Why a bipartisan majority supports Iranian opposition to regime

May 18, 2025 by Saeid Sajadi; MSN

A bipartisan majority in the U.S. House of Representatives recently supported the 10-point plan of Maryam Rajavi for a free Iran with HR 166, led by Reps. McClintock, R-California, and Brad Sherman, D-California.

The resolution acknowledges the legitimacy of the rebellious youths — led by MEK, i.e., the main democratic opposition — confronting the repressive forces of IRGC inside Iran. The support for the resolution transcends party lines and ideological leanings.

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Trump team gearing up to confront terrorist Iran

January 29, 2025 by Rowan Scarborough; Washington Times 

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's regime is vulnerable

Any week now, President Trump is going to approve renewed hard-line strategies against the terrorist state Iran after President Biden spent four years coddling the mullahs.

The president’s close advisers are signaling it’s get-tough time again and that Iran’s dictatorship is vulnerable.

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Iranian People and Organized Resistance Key to Maximum Pressure on Tehran

November 29, 2024 by Ken Blackwell; Townhall

It is widely expected that when President Trump returns to the White House in January, he will re-implement his strategy of “maximum pressure” in dealing with the Islamic Republic of Iran. This is as it should be, especially given recent reminders of Iran’s escalating nuclear activities and the looming threat of full-scale war between Iran and Israel. But the Trump administration should understand, as should all Western leaders, that to truly achieve maximum pressure on the Iranian regime, they must look beyond economic sanctions and diplomatic isolation and aim to increase the pressure that the government is already facing domestically from its own people.

When protests over the September 2022 killing of Mahsa Amini by Iran’s morality police turned into a nationwide uprising, it was generally understood to be the greatest challenge to the mullahs’ hold on power since the 1979 revolution. The uprising was ultimately suppressed through the killing of 750 protesters and the arrest of approximately 30,000. Still, public activism has persisted ever since, often giving voice to explicit calls for regime change. Those calls have, however, gone unrecognized by far too many Western policymakers, while there are even fewer who recognize that those calls are backed up by an organized opposition movement with a concrete plan for empowering a democratic alternative to the mullahs’ dictatorship.

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Ebrahim Raisi’s legacy of atrocity and repression

May 21, 2024 by Majid Rafizadeh; Townhall

Ebrahim Raisi, the president of Iran and one of the most reviled figures in the country’s modern history, has died in a helicopter crash. His death brings to a close a career marked by widespread human rights abuses, particularly his notorious role in the 1988 massacre of political prisoners. As the nation processes this news, it’s worth reflecting on the dark legacy that Raisi leaves behind, and the implications for Iran’s future.

Raisi’s ascent to power was marked by brutality and repression. Raisi was thrust into the spotlight when Iran’s supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, orchestrated his rise to the presidency in 2021. But Raisi’s infamy dates back much further. At the age of 28, Raisi was a pivotal figure in the “Death Commissions” during the 1988 massacre of political prisoners, a chapter in Iranian history that continues to haunt the nation.

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West must pay direct attention to Iran, not its proxies

January 19, 2024 by Chuck Wald; Politico.eu

Following a series of Houthi attacks on international vessels in the Red Sea, military forces from the United States and the United Kingdom — supported by several other nations — began conducting operations targeting Houthi positions in Yemen last week.

But while addressing the impact of Houthi actions on international maritime security is a pressing issue, efforts to resolve the crisis should be focused on the real source behind this unfolding crisis — and the head of the snake is in Tehran.

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