In Occidente, è opinione diffusa che ci siano due modi per affrontare il regime iraniano: l'accondiscendenza o la guerra. Dal 1979, la politica di accondiscendenza ha vinto e la maggior parte dei paesi ha voltato la faccia per ignorare le atrocità del regime, al fine di evitare la guerra a tutto campo, che avrebbe dato i suoi problemi.
Tuttavia, vi è una terza opzione, avanzata da Maryam Rajavi, il presidente eletto della Resistenza Iraniana, che sostiene il cambio di regime in Iran causato dal popolo iraniano e dalla resistenza iraniana.
Maryam Rajavi ha sempre asserito che nessuna concessione avrebbe fermato i mullah dalla loro disastrosa strada, poiché il regime è "una teocrazia medievale che non ha la capacità di riforma". Dopo tutto, il principio della regola del clero assoluto è un pilastro della costituzione che non può essere mai cambiato, non che i mullah l'avrebbe mai permesso in ogni caso. Questo principio mina qualsiasi nozione di democrazia e solidifica l'egemonia incontrollata dei mullah.
Maryam Rajavi ha dichiarato: "Non ci sono dubbi: le politiche europee come il dialogo critico, l'impegno costruttivo e il dialogo sui diritti umani non daranno nessun risultato nel cambiare la politica del regime. La politica di accondiscendenza non è il modo per contenere o modificare il regime. Né è la strada per evitare un'altra guerra. L' accondiscendenza incoraggia solo i mullah. "
Ma la guerra con l'Iran minaccerebbe la vita quotidiana del popolo iraniano, potrebbe lasciare il paese vulnerabile all'attacco di gruppi con cattive intenziosi che potrebbero approfittare di un vuoto di potere e minare la legittima opposizione iraniana. Dopo tutto, i mullah accusano già la Resistenza di essere guidata da interessi stranieri.
Maryam Rajavi ha dichiarato: "L'equazione di "un'invasione o pacificazione militare "è un esercizio di inganno politico. Una terza opzione è a portata di mano. Il popolo iraniano e la sua resistenza organizzata hanno la capacità di produrre cambiamenti ".
Il popolo iraniano è stato a lungo oppresso dal regime, ma come abbiamo visto nelle proteste anti-regime a livello nazionale di quest'anno, le persone sono più che disposte a combattere contro il regime, nonostante l'inevitabile brutale repressione.
Maryam Rajavi ha dichiarato: "La presenza di proteste nella società riflette il desiderio iraniano di cambiare regime. La presenza di una resistenza organizzata con 120.000 martiri e più di mezzo milione di prigionieri è indicativa della profondità e dell'intensità del rifiuto della società nei confronti del regime ".
La Resistenza, che guida la maggior parte delle proteste, ha il potere di rovesciare il regime e la volontà di portare democrazia e libertà in Iran. Questo è qualcosa di cui i mullah sono terrorizzati, secondo Maryam Rajavi, il che spiega perché i mullah si sono così disperatamente accaniti nel reprimere le proteste e attaccare la Resistenza all'estero.
Maryam Rajavi ha detto: "Perché in tutte le loro interazioni internazionali, i mullah chiedono l'esercizio della pressione sul movimento di resistenza? Tutti questi non sono indicativi della paranoia dei mullah rispetto alla terza opzione? "
Maryam Rajavi ha spiegato che il Consiglio Nazionale della Resistenza Iraniana (CNRI), una coalizione di forze democratiche, rappresenta la maggioranza della nazione iraniana ed è l'unica garanzia per l'unità dell'Iran dopo la caduta dei mullah e il trasferimento pacifico del potere. Il CNRI si è impegnato a organizzare elezioni libere per un'assemblea costituente entro sei mesi dal cambio di regime e dalla consegna degli affari ai rappresentanti eletti del popolo, nel rispetto di tutte le alleanze internazionali.
Maryam Rajavi ha dichiarato: "Vogliamo ricostruire l'Iran, che i mullah hanno rovinato, attraverso la partecipazione popolare, il ritorno dei nostri esperti e l'amicizia con il resto del mondo. Non cerchiamo né il denaro né le armi dell'Occidente. Vogliamo che rimangano neutrali tra la resistenza iraniana da una parte e il regime al potere dall'altra ".
Demonstration of Haft Tappeh Sugar Cane workers with the support of teachers, merchants and youth in the city of Shush
Maryam Rajavi, saluted the striking workers of the Haft Tappeh Sugar Cane factory and Ahvaz Steel, and said: "Shoosh has risen with the cries of workers, and solidarity and strike of youth, teachers and merchants of bazaar. The enemy attempts in vain to silence the Haft TAppeh deprived workers by suppressing and arresting them, but the cry of "we are hungry, hungry" of the children of Shush, calls the conscience of every human being to rise up against the oppressor mullahs.
Maryam Rajavi called on all youth, especially in Khuzestan, to support the uprising of Shush and the Haft Tappeh and Ahvaz Steel strikers, and urged international human rights defenders and labor and trade unions to condemn the repressive measures of the religious fascism ruling Iran against the workers and to take urgent action for the immediate release of the arrested.
On Sunday November 18, the protest of the brave workers of the Haft Tappeh Sugar Cane was held on the fourteenth day of their strike, with extensive support from marketers, teachers, workers' families, and students from the city of Shush. Following the gathering of protesters in front of the regime's governorate in Shush, repressive forces arrested at least two workers' representatives. At least one of the workers was also wounded by the criminal plainclothes agents.
The massive demonstrations of steel and sugar cane workers began on Sunday despite the presence of the suppressive forces. On the protest rally, shopkeepers shut down their businesses and joined the rally. The protesters chanted: “Shaft Tappeh, (Ahvaz) Steel, we will stand together till the end; Steel; Haft Tappeh, happy bond!; honorable marketer, support, support; Worker, teacher, unity, unity; Down with the oppressor, hail to the worker; the worker dies, he does not accept humiliation; Do not be afraid, do not be afraid, we are all together; Neither threat, nor prison, has no longer any effect; No threat, no surrender; we are all together; we do not go to our house until we take our rights; our enemy is here, they falsely say it is the United States.”
The people who joined the workers had handwritten banners in their hands, reading: "I am also a Haft Tappeh (worker)." It was written on the handwritten banners: Stop illegal labor contracts; stop exploiting workers; a hungry child does not recognize promises; I'm just a worker, I'm not a thug; I love my homeland; but my child is hungry.
Referring to the threats of the repressive forces, the workers' representative said: "If I die, too, you do not have the right to bury me. You must bring my coffin to the strike. My dead body also chants: "No threats, no surrender, we are all together". Massive crowds repeated this slogan, reiterating their resolve to continue their protests.
Meanwhile, the Ahvaz Steel courageous workers continued their strike for the second week in protest to non-payment of their four months' salaries and benefits, and expressed their solidarity with the workers of Haft Tappeh Sugar Cane factory. On the protest rally from the factory to the regime's governorate in Ahvaz, they chanted: “No nation has ever seen this much injustice; The premier and the governor, are collaborators of this mafia; Haft Tappeh Sugar cane, we are present and we stand together; our country is a thief house; it is exemplary in the world!; the worker dies, he does not accept humiliation.”
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
INU- In late October, former New York Mayer Rudy Giuliani wrote an op-ed on Townhall, in which he called on the rest of the world to listen to the Iranian people and recognise the People’s Mujahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI/MEK) as the only legitimate alternative to the current Regime.
That’s why we wanted to dedicate this article to discovering who the MEK are, what they stand for, and why they have the support of the Iranian people and Giuliani. Who are the MEK?
The MEK is the oldest, longest running, best organised, and largest anti-fascist resistance group in the Middle East. They formed in 1965 and have spent the past 53 years fighting the regimes of the Shah and the mullahs in order to bring freedom and democracy to Iran. They are currently lead by Maryam Rajavi, who Giuliani hails as the “leader that [the Regime] fears the most”.
What do the MEK stand for? The MEK believes in freedom, equality, and democracy; something enshrined in their 10-point plan for a Free Iran. 1. Democratic leadership 2. Respect for individual freedoms 3. Abolition of death penalty 4. Separation of Church and State 5. Complete gender equality 6. Reform of the justice system 7. Respect for human rights 8. Equal opportunity for all in employment 9. Peaceful Foreign Policy 10. A non-nuclear Iran
Why does the MEK enjoy such support? The Iranian people recognise that the MEK is the only force capable of helping them overthrow the mullahs’ regime; something evident from the successful people’s protests in 2018 that have been largely directed by the MEK. The Iranian people want the mullahs gone and see that the MEK will not only achieve that, but will also institute the kind of government that the Iranian people want.
Many foreign dignitaries, including Giuliani, feel the same way. They know that Iranians deserve a free and democratic country and the only way to achieve that is with the MEK; a group that already has working relations with the rest of the world. How does the Regime view the MEK?
The Iranian Regime view the MEK as the biggest threat to their continued rule, which is why they spend so much time, money, and effort to eliminate the MEK.
Not only does the Regime ban MEK membership in Iran, which has involved executing 30,000 MEK members en-masse in the summer of 1988 and imprisoning hundreds of thousands more, but they also target the MEK outside of Iran through propaganda campaigns and terrorist plots. Earlier this year, the Regime has launched three separate terrorist attacks against the MEK, which were thankfully foiled by law enforcement in the US and Europe.
In March, they tried to attack the MEK at their Albania headquarters during Iranian New Year celebrations and in August, two Iranian agents were arrested in the US for spying on the MEK. In June, the Regime had its agents attempt to drive a car bomb into an MEK rally attended by 100,000 people.
The Regime often tries to portray the MEK as a fringe group, but why would the Regime pt so much effort into attacking an unimportant group?
As we have seen time and time again over the course of this year – and to be honest the past 40 years – the Iranian Regime has tried to attack the Iranian Resistance using terrorist groups and shadowy murder plots. This should frighten anyone with a commitment to human rights and especially freedom of expression, but how can the West – or indeed, the world at large – target the Iranian Regime and hold them accountable for their crimes?
Well, luckily, Maryam Rajavi, the president-elect of the Iranian Resistance, has a simple plan; one that she laid out for the world in a video message to the Brussels-based conference “Iran’s New Wave of Terrorism – The EU and US responses” in October.
Maryam Rajavi says that the only way to effectively counter the mullahs’ terrorism is to stand firm against the Iranian Regime, rather than being compelled into “silence and surrender”.
Maryam Rajavi said: “The mullahs have repeatedly announced that they can achieve victory through terror. As a result, imposing silence on western governments has been a significant achievement for them. Remaining silent vis-à-vis terrorism is the most damaging form of appeasement of the mullahs’ theocratic regime. Unfortunately, this is currently the prevalent policy in Europe. This is a mistake which costs not only the security of Iranian people but the security of Europe.”
Maryam Rajavi explained that the Iranian Regime is “highly motivated for terrorism” right now, especially as their domestic situation is so untenable; with nationwide protests, a failing economy, and a strong opposition. On the international front, the mullahs are also facing major trouble, with the end of the appeasement policy (which cultivated in the 2015 nuclear deal) and the reimposition of meaningful sanctions against the Iranian Regime by the US.
Maryam Rajavi said that the mullahs have increased suppression at home and are trying to “blackmail” the international community through its expansion of terrorist actions in order to return to the status quo they enjoyed in 2016. These are not rogue individuals, but the systematic actions of the Regime’s leaders; although they will try to shift the blame, even onto the victims.
Maryam Rajavi said: “The regime’s diplomats are systematically engaged in terrorism and espionage. In reality, terrorism is a key instrument for advancing their foreign policy. The decisions for terrorist operations are made at the National Supreme Security Council presided by Hassan Rouhani, and subsequently approved by [Ali] Khamenei.”
Maryam Rajavi issued a list of ways that European governments could confront and contain the Iranian Regime's terrorism, which are noted here:
1. Stand firm against the mullahs
2. Make the dossiers on Iran’s terrorist activities public
3. Close the regime’s embassies and other centres of espionage and terrorism
4. Don’t deal with companies owned or affiliated with the Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) or Khamenei’s executive staff
5. Speak out against grave human rights violations in Iran, like the executions and torture of political prisoners
6. Prosecute the perpetrators of crimes against humanity in Iran
7. Enforce the EU declaration of April 29, 1997, in dealing with the MOIS intelligence personnel and agents, which calls for:
a. The suspension of official bilateral Ministerial visits to or from Iran under the present circumstances
b. Confirmation of the established policy of EU Member States not to supply arms to Iran
c. Cooperation to ensure that visas are not granted to Iranians with intelligence and security functions
d. Concertation in excluding Iranian intelligence personnel from EU Member States
The teachers' nationwide strike in protest of their dire livelihood conditions
From Tuesday morning, November 13, noble teachers refused to attend school classes and went to sit-ins in schools. The strike comes at a time when the repressive forces tried to intimidate them after the nationwide sit-in of last month by arresting and summoning teachers and issuing various threats.
Teachers have gone to strike to protest against the suppression and imprisonment of teachers, the deteriorating situation of livelihoods, the uncontrolled inflation and the decline in purchasing power, and are calling for elimination of discrimination against working and retired educators.
This protest movement took place in different cities including Isfahan, Ahvaz, Kermanshah, Karaj, Ilam, Ardebil, Baneh, Saqez, Jolfa, Babol, Sari, Shahriar, Yazd, Karaj, Marivan, Ivan West, Hamedan, Sanandaj, Shahrekord, Chaboksar, Shiraz, Lamerd, Homayounshahr, Saveh, Jam Township, Bushehr and others, in addition to Tehran.
In many cities, such as Marivan, Divandareh, Sanandaj, Shiraz and Esfahan, students joined the teachers' strike. In Sanandaj, parents also supported the teachers' strike.
Maryam Rajavi, saluted the teachers and educators who have gone to sit-ins in order to secure their rights, and called on the frustrated public, especially the youth, to express solidarity with them, saying: "Anti-cultural and anti-Iranian dictatorship of the mullahs has destroyed culture and education. The catastrophic situation of working and retired teachers is a product of the plundering and repressive policies of the anti-cultural clerical regime, and it becomes worse as long as this regime is in power. A regime that has only brought torture and execution, war and terrorism, poverty, unemployment, corruption and plundering for the people of Iran. "
As US sanctions against the Iranian Regime come into full force, the average person might assume that the leader most feared by the mullahs in Iran is Donald Trump, but this is simply not true.
In fact, the Iranian Regime is most scared of President-elect of the Iranian Resistance Maryam Rajavi, who holds great sway over the Iranian people and will soon lead them to overthrow the mullahs in favour of a democratic system of government in Iran.
Maryam Rajavi scares the Iranian Regime because she has spent years standing up to them and advocating to the world, on behalf of the Iranian people, for tougher sanctions against the mullahs for their criminal behaviour. In fact, you could say that Trump is just following Maryam Rajavi’s lead.
Why should the mullahs be scared of Maryam Rajavi? Maryam Rajavi is a smart, accomplished woman who has spent the entirety of her adult life fighting for a free Iran after joining the Resistance as a teenager. She’s even created a 10-point plan for a Free Iran that focuses on human rights, gender equality, and the installation of democracy.
Unlike any of the mullahs, Maryam Rajavi enjoys great working relationships with countless leaders and politicians across the world, but she also has the support and admiration of the Iranian people. This can be seen through the attendance at her rallies and the actions of the Iranian people who risk their lives to plaster Maryam Rajavi posters up in the streets.
How have the mullahs shown that fear? The mullahs have expressed their fear of Maryam Rajavi in the only way they know how: violence. They imprison Iranians who support Maryam Rajavi or the Iranian Resistance, sometimes even sentencing them to death. They also plot terror attacks against the Iranian Resistance across the world, from Iraq to Europe to the US.
In 2018 alone, the Iranian Regime has been involved in at least four attempted terror attacks against the MEK in Albania, France, the US, and Demark. Maryam Rajavi, and over 600 foreign dignitaries, were present at the Free Iran grand gathering in Paris when the mullahs used their terrorist diplomat Asadollah Assadi to try and bomb the rally.
Former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, who was at the Paris rally, said: “Why would the regime be so methodical in imprisoning, torturing and killing [Iranian Resistance group] MEK supporters in Iran, as well as targeting its senior officials in Paris and New York if it didn’t feel threatened by it? The regime does not doubt the MEK’s strength in Iran and is on record identifying it as the only opposition movement capable of overthrow.”
To be clear, rulers don’t try to imprison or kill people based on support for a politician unless that politician really scares them. Maryam Rajavi terrifies the Iranian Regime. Given that Iran was already facing US sanctions and needed the support of the international community to evade them, the decision to launch attacks against Maryam Rajavi and the Iranian Resistance in Europe and the US seems mind-bogglingly stupid, unless you consider that Maryam Rajavi is a bigger threat to the continued rule of the Iranian Regime than international sanctions.
INU- As protests against the mullahs’ regime in Iran continue to grow, it seems more and more likely that we will soon see the end of their barbaric rule.
As such, it’s important to examine what life will look like in Iran after they’re gone, when Maryam Rajavi and the National Council of Resistance of Iran – who form the Provisional Government of the Democratic Islamic Republic of Iran -are in charge.
In this article, we will look at religion in Iran; specifically how Maryam Rajavi will remove compulsory (i.e. forced) religion in favour of allowing the Iranian people to choose their own faith without fear of retaliation from the government.
Maryam Rajavi and Freedom of religion Maryam Rajavi supports the rights of all people to enjoy religious and denominational freedom as prescribed under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. She would therefore end the compulsory religion of the mullahs and the Sharia law that goes alongside it, ban discrimination against followers of any religion, and separate religion from state.
Ending discrimination against religious minorities Maryam Rajavi would ban any form of discrimination against people on the basis of religion or denomination as the new Iranian government would respect all religions, with no special privileges or rights afforded to followers of any religion. This would also mean that no citizens are deprived of any individual and social rights because of their religion (i.e. Baha’i students being prevented from entering university or Jewish people being prevented from running in elections).
The NCRI wrote on the subject: “No citizens shall enjoy any privileges or be subject to any deprivations in respect of nomination for election, suffrage, employment, education, becoming a judge of any other individual or social rights, for reason of belief or non-belief in a particular religion or denomination.”
Maryam Rajavi would also ban the Iranian government from ever forming an inquisition over the religious beliefs of Iranian citizens and residents, which will help to preserve and protect the dignity of the people.
Maryam Rajavi and the end of compulsory religion in Iran The mullahs currently impose a bastardised version of Islam on the Iranian people, despite the fact that the true message of Islam requires voluntary faith. The mullahs heavily restrict the religious rights of anyone who does not follow the corrupted version of Shiite Islam that the Iranian Regime prescribes.
This means that Sunnis, Jews, Christians, smaller minorities, and even Shiites who read the true word of the Quran rather than the Regime’s malign teaching are subject to abuse, imprisonment, or execution. This is especially true for those who convert from Shiite Islam.
Maryam Rajavi would end compulsory religion and remove any bans on people practising their faith. She and the NCRI believe that all religions and denominations should have the freedom to teach, proselytize, and perform their rituals and traditions in safety.
Maryam Rajavi wants the end of Sharia law and the separation of religion and state Maryam Rajavi would immediately overturn Sharia law and remove the inhumane punishments associated with it, including amputation, stoning, executions, chastisements.
She would also dissolve the shari'a courts, revolutionary courts, and prosecutors' offices that penalise people on religious grounds, before ordering re-trials for those imprisoned, and building a legal system based on international law.
A declaration on freedom of religion, which encompasses all of the points listed here, was unanimously approved by the NCRI in 1985, shortly before Maryam Rajavi was elected president.
Numerous cities across Iran are witnessing protests & strikes by people from all walks of life
As truck drivers throughout Iran continue their new round of nationwide strikes on Friday, marking the third consecutive day, reports indicate people from all walks of life are holding protest rallies against the mullahs’ regime.
The truck drivers’ strike has reached 35 cities in 18 provinces across Iran.
Iranian opposition President Maryam Rajavi has called on all of the country’s youths to provide substantial and spiritual support to the truckers and their families, and international organizations and drivers/workers unions to voice their support for the strike of Iran’s hardworking truckers.
Hail to #Iran’s truck drivers who have started their fourth round of nationwide strike. In addition to their basic rights, they are also demanding freedom of their imprisoned colleagues. #FreeIran2018
A number of medical sciences students at Tehran’s Open University held two rallies in their school’s main building and outside the regime’s Majlis (parliament) expressing their outrage over their current conditions.
Tehran Open University students protesting
In Behbahan, southwest Iran, youths held a rally on Friday at the city’s prayer sermon, protesting not being hired by the local refinery. A group of the participants in the refinery tests rallied once again protesting the authorities’ policy of not hiring locals and hiring non-locals and providing cheaper salaries
Behbahan, southwest Iran
Students of the Chabahar Naval University rallied on Saturday, protesting the school officials’ incompetence. The students are extremely angry at the status of the schools’ food services.
Chahbahar, southern Iran
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On Friday, truck drivers across Iran showed their continued determination through the second day of strikes in cities across the country. The truckers are continuing their protests at a time when Iranian regime authorities are resorting to various measures of pressure and threats aiming to prevent all such protests, especially in such an organized manner.
A number of drivers have been summoned to their local judiciary offices, reports indicate.
The Iranian Resistance calls on all of Iran’s youth to support the truckers in their protests and nationwide strike. International labor unions should condemn the Iranian regime’s repressive measures and voice their support for the drivers’ protests.
Hail to #Iran’s truck drivers who have started their fourth round of nationwide strike. In addition to their basic rights, they are also demanding freedom of their imprisoned colleagues. #FreeIran2018
Truckers in cities across Iran are launching a new round of strikes, protesting not receiving answers to their demands and seeking the release of their arrested colleagues.
In Najafabad, central Iran, truckers are on strike according to a previously made announcement encouraging all drivers to park their vehicles and launch a nationwide protest movement.
One driver says heavy trucks cannot be see on the Isfahan road, indicating all drivers are joining force to send a message to the authorities.
One truck driver says heavy trucks cannot be seen on the Isfahan road
Truck drivers launching a 4th nationwide strike
Najafabad, central Iran, truck drivers are on strike
Truck drivers across Iran were steadfast on their nationwide strike in their last round for 21 consecutive days back in early October.
Reports indicated regime officials in the Ministry of Road & Construction being forced to give in to one of the truckers demands. Transfer fees on loads inside the country will be based on the ton/kilometers standard demanded by the drivers.
This paying system had been one of the protesting drivers’ main demands during the past three weeks in their protest movement.
Sources in the cities of Yazd and Sabzevar reported truckers not backing down on their demands despite various deceptive measures by authorities.
Protesting drivers were also seen rallying on the highway from Sabzevar to Mashhad in northeast Iran. They were seen stopping truckers on the road and having them join their strike.
Authorities dispatched the police and took repressive action against the protesting truck drivers. However, the drivers relentlessly continued their rally and protest at the scene.
Reports indicate this protest movement continuing in various cities including Isfahan, Zarrin Shahr, Rumeshgan, Kermanshah, Shahr-e Kord, and Sirjan.
A significant portion of the steel production line in Mobarakeh of Isfahan Province in central Iran has closed down as a result of the truckers’ strike.
The Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) and the mullahs’ intelligence apparatus are concerned over this initiative expanding to other branches of Iran’s already powder keg society. Taking measures to prevent this very possible expansion, the IRGC and other regime entities are sending out threatening messages in social media.
In other developments, the drivers’ syndicate in Denmark, with 50,000 members, have announced their solidarity with Iranian trucker drivers’ strike.
Iran’s hardworking truck drivers continued their nationwide strike, marking the 19th consecutive day on Thursday.
Truck drivers in the cities of Ardabil (northwest Iran) and Mobarakeh (central) held rallies at the local loading stations, protesting skyrocketing prices for spare parts and low paychecks.
During Wednesday’s protests, drivers and truck owners in Isfahan’s New Shapur district held a protest march outside the loading station’s city office.
Truckers in Isfahan, central Iran, were rallying early Wednesday morning, seeking answers to their rightful demands, including an increase in their paychecks and authorities providing the spare parts they need.
Truck drivers protest against the policies of the regime of the high cost of spare parts and tires
Truck drivers in Zarrin Shahr near Isfahan also held a protest rally in one of the city’s squares.
In the city of Mobarakeh, truckers were seen rallying outside the mayor’s office.
Truck drivers in Isfahan protest against the high cost of spare parts and tires and low transportation fees
Truck drivers hold a banner that reads the high cost of spare parts are breaking the backs of the drivers
Truck drivers gather to protest the high cost of spare parts
Deutsche Welle has covered the continuing strike, emphasizing more truck drivers have been arrested and face “severe punishment.” Prior to this reports also showed store-owners launching a strike in dozens of cities in solidarity with the truckers. Authorities had dispatched a high number of security forces in fear of strikes turning into protests.
Truck drivers protest in Mobarakeh, the suburb of Isfahan
On Tuesday, head of the judiciary in Kermanshah Province, western Iran, said ten individuals had been arrested on charges of “disturbing” the truck drivers.
“Severe measures will be taken against the suspects if these measures continue,” said Mohammad Reza Edalatkhah, according to the state-run ILNA news agency. He also warned those “disrupting the roads” to stop their actions.
Truck drivers protest in Isfahan suburb, Mobarakeh
“If anyone causes any disturbances, such as throwing rocks that may result in the driver wielding off the road or be hurt, and if, God forbid, the driver loses his life, this can be considered as an act of murder for the individual hurling the rock,” he added.
Mohsen Karami, a caretaker of the Qazvin prosecutor’s office in northwest Iran, said 17 individuals had been arrested in this province, adding they had “assaulted” the truck drivers.
“Based on our duty, we will be requesting the utmost punishment for these individuals. If they are found to be guilty of moharebeh (war against God), they will be facing severe punishment, such as execution… Most of these incidents are considered psychological warfare aimed at disrupting the country’s peace while there are no such protests in reality.”
Following the truckers’ protest movement, the mullahs’ regime has been forced to transfer fuel with the rail network.
In an attempt to save face, head of the Oil Products Distribution Department in Fars Province of south-central Iran said in this regard, “Transferring fuel with tanker trucks is very dangerous. That is why in this province we have decided to transfer these oil products with trains.”
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The farmers in Varzaneh, Shatur, and Ziar, east of Isfahan province gathered on Thursday to protest to scarcity of water and lack of access to water resources, among other demands.
Farmers in Varzaneh, Shatur and Ziar, gathered to protest to the scarcity of water
The problem of access to water has become a focus of tension between the regime and the people of Isfahan, where agriculture is one the main sources of employment and income for its citizens. The Iranian regime has historically failed to manage water resources in Isfahan and other provinces.
Another problem is the disproportionate building of dams and water channels, which is mainly orchestrated by the Revolutionary Guards. The IRGC uses its vast financial and political power to use Iran’s water resources to its own benefit. The IRGC specifically builds dams to cater to its own institutions and companies. As a result, the farmers of Isfahan, who depend on the province's water resources to irrigate their lands, are taking the hit.
The mismanagement of water resources has not only resulted in economic damage to farmers but has also caused an environmental crisis in different parts of Iran. This is evident not only in Isfahan, but also in other provinces, such as Khuzestan, where severe dust storms have become a norm, and in Azerbaijan, north of Iran, where Lake Urmia, Iran’s largest salt lake, has lost most of its capacity in recent years.
This is not the first time that the farmers of Isfahan are protesting against the corruption of the Iranian regime. At the beginning of the year, Isfahan farmers staged similar protests and demonstrations that lasted for more than two months. Like many other protests that are happening across Iran in recent months, the slogans of the demonstrations have not only been directed at economic woes but also at the regime in its entirety and are calling for regime change.
The Iranian regime tries to lay the blame on foreign countries, but for the farmers of Isfahan, who have been living under the tyranny of the mullahs for the past four decades, there’s no question as to who is to blame for their daily miseries.
INU- Maryam Rajavi, the President of the Iranian Resistance, was born into a middle-class Iranian family, with many of her siblings also serving as political activists. During the rule of the Shah, her brother Mahmoud was put in prison for his activism, while her sister Narges was killed by the Shah’s secret police (SAVAK).
Maryam Rajavi first became involved in the resistance movement when she was an engineering student at Tehran’s Sharif University of Technology in the 1970s.
Maryam Rajavi joined the student movement of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) in 1973 and served in the group’s social department from 1979 to 1981, during which time she also stood as a candidate for parliament in the first elections following the overthrow of the shah. Maryam Rajavi received over 250,000 votes, but did not gain a seat in parliament, which was later discovered to be the result of widespread voter fraud on behalf of the mullahs that kept all opposition leaders out of parliament.
It was then that Maryam Rajavi suffered another loss, this time at the hands of the mullahs. Her pregnant sister Massoumeh, an industrial engineering student, was arrested, tortured, and hanged for her activism.
In 1985, Maryam Rajavi became joint-leader of the MEK for four years, before becoming its secretary general in 1989. Then in 1993, she took up her current post as president-elect of the parliament-in-exile National Council of Resistance of Iran; a coalition of democratic Iranian opposition groups, with the MEK as its largest member.
Maryam Rajavi’s role is to lead the Iranian people and their organised democratic resistance to the overthrow of the mullahs and to a free Iran. She will serve as the President of Iran for a transitional period, not to exceed six months, until a free and fair election can be held and a truly representative national assembly can be formed. Maryam Rajavi will then hand over power to the elected representatives.
Until that day, Maryam Rajavi serves as a figurehead for the Iranian resistance, inspiring people across Iran to rise up against the mullahs, as well as the head of the true Iranian government.
In her tenure as president of the Iranian Resistance, Maryam Rajavi has achieved so many objectives that it is hard to list them all here, but we will do so briefly. She has:
• Increased the number of women holding leadership positions in the Iranian Resistance to over 50% of total roles
• Made numerous speeches about the tolerant and democratic Islam and decried fundamentalism
• Made the case for the international community not to appease or launch a war on the Iranian Regime, but to instead support the Iranian people and their democratic resistance
• Garnered worldwide support for the Iranian resistance
• Achieved the safe relocation of MEK members from Iraq, where they faced attacks from the Iran-backed government, to Albania
• Successfully led the campaign to remove the MEK from terror watch lists, where they were wrongly placed to appease the Regime
• Started the movement calling for justice for the 30,000 victims of the 1988 Iranian massacre, which largely targeted MEK members
PMOI/MEK Resistance Units being active across Iran
Marking the 25th anniversary of October 22nd, 1993, when the Iranian opposition coalition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) elected Mrs. Maryam Rajavias this entity’s President-elect for the transitional government after the Iranian regime’s overthrow.
Resistance Units linked to the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) have increased their activities recently.
Members of a resistance unit in Markazi (Central) Province put up posters of Maryam Rajavi with Free Iran slogans.
Members of a resistance unit in Yazd, central Iran, also put up Maryam Rajavi posters commemorating this anniversary.
In Tehran, members of resistance units across the city put up Maryam Rajavi posters in a park and other locations, expressing slogans against the regime and hailing Iranian Resistance leader Massoud Rajavi.
Tehran – Resistance Unit 777 at a pedestrian bridge
Tehran – Nezam Abad district
Tehran – Moniriye Mosque
Tehran – North Sabalan district
In Isfahan, central Iran, Resistance Unit 451 also put up posters of Maryam Rajavi with writings explaining her as the symbol of the Iran of tomorrow.
In the city of Saqqez in western Iran, members of a resistance unit took to graffiti and wrote:
“Death to Khamenei, Hail to Rajavi – No to execution and torture”
