Written by Shahriar Kia on 21 April 2019.

By Shahriar Kia

With the new US sanctions on the Iranian regime, especially on its Revolutionary Guard Corps and affiliated companies, the regime’s foreign trade is losing its stability.

Following the billion-dollar fines on European banks for their violation of US sanctions, China has slowly begun cutting its business ties with Iran.

Written by Shamsi Saadati on 21 April 2019.

By Shamsi Saadati

The mass emigration of Iranian pilots is something that is now commonly referred to as “Iran’s aviation crisis”.

The main reason why many pilots are emigrating lies in the Iran’s struggling economy, unemployment, low income, lack of safety, and many other factors alike.

Written by Alireza Jafarzadeh on 21 April 2019.

By: Alireza Jafarzadeh

Iran’s Guard gets a long-overdue but much-deserved terrorist designation

The United States has decided to designate the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a foreign terrorist organization under section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act. This is a major step toward effectively countering Tehran’s systemic use of terrorism as a tool of statecraft.

Written by Amir Taghati on 20 April 2019.

By Amir Taghati

In an unprecedented move, U.S. President Donald Trump announced last week that the Iranian Regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) is being designated a foreign terrorist organisation. This is the first time that a U.S. government has designated another country’s military as such. But it is also a move that is long overdue and Trump has shown that he has the courage to take action that previous presidents have shied away from.

Written by Staff Writer on 19 April 2019.

Mrs. Rajavi calls for the release of the arrested and sending an international delegation to meet them

Mullah Mahmoud Alavi, Minister of Intelligence of the religious fascism ruling Iran, appeared in today’s Friday prayer in Tehran and tried to boost the morale of the regime’s depressed forces after the US designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) by saying words such as “Major national security reviews in light of Khamenei’s breakthrough guidelines.”

Written by Mahmoud Hakamian on 19 April 2019.

By Mahmoud Hakamian

The Iranian Plan and Budget Organization (PBO) has said that the Regime will spend more than two times the government’s budget on hidden and direct subsidies in this financial year.

The PBO said that Iran is estimated to spend 8,900 trillion rials (or $63.7 billion, based on the current USD exchange rate on the open market) on total subsidies, which is 2.2 times the government’s budget, during the current fiscal year of March 21, 2019, to March 20, 2020.