US officials see fall of Assad as opportunity to force Iranian regime change

December 12, 2024; Fox News

With the fall of Syria’s Bashar al-Assad over the weekend and a new White House on the horizon, Iranian resistance leaders and U.S. lawmakers alike have begun expressing hope that Iran will topple its own leadership in a similar fashion, with U.S. help.

"There’s a real chance for regime change right now, that’s the only way you’re going to stop a nuclear weapon," Sam Brownback, former U.S. ambassador for International Religious Freedom, told Fox News Digital at a Senate panel on Iran on Wednesday.

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Thousands protest against Iranian president ahead of his UN General Assembly address

September 24, 2024; abc7NY

Thousands protest against Iranian president ahead of his UN General Assembly address
NEW YORK CITY (WABC) -- Thousands of Iranian-Americans held a protest outside of the United Nations demanding justice for victims of Iran's regime.

The demonstration stretched an entire avenue.

Protesters filled the entire block on 47th Street.

They have covered the plaza with the faces of those they say have fallen for freedom.

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Paris conference on accountability for notorious 1988 Iran prison massacre highlights challenges to human rights in Iran

September 3, 2024; Jurist.org

On August 24, Paris was the venue for an international conference sponsored by Justice for the Victims of the 1988 Massacre in Iran (JVMI), dedicated to confronting one of the darkest episodes in Iran’s history: the 1988 Massacre. The event, titled “Accountability for Atrocity Crimes,” drew legal luminaries, human rights advocates, survivors, and observers from around the world, all unified in their demand for justice and accountability for the atrocities committed by the Iranian regime 36 years ago. I was in attendance.

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Iranian dissident leader sees troubled regime entering ‘its final stages’

July 5, 2024; The Washington Times

NCRI President-elect Maryam Rajavi predicts no peace in region until Tehran regime is gone

Maryam Rajavi, president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, the world’s largest Iranian dissident organization, which seeks to replace Iran’s theocratic regime with a democracy, provided the following exclusive answers to questions from The Washington Times. Her comments come on the heels of a major NCRI rally in Berlin on June 29, where tens of thousands of people demonstrated against the Iranian regime. NCRI and its associate group, the exiled People’s Mujahedeen of Iran (MEK), also held a major indoor rally in Paris over the same weekend, which included speeches by former Vice President Mike Pence, former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and hundreds of other current and former officials. The interview was conducted before the runoff presidential vote Friday in Iran.

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IRANIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY OF NORTH TEXAS WELCOMES NEWS OF EBRAHIM RAISI’S DEATH.

IACNT; May 21, 2024

Dallas-Texas, the Iranian American Community of North Texas (IACNT) welcomes the news of Ebrahim Raisi’s death in a helicopter crash this past weekend. Raisi, the former President of Iran, played a significant role in the 1988 Massacre, which resulted in the execution of 30,000 political prisoners, most of whom were affiliated with the main Iranian opposition group, the MEK. 

In 1988, the then-Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a death decree that led to these mass executions. Ebrahim Raisi, a member of the “Death Commission” responsible for implementing this dreadful fatwa, was never held accountable for his crime against humanity.

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