Maryam Rajavi Congratulates All Muslims on Eid Al-Fitr

Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran 

Maryam Rajavi: "I would like to extend my sincere congratulations on Eid al-Fitr to all Muslims and particularly to my fellow compatriots in Iran.

May the Iranian people’s true emancipation be realized soon with the overthrow of the clerical regime.

"On this Eid al-Fitr, I salute those who have risen up in Iran and pray for the imminent dawn of peace and freedom in Iran and all over the Middle East.

Destruction Of Syrian Dictator's Chemical Plant Is A Necessary Step To End The Catastrophe In Syria

National Council of Resistance of Iran

The targeting of centers and facilities for the production and maintenance of the deadly chemical weapons of the brutal Syrian dictator and the dismantling of the war machine of this regime is an indispensable step to end the Syrian tragedy, which, for seven years, has killed more than 500,000 people among them children , women and The innocent and defenseless people and also displaced half of the Syrian population, and its scope has gone well beyond the borders of this country.

This action, which has been demanded by Syrian people and freedom lovers of this country and other countries in the region, must be completed by expelling the anti-human clerical regime and its Revolutionary Gurards and mercenaries from Syria, Yemen, Iraq and other countries of the region.

Iranian regime is the leading element of survival of Bashar al-Assad and the main source of terrorism and extremism and warmongering in the Middle East and the vast parts of the world.

The policy of appeasement with the ruling religious fascism in Iran has led the regime to unprecedentedly increase its crime against humanity and war crimes without paying any price at all. It is time to put an end to appeasement and neglect against these crimes, which are flagrant violations of internationally recognized rules and standards.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran

Continued strikes of workers and the working people, and protests of looted people and other deprived people

National Council of Resistance of Iran

1. The general strike of the workers of the Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane Company, including the workers of the agricultural, equipment and engineering sectors, continued for the second day. The Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane Workers Syndicate announced on Sunday, March 4, that after the suicide of Ali Naqdi, a deprived cane cutter, the salaries of the workers for the month of January have been paid. But the salaries of other workers of other parts of the factory, as well as February salaries and the benefits and bonuses of the end of the year, have not yet been paid. 

2. The workers of the Ahvaz Steel National Group continued their strike in front of the Ahvaz Governorate for the thirteenth day. They chanted: We stand, we die, we get our rights. On Monday evening, a group of workers and families and relatives of detained workers gathered in front of the Ahvaz court. 

3. More than a hundred U-TA-TEC workers from the southern oil and gas industry in Bushehr went on strike in protest of their unpaid demands that are between one and seven million tomans (~ $200-$1400) per worker. The corporation, which belongs to the Revolutionary Guards Corps, continuously threatens to expel and arrest the deprived workers. Workers are protesting late wage payment, situation of dormitories, and the lack of minimum essential services. 

4. Tabriz railway workers stopped working for the second day in protest of not getting paid their wages and refusing their official recruitment. 

5. Hundreds of deprived farmers of Varzaneh in Isfahan, who have been protesting the regime's refusal to give their water rights since a few days ago, gathered in front of the Benroud Province. They say the clerical government has promised them lies and the governor does not do anything for the farmers. 

6. A group of Haftgel de-salting workers protested against the regime's governorate. 

7. Workers of the vegetable oil factory of the industrial city of Shourmast of Savadkouh gathered in the factory to receive their five months' unpaid salary. 

8. Khorramshahr Municipality workers gathered to protest against non-payment of their six months' salary in front of the office of Khamenei’s representative. 

9. Fuel carriers gathered in Tehran in protest of the monopoly on the distribution of fuel to the regime's dependent companies in front of the regime's oil ministry. 

10. Workers of the Gorgan municipality's outbound and underground projects gathered to receive months of unpaid salaries at the Gorgan City Council. 

11. Ghaemshahr textile workers continue to protest because they did not get paid for three months of salary. 

12. The workers of the Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company, on the twenty-second day of their protest, chanted in front of the Tehran City Council: Mayor, be ashamed, think about us! the workers are awake, they hate thefts; one less embezzlement, our problem will be resolved. 

13. Workers at the Hafez Tile factory in Zarqan in Fars province, called for payment of their several months’ unpaid salary by gathering in front of the factory. 

14. The merchants and shopkeepers in Jolfa objected to not releasing their goods and causing damage to them in the office of the Assistant Economic Directorate of Aras. On the eve of Nowruz they are deprived of being with their families due to poverty and can not provide for their livelihoods. 

15. Those who were approved by the Ilam Agriculture Supervisory Board and have completed all legal procedures for recruitment, gathered in front of the governorate of the city due to the failure to recruit them and their deteriorating livelihoods. 

16. A group of looted people at the Vali Asr Institute in Nasim Shahr, Tehran province, demanded that their deposits be returned. 

17. Merchants of the city of Daran in Isfahan Province gathered to protest the economic turmoil. 

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran 

March 6, 2018 

Iranian workers' protests on the anniversary of the power grab by the mullahs

National Council of Resistance of Iran

Speech of Ali Rabiee, Rouhani’s Minister of Labour, in the ceremony of February 12, in Qa'em Shahr, was interrupted by the protest of a retired worker against the regime. The suffering worker interrupted Rabiee’s speech and, addressing him and other regime agents, said: 'We have been working hard for 37 years, we did a revolution, our revolution went to the hands of the unjust, they came using the name of Islam, they gallop under the umbrella of Islam, there is no one to hold them accountable. I get a salary of one million and a five hundred thousand tomans ($300) , with four family members, I buy my own medicines, social security says, it's not our commitment ... The representatives who are gabbling here ... We say no to lip service! ... Every day they give us hollow promises.
The intelligence agents repeatedly tried to silence the worker, but he continued. The henchman Ali Rabiee, who has been the deputy minister of intelligence and among the highest security elements and suppressor of the workers for many years, first tried to silence him with deception, but the poor worker ignored. Rabiei responded shamelessly to this worker who said that he was eating bread and cheese for 37 years, by saying 'What do you think we eat? We eat the same bread and cheese.'
In Rafsanjan, the deprived and unemployed workers scolded the regime with their protests. An elderly worker, shouted at government agents and speakers, and asked: “W did you do for the unemployed?” Another worker said there were 14,000 unemployed people in the city. A group of Revolutionary Guards went to the participants to prevent protesters from approaching the stage. The regime's agents used loud music to prevent hearing and spreading of the protests.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran

IRAN: The brave youth demonstrated against the regime and their to overthrow the regimeresolve

National Council of Resistance of Iran

On the eve of the thirty-ninth anniversary of the anti-monarchy revolution, along with the protests of the workers and the looted people, the brave youth demonstrated their abhorrence towards the regime of Velayat-e faqih (Islamic Jurist prudence) and their resolve to overthrow this regime:
1.  Setting fire to the National Bank Branch on the 17th Shahrivar Avenuein Nahavand (Feb. 10).
2. Chanting slogans against Khamenei in the streets of Aboozar, Shariati and the three ways of Baba Heidar in Farsan (Chaharmahal Bakhtiari province). The regime's security forces suppressed and dispersed them by shooting in the air.
3. Burning Tire and chanting slogan death on Khamenei in Dehdasht of Lorestan (Feb. 10).
4. Tearing down the pictures of Khomeini, the founder of the Velayat-e faqih, in Ahvaz (Feb. 10)
5. Kicking off the pictures of Khamenei and Khomeini on display in public places in Shahinshahr to mark the anniversary of the revolution (Feb. 10).
6. Setting fire to a Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC)building opposite the police station and at the side of the cement factory in Drood (Feb. 8).
7. Breaking the windows of the Caspian Branch belonging to the IRGC by angry people who were looted by Caspian in Mashhad, at night (Feb. 9).
8. Setting fire to advertising banners with pictures of Khamenei and Khomeini in some villages in Kurdistan (Feb. 9).
9. Tearing down the banners of the regime on the anniversary of the revolution in Mashhad. (Feb. 9).
10. Burning down a large picture of Khamenei and Khomeini by the youth in Kermanshah (Feb. 9).
11. Burning down a large picture of Khamenei and Khomeini with the slogan 'Death to Khamenei' by the brave youth in Malek Shahr of Isfahan (Feb. 9).
12. Burning down a banner advertising regime with images of the heads of the regime in the Nabovat Square in Qom (Feb. 9)
13. Memorial ceremony for the 40th day of the martyrdom of Mohsen Adeli, the brave youth of Dezful killed during the uprising, with a massive crowd. (Feb. 8).
14. Memorial ceremony for the 40th day of the martyrdom of Mehdi Kaozadi killed during the uprising, from Dorood in his hometown village (Feb. 8).
15.  Memorial ceremony for the 40th day of the martyrdom of Ehsan Kheiri, on his tomb in the town of 'Golzar Shahidan'.
The commemoration ceremony of the martyrs is held in spite of restrictions imposed by the intelligence and plainclothes agents and other mercenaries, and the prohibition of mass slogans and any speeches by relatives of the martyrs.
16. Chanting slogans of death to the dictator, death to Khamenei in different parts of Tehran and the cities of Hamedan, Kermanshah, Karaj, Ray and Ahwaz (Feb. 10).
17. Slogans of death to Khamenei are written on public walls in different parts of Tehran. The brave young people of eastern Tehran continue to write on the walls despite the fact that the municipality has commissioned some people to clear the walls.
18. In Khorramabad, the brave young people wrote on the wall: Khamenei is going to go. There are also a slogans of death to Khamenei on the walls in Shahrood and Hamedan.
19. Because of the economic bankruptcy of the regime and the continuous fall in the value of Rial, the Iranian currency, people are withdrawing their money out of the banks. People are lining up in front of many banks in different cities to take their money out.
20. The process of disassociation of the Basij, police and military personnel from the respective organs continues. By burning their ID cards, they deny the regime and emphasize on joining the uprising and the people.
21. Isfahan tile workers staged a gathering protest in front of the municipality of this city (Feb. 10).
22. Workers of Qazvin's Noor Plast Company stopped production for the third day in protest against non-payment of one year's insurance premium and salaries and demanded immediate consideration of their problems. Their previous visits to the regime's governor had no result. (Feb. 10).
23. The peddlers from Tehran's 15th District (Southeast of Tehran) gathered in front of the municipality in protest of banning the local market area. They say their crime was that they did not steal and instead were earning honorably, so the regime's agents deprived them of their market area (Feb. 9).
25. Workers in Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company gathered for the ninth consecutive day in protest against the uncertain status of residential projects in Sepidar 2 and 3 in front of the municipality of Tehran. These houses were to be delivered to the company's housing stockholders in the year 2002. The protesters chanted: 'Death to the oppressor, salute to the worker'(Feb. 10).
25. A number of unemployed graduates of Shoosh protested in front of the Haft Tape Sugar Cane Company (Feb. 9).
26. In Boroujerd, a group of dismissed workers from Saman Tiles Factory gathered in front of the governor office to protest their delayed wages and bonuses (Feb. 8).
27. A number of workers at the terminals and reservoirs of the Mahshahr Port staged a gathering protest. They decided to establish an organization to meet their demands. (Feb. 8).
28.  Workers at Shirvan Power Plant gathered in the power plant to protest lack of a 5-month wages. (Feb. 8).
29. 100 workers from the Shafaq Steel Plant of Takestan stopped working for the fourth time in the past week to protest the failure to meet their demands. (Feb. 8).
30. Peddlers gathered in Karaj to protest the attacks and destroying their carts and kiosks by the
 the municipality's agents and the plundering their property (Feb. 8).
31. A number of employees of the Oil Company in Tehran protested the resolution of the parliamentary assembly committee to reduce the remuneration of the employees' end-of-service (Feb. 8).
32. A group of Plasco merchants gathered again in front of the collapsed Plasco building to protest the uncertainty and disregard of the regime's officials to solve their problems. (Feb. 8).
 33. A group of people looted by Caspian gathered in front of the central bank in Tehran. They had banners written on them: 'The money of all depositors must be paid back at the same time' (Feb. 8). 35. The depositors of the Arman Vahdat Institute from Khuzestan and Caspian of Tehran gathered in front of the Central Bank of Tehran. They protested the of the regime's prevarication to their problems (Feb. 8).
36. The looted people by Caspian Institution in Abhar gathered at the entrance to the institute and threw tomatoes and eggs. The head of the branch closed it out of fear of the rage of the protesters (Feb. 8).
37. Taxi drivers in city of Qum gathered in protest over the high fuel costs and low fares in front of the governor office (Feb. 8).

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran

Iran: Repressive plans and collective arrests in Tehran

National Council of Resistance of Iran

Hossein Rahimi, criminal commander of Broader Tehran State Security Force (SSF) announced on January 22 a new suppressive plan called 'Tehran's night security plan' and said, 'There are hundreds of specialized police officers and operational units in this plan.' He added: “Counter-Narcotics Police, Security Police, Prevention Police, ‘Rahvar’ Police, and Support Unit will participate in the plan.” Earlier, the Revolutionary Guards commander had informed of launching Basij district-based patrols.
Subsequently, on January 23 the regime's media reported of the arrest of 120 people under the guise of 'thugs and rabble' in Tehran, and quoting the Tehran police commander, they wrote: 'These plans are performed every night, but it was made public tonight.'
The plan and the release of news and pictures of these repressive measures indicates the falling regime of the Velayat-e faqih’s fear from continuation of the brave uprisings of the Iranian people. Ghazanfari, an IRGC commander, described the uprising and protests as unprecedented in the history of Iran. (Fars News Agency, January 20). “There will be days and years of trouble ahead,' said another regime official fearing the continuation of the uprising. He added, “The story is not over and the protests are serious symptoms. Iran is ... sick. There is a widespread illness that has spread throughout the country ... there is widespread and organized corruption, and ... if instead of managing the crisis, we try to manage skirting the crisis, today’s threats will turn into a Tsunami tomorrow '(Iranian Diplomacy state run website- January 20).
There is no doubt that these repressive plans will not cure the regime. Because the biggest factor in killing, insecurity and desecration of people in Iran and the region is the religious fascism ruling Iran and Khamenei himself.
 The determination of the youth of Iran to uproot this corrupt and oppressive regime will bring security and tranquillity to Tehran and cities throughout the country, and will bring peace and tranquillity to the region.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran

Iran: Continuing Executions, even on the International Human Rights Day

National Council of Resistance of Iran

Last week coinciding with International Human Rights day, the cycle of lashings, torture and executions continued in Iran under the religious fascism, taking more victims.

From December 11 to 14, Iran witnessed 11 executions in the cities of Sari, Kermanshah, Ardebil, Isfahan, Khuy and Shiraz. These included three public hangings. In this period at least 14 inmates of Karaj prison, west of Tehran, were sentenced to death.

On December 11, five prisoners were mass executed in Diesel Abad prison of Kermanshah, and a prisoner was hanged in Sari prison - Northern Iran.

Aimed at raising the atmosphere of fear across the country, the regime publicly hanged two inmates accused of killing Asghar Ghezavati, a member of Iran regime’s police force. These executions were carried out in the city of Isfahan on December 13..

One of the individuals, Abdul-Majeed Hassan Zehi, was hanged without any prior information of the timing of his execution. Two days before his hanging he was suddenly transferred to solitary confinement. This criminal measure sparked anger among the public.

On December 14 an inmate in the city of Khuy was hanged in public. Another inmate was hanged on the same day in the city of Shiraz.

The relentless continuation of ruthless hangings are aimed at intensifying a climate of fear and preventing social unrest. On December 10 Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Yazdi, commander of the so-called Mohammad Rasulollah Division, missioned to maintain security in Tehran, warned of a social earthquake.

Mahmoud Sadeghi, a member of Iran’s parliament, expressed concern of “super challenges” that await this regime.

The Iranian Resistance calls on the entire Iranian populace, especially the youth, to protest these ruthless punishments and express their solidarity with the victims’ families. The international community should hinge its trade and agreements with this regime on the immediate halt of executions and torture.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran

Iranian Resistance strongly condemns terrorist attacks in Sinai and the killing of hundreds of defenseless worshipers

National Council of Resistance of Iran

The Iranian Resistance strongly condemns the anti-Islamic and inhumane terrorist crime in the north of the Sinai Peninsula that has hitherto caused 235 casualties and numerous injuries, offers its deepest condolences to the Egyptian people and the government of Egypt, especially to the families of victims, and prays for speedy recovery for the wounded.
The brutal crime against humanity in the Sinai Peninsula, particularly against the worshipers, once again showed that the criminal terrorism under the banner of Islam, whether Shia or Sunni, not only has nothing to do with Islam, but is in stark contrast to its great teachings.
The Iranian people, who have been suffering terrorism and fundamentalism for four decades, and 120,000 of their children have been executed by the terrorists ruling Iran, feel the suffering of the Egyptian people well and share it.
This anti-human terrorism in its current dimensions has emerged in the aftermath of the rise of religious fascism in Iran in 1979.  For four decades, the Velayat-e faqih state ruling Iran has been practically the capital of export of terrorism and fundamentalism, and encourager, promoter, educator and exporter of terrorism, and all terrorist entities are directly or indirectly linked to this crime center. The regime is exploiting those countries in the region that has close relations with them to develop and spread terrorism and fundamentalism. In order to put an end to this cycle of blood and horror, it must be defeated in its center in Tehran under the rule of the mullahs.

National Council of Resistance of Iran – Foreign Affairs Committee

Iran: Hunger striking political prisoners in dire conditions, call for urgent action

National Council of Resistance of Iran

Twenty days have passed since the day when at least 18 political prisoners in Gohardasht Prison of Karaj, west of Tehran, launched a hunger strike. Their conditions are reported as very dire. These prisoners began protesting on July 30 following a vicious attack by authorities on the inmates of hall 12 in ward 4. Their personal items and money were stolen, and they were transferred to hall 10 of this ward where they are kept under harsh conditions. These political prisoners are demanding their return to hall 12 and all personal belongings and money returned. The authorities broke the prisoners’ eyeglasses, stole their purchasing cards and used all their credits in the prison store.
These political prisoners, who mostly can barely walk, are suffering from heart, lung, kidney and other illnesses. Many of them are also dealing with chronic headaches and nerve illnesses due to the authorities’ installation of jamming signals in the facility. They are deprived of any medicine. Even the extremely expensive medication purchased by their families outside of the prison are confiscated or stolen by prison authorities.
These hunger striking prisoners are under constant restrictions, threatened to be retransferred to solitary confinement and face other pressures by the authorities. The death row prisoners are also threatened to be executed sooner if they continue their hunger strike.
Dozens of closed circuit cameras and sound surveillance devices have been installed in hall 10 to place even further pressure on these prisoners, have them under 24/7 control and prevent any news about their conditions leaking out of the prison.
Those prisoners suffering from breathing illnesses are seeing their conditions deteriorate during the summer heat due to the lack of air conditioning devices and all windows being sealed with metal plates, preventing any air ventilation.
The lack of hygiene necessities such as soap have led to the spread of skin diseases amongst the prisoners who already lack adequate clothing.
Warning about the lives of these hunger striking political prisoners in Gohardasht and emphasizing the religious fascism ruling Iran is responsible for any damages inflicted to their health, the Iranian Resistance calls upon the international community, especially the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, the UN Human Rights Council and the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran to take urgent action regarding their conditions and save their lives.