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Suppressive forces clash with demonstrators in central Tehran
According to the National Council of Resistance of Iran's sources inside Iran on Dec. 31, 09, the Iranian regime’s Revolutionary Guards, anti-riot forces and plainclothes agents are heavily present on streets of Amir-Abad, Enqelab and Vali Asr and in Azadi Square and have been attacking people today.
At about 15:10 local time, the suppressive forces attacked a large crowd outside Enqelab Street Metro Station chanting "Down with Khamenei".
Large crowds gathered in various parts of Tehran this afternoon to pay respect to those killed on Sunday, the holy day of Ashura.

Armored vehicles deployed to crackdown people in Tehran
According to reports a large crowd turned out today, December 31 at 14:30 local time in Tehran’s Enqelab and Saadat-Abad streets to pay respect to those killed during the Ashura uprising. The suppressive forces opened fire on people, some wearing white shrouds as a sign of being ready-to-die.
Armored vehicles have been brought to streets to clampdown on demonstrations under the orders of Khamanei.
Enqelab Square is swarmed with regime culprits and a number of armored vehicles are stations there. More anti-riot armored vehicles are coming in from the nearby city of Karaj, west of Tehran.
By creating disorder in public transportation, regime is trying to prevent people from joining demonstrators. Metro stations at 7-Tear and Enqelab are closed and electric buses at Azadi Square are shutdown.

Mullahs' police chief admits 500 arrests made during Sunday's protest
The secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran released a statement on Dec. 30, 09 stating that the Iranian regime's leader, frightened of Sunday's protests by people and combatant youths on the occasion of the holy day of Ashura, are now trying to create an atmosphere of terror in the country by speaking one after the other about their plans to intensify crackdown.
State-run Fars News Agency quoted Ahmadi-Moghaddam, Mullahs' police chief on Wednesday saying: "The period of leniency is over and we will blind the eyes of sedition. Whoever participates in such protests will be dealt with decisively by the police. Furthermore, the judiciary has intensified its approach."
Even though he made no mention of the widespread arrests made by members of Ministry of Intelligence and Security, Basij, Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), plainclothes and other agents, he admitted that only 500 people have been arrested by the State Security Forces.
He acknowledged that Rajabzadeh, mullahs' police chief in Tehran and 120 of his agents were injured, a number of their vehicles and motorcycles were set ablaze during clashes on Sunday with people in Tehran. He referred to the participants in the protest as "Moharb," (enemy of God) adding that "those who want to overthrow the regime, have shown that the issue is not being critical of the [regime's] past policies but their goal is to overthrow the regime."
In a bid to cover up killing of two youths by running over them, he said: “On the day of Ashura, the rioters used a stolen vehicle and run over two people and killed them. Efforts to find these people still continue. They aimed to strike a blow to the revolution.” Deputy Commander of the State Security Force (SSF), Ahmad-Reza Radan, had earlier denied the incident altogether and claimed that two of the demonstrators were killed in accidents. Brazen lies by the regime’s officials come at a time when video captures of the barbaric crime have been widely displayed in many internet websites.
The Iranian Resistance warns against execution of those arrested as people who are “waging war on system” and calls on all international organizations, particularly the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and special rapporteurs on arbitrary executions and torture to adopt binding measures to free all those detained are prevent their execution.

JUST IN: The university students in Elm o Sanat University are chanting: "this month is month of blood, said Ali will be overthrown". The students have clashed with the regime's forces. The students are angry over the killing of the protesters on Sunday (Ashura).
Similar action has been reported in other universities such as Tehran University where they refuse to go to classes. The students have declared hunger strike.

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Anti-regime protests on night of Ashura at Tehran’s Kaj Square
According to a statement by the National Council of Resistance of Iran on Sunday, at around 20:30 local time, a large number of people in Tehran gathered at Kaj Square, northwest of Saadat Abad, and chanted anti-regime slogans. Drivers honked their horns in support of the people. Protestors chanted, “Muharram is the month of blood, Yazid will be overthrown,” comparing Yazid, the 7th century tyrant and caliph, to the clerical regime’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei. NCRI added: They also chanted, “O, Hojjat Ibn al-Hassan, uproot the source of injustice,” “Death to Khamenei,” and other anti-Khamenei slogans. The state Security Forces (SSF), the paramilitary Bassij Force, and plainclothes agents who had masked their faces, used knives and nunchucks to attack and strike at protestors. A number of the protestors were injured and at least one person was arrested. The Bassij agents also broke the windshield and windows of cars that honked their horns in support of the protestors.

At least 5 protestors slain during Ashura uprising
According to the latest reports from the Social Headquarters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), at least 5 protestors were martyred at the hands of the regime’s forces during the courageous uprising of the people and youth in Tehran on Sunday, December 27, 2009. The dead bodies were taken to the morgue at Kahrizak (southern Tehran).

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Tehran Imam Hossein and Ferdowsi Squares - Scenes of Demonstrations and Clashes
The Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran reported on December 26, 2009, that People chanting “This month is the month of bloodshed, Seyed Ali (Khamanei) will be overthrown” NCRI added a large number of people are demonstrating in Tehran today that starting at Ferdowsi Square. They are chanting “Death to dictator” and “this is the months of bloodshed, Seyed Ali (Khamanei) will be overthrown” and they are moving towards Enqelab Square. Also a clash between massive crowd who have gathered in Imam Hossein Square and the oppressive forces has been reported. Regime agents and motorists from Special Guards Unit are trying to disperse people using batons and teargas. They have closed all streets and roads leading to Imam Hossein Square and are stopping people from moving to that direction. The regime's forces attacked and beat intensely the mourners of the Shiite ritual, Ashura. Nevertheless, people are moving towards Enqelab Square pushing aside suppressive forces who are trying to stop them.

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Ayatollah Montazeri dies at age 87

Iran's most senior dissident cleric, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, died on Sunday. He was 87. Montazeri had accused the country's ruling Islamic establishment of imposing dictatorship in the name of Islam.
Hoping to limit attention on the funeral, authorities banned foreign media coverage of it and barred reporters from traveling to Qom. Montazeri's grandson, Nasser Montazeri, said he died in his sleep overnight. The Web site of Iranian state television quoted doctors as saying Montazeri had suffered from asthma and arteriosclerosis, a disease that thickens and hardens arteries. Montazeri had once been designated to succeed Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the late founder of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, as the supreme leader — but the two had a falling out a few months before Khomeini died of cancer in 1989 over the executions of 30,000 political prisoners in Iran who mosly were the supporters of People’s Mojahedin of Iran. Montazeri tried to persuade Khomeini of stopping the executions of what he called “a few thousands every day” and to at least “halt the execution of the pregnant female political prisoners”.
Montazeri recently asked without naming names, Khamenie to resignate as the supreme leader of the Isalmic regime. Regardin this issue In a massege by the Iranian opposition leader, Mrs. Rajavi, she asked the Iranian people to insist on what Montazeri proclaimed before he died.
Montazeri was one of the leaders of the revolution and he helped draft the nation's new constitution, which was based on a concept called velayat-e faqih, or rule by Islamic jurists. That concept enshrined a political role for Islamic clerics in the new system. But a deep ideological rift soon developed with Khomeini. Montazeri envisioned the Islamic experts as advisers to the government — but without outright control to rule themselves. Taking the opposing view, Khomeini and his circle of clerics consolidated absolute power. Montazeri was increasingly cast by authorities as an outsider and misguided theologian.
During the late 1980s, Montazeri was gradually stripped of his official duties and became the focus of a high-level campaign to undermine his credentials as a leader and theologian.
In 1997, Montazeri was placed under house arrest in Qom قم , 80 miles (130 kilometers) south of Tehran, after saying Khamenei (newly valye faghih) wasn't qualified to rule.
The penalty was lifted in 2003, but Montazeri remained defiant, saying the freedom that was supposed to follow the 1979 revolution never happened.
Montazeri is expected to be buried inside the shrine of Masoumeh, a female saint revered by Shiite Muslims, according to news reports. The shrine is in the center of Qom.

UN General Assembly censures serious and persistent rights violations in Iran
On December 18, 2009, the United Nations General Assembly passed a strongly-worded resolution condemning “Serious, ongoing and recurring human rights violations” in Iran, including the increasing number of hangings and stonings, as well as instances of discrimination, brutal suppression of women and ethnic and religious minorities, perpetration of violence and intimidation by state-controlled militias against protestors leading to a large number of deaths and injuries, mass trials, obtaining of forced confessions through torture, and rape.The resolution was adopted despite the fact that the clerical regime had strived in world capitals and in Geneva and New York, over the last several months to strike it down. Enticing proposals as well as intimidations by the regime failed to prevent adoption of the resolution at the Third Committee of the UN General Assembly. This time around the regime used all its capacity to force those in favor of the resolution to abstain and thus thwart the adoption of the resolution at the UN General Assembly.

Young man executed for alleged offence committed at 17
A 23-year old Kurdish man Mosleh Zamani, who was 17 at the time of the alleged offence, was hanged in Dizel-Abad prison of Kermanshah, western Iran, on Thursday, after spending 6 years in jail. This cruel act was carried out despite the fact that on numerous occasions the private complainant in the case had expressed her disapproval of carrying out the death sentence and there has been an extensive campaign in Iran and outside to save his life.

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Mothers of uprising victims and detainees rally in Tehran
About 200 mothers of those killed or detained during the nationwide uprising in Iran and families of political prisoners gathered at Abnama Square in Tehran’s Laleh Park on Saturday, December 12, 2009. They continued their rally by marching towards Amirabad Street and later Fatemi intersection. The mothers’ protest, which has been regularly staged since the start of the nationwide uprising every week on Saturdays, took place despite the fact that the Iranian regime’s State Security Forces (SSF) and plainclothes agents issued threats and insults, and violently confronted the protestors to prevent a rally. They blatantly threatened the mothers with death.More than 200 families of those detained during the December 7 protests also gathered in front of the regime’s Revolutionary Court hoping to receive information about the whereabouts of their children and relatives and to demand their immediate release. The detainees of the December 7 rally are mostly young girls and boys who are kept in solitary confinements at wards 209 and 240 of the notorious Evin prison. A large number of the detainees have also been transferred to safe-houses and other detention centers of the regime, and their fates remain unknown. The regime’s suppressive organs refrain from responding to families worried about the fate of their loved ones. Families traveling from the provinces to Tehran to find out about the status of their relatives are particularly under more pressure.

Iranian regime’s Parliament Speaker totally rejected hand over of enriched uranium
Ali Larijani, Speaker of Majlis (parliament), on Sunday totally rejected the hand over of enriched uranium in exchange for fuel. While he could not conceal his disappointment towards the latest remarks by the U.S. President Obama on the clerical regime, he said, “There is not going to be another opportunity to discuss deceitful ideas such as exchange of material. People of Iran have realized the scope of your remarks and dishonest proposals and will not allow you to play with their national interests.” In a ludicrous manner he tried to threaten foreign powers and said, “People will give you a powerful answer by coming to the scene.” (State-run TV, December 13)With his remarks, Larijani cleared all ambiguities and showed that the regime is not prepared to abandon its nuclear programs by negotiations and incentive packages. Continuing talks and giving concessions to the regime only helps and encourages it to advance its nuclear program. The religious regime ruling Iran, which is unable to overcome crises and internal rift while millions of people are calling for its downfall on the streets, considers obtaining nuclear bomb as a means to save the regime and its ominous rule. Giving up nuclear projects would only expedite the regime’s process of disintegration and downfall.

Iranian people’s uprising targeted "leadership of revolution"
According to Natioanl Council of Resistance of Iran, Dec. 11, Kayhan state-run daily affiliated to regime’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei expressed fear on continuing protests against the clerical regime and warned that the uprising ’has targeted the core of the power, the central point of the guidance of the system and the leadership of the revolution.’ In an article entitled ’Hesitation not allowed,’ in its daily column ’Day’s note,’ wrote on Thursday: ’22nd of Khordad (June 12, the day of mullahs’ sham presidential election) in fact was a pretext for enemies to settle accounts with the revolution and the pillars of the system… If in the first days of the conspiracy, the claims about fraud [in the election] and slogan of ’Where is my vote?!’ took some people to the streets, the curtains gradually went up and the issue changed and the slogans against the pillars of the system and the principles of the revolution replaced them.’Kayhan added:’ (They) are from the same counter-revolutionary groups that always existed during the past 30 years of the revolution and the [Islamic] state. There is no political system without opposition… Today the enemy has targeted the core of the power, the central point of the guidance of the system and the leadership of the revolution.’ The daily described the current situation as ’gloomy’ and full of ’conspiracies” and called on the clerical authorities to stop the uprisings by more suppression without any ’neglect or hesitation.’

Iraqi government falsely claims it has reached agreement with Ashraf residents on their displacement
The secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran said in a statement on December 12, 2009, that while the international community has been enraged by plans to forcibly displace Ashraf residents and Amnesty International has strongly denounced such an act, some international media have told the Iranian Resistance in their contacts with the Secretariat of the NCRI that the spokesman of the Iraqi government had told their correspondents based in Baghdad that the government had reached an agreement with the residents of Ashraf on their displacement planned for December 15 and had obtained their consent. This claim is totally unfounded and untrue. It is only intended to deceive the public opinion. The Forcible displacement of Ashraf residents is absolutely unlawful and infringes the International Humanitarian Law and International Human Rights Law and will lead to a humanitarian catastrophe. The international human rights organizations and distinguished international lawyers have reiterated the illegality of such a measure.While the Iraqi government is speaking about a bogus agreement with Ashraf residents, the criminal siege on the camp has extremely intensified and it is now even affecting food stuff. Since Thursday, December 10, deliveries to Ashraf of food, including meat and vegetables, and hygiene products have been blocked. The food stuff is rotting outside the camp while waiting for clearance of the representative of the Prime Ministry committee responsible for suppression of Ashraf residents. Furthermore, doctors, medicines and fuel are still barred from entering Camp Ashraf. On a related story, the EP Intergroup calls on United Nations to intervene to avert violence against Camp Ashraf residents Friends of a Free Iran intergroup in the European Parliament, which consists of a large group of MEPs from various political tendencies expresses its deep concern over the looming crisis in Camp Ashraf, Northern Iraq, which has been the home for decades to around 3400 members and supporters of the PMOI/MEK or the People’s Mojahedin of Iran.Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki, under intense pressure from the oppressive mullah’s regime in Tehran, has ordered the forcible displacement of these unarmed civilians from their homes on Tuesday 15th December. The Iraqi authorities intend to relocate the majority of the Ashraf residents to a desert compound in Southern Iraq, an area already virtually under the complete control of Iran and its proxy terrorist insurgents. Such a move will spell the certain death of Ashraf residents. It seems possible that senior figures from the PMOI may also be deported to Iran where they will face certain torture and death.As we have repeatedly pointed out, the residents of Camp Ashraf were each, individually, guaranteed safe-keeping by the US military. All 3400 were collectively designated as protected persons under the 4th Geneva Convention. In April this year the European Parliament passed a tough resolution demanding full protection for the residents of Ashraf, calling on the Iraqi government to end its siege of the camp and allow humanitarian aid to its residents and rejecting any forcible displacement inside Iraq. Notwithstanding our resolution, the Iraqi government ordered an attack on Camp Ashraf in July which resulted in the death of 11 innocent residents and injuries to many hundreds. 36 of the PMOI supporters were held in illegal custody for 72 days and only released after widespread international protests and the fact that many of them were near death after a protracted hunger strike.We urge the Secretary General of the United Nations and his Special Representative in Iraq and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to intervene to avert needless bloodshed and violence against the innocent residents of Ashraf.

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Uprising against the clerical regime in Iran
According to NCRI and reports from hundreds of eye witness, hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated in various parts of Tehran against the clerical regime and fought back the suppressive forces yesterday Dec. 07, 09Protesters in Enghelab Square and streets of Enghelab, Amir Abad Shomali, 16 Azar, Palestine, Kakh and Vali Asr junction are marching and clashing with agents of suppressive State Security Force. They are chanting, “Leader rules like God, people live like beggar,” “Down with Khamenei” and “Down with dictator” and express their hatred against the clerical dictatorship despite unprecedented suppression.Clashes have been reported at the Fakhr-Razi Street between youths throwing stones at the security forces that attacked them using tear gas. Mullahs’ regime has parked special vehicles in various locations to carry detained protesters to unknown locations.In Somayye Street, arrested students have been taken to buses designated to transfer detained protesters.Clashes also have been reported at other locations between demonstrators and the oppressive forces such as Salsabil Junction, Imam Hossein and Baharestan Square.
The clashes between university students and the regime's forces continue today Dec. 08, 09 as well. The people are responsing to the request of the students to be helped. There are reports which indicate that the people are heading towards the Tehran university to support the students.

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Tehran’s Friday prayer leader: There should not be “slightest mercy” in your heart when fighting opponents
The Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran issued a statement on December 5, 2009 stating that Ahmad Jannati, leader of the Friday prayer in Tehran, in his sermon on Friday, December 4, said: Opponents of the clerical regime are “Enemies of God.” He then continued saying: “Those who insult Bassij [paramilitary force] are traitors” and stressed that in the fight against the opponents there should not be “slightest mercy” in your hearts. He then threatened those who protest against the regime and said: “Fighting the regime… would cost dear for the enemies” and added: “Those who betray the regime will be punished for what they do.” (Fars state-run news agency, December 4(NCRI’s statement continues: in a bid to raise the morale of the Bassij force he praised them for the crimes they have committed and said: “We should kiss the hands and arms of the Bassijis.” NCRI added: in a statement released by the State Security Force (SSF), it says: “The police will deal harshly with any gathering outside the designated places.”(IRNA state-run news agency, December 3)In addition, the commander of SSF had earlier warned that, “Killing one person to save the lives of a hundred is not considered as violence.”The warnings issued these days by officials of the clerical regime are aimed at intensifying the atmosphere of fear and intimidation in society in order to prevent widespread participation of people and particularly students in the demonstrations planned for December 7, the Students Day.

Internet down in Iran ahead of planned protests
AFP, Tehran, Dec. 5, 2009
Most of the Iranian capital’s Internet links with the outside world were down on Saturday, two days ahead of planned demonstrations by opponents of President Mahmoud Ahamdinejad. Sources close to Iran’s technical services told AFP the cut was the result of “a decision by the authorities” rather than a technical breakdown, but telecommunications ministry officials were unavailable for comment.Internet lines, texting and at times even mobile phone connections have often been cut or scrambled since Ahamdinejad’s contested re-election in June, but this was the first such occurrence a full two days before planned protests. The elite Revolutionary Guards and other authorities have warned they will crack down on any attempt by regime opponents to hijack the event to mount further protests against Ahamdinejad.Tehran on December 7 marks the 1953 killing by the shah’s security forces of three students, just months after a US-backed coup toppled popular Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadeq.

Majority of Norwegian Parliament dedicate their declaration in suport of Ashraf residents to Mrs. Rajavi
In a parliamentary session in Norwegian Parliament in Oslo with the presence of Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, Marit Nybakk, Vice President of the Norwegian Parliament, as well as a number of members of the Parliament from different parties, the declaration by the majority of the Parliament members in suport of Ashraf residents was announced. Morten Hoglund, Chairman of Foreign Affairs Committee of Norwegian Parliament, on behalf of the majority of Parliament, presented the statement signed by 91 members of the Parliament to Mrs. Rajavi.