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two simultaneous attacks in Tehran targeting two heavily secured sites in the Iranian capital Wednesday morning. The total dead varies between 17 and 22 and some 52 people have been injured. As ISIS claimed responsibility in its first attack in Iran, the international community condemned this heinous act of terrorism. Iranian opposition leader Maryam Rajavi , President of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, condemned the loss of innocent lives and said: “ISIS’s conduct clearly benefits the Iranian regime’s Supreme Leader Khamenei, who wholeheartedly welcomes it as an opportunity to overcome his regime’s regional and international impasse and isolation. The founder and the number one state sponsor of terror is thus trying to switch the place of murderer and the victim and portray the central banker of terrorism as a victim,”. Rajavi added: “To uproot terrorism in the region: The IRGC must be designated as a terrorist entity.******
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Marjan Davari, 50, was sentenced to death on March 12, 2017, by the 15th branch of the regime's Revolutionary Court in Tehran.
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“The government has no right to impose so much injustice on Iranian workers and still prevent their activities and protests. “In my view the worst problem of Iranian workers is being deprived of the right to protest (the government’s) constant failure to pay their salaries. In recent years, the entire governing system has been trying to prevent workers’ protests to its failure to pay them, by levelling security charges against them and issuing them heavy sentences by the judiciary,” she said. “I think the International Labor Organization should pressure the Iranian government to allow workers have the right to freely create their independent organizations in their workshops,” Ms. Mohammadi added.
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With summer on its way, the commander of the State Security Force in Boroujerd- Iran- reiterated that the Moral Security Police would step up its activities to monitor and control women’s veiling.
According to the state-run Tnews website June 8, Alireza Daliri said, “One of the most important tasks inherent to the Moral Security Police is confronting and warning women who are improperly veiled or not veiled at all,” he said. “The issue of improper veiling calls for a basic deliberation. It seems that this issue must start from elementary school by educating women and their families to achieve the proper outcome.” Mohammad Hussein Javidanfar, head of the Staff in charge of Promoting Virtue and Forbidding Evil, also announced, “To promote the culture of hijab and chastity, there are trained forces who would give the necessary warnings to improperly veiled women.”
Boroujerd is one of the major cities of Lorestan Province, western Iran.
In a related news the Moral Security Police in Isfahan Province has stepped up its activities to confront women who do not properly observe the veil. Deputy Commander of the State Security Force of Isfahan, Jahangir Karimi, said, “The activities of the Moral Security Police are not restricted to any special season, but it has to constantly deal with public manifestations of improper covering and no covering… In Isfahan Province, if the Moral Security Police detects people who have improper covering in their cars, they will deal with them.”, “Moral Security patrols are active in esplanades as well as in police stations in various parts of the city. In addition to giving warnings and counsel to people who have improper covering, they introduce them to judicial authorities should they repeat this behavior.”
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One of the literacy teachers said, "If a literacy student, for example a mother with several children, does not take part in the final exam due to illness of her children, we won't get paid for our work."
Protesters had converged in Tehran from Alborz, Khorasan Razavi, Tehran, Mazandaran, Khuzistan and Qazvin provinces.
Simultaneously, another group of women staged a gathering in front of the Majlis in protest to the looting by Caspian Credit Institute. They hold the Central Bank officials accountable for their looted deposits.
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Some 10,000 trained nurse’s assistants have not been recruited and their employment remains undecided. They said the Ministry of Health refuses to employ them although they have finished doing their training course. The nurse’s assistants mostly have high school diplomas and have paid 4 million toumans to do the year-long training course.
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The State-run Young Journalists Club reported on June 6 that 90 young men and women were arrested by State Security forces in Sepidan, Fars Province, while they were travelling on a tour. The youths were trying to have a good time on the heights of Arshiri village in Sepidan. Security forces arrested those individuals who were playing in the water.
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Those who attempted early to buy tickets on the website received this message: Unfortunately, women’s share of tickets has been finished. The website selling tickets also has some warnings before sale of tickets. One of these messages reads: Ticket shares for men and women are completely separate and it is not possible to swap tickets between the two. Spectators who purchase tickets from the other’s share will not be allowed to enter the stadium.
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Mullah Alamol-Hoda declared in his Friday prayer sermon, “The document was originally intended to advance globalization (efforts) headed by America.”
UNESCO’s Education 2030 document calls for gender equality in education and promotion of equal opportunities for both men and women. This Framework for Action was adopted in September 2015 by the United Nations and all member states are obliged to take steps to implement it in practice.
Alamol-Hoda said the articles of the Education 2030 document contradict the values of the clerical regime. He asserted, “The document indicates that minorities in education include also gender minority in addition to minorities in religion, politics, thoughts, and creeds.”
“Article 170 of the Constitution states that if the government signs or adopts an accord or treaty which contradicts the Constitution, the Supreme Administrative Court is authorized to revoke it. Accordingly, the Supreme Administrative Court is able to use this opportunity and revoke this document (Education 2030) according to Article 170.” (The state-run Fars news agency – June 2, 2017)
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She started her activities in 2014, playing an active role in the gatherings outside the Dena Tire Company, the teachers’ gatherings and ceremonies held for the martyrs of Iran's 2009 uprising. In recent years, many of the protest gatherings in support of prisoners of conscience are held in Tehran outside the Dena Tire Company.
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