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On the 72nd United Nations General Assembly, Donald Trump the president of the United States for the first time and bluntly talked about the role of the Iranian regime as the state of exporting terrorism in the Middle East and its nuclear ambition. Trump said about the Iranian regime that: it “masks a corrupt dictatorship behind the false guise of democracy. It has turned a wealthy country with a rich history and culture into an economically depleted rogue state whose longest-suffering victims … are, in fact, its own people. Rather than using Iran’s vast oil profits to improve Iranian lives, the regime wastes this wealth — which rightly belongs to the Iranian people —
Trump concluded, that “the good people of Iran want change” and that “Iranian people are what their leaders fear the most.” “oppressive regimes cannot endure forever” and that the day will come when Iran’s people face a choice: “To continue down the path of poverty, bloodshed and terror” or “return to the nation’s proud roots as a center of civilization, culture and wealth where their people can be happy and prosperous once again?”
Mrs Maryam Rajavi , the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran-NCRI- welcomed President Trump’s remarks and characterized them as the first testimony by a US President over the past 38 years to underscore the need for regime change in Iran by the Iranian people, a cause that has been the declared policy of the Iranian Resistance for the past 36 years. Mrs. Rajavi added, “The recognition of the National Council of Resistance of Iran as the only democratic alternative to the terrorist, religious dictatorship in Iran is indispensable to ending and rectifying the United States’ disastrous past policy towards the people of Iran.”

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The Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran condemned the murder of Orouba Barakat and her daughter, Halla Barakat two Syrian activist women who were stabbed to death in their apartment in Istanbul- Turkey. Mrs. Orouba Barakat was a veteran figure of the Syrian Opposition who played a serious role in exposing the crimes of Bashar Assad particularly in the regime’s prisons. She had done research on the practice of torture in these prisons. Her daughter, Halla Barakat, was a journalist working with the opposition’s TV, the Orient News. The bodies of the Mother and daughter was discovered on Thursday Sept 21 by Turkish police. The Syrian opposition and USA has condemned Orouba and Hala's murder.

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According to state-run Mehr news agency Sept. 21, Thirty young women and men were arrested in a mixed-sex party in Varamin, north central Iran. This was announced by the Commander of Varamin’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, Davoud Asghari. He said agents entered a house in Varamin after getting information and identifying the place. The young women and men arrested in the party were handed over to the judiciary authorities for further investigations.


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Leila Mohammadzadeh was arrested while explaining the articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights for a group of women in a place near Zibar Lake in Marivan, Iranian Kurdistan. She now faces legal prosecution. She is also charged with “inciting women to reject Islamic norms through riding bicycles in public.” Her complainant is the State Security Force.
Mohammadzadeh had previously issued a statement in which she had accused Rouhani of giving promises for improvement of women’s rights, but not delivering on them after his victory. there were people who had used improving women’s rights as their election slogan, but that nothing had changed after their re-election... Presently, women face legal prosecution and arrest by the State Security Force if they ride bicycle in public in Marivan.


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According to State-run Daneshjou news website Sept. 20th, a Marivani school girl went on hunger strike to protest the announced results of the national test for university admission in Iran. Gelaveaj Arjangi, who was an honor student at the public school of Marivan, protested discrimination in student admissions to the Farhangian Beit-ol Hoda University in Sanandaj. She ranked 345 in the national test for university admission. According to her father, people with four-digit ranks had been admitted to the Farhangian University, but Gelaveaj was denied admission despite a three-digit ranking.


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Security forces in Tehran-Iran's capital, arrested a Christian couple after summoning them to the Intelligence Department. The Christian couple are accused of participating in a funeral in Behesht-e Zahra, in which they carried out Christian rituals. The incarcerated Christian couple have been identified as Mehrdad Houshmand and Sarah Nemati.




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The order of 80 lashes was carried out in Iran on Tuesday afternoon, September 19, for Leila Bayat.  Leila Bayat had sought refuge in Norway but was deported and sent back to Iran in March of 2017. She had been arrested in 2007 along with three of her friends in a private party and sentenced to 80 lashes for drinking alcoholic beverages. Leila was separated from her 13-year-old son and returned to Iran on March 11, 2017.


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2 Iranian women Melika Kavandi and Zahra Shafii Dehaghani have gone on dry hunger strike since September 19. They had been arrested 23 days earlier outside the Evin Prison when they were protesting the death sentence issued for the prisoner of conscience Mohammad Ali Taheri. They were subsequently taken to Shahr-e Ray Prison and detained there without being informed of their charges and determination of the status of their case.


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According to the Iranian resistance statement Sept. 22, the Iranian regime has hanged 33 prisoners from 12 to 20th of Sept. 2017 and on Thursday Sept 21st the hands of 3 prisoners were amputated for steeling. Thirteen prisoners were executed only on Wednesday, September 20 in Qom and Gohardasht prisons in Karaj, the central prison of Karaj, and the central prison of Qazvin (Chubin Dar). And two public executions were carried out in the cities of Aq Qala (Golestan province) and Pars Abad of Moghan (Ardebil province ). Between 12 and 19 September, 20 other detainees, including a female prisoner, were executed in Khorramabad, Karaj, Ardebil, Tabriz, Mashhad, Borujerd, Zanjan and Kerman prisons. Four of them were executed publicly in the cities of Islamabad Gharb, Anbarabad, Ilam and Salmas. Yadullah Movahhed, the head of regime’s judiciary in Kerman, called the five executed prisoners in the city 'the cause for insecurity and wickedness.'

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Parvin Heydari, a nurse with 17 years of experience at the Nabavi Hospital of Dezful in Khuzistan Province, said she had been expelled from her job for having pursued the implementation of the law on improvement of productivity, reported state-run ILNA news agency Sept. 18. She said: I worked with the staff, and with their cooperation, we gathered signatures and sent a letter to the Department of Labor, demanding implementation of this law. I faced heavy opposition for doing so and was eventually fired from my job.”  This is while according to the UN and CSW programs for women’s economic empowerment, women have the right to organize in workplaces and communities to uphold women’s labor rights, ensuring decent work and defining policy priorities.

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The case of a prominent player of the national women’s Futsal team of Iran is still open and might lead to her death sentence.The Futsal player whose name is not published collided with and killed a police officer in the Narmak neighborhood on her way home on May 13, 2017. The player is currently free on bail according to the state-run Pars Football website – September 18. Futsal is an indoor football or soccer.


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A Kurdish woman, identified as Farangiz Zareii, is currently being held in the Central Prison of Sanandaj, capital of the Kurdistan of Iran, on an 18-year prison sentence for alleged complicity in murder. Her husband was executed three years ago but Farangiz has been in prison for the past five years without a single day leave. She only has an elderly mother.According to one of her inmates, Farangiz has repeatedly announced that she had “no knowledge of the murder and did not participate in it in any way.”

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Carol De La Paz, a World Karate Federation instructor from Chile, left Iran with dissatisfaction after three weeks of giving technical advice. Critics blasted Iran’s Karate Federation for inviting her to Iran and called her “a dancer” and “a singer" who seeks "to promote the pervert culture of the West.”
In an interview, De La Paz said, “I have traveled to numerous countries but had never experienced anything like this… I respected everyone in Iran… but what eventually happened was incredible and unfair… The federation held a meeting with me and expressed interest in cooperation. But the rest of the story and the material published are very offensive.”
She stressed, “The Spanish President of the World Karate Federation has announced his full support for me regarding the events in Tehran, saying that they should have never happened… I am still waiting for the explanations of the officials of Iran’s Karate Federation. They have not shown any special reaction to those who insulted me, unfairly.”

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Nastaran Na’imi, the wife of Iranian prisoner of conscience Sohail Arabi, was fired from her job under the influence of the Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC).
In a letter from Evin Prison dated September 14, 2017, Soheil Arabi wrote, “The interrogators of IRGC intelligence continue to treat him and his family in illegal manners.” Soheail Arabi who's on hunger strike in a letter had thretened that if the couple are not freed he will go on dry hunger strike meaning he will refuse water and other liquids.