Sunday 28 February 2016
Tuesday 23 February 2016
IRAN: Death sentence of young Kurdish man becomes definite
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| Heyman - Uraminezhad |
The Iranian jidiciary has finalized the death sentence that had been handed down to a young Kurdish man.
Who was under the age of 18 at the time of attributed crime.
This young man is currently held in Sanandaj
Central Prison waiting for his sentence to be carried out.
Heyman is currently 21 years old and was
convicted on premeditated murder by the Sanandaj Prime Court.
Iran under the rule of the clerical regime is
one of the leading executioners of juvenile offenders,.
There have been over 2,300 executions in Iran
since Hassan Rouhani has been in office, more than in any similar period in the
past 25 years.
Women's News-Iran:Between 200 and 250 dhildren live with their mother in prisoons
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| 250 children live with their mothers in prisons |
Between
200 and 250 children live with their mothers in prisons across the country.
This
news was announced by Asghar Jahangir, head of the Iranian Prisons
Organization. He also admitted that no budge has been ratified for
establishment of kindergartens in prisons.
Monday 22 February 2016
Women's News Iran: Wrong gas burns lungs of young woman after delivery
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Iran: Wrong gas burns lungs of
young woman after delivery
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A young woman was given
the wrong gas instead of Oxygen after giving birth to her twins in a Tehran
hospital.
The news has just
recently leaked out that on the morning of January 17, 2016, a young woman
refered to Tehran's Chamran Hospital because of having pain. Doctors in the
emergency room diagnosed that she needed to undergo C-section, so they had her
taken to the operation room.
After giving birth to
healthy twins, the mother was in need of receiving Oxygen, but she suffered
severe burns as soon as the Oxygen mask was put on her face because she had
been given N2O and CO2 instead of Oxygen.
Women's News Iran: 74 lashes, three months jail for mother of political prisoner and human rights activists
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Iran: 74 lashes, three months jail for mother of political prisoner
and human rights activists
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18 human rights
activists including families of political prisoners and martyrs were sentenced
each to 91 days imprisonment and 74 lashes.
They
had participated in a peaceful gathering outside Tehran's Evin Prison on
November 21, 2015, demanding abolition of death sentence for prisoner of
conscience Mohammad Ali Taheri, and freedom of all political prisoners.
The
18 convicted activists included Mrs. Simin Aiyvazzadeh (mother of political
prisoner Omid Ali-Shenas), Azam Najafi, Parvin Soleimani, Sara Sa'ee, Farideh
Toosi and Zahra Modarres Zadeh. They were charged with "illegal gathering
disrupting public order."
Friday 19 February 2016
Iran: Khamenei's ‘election’ fatwas reveals his fear of popular boycott
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| Iran: Khamenei's ‘election’ fatwas reveals his fear of popular boycott |
In a series of fatwas
published by the state-run Fars New Agency, Ali Khamenei declared:
“Participation in the elections is a religious, Islamic and divine duty” and an
“obvious obligation”. He insists in his fatwas that casting blank votes is
‘haram’ (proscribed by Islamic law). Concerning women he stipulates that
“husband’s consent is not needed to participate in the elections”. This is
while according to fatwas by Khomeini, the founder of the regime, and other
state clerics, a woman “should not leave home without the permission of her
husband even if to see her relatives, pay a visit to her sick father, or to
participate in her father’s funeral”.
Thursday 18 February 2016
Iraq: West Must Learn the Bitter Lessons of Ramadi in Mosul
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| Struan Stevenson |
Press release by the President of the European Iraqi
Freedom Association (EIFA), Struan Stevenson, 12 February 2016
The European Iraqi Freedom Association (EIFA) calls
upon the UN, US and EU to learn the lessons of Ramadi and not allow the wanton
slaughter of the Sunni population of Mosul in the looming battle to liberate
that city. Iraq’s Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has conducted an international
tour to bolster support for the impending battle for Mosul, Iraq’s second
largest city, which was captured by ISIS (Daesh) in June 2014. Abadi visited
Washington DC, pleading with Obama for more US airstrikes and for US military
personnel to train Iraqi forces. He also wants military equipment and cash.
Abadi also visited Erbil in Northern Iraq, where he asked Kurdish President
Masoud Barzani to pledge assistance from the Peshmerga in the forthcoming
battle to liberate Mosul.
Mosul is in Nineveh Province, Northern Iraq; it is
home to over two and a half million people. Strict restrictions have been
placed on the local population with only trusted traders being allowed to leave
and return to the city. The remaining, largely Sunni population has been held
hostage. Daesh captured vast quantities of modern American weaponry when the
Iraqi army fled and the city has become an almost impregnable fortress. US
military commanders who are advising the Iraqis estimate that it may take
another year before Mosul can be recaptured.
Iran Election or Selection? What are the Prospects?
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Members of Assembly of
Expertes - March 2015
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On February 26, two
“elections” will be held in Iran simultaneously: for the 290 seats of “Islamic
Consultative Assembly.” (Majlis or parliament) and for the 86-member Assembly
of Experts which is nominally tasked with selecting the Supreme Leader and
supervising his conduct.
The Constitution and
election laws
The nature of elections
in Iran is different from democratic countries. The Constitution prevents those
elections from adhering to recognized international standards and from
reflecting the preferences of the full range of Iran’s societal demographics.
Some of the Articles in
the clerical regime’s constitution regarding elections
Article 91: Provides
the formation of the “Guardian Council” (GC) which is comprised of six
theologians appointed by the Supreme Leader and six jurists appointed by the
head of the Judiciary, who is also appointed by the Supreme Leader. The Article
states: “With a view to safeguarding the Islamic ordinances and the
Constitution and in order to examine the compatibility of the legislation
passed by the Islamic Consultative Assembly with Islam, a council to be known
as the Guardian Council is to be established.”
Wednesday 17 February 2016
Iran: Maryam Rajavi: Terrorism under the banner of Islam owes its existence to Iran regime
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| Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran |
A conference was held
on Friday February 12 in Paris with prominent members of UK parliament
participating.
In her speech, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the
National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), said that so long as the mullahs
are in power in Iran, terrorism under the banner of Islam will continue to owe
its existence to the regime.
Iran :Voice of the Oppressed Women
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| Iran :Voice of the Oppressed Women |
Iran:Do Women have
any rights in Iran?
From the standpoint of
the ruling regime and its dictated rules:
Women's most important
responsibility is homemaking and raising children.
Women cannot leave
their homes or travel abroad without their husbands' permission.
Women covering up is an
essential principle which must be observed and safeguarded.
Women are not entitled
to custody of their children.
Women's main occupation
should not be jobs and employment.
Women must not sing
since their voice is "Satanic".
Women must not enter
sports stadiums since they are male environments.
Women must not defend
themselves against rape otherwise they are executed.
Women are not trust
worthy enough to be granted sensitive responsibilities.
Women are not trust
worthy enough to be granted sensitive responsibilities.
Women are not qualified
to serves as a judge or president.
And the list goes on…
A brief glance over
women's rights in today's Iran, leads us to conclude that women are sub-humans
who virtually do not have any rights in life; but what is the truth?
The truth is that
Iranian women have stood up to the mullahs' massive repression and have never
surrendered to the misogynous regime.
Many died under
torture, were executed by firing squads or kissed their hanging noose but did not
budge and iota on the most important demand and needs of their nation, that is
national sovereignty and democratic freedoms.
Many preferred to spend
long years behind bars in the cold of dungeons and prison cells and go on
hunger strike, forsaking their homes, families and loved ones. Others rose up
everywhere in any factory, university and school to demand their rights.
Therefore, it could be
rightly said that the most prominent distinction between the Iranian Resistance
and the regime ruling Iran is on women's issue.
In 1985, the National
Council of Resistance of Iran adopted a platform on the rights of women
containing 13 articles. Then in September 1988, the Iranian Resistance's
President-elect Maryam Rajavi completed that plan and offered a new ten-point
plan on the rights of women to guarantee women's rights in the free Iran of
tomorrow.
Contrary to the
misogynous laws of the clerical regime, the plan recognizes all rights of women
as equal and independent human beings and provides them the opportunity to
advance in education, science, society, economy and politics to the highest
levels.
Tuesday 16 February 2016
Iran regime purchases $8 billion worth of weapons from Russia in violation of UN resolutions
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Iran
regime purchases $8 billion worth of weapons from Russia in violation of UN
resolutions
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The Iranian regime’s defense minister who had been involved in hostage
taking and terrorism is visiting Moscow for talks about closer military
cooperation.
Officials in Iran announced Monday that the regime in Tehran would
spend another $8 billion on the purchase of Russian arms.
The Iranian regime has already handed Moscow a shopping list and the
visit by Iranian Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan should speed up a number of
key arms deals, RT reported.
"Iran would like to buy Russia's latest S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft
missile system, developed by Almaz-Antey. And they make no secret of it. On the
eve of his visit to Moscow Dehghan openly said to Iranian media they want to
purchase the S-400s," the report said quoting sources of the business
daily Kommersant.
Days after a preliminary nuclear agreement between the Iranian regime
and six world powers, the United Nations adopted a resolution on July 20
forbidding Iran’s regime from purchasing conventional arms for the next five
years.
European parliamentarians quizzed Zarif about human rights violations in Iran
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| Zarif |
EU-Iran
relations should not improve at the expense of human rights, members of Foreign
Affairs Committee of the European Parliament said in Tuesday’s debate with the
Iranian regime’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
In
his first-ever visit to the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee,
members told him “the human rights situation in Iran, the death penalty, public
executions and the prosecution of bloggers and journalists are unacceptable and
will serve as a litmus test for future relations,” according to a report
published on the Parliament’s website.
Reuters
reported: “European parliamentarians quizzed Zarif about alleged human rights
violations in Iran, Iranian defense spending and nuclear activity and Tehran's
stance on Middle East conflicts that have killed hundreds of thousands of
people and driven millions from their homes, spurring a large influx of
refugees into Europe.”
Iran: Formation of new force to suppress women
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| of new force to suppress women |
Commander of the State Security Force, Hossein Ashtari, gave news of
formation of a new force especially tasked with suppression of women, youthsand teenagers.
“We will not allow the elections to become an opportunity for those
with ill wills”, said Ashtari revealing the regime's fear of another uprising
by women and youths.
Friday 12 February 2016
NCRI Iran News - Iran Resistance
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Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect
of the Iranian Resistance, - Rt.
Hon. David Jones MP
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British
parliamentarians present Ms.Rajavi a declaration on adoption of a decisive Iran
policy
People of Iran have never surrendered. They R determined
2 turn this dark page&build their future.
More than 200
cross-Party MPs and Peers today called on the UK government to adopt a firm
policy towards Iran and make any improvement in bilateral relations conditioned
on an end to human rights abuses and regional meddling. The announcement was
unveiled at a meeting attended by a delegation of eight MPs and one member of
the House of Lords with Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian
Resistance, north of Paris at the headquarters of the National Council of Resistance
of Iran (NCRI).
The meeting on Friday
and the policy recommendations come as Iran’s regime has faced scrutiny by
United Nations bodies over its abysmal human rights record and exactly two
weeks before Iran's Parliamentary and Assembly of Experts sham elections, whose
candidates are strictly filtered and unrepresentative of the people’s desires.
Iran has the highest
per capita execution rate in the world. Political suppression has intensified
over the past two years under the presidency of Hassan Rouhani. Iran continues
with its destructive meddling in Syria, Iraq and Yemen.
Thursday 11 February 2016
Iran: Low income families resort to sale of their children
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| Iran: Low income families resort to sale of their children |
Dspreading tragedy of
selling newborns due 2 extreme poverty in Iran is D outcome ofD mullahs'
crimes against women
An Iranian MP, Abass
Gha'ed Rahmat, revealed that sale of infants is turning into a common practice
in Iran but the government has neglected it.
Rahmati also admitted
that the government has not allocated enough budget to social ills. He said:
“Lack of jobs and housing as well as addiction (of parents) are the main
elements leading families towards selling their children and infants”.
Wednesday 10 February 2016
Iran:rouhani in unison with Khamenei in support of IRGC atrocities in Syia and Iraq and backing of Assad.
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| khamenei-rouhani |
Hassan Rouhani : If
revolutionary gurds - IRGC-were not
present in Iraq and Syria .
We would have had no security and would not have reached the
nuclear accord.
Threatening regional
countries Shamkhani noted that if we did not fight in Syria, then Tehran, Ahvaz
and Hamadan would have been insecure
Iran - Tehran - The shining stars and heroines of the Iranian Resistance
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February8th
marks the anniversary of a fate –making event in the history of the Iranian people 's quest for
freedom.
On
February 8, 1982, Khomeini's Revolutionary Guards surrounded and destroyed the
headquarters and killed some of the most prominent leading figures of the PMOI.
Khomeini –still alive in those days-- thought that by dealing such a heavy blow
to the opposition, he could put up a show of force, demoralize the staunch
supporters of the movement and break their resistance in prisons and outside.
It
was an unequal battle between thousands of heavily armed guards vs. 20 freedom
fighters. He thought victory is certain. However, the champions of freedom did
not surrender and fought to the last breath, creating an epical scene that
strengthened the movement even further.
The
women involved in this battle left a brilliant legacy in the history of the
Iranian people's struggle for freedom and democracy. Brave women who did not
surrender and resisted and fought courageously to the last breath to herald a
new world for their fellow compatriots. Today, their resolve and courage has
been multiplied in the ranks of the pioneering women in the PMOI who lead the
Resistance movement.
Monday 8 February 2016
Friday 5 February 2016
U.N. panel rebukes Iran for allowing forced marriage, execution at nine years old
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U.N. panel rebukes Iran
for allowing forced marriage, execution at nine years old
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Iran's regime must
reform its laws that allows girls as young as nine to be executed for crimes or
forced marriage with much older husbands, a United Nations watchdog said on
Thursday.
Iran continues to
execute children and youth who committed a crime while under 18 years of age,
in violation of international standards, the U.N. Committee on the Rights of
the Child said, after its 18 independent experts reviewed Iran and 13 other
countries.
The age of criminal
responsibility in Iran is discriminatory, it is lower and lower for girls, that
is to say 9 lunar years while for boys it is 15. At nine a girl can marry, even
if the law sets the age at 13," said Hynd Ayoubi Idrissi, a panel member.
Nine lunar years in the
Iranian calendar is equivalent to 8 years and nine months, a U.N. spokeswoman
said.
The age for boys having
criminal responsibility is 15, but the age for girls at 9 is "extremely
low", Idrissi said.
"The
Committee is seriously concerned about the reports of increasing numbers of
girls at the age of 10 years or younger who are subjected to child and forced
marriages to much older men." Girls suffered discrimination in the family,
in the criminal justice system, in property rights, and elsewhere, while a
legal obligation for girls to be subject to male guardianship is
"incompatible" with Tehran's treaty obligations, the panel said.
The concluding
observations by U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child states:
“The
Committee is concerned at the reports that content-based offenses such as
“propaganda against the state” or “insulting Islam” are not clearly defined and
interpreted and can incur prison terms, flogging, and even death sentences,
thus limiting the right of children to freedom of expression. It is also
concerned about the broad interpretation of offences such as “membership in an
illegal organization” and “participation in an illegal gathering” infringing
the right of children to freedom of association and peaceful assembly.”
“The Committee
recommends that the State party take necessary measures to ensure full respect
for children’s right to freedom of expression, association and peaceful
assembly and that these rights are not subjected to undue and vague limitations
but that restrictions to these rights comply with international standards. The
Committee urges the State party to review its legislation in order to ensure
that children under the age of 18 years are exempt from criminal responsibility
for such content-based offences.”
Iran - Iranian regime faces crisis in recruiting Afghans to fight in Syria
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February 2015 photo of
Qassem Soleimani (Left), commander
of Quds Force with Afghan commanders killed in
Syria
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The Iranian regime has
dispatched thousands of foreign mercenaries including Afghan refugees to fight
in Syria and prop up the embattled regime of Bashar al-Assad, according to
sources of the main Iranian opposition group, the People’s Mojahedin
Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK).
Incapable of mobilizing
and dispatching necessary troops from Iran to the conflict and apprehensive of
a backlash within its forces due to rising IRGC casualties, the regime has
resorted to mobilizing the mercenaries using various tactics including
threating them with execution.
n recent years,
particularly Afghan refugees living in Iran have been tapped for this purpose.
The Iranian regime has threatened the refugees with deportation from Iran,
imprisonment or even execution (all serious violations of human rights) to
dispatch the Afghan refugees to Syria.
U.S. House passes bill to enforce sanctions on Iran regime
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The US House of
Representatives approved the “Iran Terror Finance Transparency Act,” nearly
three weeks after a similar vote was cancelled.
The House narrowly
passed the legislation last month, but the vote was voided after nearly a third
of the chamber showed up too late to cast their votes.
The “Iran Terror
Finance Transparency Act,” bars the removal of certain individuals and
financial institutions from a restricted list until Obama administration
certifies to Congress that they are not involved in Iran's ballistic missile
program or in terrorist.
Following Tuesday’s
passage of the Iran Terror Finance Transparency, House Foreign Affairs Chairman
Rep. Ed Royce said: The regime in Tehran “is cashing in on a $100 billion
jackpot, even as it tests ballistic missiles, seizes American sailors and
continues its support for terrorism. President Obama must keep his promise to
‘fully enforce’ sanctions on Iran’s illicit programs and confront its dangerous
acts.”
Thursday 4 February 2016
Continued Russian bombings of civilians blamed for jeopardizing the fragile peace talks
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Residents
carry banners and opposition flags as they march during a protest in Aleppo
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Syria’s main opposition
bloc has given warning that attacks by government forces in Aleppo province
could stand in the way of the peace talks under way in Geneva.
The warning was sounded
by the Higher Negotiations Committee (HNC), which sent a 17-strong opposition
team, including three rebel leaders, to the Swiss city for talks.
Salim al-Muslet, HNC
spokesman, said the opposition was waiting for reaction to the developments in
Aleppo and other provinces.
'Since
last night, big massacres have taken place in Syria and nobody is doing or
saying anything.
'We do not know if the
international community is completely blind or they do not want to do anything.
We are here to know if they are keen to do anything - then we are waiting for
them.'
Iran - Trip by mullahs’ foreign minister to London and participation in Syria conference would only add to the Syrian crisis.
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Condemns the trip by the foreign
minister of the religious fascism ruling Iran to the UK.
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NCRI
strongly condemns Zarif's trip 2 London participating in the Syria Donors
Conference .
Zarif’s
mission is to maintain the survival of the clerical regime in Iran.
Inviting
Zarif is a profound insult to the people of Iran and Syria
Inviting
Zarif to solve the Syria'n crisis only emboldens this regime.
No2Rouhani
& Zarif - Messages from the streets of Aleppo in Syria to the EU leaders.
Zarif’smission is to maintain the survival of the clerical regime in Iran.
Zarif
is a loyal functionary of the dictatorship that has been ruling Iran .
Rouhani:
downfall of Bashar Assad w’ld b a devastating blow 2 Iran'ian regime.
The
Mullahs have explicitly described Syria as one of“Iran's provinces .
The
Iranian regime’s officials have explicitly described #Syria as one of “Iran's
provinces.
The
Iranian regime has spent tens of billions of dollars in order to maintain Assad
in power.
The
clerical regime in Iran has been the main reason 4 Assad’s survival .
Iran
regime &its crimes in Syria are the primary problem in that country.
The clerical regime ruling Iran and its crimes in Syria are the primary problem in that country and throughout the Middle East.
The clerical regime ruling Iran and its crimes in Syria are the primary problem in that country and throughout the Middle East.
Seeking
the engagement of the Iranian regime in solving the Syrian crisis is as
legitimate and as rational as asking an ’arsonist to put out the fire’.
The
clerical regime has been the main reason for Bashar Assad’s survival and
continuation of the massacre of the Syrian people.
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