How the IRGC FTO blacklisting will cripple Iran’s regime

Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, IRGC as a FTO

Analysis by PMOI/MEK

July 3, 2018 - Following years of Iran’s regime enjoying the results of appeasement seen practiced on both sides of the Atlantic, the mullahs’ are now facing a very new and extreme crisis.

With protests escalating across the country, reports indicate the Trump administration is now weighing the possibility of blacklisting the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization, FTO.

The IRGC acts as the backbone 

Discussion Panel of Experts on IRGC and Sanctions

'Panel Discussion on Iran'

Reported by PMOI/MEK

June 29, 2018 - A panel of experts in Paris discussed the IRGC and the effect of sanctions on its nefarious activities on the eve of the Free Iran Gathering. The panel was moderated by Lincoln Bloomfield, Ambassador,

Maryam Rajavi: No to Death Penalty in Iran

Why does the world remain silent when Iranian political prisoners are tormented to death or hanged?

June 18, 2018 - Why does the world remain silent when Iranian political prisoners are tormented to death or hanged?

Why is the world silent when juveniles are executed in Iran?

Why is this barbaric tyranny not pressured to publish at least a complete list of names of those it executes?

Today, a large number of our defenseless countrymen are secretly executed in prisons across the country. Several thousand more are on the death row.

We think of their parents, and of their wives and children who spend nights and days under stress.
We think of the 

New protests report from numerous cities across Iran

Reported by PMOI/MEK

Iran, June 19, 2018 - Once again cities from across Iran are reporting a variety of protests today with people making their voices heard and demanding authorities take action based on their demands.

In Rasht, northern Iran, Caspian credit firm clients rallied outside a branch of this company – linked to the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) – demanding their

Over 40 women, girls mass raped in southeast Iran

Reported by; PMOI/MEK

Iran, June 19, 2018 - Atmosphere in the city of Iranshahr, southeast Iran, has been very tense in the past few days as reports of a mass rape case involving 41 women and girls by a gang enjoying support from Iranian regime authorities are spreading fast, resulting in growing anger.

The victims are unveiling new details of the regime’s military and security forces’ involvement in this crime. A number of these women and girls are saying they were abducted by “armed individuals wearing police and military

How Al-Qaeda’s ‘historian’ Mustafa Hamed spreads propaganda from Iran

Afghan-Arab Mustafa Hamed, is Al-Qaeda’s most prominent historian and is blacklisted by the US Treasury.

Also known as Abu al-Walid al-Masri, he emerged from Tehran to resume his activity in lecturing radical groups through his website named "Mafa" earlier this year.

Back to Tehran from Qatar

Abu al-Walid, a friend of Osama bin Laden and Ayman al-

What were Qasem Soleimani and Khamenei's son doing in Baghdad?

Just hours after a storage site housing ballots from Iraq’s parliamentary election caught fire, the Iranian ambassador to Iraq has invited on Sunday Mojtaba Khamenei, son of the Iranian Supreme Leader, and Qasem Soleimani, senior Revolutionary Guard officer, for an Iftar meal at the embassy headquarters

Hamid Baghaei: the fights between Rouhani, IRGC, Intelligence and the Judiciary are fake fights

The regime’s former first vice president acknowledged in an unprecedented manner yesterday (Wednesday, February 14) that as far as suppression and repression are considered, there is no difference between the regime’s various factions.

Hamid Baghaei said: "the presidential institution, the IRGC intelligence, the ministry of intelligence ... these are all the same... swear to God, these are the same. Their quarrels are fake fights. The IRGC intelligence and Mr. Rouhani's government are on the same sheet. The ministry of intelligence is also the same. The judiciary is also the same. These are all acts to fool the people. "

Iran devising phone apps for ‘mass surveillance’ of dissidents, new report says

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times - Thursday, February 15, 2018

Iran’s intelligence services have “significantly accelerated” spying on their own citizens in the wake of anti-regime protests that rocked the nation, according to an extensive investigation released Thursday by a leading Iranian exile dissident group.

The Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran, relying on what it says include sources inside the government, contends the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and Ministry of Intelligence and Security are engaging in “mass surveillance” of protesters and dissidents by 

NCRI: Iran spying on MILLIONS worldwide using ‘military-made apps on iTunes and Google'

By Henry Holloway

CYBER WARFARE: Iranian opposition group have alleged Tehran is using military-made apps to spy

Daily Star-15th February 2018- Tehran’s elite military wing the Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) is accused of being behind a huge cyberwarfare empire being used to police its own people.
This comes in the wake of huge protests across Iran as thousands of 142 cities call for the overthrow of the Islamic regime – which celebrated its 39th anniversary on Sunday.
Campaigners from the National Council of Resistance of Iran( NCRI ) have now laid out the scope of Iran’s cyber-developing capabilities.
Published today, the damning report Iran: Cyber Repression accused the IRGC of developing apps which are

We Should Listen Closely To Iran

Supreme Leader of Iran, Ali Khamenei (Photo by Supreme Leader Press Office / Handout/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

As the world continues to debate the recent Iranian outburst of protests, its "lack of leadership" as they claim, and the road ahead, there is no doubt in the minds of senior Iranian regime officials over who led, and continues to lead, this latest uprising that continues to rattle the very pillars of the mullahs' rule.

IRAN REGIME’S MILITARY OFFICIAL ADMITS TO LEADING ROLE OF THE MEK / PMOI IN RECENT UPRISINGS

by Mahmood Hakamian

“The protests that erupted recently across Iran involved setting fire to the State Security Force’s motorcycles, breaking the windows of religious seminaries in Abhar and Zanjan, setting fire to police kiosks in Arak, opening fire on the IRGC with hunting rifles, assaulting a State Security Force officer with a brick….” according to Brig. Gen. Rasoul Sanai, Political Affairs Deputy for the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.

Sanai spoke about the behind the scenes developments of the recent unrest, “Their plan was to spread the riots from

The shining stars and heroines of the Iranian Resistance

February 8th marks the anniversary of a fate-making event in the history of the Iranian people's quest for freedom.

On February 8, 1982, Khomeini's Revolutionary Guards surrounded and destroyed the headquarters and killed some of the most prominent leading figures of the PMOI. Khomeini –still alive in those days-- thought that by dealing such a heavy blow to the opposition, he could put up a show of force, demoralize the staunch supporters of the movement and break their resistance in prisons and outside.

It was an unequal battle between thousands of heavily armed guards vs. 20 freedom fighters. He thought victory is certain. 

THE NUMBERS THAT PUT IRAN PROTESTS IN PERSPECTIVE

By Heshmat Alavi

The first chants heard in the Iran uprising launching on December 28th focused on skyrocketing prices and unemployment.The scope and depth of Iran’s unemployment are at times unbelievable, especially when you consider the fact that college graduates with Master’s degrees are seen as simple workers in construction sites, carrying loads in bazaars and other such means in their desperate effort to make ends meet.

A look at these statistics, from the regime’s own state-run media, provides an image and understanding of the power behind this time-bomb waiting to explode and bring 

Iran: Women stage protests in Rasht and Tehran

Tuesday, February 6, 2018, Iranian women actively participated in protests in Rasht and Tehran, demanding reimbursement of their deposits plundered by Caspian Credit Institute.

In a symbolic act in Rasht, capital of Gilan Province in northern Iran, women put on white shrouds and gathered outside the Governorate building and subsequently marched to the Golsar Branch of Caspian Credit Institute owned by the Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).

Iranian Revolutionary Guards: Terror Within And Abroad

“Cold-blooded murders”, a friend of mine cried out recently as she recalled gruesome memories from Iran while reflecting on the newly levied sanctions against Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC). Encouraged and emboldened, her voice was filled with anger, determination, and a newfound hope that echoed the braveness of protesters and dissident university students in Iran of today. Her hope is a reminder that terror designation on the IRGC pursuant to Executive Order13224 and related Presidential executive decisions carry a subtle but dual message, affecting not only Iranian regime’s activities abroad but also its enemies within.

WHY AREN’T THE PROTESTS FOR JUSTICE AND DEMOCRACY EXTINGUISHING IN IRAN?

By Mahdavi Nasim

Disappointed by the deteriorating economic condition and rampant official corruption, the suppressed Iranian people poured into the streets and demanded radical political changes in Iran. The events led to widespread protests that astounded the world and shook the pillars of the power in the country.

Impotent to respond to the legitimate demands of people, as it was expected, the tyranny regime answered back the protesters with an iron fist by security forces and Basij Para militias affiliated to the IRGC. The crackdown’s toll rose to 50 and about 8000 arrests, more than 20 were tormented to death in the custody in different cities according to the reliable sources inside Iran.

Iran: Mother Pressured Ask Her Sons To Break Their Hunger Strike

The Department of Intelligence of Sanandaj, capital of the Iranian Kurdistan province, summoned Ramin Hossein Panahi’s mother on February 2, 2018. She was pressured to ask her sons to break their hunger strike.
Responded to the Intelligence Department officials Mrs. Dayeh Sahrifeh said, “My sons have been unjustly sentenced to unfair sentences. A great injustice has been done to them. If the regime does not answer their demand, their father and I will set ourselves ablaze in front of the Department of Intelligence of Sanandaj.”
political prisoners Ramin and Afshin Hossein Panahi continue their hunger strike, protesting their death and life in prison sentences, respectively. The two have already been transferred to solitary confinement in Sanandaj Central Prison, west of Iran.
Ramin Hossein Panahi, a 22-year-old member of the Komala opposition group, was arrested on 23 June 2017 after he took part in clashes with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards in the neighborhood of Shalman, in Sanandaj, Kurdistan Province, northwest Iran.
He was shot and sustained three bullet wounds. He was then transferred to the Sanandaj Intelligence Agency Detention Center. He has been charged with “enmity against God.”
Earlier this year Amnesty International in its statement

NCRI Women’s Committee urges censure of the arrests of Iranian women for shunning the veil and calls for urgent action for their unconditional release

Thursday, February 1, 2018, the IRGC-backed FARS news agency announced that the regime’s repressive forces had arrested 29 women in Tehran for not having the veil, and “turned them into the Judiciary.” The arrests were claimed to be “in line with social security” and the regime’s Judiciary has reportedly set heavy bails for the freedom of the apprehended

IRAN REGIME’S MILITARY OFFICIAL ADMITS TO LEADING ROLE OF THE MEK / PMOI IN RECENT UPRISINGS

by Mahmood Hakamian

“The protests that erupted recently across Iran involved setting fire to the State Security Force’s motorcycles, breaking the windows of religious seminaries in Abhar and Zanjan, setting fire to police kiosks in Arak, opening fire on the IRGC with hunting rifles, assaulting a State Security Force officer with a brick….” according to Brig. Gen. Rasoul Sanai, Political Affairs Deputy for the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps.

Sanai spoke about the behind the scenes developments of the recent unrest, “Their plan was to spread the riots from