{"id":323833,"date":"2024-09-06T06:01:35","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T05:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=323833"},"modified":"2024-09-06T21:28:12","modified_gmt":"2024-09-06T20:28:12","slug":"iran-news-in-brief-september-6-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-news-in-brief-news\/iran-news-in-brief-september-6-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran News in Brief \u2013 September 6, 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"

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THIS PAGE WILL BE UPDATED WITH THE LATEST NEWS<\/h2>\n

UPDATE: 10:00 PM CEST<\/span><\/p>\n

Stevenson: Inevitable That Iran Resistance Is Burgeoning<\/h3>\n

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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.\u00a0Mohammad Hanifnejad, Ali-Asghar Badizadegan and Saied Mohsen, were arrested, tortured, and executed by Savak, the Shah of Iran\u2019s brutal secret police.<\/p>\n

Since that day, the People\u2019s Mojahedin of Iran\/Mojahedin-e Khalq (PMOI\/MEK<\/a>) has grown to become the main and most organized Iranian opposition group, resisting two successive dictatorships \u2014 those of the Shah and now the mullahs.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE: 1:00 PM CEST<\/span><\/p>\n

Grassley Reveals New Details into Alleged Iranian-Backed Plot to Assassinate Biden, Trump, and Haley<\/h3>\n

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Sen.\u00a0Chuck Grassley<\/a>\u00a0(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\u00a0Nikki Haley<\/a>.\u00a0 Grassley revealed the records on Thursday after obtaining them from legally protected law enforcement whistleblowers, according to<\/a> Fox News. The documents disappeared from Grassley\u2019s public Senate page on Thursday evening. The Washington Examiner<\/em>\u00a0reached out to the senator\u2019s office concerning the deletion but did not receive a response.<\/p>\n

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However, the documents released by the senator, reviewed by outlets\u00a0such as<\/a>\u00a0the\u00a0New York Post<\/em>,\u00a0detailed for the first time federal investigators\u2019 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.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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US Calls on Big Tech to Help Evade Online Censors in Russia, Iran<\/h3>\n

Sept 5 (Reuters) – The White House convened a meeting with representatives of Amazon.com\u00a0(AMZN.O), opens new tab<\/a>, Alphabet’s Google\u00a0(GOOGL.O), opens new tab<\/a>, Microsoft\u00a0(MSFT.O), opens new tab<\/a>, Cloudflare\u00a0(NET.N), opens new tab<\/a>\u00a0and 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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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\u2019s president, Laura Cunningham, told Reuters.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE: 7:00 AM CEST<\/span><\/p>\n

The PMOI\u2019s Undying Commitment To Freedom For Iran\u2019s People<\/h3>\n

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We are at the beginning of the 60th year of the\u00a0People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran<\/a>\u00a0(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\u00a0PMOI<\/a>\u00a0members of all ranks.<\/p>\n

As they have proven time and again, the PMOI\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

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Zahra Merrikhi: The Pioneering Role of Women in Iran\u2019s Struggle for Liberation<\/h3>\n

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The\u00a0People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran<\/a>\u00a0(PMOI\/MEK), a central member of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), stands as a vanguard in the battle for women\u2019s liberation. Below are excerpts from a speech delivered by Ms. Zahra Merrikhi, the\u00a0Secretary General of the People\u2019s Mojahedin Organization of Iran<\/a>, in September 2023:<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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Paris, September 4, 2024: MEK Supporters Rally to Celebrate the Beginning of the 60th Anniversary of the PMOI\u2019s Founding<\/h3>\n
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