A pan-Arab daily Al-Hayat, in its October 22 issue, reporting on a briefing about Iran which took place on Capitol Hill on October 20, said: “The U.S. Congress increased its activities against the Iranian regime this week by twice receiving Iranian opposition groups in the House of Representatives and listening to Iranian opposition leader Maryam Rajavi via satellite from Paris.”  

Terrorism under the name of Islam and God emerged essentially with the coming to power of Ayatollah Khomeini in Tehran in 1979. In the past quarter century, the regime has always used hostage taking and terrorism as a means to further its foreign policy. The occupation of the U.S. embassy in 1979, the bombing of the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, hijacking, the killing of pilgrims in Mecca, the assassination of opponents abroad, the bombings in Argentina and Khobar and forming, strengthening and assisting terrorist movements in the Middle East are a few examples.

NCRI, October 24 - The mullahs' anti-human regime continues the barbaric wave of executions in Iran. State-run media reported that nine death sentences were handed down in the past nine days, including three yesterday.

NCRI, October 23 - The clerical regime has dispatched a number of notorious agents of its Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), posing as former members and officials of the People's Mojahedin (PMOI), to Washington, DC, to embark on a misinformation campaign against the PMOI. The action comes after a major demonstration by 20,000 Iranians in protest to the visit to New York by the mullahs' President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad last September and a growing consensus in the United States Congress and among American political personalities and experts about the need to remove the terror label against the PMOI.

NCRI, October 22 - During Tehran's Friday congregation, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei reaffirmed the decision to continue the nuclear program, underscoring that the ruling theocracy "has obtained the know-how and technology" and would not abandon it.

He rejected increasing international concern about the regime's 18 years of concealment and deception as well as the recent resolution by the International Atomic Energy Agency calling on the regime to stop its nuclear activities. Khamenei said, "We acquire knowledge, we discover the secrets to use this knowledge to produce some material and we obtain it. When we learn how to do this, we produce the minimum means. We want to replicate, make complete use, they don't allow us, and they stop us. This is what has happened. This is not acceptable to the Iranian nation."

NCRI, October 22 – The following is the full text of a speech by Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, to the U.S. congressional briefing on Iran via live satellite broadcast, October 20:

I would like to begin by sending my greetings to all of you from afar. I also deem it necessary to thank, on behalf of the Iranian Resistance, the honorable members of the United States House of Representatives and the Senate who have supported the Iranian people and their Resistance for freedom in the darkest period of their history.

NCRI, October 22  – In a briefing on the Capitol Hill initiated by a group of  U.S. Congress members from both Democratic and Republican parties on October 20 entitled “Growing Strategic Threat from Iran, Support for Democratic Change,” speakers called on the Bush administration to support democratic change in Iran and remove the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), the main Iranian opposition movement, from the State Department’s list of foreign terrorist organizations.

NCRI, October 20 – Russia was urged to help refer the Iranian regime’s nuclear dossier to the United Nations Security Council by Iranians who gathered in Berlin outside the country’s embassy on Wednesday.

Dozens of supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran also called for an end to the policy of appeasement vis-à-vis the clerical regime and the enforcement of an oil embargo to compel the regime to fulfill its international obligations.

NCRI, October 20 – United States policy on Iran was addressed by experts on foreign affairs in a meeting organized by the U.S. Congress Sub-committee on Middle East and Central Asia.

The committee chaired by Congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, heard Ilan Berman, vice president for policy at the Washington-based American Foreign Policy Council and the author of “Tehran Rising, Iran’s Challenge to the United States,” who explained the Iranian regime’s growing nuclear and terrorist threats to world peace.