Iran Focus

Paris, 5 Jul – After more than 50 rockets injured 40 and set large areas ablaze at Camp Liberty, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), called for urgent action to protect the camp’s residents.

Iran Focus

London, 5 Jul – Reporting on the plan, agreed in June, between the democratic opposition movements of Iran and Syria, a leading English language voice in the Middle East, The National, called the alliance “an opportunity for the Gulf countries to increase pressure on the Iranian regime, which has been promoting instability in the region.”

Iran Focus

London, 5 Jul – Political prisoners in Iran’s south-eastern city of Zahedan have issued a statement in support of the Free Iran mass rally on July 9 in Paris.

Smuggled out at great risk, the statement declared: “We, political prisoners of the Central Prison of Zahedan, call on all our countrymen and women, both inside the country and abroad, to take part in the mass gathering of Iranians in Paris. The rally will be a demonstration of the defense of the rights of the Iranian people. We need to end the many catastrophes overtaking the country.”

This past weekend, the world lost a great human rights activist and now, Maryam Rajavi, leader of the Iranian Resistance had paid tribute to a fallen hero.

Elie Wiesel, the Romanian-born Jewish-American writer and Holocaust survivor, died on July 2, aged 87.

London, 4 Jul – A leading British politician has expressed support for The Free Iran rally and encouraged governments and global institutions to do the same.

Lord Carlile of Berriew, QC and Joint Chair of the British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom, said that Iran must be persuaded to change its current outlook on human rights. He said that, if necessary, sanctions that were lifted as a result of last year’s nuclear deal should be re-imposed.

London, 4 Jul – Following reports of the staggering number of executions in Iran, a British MEP had described the notion that President Rouhani is in any way a moderate as ‘the worst kind of wishful thinking’.

Julie Girling, an MEP for South West England, stated that although she and other MEPs were concerned for the plight of women in Iran, they were encouraged by the work of the Iranian Resistance.