The Washington Post, By Brian Murphy August 12 In 1988, nearly a decade after Iran’s Islamic revolution, the country’s leader-in-waiting faced a decision. He could stay silent as Iran stepped up a campaign of mass executions, torture and gulag-style imprisonment against perceived internal opponents. Or he could follow his conscience and speak out. Ayatollah Hossein Ali […]

The publication of a shocking audio tape in which the former heir to then-Iranian regime’s supreme leader, Khomeini, a meeting with members of the “death commission” 28 years ago (August 15, 1988) reveals new information about the scope and breadth of the massacre of political prisoners at the time. It also shows that the Iranian […]

Published in OC Register by NASSER SHARIF – Although it came as little surprise to those who genuinely understand the nature of the Iranian regime, it was recently revealed that widely disseminated American narratives about Iran’s sudden moderation were merely convenient lies dispensed to the American people and to gullible policymakers and the media in order […]

For Immediate Release May 18, 2016 – As Delivered – Click Here for Video – WASHINGTON—Representative Eliot L. Engel, Ranking Member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, today made the following remarks at the full Committee markup of a resolution calling for the safety and security for Iranian dissidents living in Iraq’s Camp Liberty […]

Washington, DC; May 18, 2016 – In a Markup hearing today, the House Committee on Foreign Affairs unanimously approved and referred to the House Floor, H.Res.650 titled, “Providing for the safety and security of the Iranian dissidents living in Camp Liberty/Hurriya in Iraq and awaiting resettlement by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, and […]

‘It is a serious cultural war between two lifestyles. For women, their hair is their identity and making it short to just avoid the morality police is really heartbreaking, but in a way, it is brave.’ Women in Iran are cutting their hair short and dressing as men in a bid to bypass state ‘morality’ […]

By Kenneth Maginnis It can be no surprise how political debate on the West’s policy toward Iran has intensified in the wake of the recent New York Times Magazine article revealing the deliberate deceptions carried out by the Obama administration to justify its nuclear negotiations and its broader policy of appeasement. White House Deputy National […]

NCRI – Imprisoned Iranian human rights activist Narges Mohammadi has received a 10-year prison sentence by the mullahs’ regime, it was announced on Wednesday. The regime’s ruthless hangman-judge Abolqasem Salavati handed down the sentence over Ms. Mohammadi’s human rights campaigning. A sham trial was held at the mullahs’ so-called Revolutionary Court in Tehran on April […]

By Wesley Martin  Iraq’s persistent strife is orchestrated in Tehran In a recent article, titled, “Why America Needs Iran in Iraq,” former U.S. Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad cites the rise in power of Shite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr as one of his major concerns. It is true that Sheikh al-Sadr has been and continues to be a […]

IRAN NUCLEAR:     ISJ Statement on Lifting of International Sanctions Subsequent to the IAEA report and lifting of sanctions, the International Committee In Search of Justice (ISJ) that has been closely following Iran’s nuclear projects in the past years and its negotiations with the P5+1, considers it necessary to refer to the following points: […]