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UPDATE: 2:00 PM CEST
Joint E3 Leaders’ Statement: 10 October 2025
The leaders of France, Germany and the United Kingdom spoke today following the significant developments in the Middle East:
We welcome the agreement on a ceasefire in the Middle East, the planned release of hostages, and the resumption of humanitarian aid to the civilian population of Gaza.
Regarding Iran, we agree that it was right that the snapback mechanism had been triggered. Iran’s nuclear program poses a serious threat to global peace and security. We are determined to reinitiate negotiations with Iran and the United States towards a comprehensive, durable and verifiable agreement that ensures Iran never acquires a nuclear weapon. We call on all UN member states to abide by the restrictions reapplied by the snapback mechanism.
Another Arms Shipment for the Houthis Intercepted by Opposition Faction
Factions opposing the Houthis have made yet another significant interception of Iranian-sourced arms destined for the Houthi militants. This time it happened off the southern coast of Yemen and further pressures the militants and their efforts. The latest seizure follows two major interceptions of arms made by National Resistance Forces off the western coast in the Red Sea in May, and an interception of a mixed 750-ton cargo of arms, ammunition, missiles, and components made by the NRF in July, with all the material of Iranian origin. In Aden, two major seizures of arms and related machinery, all of Chinese manufacture, were made from containers searched in the Aden Free Port Zone on August 2 and in September. Chinese container hoists, to replace cranes destroyed in the port of Hodeidah by Israeli attacks, were intercepted in Lahj in August by Security Belt forces, and the same force made a major arms seizure later that month further to the East in Abyan.
UPDATE: 9:00 AM CEST
Death Penalty as Terror in Iran
The day is being used to draw attention to the death penalty as a tool of repression.
Iran is the country in the world that carries out the highest number of executions per capita. According to Amnesty International’s annual report, the regime in Iran accounted for 64 percent of all recorded executions worldwide in 2024. The picture in 2025 is even more alarming: UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran, Dr. Mai Sato, reports that the regime has executed around 1,000 people in just the first nine months of this year. In recent weeks, the number has averaged about nine executions per day.
The UN and Amnesty International both confirm that the death penalty is being systematically used to intimidate the population and prevent protests against the regime. Since President Masoud Pezeshkian took office just over a year ago, nearly 2,000 people have been executed, including many women and members of minority groups such as Kurds and Baluchis.
UPDATE: 9:00 AM CEST
Iran Is Repeating Its Bloodiest Chapter. Will the World Look Away?
The world knows that the Iranian regime is one of the most repressive on the planet. That’s definitely no secret, but a group of dignitaries, including some from Republican and Democratic administrations, is warning that the situation in Iran is worse than most people thought.
Seventeen dignitaries, including Newt Gingrich, Louis Freeh, Tom Ridge, and Alan Dershowitz, have signed an open letter highlighting how the Iranian regime is weaponizing the death penalty to choke out opposition. The letter highlights that Iran has executed 1,200 prisoners so far this year, with no end in sight. According to Amnesty International, Iran accounted for 64% of all executions worldwide in 2024.
1988 was a particular milestone for the evil of Iran’s repressive regime. That year, Iran’s leaders massacred 30,000 people, all of them political prisoners, and nine-tenths of them MEK members. This year doesn’t hold a candle to that horrendous level of repression, but in July, Iran’s state-run media called 1988 a “successful historical experience” that’s worth repeating.
UPDATE: 8:00 AM CEST
Iranian Political Prisoner Ehsan Faridi Faces Imminent Execution
In a move that reveals the clerical regime’s profound fear of organized opposition, the Supreme Court has upheld a death sentence for Ehsan Faridi, a 22-year-old university student. The verdict, based on fabricated charges and extracted confessions, is a desperate effort by the regime to control a restive society that desires change. Ehsan Faridi’s case is a stark example of the regime’s all-out war on the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), demonstrating its terror of a restive society and the growing influence of the organized Resistance among Iran’s youth. His life now hangs in the balance, a symbol of the regime’s brutal campaign to crush dissent by eliminating its most courageous voices.
Breaking Barriers: The Struggle of the Iranian Girl Child
The Struggle of the Iranian Girl Child: Every year on October 11, the world marks the International Day of the Girl Child — a day dedicated to celebrating girls’ rights and confronting the challenges they face. But in Iran, this global observance reveals one of the most urgent human rights crises of our time. Under Iran’s clerical regime, girls face double discrimination — for being both young and female. Legal loopholes allow child marriage, with some girls forced into unions even before turning 13. Efforts to raise the marriage age have been repeatedly blocked by officials citing “religious” grounds. Meanwhile, girls as young as nine can be held criminally responsible under Iranian law. These policies strip girls of their rights and perpetuate a cycle of inequality, leaving many without education, freedom, or safety.
Sweden – October 8, 2025: Borås Exhibition Highlights Iran’s Escalating Human Rights Violations
Borås, Sweden – October 8, 2025 – Supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) held an exhibition to condemn the Iranian regime’s escalating human rights violations, particularly the rising number of death sentences against political prisoners.
$38 Billion In Export Revenues Have Not Yet Returned to Iran
According to official statistics over the past seven years, out of more than $169 billion in exports of refinery, petrochemical, and metal products, over $38 billion has not been repatriated to Iran. The state-run Tasnim news agency noted that steel and copper companies are at the top of the list of violators. Hossein Samsami, a member of the Economic Committee of Iran’s regime parliament, stated on Thursday, October 9, that based on official statistics, from 2022 to 2025, total exports of refinery, petrochemical, and metal products reached more than $90 billion, but 26.7% of the foreign currency earned from these exports has not returned to Iran. According to him, this figure was around 18% between 2018 and 2022. Previously, the state-run IRNA news agency reported on March 10, 2025, criticizing large companies such as petrochemical firms—most of which are affiliated with regime institutions—for refusing to repatriate their export revenues.
Iran’s Regime Faces the Consequences of Its Own War
In a deceptive move, the Iranian regime — the main instigator of the war that began on October 7 — announced that it supports “any initiative that would stop the war.” The same regime that has inflicted decades of suffering on the people of Gaza and the West Bank issued a statement claiming that it has “always supported any initiative that ensures ending the genocidal war, the withdrawal of occupying forces, the delivery of humanitarian aid, the release of Palestinian prisoners, and the restoration of the fundamental rights of the Palestinians.” No government in the world has betrayed and harmed the Palestinian people more than this regime. The question is how we arrived at this point — and whether the regime has gained anything from the war it helped ignite on October 7. October 7, 2023, was the day that changed the balance of power in the Middle East. The deadly Hamas attack on Israel did not just alter regional equations; it became one of the greatest strategic miscalculations in the history of Iran’s ruling system — a mistake that may well mark the beginning of its end.