IRAN- Elaine Chao: Iran is penalizing women

Elaine Chao

Elaine Chao, a former U.S. Secretary of Labor, was among over 600 political leaders and dignitaries that attended the recent major gathering of the Iranian opposition in Paris.

Mrs. Chao expressed her support for ‘those who desire democratic change’ in Iran. She particularly emphasized on the need to fight against the repressive policies of the Iranian regime against women and girls.

Text of remarks by Hon. Elaine Chao, former U.S. Secretary of Labor – Paris, June 13, 2015:

It’s a rare opportunity to be here, to join my colleagues from the United States and also around the world to express support with those who desire democratic change and fundamental freedoms to the people of Iran.

Elaine Chao: Iran is penalizing women

IRAN - Ex-IAEA official: P5+1 deal will keep Iran as a nuclear weapons-threshold state

The current terms of the agreement under negotiation between the major world powers and the Iranian regime will allow it to remain as a nuclear weapons-threshold state, Olli Heinonen, former deputy chief of the UN nuclear watchdog, has warned.

Dr. Olli Heinonen, former Deputy Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), made the remarks in a panel of the Foundation for Middle Eastern Studies in Paris on June 12. The panel also included former CIA director James Woolsey; former White House Director of Public Liaison Linda Chavez; Alireza Jafarzadeh, deputy director of the US representative office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI); and Dr. Bruno Tertrais, Senior Research Fellow at France's Foundation for Strategic Research (FRS).

Text of remarks by Dr. Olli Heinonen, former Deputy Director General of the IAEA, at FEMO panel in Paris on June 12, 2015:

Thank you very much to the organizers for inviting me to talk here and share my views with you. I'm actually looking forward to interacting with the great audience that is here today. So I'm not going to be very dogmatic in my presentation but I’ll make maybe four or five points about where we stand today.

Ex-IAEA official: P5+1 deal will keep Iran as a nuclear weapons-threshold state

IRAN - 50 years of struggle for Freedom in Iran

The 20th of June, Saturday commemorates the 34th anniversary of the birth of the Iranian Resistance to gain the most basic human rights of the Iranian people and to establish a democracy in Iran. On that day Ayatollah Khomeini himself gave the orders for the Guards Corps to open fire on half a million pro-democracy Iranians protestors.

13/06/2015 Iranians marching to enter the rally, June 13, 2015 FRANCE, Paris : Iranians having a major Iran Freedom rally in Parc des Expositions exhibition center on June 13, 2015 in Villepinte. Some 100,000 Iranians and their international supporters including 600 international lawmakers and personalities attend the rally in support of Iranian opposition leader Maryam Rajavi’s 10-point plan for a future free Iran. They say that in order to stop nuclear proliferation in Iran and defeat Islamic fundamentalism there needs to be support for Iran’s Parliament-in-exile, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), to bring about regime change.

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IRAN - 34 years of Resistance against religious tyranny in Iran

Saturday June 20 marks the 34th anniversary of the start of the Iranian Resistance to obtain the most basic rights of Iranians and to establish human rights and democracy. On that day, Khomeini personally ordered the Guards Corps to open fire on a peaceful protest by half-a-million pro-democracy Iranians.

From that day, the reign of terror began by the mullahs. But that day in 1981 also had a very political and strategic significance since it marked the end of the era of reformism of the clerical regime. The regime remains as ruthless and incapable of reform to the day.

34 years of Resistance against religious tyranny in Iran