Sloganeers Protesting respond to the upcoming election in Iran

My vote = overthrown of the regime

Down with Khamanaie

My vote is overthrown of the regime

Down with Khamanaie

My vote is overthrown of the regime (written on the withe board of university class room)

Documentary report on atrocious conditions of Vakeel Abad Prison in Mashhad, northeast Iran

A humanitarian catastrophe in Vakeel Abad Prison of Mashhad in northeast Iran
Learn more about deteriorating living conditions in the prisons of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Despite the winter cold and prisoners’ needs to heating appliances and adequate care, most of the inmates of Vakeel Abad Prison of Mashhad were deprived of adequate supplies during the winter season.

Inmates are forced to go to the prison courtyard early in the morning, and despite the rain or cold weather they are kept there for long hours. If it starts to snow they have a very thin blanket to sit on and another blanket (if they are able to procure one) to cover their heads with, which of course is not enough at all. At times there have been cases where the prisoners, suffering from severe sleep deprivation, have fallen asleep in the courtyard under the snow, and when they wake up they find themselves covered with a layer of snow.

Iran’s “elections” – Supreme Leader is trying to maintain his absolute rule

Iran’s upcoming elections, on February 26^th, will be one of the most important turning points ever for the rulers in Iran. Despite the Iranian people’s indifference, but the elections is the scene of severe dogfights between the factions within the government. The Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, although is in a weaker position than he was last year but tries to maintain his power. His power, however, is challenged by Rafsanjani and Rouhani, the main figures on the other side.

Iran: “no one welcoming regime elections” in Torbat-e Jom

A driver in the city of Torbat-e Jom in eastern Iran said in a short interview on Tuesday, February 16^th on the upcoming twin elections in Iran: “In Torbat-e Jom there is no place for the state elections and the people are not welcoming such a development. There are no jobs. All construction projects are suspended. Lesser companies are providing commuting services. A driver who earned 500,000 rials last year is now making 250,000 rials ($70).

Very few people will vote in Ghouchan, an Iranian says

In our city, named Ghouchan

, unemployment is off the roof and many youths with bachelor’s and master’s degrees are unemployed, an Iranian from the city of Ghouchan said on Tuesday, February 16^th.

“There are people who have three jobs, but their living conditions are still poor. Youths in Ghouchan have no recreation and there is no official to follow up on these issues. The mosaic factory workers have not received their wages for 8 months, but they don’t raise their voice fearing they might lose their jobs. They only have very limited protest rallies. The number of people who will be taking part in the elections will be very low and no one will be voting,” he said.

Iran: political prisoner Ali Amir-gholi sentenced to 21 years behind bars

Political prisoner Ali Amir-gholi was informed of his jail sentence on Tuesday, February 16^th.

Ali Amir-gholi, an industry management student expelled from Qazvin Islamic Azad University, has been sentenced to 21 years behind bars. He was charged and sentenced by Judge Salavati for “insulting the sanctities, propaganda against the state, disrupting public order through taking part in protest rallies and insulting the leader.”

This college student had prior to this been arrested and transferred to Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison for taking part in a gathering held at Khavaran cemetery marking the 20^th anniversary of the 1988 massacre of political prisoners. He is currently held in ward 8 of Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison.

Young man throws himself off bridge in northern Iran

Archive photo

A 26-year-old man in the city of Rasht, northern Iran, threw himself off a bridge and lost his life. He committed suicide due to poverty and social pressure imposed by the mullahs ruling Iran.

In Iran under the mullahs’ rule people are losing any hope in their living conditions improving, and they are left with no other choice but to commit suicide, to relieve themselves of the pressures imposed by the mullahs’ regime.

Iran: man sets himself ablaze outside presidency building in Tehran

In an act of protest a Tehran local fed up with the cruelty imposed by the mullahs’ regime set himself ablaze outside the presidency building on Tuesday, February 16. Bystanders said flames were bursting from his body when a number of people finally took action to put out the fire.

It is worth noting that the man said he had set himself ablaze protesting poverty, social pressures, and preventing him from seeing Hassan Rouhani to present his complaint. There is no information about this individual’s current conditions.

This is the voice of Iranian people on the verge of sham election

Iran: It’s better to die than to live under this regime

       An Iranian worker casts his vote before Feb. 26 Election:

       It’s better to die than to live under this regime.

Javanrood  ( central Iran) –Unemployment, poverty , and hunger made Jabbar Ghaderi, a young worker, hang himself to death on Feb. 16^th , only six months after his marriage.

Jabbar, who was a construction worker, had been out of work for months and unable to pay the costs of an ordinary living. His wife found him dead when she arrived home.

Iran, ruled by Mullahs, has one of the highest numbers of suicide among youths and women, in particular. The main reasons for people committing suicide in today’s Iran are unemployment, poverty and humiliation; all of them are direct results of Khamenei- Rouhani government.

A short Image story of deprived Iranian villager little kids

Using huts or desolated rooms for classroom, a product of larceny and ransacks by the Mullahs

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Iran: 100 metals stores close in Tehran in protest to tax extortions

According to reports received from inside Iran during the past month over 100 metal stores in various parts of Tehran have closed in protest to tax extortion and market recession.

In various provinces across the country metal store owners are suffering from similar conditions and many such storeowners have sought other occupations.

Iran: solidarity in two cities with political prisoner’s hunger strike

Solidarity and protest rally in Gorgan, northern Iran

 People protesting continued detention of Mohammad Ali Taheri – Imam Reza Shrine in Mashhad, northeast Iran

A group of friends and supporters of political prisoner Mohammad Ali Taheri held gatherings and protest rallies in the cities of Mashhad and Gorgan expressing their solidarity with this Iranian regime dissident.

They held their gatherings while raising placards in support of Taheri who is on hunger strike in jail. The protesters were seen demanding Taheri’s unconditional release.

Iran: political prisoners say they will continue struggle until regime overthrow

Gohardasht Prison of Karaj, west of Tehran

Recently the Iranian regime’s public prosecutor in Gohardasht Prison of Karaj, west of Tehran, proposed a number of prisoners to issue written requests for their conditioned release from prison.

Four political prisoners wrote the following in response:

Considering the fact that we have been illegally arrested, illegally tried and illegally placed in jail, we hold our position and will continue our struggle until the mullahs’ regime is overthrown and freedom is reached.

Down with Khamenei

Names of political prisoners:

Massoud Arab Choubdar

Hamid Babaie

Shaheen Zoghitabar

Payam Bastani

Iran: storeowners, Shapoor bazaar merchants on strike in Tehran

Storeowners and Shapoor bazaar merchants went on strike at around 9am on Tuesday, February 16^th, protesting state agents’ interference in their affairs. These storeowners were especially angry at tax agents.

According to one storeowner they had coordinated to close at 9 am to prevent any tax agents from entering their stores.

Iran: youths preparing for annual end-of-the-year “Fire Festivities”

Youths seen purchasing festivity items in Iran

In Tehran youths are preparing for the annual “Fire Festivities”, police attack stores selling firecrackers

Tehran – On Tuesday, February 16^th, youths welcomed stores beginning to sell items needed for the annual “Fire Festivities” celebrated on the last Tuesday night of the Iranian calendar year. A short while later police learned that firecrackers were being sold and attempted to attack their stores.

Iran: 2 Sunni political prisoner embrace before being executed

Hamed Ahmadi and Jamsheed Jahangiri

Two Sunni political prisoners embrace before being sent to the gallows.

A picture recently received from political prisoners in Iran shows two political prisoners moments before their execution by the Iranian regime. These Sunni Kurdish political prisoners Hamed Ahmadi and Jamsheed Jahangiri saying farewell to their friends and cellmates in Gohardasht Prison of Karaj, west of Tehran.

These two were hanged on Wednesday, 4 March 2015, along with four other Sunni Kurdish political prisoners by the names of Jahangir Dehghani, 28, Kamal Molaie, 30, Sedeegh Mohammadi, 28, and Hadi Hosseini, 31.

Hamed Ahmadi is the first at left, smiling, and Jamsheed Dehghani is seen wearing a black shirt. 

A young Iranian refugee dies in a camp in Denmark

 

Syamak Abdollhpoor an Iranian citizen from “Bizhway” Village in the suburb of the Kurdish city of Sardasht, a refugee in Denmark, lost his life in “yuland” camp due to cardiac arrest and the lack of proper medical equipment in the camp.

Iran - Torture till Death in Zahedan city Prison

 

Iranian regime’s death men in Zahedan’s Central Prison (south east of Iran) tortured till death Malang Mir Shah, an ethnic Baloochi prisoner on Feb. 15th. He was then transferred to a solitary condiment, not to be seen by other prisoners.

This Baloochi Iranian citizen was deprived of food and water, and beaten up while in custody. His body was full of wounds, blood and bruises. His conditions were so grave that prison doctors considered him on the verge of death.

Malang Mir Shah, 46 is kept in jail while he finished his sentence four months ago. Regime guards savagely tortured him because he demanded his basic rights to be released.

Iran: 6000 people die each year, in Tehran, of air contamination

Tehran central city

Vahid Hosseini, director of Tehran’s state company for Air Quality Control has confessed of 6000 deaths, each year, due to air contamination in Tehran.

In an interview with the state TV on Feb. 13, Hosseini said,” According to the statistics given by the Health Department, air contamination takes 5 to 6000 lives each year. Laws that control the decline of air pollution are not observed”.

Director of Tehran’s state company for Air Quality Control, added, “For years no budget has been allocated for the development of the city’s public transportation. For the past six years not even one new bus, upon national budget, has entered Tehran. Nothing in terms of decline of air pollution will happen if the same treatment is continued”.  

Iran: Opposite genders are charged under the pretext of talking to each other

Government Suppressive forces try to arrest young boys and girls on charges of “talking to each other” in Tehran

 According to news received from Tehran at 7 pm on Friday Feb. 12^th, two security forces insult some boys and girls in Tehran’s Danshjoo Park and attempt to arrest them on charge of “talking to each other”. Three of the youth stand to defend themselves and get in clashes with the suppressive guards. The three youths were, then, arrested and taken to an unknown location.

Iran: Jail for using Facebook

Another political prisoner goes on hunger strike on central city Tehran

Political prisoner, Amir Golestani, was arrested in August 2013, by the suppressive IRGC guards on charges of doing social activities on Facebook. He has already spent 31 months in jail.

Golestani, who is in section 8 of Evin Prison, has been on hunger strike since Feb. 13th protesting being deprived of his legal right of unconditional release. He has emphasized that he would go on dry hunger strike if his situation is not changed within ten days.

Those who paid the price for freedom in Iran

Nayereh Jallali Mohajer

In Memory of a Brave martyr’s mother

Commemorating Nayereh Jallali Mohajer, One of protesting mothers at Khavaran cemetery, Forty days after her death.

 Tehran - Thursday Feb. 11^th - 40^th day of the depart of Nayereh Jallali Mohajer (known as Mother Behkish), mother of six martyrs of the 1980 s, was arranged in her house, in which mothers of some other martyrs took part.

 Mother Behkish, whose one daughter and five sons were martyred by Iranian regime, finally joined her children on January 3rd after years of struggling against the criminal mullahs. Mother Behkish once had told about her martyred children:

“What can I say? The cruel Mullahs killed Mohammad in March 81, Syamak in October 81, Zahra (daughter) in September 83, Mohsen in April 85, Mahmoud and Ali in September 88”.

Long live the memory of this brave mother.

No place for Iran amongst 50 tech countries across the globe

Iran very poor on technology index

Iran under the mullahs’ rule has no place or ranking amongst the world’s top 50 technological countries in 2015. Iran was listed 50^th in 2014.

This ranking is provided through research conducted by the Bloomberg news agency based to six different indexes including ‘research & development, production, advanced technological companies, education, researchers and inventions.’ Countries such as South Korea, Japan and Germany are ranked first to third in this index.

Iran: Tehran air polluted for 3rd consecutive day

Polluted conditions in Tehran [File Photo]

The air in Tehran was polluted for the third consecutive day on Monday, February 15^th.

“Today the pollution index number in Tehran Province is 128, and air quality has been poor for sensitive groups for the third consecutive day,” said a deputy of the regime’s environment administrative office.

“Tehran’s area 15 has an index number of 158, meaning poor conditions for all types of people,” Mohammad Rastegari added.

It is worth noting that the Iranian regime’s environment administrative office had announced on Sunday, February 14^th that the air in major cities such as Tehran, Karaj, Isfahan, Ahvaz and Mashhad are in poor conditions.

Iran: regime terrified of new uprising by youths during sham twin elections

Regime terrioverthrownfied of uprising and being 

February 15, 2016 – In a joint session with judiciary officials Ashtari, head of Iran’s police, referred to the sham twin elections coming up in Iran.

“In the upcoming elections we must not allow the enemy and anti-revolution elements from abroad, along with their allies, disrupt the country’s calm atmosphere,” he said.

Iran: massive theft revealed before regime’s twin elections

Babak Zanjani – Embezzlement and major thefts from Iranian people’s pockets

Following flaring internal factional disputes in Iran, Iranian First Vice President Es’hagh Jahangiri participated in an economic rally on Monday, February 15^th and revealed new aspects of theft and plundering during the term of former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

“The people who should be ashamed are those who sold $22 billion of this nations’ money to foreigners in Dubai and Istanbul under the pretext of balancing the currency rates, and they created people like Babak Zanajani who literally lost oil rigs. They should be ashamed for extracting 170 trillion rials (around $4.8 billion) from Central Bank resources in a span of 45 days without any permit,” Es’hagh added.

Mullahs’ regime retaliates people’s not attending the Feb 11th march

Tehran – People protest weak emergency relief services on the road to Firoozkooh

Heavy snowfall on Feb. 12^th caused a lot of trouble for passengers travelling on roads connecting Tehran to Firoozkooh, and to Chaloos and also the road between Karaj and Ghazvin, north of the capital.  The main cause of trouble was, however, not the snow but the lack of emergency relief services by the Police and the mayor.

Tehran: Mohammad Ali Taheri in Hunger strike

News received from Tehran indicates that followers of political prisoner, Mohammad Ali Taheri, have started a hunger strike since Friday Feb. 12^th.  Hunger strike is in response to the regime’s indifference to the grave health conditions of Mohammad Ali Taheri. Mr. Taheri himself has recently started a dry hunger strike and has been transferred to the hospital.

After few days Ali Taheri returned back to prison, while continuing his wet hunger strike.

Iran retirement fund is bankrupt

The spokesman of Hassan Rouhani’s cabinet admitted the country’s retirement fund is completely bankrupt and if serious measures are not carried out quickly the country will be facing major problems very soon.

“Currently the government is decreasing retirement pensions from employees to pay the annuity of seven retired individuals,” said Mohammad Bagher Nobakht.

20,000 children without birth certificates in northeast Iran city

Director General of the Iranian regime’s Department of Citizenry and Foreign Migrants in Khorasan Razavi Province in northeast Iran said, “Currently there are 20,000 kids without birth certificates in Mashhad. All these children are the result of Iranian women marrying foreign nationals, especially Afghans and Iraqis.”

“The main problem is children being born from unofficial marriages between Iranian women with foreign nationals, leaving their kids without any proper documents. They are not covered by the law of having an Iranian mother because their marriages are not official. The children of this group of women, considered as lacking identities, are numbered at around 20,000,” said Mohammad Ajami on Saturday, February 15^th in an interview with Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency. 

Iran: Friday prayer imam in Isfahan threatening professors to murder

Mullah Mojtaba Mirdamadi, Friday prayer imam of Isfahan threatened to have university professors “who undermine the Iranian regime’s values” murdered.

“Some professors in their classrooms are neglecting the path of the Islamic revolution, and thus insulting values of the state and revolution! They should know if they are not directed to the right path they will face the punishment issued by [Khomeini] for Salman Rushdie, which was only the tip of the iceberg,” he said.

Iran: street vendors selling Valentine Day items arrested in Tehran

Repressive police units in Tehran patrolled various areas and stores on Sunday, February 14 marking St. Valentine’s Day. A number of stores were closed despite protests raised by storeowners and customers.

In downtown Tehran the police and municipality agents were seen arresting 5 street vendors located in different areas. In one case bystanders witnessing such a scene rushed to the street vendor’s support and began beating the municipality agent.

Iran: 300 miners on strike in Kerman Province

300 workers of the “Asli” mine in Kerman Province, central Iran, staged a rally on Saturday, February 13^th protesting officials refusal to provide their paychecks for the past two months. They closed the gates of this mine, located on the Pabdana-Zarand road, saying they will continue their strike until their demands are addressed. Saturday was the first day of their strike.

More than 70% of factories & companies closed in NW Iran city

More than 70% of all companies and factories in the Ardebil complex industry have been forced to close down due to the Iranian regime’s atrocious policies, reported a company owner from this city located in northwest Iran. This includes the Sabalan Textile Company, being one of the largest companies in this industrial complex. This firm has not been able to provide its workers’ paychecks, leaving them no choice but to stage rallies outside the Ardebil governorate.

Iran: Kurdistan people boycott regime’s Feb. 11 ceremony

On Thursday, February 11^th marking 37^th anniversary of the 1979 revolution in Iran that toppled the Shah’s regime. Prior to this day regime officials, Friday prayer imams and especially Revolutionary Guards commanders in Kurdistan had in the past few weeks resorted to ridiculous remarks describing this year’s anniversary as “epic” and … inviting the people of Kurdistan to take part in the government ceremonies.

Iran: people boycott regime’s annual 1979 anniversary march

Documentary report showing people boycotting regime’s Feb. 11^th march

One Iranian reports from the scenes:

People in Tehran took the Feb. 11^th march as more of a joke. There was not a single place where one could see an organized group actually marching and marking this day. This march had literally turned into a carnival for people who had no other place to go.

The entire crowd was estimated at less than one million people. All the streets and city squares were nearly empty, whereas the regime had rallied people from cities across the country.