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Last Monday, the US announced it designated

the Iranian Regime’s Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a Foreign Terrorist

Organization (FTO).

This designation was a major blow to the

theocratic regime by limiting its future actions, Elham

Zanjani, from the Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of

Iran wrote in the NCRI Women Committee.

IRGC is the main apparatus of repression of

the Iranian people, especially Iranian women, the primary driver of war and

export of terrorism, and is responsible for pursuing nuclear weapons and

missile projects.

Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the

National Council of Resistance of Iran, described the inclusion of the

suppressive Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) in the State Department’s list of

Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTO) as a long-standing and righteous demand

of the Iranian Resistance.

It is also imperative for Middle East

security, peace, and stability, and an urgent and necessary step to end war and

terrorism throughout the region and the world.

She pointed out what the perpetrators of the “moderation

myth in Iran” refuse to acknowledge, “Policy

of appeasement has provided so much financing and freedom of action to the

mullahs and the Revolutionary Guards over the past decades.”

‘Words of support’ for tortured and

incarcerated Iran protesters, religious and ethnic minorities, human rights and

women’s rights defenders in Iran, and condolences to families of executed

political prisoners were meaningless while the policy of appeasement was in

effect. International deals made with the mullahs and their agents were made at

the expense of the blood of the Iranian people.

Crimes by the mullahs and the IRGC against

the Iranian people were largely unreported by mainstream media. Here are some

examples of news we have reported on how the IRGCs actions have harmed the

Iranian people, and even more greatly, Iranian women.

1. The IRGC has been an instrument against Iranian women activists,

and Iranian women following a different faith and has led operations for

arbitrary arrests, forced disappearances, torture, long imprisonment, and

execution of political prisoners.

2. IRGC and their relatives have committed crimes with impunity and

abused the rights of the Iranian people.

3. IRGC has pressured employers to dismiss relatives of political

prisoners and Iranian religious minorities from their jobs.

4. A large percentage of College Admission Quota Allocated to IRGC–

an injustice to other Iranian Students.

5. IRGC heavily intervenes in Iranian people’s lives.

6. IRGC is an instrument by

the Velayat-e-Faqihregime to suppress women.