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The Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran said in a statement that Concurrent with the announcement of U.S. forces withdrawal from Iraq, Adnan al-Assadi, who is in charge of Iraqi Interior Ministry on behalf of Maliki, unveiled his boss’s intents for forcible relocation of Ashraf residents and their transfer to various locations inside Iraq on 27 October 2011. He said, “The central government has decided to close the camp by the end of this year and to scatter the residents to other camps in various provinces. This way, we would lead to control over the members of this organization and putting an end to its military centralism imposed on the residents. In addition, this measure would facilitate their return to their own country or other countries.” It’s important to note that the residents of Ashraf have no weapons for in 2003 upon an agreement with the US forces they handed in the weapons. Today 180 parliamentarian in Europe signed a statement urging the UN security council, US and European Parliament to cancel the deadline for Dec. 31th and for the UN to stationing UN monitors in  Camp Ashraf.

Mashhad police arrest 19 men and women for going to party

state-run website Khabar Online reported that agents of the Najafi Police Station in Mashhad arrested 9 women and 10 men in a party.

 

Security forces confiscate over 1000 satellite dishes in Isfahan

Agents of the Isfahan Public Security Police found and confiscated more than 1,100 pieces of satellite equipment in two computer service shops. “The owners of the shops have been referred to judicial sources along with their criminal records”, said Mir Abbas Soufivan the head of the PSP, the Public Secrurity Police.

Iranian Cleric Mohsen Ghara’ati Blames Women Opposing Polygamy

HRANA News Agency reported that in his weekly televised lessons aired on IRIB Channel 1, Iranian cleric Mohsen Ghara’ati blamed women for opposing polygamy and standing in the way of their husbands who wish to get a second wife. Hojat-ol-Islam Mohsen Ghara’ati is the head of the Center for the Promotion of Prayers and a Muslim scholar teaching and promoting the Quran. Mohsen Ghara’ati said, “If a man has the physical power and the financial resources, if he has two cars, two houses, two cell phones, and two of everything, if he can provide two of everything, when it is time for marriage, women say: No! One God; One wife”. “What does this mean? This means the hell with one million women! If they commit sins, the hell with them! If they burn in hell, the hell with them! This is female jealousy. Women’s envy and resentment cause one million other young females to remain widowed.”

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According to News wire-iReach Oct. 19, the Iranian-American communities in the United States are applauding the Obama administration and U.S. law enforcement agencies for their work in foiling the plot hatched by the Iranian regime to assassinate on U.S. soil the Saudi Ambassador to the United States. ”The current policy of ’engagement’ rests on naive hope rather than hard experience. The U.S. must expand its range of options in dealing with this irredeemable regime, which now include only ineffectual sanctions to unrealistic military strikes. The litmus test of this policy change is the unshackling of the principal Iranian Opposition movement, the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), which was a concession made by the U.S. to the regime 14 long and unproductive years ago”, Said Nasser Sharif, of the California society for a Democratic Iran. The MEK was put on America’s list of ’Foreign Terrorist Organizations’ (FTO) in 1997. The highest courts in the United Kingdom, the European Union and France have struck down the terrorist designation of the MEK as perverse, resulting in the group’s delisting in the UK and the EU in 2008 and 2009 respectively. The Federal Court of Appeals in Washington, DC, rendered a judgment in July 2010, telling the State Department that it had erred in maintaining MEK’s designation. Some 450 days after the court remanded the case to the Secretary, the Department is yet to make a decision, flouting the rule of law in the process.

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Brussels official Wire reported that a conference held at the European Parliament in Brussels on Wednesday, 19 October 2011, looked into the volatile humanitarian situation of a refugee camp in Iraq that has been the focal attention of the 27 EU heads as well as the US and Iran for the past several months. Camp Ashraf, which has become a mounting international attention, has been in the spotlight since an April raid by Iraqi security which left 34 dead and scores injured, triggering sharp condemnation. Iraq Al Maliki, reportedly by demands from Tehran, wants its closure by December 31. The Camp, home for the past 30 years to 3,400 Iranian dissidents, is now facing a deadly expulsion. The conference called on the United Nations Secretary-General, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, and western governments to adopt urgent measures to ensure protection of Ashraf and prevent a humanitarian catastrophe and to obligate the Iraqi government to remove its deadline until the resettlement of all residents to third countries.
Participants in particular blamed the United States for its failure to abide by its responsibility to protect the residents. The conference emphasized that the U.S. would be fully responsible for another bloodbath in Ashraf. The conference also called on the U.S. President and the State Department to remove the PMOI from the FTO list as a first essential step to ensure protection of Ashraf.

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MOIS talks nonsense in fear of consequences of disclosure of its terrorist plot in U.S.

According to National Council of Resistance of Iran’s statement on Oct. 14, Following the disclosure of the Qods Force criminal plot to assassin the Saudi Ambassador and to blow up foreign embassies in the United States, the clerical regime attempted to connect this plot to the issue of PMOI to divert the looming international consequences of this criminal terrorist plot from Khamenei and his regime. NCRI added: Mehr news agency, affiliated with the mullahs’ Intelligence Ministry (MOIS), wrote: 'Some sources have reported on the intricate connections of him, with the Monafeqin grouplet; hence, it is probable that it was the Monafeqin grouplet who planned this fictitious operation and then dramatically disclosed it for political gains against Iran.' (October 12, 2011) NCRI said: this disgraceful nonsense talk is nothing but the continuance of clerical regime’s shameful deceit in the three decades of its ruling where, time and again, directly or indirectly, it has related its crimes to the PMOI and the Iranian Resistance. The clerical regime has blamed the heinous murder of the Christian priests and the explosion of Imam Reza’s shrine in 1994, massacre of pilgrims in Mecca in 1987… and the dreadful murder of Neda Agha Soltan in the 2009 uprisings on the U.S., Britain and the PMOI.

23 executions in two weeks in Iran

The Iranian regime hanged four youths on Wednesday morning, October 12 in Shahin Shahr prison. In the period of October 2nd to 11th, nine more prisoners were hanged in the cities of Isfahan, Kerman, Sari and Semnan.  Also, at least 10 other prisoners were executed secretly during the same period in the prisons of Gohardasht, Orumieh, Kerman and Khorin in Varimin. This brings the number of executions to 23 over the past two weeks (Since October 1st).

Three Prisoners Executed in Semnan Prison

Rahana reported that according to the Public Affairs Unit of the Semnan  Court, the 3 people were executed the sentence was confirmed by the head of the judiciary are: A.S 43 from Neishabout, A.J 44 from Mashhad and R. Gh. 43 from Torbat. Their request for pardon were denied. According to the Anti-Death Penalty Committee of the Human Rights House of Iran, 142 executions have taken place since the beginning of this year and 39 of them were carried out in public.

Washington Times: The letter of 42 Iranian prominent writers and artists to the U.S State department to delist the PMOI

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Kobra Amir-Khizi, on the verge of blindness in prison

According to National Council of Resistance of Iran , Kobra Amir-Khizi, a political prisoner and a relative of Ashraf residents, is on the verge of losing her eyesight. Kobra Amir-Khizi, was arrested in January of 2009 when she was leaving the country legally to see her family members in Camp Ashraf in Iraq. She has serious eye injury due to torture and strikes of cables to her head and face. The orders of Jafari Dowlatabadi prevents her from transferring to hospital outside the prison or receive any medical medical care.

Iran: Kurdish political prisoners on death row

Following the sudden and secret execution of political prisoner Aziz Khakzad who was imprisoned based on an unjustified 5 year prison sentencing, families of political prisoners on death row in Iran are concerned about the fate of their loved ones. The Kurdish political prisoners on death row that may be executed by the Iranian regime at any given moment include:

- Political prisoner Habibollah Golpari-pour, 27, who was arrested in the fall of 2009 in the city of Mahabad, western Iran. 

- Political prisoner Seyed Sami Hosseini, 33, from the city of Salmas, northwestern Iran, was arrested in 2008.

- Political prisoner Seyed Jamal Mohammadi, 25, was arrested along with Hosseini in 2008 in the city of Salmas.

These three political prisoners who are on death row are held with 40 other political prisoners in Ward 12 of Urumieh Prison.

Hangings in Iran continues

According to Associated France Press on Saturday a man convicted of multiple rape was hanged in Isfahan.  He was 67 years old. And according to reports, On Monday, October 3, eight prisoners were hanged in a secret mass execution in the Lakan Prison in Rasht. One of the prisoners was identified as Gholamhossein Akhavan. On Thursday September 30, 12 prisoners were transferred to solitary cells in the Lakan Prison. Eight of these prisoners were hanged but there are no reports on the fate of the other four. Only a small percent of the numbers of the new wave of executions that has started from a few weeks ago is announced by state run media. The families of those executed have said that the numbers of executions are much higher than officials admit. 

Another man was hanged in Ardebil. He was accused of smuggling narcotics.

Protests Against Gender Segregation in Zanjan University

During the last few days, hundreds of students in Zanjan University have demonstrated against gender segregation imposed in the university cafeteria, buses and the Technical Engineering Library. According to a report by Daneshjoo News, following recent demonstrations at Amir Kabir University, Kurdistan University, Shahrekord University and Yazd  University, protests have broken out in various other colleges throughout Iran. On Tuesday, October 4, 2011, more than 500 students in Zanjan University demonstrated in front of the Mechanical Engineering building and shouted slogans against limitations imposed by the implementation of the gender segregation plan.

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Iran: At least 62 executions in September

According to National Council of Resistance of Iran during recent days, seven prisoners were hanged in prisons of Shahr Kord, Zabol, Qom and Varamin amounting to 62 executions in Iran in September. Twenty-three of them were executed on September 18 (22 in Gohardasht and Evin prisons and 1 in Ghazvin). At least 38 more prisoners have been executed secretly bringing the number of executions in September to 100. Among those executed were a 17 year old juvenile and two teens at ages of 19 and 20 who were under 18 at the time of their alleged offense. Other suppressive measures of the Iranian regime during recent days have been lashing in public of prisoners in Tabas and southern cities for charges of theft, issuing brutal verdict of eye gouging for a young man, arbitrary arrests, assassination of opponents, repression of women under the fabricated banner of “Ifaf Project” (chastity), raiding residential houses using excuses such as rounding up satellite equipments and etc.

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The Iranian regime is changing the Christian Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani’s alleged offense from apostasy to rape and extortion, according to semi official Fars News agency. Gholomali Rezvani, the deputy governor of Gilan province, where Nadarkhani was tried and convicted, accused Western media of twisting the real story, referring to him as a “rapist”. “His crime is not, as some claim, converting others to Christianity,” Rezvani told Fars. “He is guilty of security-related crimes.” In a brief obtained by CNN, Nadarkhani has stated that he is a Christian and no longer Muslim,” states the brief. “During many sessions in court with the presence of his attorney and a judge, he has been sentenced to execution by hanging according to article 8 of Tahrir olvasileh.”

Twenty One Baha’i Citizens Arrested in Esfahan

According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), on Thursday, Iranian security agents arrested 20 Baha’i citizens in Esfahan. After their arrest, the houses of Parisa Rahmani, Farzad Rohani and Ataullah Daneshgar were searched and Baha’i religious artifacts were confiscated.

Security forces shot and killed one-legged border carrier

On September 25, another border carrier in Kurdistan died in the Orumieh hospital after being directly shot by security forces. According to Kordpa website, Soleiman Moradi known as Haji Soureh from a village in Piranshahr was shot by security forces and was severely wounded but died 15 days later in hospital. This Kurd carrier had lost one of his legs in a mine explosion. Soleiman Moradi, 32, had a wife and three small children.