 2,225,000 barrels.
Iran’s output was 3.8 million barrels per day before the returning of United States sanctions.
By Jubin Katiraie
Every year, Iran’s main opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin (PMOI), otherwise known as the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), and its parent coalition, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), Iranians from all over the world and many distinguished guests from numerous countries gather to support the opposition movement and the people of Iran in the quest for a ‘Free Iran’. For the past few years, this major event has taken place in Paris, but this year it was held in Ashraf 3, the new home of the MEK, in Albania.
By Pooya Stone
This weekend, president Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani was in Tirana, Albania joining a large gathering by the Iranian resistance to call for a free Iran. Among the guests, former Senator Joe Lieberman (D-CT) could be named.
The two spoke at the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK) celebration calling for the fall of the mullahs’ regime and the establishment of a new democratic republic realizing freedom of press, women, and religion. The group advocates a 10-point plan presented by its president-elect Maryam Rajavi for the future of Iran.
By Pooya Stone
During the second day of a series of conferences, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) Maryam Rajavi addressed a wide audience at Ashraf 3 in Albania, where several thousand members of the main Iranian opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or MEK) are based.
By Jubin Katiraie
If you’ve ever searched the news media on subjects related to Iran, you must have noticed the massive amount of negative campaigning that surrounds the subject of Iranian main opposition group, the Mojahedin-e Khalq or MEK.
These reports usually claim that the movement is comprised of a small group of exiles who carry no support among Iranians. But, having that said, no one ever explains – if the group has no support among its own people and carries such small weight in the Iranian politics – then, what all the fuss is about?
By Pooya Stone
On Thursday, 11 June, a number of distinguished speakers gathered in Ashraf-3 in Albania to discuss the policy options of the West with regards to Iran and the role of the Iranian Resistance in bringing eventual change to the country.
Those bringing their experience and expertise to the event were Robert Torricelli, former US Senator; Rudy Giuliani, former Mayor of New York and personal attorney to US President Donald Trump; John Baird, former Foreign Minister of Canada; Robert Joseph, former undersecretary of State for Arms Control and International Security and General James Conway, former Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps.
By Pooya Stone
Iranian Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri claimed that the US didn’t allow the Iranian people to benefit from the nuclear deal and tried to blame Donald Trump for the country’s crumbling economy, but the exact opposite is true, according to a former Member of the European Parliament from the United Kingdom.
By Jubin Katiraie
UN human rights experts have expressed serious concern over the Iranian authorities’ continued denial of appropriate healthcare to political prisoners, in spite of repeated calls.
By Pooya Stone
In recent days, video footage has been published on Iranian social media networks in which elderly members of the Bahai minority at a care center in Karaj, holding placards, are calling on Iranian authorities to stop harassment and pressures against them.
The Iranian authorities are trying to close down the Elder Care Center in Karaj that belongs to the elderly Baha’is.
By Jubin Katiraie
Mohammad Nazari, an Iranian political prisoner being held at Urmia Prison, has suffered a suspected tumor in his stomach because of the effects of a long-term hunger strike; however, the authorities do not allow him to be transferred to hospital.
Mohammad Hossein Aghasi, defense lawyer of the prisoner expressed concern about his client’s situation on Tuesday, July 9, 2019.
