When History Spews the Past

   INTERNATIONAL POLICY DIGEST    |    Hossein Sadeghpour    |    October 6, 2025

Karl Marx famously wrote in The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, that history repeats itself—“the first time as tragedy, the second as farce” (“das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce”). His meditation on the French Revolutions of 1789 and 1848—first the overthrow of the monarchy, then Continue Reading

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he Untarnished Truth: Regime’s Forty-Year Battle to Discredit the MEK

NCRI    |    Shahriar Kia    |    October 10, 2025

The clerical regime in Iran has faced a formidable adversary in the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MEK/PMOI), an entity with a longer history and greater resilience. Despite the regime’s extensive security-intelligence apparatus and numerous repressive institutions, forty years of dedicated efforts to eradicate the MEK from Iran’s political landscape has failed. This elimination Continue Reading

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UN experts appalled by unprecedented execution   spree in Iran with over 1000 killed in nine months

29 September 2025

GENEVA – Over 1000 people have been killed in less than nine months of 2025, UN experts said today, warning that the figures represented a dramatic escalation that violates international human rights law.

“The sheer scale of executions in Iran is staggering and represents a grave violation of the right to life,” the experts said. “With an Continue Reading

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Echoes of the 1980s: A Warning from a Former Political Prisoner

   Free Iran Scholar Network     |    Shirin Nariman     |     Aug. 22, 2025

Shirin Nariman is a former political prisoner in Iran during the 1980s.

As a former political prisoner in Iran, I witnessed horrors that remain etched into my memory, nightly executions, the shouts of tortured inmates, and the constant fear that any moment could be your last. I survived the Continue Reading

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Reza Pahlavi’s “Transition Plan”:  A Blueprint for Authoritarian Rule in Iran

  Miami Independent     |     Dr. Majid Rafizadeh     |     Aug. 20, 2022

 On August 1, 2025, Reza Pahlavi unveiled what he describes as a roadmap for Iran’s future — a document allegedly crafted by experts under his supervision and disseminated through NUFDI, his promotional apparatus. Marketed as a post-regime transition plan, it reads less like a democratic blueprint and more like a Continue Reading

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