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.

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.

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.

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.”

NCRI Welcomes IRGC Designation as a Foreign Terrorist Organization

The representative in Washington for the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), welcomed the designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) by the Secretary of State, which took effect last week.

“The IRGC is not just a terror machine. It controls the lion’s share of the Iranian economy. It controls many economic conglomerates, from oil, gas and petrochemicals, to pharmaceutical, food, and farm products to banking, investment, the auto, airline, aerospace, and shipping industries, ports, highway and railway construction, and much more,” said the NCRI US representative, adding, “All such entities must be identified and blacklisted.”

She emphasized that with the IRGC now designated, it is time to focus on classifying the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) as an FTO. “Just in 2018, five Iranian regime diplomats, including an Ambassador were expelled by France, The Netherlands, and Albania, all on terrorism charges, one diplomat is in jail for delivering the deadly explosives in a failed terror plot in Paris, and a dozen other MOIS agents have been detained in Europe and the United States,” the representative recalled.

The MOIS and the IRGC actively work together in hatching terror plots and assassinations outside Iran.

Since 1981, the National Council of Resistance of Iran and its main component, the Mujahedin-e Khalq, also known as MEK Iran, have repeatedly underscored the role of the IRGC in domestic repression, warmongering, terrorism and hostage-taking abroad.

In a series of books, publications, as well as press conferences and panels, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) has detailed the Rise of the Revolutionary Guards Financial Empire and, how with the blessing of the regime’s Supreme Leader, it managed to gradually gain control of a large segment of the Iranian economy, using the revenues and the profits to fund its terrorist operations in Syria, Yemen, Lebanon, Iraq and beyond.