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UPDATE: 8:30 PM CEST
US Sanctions Son of Iran Regime Insider, Chinese Shipping Firm, and Tankers
The United States has expanded sanctions targeting networks accused of helping the clerical dictatorship evade oil restrictions, adding a Dubai-based company tied to Mohammad Hossein Shamkhani, the son of a senior adviser to Ali Khamenei, along with a Chinese shipping firm and four tankers.
The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced on September 23 that Milavous Group Ltd, registered in Dubai’s International Finance Center, was designated for its links to Mohammad Hossein Shamkhani. Bloomberg previously reported that Milavous had generated billions of dollars through trade involving Iran, Russia, and other countries. Shamkhani, born in Tehran in 1984, holds dual Iranian and Dominican citizenship and has used the aliases “Hugo” and “Hector.” Both the EU and the UK had already sanctioned him.
OFAC also blacklisted Peace Worth Shipping Co., based in Hong Kong, accusing it of facilitating sanctions evasion for Tehran. Four tankers — flagged in Panama, Gabon, and Palau — were listed as part of the network.
This is not the first time Washington has targeted Shamkhani’s operations. In August, the Treasury sanctioned over 50 vessels tied to what it described as a vast smuggling enterprise managed by him.
The measures reflect the Trump administration’s revived “maximum pressure” policy after returning to the White House, seeking to choke off the clerical dictatorship’s oil revenues and financial channels. Officials said the goal is to push Tehran to alter its conduct, particularly over its nuclear program.
UPDATE: 7:00 PM CEST
These North Texas Residents Are Headed To New York To Rally for Change in Iran
Fereshteh Asadian dreams of her homeland of Iran when she goes to sleep at night.
Her family came to the U.S. in 1977 for better educational opportunities. The last time the 68-year-old, who lives in Fort Worth, visited Iran was in 1979 after the Iranian Revolution and the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Since then, she has not seen many members of her family, has missed holiday and cultural events, and missed the funeral for her father, she says holding back tears. The oppressive regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran has kept her away. The regime has been accused of discrimination, human rights abuses, and suppression of dissenters, which has led to hundreds of thousands of Iranians fleeing since 1979.
UPDATE: 5:00 PM CEST
Iran Needs Regime Change, Not Rewards
Imagine for a moment that Tehran’s representatives contacted US Envoy Steve Witkoff and offered full dismantlement of their nuclear enrichment program, reliably verified by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and a commitment to forego any steps to build or acquire a nuclear weapon. The price? The United States would lift sanctions on Iran, unfreeze funds, and permit Iran to trade freely through the global financial system. Iran might also require assurances that its nuclear sites would face no further attacks by the United States or Israel.
After more than two decades of frustrating effort, an elusive national security goal would finally be at hand: an end to the Iran nuclear threat. How could the United States say no?
And yet, for many good reasons, “no” is the only acceptable answer. Here are five:
First, Iran has never seriously adopted the goal of becoming a nuclear weapons state. The Soviet Union and the United States took six years to build an atomic bomb more than a half-century ago. Others did it in a dozen years or less. Iran, however, has been enriching uranium for 37 years, sometimes edging nearer to the weapons threshold, provoking headlines and official attention in Western capitals, but making sure never to trigger a crisis response. Tehran obviously finds the enrichment program useful even without a bomb.
Watch Live: National Council of Resistance of Iran Rally in New York City, Outside UN Headquarters
Thousands of Iranian-Americans, supporters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), are expected gather in Manhattan on Tuesday and Wednesday to protest the presence of Iranian regime president Masoud Pezeshkian at the United Nations General Assembly, denouncing Tehran’s human rights record and its advancing nuclear program.
UPDATE: 8:00 AM CEST
Message from Maryam Rajavi on the 2025–2026 Academic Year
This year, the first lesson, freedom, calls louder than ever, summoning the inquisitive generation of students to rise, to rebel, and to turn the reopening of schools and universities into a gateway to liberty. We salute the students who have fallen for freedom and those who have endured prison and torture—from the devoted martyrs of the 1980s, especially the heroes of the September 27th epic, to the young people whose pure blood was shed by Khamenei’s Revolutionary Guards during the 2022 uprising. The wide participation of students, particularly girls, in that uprising—rising up in at least 1,700 high schools—remains an unforgettable nightmare for the regime. Last May, after two years of concealment, Judiciary Chief Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Ejei admitted that over 90,000 students university students, and teachers were arrested during the 2022 protests.
Iran’s Back-To-School Crisis: How the Regime’s ‘Stationery Mafia’ Is Robbing the Nation’s Future
As the new school year begins in Iran, a season that should be marked by hope and excitement has been transformed into one of anxiety and despair for millions of families. While shop windows are filled with colorful notebooks and pens, state-run media admits that behind these displays, “price tags are like the dark borders of a painting” (IRNA, September 20), narrowing choices and silencing joy. For countless Iranians, the excitement of school has been extinguished amid the high prices, revealing a deep-seated crisis that goes far beyond simple economics. This is the story of a nation’s future being systematically plundered by the corrupt mafias at the heart of the regime.
Broken Schools, Defiant Students: Iran Kicks Off a New Academic Year
In the narrow lanes of a south-Tehran slum, eleven-year-old Zahra clutches a worn schoolbag and pauses before a rusted lock on her classroom door. Her teacher left when wages stopped coming. Yet the silence feels electric. This year’s first subject isn’t math or grammar, it’s freedom, a call that grows louder each day and dares a new generation to turn the start of school into the start of liberation. Memories of 2022 are still burning. Back then, high schoolers transformed their own classrooms into arenas of revolt. Across at least 1,700 schools, students, especially girls, defied the clerical regime. After two years of official denial, Judiciary chief Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Ejei finally conceded in May 2025 that more than 90,000 students and teachers were detained during those protests. Their courage continues to haunt the rulers and inspire today’s youth.
Iranian Americans Intensify Protests in New York Ahead of Major Rally at the UN
In recent days, Iranian Americans and supporters of the Iranian Resistance have held a series of protests, nightly vigils, and gatherings outside the United Nations headquarters in New York. These demonstrations strongly denounce the presence of officials from Tehran’s regime at the UN General Assembly and honor the countless victims of executions and repression in Iran.
Stockholm Rally Marks 3rd Anniversary of Iran Uprising, Calls for Justice and Democratic Republic
The gathering honored the martyrs of the uprising and condemned international appeasement of the clerical regime. Participants, with placards and chants, demanded an end to repression—especially against women and youth—and called for a firm policy against the dictatorship. The slogan “Woman, Resistance, Freedom” echoed in tribute to Iranian women’s defiance.
Sydney Exhibition Honors Iran’s Uprising Martyrs and Condemns Brutal Regime Executions
Sydney, Australia — September 18-20, 2025: Supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) held a three-day exhibition in Sydney to commemorate the 2022 nationwide uprising and to condemn human rights violations, particularly the brutal executions carried out by the mullahs’ regime in Iran.
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— Iran Freedom (@4FreedominIran) September 22, 2025
They also called on all freedom-loving Iranians to join the protest on September 23 in New York outside the United Nations. Organizers demanded the immediate abolition of all death sentences and the unconditional release of political prisoners, denouncing the regime’s ongoing human rights abuses. The exhibition expressed deep solidarity with the Iranian people’s enduring struggle for justice and democratic change, and urged the international community to hold the regime’s leaders accountable for crimes against humanity.
Bucharest Exhibition Honors Martyrs of Iran’s Uprisings and Condemns Regime Executions
Bucharest, Romania – September 20, 2025 – Supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) gathered in Bucharest for an exhibition condemning the Iranian regime’s escalating executions and human rights abuses.
Silent Death of Prisoners in Iran
“Every day of delayed treatment is a hidden death sentence.” Reliable inside evidence shows that deaths in Iranian prisons are not caused by illness itself, but by a deliberate policy of medical deprivation. The recent death of Maryam Shahraki in Ferdis prison and the critical condition of Somayeh Rashidi in Qarchak illustrate this lethal pattern. Prisoners with severe conditions such as cancer, heart disease, or spinal disorders are systematically denied access to treatment and left to die slowly and painfully. Qarchak Women’s Prison and Sheiban Prison (Ahvaz) are emblematic cases where officials intentionally block hospital transfers, condemning inmates to silent death. Medical deprivation in Iranian prisons is not accidental or due to resource shortages. It is a calculated tool for exerting pressure, inflicting torture, and ultimately eliminating prisoners, especially political detainees. Security and judicial authorities—not doctors—decide on hospital transfers, turning treatable conditions into fatal outcomes.
Iran’s Economy After Snapback Sanctions: Doubled Inflation, Threat to Build an Atomic Bomb
The activation of the “snapback” mechanism not only makes the return of sanctions possible, but by simultaneously striking market confidence, financial channels, and supply chains, it quickly and multifront intensifies economic effects. Warnings about capital flight and disruption in money circulation, the risk to imports, and some parliamentarians’ calls to accelerate nuclear programs together present a fuller picture of how this external shock could affect Iran’s economy. Alireza Kiani, head of the Money and Capital Market Commission of the Tehran Chamber of Commerce, told the state-run daily Ettelaat that the new wave of sanctions due to the activation of the snapback will create doubled inflationary pressure.
Iran’s Regime Responds to War Defeats with Escalating Repression and Mass Executions
In the wake of the 12-Day war, Iran’s regime has turned to a brutal wave of executions, mass arrests, and censorship at home while expanding propaganda and cyberwarfare abroad—revealing its fear and fragility. The June 12-day war, which culminated in coordinated U.S.-Israeli strikes on the regime’s nuclear facilities, has left the clerical regime exposed and weakened. In response, Tehran has turned inward with unprecedented repression, using executions, mass arrests, and security crackdowns as tools to reassert control. The regime’s police announced the arrest of more than 21,000 people in the weeks that followed. Reports from inside Iran indicate a suffocating security environment, with more than 50,000 security forces deployed in Tehran alone. Checkpoints proliferated across the country, random phone searches became routine, and rumors of neighbors’ arrests spread fear. Internet shutdowns, now a well-honed tactic, further silenced dissent.