CTV reported on Monday July 16 that protesters gathered outside the Iranian Embassy in Ottawa to denounce the actions of a diplomat they accuse of trying to spy on Canada’s Iranian community. Members of several human rights and advocacy groups, including the Iran Democratic Association, allege that diplomat Hamid Mohammadi is trying to recruit and spy on Iranian-Canadians. “They are giving $500 to everyone providing information, especially on Iranians who are active against the regime in Canada,” said Shahram Golestaneh of the Iran Democratic Association. CTV added that in an interview earlier this month with an Iran-based website whose content is directed at Iranian ex-patriates, Mohammadi said that Iranians living in Canada should be serving Tehran. During the interview, Mohammadi said there were many Iranian-Canadians “working in influential government positions” and called on others to “occupy high-level and key positions.” The interview prompted an outcry from the Department of Foreign Affairs, who last week released a statement strongly condemning the words of Mohammadi and warning the embassy from interfering in the lives of Iranians who’ve settled in Canada. And now Iranian human rights activists are also slamming the embassy, alleging that it frequently uses intimidation tactics to gather information on Iranian-Canadians. Protesters accused the embassy of collecting information about family members back in Iran to influence Iranians living in Canada. On the same note, the Iranian regime has called one of its diplomats from Ottawa back in April. The Asre Iran a state run newspaper reported based on Canadian media  that this move could be the result of tension between Tehran and Ottawa or it could be that he was called to Iran before expelled from Canada.

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In a letter addressed to UN Secretary General Ban-Ki-Moon, Prof. Alejo Vidal-Quadras, Vice President of the European Parliament and President of the International Committee of In Search of Justice (ISJ), sent him the Committee’s report on developments in camps Ashraf and Liberty during the period between the Council’s two sessions.
The report which has been prepared in 10 sections, after reviewing the events in the past three months in two camps of Ashraf and Liberty, presents urgent and necessary requirements for completion of relocation of Ashraf residents to Liberty in 10 and 5 articles respectively to the Security Council and asks the Council to support it.
While condemning the Iraqi government’s behaviour and obstructions in providing Ashraf residents’ minimum humanitarian requirements for relocation to Camp Liberty, International Committee of In Search of Justice (ISJ) underscores in its report that any relocation to Liberty without providing these minimums might bear catastrophic consequences to the residents.
The report specifies that the Government of Iraq (GOI) has repeatedly violated the ‘Memorandum of Understanding’ since seven months ago when it was signed by the GOI and UN, and has infringed most of the pledges it has given through the UN and U.S. government to Ashraf residents for relocation to Liberty.
The fifth group moved to Liberty on May 4 while all promises made by the GOI, UN Secretary General Special Representative (SRSG), Ambassador Martin Kobler and the U.S. Secretary of States’ special advisor, Ambassador Dan Fried, were left unfulfilled. In the course of this move, Iraqi agents returned six utility trucks, which were being transferred upon Iraq and UNAMI’s agreement, in a totally arbitrary manner.
Subsequently, the residents and their representatives articulated their demands in six articles in their numerous letters to UN and U.S.

In a statement the National Council of Resistance of Iran warned that the statement by Mr. Kobler at the Un security council will result in yet another bloody attack by the Iraqi forces. There were 2 such attacks on the unarmed residents of Ashraf in 2009 and 2011 by the Iraqi forces killing more than 40 people and wounding hundreds. 

Iran’s ’morality police’ target cafe culture

According to Al Jazeera,  July 15, the Iranian police have shut down dozens of restaurants and coffee shops over the weekend, Iranian media reported, in a renewed crackdown on what the state sees as immoral and un-Islamic behaviour.
Regular officers and members of the 'morality police' raided 87 cafes and restaurants in a single district of the capital Tehran on Saturday and arrested women for flouting the Islamic dress code, according to the Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA) on Sunday.
'These places were shut for not following Islamic values, providing hookah to women, and lacking proper licenses,' said Tehran police official Alireza Mehrabi,. Women are not allowed to smoke hookah, the name for water pipes, in public.
Mehrabi said the raid came as part of a plan to provide 'neighbourhood-oriented' security, and would continue in other parts of Tehran.
The government periodically cracks down on behaviour it considers un-Islamic, including mingling between the sexes outside of marriage.
In 2007, Tehran police closed down 24 Internet cafes and other coffee shops in as many hours, detaining 23 people.

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According to Freedom Messenger the people of south Tehran attacked the moral police and liberated one arrested girl from the Regime forces. This website said that according to its sources in Tehran, people started to gather around the police vans as it attracted anger to the scene, at a moment, the people united rushed and attacked the police vans by stones and wood overturning the forces leaving a crushed vehicle with shattered glass. The police who were outnumbered by the people fled the scene. The girl was freed but the next morning, heavily armed riot forces were deployed to the region.

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Iranian regime's judicial has sentenced a young man to amputation of the hand. His name is Mohammad and he's 22 years old. There were no news of his crime.