Resolution 1034 by McClinton, Gassar and Ted Poe was
submitted to the US House of Representatives' Foreign Relations Committee. The
resolution condemns the plot of the terrorist attack to the Free Iran in Paris,
and writes: "Given the role of the Iranian diplomat, Asadollah Asadi, in the
terrorist plan, it is necessary to bring this plan to justice against the
Iranian opposition." The resolution presented to the US Congress supports
the 10-point plan by Maryam Rajavi the president-elect of the Iranian
resistance NCRI and calls for the recognition of the Democratic Alternative of
the National Council of Resistance of Iran.
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After 5 months of persistent inquiries and protests, 2
sufi women Sepideh Moradi Sarvestani and Shokoufeh Yadollahi were finally sent
to hospital on Wednesday, July 25, for preliminary examinations and were
returned to prison afterwards.
They were wounded during the bloody crackdown on the
protest gathering of Gonabadi dervishes in Tehran on February 19-20. Eleven of
the Sufi women arrested in the protest gathering of Gonabadi dervishes in
Tehran were transferred to the quarantine ward of Qarchak Prison after being
brutalized.
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According to Women committee of the Iranian resistance
NCRI, Soror Foroghi Mehdi-Abadi was sentenced to one year of suspended imprisonment
by the 3rd branch of the Court of Yazd for being a Baha’i. In
addition, Sarear Moghen, a student of architecture at Isfahan’s Azad
University, has been deprived of continuing her studies since June for her
faith in Baha’ism. She was expelled in the last term of her undergraduate work
despite passing 135 units. Baha’i citizens are systematically deprived of their
human rights while according to article 18 of the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights and article 18 of the International Covenant on Civil and
Political Rights, “everyone shall have the right to freedom of thought,
conscience and religion. This right shall include freedom to have or to adopt a
religion or belief of his choice, and freedom, either individually or in
community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or
belief in worship, observance, practice and teaching.”
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Political prisoner Zeinab Jalalian who’s been sentenced
for life, condemned the assissination of Kurdish activist Eghbal Moradi. Eghbal
was the father of political prisoner Zaniar Mordai. She sent out a message telling
Zaniar While condemning this assassination, I pledge from behind these prison
bars, to continue my struggle to realize what they gave their lives for
freedom.
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Sufi woman Sima Entesari, who is presently confined in
Varamin’s Qarchak Prison, sent out an open letter on Wednesday, July 25,
passing over her revision court. Sima
was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment at branch 26 of Tehran’s
Revolutionary Court on July 3. Her
letter reads in part: “Participating in an unfair summary trial – which
convened for only a few minutes five months after my violent and inhumane
arrest and sentenced me to five years in jail – was enough for me to learn that
expecting justice from the judicial authorities is an effort in vain and
contradicts human dignity. Because the judge did not give us any opportunity to
defend ourselves, and no lawyer was given the opportunity to study my case and
those of other Sufi women…”
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Sufi women, Elham Ahmadi and Sedigheh Safabakht, have
been sentenced each to five years in jail by Tehran’s Revolutionary Court. They
were arrested during the bloody crackdown on the protest gathering of Gonabadi
Dervishes in Tehran on February 20, 2018.
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On Wed. July 25, Women defrauded by Padideh and Caspian
financial institutes held protests in parts of Tehran- Iran’s capital. This is
not the first time these defrauded women hold a protest against plunder of
their wealth by this institute. This time, they shouted, “Plunder is enough,
people’s pockets are empty.” The State Security Force intervened to disperse the
gathering. They arrested a number of representatives of the protesters and
those who had filed complaints.
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A group of Republican senators on Thursday warned
European nations not to try to flout U.S. sanctions on Iran that will soon be
re-imposed after President Donald Trump withdrew from a landmark nuclear
accord.
The 10 senators, all of whom opposed the 2015 agreement,
said in a letter to the ambassadors of Britain, France and Germany that they
would be "particularly troubled" by any efforts to evade or undermine
the sanctions. They said attempts to do so could be met by congressional
action. A first set of U.S. sanctions lifted by the Obama administration under
the terms of the nuclear deal is to be restored on Aug. 4. A second set will be
re-imposed on Nov. 4.
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On Friday, July 27, truck drivers continued their fifth
day of strike in protest over high costs of spare parts, retirement insurance,
high commission fees and other demands in Iran. The new round of strike, which
began on Monday, July 23rd, was followed by the inaction of the promises of
parliamentarians, head of the social security organization, and government
representatives to drivers.
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On Friday, July 27, Kermanshah’s petrochemical workers
stopped working and went on strike in protest to the Iranian authorities’
failure to meet their demands. The Kermanshah Petrochemical Company was
registered in 1996 and in 2000 a wide acceptance of recruitment was undertaken
by the Kermanshah Petrochemical Company.
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On Thursday night, July 26, at 8:45 pm local time,
during a soccer match between Tehran’s Persepolis and Mashhad’s Padideh at Imam
Reza Stadium in Mashhad, Northeast Iran,
the youth chanted slogans calling for water and staged a protest.
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Child widows constitute a great catastrophe in Iran,
said Hassan Moussavi Chelak, head of the Social Work Association. In remarks
made on July 24, Moussavi Chelak, expressed concern over this catastrophe by
saying, “The existence of more than 24,000 widows under 18 years of age, warns
of a worrying situation.”
Moussavi added, “Some of these child widows could even
commit crimes or become victims of social harms to earn their living. Economic
and psychological pressures build up on child widows, eventually entangling
them in psychological and social crises.”
According to article 1041 of the Iranian regime’s Civil
Code, the minimum age of marriage for girls is 13. And economic poverty is a
significant factor contributing to early marriages and the phenomenon of child
widows. From March 2017 to March 2018, the number of marriages registered in
Tehran was 78,972, which included 1,481 marriages of girls under 15 years of
age. This is just for Tehran-capital. This statistic escalates in lower-income
cities and town and destitute regions.
