Friday, July 8, 2016


Ex-US Ambassador: Iranian regime intends to incorporate Iraq, Syria and Lebanon



Former U.S. Ambassador to Morocco and White House Middle East Adviser, Marc Ginsberg, writes in the Huffington Post (The World Post) that the Iranian regime’s plan is to destabilize Iraq. 


Ambassador Ginsberg argues that Iran’s regime has become more immoderate following the nuclear agreement last July: "The record of meddlesome, terror-laden interference throughout the Middle East by Tehran is growing longer by the day." In addition, he argues, the regime’s current President Hassan Rouhani is hanging more people than the "notorious Ahmadinejad."The list of Iranian threats to international security is long: increased funding of Hezbollah and Hamas; a proxy war in Yemen against the U.S. and Saudi-backed government; ballistic missile tests in violation of existing Security Council resolutions; and "massively" deploying the Revolutionary Guard inside Syria to defend Assad. However, for Ginsberg, the focus of his main concern is Iranian action in Iraq.For the mere ten-year postponement of an Iranian nuclear weapon, Ginsberg believes the West has paid an unconscionable price. In defending that deal, decision-makers are logically forced to turn a blind eye to the excesses of the regime, or, worse, defend it. The following is typical of administration rationalisations, he argues: "the regime...will inevitably bend to the winds of globalization and confront the exigencies required of a “proper” nation state."Ginsberg illustrates the trap into which the West has been driven by the nuclear deal. The U.S. Secretary of State has recently commented that Iran’s presence in Iraq could be “helpful” to American attempts to combat ISIS. However, U.S. commanders "stationed on the ground in both the battles to liberate Falluja and Ramadi from ISIS forces have expressed alarm that rogue Iranian-commanded Shiite militias (aka The Popular Mobilization Units (PMUs)) are moving into these towns after their liberation and committing sectarian abuses against Sunnis, thus making refugee and displaced persons more sympathetic to the remnants of ISIS operatives in the region." Ginsberg also points out The New York Times' recent report that a Shiite militia leader was videoed "rallying his men with a message of revenge against the imprisoned civilians of Falluja, whom they accuse of being sympathizers of ISIS."In addition, Iran’s regime is using the cover afforded by ISIS atrocities to kill its opponents: "Iran-backed Shiite militiamen (often with the connivance of the Iraqi leadership) have used the growing chaos inside Iraq to launch a series of attacks against Iranian adversaries in Iraq, including a heinous attack...against innocent civilian Iranian dissidents imprisoned against their will at Camp Liberty." Wounding more than 40, "this attack, as previous ones on Camp Liberty, is the work of Iranian controlled forces operating virtually at will, both covertly and overtly in Iraq," writes Ginsberg. 
While Iran might present itself as the "savior of the truncated Iraqi state," this is "deviousness:" The Iranian regime does not mean to be "helpful" to the West, he argues. Ginsberg continues, "the awful, painstaking battles being waged to liberate Iraqi territory from ISIS are intended eventually by Iran to gain more control north of Baghdad at the expense of Iraqi sectarian reconciliation and U.S. national security interest."
"Incorporating Iraq and Syria (as well as Lebanon) into a Shiite Crescent under the thumb of Tehran is so evident it’s as if the Ayatollah has hung out a neon light declaring it so," he declares.
Ginsberg implies that we have ISIS because we first had the Iranian regime's "loathsome" meddling - the purposeful creation of instability by terror - in Iraq and Syria. 
There is a battle of wills in train - both between the regime and its people and between Tehran and the West. In the latter contest, Ginsberg believes Obama has already capitulated, leaving the U.S. without a regional strategy and, worse, abandoning the field to the Iranian regime. http://www.ncr-iran.org/en/news/iran-resistance/20667-ex-us-ambassador-iranian-regime-intends-to-incorporate-iraq-syria-and-lebanon

Thursday, July 7, 2016


Maryam Rajavi
In three days' time, the world will witness the largest annual gathering of Iranian exiles in Le Bourget, Paris, with Maryam Rajavi as the keynote speaker.
Iranians of all walks of life as well as hundreds of politicians and personalities from five continents will converge in Le Bourget to declare their support for MaryamRajavi, the Iranian Resistance and their struggle to overthrow the regime ruling Iran and establish freedom and democracy in their country. But who is Maryam Rajavi?
Maryam Rajavi, a devout Muslim woman, has led the opposition to Tehran's fundamentalist regime for the past three decades. Maryam Rajavi espouses a tolerant and democratic interpretation of Islam and calls for unity of all democratic forces to confront terrorism and extremism emanating from the clerical regime in Iran, as the most dangerous threat of our time to global peace and security.  
Maryam Rajavi's ten-point plan offers a democratic alternative to the ongoing savagery of the ruling regime in Iran.
Maryam Rajavi calls for abolition of the death penalty, separation of the Mosque and State, and equal participation of women in political leadership. Maryam Rajavi also calls for a non-nuclear Iran that lives in peaceful coexistence with its neighbors.
Maryam Rajavi believes that women's equality is essential to democratic progress in today's world, in any country and in any organization. So, it was all the more essential to the struggle against the misogynous fundamentalist extremists ruling Iran.
One of the major achievements of Maryam Rajavi has been the involvement of the Resistance's women in the most crucial positions of responsibility in the movement. The idea of women's equal participation in political leadership, economic and management roles, has been realized in Maryam Rajavi's movement. This is especially important because this phenomenon is not limited to a few talented and intelligent women, but embraces a generation of women with diverse backgrounds.
Maryam Rajavi's achievement was made possible by rejection of all forms of discrimination against women in her movement and providing a just and equal opportunity for everyone, proving the fact that any human being can exercise her/his talents and intelligence once given an equal opportunity for education and occupation.
Maryam Rajavi is recognized for her strength, resolve and leadership qualities. Maryam Rajavi is admired for her tireless leadership and struggle against the ruthless mullahs of Iran. Maryam Rajavi has demonstrated amazing strength in the face of numerous difficulties facing her movement.
Maryam Rajavi's motto is we can and we must. Maryam Rajavi believes that by being realistic, devoting enough energy and time to any task, human beings can decide their own fate and break through any impasse. That is how Maryam Rajavi has succeeded in leading her movement through a tortuous path over the years, towards imminent victory.
Iranians believe that with Maryam Rajavi pledging regime change in Iran, they would enjoy their inalienable, equal human rights in a free Iran.
 http://www.iranfocus.com/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=30605:maryam-rajavi-wins-hearts-and-minds-of-iranian-diaspora&catid=4:iran-general&Itemid=109

Saturday, July 2, 2016


MARYAM RAJAVI AND DAVID JONES (MP FROM UK) MEET IN AUVERS-SUR-OISE

He Rt.Hon.David Jones, former Senior Government Minister and Chairman of All Party Parliamentary Group for a Free and Democratic Iran met with Maryam Rajavi in Auvers-sur-Oise, France,

following the declaration of support by the majority of members of the British House of Commons and a large number from the House of Lords, for the Iranian Resistance for democracy and freedom, in June 2016. 
On behalf of UK elected representatives, Mr. Jones presented the declaration to Maryam Rajavi.
Maryam Rajavi expressed her gratitude for the initiative describing it as a commendable measure towards adoption of a responsible policy vis-à-vis the Iranian regime and the entire Middle East.
                     

Saturday, June 25, 2016


MARYAM RAJAVI MEETS WITH A HIGH LEVEL DELEGATION OF SYRIAN RESISTANCE

MARYAM RAJAVI

The Iranian Resistance's President-elect Maryam Rajavi met with a delegation of Syrian opposition officials and personalities on Saturday, 11 June 2016.

Syrian delegation was comprised of Mesdames Suheir al-Atassi, member of the High Negotiations Committee of the Syrian Opposition; Nagham Ghadri, member of the Coalition and former Vice Chair; Dr. Taghrid al-Hagli, former Minister in the Syrian
Interim Government; and Messrs Haitham al-Maleh, Chairman of the Syrian National Council legal committee; Michel Kilo, political bureau member of the Coalition; Dr. Nasser Al-Hariri, member of the Coalition leadership; General Abdallah Albashir al-Naimi, former chief of staff of the Free Syrian Army; Brig. General Mustafa Sheikh, a founding member of the Free Syrian Army; General Mesghal Al-Batish of the Syrian opposition; Ghassan Aboud, head of Orient TV; and Ahmad Kamel, press adviser of the High Negotiations Committee.
Mrs. Rajavi lauded heroism of the Syrian people and the revolution, especially in Aleppo, and said: While world powers are either on the side of Syria’s butcher or remain indifferent or inactive, Syrian people’s steadfastness in their sixth year of resistance heralds definite victory of Syrian people and revolution. Assad regime and its main supporter, religious fascism ruling Iran, are doom to fail.
Mr. Haitham al-Maleh thanked the Iranian resistance and Mrs. Rajavi for supporting Syrian people and revolution and said, today we are fighting on the same side against the same enemy and consider ourselves as part of your movement and resistance.
Other members of the delegation underlined the solidarity between the two nations and their resistances and pointed out the role of the clerical regime in killing people of Syria and its efforts to protect Bashar Assad in order to maintain its power in Tehran.