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Iranian resistance announced in its statement today May 12 that Rafsanjani’s entry as a presidential candidate, despite Khamenei’s widespread efforts to prevent his candidacy, has given unprecedented dimensions to the regime’s internal crisis and crack. In the last few days, Khamenei, through various means including through the Minister of Intelligence and Hossein Shariatmadari, editor of Kayhan, described Rafsanjani as Mohareb (in war with God) and  “corrupt on earth” who deserves to be prosecuted and punished.
Registration of Rahim Mashaie, Ahmadinejad’s preferred candidate, who has been described by Khamenei and his faction as the inspiration of the diversion flow, has grew religious dictatorship’s crack and internal crisis much deeper.
On the other hand, repeated split and fragmentation within Khamenei’s faction indicates the depth of the crisis in the regime of Velayet-e-Faqih (Supreme leadership). Gangs within this faction who had already agreed to nominate one candidate for each gang, failed to overcome their infighting and from each gang, several people registered. For instance, Ghalibaf, the mayor of Tehran, Velayati, former Foreign Minister, and Haddad Adel, whose daughter is Khamenei’s son wife, enrolled separately. In addition, from Khamenei’s faction a number of other people, including Manouchehr Mottaki, Abutorabi, Sadeq Lankarani and Saeed Jalili, nuclear negotiator, have nominated themselves.
Mrs. Rajavi President-Elect of the Iranian Resistance said:
With Rafsanjani’s candidacy for the mullahs’ presidential elections, the Iranian regime has now undergone a significant change. Khamenei’s centralized and one-sided power that he had achieved after wars of Kuwait (1991), Afghanistan (2001), Iraq and disarmament of the Iranian opposition (2003), in the process of contraction of the religious dictatorship, led to 8 years presidency of Ahmadinejad. Four years ago, Khamenei and Ahmadinejad were able to suppress the Iranian people’s uprising, but Ahmadinejad entered a grueling competition with Khamenei. Now this era has ended and with the entry of Rafsanjani and Rahim Mashaie into the power struggle against Khamenei, the process of the regime’s disintegration and debilitation has intensified unprecedentedly and will accelerate its certain fall. Rafsanjani’s candidacy who ridiculed Khamenei’s slogans of “Economic Epic ' and 'Political epic', is a full length mirror of the crisis of falling of a regime that since 1980, has been fed by four major wars, the first of which was the eight year war with Iraq that Khomeini called it 'A Grace of God”.

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On the verge of the Iranian regime's presidential elections, the mullahs has taken various steps to disconnect or limit Internet and phone communications in the county. According to the Iranian resistance statement, on May 4 Internet speed in Iran was severely slowed down and methods of bypassing filtering and accessing websites outside of Iran were deactivated. In the meantime, a large portion of mobile phone networks became distorted starting May 8th. Iran’s mobile phone company has said: “We haven’t witnessed any special problem.”
Prior to this, Mehdi Akhavan Beh-Abadi, secretary of the mullahs’ Cyberspace High Council, had described “bypassing filtering software to access social networks in the Internet as a crime.”
Internet use is only possible through IPs registered by the communications company belonging to the Revolutionary Guards, in order to have control over the users’ cyber activities.
The regime’s repressive organ known as FATA Police (Iran’s cyber police) has recently issued a regulation conditioning any use of Internet on presenting a national code and user passwords. Owners of all Internet cafes are obligated to register full specifications of all customers. Otherwise the Internet café will be shut down. Furthermore, installing any anti-filtering software on the computers and withholding any anti-filtering software to access filtered sites, or introducing anti-filtering sites to users have all been banned.
Following the 2009 uprising, in order to prevent another outburst of the people’s wrath, the mullahs’ senior officials have allocated a high number of IRGC members to identify Internet users in measures dubbed “confronting the soft war”. According to Mohammad Ali Asoudi, IRGC deputy of cultural and propaganda affairs, “20,000 men of the IRGC are active in various cultural areas to confront the soft war.” He said these measures are taking place in “implementing the supreme leader’s orders on confronting the soft war”.

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According to Hrana news agency, the intelligence agents have arrested Parisa Shahidi a Bahai citizen of city of Gorgan in Iran. Based on this report on May 7 the intelligence agents of Gorgan arrested Parisa Shahidi after searching her home. She's transferred to an unknown location. Parisa Shahidi is the wife of Kamal Kashani the other Bahai citizen who is been in Rajai Shahr prison in Karaj with 5 other Bahai citizens for more than 6 months now.

In another related story, 5 years after seven Bahai leaders were arrested in Iran, members of the faith are campaigning to increase attention to their plight in hopes that authorities will release them. The seven informal leaders of the Bahai faith, which has no clergy, were arrested in 2008 and given 20-year prison terms. The religion was founded in Iran in the 19th century and is anathema to the Islamic clerical regime. The Iranian regime tried the Bahai leaders on charges of spying for foreigners, spreading corruption, undermining Islam and cooperating with Israel.

Iran: 15 executions in two days

At dawn of Wednesday, May 8, in a mass execution attempts, 11 prisoners in Ghezel Hessar prison in the city of Karaj were hanged. Abbas Beparva, Abolfazl Kardeh, Maysam, Adel Hashemi, and two brothers Amir and Hamid Hashemi are just a few of the victims and their bodies were transferred to Bibi Hakimeh in Karaj outskirts to be handed over to their families. They were from a group of 22 inmates transferred to solitary cells in two groups on May 6 and 7 for execution.
Also on May 9, 3 inmates in Shahrood prison and 1 inmate in Semnan prison were hanged. In another news, and according to NCRI, the Iranian resistance, 3 prisoners were hanged on Tuesday in the central city of Isfahan.
On Monday 3 other men were hanged in public in the city of Kermanshah, western Iran. No information was given about their identities.
All the victims had been sentenced to death on drug related charges.

A 24 year old young man was lashed in public 110 times on Tuesday. The victim who was identified with his initials M.S. was paraded in a nearby city of Abyek in Qazvin province, before being lashed in public.
 

Iraqis’ massive demos in six provinces on “Our Option: Maintaining Our Dignity” Friday

According to INTV, Iranian National TV in exile, the Iraqi people’s massive demonstrations in six provinces of Baghdad, Al Anbar, Salahadin, Neinawa, Kirkuk and Diyala entitled “Our Option: Maintaining Our Dignity” on Friday emphasized on rejecting any negotiations with Maliki’s government. The cities of Ramadi, Fallujah, Samarra, Kirkuk, 13 mosques in Mosul, Kirkuk, Baquba, Jalula, and the Baghdad districts of al-Azamiya, al-Ghazaliya, al-Ameriya, to name a few witnessed huge rallies.
Al Jazeera TV reported the Iraqi people said Maliki’s government forced them to burn their demands and now we see Maliki stepping down as the solution to relive Iraq from the political, economic and security crisis. Al Jazeera reported in Fallujah the demonstration speaker accused Maliki of being behind the recent explosions to create a sectarian sedition and targeting mosques in Baghdad. The speaker also held the new ‘awakening’ forces under Maliki’s command responsible for assassinating sheikhs and university professors in the past few days. According to INTV the Iraqi demonstrators set fire to the posters of Khamenie and Ahmadi nejad and protested against the meddling of the Iranian regime in their country.

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The Italian Senate majority issued a declaration supporting the Iranian Resistance and Ashraf and Liberty residents, and condemning the mullahs’ human rights violations and nuclear program. The signatories included two Senate deputy presidents, four members of the Senate governing board, four commission chairmen, two group leaders and two deputy ministers.

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Yesterday May 11, in front of the Parliament here in Ottawa, Iranina-Canadians held a demonstration opposing the sham election in Iran and announced that our vote is toppling the regime. They also demanded an end to the silence in respect to the Iranian residents of Libery and Ashraf camp in Iraq and their safety. Similar protests were held in Toronto, Paris, Vienna and Utoberry in Sweden.

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Canada’s Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird spoke at a two-day conference (May 10&11) hosted by Monk School of Global Affairs at the university of Toronto and supported by Canada's Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada, beaming social media, video and audio to Iran and Iranians around the world called "Global dialogue affairs on the future of Iran". He said: We stand with the courageous activists inside Iran...with the dedicated Canadian diaspora outside Iran ...and with freedom-loving people everywhere who want a brighter future for your country. I refuse to believe that the clerical military dictatorship of Ayatollah Khamenei, his enforcers in the IRGC and Basij, or his agents in Hezbollah, represents the future of Iran. He said: Let me be clear: we understand the vast system of domestic repression and human rights abuses of Ayatollah Khamenei’s regime.  We bear witness to the brutal tyranny run by the Basij and the IRGC, who rape and torture the Iranian people. I believe the Iranian people want change.  Whether change comes quickly or gradually, the Iranian people will not forever tolerate the hypocrisy and corruption of the regime; the wanton waste of its resources; and the transformation of a proud nation into a pariah, said John Baird. Prime Minister Stephen Harper and I are absolutely resolute in this view: the Ayatollah Khamenei regime remains the greatest threat to international peace and security in the world today. We are taking every effort to halt the reckless pursuit of nuclear weapons capabilities while maintaining exemptions that reduce the impact on the Iranian people. According to political analysts this conference, despite its efforts that desired to bond the people of distant places, paved a roadway towards the so called reformists faction within the Iranian regime. They point out that the exclusion of the well known Iranian political figures who have been active towards the toppling the Iranian regime in its entirety, although not unusual but was disappointing. Canada severed diplomatic relations with the Iranian regime in September, 2012.