Women Political Prisoners Suffering Inhumane Care in Iran

As Women’s Day 2016 approaches, the Iranian government continues to be cited by international bodies over its human rights abuses, particularly regarding its female political prisoners. It is estimated that sixty-three women have been executed since Hassan Rouhani’s presidency began in 2013, although sources have noted that many executions are carried out in secret, so this figure could be much higher.

Maryam Akbari Monfared

One political prisoner, Maryam Akbari Monfared, has recently been transferred to a clinic to address her thyroid and eyes. Her family is attempting to get her treated at a rheumatology clinic as well. According to the Human Rights Activists New Agency, her conditions could allow her to have been released under article 134 of the Iranian penal code, but this application has been denied.

Iran’s elections won’t impact people’s future - NCRI’s Alireza Jafarzadeh on CNBC

Alireza Jafarzadeh, Deputy Director of the U.S. Representative Office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), appeared on CNBC on Friday to discuss the elections in Iran for the regime's Parliament and Assembly of Experts.
Watch the full interview here:

Maryam Rajavi: Iran regime will end up weaker regardless of outcome of sham election

The Iranian Resistance's President-elect, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, said that regardless of the outcome of the sham elections for the regime's parliament and the Assembly of Experts, which have no legitimacy whatsoever in the eyes of the Iranian people, ultimately, the regime will be weakened in its entirety, its internal crises will intensify, and the resentment and anger of the population toward the mullahs' corrupt and criminal factions will deepen even  further .....

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WD2016 Call 4 Change: Urge Iran regime to raise minimum age of marriage!

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Iranian women lose confidence in Rouhani, reformists as elections near

On the heels of Iran’s parliamentary elections, Iranian women are losing hope in the reformist party and current Iranian president Hassan Rouhani, according to a report by Reuters.

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Rouhani won the Iranian presidential election in 2013 as a “moderate reformist” who ran on a platform to fix economic and social problems. His supporters had hoped his victory would lead to social change in Iran, but the dial on social freedoms has barely budged in Iran since his election according to rights campaigners, who contest that Rouhani’s presidency has made little progress in regards to political and cultural freedoms.

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iran-It would be naive to think Rouhani is a ‘moderate’: Lord Clarke of Hampstead

extreme to think that Hassan Rouhani, the president of the clerical regime in Iran is a moderate, Lord Tony Clarke, member of the UK House of Lords and former Leader of the British Labor Party said in a speech during a meeting of a delegation of British parliamentarians with Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, in Paris on Friday.

Lord Clarke of Hampstead

Lord Clarke told the meeting: “Rouhani and his ministers who wish to shadow their smiles and mount statements and suggestions that somehow they've become moderates. Moderates? Two recent reports from Amnesty International and United Nations' Committee on the Rights of the Child clearly expose the truth of how the mullahs treat their citizens, especially young people.”

Iran regime deploys 60,000 IRGC forces and foreign mercenaries in Syria

The Iranian regime’s massive campaign of dispatching forces to Syria from the beginning of 2016 has now gained new dimensions and the number of Revolutionary Guards and their non-Iranian mercenaries have doubled, reaching 60,000 in total. This troop deployment crusade follows the failure of the Iranian regime’s so-called “Moharram” plan executed in the final 3 months of 2015. According to this blueprint the Iranian regime, in coordination with Russia, sought to defeat the Free Syrian Army, especially in Aleppo, and occupy the city while enjoying air cover under vicious airstrikes.

Iran-Arasteh Gholivand -If I had 100 children, I would have encouraged them to do the same

Arasteh Gholivand was toiling woman from Azerbaijan. During the Iranian revolution against the Shah, Mrs. Gholivand took part along with her children in all the demonstrations and popular activities that demanded freedom of Iranian nation.

Arasteh Gholivand

After the victory of the Iranian people in toppling the Shah, Mrs. Gholivand supported the opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) and was an outspoken opponent of the backward policies and views of the ruling mullahs who had seized power in her neighborhood and among relatives.

iran-A woman, executed with her unborn child

Soraya Abolfathi was a brave woman who was slain by the Iranian regime in the city of Tabriz (northwestern Iran) while she was pregnant.
 

Soraya Abolfathi

Soraya was majoring in biology at Tabriz University when she was sentenced to death by Moussavi, a cleric, immediately after she slapped him for making an absurd request from her.
 The majority of women and girls who survived Tabriz Prison have written and documented the many atrocities they witnessed and emphasized the kinds of torture and violations of human rights that were carried out against them in this prison.
 Moussavi Tabrizi, the notorious henchman who was previously in charge of a so-called religious court in Tabriz, would suggest to temporarily marry any girl or woman for 3 hours before proceeding with their trials. Most of the women who were sentenced in 1988 received heavy sentences, including execution for not succumbing to his evil propositions despite having not committed any offenses or any charges filed against them.

"Firm Policy on Iran, Supporting Iranian Resistance" conference with a number of British MPs and dignitaries attending

Maryam Rajavi: Rouhani is not a moderate; revenues from deals with Iranian regime are spent by the IRGC on terrorism and war in the Middle East, insecurity in Europe
Friday, February 12, 2016, a conference entitled, "Firm Policyon Iran, Supporting Iranian Resistance", was held at the office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, north of Paris with a number of British MPs, officials and dignitariesparticipating.

Maryam Rajavi

Rt. Honorable David Jones, former senior secretary, President of the International Parliamentary Campaign in Defense of Ashraf and President of the Parliamentary group for a Free and Democratic Iran, presented a declaration signed by 200 members of British Houses of Parliament to Mrs. Maryam Rajavi. 

Maryam Rajavi: Terrorism under the name of Islam owes its existence to Iran regime

In a meeting on Friday with Members of Parliament from the United Kingdom in Paris, Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), said that so long as the mullahs are in power in Iran, terrorism under the banner of Islam will continue to owe its existence to the regime.Maryam Rajavi said the Iranian Resistance is warning yet again of the dangers posed by Iran’s ruling theocracy that inside Iran manifest themselves in the form of flagrant violations of human rights, and in the region work against stability by warmongering, terrorism and genocide in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Lebanon.

200 UK lawmakers announce new Iran policy

More than 200 cross-Party MPs and Peers today called on the UK government to adopt a firm policy towards Iran and make any improvement in bilateral relations conditioned on an end to human rights abuses and regional meddling. The announcement was unveiled at a meeting attended by a delegation of eight MPs and one member of the House of Lords with Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, north of Paris at the headquarters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran

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US intelligence chief: Iran regime is the “foremost state sponsor of terrorism”

The U.S. faces terror threats from across the globe, and Iran continues to be the foremost state sponsor of terrorism, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said in testimony in a Senate hearing on Tuesday.
Clapper noted, even after implementation of the nuclear deal this year, the regime in Iran also poses a “continuing terrorist threat to U.S. interests and partners worldwide”.
“Iran continues to be the foremost state sponsor of terrorism and exerts its influence in regional crises in the Mideast, through the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps–Qods Force, its terrorist partner Lebanese Hezbollah, and proxy groups,” he said, reading from his submitted assessment.

Iran: Mothers, families of martyrs and political prisoner on trial

The trial of 10 men and women, mothers, fathers and relatives of martyrs and political prisoners, was held on Tuesday February 9.
These people were mostly arrested during a peaceful gathering outside Evin Prison on January 20, 2016, and charged with “disrupting public order”.
Simin Eivaz Zadeh (mother of ex-political prisoner Omid Alishenas), Hashem Zeinali (father of missing student Saeed Zeinali thought to be murdered in 1999 uprising) and a number of Mohammad Ali Taheri’s followers were present before the court.

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Iran: Medical leave for female prisoner conditioned on televised confession!

Pressures and threats against Zeinab Jalalian by the Iranian regime’s security apparatus has escalated to a new level.
Officials in Khoy Central Prison, located in West Azerbaijan Province in northwestern Iran, are refusing to allow a medical leave for this Kurdish political prisoner. Jalalian’s lawyer said disagreement with medical leave for this prisoner is very much related to the regime's demand that she agrees to a televised confession....

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IRAN-Protests greet 'executioner' Rouhani's visit to France

At a rally to kick off the march, speaker after speaker condemned Rouhani's human rights record, noting that some 2,000 people have been executed in Iran since he came to power three years ago, as well as Tehran's alliance with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
Maryam Radjavi, president of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (CNRI), condemned Rouhani's "facade of moderation".
"As a top official for 37 years in the religious dictatorship in Iran, Rouhani is implicated in all the atrocities of this regime and as a result should be brought to justice for crimes against humanity," she told the crowd....

IRAN - Photos: Dozens arrested in peaceful protest in Tehran

At least over two dozens people were arrested on Sunday in Tehran during a raid by Iranian regime’s State Security Forces (Police) against those who had gathered outside Tehran’s Evin prison and the home of political prisoner Mohammad Ali Taheri demanding his release.

Mohammad Ali Taheri, founder of a new spiritual group in Iran called Erfan-e-Halgheh, was arrested on 4 May 2011 by officials linked to the Iranian regime’s Revolutionary Guards.


Mr. Taheri, had been condemned to five years in ...

Iran: Soaring divorce rate alarms officials

Divorce rate has had an increasing trend over the past year with 38 of every 100 marriages ending up in divorce.
The statistics on divorce indicate an 8.93 per cent increase in the number of divorces in the first nine months of the Iranian year compared to the same period last year, according to a Justice Ministry advisor whose remarks were published in the state-run Mehr news agency.

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Iran: Number of single-mother families reaches 3 million

According to a new research done by the Center of Cultural Studies and Future Research, the increasing number of divorces which this center puts at 22 per cent is one of the main causes adding to the number of single-mother families

Iran-Many Iranian Women and Youth Feel Failed by Rouhani Ahead of Vote

Many Iranian women and young people are disillusioned about the upcoming elections, desperate for reform but losing hope in Hassan Rouhani and his promise of a freer society, Reuters reports.

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'I am not going to make the same mistake twice. I have decided not to vote,' said Setareh, a university graduate in the northern city of Rasht. 'I voted for Rouhani - was he able to improve my situation? No.

“Rouhani’s supporters hoped that his election victory would lead to social change in country where women have lesser rights than men in areas including inheritance, divorce and child custody and are subject to travel and dress restrictions, and strict Islamic law is enforced by a 'morality police'.”....