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According to a report by the INTV (Iranian National Television) on 28 June in the seventh month of the Iraqi people’s uprising and while the sit-ins entered their 188th day on Friday, millions of Iraqis rallied against Nouri Al-Maliki and Iran’s meddling in this country. Six provinces including Baghdad, Al Anbar, Salahadin, Neinawa, Kirkuk and Diyala were scenes of massive rallies. These demonstrations were staged to express the Iraqi people’s hatred and abhorrence regarding Iran’s role in the 2006 Samarra shrine bombing and the fact that Maliki was aware of it.
The remarks of former Multi-National Forces commander in Iraq General George Casey in the Iranian Resistance’s June 22nd gathering in Villepinte near Paris and the revelation of Iran’s direct role in the 2006 Samarra shrine bombing that led to an all-out devastating sectarian war in Iraq and left hundreds of thousands of Iraqis killed, was the main issue of this week’s speeches in these demonstrations.
According to Baghdad TV in the cities of Samarra, Ramadi, Fallujah and areas affiliated to these cities millions of people took part in the Friday unity prayers and demonstrations.

 

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The Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran stated on June 26th that removing T-walls (T shaped protective walls) from Liberty’s vicinity that started on June 22nd is still going on. Employing Iraqi army forces and resources, the Ashraf suppressive committee has loaded and removed a large number of T-walls from the area by using dozens of cranes and flatbed trucks and many other trucks during past four days. With the relocation of Ashraf residents to Liberty starting in February 2012, Iraqi forces removed 17,500 T-walls from Camp Liberty and piled them up beyond the camp’s perimeter walls despite extensive protests of residents and their representatives. These T-walls had been installed by the U.S. forces to protect the trailers inside the camp.
Following the February 9 missile attack, which resulted in 8 deaths and 100 injuries, the residents and their representatives, through hundreds of letters, meetings and phone calls to U.S., Iraqi, and United Nations officials, demanded the return of the T-walls. However, the Iraqi government officially opposed the return of the T-walls.
NCRI added: Hasty removal of the T-walls from Liberty’s vicinity after the June 15 missile attack is indicative of ominous intention of the Iranian regime and its puppet regime in Iraq for inflicting more casualties on the residents in next attacks.
On June 24, the U.S. government announced, “given ongoing threats to the camp”, “the United States renews its call on the Government of Iraq to help ensure the security of the camp” and “this is a matter of extreme urgency”. However, all indications show that in a condition that expeditious and collective relocation of residents to third countries is not feasible, the only way to provide relative security to the residents is their return to Ashraf.
 

Kermanshah residents resist raid by repressive agents

The residents of the Elahiya district in the western Iranian city of Kermanshah resisted a raid conducted by the Iranian regime's repressive forces intending to demolish their homes. This raid took place during the past week and due to the people’s resistance, the repressive agents were forced to leave the area without destroying the people’s homes. In another news a large group of people and youths in the city of Isfahan chanted anti-regime slogans on Monday, June 24. The protesters in different parts and districts of Isfahan chanted ‘Free political prisoners’ and ‘Death to Dictator’.
The security forces tried to disperse the protesters gathered on Kazemi Street.
Also on Wednesday, June 26 many people in Tehran held a ceremony for martyred political prisoner and labour activist Afshin Osanlou.
Workers, drivers of Tehran’s Bus Drivers Syndicate, youth and families in Tehran continuously visited Osanlu’s mother at their house and held a ceremony to pay their tributes to Afshin Osanlu.
At the same time, state security forces and plain clothes agents had surrounded the area controlling people’s commuting.

Iranian official signals no scaling back in nuclear activity

Reuters reported on June 28 that Iran will press ahead with its uranium enrichment program, its nuclear energy chief said on Friday, signalling no change.
Fereydoun Abbasi-Davani, head of the Islamic Republic’s Atomic Energy Organization, said production of nuclear fuel would “continue in line with our declared goals. The enrichment linked to fuel production will also not change.”
Speaking through an interpreter to reporters at a nuclear energy conference in St Petersburg, Russia, he said work at Iran’s underground Fordow plant - which the West wants Iran to close - would also continue.

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HRANA News Agency reported that the 36 civilian activists 8 of whom were women and were going to hold a ceremony on Sahand mountain slopes were arrested and beaten while they were passing the main bridge on the Oroumiyeh lake. According to Hrana, the security forces have transferred the activists to Shahid Kalantari police station, while insulting and beating them. Some activists are injured and one woman is in an unfavorable condition. The security forces transferred a number of arrested activists to Oroumiyeh intelligence center and a number of them are still in

 

 Shahid Kalantari police station.

 

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A group of refugees among them several Iranians in Germany have been on hunger strike since last week. They are protesting their medical and economic constraints and their restircition to travel. They are demanding abolishing forced living in a refugee camp in Germany. Some are on Dry hunger strike meaning they're not even drinking water, and several people have been transferred to hospital. National Council of Resistance of Iran declared its support

 

 for those Iranian refugees on hunger strike.