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Iranian regime admits conducting Liberty missile attack

A special crackdown entity linked to Khamenei’s office officially declared the missile attack against Camp Liberty was carried out by the Iranian regime.
The Amariun Base published a document in its website and wrote: “The missile barrage against the monafeqin (a term used by Iranian regime for PMOI) camp in Iraq by Iran: Dozens of missiles landed in a site where elements of the terrorist PMOI group are held near the Iraqi capital, leaving six dead. This camp is located near the Baghdad International Airport.  It also published Kobler’s recent remarks saying: “The United Nations spokesman in Iraq on Saturday reported of Iran’s missile attack against Camp Liberty near Baghdad. He went on to emphasize a number of Iraqi soldiers were also wounded in this attack. Furthermore, a source in the Iraqi Interior Ministry said 7 members of the terrorist PMOI group were killed in this attack.”

The missile attacks on defenceless members of PMOI in Camp Liberty has outraged the international communities. The Liberty residents want to return to Camp Ahraf where they say they have better protection against future missile attacks. Most members of Ashraf residents were transferred to Liberty a year a go in order to be interviewed by the UNHCR and transferred to third countries. According to Mr. Taher Bumedra, UN's caseworker for Ashraf residents, no country is willing to take them on. He warned that if they're not return to Ashraf, we'll witness more dead.

In order to demand the respect of the Liberty's desire to return to Ashraf, a group of Iranian-Canadians gathered in front of the US embassy in Ottawa on Wed. The Iranian-Canadians shouted: Shame on Kobler, Shame on UN and "Return Liberty residence to Ashraf.

Iranian Guards commander killed in Syria

According to Iranian regime's media, an Iranian Revolutionary Guard commander has been killed inside Syria by Free Army of Syria battling Iranian regime's close ally President Bashar al-Assad. The Iranian embassy in Lebanon said the dead man, Hessam Khoshnevis, also known as Hassan Shateri  was in charge of Tehran’s reconstruction assistance in Lebanon. It said he was killed by “armed terrorist groups”, a label used by the Syrian government to describe Assad’s foes, on the road to Lebanon as he returned from Damascus. A Syrian opposition commander said the attack was carried out by rebel fighters near the Syrian town of Zabadani close to the Lebanese border.

 

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One of Iran's notorious mullahs called Mehdi Taeb, the head of Camp Ammar in a speech for Bassijis said: Syria is our 35th strategic state. If the enemy attacks us and wants to capture Syria or Khuzestan(Southern province in Iran), priority goes to Syria. He added: We are engaged in Syria. The frontline is there. Syria had an army but they were not able to manage the war inside their cities so Iran recommended the formation of Bassij. Syrian Bassij was formed with 60,000 personal and it was able to take over the streets. Taeb is one of the main instigators and perpetrators of repression in Iran, especially during the 2009 uprising. He's in charge of the Ammar Camp and confronts the so called "cultural invasion and soft war". The Pasdarans such as:  Saeed Ghasemi, Hossein Allah-Karam, Mehdi Mandegari, Mehdi KuchekZadeh, Hamid Rasaee and Ravanbakhsh, are the leaders of all repressive organs within the Iranian regime's system. 

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Iman, B 29 and Sabbah Loveymi 38 were executed in Shiraz and Ahwaz last week. Iman was executed in public. The Iranian regime also executed 4 prisoners in the Zahedan prison. The victims ranged from 20 years of age to 38. 7 other male prisoners were sentenced to execution by the Iranian regime's court. The increase in public hanging and executions has raised international outrage. On Friday February 8th the Belgian MPs demanded an urgent action to stop the wave of executions in Iran.

 

US lawmakers urge release of Christian in Iran

Agence France Press reported on Feb. 15 that US lawmakers on Thursday pressed for the release of an Iranian-American pastor imprisoned in Tehran over his work with underground churches, urging the use of all diplomatic efforts. Abedini, who converted from Islam to Christianity, was arrested in September on a return trip to Iran. He was sentenced last month to eight years in prison on charges of disrupting national security by promoting underground churches. The Iranian regime's constitution recognizes the rights of several religious minorities including Christians, but the clerical regime has targeted converted former Muslims.

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In the last 48 hours 12 earthquakes shook the province of Kerman. The strongest was 4.2 in Rishter scale. There are no reports of injuries or dead thus far.

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According to "The Foundry", Feb. 15, German Authorities on January 21, at Dusseldorf Airport discovered a check for 300 million bolivars (about million) in the luggage of Tahmasb Mazaheri, Iran’s former central bank chief from 2007 to 2008, as he arrived from Turkey. The check was drawn from the Bank of Venezuela. When asked about it, Mazaheri claimed it was issued by the Venezuelan government in order to build 10,000 apartments in Venezuela. Mazaheri is also the director of an “International Development Bank” that is part of the Export and Development Bank of Iran. The bank is registered in Venezuela as an international bank, but it has offices only in Caracas, and none are accessible to the public.
Both the Export and Development Bank of Iran and the International Development Bank have been put on the U.S. sanctions list. On February 4, Venezuela’s opposition declared the incident as a “clear irregularity” and demanded explanations from the Venezuelan government. Ailing President Hugo Chavez has long flaunted his closeness to Iranian regime as an “axis of unity.” Last Tuesday, the Iranian ambassador told the Venezuelan media that the money was for Kayson Venezuela, a Tehran-based construction company that claims to have built thousands of homes in Venezuela in cooperation with Caracas. The Iranian regime has invested in industrial operations and created financial institutions in Venezuela that may be used to evade U.N. sanctions, according to the American Enterprise Institute.
This is not the first time that foreign authorities have suspected dubious behaviour from both countries: In 2008, Turkish customs inspectors intercepted 22 containers bound for the VenIran “tractor factory” in Bolivar, Venezuela, that were labelled as “tractor parts” but contained chemicals that could be used for explosives. The discovery of a million check in the hands of a senior Iranian official again highlights the secretive nature of ties between Iran and Venezuela and the ongoing need for scrutiny of the relationship between the two countries.