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Mullahs’ runoff Majlis election charade discarded by people
NCRI, the National Council Resistance of Iran said in a statement on Saturday that the mullahs’ runoff Majlis (parliament) election charade yesterday was ignored by people across Iran far greater than the first round according to reports by the resistance’s sources from polling stations in Tehran and various cities and towns. There were only a handful of people who turned out to vote in many polling stations in Tehran including the ones in Aryashahr, Kashani Boulevard, Nezam Mafi Mosque, Islamshahr, Azadi Street in Hashemi district, Nabi Mosque in Narmak district, Saheb Zaman Mosque and Jame’e Mosque. TV crews from state-run network who were present at some of the polling stations from the early hours of yesterday could not file any report due to lack of voters. In Azadi Street, in addition to polling stations set up at schools and mosques, there were buses used as mobile polling stations. There were six armed agents protecting every bus, but hardly any citizens approached them. There were similar situation in Isfahan, Gorgon, Sarab, Shabestar, Kamyaran, Zanjan, Rasht, Elam, Quechan, Asaloyeh, Hamedan, Ahwaz and Yazd. Candidates from different factions used similar methods employed in the first round to attract people to ballot boxes such as giving free lunch, free telephone cards and other incentives. Speaking at the polling station yesterday when casting his vote, Ali Khamenei, the regime’s Supreme Leader, said, 'The same incentive, feeling and the sense of responsibility which made us to go to ballot boxes in the first round, has acted this time again for us to come to the ballot boxes.' His remarks which reflected a sense of desperation was broadcast live by the state-run TV and radio.
A juvenile murdered by SSF agents in western Iranian city
A 15-yr old juvenile who had been injured by the State Security force agents’ shooting in Sardasht (western Iranian city), lost his life. In fear of people’s anger, the clerical regime buried this teenager covertly at night.According to received reports, the security condition is still disturbed, and shopkeepers avoid going to their works in protest against killing and injuring 6 people by SSF. The bazaar (town market) is closed too. It is worth noting that following the criminal suppression of clerical regime in Rabat, Sardasht, the Iranian Resistance asked all human rights organizations and communities to condemn suppression of the Iranian people by the clerical regime.
Clerical regime hanged 5 prisoners at Tehran’s Evin Prison
Iran’s clerical regime hanged five men in Tehran’s Evin prison on Wednesday, reported Agence France-Presse quoting Iran’s state- run Fars news agency. The hangings bring to at least 70 the number of executions in Iran so far this year, according to an AFP count. Rights watchdog Amnesty International said on Monday that in 2007 Iran made more use of the death penalty than any other country apart from China, executing 317 people during the year.
Switzerland freezes assets of 12 more Iranian companies
GENEVA, April 23, 2008 (AFP) - Switzerland said on Wednesday it had frozen the assets of a further 12 Iranian companies in accordance with new United Nations sanctions aimed at stopping Tehran’s alleged nuclear programme. The 12 companies, and 13 individuals, have been added to an existing blacklist of 23 companies and 27 people. Five Iranian nationals are also banned from entering and passing through Switzerland, the country’s Federal Council said in a statement. Switzerland will also ban the delivery of so-called 'dual use' materials that could be used for the manufacture of nuclear plants, and the export of some drones and missiles, the statement said. The UN Security Council last month imposed its third set of sanctions against Iran in the space of 15 months to punish Tehran’s refusal to suspend uranium enrichment, which world powers fear Iran could use to make nuclear weapons. The resolution gives Iran three months to comply with demands to suspend uranium enrichment, and includes an outright ban on travel by officials involved in Tehran’s nuclear and missile programmes, as well as broadening a list of individuals and entities subject to an assets freeze. Switzerland’s own trade and diplomatic relations with the Islamic Republic have come under fire in recent months after foreign minister Micheline Calmy-Rey travelled to Tehran in March to sign a gas deal. Jewish-American group the Anti-Defamation League took out full-page advertisments in Swiss and international papers earlier this month accusing Switzerland of 'funding terrorism' through the deal, a charge vehemently rejected by Bern.
Iranian regime hanged 4 prisoners in Iran’s southern prison
The anti human regime of the mullahs ruling Iran hanged four prisoners in the central prison of Kerman, Iran’s southern province. IRNA, Iran’s official news agency, announced that the execution sentence of these four people was issued by Kerman Revolutionary Court, and was put into force after being approved by the country’s attorney general.
Martial law in southern Iran to confront anti-regime uprising
According to received reports from different cities of Bushehr province (southern Iran), the clerical regime has declared martial law by dispatching 2000 agents of Special Unit forces and has closed schools and banks. The Special Unit agents have extensively arrested the people, and in order to create the atmosphere of fear, they brutally beat the protesters and arrest them.According to the reports, 15 people were arrested in Berazjan and 10 in Shabankareh on Saturday night among, them 7 young women and girls. Another report indicates that two people, Ali Dadjouan and Mohammad Bargahi, were killed in Shabankareh by unknown persons.
Sunday, April 20, 2008
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Firefighters arrested for not using hot water canons against protesting workers
Six firefighters have been jailed for more than 48 hours in Ahmadabad Detention Center, according to the Resistance sources in Iran. They were arrested for refusing to quell a labour demonstration using hot water canon at Kiyan Tire Factory (Alborz) in suburban Tehran, Iran’s capital. In a move of sympathy with the striking workers, the firemen discharged the hot water on the street. The Iranian regime will not tolerate mutiny of any kind within the ranks of government employees. Last Saturday, workers walked out at Kiyan Tire Factory. They burnt old tires to block the highway between Tehran and Islamshahr, a western suburb of the capital, to draw commuters’ attention traveling to Tehran. Striking workers have not been paid in the past few months.
Iranian regime carried out more than a quarter of executions in the world
Amnesty International said on Tuesday in its annual report on the death penalty worldwide that in Iran at least 317 were executed in 2007. According to the figures from Amnesty International’s yearly statistics, at least 1,252 people were executed in 24 countries worldwide. More than a quarter of all known executions in the world were carried out by the regime in Iran. Iran under the mullahs’ rule is one the three countries that carried out executions for crimes committed by people younger than 18 years of age, against international law. According to the report, the youngest executed in the world was a 13-year-old by the mullahs’ regime in April. In Iran at least one man was stoned to death, the human rights group said.
Abadan Oil Refinery Plant workers’ strike in protest of privatization
The Abadan Oil Refinery Plant workers staged a strike; this strike started on Saturday and continues. The workers strike is in protest to assigning parts of this oil refinery plant to the regime’s officials and affiliates under the guise of privatization. This plan is supposed to start on April 20, 2008.
Firefighters arrested for not using hot water canons against protesting workers
Six firefighters have been jailed for more than 48 hours in Ahmadabad Detention Center, according to the Resistance sources in Iran. They were arrested for refusing to quell a labour demonstration using hot water canon at Kiyan Tire Factory (Alborz) in suburban Tehran, Iran’s capital. In a move of sympathy with the striking workers, the firemen discharged the hot water on the street. The Iranian regime will not tolerate mutiny of any kind within the ranks of government employees. Last Saturday, workers walked out at Kiyan Tire Factory. They burnt old tires to block the highway between Tehran and Islamshahr, a western suburb of the capital, to draw commuters’ attention traveling to Tehran. Striking workers have not been paid in the past few months.
Iranian regime carried out more than a quarter of executions in the world
Amnesty International said on Tuesday in its annual report on the death penalty worldwide that in Iran at least 317 were executed in 2007. According to the figures from Amnesty International’s yearly statistics, at least 1,252 people were executed in 24 countries worldwide. More than a quarter of all known executions in the world were carried out by the regime in Iran. Iran under the mullahs’ rule is one the three countries that carried out executions for crimes committed by people younger than 18 years of age, against international law. According to the report, the youngest executed in the world was a 13-year-old by the mullahs’ regime in April. In Iran at least one man was stoned to death, the human rights group said.
Abadan Oil Refinery Plant workers’ strike in protest of privatization
The Abadan Oil Refinery Plant workers staged a strike; this strike started on Saturday and continues. The workers strike is in protest to assigning parts of this oil refinery plant to the regime’s officials and affiliates under the guise of privatization. This plan is supposed to start on April 20, 2008.
Sunday, April 13, 2008
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Associated France Press reported: Twelve people were killed and at least 202 wounded when an explosion ripped through a packed mosque in Iran's southern city of Shiraz during prayers by a prominent cleric, officials said on Sunday. Uncertainty surrounded the cause of Saturday evening's blast, which some officials insisted was an accident but others said could have been caused by a bomb.The massive explosion in the men's section of the mosque took place at around 9:00 pm (1630 GMT) during an evening prayer sermon by prominent local cleric Mohammad Anjavinejad, Iranian media reported. Twelve people were killed and 202 wounded, the governor of the local Fars province, whose name was given as Rezazadeh, told state television.
The Iranian regime as usual has blamed Iran’s opposition, the PMOI (People’s Mojahedin Of Iran) and the Bahaie groups to be the mastermind behind the blast. But according to Rezazadeh, "The incident could have happened as a result of negligence.
Prisoner hanged in Semnan (North of Iran)
The Iranian regime hanged a prisoner in the northern city of Semnan, the state-run news agency IRNA reported on Wednesday. The prisoner was only identified as P.P., aged 31. His execution was carried out at the local prison after the sentence was approved by the mullah’s Supreme Court, the news agency said.Semnan is the capital of Semnan Province in northern Iran with a population estimated at about 120,000.
Anti-government demonstration of 8,000 people in southern Iran
More than 8, 000 people of Manoujan (in Kerman province, southern Iran) demonstrated while shouting anti-government slogans. The demonstration was staged outside the governorate building to protest the mullahs’ regime’s plan for appending Manoujan to Hormuzgan province; the angry demonstrators threatened that if the plan were not dismissed, they would set ablaze the governorate building and would block the main road of Hormuzgan-Kerman. According to received reports, the suppressive State Security Forces have surrounded the areas and have threatened the demonstrators.
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Iranian authorities have hanged two sunni men in the volatile south-eastern province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan, state media reported on Thursday. Both men, identified as Abdol-Qodus and Mohammad Yousef, were executed in a prison in the provincial capital Zahedan on Wednesday, said the website Tabnak, which is run by associates of the former Commandant of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Gen. Mohsen Rezai. They had been arrested on December 13 along with 11 other militants during armed clashes with security forces, the report said. Sistan-va-Baluchistan Province is home to Baluchis, a predominantly Sunni Muslim ethnic minority. Iran has witnessed escalating unrest since 2006 in areas populated by Baluchis, who complain of discriminatory and repressive policies by the theocratic regime. Since 2006, Iranian authorities have stepped up executions in the restive province in what many Baluchis believe is a response to a spate of attacks by dissidents on government and security officials.
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Tire Company workers engaged with suppressive forces in Tehran
Saturday morning, the angry workers of Kian Tire Company of Tehran closed the main Tehran-Saveh highway and clashed with suppressive State security forces (SSF) and threw Molotov cocktails towards them. This demonstration has been going on since a few days ago in protest to not paying the workers’ salaries and suppression of the workers; the protesting workers set a big fire in front of the factory which could be seen from far away. Clerical regime fearing the spread of protests dispatched 1000 SSF agents to the place to suppress the workers, but resistant workers supported by the people and youth confronted the agents.
Associated France Press reported: Twelve people were killed and at least 202 wounded when an explosion ripped through a packed mosque in Iran's southern city of Shiraz during prayers by a prominent cleric, officials said on Sunday. Uncertainty surrounded the cause of Saturday evening's blast, which some officials insisted was an accident but others said could have been caused by a bomb.The massive explosion in the men's section of the mosque took place at around 9:00 pm (1630 GMT) during an evening prayer sermon by prominent local cleric Mohammad Anjavinejad, Iranian media reported. Twelve people were killed and 202 wounded, the governor of the local Fars province, whose name was given as Rezazadeh, told state television.
The Iranian regime as usual has blamed Iran’s opposition, the PMOI (People’s Mojahedin Of Iran) and the Bahaie groups to be the mastermind behind the blast. But according to Rezazadeh, "The incident could have happened as a result of negligence.
Prisoner hanged in Semnan (North of Iran)
The Iranian regime hanged a prisoner in the northern city of Semnan, the state-run news agency IRNA reported on Wednesday. The prisoner was only identified as P.P., aged 31. His execution was carried out at the local prison after the sentence was approved by the mullah’s Supreme Court, the news agency said.Semnan is the capital of Semnan Province in northern Iran with a population estimated at about 120,000.
Anti-government demonstration of 8,000 people in southern Iran
More than 8, 000 people of Manoujan (in Kerman province, southern Iran) demonstrated while shouting anti-government slogans. The demonstration was staged outside the governorate building to protest the mullahs’ regime’s plan for appending Manoujan to Hormuzgan province; the angry demonstrators threatened that if the plan were not dismissed, they would set ablaze the governorate building and would block the main road of Hormuzgan-Kerman. According to received reports, the suppressive State Security Forces have surrounded the areas and have threatened the demonstrators.
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Iranian authorities have hanged two sunni men in the volatile south-eastern province of Sistan-va-Baluchistan, state media reported on Thursday. Both men, identified as Abdol-Qodus and Mohammad Yousef, were executed in a prison in the provincial capital Zahedan on Wednesday, said the website Tabnak, which is run by associates of the former Commandant of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Gen. Mohsen Rezai. They had been arrested on December 13 along with 11 other militants during armed clashes with security forces, the report said. Sistan-va-Baluchistan Province is home to Baluchis, a predominantly Sunni Muslim ethnic minority. Iran has witnessed escalating unrest since 2006 in areas populated by Baluchis, who complain of discriminatory and repressive policies by the theocratic regime. Since 2006, Iranian authorities have stepped up executions in the restive province in what many Baluchis believe is a response to a spate of attacks by dissidents on government and security officials.
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Tire Company workers engaged with suppressive forces in Tehran
Saturday morning, the angry workers of Kian Tire Company of Tehran closed the main Tehran-Saveh highway and clashed with suppressive State security forces (SSF) and threw Molotov cocktails towards them. This demonstration has been going on since a few days ago in protest to not paying the workers’ salaries and suppression of the workers; the protesting workers set a big fire in front of the factory which could be seen from far away. Clerical regime fearing the spread of protests dispatched 1000 SSF agents to the place to suppress the workers, but resistant workers supported by the people and youth confronted the agents.
Monday, April 07, 2008
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Protest against high gas price in Sari (northern Iran)
A number of gas clients held a protesting gathering outside gas office building in Sari (northern Iranian city) on Sunday. The protesters protested against the announced gas price in their gas bills and said that the price was much higher than the usual price.
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Iran’s official inflation rate is rising ten times as fast as the national growth level.The Iranian government puts the inflation rate in the Persian calendar year which ended March 19 at above the 18 percent threshold. Most economic analysts who follow the state of Iran’s fitful economy put the real level at well above 20 percent.Still, even when using the officially-announced figures, the government’s economic track record offers a poor show, considering that the state generated an all-time-high income of $75 billion, mostly from its vast oil and natural gas resources. Government figures show that the inflation rate over the year that just ended rose more than five percent from the 13.6 percent over the previous year. This is while the national growth level increased from 6.2 percent to 6.7 percent – a half-a-percent jump. The tenfold increase of the inflation rate over the national growth level is a telling sign of the duress the economy has suffered with the policies employed by hard-line president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. This is not to say that Iran’s mismanaged economy had been prospering under previous governments. Most Iranians have continued to suffer economic hardships since the early days of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.Ahmadinejad’s 2005 presidential campaign ran with the platform that he would bring the nation’s wealth to every citizen’s dinner table. Yet, the average price of most household goods has increased by over 20 percent over the past year alone, leading to almost daily acts of anti-government protests across the country. Many ordinary Iranians would seem to prefer that money diverted to the regime’s nuclear program - which is supervised directly by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – is instead spent on domestic projects to slow down economic regression.
Protest against high gas price in Sari (northern Iran)
A number of gas clients held a protesting gathering outside gas office building in Sari (northern Iranian city) on Sunday. The protesters protested against the announced gas price in their gas bills and said that the price was much higher than the usual price.
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Iran’s official inflation rate is rising ten times as fast as the national growth level.The Iranian government puts the inflation rate in the Persian calendar year which ended March 19 at above the 18 percent threshold. Most economic analysts who follow the state of Iran’s fitful economy put the real level at well above 20 percent.Still, even when using the officially-announced figures, the government’s economic track record offers a poor show, considering that the state generated an all-time-high income of $75 billion, mostly from its vast oil and natural gas resources. Government figures show that the inflation rate over the year that just ended rose more than five percent from the 13.6 percent over the previous year. This is while the national growth level increased from 6.2 percent to 6.7 percent – a half-a-percent jump. The tenfold increase of the inflation rate over the national growth level is a telling sign of the duress the economy has suffered with the policies employed by hard-line president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. This is not to say that Iran’s mismanaged economy had been prospering under previous governments. Most Iranians have continued to suffer economic hardships since the early days of the 1979 Islamic Revolution.Ahmadinejad’s 2005 presidential campaign ran with the platform that he would bring the nation’s wealth to every citizen’s dinner table. Yet, the average price of most household goods has increased by over 20 percent over the past year alone, leading to almost daily acts of anti-government protests across the country. Many ordinary Iranians would seem to prefer that money diverted to the regime’s nuclear program - which is supervised directly by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei – is instead spent on domestic projects to slow down economic regression.
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