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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 646

Iranian opposition

Reza Pahlavi, an Iranian opposition figure and son of the deposed shah, holds a press conference in Paris on June 23, 2025. (Joel Saget/ AFP)
June 24, 2025, 1:07 am
Son of Iran’s ousted shah pleads with world not to give Khamenei a ‘lifeline’
Reza Pahlavi says regime’s days are numbered: ‘This is our Berlin Wall moment’; Israeli minister asserts that Jerusalem is cooperating with Iranian opposition figures
By AFP
Supporters of Iranian presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi protest against the result of the recent election, which they say was fraudulent, at the Azadi (Freedom) Square in Tehran, Iran, June 15, 2009. (AP/Ben Curtis)
June 20, 2025, 3:52 am
Splintered Iranian opposition sees opportunity, but activists remain wary of unrest
As exiled opponents of regime urge protests, activists question motives of both dissidents based abroad and Israel, note Iranians being asked to ‘pour into the streets’ amid strikes
By Parisa Hafezi
In this photo released by the official website of the office of the Iranian supreme leader, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, center, leads the Friday prayers at Imam Khomeini Grand Mosque in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Jan. 17, 2020. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)
June 19, 2025, 9:26 pm
Ayatollah Khamenei may fall, but there’s no telling what could come next
As Israel reportedly mulls assassinating supreme leader and monarchists hope for return, analysts say chaotic attempt at regime change could end with IRGC in power
By Stuart Williams
People simulate a hanging during a demonstration in Paris by an Iranian opposition group on the occasion of the 46th anniversary of the uprising against the Shah, on February 8, 2025. (Thibaud MORITZ / AFP)
February 9, 2025, 1:25 am
Iranian opposition group rallies some 6,000 in Paris, calling for fall of regime
Former Belgian PM tells crowd, assembled by People’s Mujahedeen of Iran, that Islamic Republic will collapse just as Bashar al-Assad did in Syria — ‘and it will be in 2025’
By AFP
Iranian women's rights campaigner Narges Mohammadi is seen at her home in Tehran on September 4 2001. (Behrouz MEHRI / AFP)
October 6, 2023, 5:06 pm
Change sparked by Iran protests ‘irreversible,’ says jailed activist who won Nobel
Despite having no prospect of release and enduring pain of separation from her family, Narges Mohammadi insists protest movement that erupted against regime last year still alive
By Cecile Feuillatre and Stuart Williams
File: Narges Mohammadi, the Iranian women's rights campaigner imprisoned by Iran who won the Nobel Peace Prize on October 6, 2023. (AFP/Narges Mohammadi Foundation)
October 6, 2023, 12:14 pm
Imprisoned Iranian women’s rights campaigner Narges Mohammadi wins Nobel Peace Prize
Mohammadi honored ‘for her fight against the oppression of women in Iran and her fight to promote human rights and freedom for all’
By Agencies
Leader of the People's Mujahedin of Iran Maryam Rajavi (R), former US Vice President Mike Pence (C) and his wife Karen Pence (L) pose for a photograph as they tour an exhibition inside of Ashraf-3 camp, a base for the People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK), in the Albanian town of Manza, on June 23, 2022. Gent Shkullahu/AFP)
July 2, 2023, 2:44 am
Pence, former British PM Truss slam Western ‘appeasement’ at Iran opposition rally
Thousands of People’s Mujahedin supporters rally outside Paris; American ex-VP says ‘this is not just another protest but the beginning of a revolution for freedom’
By Joris FIORITI and Stuart Williams
Habib Chaab is seen on Iranian state TV in November 2020, confessing to an attack on a military parade two years earlier. (Video screenshot)
May 6, 2023, 8:49 am
Iran executes Swedish-Iranian dual national said behind deadly 2018 parade attack
Tehran says Habib Chaab was head of a terror group acting under the direction of foreign intelligence services, including the Israeli Mossad
By Agencies
Jamshid Sharmahd, from Glendora, California, in an undated photograph provided by the family. (Sharmahd family via AP)
April 26, 2023, 7:04 pm
Iran upholds German dual national’s death sentence; Berlin says it’s ‘unacceptable’
Jamshid Sharmahd accused of leading armed opposition group, instigating April 2008 attack in Shiraz killing 14 people; Germany claims trial unfair, calls for reversal
By Agencies
Opposition protesters hold up placards after a march marking the 44th anniversary of Iranian Revolution, in Trafalgar Square, central London on February 11, 2023. (Susannah Ireland/AFP)
February 21, 2023, 10:48 am
Israel said to have warned UK of threat to anti-regime journalists from Tehran
Iran International shifted operations from London office to Washington after police informed it of danger; British government summons top Iranian diplomat over matter
By ToI Staff and AFP
French-Iranian actress Golshifteh Farahani poses on May 16, 2016 during a photocall for the film 'Paterson' at the 69th Cannes Film Festival in Cannes, southern France. (Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP)
January 2, 2023, 2:52 pm
Exiled Iran opposition figures predict 2023 will be year of ‘victory’ for nation
Prominent Iranians in culture, human rights and sports, including former shah’s son, publish coordinated message declaring coming year will feature ‘freedom and justice’
By Stuart Williams
Iranian author Mehdi Bahman seen in an interview with Israel's Channel 13 TV in April 2022. (Screenshot Channel 13 -- used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
December 30, 2022, 10:16 am
Iranian author said sentenced to death after urging peace in Israel TV interview
Opposition-affiliated media says Mehdi Bahman convicted of ‘espionage’ after speaking to Channel 13 earlier in the year, denouncing regime, calling for normalization with Israel
By ToI Staff and AFP
In this June 15, 2009 file photo, hundreds of thousands of supporters of leading opposition presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, who claims there was voting fraud in Friday's election, turn out to protest the result of the election at a mass rally in Azadi (Freedom) square in Tehran, Iran. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)
June 2, 2022, 1:07 pm
Visiting Israel, Iranian anti-regime activists see another 2009 moment, seek support
With Iranians’ anger at the ayatollahs again erupting into protests, the international community has a chance to atone for its failure 13 years ago – and every interest in doing so
By David Horovitz
Iranian Mansour Rasouli denies being involved in an attempt to assassinate an Israeli diplomat in Turkey, in a video aired May 8, 2022 (video screenshot)
May 8, 2022, 1:43 am
Iranian who allegedly confessed to plotting hit on Israeli says he was coerced
After reports Mossad interrogated IRGC member inside Iran, Mansour Rasouli says he was tortured into saying he was involved in assassination plot, but that none of it was true
By ToI Staff
Mansour Rasouli, 52, an alleged IRGC member who was reportedly interrogated by Mossad agents in Iran. (Screenshot: Twitter; used in accordance with clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
April 30, 2022, 11:46 pm
Mossad reportedly interrogated IRGC member in Iran over triple assassination plot
Mansour Rasouli said to have been released after admitting to being tasked with killing Israeli diplomat in Turkey, US general in Germany, Jewish journalist in France
By ToI Staff
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