In a letter to the Prime Minister of Portugal, José Sócrates, whose country holds the current rotating presidency of the European Union, Prof. dr. Henk de Haan, Chairman of the Dutch Group of Friends of a Free Iran, described the U.S. move to blacklist the Iranian regime's Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) as a "great stride in the war against terrorism." Text of the letter follows: 

Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance called the brutal attack on Brojerd's Dervishes and leveling their Mosque another sign of the mullahs' faltering regime. She described the crackdown by the State Security Forces (SSF) and paramilitary Bassij forces on Dervishes and their resistance to the assaults a clear indication of the regime's vulnerability in combating different stratus of the Iranian society. She also called on the international community to condemn the Iranian regime's suppressive measures against Brojerd's Dervishes and to take urgent actions to free the detainees. 

By: Brian Binley MP

Source: The Cornerstone Group, Monday, 12 November 2007 

The Iranian nuclear programme underwent another major development a couple of weeks ago when chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani was dismissed, and Saeed Jalili, a protégé of radical hardliner President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, was appointed as his successor.  All indications point to a hardening in the regime’s stance over its nuclear aspirations and its desire to forge ahead with its plans for acquiring nuclear weapons.

By: Shahab Sariri

Source: Global Politician, Monday, 12 November 2007

It was a real shocker to the clerical regime in Iran when the Bush administration blacklisted the Iranian regime's Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) and accused its elite Quds Force of supporting terrorism. The silence of the high ranking clerics in Tehran for several days was the proof of that. It was not until the passing of five days that Ali Khamenei appeared in public to alleviate the anxiety of the clerical establishment's shrinking ideological base.

By Tim Shipman in Washington and Philip Sherwell in New York

The Sunday Telegraph - Iran's deputy defence minister is one of five top Teheran officials placed on Interpol's most wanted list for the 1994 bombing of a Jewish centre in Argentina that killed 85 people, The Telegraph can reveal.

Ahmad Vahidi, a brigadier-general in the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards, is in charge of the regime's defence procurement and rocket and missile programme.

In a statement issued on November 8, the Friends of a Free Iran Inter-Parliamentary group at the European Parliament called on the European Union to impose sanctions against the Iranian regime's Revolutionary Guards Corps. The following is the full text of the statement:

Washington Times, november 9, 2007

James Morrison, Embassy Row

President Bush's decision to impose sanctions on the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and other Iranian targets drew support from Capitol Hill to Brussels, as members of Congress and the European Parliament praised the action but urged the administration to go further.

The Iraqi news agency INA published on November 3, 2007, a report on the message of Massoud Rajavi, the leader of the Iranian Resistance, about the terrorist designation of the Iranian regime's Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) by the United States. Here is the translation of the INA report:

Today, Interpol confirmed arrest warrants for five senior Iranian regime officials. Reacting to the decision, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, congratulated the Iranian people and the families of the victims of the Iranian regime's terrorist operations across the world for the failure of the mullahs' attempts during the Interpol General Assembly to secure the cancellation of arrest warrants for those officials.

In a conference in Rome on October 24, lawmakers and human rights organizations called for an immediate end to executions in Iran. The conference was entitled, “Stop Executions in Iran” and chaired by Mario Lana, Head of Italian Jurists in Defense of Human Rights.

An Iranian Resistance delegation headed by Ms. Dowlat Nowrouzi, the NCRI representative in the United Kingdom and Ms. Taraneh Davaran, a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the NCRI, addressed the conference.