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On Thursday, June 23, the 48th US Vice President Mike Pence and former second lady of the United States Mrs. Karen Pence visited Ashraf 3, the residence of thousands of Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization members in Albania. Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran welcomed the Vice President and the former second lady at the Ashraf 3 museum, where she guided Mr. Pence through the 120-year history of the Iranians’ struggle for freedom and democracy.
Afterward, Mr. and Mrs. Pence attended a large gathering of members of the Iranian Resistance and expressed strong words of support for the fight and the sacrifices these people have made throughout the four decades-long fight against the clerical dictatorship in Iran. Welcoming and expressing gratitude on behalf of the Iranian Resistance, Mrs. Rajavi told Vice President Mike Pence: “Today, the world is witnessing that conditions are ripe for change in Iran and that people are ready for change. Protests are erupting with increasing intensity across the country. On the other hand, the regime has no answer except to step up repression, executions, or torture in its prisons. The people of Iran have the right to resist, much like the war of independence in America. The mullahs have occupied our country. People now chant, “Our enemy is right here; they lie when they say it’s America.” “By promoting the separation of religion and state, this alternative is a solution to establish democracy in Iran and an obstacle to Islamic fundamentalism in the entire region. The mullahs’ regime has made every effort to cover up this truth. Demonizing the Iranian Resistance, censoring its news, and denying its popular support are all intended to cover up the truth. Now that all illusions about any reform within the regime in Iran have disappeared, the mullahs are investing in a non-existent Shah to divert the uprisings.” said Maryam Rajavi.
Mike Pence said in his speech: “I have traveled more than 5,000 miles from my home in Indiana to be here today because we share a common cause: the liberation of the Iranian people from decades of tyranny, and the rebirth of a free, peaceful, prosperous, and democratic Iran. Thank you all for standing strong in the name of freedom.” “Today we call on the Biden administration to immediately withdraw from all nuclear negotiations with Tehran, voice support for the organized opposition in Iran, and make it clear that the United States and our allies will never allow Iran to obtain nuclear weapons.”
“Today, I join you in pledging that his crimes must not go unpunished. Ebrahim Raisi is unworthy of leading the great people of Iran. He must be removed from office by the people of Iran – and he must be prosecuted for crimes against humanity and genocide that he perpetrated thirty years ago and every day since.”
“Your Resistance Units, commitment to democracy, human rights, and freedom for every citizen of Iran. Maryam Rajavi’s Ten Point Plan for the future of Iran will ensure freedom of expression, freedom of assembly, and the freedom for every Iranian to choose their elected leaders.”
“The regime in Tehran wants to trick the world into believing that the Iranian protesters want to return to the dictatorship of the Shah as well. But we are not confused by their lies.”
“The day will come when the ayatollahs release their iron-fisted grip on Iran and her people. A new glorious day will dawn, and a bright future will begin, ushering in an era of peace, prosperity, stability, and freedom for the good people of Iran and the world,” Vice President Mike Pence concluded. https://tinyurl.com/52kvfxs4
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Political prisoner Soada Khadirzadeh gave birth to her baby after two weeks of delay. She was cuffed to her bed after undergoing C-section to deliver her baby. Her family had no information about her health. Soada was kept in prison until 3 hours before delivering her baby. The delivery had been delayed by two weeks. Soada’s legs and arms had swollen, and her baby’s health was at risk. Finally, on Monday, June 20, 2022, at 5 am, Soada Khadirzadeh was transferred to a medical center in Urmia to deliver her baby by a C-section operation. She was alone at the delivery time.
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Several prisoners have been infected with tuberculosis in the all-women Qarchak Prison. This report has raised concerns among the prisoners’ families. Prisoners with tuberculosis are being held alongside other prisoners. The risk of developing the disease is awaiting all female prisoners due to negligence and inaction by Qarchak prison officials. The child of one of the prisoners said, “Prison authorities have not yet taken any action to quarantine or separate the sick prisoners. They are being held alongside other prisoners.”
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Evin Prosecutor’s Office has opposed Maryam Akbari Monfared’s request to be transferred from Semnan Prison to Evin Prison in Tehran- Iran. Maryam has been in prison for more that a decade without a day of leave. She has repeatedly requested to be transferred to a prison near her family’s place of residence in Tehran. Zahra Mohammadi is also jailed in the Correctional Center of Sanandaj women’s ward to serve her five-year prison time. Her detention in this prison violates the principle of separation of crimes.
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The Moral Security Police arrested 120 people on a site-seeing tour in the jungles of northern Iran. According to the State-run Tabnak website on June 19, the Justice Department of Mazandaran Province has filed legal cases for the 120 people arrested. Mullah Mohammad Sadeq Akbari, Director General of the Justice Department of Mazandaran, confirmed the arrest of 120 people and said that dancing and removing one’s veil is a crime.The members of this tour committed criminal acts in the Pirajeh Jungle in Neka County of Iran. They drank alcoholic drinks; men and women danced together. Women removed their Hijab and other actions against the Sharia law.
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Sara Rezaei, 32, mother of a 7-year-old child, was brutalized by her husband and subsequently suffocated by a pillow on June 16. Sara Rezaei used to live in Kasma village in Suma Sara, Gilan Province, in northern Iran. Sara was another child bride who became a victim of femicide. According to an informed source, “Sara had left home a week before this tragedy occurred. She was subject to domestic violence all the time during her married life. On the day she was murdered, she had returned home to take her identity papers and golds, thinking that her husband was not home.” Local media published the news of Sara Rezaei’s murder by her husband without mentioning her name.
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