Elika Yusuf

By: Heshmat Alavi  AUG 29, 2017 Iran  is currently striving to manage a number of increasingly painstaking dilemmas. International spotlight is again on Tehran’s  nuclear program , with the  United States  demanding United Nations inspectors be granted access to its military sites.    Raja'i Shahr (Gohardasht) prison in Karaj, 20 kilometers west of Tehran

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran August 14, 2017 prisoners  was  17    when he  committed  the  alleged "crime" Seven prisoners sentenced to death in Gohar  Dasht (Rajaieh Shahr) Prison in Karaj, have been transferred to solitary confinement. These victims are faced with an imminent death threat. Mehdi Bohlouli, who is now on the verge of execution after serving 15 years of imprisonment, was only 17 when arrested and this is the fourth time he has been transferred to solitary confinement for  Taking prisoners to the gallows to witness the   shocking scene of the execution of other prisoners is a common practice of torture in the prisons of Iranian regime.

As the cries throughout the international community continue to lean toward regime change in Iran , the latest Iranian election has resulted in a second term for Rouhani, who has the interests of the regime in the forefront.

by  Hassan Mahmoudi July 10, 2017 The new Trump administration in Washington is still grappling with the extent to which it is obligated to uphold the illegitimate Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) -- the nuclear deal that the five members of the UN Security Council plus Germany signed with each other in July 2015, and apparently  never signed by Iran . While the Trump administration is saying that military action is not off the table, grassroots efforts by Iranian expatriates to help their brethren inside the Iran to topple their repressive regime have been underway. These efforts were on full display recently on July 1 in Paris, France, where an estimated 100,000 Iranian dissidents and hundreds of politicians and other world dignitaries attended an annual "Free Iran" rally. The event, titled " Onward with the Iranian Resistance, Regime Change within Reach ," expressed the feelings of courageous young people in dozens of Iranian cities, where they...