Merchants in several Iranian cities go on strike

Oct 8-Tebriz, Iran-Bazaar merchants are joining the nationwide strike

• 10/8/2018

Reported by PMOI/MEK

Iran, Oct. 8, 2018 - On Monday, merchants in several Iranian cities went on strike and refused to open for business in an extension of ongoing protests against the regime of Tehran. The strike, which was preplanned and widely distributed across social media channels, is in protest to increasing prices and high inflation rates.

Oct 8-Tebriz, Iran-Bazaar merchants are joining the nationwide strike

According to reports obtained by the PMOI/MEK network inside Iran, until 10 AM local time, markets in at least 11 cities had joined the strike, including in Mashhad, Borazjan, Kermanshah, Gorgan, Zanjan, Baneh, Marivan, Tabriz, Sanandaj, and Saqqez. In Tehran, Iran’s capital, the gold market has shut down as well.

Videos obtained from inside Iran show long rows of shops closed down. The merchants’ strikes is happening in parallel to another ongoing strike by Iran’s truck drivers, which has spread to more than 300 cities in the past weeks. The regime’s security forces have threatened to punish business owners who go on strike but haven’t been able to contain the intensifying wave of strikes.

Oct 8-Tebriz, Iran-Street shopowners join the nationwide strike

In December, economic grievances and government corruption triggered nationwide demonstrations that quickly turned into anti-government protests and demand for regime change. Since then, protests and strikes have continued.

Oct 8-Saghez, Iran-Bazaar merchants are joining the nationwide strike

Oct 8-Sanandaj, Iran-Bazaar merchants are joining the nationwide strike

Oct 8-Sanandaj, Iran-shopowners are joining the nationwide strike

Oct 8-Tabriz, Iran-Bazaar merchants are joining the nationwide strike

Oct 8-Vakilabad Mashhad, Iran-Street merchants are joining the nationwide strike

Mullahs’ Representative; An Orc In New York

Iranians protest against the presence of mullahs' representative "Rouhani" in UNGA 2018 those announce their support of Maryam Rajavi and MEK.

The orcs were the savage and legendary creatures who brought upon horror, ruin, and darkness anywhere they went; they have not crossed any village nor a town unless they have turned it into ashes. Actually, I do not know if these anti-human creatures really existed or not, but in our era, I know some creatures that resemble orcs and remind us of them. Of course, they justify their crimes on the pretext of religion and under the name of GOD, although they are hundreds of times more insidious and more evil than the orcs. Yes, we are talking about the mullahs ruling Iran and in fact, they are signs of the evil spirit of Satan.

The same evil spirit that has perished Iran’s talents, elites, and human assets (the young and educated) across several generations. These Mullahs are the record owners of execution (in terms of population) and they have turned Iran into journalists’ jail. Mullahs also have reduced the age of addiction to ten; they have arrested, imprisoned and tortured hundreds of thousands of freedom activists, and executed 120,000 of the best young men and women of Iran. These anti-human creatures executed 30,000 political prisoners just within a few weeks, most of them supporters of MEK because they did not accept to deny this organization.

They destroyed the lives of millions of Iranians and Iraqis by lengthening the ruinous Iran-Iraq war for 8 years. Mullahs destroyed the industry, economy, agriculture, water, and environmental resources and ancient monuments of a rich nation with a multi-thousand-year civilization by giving the governmental positions to the incompetent and negligent people.

These bloodthirsty creatures have plunged all of the Middle East in war as well as ethnic and religious conflicts; they have also wasted the funds and wealth that belonged to the Iranian people on terrorist adventures and nuclear bomb-making projects. Worse, they have spent the wealth of the Iranian people to suppress them and to enhance the regime’s repressive system; lest the people would not protest, and the sound of their protests would not discomfort the Mullahs.

mullahs’ representative Rouhani, went to NY with modernized deceptions

It is so absurd that the representative of these evil creatures whose honor is to deceive the international community, once again spoke addressing it; perhaps with some modernized deceptions!

Of course, these insidious creatures could never deceive the Iranian people, especially the Iranian opposition, whether these mullahs have white turban or black, or are called moderates or hardliners!

In this regard, the Iranian opposition held a summit in New York  on September 22, with the presence and speech of the former US national security advisor, General James Jones; the former mayor of NY, Rudy Giuliani; the former French foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner; and the former US Attorney General, Michael Mukasey. A large crowd of the Iranian-American community participated. The Participants declared their support of Iran’s democratic alternative led by Mrs. Maryam Rajavi for a democratic change and for establishing a free Iran.

The summit aimed at introducing and recognizing the democratic alternative to the Iran regime, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), and supporting the protests and uprisings of the Iranian people, which began in early 2018 with a clear demand for “Regime change” in Iran.

In a video message addressing the summit, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi highlighted the PMOI‘s role and the role of the resistance units in leading the Iranian’s struggle for freedom and justice, and the obligation of the international community to stand with Iranian people.

Today, in fact, all Iranian, anywhere in the world, follow a common goal; replacing the religious fascism with a democratic and free Iran. The international community should respect Iranians’ determination and expel the terrorist diplomats of Mullahs’ regime from the UN.

Mrs. Maryam Rajavi ended her speech emphasizing on this goal and the struggle for it, concluding:

“Iran’s seat at the United Nations does not belong to the terrorist regime ruling Iran. That seat belongs to the Iranian people and their Resistance.” More…

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Maryam Rajavi: Silence on the Mullahs’ Terrorism, the Most Damaging Kind of Appeasement of the Religious Dictatorship

Maryam Rajavi's message to the Brussels conference

Maryam Rajavi addressed a seminar on “Iran’s New Wave of Terrorism – The EU and US responses,” held on October 4, 2018, at the Residence Palace in Brussels. In her video message to the political dignitaries and audience in the seminar, Maryam Rajavi said:

Brussels conference, Iran’s New Wave of Terrorism

Dear friends, 
I would like to express my appreciation for your attention to the necessity of countering terrorism by Iran’s ruling mullahs.
By using terrorism, the regime wants to compel the world to silence and surrender. The best response to such a regime is firmness. This is a responsible policy for global peace and security.
The mullahs are highly motivated for terrorism.
Popular protests have been continuing for nine months in Iran and the mullahs have not been able to stop them. As the regime’s highest officials have confessed, the PMOI has had an increasing role in organizing and leading the uprisings.
The country’s currency has lost 80 percent of its value in 12 months.
In the meantime, two significant changes on the international level, have stuck the regime in a tight corner, the end to the policy of appeasement and the enforcement of stronger sanctions.
In reaction, the mullahs have stepped up their suppression at home and terrorism abroad. By resorting to terrorism, they seek to blackmail the international community. They refuse to reduce their missile program and instead, continue to expand their terrorist activities.
Take a look at the mullahs’ terrorist plots against the Iranian Resistance over the past few months.
In March, they intended to launch a mass killing in the PMOI’s Nowruz gathering in Albania. In August, the regime’s spies who were gleaning intelligence and preparing for terrorism against the Iranian Resistance in the U.S. were arrested. In September, the headquarters of the Iranian Kurdish parties in Iraq were attacked by rockets, leaving dozens killed or wounded.
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 Khamenei.
There is a division of labor in this regard among different institutions of the regime. The Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) and the Quds Force are tasked with implementing the terrorist schemes.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is responsible for two crucial duties, providing the logistics and covering up the terrorist operations.
The mullahs and their lobbies endeavor to insinuate the theory that, first, the terrorist operations are carried out by arbitrary elements, and second, they are done by some internal factions seeking to sabotage what Rouhani and Zarif do.
These lies, however, can deceive only those who are inclined to be deceived so that they could continue their relations with the mullahs’ theocratic regime.
Fortunately, the joint statement by France’s ministers of interior, finance and foreign affairs, issued on October 2 in response to the regime’s terrorist plot against the gathering of the Iranian Resistanceas well as “a long, meticulous and detailed investigation by (the French intelligence) services” proved that the mullahs’ Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) was behind the scheme.
This foiled the efforts by the mullahs and their agents to attribute the terrorist act to some fictitious circles within the regime in a bid to whitewash the hands of Khamenei, Rouhani, and Zarif in this regard.
It is no longer possible for Rouhani and Zarif to attribute the bombing to its victims, as if they were not part of the religious fascist regime in Tehran and not responsible for the state-sponsored terrorism.
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.
On behalf of the Iranian people, I would like to address the governments of Europe and say:
Be firm against the mullahs;
Make public the dossiers on their terrorist activities;
Close down the regime’s embassies and other centers of espionage and terrorism;
Do not deal with the companies owned or affiliated with the Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and Khamenei’s executive staff. Every deal with these institutions contributes to funding terrorism;
Speak out against executions and torture of political prisoners and grave human rights violations in Iran;
And prosecute the perpetrators of crimes against humanity for the past 40 years in Iran.
And to prevent the Iranian regime’s terrorism in European countries, the EU declaration of April 29, 1997, must be enforced in dealing with the MOIS intelligence personnel and agents. The EU declaration calls for:
- the suspension of official bilateral Ministerial visits to or from Iran under the present circumstances;
- confirmation of the established policy of European Union Member States not to supply arms to Iran;
- cooperation to ensure that visas are not granted to Iranians with intelligence and security functions;
- concertation in excluding Iranian intelligence personnel from European Union Member States.
I thank you all very much.

Iran: Figures acknowledging the regime’s utter failure

Iran’s protests continue to boil

 Acknowledging the complete failure of the mullahs’ ideology in Iran is nothing new. The fact that the Iranian regime’s state media are discussing this subject and the current crises due to the regime’s corrupt apparatus is what is quite new indeed.

New remarks are heard questioning even Iranian regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei himself, and directly or indirectly consider him the main individual responsible for the current crises and status quo, signals a growing sign of unrest and dissent inside the country.

Abolfazl Ghadiani and Alireza Rajaie, two figures known for their close relations with the Iranian regime apparatus, issued a statement published in a variety of media outlets discussing this subject.

“The Islamic republic is now engulfed in a flood of crises and it is the target of numerous daily attacks from different sources. Pretending to be calm and having self-confidence will not resolve any of the countless dilemmas, including apprehensions, detentions, and executions,” the statement reads.

“The newly found power oligarchy seen after the 1979 revolution established entity after entity to maybe be able to overcome the increasing crises. The [regime] has filed time and again. It was inside this oligarch that various circles of power and wealth came to life due to their access to government money. These entities consider the government and the country as their own economic playground, and are specifically in contrast with democratic demands, religious and ethnic minorities, and freedom of the press.”

Questioning the complete apparatus of the religious fascism ruling Iran currently is not a subject limited to these two individuals.

In response to this expanding wave of challenging the mullahs’ religious dictatorship, figures close to Iranian regime Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei are heard raising their voices.

“Necessary measures must be taken in the face of seditions. Why must [Khamenei’s] words be heard and no action be taken?” said Mullahs Sedighi, the temporary Friday prayer imam in Tehran.

It is quite interesting that the figures now challenging Khamenei’s methods were once among the utmost loyalists to the mullahs’ rule.

The truth is that protests are spreading in Iran and the organized resistance movement is gaining force, making a growing number of figures inside the Iranian regime extremely concerned about their own future.

Furthermore, Khamenei lacks the power, influence, and capability to take actions against such voices. This weakness is realized by all of Iran’s society and a growing number of people no longer fear the crackdown imposed by the regime’s security apparatus.

This is allowing the Iranian opposition People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) to increase the number of resistance units across the country. Such entities are escalating their measures against the regime and reigniting hope and courage in the hearts of a restive Iranian population that will no longer tolerate the religious dictatorship’s crackdown.

European politicians call for firm action toward Tehran’s terrorism and human rights violations

The Friends of a Free Iran in the European Parliament held a meeting

The Friends for Free Iran in the European Parliament held a meeting on Wednesday in the legislative body’s headquarters in Strasbourg, France, in which MEPs from various political groups discussed the human rights situation in Iran, ongoing protests in Iran and the Iranian regime’s role in spreading global terrorism.

The meeting was also attended by Dr. Alejo Vidal Quadras, former VP of the European Parliament and president of the International Committee in Search of Justice (ISJ), and Mohammad Mohaddessin, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), who were guest speakers at the event.

Mohaddessin reiterated that in the past months, the Iranian regime has intensified its brutal human rights violations and terrorist behavior. Mohaddessin reminded the audience that the past decades have shown that the use of domestic and foreign violence is key to the Iranian regime’s survival.

I'm pleased to address @Europarl_EN today about the #IranProtests. Strikes & protests continued in September inc by truckers. Despite brutal suppression, in past 9 months the PMOI (MEK) has been able to continue the uprising through close links with Iran's young ppl #FreeIran2018

— Mohammad Mohaddessin (@Mohaddessin) October 3, 2018

In their speeches, MEPs reiterated that under the presidency of Hassan Rouhani, who is seen by many western politicians as a “moderate,” the human rights situation in Iran has deteriorated and executions have increased.

The MEPs also emphasized that in the past nine months, the people of Iran have made it clear through their nationwide protests that only regime change will fix the country’s problems.

“In these circumstances, the expansion of economic relations and investing in the ruling Iranian theocracy must be put in question,” the MEPs declared in a press release, adding that the beneficiary of any trade deal with the Iranian regime will be the Revolutionary Guards, the military outfit that reports to the Iranian regime’s supreme leader and is responsible for suppressing protesters and carrying out terrorist activities abroad.

The meeting’s participants also highlighted the role of the PMOI/MEK in the organization and continuation of ongoing protests in Iran, a fact that has also been acknowledged by the Iranian regime’s authorities.

“This clearly shows the strong presence and influence of the opposition movement in the current uprising and is indicative of the significant role of this movement as the political alternative in the establishment of democracy and human rights in Iran. The 10-point plan proposed by NCRI President Maryam Rajavi, which enjoys a lot of support in the European Parliament, calls for a secular parliamentary democracy, women’s rights, rights for ethnic and religious minorities and end to the death penalty,” the MEPs press release reads.

Speakers at the event also drew attention to the Iranian regime’s increase terrorist activities against the Iranian opposition, especially a foiled attempt at bombing the Free Iran 2018 rally, held in Paris in June, which “could have led to a major catastrophe.” The Free Iran rally was attended by thousands of Iranians as well as dignitaries from various countries.

The participants welcomed the French government’s decision to freeze the assets of Iranian regime

“In addition to the Iranian refugees, it would have left many victims among European and American personalities. The participation of an Iranian diplomat in this terrorist plot is shocking. The silence and inaction of the European Union against this crime is completely unacceptable. EU and its member states should put in place effective punitive measures to counter Tehran’s terrorist plots,” the MEPs warned.

The participants welcomed the French government’s decision to freeze the assets of Iranian regime institutions involved in the terrorist attempt and urged the EU High Representative Federica Mogherini and the member states to condition economic and political relations with Tehran on putting an end to executions, concrete improvement of human rights and women rights and putting a definitive end to terrorism.

Where Does The Truck Drivers Strike Head Towards?

In recent months, protests and strikes by various  Iranian trade unions and organizations, including workers, teachers, and farmers, as a nationwide strike, derived from the deteriorating livelihood and the increasing economic tensions, have thrown down a serious challenge to the mullahs’ regime.

In connection with the growing uprising of the Iranian people, truckers have started their strike in different parts of the country and various cities.

The low cost of freight, the high commission demanded by transportation companies, the increased cost of insurance and social services, the Staggering increase in the cost of fuel, tires and the price of spare parts, due to the mismanagement and plundering by the regime’s leaders, and the spiral fall of the national currency and fluctuations in the Foreign Exchange Market are part of problems that the truck drivers are faced with.

The truckers have demanded a 35 to 50 percent increase in fares, and have stated that would not consent to less than 35 percent.

International transport unions have supported the strike of the truck drivers in Iran, among them, the International Union of drivers in the United States and Canada with 1.400.000 members, which the pictures of their supports have been published in Virginia and other States.

The role of the truck drivers in the transportation industry in Iran

While, in Iran, about 90 percent of the cargoes and passengers are transported by roads, over the past few years, the country’s road transport industry, has experienced lots of ups and downs.

Although, the road transport industry makes the most important connection bridge among the producers, merchants, exporters, importers, and consumers, but the adoption of non-expert and anti-people policies by the Mullahs’ regime has marginalized this industry and has pushed it to the brink of bankruptcy.

The truck driving is considered as a high-risk job in Iran due to the substandard roads, which are rated as one of the most unsafe roads in the world. Iran has one of the highest rates of road accidents in the world.

Alongside the growing uprisings in Iran, the nationwide strikes of truckers continue in various periods.

Instead of considering and responding to the legitimate demands of the toiler derivers, mullahs’ regime tried to end and cover up the strikes, temporarily, in the previous rounds by intimidation and windy promises.

After two rounds of widespread strikes in June and August this year, the truckers went on the third round of strikes on Sunday, September 23, in 136 cities in 31 provinces and the main loading terminals of the country were shut down.

The fuel truck drivers working in refineries in cities such as Tabriz, Kerman, Bandar Abbas and Arak joined to the nationwide truckers strike movement.

Given the serious hazardous consequences of this massive protest movement, Iranian regime authorities have resorted to threatening the truck drivers. In this regards the attorney general Mohammad Ali Montazeri announced, “Based on our information, there are individuals seen in various paths of some cities, provoking truck drivers and causing problems for them during their commuting. These individuals will be considered criminals and thieves, and they will be punished according to the law. In some cases, it will lead to their execution,” he said in remarks broadcasted by the state-run TV on Saturday.

At the same time, Ali al-Qasimehr, the chief justice of the Fars province, accused the strikers of “corruption on earth,” and IRGC Brigadier General Mohammad Sharafi, one of the commanders of State Security Forces, threatens the protesters with harsh action. (State TV – September 29).

In a statement, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the president-elected by the National Council of Resistance of Iran(NCRI), saluted the honorable striking truckers throughout Iran and stated, “The ruling mullahs neither want nor can respond to legitimate demands of striking drivers,” and, “Realization of these demands is only possible with the establishment of democracy and people’s sovereignty.”

Mrs. Maryam Rajavi called on the general public, especially the youth, to support the strikers.

The nationwide strike of truck drivers, in conjunction with other strata, guilds and the uprising of the Iranian people, will extend, deepen and continue until the regime change in Iran.

Iranian opposition welcomes German court's decision to extradite Assadi

German Court issues order to extradite Assadi

The state Supreme Court in Bamberg, Germany, agreed to extradition of the clerical regime’s diplomat Assadollah Assadi to Belgium. The court's statement reiterated: "All extradition conditions have been met and there are no barriers to extradition." The accused cannot "invoke diplomatic immunity" and "the continuation of the extradition proceedings is the responsibility of the general prosecutor in Bamberg."

As such, the intensive efforts of the religious and terrorist dictatorship ruling Iran to abscond the terrorist diplomat who planned and organized the bombing at the great Iranian gathering in Paris on June 30 failed. Since the arrest of Assadi in Germany on July 1, 2018, the mullahs have been trying their best with threatening, intimidation and pressure on European countries to bring him back to Austria and make him escape justice. Assadollah Assadi has been involved in assassination, spying and murder over the past three decades, and the PMOI has revealed his criminal and terrorist record in Iraq since 10 years ago.

The decision to commit this major terrorist crime was taken at the highest level of the regime, i.e. the Supreme Security Council, with the presence of Rouhani and Zarif, and was confirmed by Khamenei. The submissive efforts of the Iranian regime and the lobbyists and regime allies to blame this terrorist act to the fake self-acting circles within the regime and to acquit Rouhani’s faction or Khamenei is so unfounded that with the slightest investigation its factitiousness is revealed.

With the beginning of the uprising of the Iranian people in December 2017, the regime has found its salvation in exacerbating the suppression and export of terrorism. The two failed plots against the Mojahedin in March this year in Albania and the attack on the Iranian community in Paris in June of this year, and the arrest of two intelligence agents in the United States in August who were spying on the Mojahedin are among these measures.

The Iranian resistance welcomes the decision of the Bamberg Supreme Court and stresses on speeding up judicial proceedings in the case of the largest Iranian state-sponsored terrorism project and its operational commander, Assadollah Assadi, and disclosure of all its details. The Iranian regime's state-sponsored terrorism should be referred to the United Nations Security Council.

Inaction with respect to the unhindered terrorism of the mullahs, whose diplomats are directly involved in, leaves the door open for continuing the crimes by the clerical regime. Therefore, the European Union and all European countries must adopt a decisive policy. Expelling all regime intelligence agents, those who work in diplomatic portfolios, or those who work under the guise of a journalist or businessman, or other covering associations is among those. Embassies and Representations of the regime should be shut down and European ambassadors should be recalled from Iran.