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Anti-government gathering for continuous black outs in Kermanshah
A group of Kermanshahi people (western Iranian city) gathered in front of the country’s western region power office of the city to protest against the continuous electricity cut off in the city. In fear of spreading out this protesting gathering, the suppressive State Security Force (SSF) agents attacked the gatherers and arrested 6. Among them there are a few of the power office workers.

Death sentences for five prisoners in the southern city of Kerman
NCRI (National Council Resistance of Iran) said in a statement that Colonel Ali Qazizadeh, a commander of the State Security Forces (SSF) - mullahs’ suppressive police - announced the death sentences for five prisoners in the southern city of Kerman, reported the state-run news agency Mehr on Thursday. 'They were accused of rape,' he said. Col. Qaizizadeh told a press conference in Kerman that the prisoners soon will face gallows since their death sentences have been upheld by the mullahs’ Supreme Court. 'In the initial investigations by the SSF, seventeen individuals were suspected of commuting the crime. However, it is certain that seven were eventually convicted and since two are still at large five others will be soon hanged,' Qazizadeh added. The crime allegedly took place in Mohiabad Township near Kerman. In past week alone the mullah’s regime ruling Iran hanged at least 11 prisoners across the country.
The NCRI said in another statement on July 15th that the regime publicly flogged six prisoners in the Modaress Street in northeastern city of Sabzevar. The men in their teens received lashes for what the judiciary called 'committing mischief in the streets.' The sentence was carried out in an area where the victims lived. The plaintiffs in this case were willing to give up their complaints in return for the victims’ pardon by the law. However, the judiciary showed no leniency and executed the sentence under the pretext of enforcing the so-called 'public security plan.' On June 26, mullahs’ highest judicial authority, Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, said public flogging is an effective criminal deterrent, while imprisonment is a useless punishment.In an interview broadcast on state TV on June 25 in the evening program, the head of the Iranian regime’s Judicial Authority complained that 'many Iranian judges, influenced by western propaganda and fearing they will be accused of failing to respect human rights, are not sentencing offenders to effective penalties like public flogging'. 'Public flogging is one of most just sentences that can be inflicted on someone who has committed a crime,' said Shahroudi. 'The publication of photos and news of public floggings is the best deterrent, while three or four months in prison has no effect,' 'We must reduce prison sentences and make use of public flogging more to punish offenders.' He said. In May, the rights group Amnesty International urged Iranian courts to suspend flogging sentences. 'Flogging is a form of cruel, inhuman and degrading punishment, which amounts to torture,' the organization said. Amnesty said it was outlawed under Article 7 of the United Nations International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. In its latest report, Amnesty International said sentences of flogging and amputation continued to be implemented in Iran, and torture and ill-treatment were widespread in prisons and detention centers.

Hundreds protested against extortion by municipality in Southern Iranian City
Hundreds of the people of Marvdasht, southern Iranian city in Fars province, gathered to oppose extortion of the municipality under the pretext of housing tax. The protesting people gathered in front of governorate and municipality buildings and asked for stopping plundering the people by these predatory organs.

French deputies back Iranian opposition group
Associated France Press reported on July 17 that the French deputies presented exiled Iranian opposition leader Maryam Rajavi with a declaration calling for democratic change in Iran in a ceremony at France's National Assembly Wednesday and they called for the main Iranian armed opposition group, the People's Mojehedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI), to be removed from the European Union's list of terrorist organizations. The declaration drafted by parties from all sides of the house and signed by 290 French deputies, condemned the "terrible human rights violations in Iran." British Members of Parliament and deputies from the European Parliament, in Paris to attend a conference, also attended the ceremony. Communist deputy Jean-Pierre Brard said they would be pushing for the PMOI to be reclassified during France's six-month presidency of the European Union, which started this month. "A great number of deputies consider that the policy of complacency (towards Iran) has not led to anything and that the governments' positions smell too much of oil," he added. AFP added: The PMOI is the armed wing of Rajavi's National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) and is currently listed as a terrorist group by the European Union and the United States. British Conservative MP Brian Binley called for the EU to follow the example of Britain and lift the terrorist label on the PMOI, which Britain did last month, a decision bitterly attacked by Tehran.

In memory of Dr. Zahra-Ziba Kazemi the Canadian photojournalist who was killed by the Iranian regime.
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Four hanged in public, one in prison
Four prisoners were hanged in public in the southern Iranian city of Borazjan; the judiciary officials in the province said “the four were hanged as a warning to the wicked individuals in Borazjan. Iranian regime also hanged another prisoner in the central prison of Sanandaj, capital of Iran’s Kurdistan. His name was Ahmad Khalaj and was seriously injured and ill at the time of execution. According to another news, Iran’s supreme court verified death sentences for three other prisoners. Their names are Farzad Kamangar, Ali Haidarian, and Farhad Vakili.


University students in Tehran staged demonstration to commemorate 8July, 1999 Uprising
Despite suppressive measures and undeclared martial law by the Iranian regime, the students of Tehran University and Khajeh Nassir University of Tehran, held demonstrations and gathering protest on the occasion of the heroic Uprising of July 8, 1999, and chanted anti-regime slogans.On Tuesday, while disciplinary forces and “plain clothes” agents had surrounded Tehran University and attacked gatherings of more than 3 people, a great number of students gathered and chanted anti-government slogans. The suppressive agents confiscated mobile phones in order to prevent propagation of this protesting move. Latest news indicated that the situation in front of Tehran University was volatile and chaotic. Some students also gathered in Laleh Park of Tehran to commemorate July 8 uprising.Besides the unprecedented security measures, the clerical regime has extensively arrested students activists within last few days; most of the specialist council members and some striking students of the recent hunger strike at teachers’ educating school at Pardis, Karaj have been arrested.

US moves against Iranian officials, companies
Associated Press reported on July 8 that the Bush administration moved Tuesday to impose financial sanctions on Iranian officials and companies accused of helping the country develop nuclear weapons.The action by the departments of State and Treasury marks the latest effort to tighten the financial noose on Iran, which the United States accuses of bankrolling terrorism and seeking a nuclear bomb.Mohsen Fakhrizadeh-Mahabadi, a senior scientist at Iran’s Ministry of Defence and Armed Forces Logistics, was among those targeted Tuesday. 'Iran’s nuclear and missile firms hide behind an array of agents that transact business on their behalf,' said Stuart Levey, the Treasury Department’s under secretary for terrorism and financial intelligence. Others targeted were: Yahya Rahim Safavi, a commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps.; Dawood Agha-Jani, who is involved in Iran’s nuclear program; Mohsen Hojati, involved in the country’s ballistic missile program; Mehrdada Akhlaghi Ketabachi, the head of the Shahid Bakeri Industrial Group; and Naser Maleki, head of the Shahid Hemmat Industrial Group and an official in the Iranian defense ministry.
The action means that any bank accounts or financial assets found in the United States that belong to these people are frozen. Americans also are prohibited from doing business with them.Despite three sets of U.N. sanctions, Iran has not only continued enriching uranium, but says it has expanded its program. Tehran’s rising influence in the Mideast has emboldened it to reject a recent offer of economic incentives in exchange for giving up its enrichment program. At the summit of world leaders in Japan, on Tuesday the leaders’ statement expressed 'serious concern' about Iran’s failure to meet world demands to stop enriching uranium. But it stressed the need to 'resolve the issue innovatively through negotiation.'The departments’ action Tuesday also covers the TAMAS Co. for its alleged involvement in enrichment-related activities and Shahid Sattari Industries. The United States also imposed sanctions on three other entities believed to be owned or controlled by Iran’s Defence Industries Organization, which was put on the U.S. blacklist last year. Those entities are Seventh of Tir, Ammunition and Metallurgy Industries Group and Parchin Chemical Industries.

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Tens of thousands of Iranians converged on a Paris exhibition centre in Villepinte- France on Saturday June 28 in support of the main Iranian opposition group, the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), demanding that the European Union lift its ban on the group. Organizers estimated participants at the indoor arena in Villepinte, north of Paris, to number over 70,000, making it the largest-ever gathering of Iranians outside Iran. "The unjust terror label against the PMOI brought with it much calamity for us, our nation, the people of Iraq and the Middle East. Not the least of which were pictured by the cranes, from which Iranians were hanged in Iranian cities, and the onslaught of terrorism and bloodshed in Lebanon, Palestine and Afghanistan", said Maryam Rajavi, who heads the coalition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) which includes the PMOI. Rajavi's speech was repeatedly interrupted by jubilant cheers from the buoyant crowd. At one point she was showered with confetti by impassioned supporters. A number of international press such as France Press and Associated Press reported on this event. The vibrant atmosphere was partly due to a major victory the PMOI had in London earlier this week, when the United Kingdom government removed it from its list of proscribed groups. The UK took the action following a decision in May by the country's Lord Chief Justice at the Court of Appeal describing the ban on the group as "perverse". British lawmakers voted unanimously on Tuesday to approve the order to lift the ban on the group. More than 100 Parliamentarians from across Europe, the Americas and the Middle East, as well as a delegation of Iraq Parliamentarians took part in the rally. Rajavi urged the EU to stop "appeasing" the "mullahs' regime". The 27-nation bloc has an obligation to lift the ban on the PMOI when it conducts its semi-annual review of its terrorist list next week, she said. The PMOI was banned in the UK by then-Home Secretary Jack Straw MP in 2001. The British ban was used as the basis of the group's inclusion in the European Union's terrorist list in mid-2002, in what the EU's then-Spanish leadership called "a goodwill gesture to Tehran". In December 2006, the Court of First Instance annulled the EU's decision to place the group in the list and described the freeze on its financial assets as "unlawful". In a controversial move, however, the EU announced in June 2007 that it would maintain the group in the blacklist. It is expected to conduct its latest review of the group's status next week. "Since the EU-wide ban on the PMOI was based exclusively on the fact that the UK had banned the group, the EU no longer has an excuse for keeping the ban in force. ... It must lift the ban on the PMOI immediately", said Hossein Abedini, an NCRI spokesperson. During her speech, Rajavi touched on the NCRI's plan for a future Iran. "The future Iran we are fighting for will be a society in which all Iranian citizens enjoy freedom of speech, belief, religion, clothing, and free access to information. Everyone will be equal before the law", she said.

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At least people have died as a seven-storey building in north-west Tehran collapsed on Monday June 30. The apartment block collapsed in the early hours of the day in Tehran’s Saadat-abad district. All those hurt in the accident were workers, officials have said. Emergency rescue teams have been unable to pull anyone out of the debris.

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A youth hanged in Isfahan and two sentenced to death in Tehran
The clerical regime in Iran hanged a 19-yr old youth in Isfahan and handed death sentences for two youth in Tehran. The young man who was hanged in Isfahan was named Hamid Reza. The two youth who are sentenced to death in Tehran are named Omid, 20, and Yadollah, 33. The Supreme Court of the Iranian regime has confirmed that Omid be publicly hanged soon.
Also The Judicial system of the clerical regime released the execution verdict of two persons in Tehran. These two are named A. Sh and Behruz. Their verdict has been confirmed by the mullahs’ regime’s Supreme Court.

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Car factory workers staged strike for unpaid salaries
The workers of Iran Khodro Company staged strike in protest against not payment of their salaries and premium. This strike started on Monday, June 30. The protesting workers said: 300 workers have resigned in protest of not paying their salaries and anti-workers pressures by the regime executors since three months ago.

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Teachers stage protesting gathering in Tehran
The contract teachers of Tehran, Qom and Damghan (northeastern Iranian city) held a protesting gathering in front of the clerical regime’s parliament on Monday. They asked for attendance to uncertainty of their professional situation.

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EU must follow UK to delist PMOI
In an interview with the Danish daily Politiken, Dr. Alejo Vidal-Quadras, Vice President of the European Parliament, said that after the British decision, the European Parliament must remove the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) from the terrorist list without any delay and undisputedly. He added: This should be done not only for the sake of law, but for the sake of our people and independence.

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In an interview with Azzamn International daily, Dr. Saleh Mutalq, leader of the Nationalist Arabic Faction in Iraqi Parliament asserted: To solve Iraq’s problem, the Iranian regime’s agents must be expelled from Iraq, and Iran’s border must be walled to absolutely cut off relations with the Iranian regime.Dr. Mutlaq added: The cause for most of the events that happened in Iraq like sectarian violence , and flow of arms, training militias and assassination teams is the Iranian regime; presently, the Iraqi people have become conscious and some political factions have started to show positive signs against the Iranian regime’s meddling in Iraqi Parliament. He added: Whoever you ask in Naseriya or Imara or Baghdad about the Iranian regime’s meddling, he would say, yes, meddling exists in all aspects.