Hamid Enayat

Hamid Enayat


  • Iran: At Least 1,000 Executions in 2024

    January 3, 2025

    Iran: At Least 1,000 Executions in 2024

    According to a statement by the Iranian opposition, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), the number of recorded executions in 2024 has reached 1,000 prisoners, including 34 women and 7 minors. This figure is unprecedented in the past 30...

  • So why did Iran's mullahs declare five days of mourning for dead Hezb'allah boss, and just three for IRGC chieftain Soleimani?

    October 11, 2024

    So why did Iran's mullahs declare five days of mourning for dead Hezb'allah boss, and just three for IRGC chieftain Soleimani?

    On social media, Iranians frequently ask: why did Iran supreme leader Ali Khamenei declare three days of national mourning for the leader of their Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, Qassem Soleimani, who was blown away during the Trump administratio...

  • Iran held an election and it didn't go well for the mullahs

    July 2, 2024

    Iran held an election and it didn't go well for the mullahs

    After the helicopter crash on May 19, 2024, that claimed the life of former president Ebrahim Raisi, the Iranian mullah regime swiftly scheduled early elections. Not being a particularly competent bunch, they announced the fictional date of Friday...

  • Iran's mullah regime steps up propaganda campaign against Iran's democratic opposition

    June 25, 2024

    Iran's mullah regime steps up propaganda campaign against Iran's democratic opposition

    Iran's mullah regime has stepped up its propaganda campaign of smears against Iran's democratic opposition. Tehran's media propagated the unfounded claim that Maryam Rajavi, leader of the Iranian opposition and former Secretary-General...

  • Iran's religious dictatorship’s fear of 'Generation 2000'

    May 9, 2024

    Iran's religious dictatorship’s fear of 'Generation 2000'

    According to the Oslo-based non-government organization Iran Human Rights, which opposes the death penalty in Iran, during the two weeks from April 16 to May 1, the Iranian regime executed one person every five hours. These killings represent step...

  • For Iranians, Joe Lieberman was a courageous voice for democracy

    April 3, 2024

    For Iranians, Joe Lieberman was a courageous voice for democracy

    The passing of former U.S. Senator and vice-presidential candidate Joseph Lieberman at the age of 82 marks a significant loss of leadership and patriotism in American politics. Lieberman, who served Connecticut in the Senate for nearly a quarter o...

  • Western intellectuals in a Soros-backed think tank are all in for promoting Iran's interests

    February 20, 2024

    Western intellectuals in a Soros-backed think tank are all in for promoting Iran's interests

    The Iranian regime does not solely advance its warmongering through employing a radical force like Hamas, or Hezbollah in Lebanon, or the Houthis in Yemen, with millions of dollars in payments and logistical support. It also tries to influence pol...

  • March 18, 2023

    Sixth months after it began, Iran's uprising persists

    March 21, the first day of spring, also marks Nowruz, or the beginning of a new year on the Iranian calendar. As the Iranian people begin their year 1402, the promise of change is still in the air, but so is the threat of greater reprisals by Ira...

  • February 26, 2023

    In Iran, mass demonstrations in Baluchestan -- and beyond

    Iran's nationwide uprising entered its 163rd day on Saturday in different parts of the country against the mullahs' brutal dictatorship. The Iranian opposition MEK has published the names of 17 more martyrs of the February 25 nationwide up...

  • February 22, 2023

    In Iran, it's the democracy advocates who are standing on the right side of history

    Iran's history over the past two hundred years has repeatedly demonstrated the monarchy's propensity for authoritarianism and the destruction of democratic institutions. During the reign of Reza, the founder of the Pahlavi dynasty, and es...

  • January 15, 2023

    Iran uprising at a glance – Day 121

    First, the data on what's happening in Iran. Start with the count: Days: 121     Protests: 282 cities Fatalities: 750 estimated deaths, 627 identified by MEK Detentions: 30,000   Now here...

  • January 2, 2023

    From inside Iran, a letter from a political prisoner

    In Iran, the mullah regime has imprisoned thousands of political prisoners, attempting to sweep away all evidence of opposition to its hellish regime. But the political prisoners still have voices, and occasionally, one does manage to get word out...

  • June 4, 2022

    Iran’s inhuman record of persecution revealed: 12 million prisoners since 1981

    Recently, the Iranian opposition group, the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), through resistance units within the regime's organs, obtained internal documents that reveal the horrific magnitude of Iran’s persecution of its peop...

  • May 19, 2022

    Growing signs of democratic change in Iran

    Iran is in upheaval, with riots in the streets.  City by city, a starving army is taking to the streets.  Bread, the only food that has enabled the poor to survive, has increased in price several times.  Other basic food...

  • May 11, 2022

    Remembering the 1988 massacres of Iran's political prisoners

    After nine months of processing a complex case, the Swedish prosecution of its district court has finally asked for the indictment of Hamid Noury, accused of participating in the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in Iran in 1988, for a life...

  • April 20, 2022

    Iran’s Desperate Quest for A-Bombs

    The behavior of Iran's religious government is incomprehensible to many. For example, why isn’t the Iranian regime trying to reach a nuclear deal? And why doesn’t it seize the moment and step up sales of Iranian oil and gas when energ...

  • April 8, 2022

    Iran's resistance holds a Ramadan conference condemning Iran's violence

    As much of the global attention focuses on Ukraine, Iran's resistance, away from the news cameras. has also been active. The Iranian Resistance held a conference entitled, "Ramadan, United Against Fundamentalism and Warmongering, for Peac...

  • February 25, 2022

    The mullahs' regime of terror has sparked covert resistance units

    Iran's religious dictatorship has stayed in power for 43 years due to its practice of unbridled domestic crackdowns.  But "Resistance Units," which arise from Iran's countless long-suffering communities, are the sledgehamm...

  • January 8, 2022

    The Mullahs and the Iranian Economy

    After the Iran-Iraq War in the 1980s and during the time of President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the nation entered a process of economic reform. But it adopted a false model of neoliberalism. It never followed the Western model of free-market capital...

  • December 23, 2021

    An Iranian endgame?

    The Iranian regime wants to return to the 2015 agreement that allowed it to maintain its entire nuclear infrastructure, recoup $150 billion, and sell up to 2.5 million barrels of oil a day.  With this money, it has expanded and developed it...

  • November 29, 2021

    What Could Trigger Iran's Mullahs' Demise

    Following my essay on why Iran's ruling mullahs are slow-walking a nuclear deal even with weak Joe Biden, which is based on their belief that nuclear weapons help them cling to power in an unpopular dictatorship, here are the factors that ar...

  • November 27, 2021

    Why Iran's Mullahs are Slow-Walking a Nuclear Deal, Even With Joe Biden

    As the situation within Iran continues to deteriorate, why is the Iranian regime dragging its feet on negotiations with the U.S. on its nuclear program? After all, successful completion of those could lead to the lifting of sanctions on the mull...

  • November 18, 2021

    Whither the Iran deal?

    What's the situation with the Iran nuclear deal, originally negotiated by President Obama?  Now that Joe Biden has become president of the U.S., here are some thoughts from a source in Tehran: "The problem is not in the J...

  • November 10, 2021

    Time is moving against the Iranian regime

    In a joint statement on Wednesday, Britain, France, and Germany stated that they were "deeply concerned" about the "successive breach of Iran's nuclear obligations," emphasizing that "unacceptable" Iranian activities...

  • September 23, 2021

    The Persian coin flip: What Iran will look like with and without the Iran deal

    This article has been prepared based on the opinion of several Iranian economic experts.  It does not address whether or not the JCPOA (the Iran deal) will be revived.  Instead, it seeks to examine Iran's economic and trade st...

  • August 29, 2021

    A brief look at Iran's new presidential cabinet

    Following the two widespread uprisings of 2017 and 2019, Iran's supreme leader, Ali Khamenei, announced that he would prefer a young Hezb'allah government in power to overcome economic and social crises. In this speech, he emphasized the ...

  • August 21, 2021

    Iran's mullahs ban COVID vaccines — with predictable results

    The death toll from COVID-19 is growing exponentially in Iran, as the fifth wave of the coronavirus has yet to reach its peak. Given the current situation, Iran needs at least 120 million doses of reputable foreign vaccines to deal with this ...

  • August 7, 2021

    Raisi, Khamenei's henchman, takes the presidency of Iran

    On August 3, Ebrahim Raisi, a notorious henchman, officially took office as the Iranian regime's president, replacing the incumbent Hassan Rouhani.  The United Nations and Amnesty International have formally stated that Raisi was involv...

  • July 23, 2021

    Iran's criminal president

    August 3 marks the inauguration of Ebrahim Raisi as Iran's eighth president.  His designation as the president comes with a dark history of human rights abuses.  According to Amnesty International and the United Nations, Raisi...

  • July 14, 2021

    The mullahs have lost the Iranian people

    The regime in Iran, under the supreme leader, has ruled as a theocratic government for 40 years.  During that time, the Iranian people have watched their middle class disappear, natural resources exploited, and their economy become chaotic....

  • July 3, 2021

    Who won the Iranian presidential election?

    According to an Iranian government website, 15 million eligible people sat out Iran's 2017 presidential election.  For the 2021 presidential election, this number has doubled to roughly 30 million.  Of this numb...

  • June 18, 2021

    Iranian society is inching toward violence

    Iranian society is getting increasingly violent.  In the past few days, several women have been killed by their husbands in Iran's border cities.  An increase in child murder, general murder and family crimes, suicide, and the...

  • June 3, 2021

    Iran's upcoming presidential election a legitimacy test of the regime in Tehran

    In recent months, various factions of the Iranian regime have unanimously stressed that the regime's legitimacy is not being challenged even as the turnout in the presidential election, scheduled for June 18, is expected to decline.  Fo...

  • May 16, 2021

    Iran: Election or Referendum?

    Iranian society is enduring hardships on many fronts under the reign of the mullahs. The spectrum is quite broad, including domestic, regional, and international matters, economic challenges for its citizens, and ethnic and religious inequalities...

  • March 22, 2021

    In Iran, class resentment boils beneath the surface

    The class gap is, to a moderate degree, an accepted reality in today's Iran. But the class gap is widening, and is especially apparent in the extreme consumerism seen in Iranian society today.  Profound differences are seen in...

  • March 2, 2021

    Iran’s Economy: The Rule Of Plunder And Corruption

    Even if all international sanctions and any other economic barriers are lifted and Iran can export the 2.3 million barrels per day outlined in its 2021 budget, it will still have economic challenges. That’s because the mullahs have let all prod...

  • February 21, 2021

    Iran: A 'cat' going for an atomic bomb

    Iran's Minister of Intelligence of the Islamic Republic, Mohammad Alavi, made a rather strange analogy in his recent interview: "[Supreme Leader Ali] Khamenei issued a fatwa (religious decree) in February 2010 stating that acquiring at...

  • February 8, 2021

    Iranian diplomat sentenced to 20 years prison in European terror plot

    Diplomatic immunity does not extend to terrorism, and that is very bad news for Iran's embassies.  [Update: David Keasey makes the important point that Assadollah Assadi was diplomatically accredited to Germany, but not to France. Hence, his...

  • December 18, 2020

    Iran's economy under the domination of mullah mafia's power

    As a new administration prepares to take over in the U.S. in January, many of the elite of Iran's government are attempting to determine how they can spin the current economic situation to have the U.S. lift sanctions.  According to the...

  • October 23, 2020

    Busted: Iranian diplomat who ferried bombs around Europe now goes to trial

    In 2018, an Iranian diplomat left his post in Austria, returned to Iran, and flew a bomb back to Europe.  After turning it over to two Iranian operatives in Luxembourg via Germany, he returned to Austria.  As part of a coordinated...

  • August 26, 2020

    Iran's massacres of political prisoners continue today

    "The war is a divine gift," said the Ayatollah Khomeini, founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran, before being defeated in the eight-year war with Iraq.  Thirty-two years ago, he was forced to accept the ceasefire in a decisi...

  • July 20, 2020

    While Iranians protest, some Americans are coming around to the call for regime change

    When Western policymakers discuss the Islamic Republic of Iran, they tend to act as if regime change were entirely off the table. It's not as if anyone is taking the position that the world will be better off if Iran maintains its current form...

  • June 26, 2020

    Iranian authorities are as afraid of artists as they are of the political opposition

    A well known Iranian newscaster was recently suspended by his state television network after more than 30 years on the air.  The sole cause for that suspension was a series of comments on Instagram in which the presenter expressed his fondn...

  • May 6, 2020

    Iran’s President Rouhani denies the reality of oil price crisis in televised meeting

    Iranian President Hassan Rouhani held a televised meeting in which he argued that the Islamic Republic stood to experience fewer negative effects than other OPEC nations in the wake of a sharp decline in oil prices caused by the coronavirus. But Rouh...

  • February 29, 2020

    Iran's parliamentary election was a test of survival

    The Ministry of the Interior finally announced the results of the election on Sunday, after a prolonged delay.  According to Interior minister Rahmani Fazli, out of approximately 58 million eligible voters, only 24.5 million participat...

  • January 28, 2020

    Signs of political collapse in Iran

    Khamenei and the inevitable risk The disqualification of 90 incumbent members of parliament (Majlis) for the next parliamentary elections to be held on February 22 in Iran indicates the intention of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei to consolidate his r...

  • January 9, 2020

    Soleimani's end is no outbreak of war, it's the end of war

    Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has recently said that the Iranian regime has been in conflict with the international community for all of its 40 years. Ever since the rise of this regime, we have witnessed war and death in the Middle East. ...

  • December 25, 2019

    Chronicle of a heinous crime

    With more than 20 factories, Mahshahr County is recognized as the heart of Iran's petrochemical industry, where most of the facilities belong to the Revolutionary Guards Corps.  The capital city, Bandar-e Mahshahr, has six operating uni...

  • October 22, 2019

    Tehran remains unapologetic over its worst crime against humanity

    In August 2016, a leaked audio recording from 1988 helped highlight why its creator quickly went from being second in command of the Iranian regime to spending his last years under house arrest.  In it, Hossein-Ali Montazeri describes the ...

  • October 11, 2019

    The unsolvable paradox of Iran

    On Wednesday, October 7, Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei praised the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commanders in a major speech, describing them as "his dear children whom he is satisfied with 100 percent."  What...

  • October 2, 2019

    Why Iran's Rouhani refuses to meet with President Trump

    Speaking to reporters, French oresident Emmanuel Macron said during his flight to the United States: "Iranians are flexible about parameters but say about meeting that it should be done at the end of the process, while Americans are aiming to me...

  • August 6, 2019

    Iran's ayatollahs hijacked French government social media account to discredit popular opposition leader

    The psychological warfare led by the Iranian mullahs against their political opponents is the most effective since Nazi Germany, aided by their use and abuse of modern social media communication techniques.  The Iranian regime, which took p...

  • July 19, 2019

    Iran is responsible for current crises and must be treated accordingly

    See also: Patiently Squeezing Iran Don’t underestimate Iran’s geopolitical resources Now that Iran has officially begun violating the 2015 nuclear deal, it is more important than ever to remember who bears the bulk of the respons...