A “Moderate”’s “Hero”

A moderate or a hard liner, whatever name we give them, the two fractions inside Iranian regime have their discrepancies. Parliament, economy, international relations as well as mosques and religion are platforms each fraction uses to push the other side off the edge and to get a bigger piece of cheese. Nevertheless what brings discords within factions of Iranian regime is what that has unified them. Khamenei, the Supreme Leader or  Rouhani, the president, or other mullahs, whether a member of parliament or chief director of prisons, all have a common terrifying nightmare day and night. That is how to keep the lid on the bottle not to let the monster come out. The deprived citizens of Iran are looking for a chance to disseat the so called “Islamic Republic” of Ayatollahs.  It happened once in 2009 and can happen in 2016. This is why Rouhani calls the daily executions as the “will of God” and Khamenei tries to export his “Islamic Revolution” to Iraq, Syria or. ....

Happy Norooz 2016

May the jubilance and prosperity at the advent of spring and the great feast of Nowrouz embrace you.

Iran: Fire Festival held by Iranian people across the country

Slogan of “Death to Khamenei; death to the principle of velayat-e faqih”; Khamenei's picture set ablaze

Iran Gohardasht Prison: chanting “Set fire to the principle of velayat-e faqih”

Resourceful political prisoners in Gohardasht (Rajai Shahr) Prison held a Fire Festival ceremony on Tuesday under the surveillance of suppressive elements in this prison. Along with the people throughout Iran they chanted “set fire to the ward and to handcuffs”, “set fire to tyranny”, “set fire to a regime of ill faith”, “set fire more than before”, and “set fire to the principle of velayat (clerical rule)” while jumping over a bonfire.

Iran: At least 160 prisoners are on the death row

Ahmad Shaheed, the UN’s top expert on the human rights situation in Iran, expressed his concern about the high number of executions in Iran.  In his report to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, on Monday, March 14th, Shaheed said, “At least 966 persons -- the highest rate in over two decades -- were executed in Iran in 2015” ,  In 2014, 753 people were executed.
Shaheed added that “at least 73 juvenile offenders were reportedly executed between 2005 and 2015, 16 of them in the past two years alone”.

“At least 160 others are awaiting the same fate on death row,” he added.

Iran –Female Political Prisoners in Evin celebrate March 8th

The Mullahs ruling Iran have built prisons to stifle Iranian people’s ambitions for a free society. Female political prisoners celebrated March 8^th in the cells of the notorious Evin Prison at the same time that this international event was commemorated by other noble women around the world.

Iran: Calamity and Poverty, Babies for Rent and sale

 

Iran: Babies are being rented to the price of $5 a day and sold to $600 

Wealth & palaces for Mullahs: Destitute & “Carton sleeping” for Iranian people

 Farhanaz Rafe, an official in the state Red Crescent, revealed speaking, on Monday Feb. 29^th to Iran’s state Tansim news Agency that “Some women Carton sleepers rent or sell their babies to street beggars. The rate for rent is 15 thousands Tomans (Less than $5) a day and two million Tomans (approximately $600) for sale.

Carton Sleepers is a new phrase introduced into Iranian culture after Mullahs grasped power. It means the homeless who have nothing but a piece of carton to sleep on.

Iran: Prison Visitor detained

Peyman Kooshkbaghi, was arrested himself when he went to visit his wife in jail.

According to Campaign to Defend Civil and Political Prisoners in Iran

 The couple, who belong to the Baha’i sect, were once arrested fin June 2012 when government security forces attacked a Baha’i education center.

 Penman’s wife, Azita Rafi Zadeh, founder of Baha’is ‘center for high education, is doing a five year term in Evin Prison.

No freedom of religion in Iran under Mullahs

Just at the time, Ayatollahs are pretending that they have had an election, many Iranian citizens, of religious minorities, are spending their times in prison for their beliefs.

Demolition of a shrine of “Ahle Hagh” by Government agents

Plain cloths followers of Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader, attacked a shrine belonging to “Ahle Hagh” religious minority in Islam Abad, west of Iran, and savagely destroyed parts of the building and its facilities.

Ahle Hagh followers, who protested to this hideous act, were beaten and dispersed by security forces.

Three persons of the same trend of belief have set themselves on fire in recent years in Iran protesting the discriminatory behavior of the government

Tehran - contract employees of Azadi Stadium on strike

Contract workers of Tehran’s Azadi Stadium went at 9 on strike on Monday, February 29^th as their paychecks have been delayed for a long time now. Workers of contract companies related to the stadium management were also on strike in this coordinated protest.

A portion of these workers’ demands were to be paid in leases, and the remaining to be deposited in the spring of 2016, according to a protester. However, the stadium management and officials have not lived up to their words, leaving them empty handed before the Iranian calendar New Year on March 20^th. Azadi Stadium contract workers have not received their paychecks for the past 4 months.

Oil refinery workers revolt in southern Iran

Over 7,000 workers and employees of the Bandar Abbas Oil Refinery Company revolted on Saturday, February 28^th, according to reports obtained from the city of Bandar Abbas in southern Iran. Angry workers literally trashed the oil refinery dormitory and broke all the trailers belonging to the security personnel. Agents and security teams chose to flee the scene, knowing they had no chance to quell the raging mob.

The revolting workers, demanding their overdue paychecks, also attacked the refinery buffet, fruit and ice cream stores. Finally, the refinery officials were forced to succumb to their demands, promising to deposit 3 months of their salaries. These workers had not been paid for the past 5 months.

With the Iranian calendar New Year just around the corner (March 20^th), these workers are now more than ever in need of their paychecks to provide for their families’ needs.

Young Iranian hangs himself in Tehran

Horrific scene of young Iranian man hanging himself in Tehran

A young man in the Shahriar district of Tehran hanged himself, state-run media in Iran reported on Sunday, February 28^th.

According to this report this 28-year-old man hanged himself from a residential building’s balcony while his hand and feet were in chains.

Iran: street vendor commits sets himself ablaze in protest

Street vendor in Tehran sets himself ablaze

A hardworking Iranian selling goods on Tehran’s Jomhouri Avenue was viciously attacked by state police, based on a report and video footage posted on the Internet.

This street vendor, by the name of Amir, set himself ablaze afterwards as a sign of protest.

People at the scene were shocked of this tragedy and began putting out the flames. Amir was taken to Tehran’s Mottahari Hospital. There is no information on the conditions of this man and this incident has taken place on the verge of the Iranian calendar year.

A growing number of poor and deprived people in Iran are resorting to selling goods on the street, hoping to make a small amount of money to barely make ends meet for their families.

Iran: state agents continue acid attacks against women

Acid attacks in Iran

According to reports wired by the state-run Fars news agency, affiliated to the Revolutionary Guards, on Saturday, February 27^th two young women in the city of Semnan, northern Iran, were acid attacked when exiting a women’s hair salon.

These two young women suffered serious injuries in their faces and other parts of their body and one was transferred to a hospital outside of Semnan Prison.

Acid attacks are an inhumane method used by Ali Khamenei’s plainclothes and Bassij agents against women and girls that have been carried out mainly in the cities of Isfahan and Tehran. The perpetrators of these crimes have never been identified or punished. In fact, they have been indirectly supported by officials of the Islamic state.

Iran: municipality actually claims beggars in Tehran are rich!

Poverty in Iran

At a time when more than half of the Iranian people are living in poverty due to the Islamic state’s corrupt and warmongering policies in Iran, a Tehran municipality official by the name of Farzad Hoshiyar in atrocious remarks actually claimed more than 50% of Tehran’s beggars are rich.

Did “elections” change anything?

Reports and pictures taken from last Friday’s elections in Iran negate that it was really an election day. Many polling stations were seen empty at different hours of the day. No long queues were formed.  It was just another Friday in Tehran and other cities. As it was expected these elections did not stir much in the Iranian people, leaving many polling stations close to empty. Ayatollahs’ threatening words did not work this time. Just a few days before the “elections”  Khamenei's religious decrees (fatwas) to say that participating in elections is a religious obligation, blank ballots violate Sharia law, meant that boycotting the elections could bring severe  consequences. Nevertheless the turnout was very low.

Regime bans activist from leaving Iran for medical treatment

Dr. Mohammad Malaki, first Tehran University dean after 1979 revolution

Tehran, February 25^th – Former Tehran University dean Dr. Mohammad Malaki has continued his efforts to gain a passport to exit Iran for medical treatment. However, he has been told he is banned from departing Iran.

After Dr. Malaki’s follow-ups he was finally told the Revolutionary Guards has banned him from leaving the country. According to Dr. Malaki’s friends no specific government body is providing any answers on why he has been banned from leaving the country. The Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS/VEVAK) is depriving this human rights activist from receiving any medical care.

Iran: 1 million engineers outside of work cycle in mullahs’ regime

Skyrocketing unemployment in Iran

Saturday, February 27^th: The Statistics Center in Iran admitted more than 1 million graduated engineers in Iran are not present in the country’s active engineering population. 233,000 people are unemployed amongst the active engineering population.

The reason behind such conditions is the fact that the Revolutionary Guards has monopolized all construction projects, said Bahram Ghaffari, an advisor at Iran’s Engineering Organization.

3,000 prisoners in southeast Iran prison boycott Islamic state’s election

Zahedan Central Prison

Despite many threats and incentives by officials of the Islamic republic against inmates in Zahedan Central Prison aimed at forcing prisoners to vote in the sham twin elections, 3,000 inmates in this jail boycotted the polls and refused to cast their votes, the Human Rights & Democracy Advocates in Iran reported.

Iran: executed all adult men in one village

Human rights groups condemned the executions

Important News

The entire adult male population of a village in southern Iran has been executed for drug offences, according to Iran’s vice-president for women and family affairs.
The matter came to light earlier this week after Shahindokht Molaverdi revealed it during an interview with the semi-official Mehr news agency in rare comments from a senior government official highlighting the country’s high rate of executions of drug traffickers.
“We have a village in Sistan and Baluchestan province where every single man has been executed,” she said, without naming the place or clarifying whether the executions took place at the same time or over a longer period. “Their children are potential drug traffickers as they would want to seek revenge and provide money for their families. There is no support for these people.”
According to Amnesty International, Iran remains a prolific executioner, second only to China. In 2014, at least 753 people were hanged in Iran, of whom more than half were drug offenders. In 2015, Amnesty said it had recorded “a staggering execution rate” in the Islamic republic, “with nearly 700 people put to death in the first half of the year alone”.