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Stevenson: Inevitable That Iran Resistance Is Burgeoning
Sixty years ago, three young students in Iran came together and formed a group to oppose the Mohammad Reza Pahlavi’s (the Shah of Iran) dictatorship and help the Iranian people achieve freedom and democracy. Mohammad Hanifnejad, Ali-Asghar Badizadegan and Saied Mohsen, were arrested, tortured, and executed by Savak, the Shah of Iran’s brutal secret police.
Since that day, the People’s Mojahedin of Iran/Mojahedin-e Khalq (PMOI/MEK) has grown to become the main and most organized Iranian opposition group, resisting two successive dictatorships — those of the Shah and now the mullahs.
UPDATE: 1:00 PM CEST
Grassley Reveals New Details into Alleged Iranian-Backed Plot to Assassinate Biden, Trump, and Haley
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) released FBI documents that implicated Iran in a plot to assassinate former President Donald Trump, President Joe Biden, and ex-U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley. Grassley revealed the records on Thursday after obtaining them from legally protected law enforcement whistleblowers, according to Fox News. The documents disappeared from Grassley’s public Senate page on Thursday evening. The Washington Examiner reached out to the senator’s office concerning the deletion but did not receive a response.
However, the documents released by the senator, reviewed by outlets such as the New York Post, detailed for the first time federal investigators’ interview with a man charged with an Iranian-backed plot to assassinate Trump. Asif Merchant, a Pakistani man, said he discussed assassination strategies on American political figures with a handler named Mehardad Yousef.
US Calls on Big Tech to Help Evade Online Censors in Russia, Iran
Sept 5 (Reuters) – The White House convened a meeting with representatives of Amazon.com (AMZN.O), opens new tab, Alphabet’s Google (GOOGL.O), opens new tab, Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab, Cloudflare (NET.N), opens new tab and civil society activists on Thursday in a bid to encourage U.S. tech giants to offer more digital bandwidth for government-funded internet censorship evasion tools.
The tools, supported by the U.S.-backed Open Technology Fund (OTF), have seen a surge of usage in Russia, Iran, Myanmar, and authoritarian states that heavily censor the internet.
OTF’s pitch to tech companies at the meeting was to help offer discounted or subsidized server bandwidth to meet the fast-growing demand for virtual private network (VPN) applications that OTF funds, the organisation’s president, Laura Cunningham, told Reuters.
UPDATE: 7:00 AM CEST
The PMOI’s Undying Commitment To Freedom For Iran’s People
We are at the beginning of the 60th year of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI). In its six-decade history, the PMOI has undergone many trials and tribulations and transformed from a small group to a nationwide and worldwide movement. However, the one thing that has remained consistent throughout this period is loyalty to the cause and infinite sacrifice from PMOI members of all ranks.
As they have proven time and again, the PMOI’s loyalty is only to the people of Iran and the cause they fight for is freedom. Freedom from oppression, discrimination, inequality, and exploitation. Freedom in all its individual and social aspects; including freedom of thought and expression, freedom of assembly, and the rejection of all forms of ethnic, religious, class, and gender inequality.
Zahra Merrikhi: The Pioneering Role of Women in Iran’s Struggle for Liberation
The People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), a central member of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), stands as a vanguard in the battle for women’s liberation. Below are excerpts from a speech delivered by Ms. Zahra Merrikhi, the Secretary General of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, in September 2023:
Our crime is the fight against oppression, tyranny, and exploitation. Yet, what truly incenses the mullahs is our commitment to the empowerment and leadership of women.
We boldly confront the most sacred tenets of the mullahs and the core of their reactionary beliefs: the subjugation of women and the enforcement of patriarchy.
Paris, September 4, 2024: MEK Supporters Rally to Celebrate the Beginning of the 60th Anniversary of the PMOI’s Founding
Freedom-loving Iranians and supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) gathered in Paris, France on September 4, 2024, to commemorate the beginning of the 60th year since the MEK‘s establishment.
MEK Supporters Rally in Gothenburg for ‘No to Execution Tuesdays’ Campaign Against Iran’s Regime Crimes
Gothenburg, Sweden—September 2024: On the eve of the 36th anniversary of the 1988 massacre, freedom-loving Iranians and supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) organized a rally in solidarity with the “No to Execution Tuesdays” Campaign in Iran’s regime prisons.