Special to WorldTribune.com Nine Iranian Christians were arrested while attending church on Christmas Day in the city of Shiraz. The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) reported that the Christians were taken into custody as the church was raided by plain-clothes officers from Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security. The NCRI said government officials […]
Special to WorldTribune.com Iran has long intended to attain nuclear weapons capability, going so far as to enlist the help of rogue Pakistani nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan, former Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said. In an interview with state-run IRNA news agency, Rafsanjani said Iran’s nuclear ambitions became clear amid the Iran-Iraq War that […]
Special to WorldTribune.com The nuclear deal signed by Iran and Western powers on July 14 will open up more cash for Iran to fund terrorism and lead to a Middle East arms race, exiled opposition leader Maryam Rajavi said. Rajavi, president of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) who lives in exile in […]
Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — The Iranian opposition has reported another underground nuclear facility. The National Council of Resistance of Iran said the Teheran regime has been operating a secret military nuclear facility. The Paris-based council, part of the Mujahadeen Khalq, said the site was located in the military base in Haft-e Tir, 10 kilometers […]
Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — The Iranian opposition said Teheran was moving a nuclear weapons research and development center to a Defense Ministry complex. The National Council of Resistance of Iran, on the eve of nuclear talks in Geneva on Oct. 15, identified the facility as SPND and said it employs 100 researchers. “There is […]
Special to WorldTribune.com BAGHDAD — The Iranian opposition has again been attacked in Iraq. On Sept. 1, at least 50 people were killed in a mortar and machine gun attack on a camp assigned to members of Iran’s leading opposition group, Mujahadeen Khalq. MEK said the attack on Camp Ashraf was directed by the Iraq […]
Special to WorldTribune.com LONDON — Iran’s leading opposition group has agreed to re-settle thousands of members and their families in Iraq. The National Council of Resistance of Iran said it would continue to relocate members from Iraq’s Camp Ashraf as part of a deal to be removed from the U.S. State Department list of organizations […]