NCRI Summit - A Reflection of a Viable Alternative to The Iranian Regime

Leading voices of democracy in Iran, recently spoke at a three-day online conference with participants from more than 100 countries. The National Councilof Resistance of Iran (NCRI) World Summit for a Free Iran, was held with the participation of NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi, as well as a wide range of parliamentarians and political experts. All od the participants have expressed their support for the NCRI as the viable alternative to the theocratic system in place.

The rally summoned support for regime change in Iran from more than 30,000 individual sites in over 100 countries.

Iran: More Than 77,000 Deaths from Coronavirus in 347 Cities

The MEK Iran has announced on July 26, 2020 on their website that the death toll from the coronavirus in 347 cities in Iran had exceeded 77,000. The number of victims in the provinces of Tehran is 19,050, Khorassan-Razavi 5,755, Khouzistan 5,585, Mazandaran 3,495, Alborz 2,425, Fars 1930, Kerman 1110, Hormozgan 940 and Buchehr 835.

Australian Senator Urges UN to Release Elite Students Arrested in Iran

The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) informs that the Australian Senator Eric Abetz wrote a letter to Javaid Rehman, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Iran, urging him to increase pressure on the Iranian regime to release two elite students, Ali Younesi and Amir Hossain Moradi, as well as other young political prisoners.

The Significant Role of Women and MEK Iran in the Recent Student Protests

On January 8, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps shot down a Ukrainian plane with a surface-to-air missile, killing all 176 people on board. After three days of trying to apologize, the regime acknowledged its responsibility, triggering a series of protests in Iran.

This kind of behavior is not new to the regime, much less the response of the courageous Iranian demonstrators, both men and women, in facing the regime. However, one of the most significant features of this recent wave of protests has been the role of Iranian women in leading, organizing and pioneering various scenes.

National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI)

The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), is a broad coalition of organizations, groups and democratic personalities. It was founded in 1981 in Tehran by the initiative of Masoud Rajavi, leader of the Iranian resistance.

A Non-Nuclear Iran

The regime's nuclear weapons program remained a secret until 2002 when the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) held a press conference in which revealed the existence of uranium enrichment facilities in Natanz and a heavy water plant in Arak.

These revelations, based on information provided by the community networks of the People's Mujahedin Organization of Iran or the Mujahedin-e Khalq, encouraged the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to conduct an investigation that eventually took the nuclear dossier of the Iranian regime to the Security Council of the United Nations for punitive sanctions.

Deputy Director of the NCRI'S US Office Examines the IRGC's FTO Designation

Alireza Jafarzadeh of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) penned an op-ed in the Washington Examiner on Sunday, April 21. Entitled ‘Iran’s guard gets a long-overdue but much-deserved terrorist designation’, the piece examines the Iranian regime’s Revolutionary Guard (IRGC) and analyses the recent designation of the group as a foreign terrorist organization (FTO) by the US State Department.

Jafarzadeh began by welcoming the designation. “This is a major step towards effectively countering Tehran’s systemic use of terrorism as a tool of statecraft,” he said.

The IRGC Meets the State Department's Criteria
In order for an entity to be eligible for inclusion in the US government’s terror blacklist, it must meet the State Department’s criteria:

It must be a foreign organization.
It must engage in acts of terrorism or retain the capability and intent to engage in acts of terror.
It must threaten American nationals or the national security of the United States.
Jafarzedah states that IRGC adequately meets these three criteria. “It is the core apparatus of repression, the primary driver of war and export of terrorism, and it runs Iran’s nuclear weapons and missile projects,” he writes.

The Move was Welcomed by the Iranian Opposition
Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK Iran) and the leader of the opposition, President-elect Maryam Rajavi, have long called for the IRGC’s inclusion on the US terror blacklist. Following the announcement, Mrs. Rajavi issued a statement praising the US’s response to a “long-standing and righteous demand of the Iranian Resistance.”

She called the designation an “urgent and necessary step to end war and terrorism throughout the region and the world.”