By Reza Shafa

On September 16, 2008, the US Treasury Department blacklisted five individuals and two entities of the Iranian regime. One of the individuals, Abdul-Reza Shahlai, is a deputy commander of the elite unit of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the Qods Force.

By Lord King
Source:BIRMINGHAM POST
 
Lord King of West Bromwich says protection of Iran’s opposition is vital to scores of Birmingham families.

Iranian families from Birmingham last month travelled down to London to join a demonstration of hundreds of their compatriots in support of the Iranian opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran.

The People's Mujahideen of Iran is caught between Iraq and a hard place (Iran)
By John Hughes
Source:The Christian Science Monitor

Provo, Utah - In a dusty little enclave about 60 miles north of Baghdad, some 3,800 opponents of the Iranian regime present a difficult problem for the next American president.

By Alireza Jafarzadeh
Source: Fox News

Less than a year away from its presidential elections in June 2009, Tehran regime is besieged by mounting political crises at the top of its leadership. In a bid to push back the fast-approaching wave, the ayatollahs are escalating their suppression of Iranians. The apparent lull in the international campaign against Tehran’s nuclear weapons program has brought no respite to those condemned to the gallows inside Iran.

By Reza Shafa 

The mullahs' deputy foreign minister for European Affairs, Mehdi Safari, arrived in London on Wednesday. He was scheduled to meet a number of UK officials including David Miliband, the Foreign Secretary.

By Alireza Jafarzadeh
Source: Fox News

In a move which could lead to a deeper probe of the dark world of Iran-backed terror networks in Iraq and their links to Lebanon's Hezbollah, U.S. troops detained a senior official in the Iraqi government, Ali al-Lami, at the Baghdad airport as he returned from Beirut. A U.S. military statement said al-Lami, suspected of ties to Iran, was taken into custody on August 28, for his role in planning a June 24 suicide bombing that killed ten people, including four Americans. "The man has been known to travel in and out of Iraq to neighboring nations including Iran and Lebanon, where it is believed he meets and helps run the Iranian-backed Special Groups in Iraq," the statement said.

RT. HON. LORD WADDINGTON
Source:  Middle East Times

LONDON -- When the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran is the subject of discussion, one crucial question is often raised. The PMOI claims to be the democratic opposition to the regime, but how effective is it as a movement and how effective will it be in the future?

By Reza Shafa

“Political Guides” are members of the political bureau of the Iranian regime’s Supreme Leader’s representative office at the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).  Their task is to control and ensure adherence among IRGC ranks to the political and ideological guidelines of the regime’s Supreme Leader. As such, they are tasked with everything from selecting and training suicide bombers, to implementing widespread electoral fraud during the regime’s sham elections, in accordance with the wishes and policies of the mullahs’ Supreme Leader, currently Ali Khamenei.