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UPDATE: 9:00 PM CET<\/strong><\/p>\n

European Parliament Condemns Iranian Regime\u2019s Role in Transnational Repression of Dissidents and Human Rights Defenders<\/h3>\n

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The European Parliament has adopted a new report<\/a> calling for coordinated EU action against transnational repression, explicitly naming the clerical regime in Iran among the top state perpetrators targeting exiled dissidents, journalists, and human rights defenders abroad.<\/p>\n

The report \u2014 adopted on November 13, 2025, by the Parliament\u2019s Committee on Foreign Affairs \u2014 warns that authoritarian regimes are extending their repressive reach beyond national borders, using surveillance, intimidation, and digital harassment to silence critics living in exile. According to Freedom House data cited in the report, ten regimes \u2014 including Iran\u2014 account for nearly 80 percent of documented cases of cross-border persecution between 2014 and 2024.<\/p>\n

Lawmakers denounced Iran\u2019s campaign of intimidation, abductions, and online harassment of dissidents and journalists based in Europe, calling it a \u201cserious threat to European sovereignty and civic space.\u201d The report urges the EU and its Member States to criminalize foreign intelligence operations targeting exiled activists, tighten controls on spyware exports to authoritarian states, and consider targeted sanctions against perpetrators under the EU Global Human Rights Sanctions Regime (Magnitsky Act).<\/p>\n

The resolution also calls for enhanced protection of Iranian and other human rights defenders in exile, including fast-track humanitarian visas, legal and digital security support, and coordinated EU-wide shelter programs.<\/p>\n

The report says that the EU must act decisively to ensure Europe remains a safe haven for those fleeing persecution. The report emphasizes that transnational repression by Iran and other regimes not only endangers individuals but undermines democracy and rule of law within the EU itself.<\/p>\n

The vote passed overwhelmingly, with 47 in favor, 8 against, and one abstention \u2014 signaling a growing European consensus to confront the long arm of authoritarian states like Iran operating on European soil.<\/p>\n

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Former UK Speaker of the House John Bercow Joins Free Iran Convention as Regime Faces Revolt, Defections<\/h3>\n

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Tomorrow, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) and other organizations will meet in Washington, D.C. for the 2025 Free Iran Convention, an all-day event that aims to “explore a growing roadmap for change” towards a “democratic, prosperous republic in Iran.”<\/p>\n

The NCRI<\/a>, which has a U.S. division, “acts as the parliament-in-exile with some 500 members (half of them women), including representatives of ethnic and religious minorities such as the Kurds, Baluchis, Armenians, Jews and Zoroastrians.” It was founded in 1981, after the Iranian Revolution, and “aims to establish a democratic and non-nuclear republic in Iran, based on the separation of religion and state.”<\/p>\n

Three years later, in 1984, the U.S. designated Iran the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism, including funding Hezbollah, Hamas, the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, the Houthis in Yemen, and Iraqi militias. In recent years, Britain’s MI5 reported Iran\u00a0was behind at least ten attempts to kidnap or kill<\/a>\u00a0people in Britain in 2022 and the government elevated Iran to a “persistent and unpredictable” threat in the U.K.<\/p>\n

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UPDATE: 3:00 PM CET<\/strong><\/p>\n

I Am Mohammad-Javad Vafaei Sani<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

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Close your eyes for a moment. Try to imagine what it means to choose to stay when you could run. What it means to clench your gloves when every punch could be your last. What it means to look your kids in the eyes in a gym in Mashhad and whisper the most dangerous word in Iran:\u00a0<\/span><\/span>freedom<\/span><\/span><\/em>\u00a0.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Mohammad Javad Vafaei Sani is thirty years old. He’s a boxing champion, a coach, and now a death row inmate. But before all that, he was a dreamer. Like Muhammad Ali, the man who floated like a butterfly and stinged like a bee, Sani understood that the\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0ring<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0wasn’t enough. That the most important punches aren’t thrown against an opponent, but against a system that wants to break you.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Barrack: Syria to Help US Fight IRGC, Hamas, Hezbollah<\/h3>\n

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Syria will play an active role in assisting the United States in fighting armed groups including Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, Hamas and Hezbollah, US special envoy Tom Barrack said on Thursday.<\/p>\n

President Ahmed al-Sharaa became the first Syrian leader to visit the White House since his country’s independence in 1946.<\/p>\n

Shortly after his visit, the US-led coalition fighting ISIS announced that Syria had become its 90th member.<\/p>\n

On Thursday, Barrack wrote on X that “Damascus will now actively assist us in confronting and dismantling the remnants of ISIS, the IRGC (Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps), Hamas, Hizballah, and other terrorist networks.\u201d<\/p>\n

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US Lawmakers Demand Answers from Trump Administration Over Chinese Chemical Shipments to Iran following CNN Reporting<\/h3>\n

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US lawmakers have called for the Trump administration to respond to reporting that Chinese firms are helping Iran rebuild its ballistic missile program in defiance of United Nations sanctions.<\/p>\n

The call, from Representatives Raja Krishnamoorthi and Joe Courtney, follows\u00a0CNN reporting last month<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0detailing what Western intelligence sources said were several shipments of sodium perchlorate, a missile propellant precursor, from China to Iran since the end of September.<\/p>\n

These shipments are \u201cindispensable to Tehran\u2019s efforts to rebuild its ballistic missile arsenal following its\u00a012-day war with Israel<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0last summer,\u201d the congressmen wrote in a letter to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Central Intelligence Agency director John Ratcliffe.<\/p>\n

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Tehran\u2019s Weakness Is Exposed\u2014Now the Free World Must Act<\/h3>\n

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American and European policies toward the Islamic Republic have followed divergent paths in recent years. But that trend has begun to reverse since last summer, when the United Kingdom, France, and Germany triggered the \u201csnapback\u201d provision of the 2015 nuclear deal, reimposing all UN sanctions that had been suspended under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). With international pressure mounting, the UK and the European Union are now aligning more closely with the U.S. strategy of \u201cmaximum pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n

To make that policy effective, America\u2019s allies must take several long-overdue steps. The divergence began in earnest in 2018, when the Trump administration rightly withdrew from the JCPOA and designated the regime\u2019s hardline paramilitary, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), as a foreign terrorist organization. Majorities in both the British and European parliaments have since adopted resolutions urging their governments to do the same. Yet political leadership continues to hesitate, fearful of potential diplomatic fallout.<\/p>\n

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Sanctions Are Not Enough: Only Iranians Themselves Can Secure Lasting Change<\/h2>\n

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In the wake of the recent U.S. and Israeli strikes, the Western world is tempted by a sense of triumphalism. But such feelings, while understandable, are misplaced. What has been destroyed can and will be rebuilt. The more urgent question\u00a0is\u00a0how to bring lasting security\u2014not only to the region, but to the world.<\/p>\n

The danger posed by the Iranian regime extends far beyond its nuclear ambitions. Iran\u2019s rulers are driven by an ideology and worldview that embraces regional destabilization, supports proxy militias, and spurns international law. Strikes and sabotage might cause a temporary setback in Iran\u2019s nuclear infrastructure, but they cannot bomb away knowledge, experience, or determination. This is not a lesson confined to Iran. After World War II, Germany was laid in ruins and yet, within a mere 15 years, the economic miracle unfolded. Brains, willpower, and culture cannot be obliterated by force.<\/p>\n

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Will Washington Be Ready for Iran’s Next Uprising?<\/h3>\n

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The Iranian American community ranks among the most successful, educated, and civically engaged immigrant groups in the United States.\u00a0Yet despite their achievements, they have remained deeply connected to their homeland and focused on one of Washington’s most persistent foreign policy problems: the Islamic Republic of Iran.\u00a0Today, that challenge is entering a critical phase as an aging dictatorship confronts unprecedented internal crises and a restive population determined to reclaim its future.<\/p>\n

For more than four decades, Tehran has ruled through repression.<\/p>\n

Three years ago, the regime’s leaders faced a nearly existential crisis in the Mahsa Amini uprising when millions demanded fundamental change.<\/p>\n

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Iran\u2019s Regime in Crisis Mode After Tragic Death of Ahvaz Youth<\/h3>\n

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The scene has seared itself into the conscience of Iran: a 20-year-old student, Ahmad Baledi, engulfed in flames, yet still lunging to defend his mother from the attacks of Iranian regime thugs. His tragic death on November 11, days after he set himself on fire to protest the destruction of his family\u2019s humble food stall, has become far more than a personal tragedy. It is a political earthquake that has exposed the mortal fear at the heart of the clerical regime. The regime\u2019s panicked, two-faced reaction\u2014swinging from brutal threats to the clumsy dismissal of scapegoats\u2014is definitive proof that it has lost control in the face of a nation\u2019s explosive anger.<\/p>\n

The regime\u2019s initial response was predictable: brute force. On November 7, the judiciary in Khuzestan issued an official statement, threatening that any individual or group who tried to \u201cexploit this incident to disrupt calm and security\u201d would be dealt with harshly. But decades of oppression have rendered such threats meaningless. The people are no longer afraid. This was powerfully demonstrated by Ahmad\u2019s father, who defiantly declared, \u201cWe will not hold a funeral or accept the body until\u201d the mayor and another official are removed from the city.<\/p>\n

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Maryam Abbassi Nikou Re-arrested in Shahin Shahr by IRGC Intelligence Forces<\/h3>\n

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Maryam Abbassi Nikou, a 44-year-old resident of Shahin Shahr in Isfahan Province, was once again arrested on Monday, November 10, 2025, by intelligence agents of the Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and taken to an undisclosed location. The IRGC Intelligence agents raided her home without presenting any legal warrant and detained her arbitrarily. In an Instagram post, her daughter, Bita Shafii, wrote: \u201cIRGC intelligence agents stormed our house, abducted my mother, and refuse to provide any information about where she is being held.\u201d<\/p>\n

Maryam Abbassi Nikou has previously been targeted, pursued, and\u00a0detained for speaking out<\/a>\u00a0against the Iranian regime\u2019s repressive policies. Her daughter, Bita Shafii, was also arrested and tortured in 2022 for protesting the regime\u2019s\u00a0organized chemical attacks<\/a>\u00a0on girls\u2019 schools across Iran.<\/p>\n

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Freedom-Loving Iranians in Berlin Call for End to Executions and Freedom for Political Prisoners<\/h3>\n
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