Thursday 28 January 2016
Tuesday 26 January 2016
Monday 25 January 2016
Maryam Rajavi welcomes French mayors to solidarity feast with Iranian Resistance
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Rouhani
is travelling to Europe to cover up the regime's weakness and isolation. He is
trying to put up a moderate face to cover up the executions in Iran and the
mullahs' role in the massacre of Syrians
Dear
friends,
Happy
New Year! I hope the New Year would be a year of progress and relief for
France, a year of peace and tolerance for the world, and a year of overcoming
religious dictatorship for the Middle East and Iran.
In
the start of the year, let us remember all those who lost their lives as a
result of extremist crimes in 2015, including the political prisoners executed
in Iran, Camp Liberty martyrs, and victims of terrorist attacks in January and
November in France.
Let
us pay tribute to them by observing one minute of silence.
I am
very pleased to see you, ladies and gentlemen, the mayors and elected
representatives of France, here at the headquarters of the Iranian
Resistance. Mayors and elected officials
of France are representatives of the most significant institutions of democracy
in this country. They have always stood beside the Iranian Resistance and this
has been really admirable.
You
have protested against violations of human rights and suppression of women in
Iran. You have supported Ashraf and Camp Liberty when they were attacked by the
Iranian regime's operatives in Iraq. You were at the forefront of the campaign
of justice for the Iranian Resistance both in the case of June 17th attack
which was terminated last year and the cases of terrorist designations which
were reversed in all countries.
The
declarations signed by 14,000 mayors and elected representatives of France in
support of the Iranian Resistance, are very precious documents. They express
the great values of France.
At
this point, let us remember the friends who are not among us any more: Adrian
Zeller, Mourice Bouscavert and also Abbe Pierre who we commemorate his first
anniversary today. They played a valuable role in our struggle.
Also
your political stances over the years have been admirable. Time and again, you
warned against a number of threats: the mullahs' nuclear weapons; Islamic
fundamentalism; violations of human rights in Iran and the mullahs' domination
of the region.
Sunday 24 January 2016
Syria’s Opposition Says Cannot Attend Talks if Third Party Joins
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Riad
Hijab, head of the council representing Syrian opposition
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RIYADH
- A Syrian opposition council backed by Saudi Arabia said on Wednesday it will
not attend January 25th peace negotiations with the Syrian regime if a third
group takes part, a reference to a Russian bid to widen the opposition’s team.
Riad
Hijab, who heads the council formed in Riyadh last month, accused Russia of
impeding negotiations, and also told a news conference in Riyadh that the
opposition could not negotiate while Syrians were dying from blockades and
bombardment, Reuters reported, Jan. 20th.
He
also announced the names of opposition figures that would negotiate on behalf
of the council in any talks.
They
included Mohamed Alloush, a political figure in the Jaysh al-Islam (Islam Army)
rebel group that is deemed a terrorist group by Damascus and Moscow.
'The opposition
delegation is now ready,' George Sabra, an opposition politician also named as
a negotiator, told opposition channel Orient TV. Asaad al-Zoubi, another
opposition figure, was named as the head of the negotiating team.
Iran - Rouhani's record includes over2000 executions,poverty&unemployment ofD ppl of #Iran
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63 women executed in Iran under Rouhani
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According
to the data collected on the executions carried out during Rouhani's tenure,
the
Iranian regime has executed a total of 2166 persons from August 2013 to January
15, 2016. Sixty-three of the victims have been women.
Saturday 23 January 2016
Iran-linked groups focus of Baghdad kidnapping probe: U.S. sources
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Iran-linked groups focus of Baghdad kidnapping
probe: U.S. sources
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U.S.
intelligence agencies investigating the kidnapping of three Americans in
Baghdad, Iraq last week are focusing their probe on three groups closely
affiliated with the Iranian regime, U.S. government sources said on Thursday.
Asaib
Ahl al-Haq, Kata’ib Hezbollah and the Badr Organization are the principle focus
of the investigation into the armed kidnapping of the three Americans in the
Dora neighborhood, south of Baghdad, the sources said.
The
three men are employed by a still-unidentified small company doing work for
General Dynamics under a larger contract with the U.S. Army.
Asaib
Ahl al-Haq, Kata’ib Hezbollah and the Badr Organization are Shi’ite militia
groups that are part of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Front, a group closely tied
to Iran, according to the Counter Terrorism Project, a New York-based advocacy
group.
Friday 22 January 2016
Iran: Honor killing – Father kills her newly-wed daughter with shovel
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Iran: Honor
killing – Father kills her newly-wed daughter with shovel
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A
man beat up her 15-year-old newly-wed daughter with the handle of the shovel in
a bid to punish and dissuade the girl from divorcing her husband, but ended up
killing her.
The
murderer father confessed: "I was mad at my daughter. So, I picked the
handle of the shovel and beat her up so much that she was wounded. I wanted to
force her to stay with her husband. At midnight, she felt really bad and before
we could do anything, she died." (State-run TNews.ir website, January 19,
2016)
The
statics show that forcible marriage of under-age girls in Iran is on the rise
as sanctioned by the law.
Thursday 21 January 2016
Iran: Commander of Basij threatens further hostage-takings and Blackmails
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| , IRGC Brigadier General Mohammadreza Naghdi, Commander |
Naghdi:
Annulment of sanctions on Sepah Bank and release of $1.7 billion was in return
for releasing U.S. spies
In a
speech in Tehran, IRGC Brigadier General Mohammadreza Naghdi, Commander of the
suppressive Basij force, described hostage-taking and blackmail as “the way to
get our right from the arrogant”. He referred to the arrest of U.S. citizens
and the detention of U.S. boats in the Persian Gulf as examples.
Naghdi
has personally commanded the attack on the British embassy in November 2011 and
the attack on the Saudi embassy in January of this year by the orders from
Khamenei. In his speech he said: “The annulment of sanctions of Sepah Bank and
getting back $1.7 billion of blocked Iranian assets after 36 years had nothing
to do with the negotiations and was simply the price paid by the U.S. to get
its spies freed” and this goes to “show that the language of force is the only
language U.S. understands… the way to get our right from the arrogant is to
become strong and we need to become stronger and stronger every day” (Fars News
Agency, affiliated with IRGC – January 20, 2016). This criminal IRGC element
added, “5-6 revolutionary guards arrest 10 transgressing U.S. marines in the
Persian Gulf and with God’s benevolence enemy’s plans were folded.”
Tuesday 19 January 2016
Iran: Young woman expelled from college
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Ms.
Elham Pakru Miyando-ab, a Baha’i Iranian, studying at Free University in
Malard, was expelled from college.
She
was studying to receive her master’s degree in computer and software
engineering. Being a Baha’i has been described as the reason she was summoned
and expelled from college.
She
has also been deprived of the permission to continue her studies in other institutes.
Expelling
and depriving Baha'ii students from education in universities takes place as
the “Supreme Council of Cultural Revolution” cites a bill passed on February
25, 1991, depriving Baha’is of education and working in state facilities.
Based
on article 3 of this bill not only must Baha’is be prevented from registering
in universities, in fact if an individual is found to be a Baha’i after
registeration and “while studying” they must be deprived of continuing their
studies.
IRAN - Women’s rights activists in Iran increasingly face jail time amid cultural crackdown
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“I don’t think
it’s anticipated that drawing cartoons or writing poems would get you 15 to 20
years in prison”
Atena
Farghadani told advocates she was beaten, held in solitary confinement,
verbally abused and forced to strip naked by prison guards. (AtenaFarghadani/Facebook)
Twenty-eight
year-old Atena Farghadani felt a sense of outrage when her government, the conservative
legislators of Iran, tried to criminalize voluntary sterilization in 2014. It
was the latest move to restrict women’s reproductive choices, and Farghadani, a
talented painter and budding activist, decided to speak out.
Farghadani
drew a cartoon depicting legislators who supported the bill as monkeys and cows
and posted it to Facebook. Shortly after her post, the Revolutionary Guard
showed up at Farghadani’s doorstep, searched her home, arrested her, and
charged her with insulting the government, disseminating propaganda, and
colluding against national security. They alleged that her meetings with the
families of political prisoners constituted a crime in itself, and quickly made
her a political prisoner, too.
Farghadani
has told advocates that she has been beaten, held in solitary confinement,
verbally abused, forced to strip naked, and forced to undergo virginity and
pregnancy tests by the prison guards, according to advocates and experts with
Movements.org, a human rights organization that helps digitally connect
activists in closed societies and has been compiling stories of political
prisoners like Farghadani.
Farghadani,
who appeared in a YouTube video criticizing her arrest in 2014 and was
subsequently re-arrested, for “illegitimate sexual relationship short of
adultery” and indecency charges after shaking hands with her lawyer, also
posted an open letter to Facebook addressed to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali
Khamenei in 2015, criticizing the Revolutionary Guard for her maltreatment.Friday 15 January 2016
Iran - Patrick J. Kennedy: The illusion of Iranian moderation
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| patrick-kennedy |
Former
US Congressman Patrick J. Kennedy has written in the Thursday edition of the
Providence Journal about how Iranian President Hassan Rouhani is not at all
“moderate”, despite Western perception, and that such a gap between perception
and reality has existed for “more than three decades.”
“Countless instances since the 2013 election of Iranian President
Hassan Rouhani—including most recently the state-sanctioned torching of the
Saudi embassy in Tehran — should have dispelled the notion that we are dealing
with a moderate reformist at the helm of the Islamic Republic,” Mr Kennedy
writes. “Sectarian conflict is on the rise with Iran backing Syria’s Assad,
Hezbollah, an anti-American insurgency in Yemen and radical Shia factions in
Iraq.”
The
former Congressman noted how these developments “have proven the accuracy of
analyses from sources like the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI),
which insisted from the start that moderation was not a realistic prospect
under the existing theocratic regime.”
“Indeed,
the illusion of a “moderate” Iranian president has persisted for more than
three decades, despite its nonexistence in reality. Rouhani is only the latest
to artfully exploit this fantasy and play into a naïve, aspirational worldview
among many in the West about Tehran's behavior and intentions.”
Iran: Young woman’s death still in a halo of mystery
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| Scheler Farhadi's" |
Three
years ago, on this day, a 25-year-old student, graduated in political science
at Razi University in Kermanshah, his father took his own life with a shotgun.
"SchelerFarhadi's" Il martial girl squirrel, in the fall of 1390 while he was
preparing to pursue a master's degree, disappeared. After about 5 months her
family, physical and emotional complexity of Ministry of Intelligence detention
in Evin Prison were delivered and returned to his village in Kermanshah.
Intelligence agents with the proviso that if the summons was delivered him to
his family go to prison.
Continuation...
Iran - Athena courageous defense Farghadani #زن #جوان #آزادی -loving #ایرانی
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Atena
Faraghdani
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"What you read it propaganda, I am appease the men and women whose
children were ravaged in 1388 because of the fertile soil for years Nlrzydn
roots that can not be ... !!
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know what it is acting against national security and conspiring with Tryqtsh was
misguided sect, I support the men and women know that the smallest university
is right that the mass of his faith, taken from them no ..! Hominids your own
age to allow them to question the dignity of man and unclean Bkhvanndshan and
shrines and their houses to smash .. !!!
What
you read it as an insult to Parliament through drawing skills, I know the art
of our nation home to what our people deserve not to have done well
.. !!
And
what you call it an insult to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards and three
branches during interrogation, read, I know it's tough response in response to
the pride of the army has seized you what strength security and called for
trapping the mutineers like me! ! That if indeed such a power and security
"Revolutionary Guardsmen you" there, because of the power and
security to trap rogue killer "" I despise and stars "have not
been used to date ... . !!
""
Dear Friends "," My defense is not courage or stupidity,
hatred Sdaqtyst only in the "last look called" ... the blood of the meeting,
only hatred Sdaqtyst the vehicle under the wheels of government in Ashura 88,
with fear as well as otherwise the blood cried
...!
Yes,
it is a lump in the throat Sdaqtyst 36 years and we rumination by saying
"do not be silent because of what people pay and the price very
expensive" We calm conscience ... Do you really expect to have only their
conscience, and hope wearing no one but themselves, can not cry to all of us,
to the side of the bridge to a better tomorrow "we bend
...?!
Come
to really rely on themselves talking tree that tomorrow, no one would be
accountable for our actions but his conscience gets in front of all of
conscience, remain silent, which, in turn, Jrmyst huge and unforgivable that
one day the fire house tab will take us to heaven. "
Thursday 14 January 2016
Iran: Coffee shops sealed for employing women
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Iran:
Coffee shops sealed for employing women
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The
owner of a Tehran coffee shop posted in his Facebook, the image of a letter
explaining the reason for closure of his shop. The letter cites “employment ofwomen” as the reason for sealing the coffee shop.
In
late November, it was reported that 26 coffee shops had been closed down in the
Iranian capital.
Prior
to this on August 30, 2014, Khalil Helali, chief of Public Places Police
pointed out that employment of women in coffee shops were forbidden.
“As a general
rule it is forbidden to employ women for working in the coffee shops,” he
noted. “A woman who applies for coffee shop license must have men as caretaker
of the facility because based on the law, women are not allowed to go to coffee
shops or work there even if they own the shop’s license.”
Wednesday 13 January 2016
Iran - Waiting to die: the Iranian child inmates facing execution All of
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| Waiting to die |
them have written Iran’s history of human rights in their blood;
the eternal
word they have written is freedom, a cause that will succeed with
the Iranian people’s resistance.
Of
course, it’s been a long time since the mullahs have embedded repression in the
lives of Iranians as a permanent factor.
They
have not abandoned gouging of eyes and amputation of limbs, and executions are
repeated every few hours.
Our
compatriots, however, have not surrendered to this barbarism. They have never
accepted violation of their rights and removal of their freedoms.
The
mullahs’ brutality in violating our people’s rights is because they want to
hold on to power.
In
Iran, girls are held criminally accountable by law from the age of nine, and
can be sentenced to death by hanging for crimes such as murder,
drug
trafficking and armed robbery. Sadegh Souri has photographed girls in the harsh
conditions of juvenile detention – many of whom are marking time until they
turn 18, when their executions will be carried out
Mahsa
is 17. She fell in love with a boy and intended to marry him, but her father
was against the marriage. One day she had an argument with her father, got
angry, and killed him with a kitchen knife. Mahsa’s brothers are requesting the
death penalty for her
In a new year meeting with French supporters of Iranian resistancee, Maryam Rajavi called on international community to expel Iranian regime from region
In a new year meeting with French supporters of Iranian resistancee, Maryam Rajavi called on international community to expel Iranian regime from region: World can be free of fundamentalism only when the clerical regime in Iran as the epicenter of fundamentalism is overthrown In a gathering of French supporters of the Iranian Resistance celebrating the New Year, the Iranian Resistance's...
Thursday 7 January 2016
Interview with Tahar Boumedra: Iran regime is not reformable
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| Dr. Boumedra appealed |
The
former head of the United Nations human rights office in Iraq, Dr. TaharBoumedra, on Wednesday rejected claims that the Iranian regime’s president
Hassan Rouhani is a moderate and said that Iran’s fundamentalist regime is “not
reformable.”
In
an interview with ncr-iran.org, Dr. Boumedra appealed to European leaders to
focus on the appalling human rights situation in Iran in light of Rouhani’s
planned trip to France and other European countries at the end of January.
“Moderation under the current Iranian constitution is meaningless
because it is a constitution program that adopts violations of human rights,
including torture, and the ‘export of the revolution’ as a means of governance
in Iran,” Dr. Boumedra said.
“It is impossible to qualify a member of the current Iranian
government as a moderate,” added Dr. Boumedra, who last September published a
50-page report on the human rights situation in Iran in 2015.
He
pointed out that Rouhani and all the members of his administration are “committed
to a regime with a constitution that is based on Sharia [Law] as interpreted by
a group of mullahs under the leadership of the Supreme Leader. This
interpretation is not the mainstream Shia or Sunni Islam. It is an
interpretation that does not belong to this era.”
Iran: Negar Haeri, former political prisoner is deliberately ran over
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The
news has just got out that Negar Haeri, a lawyer and former political prisoner,
was deliberately ran over by unidentified persons on December 17, 2015.
She
had previously been threatened time and again and finally on December 17, she
was chased by a black Peugeot 405 with dark windows and hit after she got out
of her car in Shahrara district. The Peugeot then sped away and disappeared.
Ms.
Haeri was subsequently transferred to hospital. She suffered a broken right arm
and a broken left leg and bruises all over her body.
Ms.
Haeri had been summoned on phone to Evin’s Prosecutor’s Office on May 18, 2015,
where she was insulted and arrested in front of her mother. She was held in the
Evin’s women’s ward for one day and transferred to solitary confinement for
another nine days where she was interrogated under torture. She was ultimately
released on May 27, 2015.
Before
this, she spent eight months in Varamin’s Qarchak prison and was released only
after much efforts and on a 2billion-touman bail.
Ms.
Haeri’s license for law practice was annulled and she was not banned from
giving legal advice to her clients. Security and intelligence officers have
instructed her not to leave Tehran in any circumstances.
Wednesday 6 January 2016
North Korea announced a successful test of Hydrogen Bomb
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| North Korean leader Kim Jong-un |
After
a nuclear test in 2013, there was widespread condemnation. The UN Security
Council held an emergency meeting at which its members, including China,
'strongly condemned' the test. Similar outrage is expected this time. Prime
Minister Abe of Japan has said this fourth test was a 'serious threat to the
safety of his nation'.
On
top of any fourth nuclear test, North Korea also appears to have tested a
submarine-launched missile. The ability to launch missiles from submarines
would change the whole calculation of military response because warning times
of an attack on, for example, the West Coast of the United States would be much
shorter.
Experts
believed before the fourth test that North Korea was still some years from
being able to hit a target with a nuclear bomb delivered by a missile. But it
is crystal clear that it is absolutely determined to be able to do so. It is
also clear that it is improving its abilities rapidly.
If
confirmed, it would mean Pyongyang is intent on pursuing its nuclear programme
with little regard for the major political and diplomatic costs that will
inevitably accompany this unwelcome development, says Dr John Nilsson-Wright of
Asia Programme at Chatham House.
In a
surprise announcement a newsreader on North Korean state TV said: 'The
republic’s first hydrogen bomb test has been successfully performed at 10:00 am
on January 6, 2016.'
Last
month, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un said Pyongyang had developed a hydrogen
bomb, although international experts were skeptical.
What
is a hydrogen bomb?
A
weapon energized by the nuclear fusion of hydrogen isotopes in a chain
reaction, developed in 1958 by the United States
Also
known as a thermo-nuclear bomb, it is seen as a 'cleaner' bomb than an atomic
one as it has less radioactive fallout - but also much more powerful
Unlike
an atomic bomb, powered by nuclear fission, a hydrogen bomb is powered by the
fusion of lighter elements into heavier elements
Such
bombs can be as small as a few feet long and can fit in warheads of ballistic
missiles
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