IRAN -Dempsey: Iran may use sanction relief for its proxies

General Martin Dempsey

General Martin Dempsey, the U.S.’s most senior military officer, 

said on Tuesday that if a nuclear deal between the Iranian regime and the world powers was reached that led to sanctions relief for the regime, it would likely spend newfound resources on its military and its surrogate groups in the region.

Dempsey told a small group of reporters in Jerusalem that 

Washington would work to mitigate Iran-related risks, with

 or without a deal.

Dempsey: Iran may use sanction relief for its proxies

IRAN - Unseating the mullahs from power in Iran | EurActiv

As the June 31 deadline for an agreement on Iran’s nuclear programs draws closer, there are no signs that Tehran is ready accept the terms of the international community, writes Alejo Vidal-Quadras. it’s high time for Western leaders to support the democratic opposition and permanently unseat the mullahs from power, he argues.

Alejo Vidal-Quadras was Vice-President of European Parliament from 1999-2014. He currently chairs the Brussels-based International Committee in Search of Justice (ISJ).

The Iranian Foreign Ministry is fuming this week as 220 members of the European Parliament released a statement supporting the democratic opposition to the regime and demanding that a possible international accord over Iran’s illicit nuclear program include provisions for inspections of its military sites.   

Unseating the mullahs from power in Iran | EurActiv

IRAN -Let's Bring the Voice of the Iranian People Into Our Iran Policy

MARYAM  RAJAVI

If you’re paying attention to the Middle East today, you’re paying attention to Iran. The Islamic Republic has its hand in a number of regional conflicts, in addition to its long-standing support for Middle Eastern terrorist groups. And of course this comes at a time when Iran could also be on the verge of potentially inking an agreement with six world powers which would give it relief from sanctions related to its work on nuclear weapons technology.

Let's Bring the Voice of the Iranian People Into Our Iran Policy

IRAN- MARJAN Al Arabiya TV - “Hellish Era”, Iranian artist&singer Marjan’s memoires

MARJAN

The fourth sequel in the Al Arabiya TV program “Hellish Era” was devoted to an interview with Ms. Marjan, a movie actor and a singer.

Ms. Marjan: My name is Marjan. I was a movie actor and a singer before the [1979] revolution. After the revolution, all such activities were banned as Khomeini’s Islamic regime came to power. This regime was against artists and was adamantly against women. Music was foreign to it and it considered music religiously forbidden. Thus musical instruments were banned as well. Anyone who had musical instruments at home, such as guitar, violin and piano, it would be confiscated. 

Al Arabiya TV - “Hellish Era”, Iranian artist&singer Marjan’s memoires

IRAN- Maryam Rajavi - Message of Hope During France’s 2015 Flower Festival | PRLog

Maryam Rajavi - Message of Hope During France’s 2015 Flower Festival | PRLog

iran- Dr. Antonio Stango : If You Respect the Iranian People, You Should Support Them, not the Regime

Dr. Antonio Stango 

Recently Linda Mason of the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Public Leadership wrote an editorial for CNN, suggesting that Americans have a mistaken view of the people of Iran. She describes a recent trip that she took to the Islamic Republic and the surprise that she felt at finding the people to be warm, open, and interested in Western culture.

I’ve heard this argument many times before, but I have a hard time believing that the average westerner views everyday Iranians, as Mason says, through the prism of the 1979 hostage-taking at the US embassy. I’m sure that the average American understands that that incident was the work of a group of Islamist revolutionaries, and not the entire population of the country, working in tandem.

About half of the population of today’s Iran hadn’t even been born yet at the time of the revolution and the hostage crisis. A person would have to have a one-dimensional view of the country and its people to believe that such events reflect on the character or ideologies of people who had nothing to do with them.

If You Respect the Iranian People, You Should Support Them, not the Regime

IRAN -TO THE GREAT IRANIAN GATHERING PARIS- FRANCE

 With Maryam Rajavi inVilpant

United against Islamic  Fundamentalism and Terrorism by attending in the grand gathering of  Iran’ian in  Paris on June 13, 2015 -France.

Iran- Iranians Assert Themselves by increasingly voicing their opposition to the mullahs’ regime

Protests are getting momentum in Iran

Gulf News - 06/04/2015 - Recent months have witnessed a series of unrelated, nationwide protests in Iran by teachers demanding salary hikes as well as ethnic groups decrying government abuse and calling for greater rights. With the exception of the teachers, most of the protests erupted spontaneously sparked by incidents as well as pent-up anger and frustration.
The protests potentially signal that Iran is not immune to the winds of change blowing across the Middle East and North Africa that is locked in multiple, often bloody conflicts between social and political forces demanding political change and conservative governments determined to cling to the status quo.

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Iran - Camp Liberty residents tell their plight to Al-Arabiya TV

Sabriya and Shokriya Shafabin tell their story:

Al Arabiya: Before it leaving Iraq, the United States asked Iraq to guarantee the security of Iranian refugees in Camp Ashraf, but Nuri Maliki’s forces attacked this camp several times and resorted to a massacre of the residents.

Shokriya: In Ashraf we said that Ashraf is like a mini Iran. All Iranian ethnicities are present; the Baluchis, Kurds, Fars and there really is no difference between them. Ashraf was a .small size Iran and a model for the Iran of the future.

Camp Liberty residents tell their plight to Al-Arabiya TV

Iran: Visiting MEPs barred from speaking to foreign media

Members of European Parliament visiting Tehran were prevented Sunday to meet the foreign press and an official of the security services threatened journalists of reprisals if they were filming or taking pictures of the incident.

A press conference was scheduled for 12:00 local (7:30 GMT) in the hotel where the delegation of MEPs led by German Elmar Brok, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament is staying.

The police prevented Mr Brok to speak to the foreign press, first inside the hotel and on the sidewalk.

Iran: Visiting MEPs barred from speaking to foreign media