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Three were hanged in Southwest Iran
The Iranian regime hanged three men in Zahedan’s central prison. The names and identities of these prisoners haven’t been announced.A 20-yr youth by the name of Hamed was publicly hanged in Shiraz. The mullahs’ regimes judiciary also released death sentence verdicts for 3 in Mashhad and Kerman.
Also two men hanged in Iran according to state-run media. A man identified as Mehran was hanged in public in southern city of Kazeroun, said IRAN daily. Mohammad A. was hanged in prison in Isfahan, central Iran, Kayhan daily reported.
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Associated Press reported yesterday that Iran's Revolutionary Guard is using Iran's Embassy in Baghdad to coordinate covert operations in Iraq, an Iranian opposition group has claimed.Mohammad Mohadessin, a spokesman for the Paris-based National Council Resistance of Iran, or NCRI, also said the guard had taken over some of Iran's most lucrative companies and was profiting from trade with the European Union."The Iranian regime is run by senior (Revolutionary Guard) officers and their role is growing," Mohadessin said in a statement received Saturday.On Thursday, the United States imposed sweeping new sanctions against the Revolutionary Guard Corps, a main unit of Iran's Defence Ministry, because of Tehran's alleged support for terrorism and nuclear weapons ambitions. The ban targeted three of Iran's largest banks and eight people that Washington said were engaged in missile trade and backed extremist groups throughout the Middle East.Maryam Rajavi, head of the NCRI, has welcomed Washington's move, describing it as "indispensable to thwart the export of terrorism and fundamentalism to the Middle East region."Mohadessin claimed the Guard had transformed Iran's embassy in Baghdad "into the most important center for coordinating its terrorist and intelligence activities against Coalition forces."He named four diplomats at the embassy who, he said, were senior Guard officers. They included the ambassador, Kazemi Qomi, Mohadessin said."They are directly responsible for supervising the transfer of shipments of weapons and ammunition ... from Iran to (the Guard's) proxy forces in Iraq."An official at the Iranian Embassy in Brussels declined to comment on Mohadessin's allegations.It was not possible to independently verify the NCRI claim, but the group has provided relatively accurate information on developments in Iran over the past several years, including details on the country's secretive nuclear program.The NCRI is the political wing of the People's Mujahedeen of Iran, an opposition group that advocates the overthrow of government in Tehran the Associated Press said.
Monday, October 22, 2007
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Iranian authorities hanged eight men and a woman in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, state media reported on Thursday.Six of the men were identified by their first names Babak, Seddiq, Morteza, Kiyan, Behzad, and Hamid.All nine were hanged Wednesday morning, the official daily “Iran” wrote. The woman was identified as 30-year-old Fakhteh. The names of the other two men were not given.All nine were accused of murder.Separately, three other men were hanged in public on Wednesday in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz, state media reported.The men were called Vahid E., Mohammad A. and Ahmad E., the government-owned news agency Fars quoted Jaber Baneshi, the public prosecutor of Shiraz, as saying.They were accused of kidnapping and disrupting public order among other charges.Evin Prison was built by the Shah’s regime as a maximum security prison to house political dissidents, but it became the Islamic Republic’s most dreaded gulag and the site of thousands of political executions.
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Javan state run daily reported on Saturday Oct. 20, that regime of Iran is going to hang three people in Tehran. They are Sirous Gh. 38, Mohammad Ali- 31 and Hussein A. Their sentences have been approved by high court of the regime.
Elsewhere in Iran, the mullahs’ regime hanged publicly three persons in Shiraz and sentenced three youths to death in Tehran. The three individuals who were executed in Shiraz were Vahid A, Mohammad A and Ahmad A. The death sentence of three youth by the names of Nassrollah, 26, Hassan, 24 and Ahmad, 30 were also released. Their verdicts have been confirmed by the mullahs’ Supreme Court and will be carried out soon.
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Five people were hanged in the province of Khorrasan Jonoubi, eastern Iran, state media reported on Sunday. The executions took place in the city of Birjend, the news agency Mehr reported.
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The misogynous regime in Iran has interrogated more than a 1,000 women and young girls on the streets under the pretext of mal-veiling since April only in the Southern Khorasan Province.Mansour Sabbagh Gol, a State Security Force commander of the province announced these figures. He also reported of street interrogations of 8,624 youths for baseless reasons.
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The head of Iran's law enforcement agency warned Friday of a renewed crackdown on Iranians who adhere to Western cultural ways. Los Angeles Times reported that Esmail Ahmadi-Moghadam, chief of Iran's security forces, said pressure on "thugs and gangs" over the last six months had proved successful, and told Iranians to expect tougher enforcement of the Islamic Republic's moral codes. In the near future, he told worshipers before Friday prayers in the capital, security officials would crack down on vendors selling Western CDs and movies, small-time drug peddlers, reckless motorcyclists who dart in and out of traffic and knife-wielding "vagrants." "Thanks to enforcing law and order, we are witnessing a dramatic reduction in homicides," he said. "Despite the nagging of the West-toxified critics who want Iranians to abandon their Islamic and national values and embrace rotten Western values, the wrongdoing of the thugs has decreased."
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The global human rights group Amnesty International launched an urgent appeal on Thursday to save the life of a young man who is sentenced to be executed for a crime he allegedly committed while still a minor. Amnesty International said that 21-year-old Ali Mahin Torabi is currently being held in Raja'i Shahr Prison in Karaj, near Tehran, and his death sentence could be carried out “at any time”. A court had sentenced him to execution for the February 2003 fatal stabbing of a student during a playground fight at the Bani Hashemi High School. Torabi was only 16 years old when he allegedly stabbed fellow student Mazdak Khodadian.“Iran is the only country in the world that still executes child offenders - people convicted of crimes committed before they were 18. Over 70 child offenders are currently facing execution in Iran”, Amnesty said in a statement. “Executing someone is cruel and inhumane, whatever the circumstances. But the execution of child offenders is particularly sickening”, Amnesty International UK Director Kate Allen said.
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The Iranian Resistance’s President-elect, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, described Ali Larijani’s ouster as the chief nuclear negotiator of the mullahs’ regime on Saturday, a major purge within the clerical regime as the regime is amid the downward spiral of disintegration. She added that Larijani’s ouster which followed the removal of Maj. Gen. Rahim Safavi, the Commander-in- Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), and a number of other members of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s cabinet, reflect the depth of the crisis within the regime. This will be followed by more resignations and dismissals in the future, Mrs. Rajavi said. She added that owing to the acute nature of the regime’s internal crisis, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei had two choices, either to get rid of Larijani or Ahmadinejad. He had no choice but to oust Larijani, whom he was using in order to engage in negotiations and deceive the Western countries. Replacing Larijani with Saeed Jalili, a low level figure in the regime’s hierarchy, is at the same time indicative of Ahmadinjad’s hegemony over the regime’s nuclear policy. One of Ahmadinejad’s close confidants and a veteran of the eight-year Iran-Iraq war, Jalili was a graduate of, and a lecturer at, Imam Sadiq University, which is affiliated with the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS).
Iranian authorities hanged eight men and a woman in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, state media reported on Thursday.Six of the men were identified by their first names Babak, Seddiq, Morteza, Kiyan, Behzad, and Hamid.All nine were hanged Wednesday morning, the official daily “Iran” wrote. The woman was identified as 30-year-old Fakhteh. The names of the other two men were not given.All nine were accused of murder.Separately, three other men were hanged in public on Wednesday in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz, state media reported.The men were called Vahid E., Mohammad A. and Ahmad E., the government-owned news agency Fars quoted Jaber Baneshi, the public prosecutor of Shiraz, as saying.They were accused of kidnapping and disrupting public order among other charges.Evin Prison was built by the Shah’s regime as a maximum security prison to house political dissidents, but it became the Islamic Republic’s most dreaded gulag and the site of thousands of political executions.
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Javan state run daily reported on Saturday Oct. 20, that regime of Iran is going to hang three people in Tehran. They are Sirous Gh. 38, Mohammad Ali- 31 and Hussein A. Their sentences have been approved by high court of the regime.
Elsewhere in Iran, the mullahs’ regime hanged publicly three persons in Shiraz and sentenced three youths to death in Tehran. The three individuals who were executed in Shiraz were Vahid A, Mohammad A and Ahmad A. The death sentence of three youth by the names of Nassrollah, 26, Hassan, 24 and Ahmad, 30 were also released. Their verdicts have been confirmed by the mullahs’ Supreme Court and will be carried out soon.
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Five people were hanged in the province of Khorrasan Jonoubi, eastern Iran, state media reported on Sunday. The executions took place in the city of Birjend, the news agency Mehr reported.
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The misogynous regime in Iran has interrogated more than a 1,000 women and young girls on the streets under the pretext of mal-veiling since April only in the Southern Khorasan Province.Mansour Sabbagh Gol, a State Security Force commander of the province announced these figures. He also reported of street interrogations of 8,624 youths for baseless reasons.
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The head of Iran's law enforcement agency warned Friday of a renewed crackdown on Iranians who adhere to Western cultural ways. Los Angeles Times reported that Esmail Ahmadi-Moghadam, chief of Iran's security forces, said pressure on "thugs and gangs" over the last six months had proved successful, and told Iranians to expect tougher enforcement of the Islamic Republic's moral codes. In the near future, he told worshipers before Friday prayers in the capital, security officials would crack down on vendors selling Western CDs and movies, small-time drug peddlers, reckless motorcyclists who dart in and out of traffic and knife-wielding "vagrants." "Thanks to enforcing law and order, we are witnessing a dramatic reduction in homicides," he said. "Despite the nagging of the West-toxified critics who want Iranians to abandon their Islamic and national values and embrace rotten Western values, the wrongdoing of the thugs has decreased."
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The global human rights group Amnesty International launched an urgent appeal on Thursday to save the life of a young man who is sentenced to be executed for a crime he allegedly committed while still a minor. Amnesty International said that 21-year-old Ali Mahin Torabi is currently being held in Raja'i Shahr Prison in Karaj, near Tehran, and his death sentence could be carried out “at any time”. A court had sentenced him to execution for the February 2003 fatal stabbing of a student during a playground fight at the Bani Hashemi High School. Torabi was only 16 years old when he allegedly stabbed fellow student Mazdak Khodadian.“Iran is the only country in the world that still executes child offenders - people convicted of crimes committed before they were 18. Over 70 child offenders are currently facing execution in Iran”, Amnesty said in a statement. “Executing someone is cruel and inhumane, whatever the circumstances. But the execution of child offenders is particularly sickening”, Amnesty International UK Director Kate Allen said.
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The Iranian Resistance’s President-elect, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, described Ali Larijani’s ouster as the chief nuclear negotiator of the mullahs’ regime on Saturday, a major purge within the clerical regime as the regime is amid the downward spiral of disintegration. She added that Larijani’s ouster which followed the removal of Maj. Gen. Rahim Safavi, the Commander-in- Chief of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), and a number of other members of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s cabinet, reflect the depth of the crisis within the regime. This will be followed by more resignations and dismissals in the future, Mrs. Rajavi said. She added that owing to the acute nature of the regime’s internal crisis, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei had two choices, either to get rid of Larijani or Ahmadinejad. He had no choice but to oust Larijani, whom he was using in order to engage in negotiations and deceive the Western countries. Replacing Larijani with Saeed Jalili, a low level figure in the regime’s hierarchy, is at the same time indicative of Ahmadinjad’s hegemony over the regime’s nuclear policy. One of Ahmadinejad’s close confidants and a veteran of the eight-year Iran-Iraq war, Jalili was a graduate of, and a lecturer at, Imam Sadiq University, which is affiliated with the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS).
Sunday, October 14, 2007
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A Christian couples were flogged in Iran for participating in an “underground Church”, an Iranian Christian group said in a report on its website earlier this week.The unnamed couples were arrested on September 21, 2005, the report said, adding that a Revolutionary Court reviewed their case in July 2007.Even though the couples had decided to marry seven years ago, the country’s marriage laws - which prohibit the union of ex-Muslims and members of other religious minorities – prevented them from obtaining a marriage certification.The report said that the woman was born a Christian in an Assyrian-Iranian family and the man was a convert to Christianity prior to getting married.The court ruled that both the man and the woman were Mortad, a description of someone who has committed apostasy by leaving Islam.
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Two men were hanged in the province of Kurdistan, north-west Iran, earlier this week on the World Day Against the Death Penalty.The two men were identified as Kiumars and Nader Mohammadi, authorities announced on Friday.The two young men's families were told that they were buried in the cemetery of Behesht Mohammad in the city of Sanandaj, about 500 kilometers from the capital Tehran, the Italian news agency AKI said.The families were asked not to organize any public memorial to avoid these turning into anti-regime protests, the report added.
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Tehran, 11 Oct. (AKI) - Up to 400 Iranian Kurds who belong to the Sunni faith have reportedly been arrested in the last three days in Saghez and other cities of Kurdistan province in the country's north-west.Two religious leaders, the imam from the Khatam al-Anbia mosque, Seyyed Seifollah Hosseini, and the imam of the Hamza mosque, Seyyed Hassan Hosseini.All those arrested belong a Sunni religious group called Maktab Quran (The Way of the Koran), which disapproves of the presence of clerics in the government. The state religion in Iran is Shiite.In Saghez, which has the greatest number of Maktab Quran followers, a curfew was imposed for three days and all religious ceremonies organized for Ramadan were suspended.On Thursday morning a group of citizens gathered in front of the government building of Kermanshah, calling for the two religious leaders and all detainees to be released.
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A group of university student at the Iran’s top university in Tehran staged a noisy protest against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday shortly before he gave a speech there, Associated Press reported."Ahmadinejad is Pinochet! Iran will not become Chile," the students chanted, referring to the late dictator Augusto Pinochet, a witness said, adding that they were blocked from leaving the campus by anti-riot police.The demonstrators at Tehran University, Iran's top academic institution, were calling for the release of jailed students, the semi-official Fars news agency reported. Last December, a speech by Ahmadinejad at another university in Tehran was disrupted by demonstrators protesting against a crackdown on student activist in the university.
150 workers of weaving factory held protests for their postponed salaries
150 workers of weaving factory in Khoy (western Iranian city) held a gathering protest in front of the Governorship building to follow their postponed salaries and to determine their occupational condition.The protesting workers said: 'We haven’t received our salaries for three months. The workers’ occupational status is not defined yet and the workers face problem in meeting their daily expenses.
Political Prisoners were assailed in Gohardasht Prison in Tehran
According to reports from inside Iran obtained by the Iranian ressisstence, the officials of the Gohardasht prison in Karaj (west of Tehran), attacked the political prisoners who were on hunger strike and brutally beat them up.This criminal act took place on Wednesday Oct. 10, a few hours after they started their hunger strike along with other political prisoners in other prisons in Iran by the prison guards. The order of the attack was issued by Hassan Zare’ Dehnavi also called Judge Haddad who is in charge of political prisoners’ files, and it was carried out under supervision of prison manger, his deputies and head of the ward Mohammad Mughnian; the attack itself was led by Nasser Amanian.
3 were hanged in Taibad-Iran
The Iranian regime hanged three persons in Taibad Prison and sentenced two others to death in Tehran.The initials of those hanged in Taibad, northeast of Iran, were H-A, A-A and B-A. Two prisoners by the names of Ahmad and Mahmoud were sentenced to death in Tehran.
A Young Woman Condemned to Death in Iran
The Iranian state run daily Etmad reported the Iranian judiciary system is about to execute a young woman on Oct. 18. She is Fakhteh Samadi. She is 30 years old and has been in prison since 2001.
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October 10th was 'the Universal day of struggle against execution'. Iran is among the countries with the highest rate of executions. Hundreds of people have been executed on different charges since Ahmadinejad came to power.
To commemorate this day, tens of Iranian-Canadian gathered at the Human rights monument on Elgin st. in Ottawa yesterday afternoon (Sat. Oct 13) to stage a protest against executions of the Iranian people by the ruling regime in Iran. Although there was a call for rain the forecast but it did not discourage them from participating in the protest. They demanded to end the mass execution in Iran and also warned the western governments to stop the appeasing the Iranian regime. They chanting repeatedly that mass execution of Iranian people is a result of the appeasement policy.
A Christian couples were flogged in Iran for participating in an “underground Church”, an Iranian Christian group said in a report on its website earlier this week.The unnamed couples were arrested on September 21, 2005, the report said, adding that a Revolutionary Court reviewed their case in July 2007.Even though the couples had decided to marry seven years ago, the country’s marriage laws - which prohibit the union of ex-Muslims and members of other religious minorities – prevented them from obtaining a marriage certification.The report said that the woman was born a Christian in an Assyrian-Iranian family and the man was a convert to Christianity prior to getting married.The court ruled that both the man and the woman were Mortad, a description of someone who has committed apostasy by leaving Islam.
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Two men were hanged in the province of Kurdistan, north-west Iran, earlier this week on the World Day Against the Death Penalty.The two men were identified as Kiumars and Nader Mohammadi, authorities announced on Friday.The two young men's families were told that they were buried in the cemetery of Behesht Mohammad in the city of Sanandaj, about 500 kilometers from the capital Tehran, the Italian news agency AKI said.The families were asked not to organize any public memorial to avoid these turning into anti-regime protests, the report added.
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Tehran, 11 Oct. (AKI) - Up to 400 Iranian Kurds who belong to the Sunni faith have reportedly been arrested in the last three days in Saghez and other cities of Kurdistan province in the country's north-west.Two religious leaders, the imam from the Khatam al-Anbia mosque, Seyyed Seifollah Hosseini, and the imam of the Hamza mosque, Seyyed Hassan Hosseini.All those arrested belong a Sunni religious group called Maktab Quran (The Way of the Koran), which disapproves of the presence of clerics in the government. The state religion in Iran is Shiite.In Saghez, which has the greatest number of Maktab Quran followers, a curfew was imposed for three days and all religious ceremonies organized for Ramadan were suspended.On Thursday morning a group of citizens gathered in front of the government building of Kermanshah, calling for the two religious leaders and all detainees to be released.
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A group of university student at the Iran’s top university in Tehran staged a noisy protest against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday shortly before he gave a speech there, Associated Press reported."Ahmadinejad is Pinochet! Iran will not become Chile," the students chanted, referring to the late dictator Augusto Pinochet, a witness said, adding that they were blocked from leaving the campus by anti-riot police.The demonstrators at Tehran University, Iran's top academic institution, were calling for the release of jailed students, the semi-official Fars news agency reported. Last December, a speech by Ahmadinejad at another university in Tehran was disrupted by demonstrators protesting against a crackdown on student activist in the university.
150 workers of weaving factory held protests for their postponed salaries
150 workers of weaving factory in Khoy (western Iranian city) held a gathering protest in front of the Governorship building to follow their postponed salaries and to determine their occupational condition.The protesting workers said: 'We haven’t received our salaries for three months. The workers’ occupational status is not defined yet and the workers face problem in meeting their daily expenses.
Political Prisoners were assailed in Gohardasht Prison in Tehran
According to reports from inside Iran obtained by the Iranian ressisstence, the officials of the Gohardasht prison in Karaj (west of Tehran), attacked the political prisoners who were on hunger strike and brutally beat them up.This criminal act took place on Wednesday Oct. 10, a few hours after they started their hunger strike along with other political prisoners in other prisons in Iran by the prison guards. The order of the attack was issued by Hassan Zare’ Dehnavi also called Judge Haddad who is in charge of political prisoners’ files, and it was carried out under supervision of prison manger, his deputies and head of the ward Mohammad Mughnian; the attack itself was led by Nasser Amanian.
3 were hanged in Taibad-Iran
The Iranian regime hanged three persons in Taibad Prison and sentenced two others to death in Tehran.The initials of those hanged in Taibad, northeast of Iran, were H-A, A-A and B-A. Two prisoners by the names of Ahmad and Mahmoud were sentenced to death in Tehran.
A Young Woman Condemned to Death in Iran
The Iranian state run daily Etmad reported the Iranian judiciary system is about to execute a young woman on Oct. 18. She is Fakhteh Samadi. She is 30 years old and has been in prison since 2001.
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October 10th was 'the Universal day of struggle against execution'. Iran is among the countries with the highest rate of executions. Hundreds of people have been executed on different charges since Ahmadinejad came to power.
To commemorate this day, tens of Iranian-Canadian gathered at the Human rights monument on Elgin st. in Ottawa yesterday afternoon (Sat. Oct 13) to stage a protest against executions of the Iranian people by the ruling regime in Iran. Although there was a call for rain the forecast but it did not discourage them from participating in the protest. They demanded to end the mass execution in Iran and also warned the western governments to stop the appeasing the Iranian regime. They chanting repeatedly that mass execution of Iranian people is a result of the appeasement policy.
Sunday, October 07, 2007
HAPPY MEHREGAN
Mehregan HistoryBy: Farrokh Shokooh
CELEBRATION OF LOVE, KNOWLEDGE, & COMMITMENTMehregan Commemorates the Triumph of Good over Evil, Warmth over Coldness, Light over Darkness, Knowledge and Wisdom over Ignorance
CELEBRATION OF LOVE, KNOWLEDGE, & COMMITMENTMehregan Commemorates the Triumph of Good over Evil, Warmth over Coldness, Light over Darkness, Knowledge and Wisdom over Ignorance
Originating in the ages of ancient Persia, Mehregan was the Persian Festival of Autumn that has been adopted and revived once again for festivity in recent times to celebrate the deep history and culture of the Persian ethnicity. This celebration is dedicated to the beliefs and principles that are as old as the Persian race itself, dating back to 6,000 years ago. Mehregan, which is termed Mehrejan in Arabic and Mithrakana in Latin, was created to honor the Persian Goddess called Mehr. This goddess symbolizes Light, Love, Knowledge, Truth, Covenant, Commitment, Strength, and Peace. Her name, which is also referred to as Mithra, signifies kindness, love, and goodness in the Persian language. In order to understand the concept behind Mehregan, it is important to know the role Mehr has in relation to the other empyreal (sublime) gods of Ancient Persia. According to Persian mythology, everything began when Zurvan, God of Infinite Time and Space, decided to create a guardian god for the newly created Earth and humanity. He called this guardian Ahura-Mazda, God of Knowledge and Wisdom (Khodda-e-Kheraad), for Zurvan endowed Ahura-Mazda with every bit of knowledge about the Universe. In the process of creating Ahura-Mazda, Zurvan began to experience doubts. These fears planted a seed of Ignorance and Darkness, which then took the form of yet another new god. The God of Ignorance & Darkness was named Ahriman, and he is known as the Devil. At the moment of the birth of both these gods, Ahriman came into form first by a split second. Thus, it was decided that Ahriman would rule the earth first and then Ahura-Mazda would come to take over afterwards.
According to the legend, Ahriman ruled the earth for 999,999 years. He created vicious creatures, monsters, and demons (Deev or Deevon, in Persian, Dios or Deus in Latin, Deiwos) to roam the earth. He ruled the planet with dark logic and sinister principles and kept his creatures in total darkness and ignorance. The story follows that he then planted a bit of his own ignorance into every being. The nature of his ignorance is defined by seven attributes: Anger (Khashm), Envy (Hasrat), Greed (Auz), Hostility (Doshmany), Hate (Kineh), Revenge (Entegam), and Injustice (Be-Edalaty). When the time finally came for Ahura-Mazda to take over, he found that only a few beings accepted his teachings. Having few followers and not being prepared to fight, Ahura-Mazda was thus defeated by Ahriman and thrown into the Center of Darkness. In order to free Ahura-Mazda from Darkness, Zurvan created a new deity - one of Love. This new god sent to liberate Knowledge and Wisdom was named the Goddess Mehr (Khodda-e-Mehr). Zurvan did so with the help of Anahita, the Virgin Mother, who is Goddess of Glory and Fertility (Khodda-e Shokofayee). To defeat Ahriman, Mehr had to turn the world upside-down. She arrived to earth with such fervor and intensity that mountains became oceans, oceans became dry lands, and only chosen ones survived the continuous rain and change of weather. Ahura-Mazda was then liberated and Ahriman's creatures were buried deep underneath the earth where they turned into black ink - the Darkness of Ignorance. Subsequently, Mehr reassembled existence and as the Goddess of Contract and Commitment, she setup a system of coexistence for all gods. Accordingly, she did not destroy Ahriman, for he was also a creation of Zurvan. From that day on, every human being has been born capable of acquiring the Knowledge and Wisdom of Ahura-Mazda, through the Love, Commitment, and Courage of Mehr. According to Mehr believers, all our souls and hearts have the choice and capacity to take in and worship Mehr, Ahura-Mazda, Anahita, or Ahriman - or any of the other gods. However, one can expel the ignorance within by choosing to open one's heart to the love of Mehr, and by choosing to open one's mind to the wisdom of Ahura-Mazda. To follow Mehr is to honor one's commitments to family, friends, and foes. In Persepolis, the defeat of Ahriman by Mehr is symbolized by a lioness overcoming a bull, and by Darius (Daryush), as the chosen one by Ahura-Mazda, killing Ahriman face-to-face while holding his horn. The message is clear: there is no room for evil within the walls of this empire. Mehr was born on the first day of winter, December 21, which is the longest night of the year. After this date, the days become longer and the nights become shorter, which signifies Light overcoming Darkness. To honor this occurrence, Persians have celebrated this night for thousands of years as "Shab-e-Yalda", which means "the night of birth". This night is known as the Birthday of Light and represents Enlightenment overcoming Ignorance. Every year during the month of Mehr (Libra ?, Sept. 23 - Oct. 22, month of Love, Harmony, Equality, and Balance), Persians celebrate Mehr's victory over Ahriman for six days with the grand finale on the day of Mehr (Rooz-e-Mehr), the 16th day of the month (October 8). During Mehregan, kings and peasants gathered together to celebrate in public so to honor Mehr. This is the only time that kings would drink wine symbolically in public to receive blessing from Mehr and show their solidarity with the people. Although Mehregan has lost its original spiritual significance over the past 4,000 years, it has changed into a grand festival that has Love, Friendship, Understanding, Knowledge, Compassion, Commitment, and Unity as its driving force. Since Mehregan is the beginning of autumn and coincides with the annual harvest, it is also celebrated as the Persian Thanksgiving or Harvest festival. Cyrus the Great was the last great Pagan King who was the founder of the Persian Empire. After his death and the death of his son, Cambyses, Darius became king and promoted Ahura-Mazda (Zoroastrianism) over Mithraism throughout the entire Persian Empire. He called for the worship of Ahura-Mazda as the only god – demoting Mehr to only an angel. This was a political move made by him in order to take full control and gain power over his nations. The actions and writings of Cyrus the Great show true characteristics and teaching of Mithraism. The First Bill of Human Rights was declared by him 2,500 years ago when he liberated Babylon. The spirit of his message was maintained and practiced by the predecessors in his dynasty. This message was proclaimed onto a clay cylinder found in Babylon. It consists of the following decrees:
Freedom of Humanity and Abolishment of Slavery
Freedom of Preserving Personal Heritage and Traditions
Freedom of Beliefs and Religion
Freedom of Movement and Residency
Freedom of Livelihood
Cyrus the Great proclaims these Rights of Freedom along with Equality of Race and Gender, provided that one’s right would never violate the rights of another. In Persia, Mehr followers were called Mogh or Moghaan (Magu in old Persian, Magi in Latin, and Mage in old English). True and devoted believers of Mehr were called Peer-e-Moghaan (High Priest of Moghaan, the Father). These people are referred in ancient Persian poems as the ones who have understood the true meaning of Divine Love and Femininity. Moghaan are also firm believers in the equality of men and women. The most famous Mogh is Cyrus the Great. The word "magic" originated from the Greek word "Magos" refers to the Persian Mogh or Moghaan. The Greeks believed that Moghaan had esoteric and mystical knowledge, practicing the supernatural or "magic" arts. The Greeks derived the word directly from Persians, not from a common ancestral source as was the case with deiwos. Moghaan, true Mehr believers, had respect for all other gods except for Ahriman - the non-worshipable god. They ceremoniously killed a bull as a symbol of Ahriman in their religious gatherings around a sacred fire. This ritual was later prohibited by King Darius. Darvishi is an ancient Persian way of life dating back to 5,000 years ago. Although there are many branches within its beliefs, they all are rooted in Mithraism. A follower of these beliefs is referred to as a Darvish (Daravish), which in Persian means the Humble One, who is giving, grateful, and sharing. In ancient times, the Darvish (Darvishhaan) were considered Ambassadors of Mehr. In present time, after the Moslem conquest of Iran, most have converted to Islam, but still maintain the same qualities of humbleness and sharing. The way of life for a Darvish is to dedicate oneself to love. In 4th century CE (Common Era) when Christians adopted December 25th as the birthday of Christ, it is postulated that the date was chosen to coincide with the birthday of Mehr. In fact bells, and Sunday as a Holy day are adopted from Mithraism. Around 1600 BCE (Before Common Era) about 1000 years before Cyrus the Great liberated Babylon and proclaimed the First Bill of Human Rights, "Mehr soldiers" were deployed from Persia to Babylon, Rome, Greece, and India to promote Mehr. In Europe they were referred to as Pakan (Pagan). Pakan in Persian means pure and clean ones, both physically and spiritually. One of the Pakan rituals was a family gathering to clean and immerse their youngsters in water in the name of Mehr and Anahita, the guardian of purity and water. They asked Mehr to give their daughters and sons strength to stay faithful to their commitments and asked Anahita for glory and ability to bear strong and beautiful children. This water cleansing ceremony of the Pakan is believed to be the root of Baptism. According to many historians, many concepts of Christ and Mehr have similar roots, since they both had a strong presence during the same period of history. One example of their similarities is that Sunday (day of the Sun) is set aside for worshipping both Mehr and Christ. Another example is that the seven attributes of the Ignorance of Ahriman are similar to the Seven Deadly Sins of Christianity. Some believed at that time that Christ and Mehr were equivalent; they were merely the same thing embodied into different forms, for they both encompass love. In the 4th century CE, the Roman Empire adopted Christianity over Mithraism. If this decision was not made by the Emperor Constantine, much of the world would have been and would still be Lovers and Followers of Mehr.
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A man sentenced to death in Tehran
The mullahs’ regime sentenced a man to death penalty in Tehran. The man’s name is Ali and he is 51.
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8th Day of Strike by 3000 Sugarcane Factory Workers in Iran
Despite heavy security measures by the mullahs’ regime, over 3000 workers of Hafttappeh Sugarcane factory in Khuzestan continued their strike and protesting gathering for eight consecutive days.According to the reports, the workers of Hafttappeh Sugarcane factory gathered on Tuesday in front of the regime’s governorship in Shoush and chanted against the regime’s officials and agents. In another gathering before the Sugarcane factory in Hafttappeh, the workers prevented the speech of mullah Shafii, general manager of this factory in a way that he had to leave the place.The mullahs’ regime has dispatched anti-riot special unit forces from various points of Khuzestan province to Shoush in order to prevent the spread of workers’ movement and to suppress it.
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Ahmadinejad cancelled University speech in fear of student protest
The state-run daily E’temad acknowledged that the reason of cancellation of Ahmadinejad’s speech at Tehran University was his fear of repeating angry student protest similar to what happened last year at Polytechnic University.This daily wrote while the student activists were preparing themselves to question Ahmadinejad, the presidency public relations suddenly informed on Sunday night of cancellation of this ceremony without any explanation.This daily added that after his speech at Columbia University, Ahmadinejad was supposed to speak at Tehran University. In response to a question regarding pressures on students and professors in Iran at Columbia University, Ahmadinejad had said explicitly: ' Freedom in Iran, if not unprecedented, it is rare because all opinions can be expressed in Iran.'E’temad wrote: 'These President’s remarks are at a condition the Science Ministry officials have dismissed 43 critic student organizations including craft councils, cultural centers and Islamic associations and had sent 550 students to the 'Punishment committees'. 70 members of the union have been arrested and many of critic students have been debarred of the right of education.'The daily added: 'but apparently the President’s advisor preferred him not to show up at the University because the condition is not suitable for his attendance whatsoever.'
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Mrs. Rajavi’s speech in the session of Christian Democrat Parties group and the European people parties in the Parliamentarian Assembly of the Council of Europe
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, president-elect of the Iranian Resistance, traveled to Strasburg on Monday (Oct. 1st) for an official visit on the invitation of Christian Democrat Parties group and European people parties in the Parliamentarian Assembly of the Council of Europe. Lord Russell-Johnston, Former President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, welcomed Mrs. Rajavi and appreciated her efforts for establishing freedom and democracy in Iran. Mrs. Rajavi said in her speech: ’Today we are meeting at a very dangerous crossroad. A year ago, I said in this same building that the world is at a dangerous crossroad. At the same time I said that the threat of Iranian regime’s meddling and terrorism in Iraq is hundred times more dangerous than its nuclear, and I warned against the regime’s efforts for export of terrorism, fundamentalism and crisis to the whole region. Today I want to tell you that the situation has got much more momentous. Iraq is already occupied unofficially by the mullahs. The situation in the whole region is critical, The Iranian regime is at the heart of this current crisis that warmongering in Lebanon, fomenting turmoil in Palestine and the expansion of terrorism in Afghanistan is part of it. These are all connected links of a single strategy.’On the same day, Mrs. Rajavi addressed the European countries in a press conference in the EC Parliamentarian Council. In part of her speeches, she said: ’Now there is a moment of choice. International community must make its choice. Today, the world is at a dangerous crossroad: The prospect of a religious dictatorship going nuclear, and prospect of another destructive war in the region. Today, the mullahs are at the heart of this crisis you do not have to choose between two catastrophic options. Foreign Military intervention is not the solution to the Iranian crisis and on the other hand, continuing the negotiations with the mullahs only gives them the opportunity to acquire nuclear bomb. European countries must put an end to the policy of appeasement and stand by the Iranian people and the desire to establish democracy in Iran. The people of Iran want regime change; this desire must be respected.
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Canada condemned on Saturday new remarks by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who has vowed to liberate "all of Palestine" from Israel and questioned the scale of the Holocaust. "President Ahmadinejad's statement represents a wilful distortion of history and an attempt to prevent political reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians," Canadian Foreign Minister Maxine Bernier said in a statement. "It is comments like these, that make Iran a country of concern for the international community," the minister said. "Canada continues to work to focus attention on the Iranian government's atrocious human rights record. To that end, Canada will once again be leading a resolution on Iran at the UN this autumn.
A man sentenced to death in Tehran
The mullahs’ regime sentenced a man to death penalty in Tehran. The man’s name is Ali and he is 51.
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8th Day of Strike by 3000 Sugarcane Factory Workers in Iran
Despite heavy security measures by the mullahs’ regime, over 3000 workers of Hafttappeh Sugarcane factory in Khuzestan continued their strike and protesting gathering for eight consecutive days.According to the reports, the workers of Hafttappeh Sugarcane factory gathered on Tuesday in front of the regime’s governorship in Shoush and chanted against the regime’s officials and agents. In another gathering before the Sugarcane factory in Hafttappeh, the workers prevented the speech of mullah Shafii, general manager of this factory in a way that he had to leave the place.The mullahs’ regime has dispatched anti-riot special unit forces from various points of Khuzestan province to Shoush in order to prevent the spread of workers’ movement and to suppress it.
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Ahmadinejad cancelled University speech in fear of student protest
The state-run daily E’temad acknowledged that the reason of cancellation of Ahmadinejad’s speech at Tehran University was his fear of repeating angry student protest similar to what happened last year at Polytechnic University.This daily wrote while the student activists were preparing themselves to question Ahmadinejad, the presidency public relations suddenly informed on Sunday night of cancellation of this ceremony without any explanation.This daily added that after his speech at Columbia University, Ahmadinejad was supposed to speak at Tehran University. In response to a question regarding pressures on students and professors in Iran at Columbia University, Ahmadinejad had said explicitly: ' Freedom in Iran, if not unprecedented, it is rare because all opinions can be expressed in Iran.'E’temad wrote: 'These President’s remarks are at a condition the Science Ministry officials have dismissed 43 critic student organizations including craft councils, cultural centers and Islamic associations and had sent 550 students to the 'Punishment committees'. 70 members of the union have been arrested and many of critic students have been debarred of the right of education.'The daily added: 'but apparently the President’s advisor preferred him not to show up at the University because the condition is not suitable for his attendance whatsoever.'
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Mrs. Rajavi’s speech in the session of Christian Democrat Parties group and the European people parties in the Parliamentarian Assembly of the Council of Europe
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, president-elect of the Iranian Resistance, traveled to Strasburg on Monday (Oct. 1st) for an official visit on the invitation of Christian Democrat Parties group and European people parties in the Parliamentarian Assembly of the Council of Europe. Lord Russell-Johnston, Former President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, welcomed Mrs. Rajavi and appreciated her efforts for establishing freedom and democracy in Iran. Mrs. Rajavi said in her speech: ’Today we are meeting at a very dangerous crossroad. A year ago, I said in this same building that the world is at a dangerous crossroad. At the same time I said that the threat of Iranian regime’s meddling and terrorism in Iraq is hundred times more dangerous than its nuclear, and I warned against the regime’s efforts for export of terrorism, fundamentalism and crisis to the whole region. Today I want to tell you that the situation has got much more momentous. Iraq is already occupied unofficially by the mullahs. The situation in the whole region is critical, The Iranian regime is at the heart of this current crisis that warmongering in Lebanon, fomenting turmoil in Palestine and the expansion of terrorism in Afghanistan is part of it. These are all connected links of a single strategy.’On the same day, Mrs. Rajavi addressed the European countries in a press conference in the EC Parliamentarian Council. In part of her speeches, she said: ’Now there is a moment of choice. International community must make its choice. Today, the world is at a dangerous crossroad: The prospect of a religious dictatorship going nuclear, and prospect of another destructive war in the region. Today, the mullahs are at the heart of this crisis you do not have to choose between two catastrophic options. Foreign Military intervention is not the solution to the Iranian crisis and on the other hand, continuing the negotiations with the mullahs only gives them the opportunity to acquire nuclear bomb. European countries must put an end to the policy of appeasement and stand by the Iranian people and the desire to establish democracy in Iran. The people of Iran want regime change; this desire must be respected.
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Canada condemned on Saturday new remarks by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who has vowed to liberate "all of Palestine" from Israel and questioned the scale of the Holocaust. "President Ahmadinejad's statement represents a wilful distortion of history and an attempt to prevent political reconciliation between Israelis and Palestinians," Canadian Foreign Minister Maxine Bernier said in a statement. "It is comments like these, that make Iran a country of concern for the international community," the minister said. "Canada continues to work to focus attention on the Iranian government's atrocious human rights record. To that end, Canada will once again be leading a resolution on Iran at the UN this autumn.
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