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US takes Iranian exile opposition MEK off terror list

According to reports by CNN, Washington times, France Press, Euronews, Aljazireh, and other news agencies, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has inform Congress Friday of her decision to take the Iranian exile opposition Mujahedin-e-Khalq, or MEK, or PMOI off a State Department terror list. Reports say this step is a severe blow to Tehran. It means that its archenemy is now free to openly campaign against the Islamic regime of Iran in Europe, the Middle East and the United States with American support. A court of appeals in June 2012 gave 4 months to the State Department to make a decision and remove the MEK or the court will do it. Although is not yet officially off the list Iranians everywhere showed their satisfactions. They decorated their cars and drove through downtown cores of their city. In Ottawa Yesterday  cars drove through downtown honking their horns and celebrating this great news. A group of American and European politicians wrote to Mrs. Maryam Rajavi the president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran and congratulated her. Among them Strawn Stevenson, Rudi Juliani, a few of the American senators and members of the congress. The Iranian main opposition was listed in 1997 by Bill Clinton's administration.

In another news and according to Associated Press the US Senate on Saturday passed a legislation that the Continuity of the Economic and Diplomatic pressure on the Iranian regime is emphasised. This legislation was passed with 90 yeys and 1 nay in the Congress and it states that the pressure continues as long as the Iranian regime insists on enriching uranium and not cooperating with the international inspectors.

Biden presses Maliki on weapons shipments to Syria via Iraq

 According to Associated France,  Sep. 21st U.S. Vice President Joe Biden pressed Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in a telephone call Friday to bar the passage of weapons shipments to Syria through Iraqi airspace, the White House said. “The vice president and the prime minister addressed issues of regional security, including the need to prevent any state from taking advantage of Iraq’s territory or air space to send weapons to Syria,” the statement said. Joe Biden also raised the issue of the Ashraf residents in Camp Liberty and reminded Maliki of his agreements with the United Nations.

 

 

A disabled political prisoner tortured to write a confession letter

According to reports from “Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran” a few hours of interrogation and physical torture of political prisoner Hadi Abedi Bakhoda was imposed on  him  in order to make a televised confession. Mr. Bakhoda was a political prisoner in the 1980s in Iran.  According to this report Hadi Abedi Bakhoda was put under severe pressure both to show repentance and confess his alleged accusations on television or a new case would be brought up against him where his verdict would be harder.  Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran, condemn the brutal torture by the intelligence ministry interrogators of Hadi Abedi who is handicapped and wheelchair bounded in order to obtain false confessions and repentance from him. He's been in jail for over a year with inhumane conditions.