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Iranian opposition group opens Washington office

According to news agencies such as Agence France Press, Washington Post, Hill, a publication from congress and Washington Times on April 11 the National Council of Resistance of Iran has reopened its office in Washington after 10 years just 100 meter away from the White house. In 1997 Bill Clinton Us former president included the Mujahedin organization of Iran, a group within the Iranian resistance and designated as a terrorist group. This decision was reversed in Nov. 2012 and MEK was de-listed from the US black list. The office was officially opened with a ceremony attended by General James Jones, former US ambassador to the United Nations and Bush administration diplomat John Bolton, former Sen. Robert Torricelli (D), former US Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D), and P.J. Crowley, a former assistant secretary of State for public affairs who served under Hillary Clinton and Several Republican members of Congress. Soona Samsami, the US representative of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, a parliament in exile whose main member is the People’s Mujahedeen, said the US policy of engagement with Iran had failed and urged regime change. “It is now time to direct all efforts towards democratic change in Iran,” she said in remarks at the opening. “The United States must stand with the Iranian people as they stand for liberty.” Samsami said Tehran’s leaders were “focused on eliminating its organized opposition, thousands of whose members are in Camp Ashraf and Camp Liberty. “It is fully aware that the MEK in general and the residents of Ashraf and Liberty in particular will play a decisive role in any development inside the country,” she said.  Jones called the MEK “a very important movement, which will hopefully lead someday to the restoration of democracy and the rule of law, in the wonderful country of Iran, where the people deserve so much better than they’re getting.” Bolton said the MEK ‘s delisting came at a critical time with nuclear proliferation threats from North Korea and Iran, and praised the opposition group for calling for a nuclear-free Iran.

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Hundreds of labours from different companies, especially workers of the industrial district "Mourcheh Khort" in Isfahan Province, gathered in protest outside the Iranian regime’s Labour Bureau on Thursday. This gathering was held in protest to the expulsion of workers. Security forces closed the Labour Bureau and told the workers to bring their representative but the workers, paid no attention and continued with their protest.

- A group of students at Medical Department of Tehran University gathered in university’s campus Wednesday to protest plan for sex segregation at the university.

- A group of athletes and their fans in the city of Shahreza, near Isfahan, gathered outside the municipality building to protest the city authorities’ inaction regarding building a sports field. According to a protestor: “It has been 20 years since that project has been announced; however, this stadium has not been built yet.”

- A group of workers from the Incombustible Steel Company in the city of Hamedan, went on a strike. These contract workers were protesting about the non-payment of their salary.

 

Political prisoner in critical condition refused treatment and family visits

Iranian resistance reported that a political prisoner suffering from cancer has been refused medical treatment and family visits. Ali Moezi, 63, has been deprived of urgent hospital care for bladder cancer and bleeding kidneys, and visits from loved ones, for six months over his refusal to attend Iran’s sham revolutionary courts.
On the most recent occasion, family members were turned away from the gates of Tehran’s Evin prison on April 8.
Mr Moezi was transferred to solitary confinement in Evin prison six months ago for refusing to participate in a trial presided over by hard-line judge Salavati - know as the ’death judge’.
After enduring a spell as a political prisoner in the 1980s, Moezi was arrested again in November 2008 for visiting his two children in Camp Ashraf, and was sentenced to two years in prison.
In June 2011, a few days after surgery, he was once again arrested for participating in the funeral of Mohsen Dogmechi, a PMOI supporter who was tortured to death in prison after also being deprived of medical treatment.

Camp Liberty residents demand UN prohibit Martin Kobler interfering in their affairs

Camp Liberty residents have written to the United Nations Secretary General telling him his envoy Martin Kobler paved the way for the massacre of Liberty residents by colluding with the Iraq and the Iranian regime. In a strongly-worded letter to Ban Ki-Moon, more than 3,000 dissidents at the camp said Kobler was ’destructive and dishonest’ and should stop interfering in their affairs. And they warned that if Kobler was not removed from his role at Camp Liberty, more lives would be lost.

On Saturday another resident of Liberty died due to lack of medical facilities and supplies. Mr. Mohammad Hossein Barzmehri, 61, died because the only clinic in the camp which was supposed to be ready for treatment lacked necessary equipments. Barzmehry was the 13th person to die due to insufficient medical supply and equipment in Liberty. He was a civil engineer graduate from Washington DC University.

Massive uprising in Iraq against PM Maliki in its fourteenth week

Iraqi people’s massive uprising against the Nouri al-Maliki in its fourteenth week was held in six provinces and in cities.
The main slogan in demonstrations in Mosul and Howaijah was: “No to Iranian regime meddling”. In Howaijah people said: “Get lost; get lost you tyrant; you and any other servant of Iranian regime”
Al-Taghier TV reported from Howaijah that for the first time Arabs and Kurds participated together in demonstrations. In areas of dispute they shouted slogans for a united Iraq.