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: 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.

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”. 

Iranian women and youth are dissatisfied with Rouhani

Weeks before Iran’s upcoming elections of February 26^th, a report by Reuters, on Feb. 5th, reveals that, “Frustrated Iranian women disbelieving Rouhani’s empty promises for change and reform say they are not going to vote this time”

Setareh, a university graduate in the northern city of Rasht says, “I am not going to make the same mistake twice. I have decided not to vote. I voted for Rouhani - was he able to improve my situation? No.”

Internal disputes flaring in Iran on the verge of elections

Iranian regime leader Ali Khamenei warned the government of President Hassan Rouhani of any shenanigans during the upcoming elections set for February 26^th.

“Government officials should not get involved in election propaganda and the newspapers,” he said.

“When elections are opened for all, the country and Islamic republic is honored and insured,” Khamenei wrote in his website after disqualifying more than 95% of Rouhani-Rafsanjani faction candidates.

Iran: Rouhani defends dispatching IRGC to Iraq, Syria

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani attempted to explain why such a large number of Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) commanders have been killed in Syria, and why these forces are constantly dispatched to fight in Syria and Iraq, state-run IRIB reported on Monday, February 8^th.