National Council of Resistance of Iran - Foreign Affairs Committee

Opinion

Friday, 20 April 2007

By: Ali Safav
NCRI - Since the adoption of Resolution 1747 by the UN Security Council imposing harsher sanctions against the Iranian regime, signs are emerging that the mullahs are feeling the heat. Earlier this week, the former President and head of the powerful State Expediency Council Ali-Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani warned of the precarious situation with which Tehran is faced.

He urged rival factions to maintain unity, adding, "The issue of the use of nuclear energy is a serious and real problem between the Islamic Republic and our interlocutors, especially those in the West," according to the state news agency IRNA on April 15.

Friday, 20 April 2007
By: Reza Shafa All year round, in 2006, the Quds Force was busy training the female recruits of its subordinate, the Badr Brigade, The armed wing of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, NCRI has learnt. The main prerequisite for signing up is being of Iranian descent which means the woman recruit, in this case, must have been born in a Shiite family with a Shiites father or grandfather. What good is it for the Quds Force to consider Shiitism as precondition for these newcomers? It is the blind obedience the force would want from these women in any possible future missions. The trainers in Quds Force brainwash the women recruits by preaching that Iran and Iraq are one nation.
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International Center for Islamic Studies in Qom (ICISQ)

Thursday, 19 April 2007
A new recruitment center for training and dispatching terrorists to other Islamic countries By: Reza Shafa Recently, at the order of the Iranian regime's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei a new organ has been set up to recruit and train young men to carry out terrorist operations in other Islamic countries, NCRI has learnt. Once the targeted individual has been recruited for the job, he will be sent to ICISQ for receiving both ideological and military trainings. Upon completion of their preparations, the young recruits will be drafted into the Quds Force to carry out their missions in the Islamic capitals.
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Iran - International menace; tormenter of Iranian people

Thursday, 12 April 2007
By: Nima Sharif As the row over Iran's hostage-taking of British sailors is now officially over, once again, it seems, that this country's nuclear ambitions are taking the center stage and the new UN 1747 Resolution on Iran further pressures Ahmadinejad's government into a self-initiated countdown to a complete international isolation.
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Abusing justice for political gain

Saturday, 07 April 2007
By: Mohammad Amin The Paris Judiciary's decision to prosecute the Iranian Resistance on charges of money laundering is before all else an unfortunate repeat of the political abuse of the French judicial system to extract geopolitical and commercial gain. The dossier against the Iranian Resistance was launched in 2001 during France's honeymoon with the Iranian regime under Khatami in Iran, but due to lack of any supporting evidence, was left dormant until after the June 17 attack by French police on Iranian Resistance offices in 2003. The attack was widely seen as an attempt by the French government to curry favor with the Iranian regime as several French multinationals such as Renault, Total and Elf vied for a larger share of the Iranian market.
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Outside View: Act of Grace or desperation?

Friday, 06 April 2007
By ALI SAFAVI UPI - While everyone breathed a sigh of relief over the release of 15 British sailors held captive by the Iranian regime for nearly two weeks, the theatrics played out on television screens during Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's news conference in Tehran Wednesday were despicable to say the least. With all the fuss gone now, a simple question lingers: What was Tehran trying to achieve? The abduction-at-gunpoint was obviously an attempt to counteract the dire impact of a second U.N. Security Council sanction resolution at home, but more importantly intended to boost the morale of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' top brass, which had been shell shocked after being singled out in the U.N. document.
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The Real Ahmadinejad

Friday, 06 April 2007
by Alireza Jafarzadeh Human Events - Yesterday Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad greeted the 15 British sailors and marines kidnapped by Islamic Revolutionary Guards with a smile and gifts before their release from two weeks of captivity. This made-for-television event quickly made the rounds of the cable news channels, broadcasting Ahmadinejad's smiling face to the world. As he becomes a more recognizable figure to even casual news watchers, what is often glossed over is how little most in the West really know about him. Who is the real Ahmadinejad?
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Appeasment policy: recipe for war with Iran

Monday, 19 March 2007
By: Joseph Omidvar The Iranian threat to global peace and security underlined by its intervention and terrorist activity in Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine, coupled with its accelerated move to acquire a nuclear weapon, have led analysts and pundits to debate probable solutions in facing up to this threat.
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Iranian regime shaken by initial impact of Security Council resolution

Friday, 26 January 2007

NCRI - If one does not know about the nature of the ruling regime in Iran, one may be surprised by the aggressive and arrogant tone that its president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad constantly displays. One may also fall back into the mirage of reform, as some in the West cling to it, at the sight of the wind of revolt which has just risen. And yet, both aggression and division processes are closely interwoven.