Leader of Iranian resistance issues list of demands to Donald Trump’s administration

Leader of the PMOI Maryam Rajavi speaking at a rally for the Iranian resistance in Paris

By Harriet Sinclair
International Business Times, March 22, 2017 - The leader of the Iranian resistance has sent a strong message to the new US administration: Cease relations with Iran until the country stops torture and executions.

Maryam Rajavi , the leader of the People’s Mujahedin of Iran, spoke at a gathering in the Albanian capital Tirana to mark the Persian New Year and took the opportunity to issue some demands to US President Donald Trump’s administration.

'First, make your commercial and diplomatic relations contingent on end to executions and torture in Iran,' Rajavi began.
'Second, expel the Iranian regime’s criminal and invasive forces who have infiltrated the region by taking advantage of the West’s silence and appeasement.

Mr. Bolton celebrates Nowruz with the Iranian Resistance

John Bolton the Former US Ambassador to the UN

John Bolton, the former US Ambassador to the UN appeared on the stage in the gathering of the Iranian Resistance on the occasion of the Iranian New Year ' Nowruz .'
Mr. Bolton expressed delight to be among the Iranian opposition members in the great country of Albania.

He said: ’Glad to meet you here, I have every confidence that one day we meet again in a free Iran.'
Talking to a huge crowd of jubilant combatants Bolton added; 'I have a few words to Mullahs in Tehran. The golden era of relations with the United States is over. It is vitally important that the whole world understands that American policy on Mullahs’ regime in support of international terrorism and nuclear power program, is fundamentally changed.'

He emphasized, 'There are details that remain to be worked out, but the notion that this regime in Tehran has any legitimacy and can be trusted to honor its commitments, those illusions has been swept aside.'

MARYAM RAJAVI: THIS NOWRUZ HARBINGERS END OF RELIGIOUS DICTATORSHIP AND ADVENT OF THE SPRING OF FREEDOM- MARYAM RAJAVI'S SPEECH ON NOWRUZ IN THE PMOI GATHERIN

And the Nowruz of Iranian people's freedom will loom.

Hail to Iran

Hail to Freedom

Hail to you all

Maryam Rajavi addressed her greeting at Nowruz celebration, the Iranian New Year, which was held at Tirana Albania with PMOI members and guests from Albania, France and United States:

Congratulations on Nowruz, the blossoming of spring and the beginning of the year 1396!
Greetings to each and every one of you freedom fighters who have established the Third Ashraf contrary to the wishes of the Velayat-e Faqih regime!
I would also like to extend my greetings from here to my dear countrymen for the beginning of the New Year.
I congratulate you, Iranian Kurds, Baluchis, Arabs and Azeris, all the colorful flowers of Iran's garden. I greet my compatriots around the world who can hear my voice. Congratulations on Nowruz and the beginning of 1396!

May this year's celebration harbinger the defeat of Velayat-e Faqih who has enchained Iran! May this Nowruz mark the advent of the spring of freedom and national sovereignty in Iran!
May the end of winter this year harbinger the defeat of the mullahs' belligerence and aggression in the region, and I particularly wish for the liberation of the people of Syria from the clutches of this brutal regime.

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Nowruz: Celebrating the new year with Iranian Resistance

Senator Robert Torricelli

March 20 . 2017 - Senator Robert Torricelli spoke at the Grand Gathering of the Iranian Resistance and its supporters celebrating the Great Nowruz .

Senator Torricelli said in part that with Maryam Rajavi , Iranian people would have their freedom and the right to live a prosperous life.

The former US Senator said: 'Everyone in Iran has a role… big or small, take a stand, be part of the free Iran, make your decision today to end the dictatorship, person by person, village by village, across Iran, take a stand now.'

The IRGC was once again unleashed during the 2009 uprisings to quell any pro-democracy demands. They Guards went on a spree of arresting thousands, torturing hundreds and secretly executing dozens.

Through the years the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), has become the main backbone of Iran’s political, military, economic and social crackdown apparatus.

INU - Ever since the 1979 revolution, the Iranian regime and supreme leader needed a leverage to erect major defense lines in the face of domestic threats (protests and uprisings) and simultaneously pursue its foreign objectives. Based on this mentality, the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) was established in the early days as the entity under the supreme leader’s supervision. Ever since, it has played the main role in Iran’s such campaigns.

Through the years the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), has become the main backbone of Iran’s political, military, economic and social crackdown apparatus.

Establishing the IRGC
The original motive behind the formation of the IRGC on May 5th, 1979, meaning less than three months after Iran’s revolution, can be described as the regime intending to establish an ideologically-motivated military entity parallel to the classic army.

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Iran's Relations With Al-Qaeda: Al Arabiya

NCRI Iran News | Terrorism and Fundamentalism

There is reason to believe relations between Iran and al-Qaeda date back to the early 1990s. Contacts between Tehran and al-Qaeda began when bin Laden was in Sudan, and continued following his transfer to Afghanistan. The bilateral relations played an active role in developments that led the 9/11 attacks in New York and hundreds of al-Qaeda senior and low-ranking members fleeing from the Afghanistan hills into Iran following the US-led war in Afghanistan. Numerous al-Qaeda members remain in Iran, including:
Feysal Khlaedi, in charge of relations between al-Qaeda and Pakistan Taliban.

Mohamed Ibrahim Biumi, who according to the US Treasury Department played a mediator role with Tehran, gathered financial support for al-Qaeda and its branches in Syria.
Abu Bakr Mohamed Mohamed Qamin, in charge of providing money and structuring the al-Qaeda hierarchy in Iran.
Mohsen Fazli, founder of the Khorasan group, who was killed in an airstrike.

Why Iran Regime's Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Should Be Blacklisted?

NCRI Iran News | Terrorism and Fundamentalism

March 12, 2017 and the article continues as follows:
Given the other actors involved with the JCPOA and U.N. sanctions on ballistic missiles, Washington has only a few unilateral options for confronting Iranian misbehavior. One of those is designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO).
The State Department FTO list for 2015, published in June 2016, includes neither the Quds Force nor its parent, the IRGC. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson can add both to the list pursuant to three criteria: They must be foreign organizations engaged in terrorist activity that threatens U.S. persons or U.S. national security (i.e., national defense, foreign relations or the economic interests of the United States). Because of the IRGC-QF's ongoing support for terrorist activities, no justification for its designation is needed. Herein we argue that its parent organization, the IRGC, also merits designation, due to its function as the paymaster of the Quds Force.

The IRGC-QF is not an element of the armed forces subordinate to military leadership; it is a distinct entity that serves the Supreme Leader to guard the Islamic Revolution. As such, it is not in fact a formal governmental entity but an expression of the Islamic Republic’s revolutionary movement. This independence from the elected government’s authority makes it a de facto nongovernmental actor operating in an extra-legal fashion, particularly when operating abroad. Thus, any use of violence by the IRGC-QF would be extrajudicial.