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Protesters denounce Ahmadinejad outside UN

Associated France Press reported that many of Iranian origin protested Thursday outside the United Nations where the country’s President Mahmoud Ahamdinejad was attending the UN General Assembly. They chanted ’Ahamdinejad is a terrorist’ and ’Viva Rajavi,’ a reference to Maryam Rajavi, head of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, a coalition of exiled groups opposed to the Islamic regime in Tehran. ’It is time for the international community to stop dealing with Ahamdinejad and finally recognize and empower the Opposition, so that the Iranian people can finally get the democratic change it deserves,’ said Ali Safavi, a member of the coalition. ’We want democracy, not barbaric theocracy,’ said Henry Anavian, an Iranian living in New York and affiliated with the Ma Hastim group aimed at raising awareness of human rights issues in Iran. ’We just want the United Nations to stop dealing with Ahamdinejad. He doesn’t represent the Iranian people’. The protest included a street performance depicting people stained with fake blood and scenes of hanging and stoning. Some people carried the tri-colored flags with a lion sun, used in Iran before the Islamic revolution. Many of the demonstrators were affiliated with the People’s Mujahedeen Organization of Iran, the main group in the NCRI. The PMOI is officially listed as a foreign terrorist organization in the United States, although a judge ruled in July that it should be removed from the blacklist.

EU: Ahamdinejad 9/11 stance ’outrageous and unacceptable’

Mahmoud Ahamdinejad’s suggestion that the US government was involved in the September 11 attacks was ’outrageous and unacceptable,’ the European Union said on Friday. EU foreign affairs chief Catherine Ashton said that Ahamdinejad’s assertions at the United Nations general assembly on Thursday ’that the United States was in any way responsible for the 9/11 terrorist attacks or that the majority of people in the US believe this to be the case, is outrageous and unacceptable.’ ’It is for this reason that all representatives of the 27 nations of the EU walked out,’ she underlined, after Europe joined a US-led Western walkout in Manhatten. Barak Obama called Ahamadi nejad’s remarks as “hatefull” and “offensive”.

Iran’s nuclear agency trying to stop computer worm

Associated Press reported: Iranian media reports say the country’s nuclear agency is trying to combat a complex computer worm that has affected industrial sites in Iran and is capable of taking over power plants.The semi-official ISNA news agency says Iranian nuclear experts met this week to discuss how to remove the malicious computer code, dubbed Stuxnet, which can take over systems that control the inner workings of industrial plants. Experts in Germany discovered the worm in July. It has since shown up in attacks in Iran, Indonesia, India and the U.S. Friday’s report said the malware had spread throughout Iran, but did not elaborate. Foreign media reports have speculated the worm was aimed at disrupting Iran’s first nuclear power plant, which is to go online in October.

Iran: on the eve of new academic year, ten prisoners including a woman hanged in five days

As schools and universities are opening for the new academic year in Iran, the regime has increased the number of executions. Just in the period of Sept. 16 to 20^th, ten prisoners including a woman were hanged in central city of Yazd, southern city of Ahwaz, Varamin (south of the capital Tehran) and northern city of Shirvan. The new wave of hangings in various Iranian cities is a part of Iranian regime’s widespread preparations to confront anti-regime protests by students and youth.

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Mohabat Mahmoudi’s death sentence confirmed

Human Rights News Agency of Iran- RAHANA اreported on Friday that in a phone conversation, Mohabat Mahmoudi has advised that her death sentence has been confirmed and that her execution is imminent. According to the Kurdistan Human Rights Agency, in a letter sent to the organization, she has requested the appointment of a new attorney and has asked the public and Human Rights Organizations to fight for her freedom on her behalf. She has been incarcerated at the Urumiyeh Central prison since 2001, accused of murdering the man that had attempted her rape.This married woman who has endured 9 years of imprisonment is on the verge of execution and her death sentence has been confirmed by the Supreme Court. On July 11th she was advised of the court’s decision of a death sentence and that the judgment will be carried out by the judiciary courts. According to news sources, both wives of the murdered man are against Mohabat Mahmoudi’s death sentence but his brother is seeking her execution.

Two hanged in Iran by the clerical regime

Natioanl Council of Resistance of Iran reported: The Iranian regime has hanged two more people on Thursday, according to Harana news agency. A 25 year old was hanged at Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison after being lashed 174 times. According to the regime’s prosecutor, he was sentenced to two executions, 25 years in prison, 174 lashes and monetary fines. NCRI added: Another prisoner was hanged in North Khorasan province. According to the state-run Fars news agency, the unnamed individual was arrested in Shirvan.

Three young Balouchis are facing execution

HRANA reported that three young Balouchis named: Nasser Shahbakhsh, La’al Mohammad Shahbakhsh and Khaled Shahbkash who haved been arrested and charged with having connections with an armed political group, are facing executions. According to HRANA, reporting from “Balouchestan Human Rights Activists” these individuals, mainly having been related with “Haaj Khodabakhsh Shahbakh”, the leader of an armed political group opposed to the regime, who was detained six months ago, are facing executions. Following repeated struggles, Nasser’s family have been able to visit with him in jail, and found him in a very grave conditifon. They declared that due to having been treated harsh and having kept him in unsuitable location, Nasser has developed severe breathing problems. Along with the family of the other two detainees, Nasser’s family are concerned that their fate will come down to the same as one of the relatives of (Shir Mohammad Shahbakhsh) who was arrested simultaneously with these three and died under torture in Zahedan intelligence detention center.

Human Rights activist Shiva Nazar-Ahari sentenced to 6 years in prison and 76 Lashes

The 26th Branch of the Revolutionary Court issued its verdict against Shiva Nazar Ahari. Shiva Nazar Ahari, journalist and human rights activist was sentenced to 76 lashings and 6 years imprisonment at Izeh prison a remote city in province of Kurdistan, by the Revolutionary Court’s 26th branch under the supervision of Judge Pir Abassi. This 26 year old human rights activist who has been incarcerated in Evin prison for a year was sentenced by the court with charges of being a Mohareb (Enemy of God), colluding against the national security of the country, disturbing public order and propaganda against the regime. Shiva Nazar Ahari, journalist and member of the Committee of Human Rights Reporters, has spent more than 100 days in solitary confinement during her one year imprisonment. She was arrested in 2009 and transferred to Evin prison one day after the controversial elections. Nazar Ahari was later temporarily released after 3 months on a twenty thousand dollar bail. She was rearrested and sent to prison on December 20th, 2009 on her way to attending the funeral services being held for Ayatollah Montazeri in the city of Qom. Nazar Ahari was recently granted temporary release from jail based on a fifty thousand dollar bail.

Attack on Prisoners in Iran is aimed to eliminate them

National Council of Resistance of Iran said on Sep. 10 that the officials of Gohardasht prison, Eastern Tehran, attacked Mr. Saleh Kohandel, a political prisoner in Ward 4, in order to strangle him. Thanks to the intervention of other prisoners, he was saved from certain death. Also on Monday, September 6, in a bloody brawl in Ward 1 initiated by dangerous prisoners instigated by the regime, at least seven prisoners were seriously injured. Four of them had to be hospitalized outside the prison. A prisoner, identified as Javad Zare, was badly wounded with dagger and one of his eyes had to be removed in prison hospital. On September 7, Abbas Tavakoli Borazjani of Ward 6 of the same prison was seriously wounded in the left eye and left hand by thugs recruited by the regime. He is being refused any medical attention. He was a victim of this vicious assault because he had supported the political prisoners and his association with them. In 2008, he was arrested with his entire family. Accused of confrontation with security forces, he was sentenced to death. His brother Hussein, 33, died under torture in prison. The regime’s agents have forced his mother to sign a paper saying that her son had died of kidney complications and she would not complain. NCRI added: Incarcerating political prisoners with dangerous prisoners and make them the target of ferocious attacks to eliminate them, are common methods in detention centers of the regime. These attacks are planned and directed entirely by the authorities. Ali Haj Kazem, governor of Gohardasht prison, his deputy Ali Mohammadi, director of security and prison intelligence Kermani, and Faraji and his assistant are some of the regime’s henchmen involved in these atrocities. During these attacks, the guards shut the gates of the wards so that the thugs can beat the prisoners to death. In the end, the Revolutionary Guards collect the corpses. None of the assailants would ever be interrogated for their crimes.

Iran stoning sentence suspension not enough

Amnesty International released a statement on Sep. 8 and said that the organization welcomes an Iranian official’s statement that Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani’s sentence of stoning to death has been temporarily suspended but urged the authorities to overturn the death sentence against her entirely. ’This news does not go far enough,’ said Hassiba Hadj Sahraoui, Deputy Director of the Middle East and North Africa Programme at Amnesty International. ’We hope this is not merely a cynical move by the authorities to deflect international criticism, as this temporary suspension by the Head of the Judiciary could be lifted at any time, leaving Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani at risk of execution, particularly if the current judicial review of her case results in a confirmation of her sentence. “The Iranian authorities must immediately take the necessary steps to ensure that her death sentence is overturned once and for all.’ Also the European Union presidency said on Thursday that Iran’s suspension of a stoning sentence against a woman convicted of adultery is not enough and that the European Union demands it to be completely overturned.

Dissidents Claimed the Iranian regime is Building a New Enrichment Site

New York Times reported on Sep. 9 that a dissident group that had previously revealed the existence of several hidden nuclear sites in Iran claimed Thursday that it had evidence that the country was building another secret uranium enrichment plant. The group, the People’s Mujahedeen of Iran, showed satellite photographs of an extensive tunnel-digging operation near a military garrison northwest of Tehran. The New York times added: But the group had no pictures of the interior and no evidence to back up its claim that the site was intended to hold several thousand centrifuges, the machines used to enrich nuclear fuel for power production or weapons. The Obama administration, which publicly revealed evidence a year ago of a hidden nuclear facility near the holy city of Qum, reacted cautiously to the group’s announcement. In recent months officials have said they had no evidence of another enrichment facility, though they have expressed suspicions about a number of deep tunnels built into hillsides or mountains.

Young fisherman slain by the Iranian regime’s SSF

On Tuesday, the Iranian regime’s agents shot in public and killed a young man in Qeshm Island, according to Harana news agency. Sadeq Dolabizadeh, who was his family’s breadwinner, was arrested by the regime’s suppressive State Security Forces (SSF) while he was fishing. He was later shot in the head. Residents who witnessed the incident attacked the assailants. One of the agents was beaten and two others fled the scene, according to Harana.

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The number of prisoners dyeing under torture in Iran are increasing

Another prisoner has died in Iran due to the tortures imposed by the Iranian regime’s prison guards. Mohsen Bikvand, who was being held at Karaj’s Gohardasht prison, lost his life under torture on Tuesday night local time. Mr. Bikvand was reportedly placed under cruel torture on numerous occasions by the regime’s agents. He died in Ward no. 6 in Hall 16. As a result of intense tortures, both legs of Mr. Bikvand’s had been broken and he had lost the use of one of his hands. There were also signs that parts of his body were burnt. The images of his tortured body had leaked out of the prison. Another prisoner died on the same manner in prison in Karoon prison in Ahwas. Shahin Rajabi Mourkani, 28, was arrested 8 years ago on charges of clashes with the security forces in Ahwas.

Calls for release of Iranian rights activist ahead of trial

There have been calls for the release of Iranian human rights activist Shiva Nazar Ahari, ahead of the scheduled start of her trial on September 4, RFE/RL’s Radio Farda reports. Ahari has been held in Tehran’s Evin prison since December 2009 on charges of waging war against God (moharebeh), endangering national security, and anti State propaganda. If found guilty, she could face the death penalty. The global advocacy group Human Rights Watch, the American Islamic Congress, and the National Iranian American Council have all issued calls for Ahari’s release in recent days. Faraz Sanei of Human Rights Watch told RFE/RL on September 2 that concern over Ahari’s case is growing. He described the situation as ’critical.’ Sanei said the Iranian judiciary also claimed Ahari has links to the banned Mujahedin-e Khalq Organization. But he believes the main reason for the charges brought against her is her human rights activities. ’Shiva is a member of the Committee of Human Rights Reporters, and as you know a few members of this committee were arrested following the June 2009 presidential election in Iran, and others fled the country, Sanei said, adding that Ahari’s colleague Kouhyar Goudarzi was also in Evin prison. On September 1, the American Islamic Congress named Ahari the recipient of its first Advocate Behind Bars award. The award is given to outstanding civil-society activists who have demonstrated leadership, had an exceptional impact, and are unjustly imprisoned.

A year in prison for possessing videos poking fun at Khamenei

The Iranian regime has given a year-long prison term for two Iranian workers at the Sugar Cane Factory of Haft Tapeh on charges of “insulting” the mullahs’ Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei. Harana news agency reported on Thursday that the two received the sentence because their cell phones allegedly contained a skit about the regime’s Supreme Leader.

Neda’s mother: Her eyes will remain open until she obtains her goal

The mother of a young woman whose death last year became a symbol of the anti-regime uprisings in Iran has demanded the trial of her daughter’s murderer by the International Court of Justice at the Hague, the International Human Rights Campaign reported on Monday. Neda Agha Soltan was murdered by the Iranian regime’s agents during a peaceful rally on June 20, 2009. Scenes of her death, which were captured by a cell phone and broadcasted all over the world, provoked an international outcry against the clerical regime’s suppression of the protests. The Iranian regime tried to cover up the crime by producing a number of fabricated footage and outlandish documentaries to silence protests. In reaction to the documentaries broadcasted on state-run TV, Neda’s mother said, “Nobody believes these lies, neither the people of Iran nor the people of the world. I know who the murderer is, but the government doesn’t accept it.” “When I protested against a documentary that said Neda committed suicide, they replied that I should share my complaint with the media. But, what would I say in a state-run newspaper? … I replied that I know who Neda’s murderer is and that is why I will never appear on state-run TV and radio. … They discredited themselves even more by making such films.” Ms. Rostami, Neda’s mother also recounted scenes of her daughter’s death by saying, “Neda’s eyes were open and they will always remain open until she obtains her goal. … If her eyes were closed perhaps her influence would not have been as much. It was her open eyes that shook Iran and the entire world.”