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National Council of Resistance of Iran in a statement said on 25th of Sep. That simultaneous with the session of the IAEA’s board of governors, which was reviewing the Iranian regime’s nuclear program, the Iranian resistance’s president-elect Maryam Rajavi urged the board of governors and the United Nations Security Council to act firmly and impose comprehensive sanctions against the regime, and deny it further opportunity to acquire nuclear weapons. Mrs Rajavi added that the new IAEA report leaves no room for any doubts on the military nature of the mullah’s nuclear program and their attempts to conceal it.
The U.N. Security Council on Saturday unanimously approved a resolution that reaffirms previous sanctions on Iranian regime for refusing on halt uranium enrichment for its nuclear program. Sanctions include an embargo on sales to Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs, and export ban on arms and travel bans and asset freezes that “target” specific Iranian officials, banks and other entities. The new resolution also calls on Tehran “to fully comply, without delay, with its obligations” and meet the requirements of the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency.
Over 800 workers rallied against government in south western Iranian city
More than 800 workers of Pars Paper Industry of Haft-Tappeh held a protesting gathering outside governorate building of Shoosh (southwestern Iranian city) in protest against two-month unpaid salaries. Also the workers of Haft-Tappeh Sugar Cane Company of Khuzestan province staged a sit-in protest in front of the company’s administration office, asking for their unpaid salaries.
1700 drivers staged strike in Ahwaz asking for lifting syndicate ban
More than 1700 drivers and truck owners staged strikes in Ahwaz. For more than two weeks the striking drivers, by parking their trucks in one of the main avenues, have been expressing their protests. They have been asking for resuming freight syndicate whose activities have been suspended since 14 months ago. On September 20, on the fifteenth day of strike, more than 600 drivers parked their trucks in this road as a sign of protest
Whipping in public for eating during Ramadan
According to a statement by the National Council of Resistance of Iran; Yahya Mohammad-Zadeh, the mullahs’ prosecutor in the northern city of Tabriz announced that those violating the strict Ramadan penal code for refraining from eating or drinking will be whipped in public if the violators do not comply with the rules in the holy month, reported the state-run news agency Fars on Sunday. 'After 20 days into the month of Ramadan more than 50 people were sentences to whipping for violating Ramadan’s rules,' Mohammad-Zadeh said.'However, we are prepared to enforce the law in public if necessary in the days remaining from Ramadan,' he said. According to article 638 of the Islamic criminal codes, eating in public is considered a crime punishable by law which includes whipping or fines. With the start of Ramadan in Iran, harsh treatment of those breaking the fast has added to people’s problems with the mullahs’ regime. In a figure given by the deputy chief of the SSF on September 11, nearly 26,000 citizens have already received warring citations for breaking their fast in the streets. In a directive issued a few days before Ramadan, the SSF ruled that no one is allowed to consume food or beverages in public.
Monday, September 22, 2008
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Girls beaten for eating during day in Ramadan
National Council of Resistance of Iran said in a statement: The State Security Forces, mullahs’ suppressive police beat up and arrested three girls in their early 20s for eating potato chips during the day in the month of Ramadan in a side street in Tehran, on September 13. The girls struggled to get away but the agents paid no attention and forced them into their car and transferred them to an unknown location. Since the start of Ramadan, SSF agents have been busy enforcing a law strictly forbidding eating and drinking in public regardless of age brackets. From a 60-year-old man in the western city of Khorramabad who was severely beaten in public for smoking a cigarette to under aged children chewing gum in a park while playing with the rest of the kids on their block. NCRI’s statement added: In a directive issued a few days before Ramadan, the SSF ruled that no one is allowed to consume food or beverages in public. Three weeks into the Ramadan in Iran, harsh treatment of those breaking the fast has added to people’s problems with the mullahs’ regime. In a figure given by the deputy chief of the SSF on September 9, nearly 26,000 citizens have already received warning citations for breaking their fast on the streets.
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500 prisoners on death row in the holy city of Mashhad
According to a statement by the National Council of Resistance of Iran, Gholam-Hossein Esmaili, Mashhad’s prosecutor said that “500 prisoners are facing the gallows.” This is the second time in less than a month that shocking news of increasing number of death row in mates surface in Iran. The first was that of the 150 prisoners soon to face gallows in the southern city of Dashtistan in the coastal province of Bushehr. Colonel Ardeshir Gholami, chief of the State Security Forces (SSF) in Dashtistan in an interview with the state-run daily Payam Asaloyeh, stated while defending the public execution of four prisoners in a Borazjan’s city squares also in Bushehr, on July 10, that “the people of this city have more than 150 murderers in jail facing the gallows. The debate is on publicizing the executions. People will see that there is order in the country and that the law will punish whoever commits a murder.' While the state-run media is calling public executions a violation of an order issued by Mahmoud Hashemi-Shahroudi, the chief of mullahs’ judiciary, the governor of the city of Dashtistan in recent days revealed that the executions have been conducted in public after securing a permit from Shahroudi. Gholamreza Keshtgar, the governor of Dashtistan, told Payam Asaloyeh, 'Execution in public has been banned unless approved by an order from the chief of the judiciary, or in special cases. In the city of Dashtistan, the authorities demanded a public execution and Shahroudi permitted.' On January 30, the speaker of the judiciary, five months before the execution of four prisoners in Borazjan, held a press conference where he discussed an order related to the ban on public executions by Shahroudi. According to Gholami, in July alone, twelve prisoners were executed in Borazjan with a population of 250,000.
Angry youth demolished 50 buses during an anti-regime demonstration in Qom
Taking advantage of gathering for a football game in the city of Qom, central Iranian city, the angry youth staged a demonstration and by crushing more than 50 governmental buses expressed their hatred toward the clerical regime. An official of the state bus company, Saeed Amrollahi, acknowledged to the extensive protest of the youth during the race between Qom’s Saba team and Tehran’s Independent team and said the destroyed buses were part of 87 buses that were used for this race by the governorate office.
World Bank: Iran fallen to 142nd rank regarding job liberty
According to Radio Farda website September 11, in its latest report about job liberty, the World Bank announced that the Iranian regime has fallen to the 142nd rank. The World Bank report says that in two thirds of the countries in the Middle East and North Africa, 27 economic reform programs have been carried out since June 2007 to June 2008; whereas there has been no economic reform during past year in Iran. According to World Bank report, Iran was at the 135th rank in previous World Bank ranking and the current statistics shows its steep fall regarding job liberty.
Girls beaten for eating during day in Ramadan
National Council of Resistance of Iran said in a statement: The State Security Forces, mullahs’ suppressive police beat up and arrested three girls in their early 20s for eating potato chips during the day in the month of Ramadan in a side street in Tehran, on September 13. The girls struggled to get away but the agents paid no attention and forced them into their car and transferred them to an unknown location. Since the start of Ramadan, SSF agents have been busy enforcing a law strictly forbidding eating and drinking in public regardless of age brackets. From a 60-year-old man in the western city of Khorramabad who was severely beaten in public for smoking a cigarette to under aged children chewing gum in a park while playing with the rest of the kids on their block. NCRI’s statement added: In a directive issued a few days before Ramadan, the SSF ruled that no one is allowed to consume food or beverages in public. Three weeks into the Ramadan in Iran, harsh treatment of those breaking the fast has added to people’s problems with the mullahs’ regime. In a figure given by the deputy chief of the SSF on September 9, nearly 26,000 citizens have already received warning citations for breaking their fast on the streets.
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500 prisoners on death row in the holy city of Mashhad
According to a statement by the National Council of Resistance of Iran, Gholam-Hossein Esmaili, Mashhad’s prosecutor said that “500 prisoners are facing the gallows.” This is the second time in less than a month that shocking news of increasing number of death row in mates surface in Iran. The first was that of the 150 prisoners soon to face gallows in the southern city of Dashtistan in the coastal province of Bushehr. Colonel Ardeshir Gholami, chief of the State Security Forces (SSF) in Dashtistan in an interview with the state-run daily Payam Asaloyeh, stated while defending the public execution of four prisoners in a Borazjan’s city squares also in Bushehr, on July 10, that “the people of this city have more than 150 murderers in jail facing the gallows. The debate is on publicizing the executions. People will see that there is order in the country and that the law will punish whoever commits a murder.' While the state-run media is calling public executions a violation of an order issued by Mahmoud Hashemi-Shahroudi, the chief of mullahs’ judiciary, the governor of the city of Dashtistan in recent days revealed that the executions have been conducted in public after securing a permit from Shahroudi. Gholamreza Keshtgar, the governor of Dashtistan, told Payam Asaloyeh, 'Execution in public has been banned unless approved by an order from the chief of the judiciary, or in special cases. In the city of Dashtistan, the authorities demanded a public execution and Shahroudi permitted.' On January 30, the speaker of the judiciary, five months before the execution of four prisoners in Borazjan, held a press conference where he discussed an order related to the ban on public executions by Shahroudi. According to Gholami, in July alone, twelve prisoners were executed in Borazjan with a population of 250,000.
Angry youth demolished 50 buses during an anti-regime demonstration in Qom
Taking advantage of gathering for a football game in the city of Qom, central Iranian city, the angry youth staged a demonstration and by crushing more than 50 governmental buses expressed their hatred toward the clerical regime. An official of the state bus company, Saeed Amrollahi, acknowledged to the extensive protest of the youth during the race between Qom’s Saba team and Tehran’s Independent team and said the destroyed buses were part of 87 buses that were used for this race by the governorate office.
World Bank: Iran fallen to 142nd rank regarding job liberty
According to Radio Farda website September 11, in its latest report about job liberty, the World Bank announced that the Iranian regime has fallen to the 142nd rank. The World Bank report says that in two thirds of the countries in the Middle East and North Africa, 27 economic reform programs have been carried out since June 2007 to June 2008; whereas there has been no economic reform during past year in Iran. According to World Bank report, Iran was at the 135th rank in previous World Bank ranking and the current statistics shows its steep fall regarding job liberty.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
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Iranians stage a sit-in outside UN headquarters asking for Ashraf residents’ rights Supporters of the Iranian resistance and families of Ashraf residents in New York staged a demonstration and started a sit-in in front of the United Nations headquarters asking UN Secretary General to guarantee protection and rights of Ashraf residents according to the Fourth Geneva Convention and the international law. At the beginning of the sit-in, participants described the threats facing the Ashraf residents by Iran’s clerical regime and referred to the legal status of Ashraf residents based on international conventions and laws and asked for immediate measure of the UN Secretary General for guaranteeing these rights.The speakers of the sit-in were Lloyd Land, the progressive reverend from Staten Island, Moslem Eskandar Filabi, Mohammad Qorbani, Iranian national champion wrestler and former world champion, representatives from Ashraf residents’ families and the American Committee for support of Ashraf Residents.Reverend Lloyd Land said in his speech: How can somebody trust a regime that arrests 1600 persons in one night? How could it be trusted not to conspire against its main opposition and how it could be guaranteed protection of that regime’s opposition? Reminding historical instances of human tragedies, he stressed on the United Nations responsibility on this issue and asked UN to prevent a human tragedy.Participants delivered a letter addressed for Ban Ki-moon regarding asking his immediate intervention for prevention of Ashraf residents and prevention of a human catastrophe to the bureau of the UN Secretary General.
Tehran targets journalists
The Guardian, September 11, reported that the Iranian authorities are cracking down on media freedom, especially reporters who dare to cover the persecution of ethnic minorities.The escalating persecution of journalists in Iran is symptomatic of the regime’s fundamental weakness, despite its macho posturing and tyrannical repression. President Ahmadinejad and his clerical cronies are afraid. They have concluded that censorship of the media is necessary to save their ugly regime. They are also prepared to jail and, in some cases, execute reporters who dare to tell the truth about their tyranny.In one sense, Ahmadinejad is right. The truth is dangerous. If Iranians knew about the massive scale of human rights abuses by their government it would arouse huge popular discontent. For this reason, Tehran is determined to keep people in the dark. It dare not allow the open flow of news and information. Such openness would reveal the full extent of its savage misrule, including the torture of students, arrest of trade union leaders, beating of peaceful protesters and suppression of women’s rights campaigners.Much of Ahmadinejad’s most brutal suppression is heaped on the country’s minority nationalities, such as the Arabs, Balochs and Kurds. Most Iranians would be aghast if they knew about the barbarism of Tehran’s ethnic persecution. Knowing the facts could spark an uprising. That’s why Ahmadinejad is clamping down.
A 19-year-old sentenced to death
National Council Resistance of Iran said in a statement on Sep. 10: In the most recent death sentence passed on for juveniles, a 19-year-old indentified only by his first name, Hossein, soon will face gallows for the alleged crime committed when he was 17. In a letter published by his attorney, Hossein says that under torture he was forced to confess to a murder charge he had never committed. Despite his letter on September 5th the regime’s Supreme Court upheld the lower court’s ruling that he was guilty of the crime and should be put to death. The Iranian regime is the only government in the world which executes minors despite being a party to all conventions forbidding it. Since the start of the year six juveniles were hanged in Iran; the most recent being that of Reza Hejazi and Behnam Zare. Both cases brought condemnation from the international community. In a statement the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) slapped the inhuman mullahs’ regime for violating 'international law' by executing juveniles.The human rights body expressed grave concern over recent execution of minors and the imminent danger of execution facing two other young men.'Reza Hejazi is believed to have been executed on August 19 and Behnam Zare a week later on August 26. It says these young people are reported to have been 15 and 16 years old when they committed their crimes,' said the UN agency.
Hundreds of workers rallied in Ahwaz to protest 6 months unpaid salaries
Chanting 'death to despot', hundreds of Ahwaz pipe-making company workers rallied in the city. The demonstrators asked for their last 6 months unpaid salaries. This rally took place on Sunday and started from Martyrs Square towards Naderi cross section. The suppressive State Security Force agents surrounded the demonstrators to prevent spreading out of the rally and joining the people to it.
IAEA probe stalls, Iran slowly boosts atom enrichment
Reuters reported on Sep 12 that a U.N. watchdog inquiry into whether Iran covertly researched how to assemble an atom bomb appears to have stalled while Tehran slowly but steadily builds up a sensitive uranium-enrichment program, diplomats say.They expect this to be reflected in an International Atomic Energy Agency report on Monday at a time of faltering pressure on Iran, with Russia and Western powers at loggerheads over Georgia and the Bush administration on the way out.In May, the IAEA said Iran seemed to be withholding information needed to explain intelligence allegations that it had fused projects to process uranium, test high explosives and modify a missile cone in a way suitable for a nuclear warhead.IAEA Director Mohamed ElBaradei called on Iran then for 'full disclosure' -- namely, going beyond flat denials without providing access to sites, documentation or relevant officials for interviews to substantiate their stance.Follow-up talks were held in Vienna and Tehran over the summer, but appear to have hit a wall, said diplomats accredited to the IAEA, who asked for anonymity because they are not authorized to speak publicly on confidential matters.'The word out is -- no progress on clarifying possible military dimensions to the program,' said a European diplomat who, like others, cautioned that a complete picture would emerge only in the pending report by ElBaradei. Two diplomats said Iran refused IAEA access in August to workshops possibly involved in redesigning missile cones.'We are told the report will be negative,' said another diplomat. Others said Iran had cut cooperation with the IAEA to the minimum under its nuclear safeguards accord with the agency. That means allowing routine, limited inspections of declared nuclear sites to go on, but not granting extra access Iran says would compromise its security and involve solely conventional military installations beyond the IAEA’s writ.'They don’t want visits to national defense sites,' said a senior diplomat versed in Iran-IAEA dealings. 'It’s not just a simple tale of Iranian stonewalling. But there’s a stalemate. The veracity of the alleged (bomb)
Western powers could seek a resolution at the September 22-26 meeting of the IAEA’s 35-nation Board of Governors demanding Iranian compliance, depending on how downbeat the report is, but such pressure would be largely symbolic.Iran says it is enriching uranium not to yield atom bomb fuel, as Western powers suspect, but only to run nuclear power stations so it can export more of its oil and gas wealth.But the Islamic Republic hid enrichment work until Iranian opposition exiles exposed it in 2002. IAEA investigations since then have been unable to verify the activity is wholly peaceful because of restricted access and a lack of Iranian transparency.
Iran conceals significant parts of their nuclear development programme
Daily Telegraph, wrote that according to the latest western intelligence reports, Iranian regime appears to have intensified its efforts to conceal significant parts of its nuclear development programme. Telegraph added: US spy satellites have detected several installations that intelligence officials believe are being used by Iran for a nuclear project that has not been declared to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN-sponsored body responsible for monitoring Iran’s nuclear programme. One facility is located in the Amir Abid residential district of Tehran, where western nuclear experts believe the Iranians are conducting experiments with the sophisticated P2 centrifuge. Another suspicious site, whose existence British officials recently made public, is at Darhavin in south-west Iran, 200 miles from the Bushehr nuclear power plant. After Foreign Office officials expressed their concerns about it, the Iranians acknowledged they were building another nuclear reactor. Suspicions that Iran has resumed work on its clandestine nuclear weapons programme have deepened after the discovery by nuclear inspectors that significant quantities of enriched uranium are unaccounted for at Iran’s uranium conversion facility at Isfahan, where raw uranium 'yellow cake' undergoes the first stage of the enrichment cycle. So far, the Iranians have failed to come up with an adequate explanation for these discrepancies, and until they do the drumbeats of war are unlikely to subside.
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Associated France Press reported that Iran has shut down more than 200 eateries and warned 26000 people for violating a ban on eating and offering food before sunset during Ramadan, Iran's deputy police chief was quoted as saying. "Since the beginning of Ramadan more than 26000 people, who had eaten in public, or vendors selling food during the day, have received a warning in 27 provinces," Kargozaran newspaper quoted Hossein Zolfaghari as saying. He added that "208 businesses have been shut down in this regard" during the holy month of Ramadan, when Muslims are required to abstain from eating, drinking, smoking and having sex from dawn to dusk. Iranian police issued a stern warning before the September 2 start of Ramadan to crack down on businesses selling food -- with the exception of supermarkets and grocery stores -- before the sunset breaking of the fast. They also said people eating in public would be confronted. For more than a year, Iranian police patrols have been ubiquitous on the streets to enforce a nationwide crackdown on appearance and behaviour deemed as immoral or un-Islamic.
Iranians stage a sit-in outside UN headquarters asking for Ashraf residents’ rights Supporters of the Iranian resistance and families of Ashraf residents in New York staged a demonstration and started a sit-in in front of the United Nations headquarters asking UN Secretary General to guarantee protection and rights of Ashraf residents according to the Fourth Geneva Convention and the international law. At the beginning of the sit-in, participants described the threats facing the Ashraf residents by Iran’s clerical regime and referred to the legal status of Ashraf residents based on international conventions and laws and asked for immediate measure of the UN Secretary General for guaranteeing these rights.The speakers of the sit-in were Lloyd Land, the progressive reverend from Staten Island, Moslem Eskandar Filabi, Mohammad Qorbani, Iranian national champion wrestler and former world champion, representatives from Ashraf residents’ families and the American Committee for support of Ashraf Residents.Reverend Lloyd Land said in his speech: How can somebody trust a regime that arrests 1600 persons in one night? How could it be trusted not to conspire against its main opposition and how it could be guaranteed protection of that regime’s opposition? Reminding historical instances of human tragedies, he stressed on the United Nations responsibility on this issue and asked UN to prevent a human tragedy.Participants delivered a letter addressed for Ban Ki-moon regarding asking his immediate intervention for prevention of Ashraf residents and prevention of a human catastrophe to the bureau of the UN Secretary General.
Tehran targets journalists
The Guardian, September 11, reported that the Iranian authorities are cracking down on media freedom, especially reporters who dare to cover the persecution of ethnic minorities.The escalating persecution of journalists in Iran is symptomatic of the regime’s fundamental weakness, despite its macho posturing and tyrannical repression. President Ahmadinejad and his clerical cronies are afraid. They have concluded that censorship of the media is necessary to save their ugly regime. They are also prepared to jail and, in some cases, execute reporters who dare to tell the truth about their tyranny.In one sense, Ahmadinejad is right. The truth is dangerous. If Iranians knew about the massive scale of human rights abuses by their government it would arouse huge popular discontent. For this reason, Tehran is determined to keep people in the dark. It dare not allow the open flow of news and information. Such openness would reveal the full extent of its savage misrule, including the torture of students, arrest of trade union leaders, beating of peaceful protesters and suppression of women’s rights campaigners.Much of Ahmadinejad’s most brutal suppression is heaped on the country’s minority nationalities, such as the Arabs, Balochs and Kurds. Most Iranians would be aghast if they knew about the barbarism of Tehran’s ethnic persecution. Knowing the facts could spark an uprising. That’s why Ahmadinejad is clamping down.
A 19-year-old sentenced to death
National Council Resistance of Iran said in a statement on Sep. 10: In the most recent death sentence passed on for juveniles, a 19-year-old indentified only by his first name, Hossein, soon will face gallows for the alleged crime committed when he was 17. In a letter published by his attorney, Hossein says that under torture he was forced to confess to a murder charge he had never committed. Despite his letter on September 5th the regime’s Supreme Court upheld the lower court’s ruling that he was guilty of the crime and should be put to death. The Iranian regime is the only government in the world which executes minors despite being a party to all conventions forbidding it. Since the start of the year six juveniles were hanged in Iran; the most recent being that of Reza Hejazi and Behnam Zare. Both cases brought condemnation from the international community. In a statement the office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) slapped the inhuman mullahs’ regime for violating 'international law' by executing juveniles.The human rights body expressed grave concern over recent execution of minors and the imminent danger of execution facing two other young men.'Reza Hejazi is believed to have been executed on August 19 and Behnam Zare a week later on August 26. It says these young people are reported to have been 15 and 16 years old when they committed their crimes,' said the UN agency.
Hundreds of workers rallied in Ahwaz to protest 6 months unpaid salaries
Chanting 'death to despot', hundreds of Ahwaz pipe-making company workers rallied in the city. The demonstrators asked for their last 6 months unpaid salaries. This rally took place on Sunday and started from Martyrs Square towards Naderi cross section. The suppressive State Security Force agents surrounded the demonstrators to prevent spreading out of the rally and joining the people to it.
IAEA probe stalls, Iran slowly boosts atom enrichment
Reuters reported on Sep 12 that a U.N. watchdog inquiry into whether Iran covertly researched how to assemble an atom bomb appears to have stalled while Tehran slowly but steadily builds up a sensitive uranium-enrichment program, diplomats say.They expect this to be reflected in an International Atomic Energy Agency report on Monday at a time of faltering pressure on Iran, with Russia and Western powers at loggerheads over Georgia and the Bush administration on the way out.In May, the IAEA said Iran seemed to be withholding information needed to explain intelligence allegations that it had fused projects to process uranium, test high explosives and modify a missile cone in a way suitable for a nuclear warhead.IAEA Director Mohamed ElBaradei called on Iran then for 'full disclosure' -- namely, going beyond flat denials without providing access to sites, documentation or relevant officials for interviews to substantiate their stance.Follow-up talks were held in Vienna and Tehran over the summer, but appear to have hit a wall, said diplomats accredited to the IAEA, who asked for anonymity because they are not authorized to speak publicly on confidential matters.'The word out is -- no progress on clarifying possible military dimensions to the program,' said a European diplomat who, like others, cautioned that a complete picture would emerge only in the pending report by ElBaradei. Two diplomats said Iran refused IAEA access in August to workshops possibly involved in redesigning missile cones.'We are told the report will be negative,' said another diplomat. Others said Iran had cut cooperation with the IAEA to the minimum under its nuclear safeguards accord with the agency. That means allowing routine, limited inspections of declared nuclear sites to go on, but not granting extra access Iran says would compromise its security and involve solely conventional military installations beyond the IAEA’s writ.'They don’t want visits to national defense sites,' said a senior diplomat versed in Iran-IAEA dealings. 'It’s not just a simple tale of Iranian stonewalling. But there’s a stalemate. The veracity of the alleged (bomb)
Western powers could seek a resolution at the September 22-26 meeting of the IAEA’s 35-nation Board of Governors demanding Iranian compliance, depending on how downbeat the report is, but such pressure would be largely symbolic.Iran says it is enriching uranium not to yield atom bomb fuel, as Western powers suspect, but only to run nuclear power stations so it can export more of its oil and gas wealth.But the Islamic Republic hid enrichment work until Iranian opposition exiles exposed it in 2002. IAEA investigations since then have been unable to verify the activity is wholly peaceful because of restricted access and a lack of Iranian transparency.
Iran conceals significant parts of their nuclear development programme
Daily Telegraph, wrote that according to the latest western intelligence reports, Iranian regime appears to have intensified its efforts to conceal significant parts of its nuclear development programme. Telegraph added: US spy satellites have detected several installations that intelligence officials believe are being used by Iran for a nuclear project that has not been declared to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the UN-sponsored body responsible for monitoring Iran’s nuclear programme. One facility is located in the Amir Abid residential district of Tehran, where western nuclear experts believe the Iranians are conducting experiments with the sophisticated P2 centrifuge. Another suspicious site, whose existence British officials recently made public, is at Darhavin in south-west Iran, 200 miles from the Bushehr nuclear power plant. After Foreign Office officials expressed their concerns about it, the Iranians acknowledged they were building another nuclear reactor. Suspicions that Iran has resumed work on its clandestine nuclear weapons programme have deepened after the discovery by nuclear inspectors that significant quantities of enriched uranium are unaccounted for at Iran’s uranium conversion facility at Isfahan, where raw uranium 'yellow cake' undergoes the first stage of the enrichment cycle. So far, the Iranians have failed to come up with an adequate explanation for these discrepancies, and until they do the drumbeats of war are unlikely to subside.
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Associated France Press reported that Iran has shut down more than 200 eateries and warned 26000 people for violating a ban on eating and offering food before sunset during Ramadan, Iran's deputy police chief was quoted as saying. "Since the beginning of Ramadan more than 26000 people, who had eaten in public, or vendors selling food during the day, have received a warning in 27 provinces," Kargozaran newspaper quoted Hossein Zolfaghari as saying. He added that "208 businesses have been shut down in this regard" during the holy month of Ramadan, when Muslims are required to abstain from eating, drinking, smoking and having sex from dawn to dusk. Iranian police issued a stern warning before the September 2 start of Ramadan to crack down on businesses selling food -- with the exception of supermarkets and grocery stores -- before the sunset breaking of the fast. They also said people eating in public would be confronted. For more than a year, Iranian police patrols have been ubiquitous on the streets to enforce a nationwide crackdown on appearance and behaviour deemed as immoral or un-Islamic.
Sunday, September 07, 2008
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European Parliament Resolution on executions in Iran and protection of Ashraf residents
The European Parliament approved an important resolution on “Executions in Iran' and the necessity of protection of Ashraf residents according to the Fourth Geneva Convention. In the course of discussing the resolution, the Europe’s Commissionaire said:, we believe Geneva Convention must be put into effect regarding Camp AshrafParts of this resolution read: “The European Parliament,having regard to its previous resolutions on Iran, notably those concerning human rights and in particular the resolution on the execution of juvenile offenders in Iran adopted on 19 June 2008, having regard to the Declaration of 18 July 2008 by the Presidency on behalf of the European Union concerning application of the death penalty in Iran,having regard to the Declaration of 29 July, 2008, by the Presidency on behalf of the European Union on the execution of 29 people in Evin prison in Iran,whereas there is reason for concern that members and associates of the Iranian opposition who are regrouped and protected in Camp Ashraf in Northern Iraq by US-led Multi National Forces under Article 27 of the IV(4th) Geneva Convention are under threat of being expelled or forcibly returned to Iran, where they could face heavy persecution and possibly even the death penalty, Calls on Iraqi and US authorities not to forcibly return to Iran any Iranian opposition members, refugees and asylum seekers who would be at serious risk of persecution and to notably work together with the UNHCR and others to find a satisfactory long term solution to the situation of those currently in Camp Ashraf; Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Government and Parliament of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Council, the Commission, the High Representative for the CFSP, the governments and parliaments of the Member States, the Secretary General of the United Nations, the UN Commission on Human Rights, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the Government of the United States and of Iraq.
Iranian sit-in in Geneva for Ashraf protection continues for 12th day
In the twelfth day of Geneva sit-in which coincided with September 5, anniversary of foundation of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), the Iranians and participant families of Ashraf residents, persisted on their commitment for protection of Ashraf residents. Speakers such as Cary Pollard, former member of British House of Commons and Henrick Yari, former Swedish MP and a member of committee of Friends of Free Iran in Sweden stressed that on the protection of the PMOI under the Geneva 4th convention and added that the transfer of the Ashraf protection to the government of Iraq is a violation of laws and will lead to massacre of the PMOI members. Other speakers were Eric Walberg, attorney and member of Committee of Friends of Free Iran in Sweden, Asghar Adibi, member of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, and former member of Iranian National Soccer team, Mohsen Azudanlou, member of the National Council of Resistance of Iran. During sit-in, a delegation of participating political personalities and delegations of the participant families of Ashraf residents referred to the UN High Commissionaire for Refugees, bureau of UN High Commissionaire for Human Rights, and the US delegation in UN in Geneva and informed them the demands of sit-in.
Stopping "mal-veiling" in the airports
National Council of Resistance of Iran said in a statement: The State Security Forces (SSF) - mullahs’ suppressive police- at the airports stopped 128 women passengers from boarding the planes. In addition, it has given 171,000 oral warnings and took another 6,799 written commitments from the passengers before they began their journey for not violating the mullahs’ dress codes again, the state-run news agency Entekhab reported on Saturday. 'Despite seasonal travel pikes, we have been able to enforce the law at the airports nationwide,' Brig. Gen. Mahmoud Botshekan, the airports’ SSF chief was quoted as saying to Entekhab. NCRI added: The so-called 'boosting public security plan' was first introduced in April 2007 to combat popular uprisings. Mass street arrests of hundreds of thousands of women and youth under the pretext of 'mal-veiling' and cracking down on 'thugs and hooligans' followed. In the same period, more than 300 prisoners were sent to gallows.
Crackdown on internet cafes in Sanandaj
NCRI - The State Security Forces (SSF) - mullahs’ suppressive police - Small Businesses Task Force, cracked down on internet cafes in the western city of Sanandaj on Thursday. The police units virtually tore down the cafes into pieces and beat up the customers primarily youths spending time in these places in summer leisure time. The SSF Chastity Units in line with the so-called 'boosting public security plan,' effective April 2007, make arrests of the youngsters deemed appearing immodest in public.The SSF in 2007 closed down 24 Internet cafes and other coffee shops, arresting 23 people, state-run media reported then. Colonel Nader Sarkari, a SSF official told IRNA news agency that in a single day 435 coffee shops have been inspected, 170 had been warned and '23 people were detained', adding 11 of them were women in Tehran. 'Using immoral computer games, storing obscene photos ... and the presence of women wearing improper dresses were among the reasons why they have been closed down,' Sarkari said. The cafe crackdowns coincide at that time with a new wave of suppression of women under the pretext of 'improper dress'.
People clashed with security forces in Shiraz
More than 200 people of Shiraz clashed with the suppressive agents of State Security Force (SSF) in protest to the arrest and mayhem of a young girl. According to received reports, the SSF agents intended to arrest a young girl in Shiraz on Thursday but when they were faced with her resistance and protesting outcry, they beat her. The people watching this scene attacked the SSF vehicle and clashed with the agents.The anti-riot agents shot at air and beat the people; they arrested the girl and a number of the youth who confronted against them.
European Parliament Resolution on executions in Iran and protection of Ashraf residents
The European Parliament approved an important resolution on “Executions in Iran' and the necessity of protection of Ashraf residents according to the Fourth Geneva Convention. In the course of discussing the resolution, the Europe’s Commissionaire said:, we believe Geneva Convention must be put into effect regarding Camp AshrafParts of this resolution read: “The European Parliament,having regard to its previous resolutions on Iran, notably those concerning human rights and in particular the resolution on the execution of juvenile offenders in Iran adopted on 19 June 2008, having regard to the Declaration of 18 July 2008 by the Presidency on behalf of the European Union concerning application of the death penalty in Iran,having regard to the Declaration of 29 July, 2008, by the Presidency on behalf of the European Union on the execution of 29 people in Evin prison in Iran,whereas there is reason for concern that members and associates of the Iranian opposition who are regrouped and protected in Camp Ashraf in Northern Iraq by US-led Multi National Forces under Article 27 of the IV(4th) Geneva Convention are under threat of being expelled or forcibly returned to Iran, where they could face heavy persecution and possibly even the death penalty, Calls on Iraqi and US authorities not to forcibly return to Iran any Iranian opposition members, refugees and asylum seekers who would be at serious risk of persecution and to notably work together with the UNHCR and others to find a satisfactory long term solution to the situation of those currently in Camp Ashraf; Instructs its President to forward this resolution to the Government and Parliament of the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Council, the Commission, the High Representative for the CFSP, the governments and parliaments of the Member States, the Secretary General of the United Nations, the UN Commission on Human Rights, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the Government of the United States and of Iraq.
Iranian sit-in in Geneva for Ashraf protection continues for 12th day
In the twelfth day of Geneva sit-in which coincided with September 5, anniversary of foundation of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), the Iranians and participant families of Ashraf residents, persisted on their commitment for protection of Ashraf residents. Speakers such as Cary Pollard, former member of British House of Commons and Henrick Yari, former Swedish MP and a member of committee of Friends of Free Iran in Sweden stressed that on the protection of the PMOI under the Geneva 4th convention and added that the transfer of the Ashraf protection to the government of Iraq is a violation of laws and will lead to massacre of the PMOI members. Other speakers were Eric Walberg, attorney and member of Committee of Friends of Free Iran in Sweden, Asghar Adibi, member of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, and former member of Iranian National Soccer team, Mohsen Azudanlou, member of the National Council of Resistance of Iran. During sit-in, a delegation of participating political personalities and delegations of the participant families of Ashraf residents referred to the UN High Commissionaire for Refugees, bureau of UN High Commissionaire for Human Rights, and the US delegation in UN in Geneva and informed them the demands of sit-in.
Stopping "mal-veiling" in the airports
National Council of Resistance of Iran said in a statement: The State Security Forces (SSF) - mullahs’ suppressive police- at the airports stopped 128 women passengers from boarding the planes. In addition, it has given 171,000 oral warnings and took another 6,799 written commitments from the passengers before they began their journey for not violating the mullahs’ dress codes again, the state-run news agency Entekhab reported on Saturday. 'Despite seasonal travel pikes, we have been able to enforce the law at the airports nationwide,' Brig. Gen. Mahmoud Botshekan, the airports’ SSF chief was quoted as saying to Entekhab. NCRI added: The so-called 'boosting public security plan' was first introduced in April 2007 to combat popular uprisings. Mass street arrests of hundreds of thousands of women and youth under the pretext of 'mal-veiling' and cracking down on 'thugs and hooligans' followed. In the same period, more than 300 prisoners were sent to gallows.
Crackdown on internet cafes in Sanandaj
NCRI - The State Security Forces (SSF) - mullahs’ suppressive police - Small Businesses Task Force, cracked down on internet cafes in the western city of Sanandaj on Thursday. The police units virtually tore down the cafes into pieces and beat up the customers primarily youths spending time in these places in summer leisure time. The SSF Chastity Units in line with the so-called 'boosting public security plan,' effective April 2007, make arrests of the youngsters deemed appearing immodest in public.The SSF in 2007 closed down 24 Internet cafes and other coffee shops, arresting 23 people, state-run media reported then. Colonel Nader Sarkari, a SSF official told IRNA news agency that in a single day 435 coffee shops have been inspected, 170 had been warned and '23 people were detained', adding 11 of them were women in Tehran. 'Using immoral computer games, storing obscene photos ... and the presence of women wearing improper dresses were among the reasons why they have been closed down,' Sarkari said. The cafe crackdowns coincide at that time with a new wave of suppression of women under the pretext of 'improper dress'.
People clashed with security forces in Shiraz
More than 200 people of Shiraz clashed with the suppressive agents of State Security Force (SSF) in protest to the arrest and mayhem of a young girl. According to received reports, the SSF agents intended to arrest a young girl in Shiraz on Thursday but when they were faced with her resistance and protesting outcry, they beat her. The people watching this scene attacked the SSF vehicle and clashed with the agents.The anti-riot agents shot at air and beat the people; they arrested the girl and a number of the youth who confronted against them.
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