Friday 30 October 2015
Wednesday 28 October 2015
The daughter of an Iranian political prisoner warns of a looming Threat to her father
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'My father is a political prisoner facing an imminent threat to his life in prison in Iran'
Describing
a person’s life is never easy, especially when that person is someone you
cherish. Ali Moezi is my father, he is a political prisoner in Iran, and I fear
losing him with each passing second, Hijrat Moezi wrote as it published in
World Post
Before
I was even born, my father experienced the mullah’s prisons. In 1980, when the
theocratic dictatorship took control of Iran, my father was arrested and
tortured. He had been among those who stood in opposition to their tyrannical
rule, and paid the price with several years of torture in the regime’s prisons.
My
father was educated at the University of Karaj in agricultural engineering, and
could have worked towards building up his homeland; Instead, he has spent
years, off and on, behind bars. The theocracy has made it such that everyone
finds himself leading a life unsuitable to their vocation: our scholars rest
imprisoned while thieves and criminals are in government.
I
recall asking him, when I was a child,What happened to your knee?’ to which
he responded, 'it was hit by a bullet.' Only when I was older did I learn that
he participated in peaceful demonstrations in Tehran in June1981and during
his escape, he was shot and then subjected to hours of painstaking torture.At
the time, my father would have been the same age I am now, 26The whip marks
left by his torturers can still be seen on the soles of his feet and his back.
Throughout
my childhood, the thought of my parents’ arrest was my greatest nightmare. But
one day, I myself decided to stand up against this government. I moved to Camp
Ashraf and left my country for Iraq, where thousands of refugees and Iranian
dissidents lived in a place that was our only hope for freedom. I remember, on
my last day in Iran, looking into my father’s eyes and asking if I’d ever see
him again...
Iran: Letter to my imprisoned daughter
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| Athena Daemi’s |
AthenaDaemi’s mother wrote a letter to her
daughter, a political prisoner, after being in prison for one year.
Daemi
was arrested at her father’s home on October 21, 2014 and was transferred to
ward 2A of Evin Prison in Tehran.
She
has been accused of “propaganda against the state”, “insulting the leader”,
“assembly and collusion to commit crimes against national security”.
Masoumeh
Ne’mati, Atena’s mother, wrote:
One year passed without you…
It
has been one year that I am fighting with every heartbeat, worried it might
stop… and I don’t know how many more days it will endure.
Rafsanjani’s admissions: In the beginning we were looking to have such a capability to acquire nuclear bomb.
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| atom-akhoond |
Khamenei and Rafsanjani personally wanted to meet Abdul
Qadeer Khan
Quarter of a century later,
Rafsanjani confirms Iranian Resistance’s disclosures of regime’s nuclear
project
IAEA is unable to determine PMD
without interviewing Rafsanjani and Khamenei
Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, former
Iranian regime President and present head of regime’s State Exigency Council
that has been regime’s No. 2 man from the outset made unprecedented concessions
in an interview that the regime was looking to acquire nuclear bomb when it
initiated its nuclear program and has never abandoned the idea.
According to this interview
published by regime’s official news agency IRNA on 26 October 2015, Rafsanjani
in the capacity of speaker of parliament or President and Khamenei as President
or Supreme Leader of this regime have been personally following up the project
to acquire the nuclear bomb. Moreover, Rafsanjani has acknowledged that from
the onset there has been a comprehensive clandestine nuclear plan, including
construction of secret sites, enrichment of uranium, manufacture of centrifuge
parts, laser technology, and the heavy water reactor.
Maryam Rajavi: Freedom in Iran is solution to crisis and instability in Middle East
Maryam
Rajavi: Freedom in Iran, key to crisis and solution for instability in the
Middle East
In
the present circumstances, mullahs wage a barbaric war of oppression against
the people of Iran. This can be particularly seen in the mass and arbitrary executions
described by Amnesty International as "a sinister picture of the machinery
of the state carrying out premeditated, judicially-sanctioned killings on a
mass scale."
The
average number of executions under Rouhani has reached to about 1000 per year.
This is the highest record in the past quarter of a century. In addition, there
are several thousands more on the death row in various prisons across Iran.
These executions indicate the regime’s instability. When a regime feels
threatened even by concerts and theatres, it is shaky. A regime that imprisons
young web bloggers, poets, cartoonists, journalists and film-makers, is
unstable.
The
proponents of cooperation with this regime do not take into consideration the
Syrian experience or the experiences in Iraq and Yemen. If it were not for the
Iranian regime's direct support for Bashar al-Assad, there would not have been
a refugee crisis or the 300,000 Syrians who have been victimized. If it were
not for the mullahs' support for Iraq's former Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki
and his criminal policies, there would have been no opportunity for the ISIS to
develop.
The
Middle East needs peace, stability and democracy. This would be possible
through regime change in Iran
Iranian regime’s casualties mount in Syria and Iraq
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A
commander of the Iranian regime’s paramilitary Bassij Force from Isfahan,
central Iran, has been killed in Syria in the country’s civil war, the regime’s
state media said on Monday. Hamidreza Daei Taqi was commander of the Bassij
base called Al-Mehdi Shams Abadi, according to the website of the commander of
the Iranian regime’s Revolutionary Guards Quds Force Qassem Soleimani.
Hassan
Shemshadi, a Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) member who is operating in Syria under
the cover of a reporter wrote in the social media that battles in northern,
southern, and southwestern Aleppo, as well as north of Latakia, have been
intense. He disclosed the role of the IRGC in Syria’s civil war and stated that
the machination and planning for the operation, as well as training, equipping
and transfer of forces, took five months and it is a week now that the
operation has begun.
Every minute 5 more people in Iran join army of unemployed
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| iranian-young |
Every
minute five more people in Iran join the sea of unemployed people in the
country, according to the state-run Resalat daily.
The
paper wrote on October 25 that Ali Rabei, Hassan Rouhani’s Minister of
Cooperatives, Labor and Social Welfare, who was speaking to a gathering of
representatives of unions in Iran’s Zanjan Province, said: “Currently, it is
such that every minute five more are added to the army of unemployed and there
is a need now for the creation of 800,000 new jobs every year.
Monday 26 October 2015
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| Maryam Rajavi |
مريم رجوي:
چه كسي ممكن است چهرة مظلوم اما مصمم ريحانه را ببيند، يا فرياد تظلمخواهي
مادر او را بشنود و منقلب نشود؟
با اين همه، در پس اين وقايع، نيرو و پيامي وجود
دارد كه به جاي حزن و اندوه و ترس و نااميدي، همبستگي اجتماعي را افزايش ميدهد و اعتراض
و مخالفت عليه آخوندها را دامن ميزند؛ و آن مقاومت مردم ايران و به خصوص مقاومت زنان
ايران است.
به وصيتنامة ريحانه گوش كنيد كه چگونه سراپاي رژيم
ولايت فقيه و قوانين ظالمانة آن را به محاكمه ميكشد؛
او ميگويد: «با آغوش باز از مرگ استقبال ميكنم؛
چرا كه در دادگاهٍ خداوند، متهم ميكنم مأمورين آگاهي را، متهم ميكنم بازپرس را، متهم
ميكنم قاضي ديوانعالي كشور را، كساني كه بيدريغ كتكم زدند... و من در دادگاه خالق
هستي، متهم ميكنم همة آنها را ... ».
خامنهاي، سردژخيم رژيم، اين دختر شجاع را بالاي
دار فرستاد؛ اما ايستادگي و بيباكي و شورشگري زن ايراني عليه ارتجاع و ستم آخوندي،
از بين رفتني نيست، بلكه بيشتر و خروشانتر ميشود تا روزي كه بساط اين رژيم را جمع،
و اين رژيم را سرنگون كند.
فرياد مادر ريحانه در تاريخ ايران خواهد ماند كه:
دختر من شرف داشت. ما با او همصدا ميشويم و به شكيبايي و استقامت اين مادر و همة مادران،
درود ميفرستيم.
Maryam Rajavi: Who might the poor
face R. determined to see, or hear his mother screaming and moving Tzlmkhvahy
not?
However, in the wake of these
events, the power and the message is that rather than sadness and fear and
hopelessness, social cohesion increases and fueled opposition against the
mullahs, and the Iranian people's resistance and the resistance to women Iran.
Vsytnamh R. Listen to how thoroughly
the clerical regime and op- rules will take it to trial;
He said: "I welcome death with
open arms because in the court of God, I am accused agents of knowledge, I
accused the prosecutor accused the judge of the Supreme Court and I, who were
beaten ... and my generous Creator court , I suspect all of them. "
Khamenei, the regime Srdzhkhym, this
brave girl sent to the gallows, but Iranian women stand and fearlessness and
insurgency against the reactionary and clerical oppression, the loss, but more
and Khrvshantr until the day he stand up to the regime, and the regime
overthrow.
R. mother will cry in Iran that was
my daughter's honor. We join with him and the patience and endurance of mother
and all mothers we, salute
Iran: List of IRGC commanders killed in Syria
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| pasdaran |
Sadrzadeh was a founder of the Fatemiyoun Brigade and was in charge of its Amar Battalion. The Iranian regime’s state-run Fars News Agency, affiliated with the IRGC, reported on October 23: “A number of forces who fought in the Iran-Iraq war were in the military unit under his [Sadrzadeh] command.”
Iran: Call to save lives of four prisoners who were juvenile offenders
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executioner
of children
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The
Iranian regime as the foremost executioner of children in the world sentenced
to death four young prisoners in Sanandaj Prison who were juveniles at the time
of their crimes. The Iranian Resistance calls on all international human rights
agencies, especially the UN Secretary-General, the High Commissioner for Human
Rights, and pertinent UN Rapporteurs, as well as the European Union and the
U.S. government, to take immediate action to obstruct these cruel executions
that contravene many international laws and covenants.
Yousef
Mohammadi, 20, and Heeman Orami-nejad, 18, were both 14 years old when they
committed their crimes and are now sentenced to death. Siavosh Mahmoudi and
Amanej Hosseini (Oveissi) who were arrested when 17 are also at the risk of
being hanged. Another young prisoner by the name of Kiomars Nasseiri, also a
prisoner in Sanandaj Prison who was arrested when a juvenile, is threatened to
be sentenced to death.
IRAN: Guards raid Ward 12 of Gohardasht Prison today
Wardens of Iran’s notorious Gohardasht (Rajai-shahr) Prison, inKaraj, north-west of Tehran, raided Ward 12 at 13:00 local time on Monday,
according to news sources inside of Iran.
The ward houses political prisoners opposed to the mullahs’ regime.
During the raid, the wardens conducted body searches of the
prisoners and used devices to search the whole ward.
Friday 23 October 2015
IRAN: Ex-bodyguard for Ahmadinejad killed in Syria fight
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| pasdar-bagheri |
A
former bodyguard for the Iranian regime's former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
has been killed while fighting in Syria, the regime's state media announced on
Friday.
The state-run Fars agency reported
Friday that Abdollah Bagheri Niakari was killed while fighting in Syria's civil war alongside Syrian government forces in the northern city of Aleppo.
Thursday 22 October 2015
Obstructing entry of basic needs and contractors to Camp Liberty for imperative repairs
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| camp-liberty |
On
Wednesday, October 21, 2015, Major Ahmed Khozair, an agent from the
Governmental Committee tasked to suppress Camp Liberty residents, once again in
the recent weeks, prevented entry of residents’ basic needs, supplies, and
items needed for maintenance and repair of camp’s infrastructures, etc
returning them from camp’s gate.
These
suppressive measures and returning of items bought by residents are implemented
under the supervision of Iraqi National Security Advisor Faleh Fayyad.
The
returned items include ordinary cloth, stationary, electric cables, water
pumps, ventilators, water pressure container, hose and physical exercise
equipment.
Concurrently,
agents of the Committee prevented an Iraqi contractor from coming to the camp
despite the fact that his visit had been coordinated with UNAMI and Iraqi
officers. It is over two years now that the suppressive committee prevents
contractors from coming to the camp for the repair of air-conditioning systems
and camp’s worn out infrastructures. This measure is egregious breach of the
Memorandum of Understanding signed between Government of Iraq and UNAMI on
December 25, 2011 according to which contractors may sign contracts for
refurbishment and repair jobs in the camp. This issue has been raised numerously
with UNAMI, but no effective measures have been taken.
Khamenei compelled to approve nuclear deal paves way for future violations and stonewalling
On
Wednesday, October 21, Iranian regime supreme leader Khamenei who is deeply
concerned about the consequences of the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action
(JCPOA) with P5+1 for the survival of the clerical regime, inescapably approved
the deal after a 100-day delay in a letter to Rouhani and stated that he
approves the August 10, 2015 resolution of regime’s Supreme National Security
Council in this regard.
Meanwhile,
he resorted to charlatanism special to him to take advantage of the feeblepolicy of the West and its appeasement of mullahs. He raised some arguments or
new conditions and made ambiguous statements to keep the option of violating
the accord and to pave the way for stonewalling its implementation, while
attempting to prop up his dispirited forces.
Tuesday 20 October 2015
Firouz Mahvi: Global solidarity needed with Iranian people
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| Mr. Firouz Mahvi, member of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) |
Mr.
Firouz Mahvi, member of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), at a
meeting on October 7 on human rights in Iran at the European Parliament in
Strasbourg.
As
you know Iran executes more people in the world than any other country except
China. But it is number one per capita, with over 2000 executions since HassanRouhani became president. This is not nothing to be proud of. The regime claims
that these people are drug traffickers. The reality is that many young people
who are protesting against the mullahs are executed under this excuse. Several
political prisoners have been hanged recently. Many executions are done in
public. This creates an atmosphere of fear and terror.
At
the same time repression against women has increased under Rouhani. Apart from
many acid attacks, there are many repressive regulations imposed on women. Last
week a new video clip appeared on YouTube which showed that in a marriage
ceremony, the security forces in Iran arrested the bride and took her to prison
because she did not dress properly. The regime interferes in the private lives
of the people every day. Several women activists have recently received
long-term prison sentences.
Appeasing Iran’s mullahs emboldens regime - Ken Blackwell
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| shahqayeq |
A recent series of arrests of dissidents and a wave of executions in Iran show that the regime's President Hassan Rouhani is anything but a 'moderate,' said Amb. Ken Blackwell, a former Cincinnati mayor and U.S. ambassador to the UN human rights commission.
Amb.
Blackwell writing on Monday in Townhall described the case of a young activist
of the main opposition group People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI, or Mujahedin-e
Khalq, MEK) whose parents were arrested last week by the fundamentalist regime
in Iran.
Shaqayeq
Azimi is an aspiring, joyful girl of 22 with a full life ahead of her. She is
also an Iranian dissident, committed to challenging the repressive theocracy
that rules her home country.
Recently
she learnt that both her father Mahmoud and her mother Fatemeh Ziae were
arrested on October 11 by the Iranian secret police in a raid on their home in
Tehran. The regime has been characteristically secretive about the arrests, so
Shaqayeq has been unable to obtain any information about where her parents have
been taken, or what their current condition is.
This
is not the first time that her parents have been arrested, but given the nature
of the regime, each such incident poses grave dangers.
Fatemeh
endured five years’ imprisonment and torture in the 1980s for supporting the
principal Iranian opposition movement, the People’s Mojahedin Organization of
Iran (PMOI/MEK). She was arrested again in February 2009 for visiting her
relatives in Camp Ashraf, then the place of residence for thousands of Iranian
dissidents in Iraq. This so-called crime landed her in jail for two years,
where poor conditions and mistreatment contributed to acute health afflictions.
She was arrested for yet a third time in June 2013, again on political charges.
Shaqayeq’s
father was a political prisoner during the Shah’s regime and has been arrested
several times since the 1980s including in 2011 and 2013 for supporting the
MEK.
MPs urge UK to focus on human rights in Iran policy
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| UKParliamentconference |
A vast array of British lawmakers from all major parties on Monday
took part in a conference in the UK House of Commons to discuss the underlying
reasons for increased executions in Iran and the future consequences of the
deteriorating human rights situation in that country, the British ParliamentaryCommittee for Iran Freedom said.
A message was read out on behalf of the President-elect of Iranian
Resistance Mrs. Maryam Rajavi at the conference which was attended by over two
dozen Parliamentarians and legal experts and which heard also from prominent
British human rights advocates and members of the Anglo-Iranian Youth Society.
Cross-Party panellists called on the UK government to hold the theocratic
regime in Tehran and its leaders accountable for systematic human rights abuses
and sponsorship of terrorism.
Maryam Rajavi’s message to Berlin conference for democracy in Iran
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| Berlin |
German
political dignitaries and members of the Bundestag last week held a conference
in Berlin in solidarity with the cause of the Iranian Resistance to bring
freedom, democracy and human rights to Iran.
The
conference, held on October 13, 2015, was chaired by Mr. Otto Bernhardt,
President of the German Solidarity Committee for a Free Iran. Mrs. Rita
Süssmuth, former speaker of the Bundestag, was among the panelists.
In a
message to the conference, the Iranian Resistance's President-elect Mrs. Maryam
Rajavi said:
My
warmest greetings to your invaluable conference on the tenth anniversary of the
formation of the German Solidarity Committee for a Free Iran. I would like to
extend my gratitude to the founders and leaders of this committee who have
advocated the right policy on the greatest threat to the Middle East and the
world today, namely the religious fascism ruling Iran.
Ten
years past the formation of this committee, Germany's history and collective
conscience of its people judge whether it was right to appease and embolden
Iran's religious dictatorship to impede the path of freedom and progress in
Iranian society and engulf the Middle East in blood. Or the right approach was
the pioneering policy of the German Solidarity Committee for a Free Iran that
finds the future of Iran including the true blossoming of Iran-Germany
relations in supporting the Iranian people's Resistance?
Was
it right to give concessions to the mullahs and turn a blind eye on the regime's
savagery and barbarism that destroyed Iran's economy so much that it is not
capable of attracting foreign investment even now after the sanctions are
lifted, or the right thing to do was the committee's staunch defense of freedom
and democracy in Iran as the only path to peace and stability in the entire
region?
The
Committee's endeavors in defending PMOI (MEK) members in Camp Ashraf and CampLiberty in the face of continued attacks by the Iranian regime's operatives,
including six massacres in recent years, and its incessant struggle for human
rights and freedom in Iran constitute an exemplary courageous struggle in
circumstances that long-term interests of the two nations of Iran and Germany
were being sacrificed for petty political interests.
Friday 16 October 2015
MARYAM RAJAVI: OUR PLAN IS AN IRAN WITHOUT THE DEATH PENALTY
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| MARYAM RAJAVI
Speech
at conference on the occasion of the international day against death penalty
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The
clerics hang young men under the name of Islam, despite the fact that the
dignity and life of any human being is precious and must be respected.
According
to the holy books, killing one person is akin to killing the entire humanity.
The
murderous mullahs have executed more people this year than they did last year.
While a single execution is enough to torment everyone’s conscience, world
powers have remained disgracefully silent over the situation in Iran,
especially as they were engaged in the nuclear talks and were busy striking a
deal that would open the path to doing business with the regime. Sacrificing
human lives at the altar of commercial interests have never been a good
investment for anyone.
If
Western governments had stood up to the abuse of human rights in Iran, the
mullahs could have never expanded their barbarity to Syria and Iraq.
Benefitting
from the policy of appeasement, the mullahs have easily occupied large parts of
Iraq . They also continued their deadly intervention in Syria to prop up the
tyrant of Damascus. The outcome has been the death of 300,000 people in Syria,
and the flight of refugees abroad and the emergence of ISIS.
Maki Mandela: Global support exists for Mrs. Rajavi’s movement
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| Maki Mandela |
Phumla Makaziwe Mandela, a women’s
rights advocate and daughter of the late South African leader Nelson Mandela,
has urged the people of Iran to continue their fight to achieve freedom and
democracy.
Dr. Maki Mandela made the remarks at
a major conference in Paris on human rights in Iran on October 10 on the
occasion of the World Day Against the Death Penalty.
Addressing the people of Iran, Dr.
Mandela said: "All I say to you is do not lose hope, stay with hope and
resilience, and hope in a greater power, and you will succeed eventually in
your fight against evil."
"No death penalty can prevent a
good idea whose time has come."
Edmond Spaho: Albania supports democracy in Iran
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| Edmond-Spaho |
Edmond
Spaho, Vice President of the Albanian Parliament, says he and his country will
always support the Iranian people and Resistance in their struggle for freedom anddemocracy in Iran.
"I
know that 120,000 political activists have been executed in your country [Iran]
for their belief in democracy," Mr. Spaho told a major conference in Paris
on human rights in Iran on October 10 on the occasion of the World Day Against
the Death Penalty. He was referring to the 120,000 members and supporters of
the main Iranian opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI, or
MEK).
"I also know
that under [Hassan] Rouhani, the so-called moderate president of the regime,
2000 people have been executed in just two years."
"I know freedom of speech does
not exist in your country at all. I know that freedom of religion also means
nothing" in Iran.
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