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 –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.

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.

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”. 

Iran: Story of “Elections for God, not for people”

Ridiculous method ballot of vote counting in present Iran

Iran, in which “elections” has no meanings, held twin elections, on Feb. 26^th, to decide members of the next parliament and the “assembly of experts”. “Well, what is wrong with that?” One might say. “Election is a democratic process used in every country”.

The mistake here is that Iran is not a democratic country. It rather has the most vicious dictatorship of our present time. “Elections” If it was used in its real meanings, would be illegal in Iran and anybody participating in voting would be charged with “conspiracy against the state “and “enmity against God”. Elections”, generally, means that people choose their government from multiple candidates. Iran’s government officials, of different fractions, have repeatedly said that the people are not eligible to choose who can be the “Supreme Leader”.

Thirty seven years ago, when the “Islamic Republic of Iran” was established by Ayatollah Roohollah Khomeini, people who had a perception of the word “fundamentalism” were rare. The events of the recent years, in France, England, Australia, United states, Nigeria, . . . ,  and, particularly, the Middle East region gave people opportunities to have a glimpse of that kind of “Islam” Iranian Ayatollahs are representing. During this period of time terrorist organizations have grown, ideologically, nurtured by the existence of the only fundamentalist state power, the “Islamic Republic of Iran”.  

The kind of Islam used by Mullahs in Iran is known as the “regime of the Supreme Leader”. Based on a one man rule, Iran’s “Supreme Leader” is one of the worst dictatorial systems man has ever seen. Exalt of this “one man” to a Saint that is representing God, on our filthy earth, makes his opponents eligible to the worst punishments, including death. This is how the “elections” loving Mullahs have maintained their power in the past 37 years. This reality makes the Feb, 26 elections, somehow, exceptional.

The position of this “one man”, “the main pillar of the state”, the “supreme leader” is at stake. Mullahs have frequently defined their system as,” if eighty million population of Iran say one thing and the supreme Leader says another, the word of the supreme leader is accepted as true.” This shows that “elections” which means decision made by the people is a sin and against God’s will. Khamenei controls Iran's judiciary, armed forces, the Guardian Council that vets laws and election candidates, public broadcasters and also enjoys the loyalty of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards, which suppressed mass protests that followed the 2009 presidential election.

While Ayatollahs consider the “Supreme Leader” as God’s representative on earth, the Islam and the holy book of Quran, however, give the position of God’s representative to every human being and call him God’s noble creature. So where did this election stand for this government that does not bear any sort of democracy at home?

What we are talking about, concerning Feb. 26, is in fact a stalemate, an unsuccessful program, or in fact a failed strategy. The augmented crises in this regime are acting like a typhoon shaking the seat of the “Supreme Leader”. With all the country’s Power and all the economic key points in the hands of Khamenei but he has not been able to eradicate the opposition to his rule. His opposition and those who they call them foes, are stronger than ever and infuriation among the people is more than ever. This is now a turning point for the entire regime, a big defeat for Khamenei, the Supreme Leader.

No matter what will come out of the February elections for both parliament and the “assembly of experts”, but it will be a step down for the whole system. Just in the heat of mass protests, the “one man” is now being shaken, from within.

Iran’s elections are a facade – Linda Chavez

system, despite the facade of elections, is anything but democratic, says Linda Chavez, chairwoman of the Center for Equal Opportunity.

"Its constitution provides for a 'Guardian Council' made up of six theologians and six jurists, appointed by the Supreme Leader and the Supreme Leader-appointed chief jurist, respectively. The Guardian Council's purpose is to ensure that any laws passed by the consulting assembly are compatible with Islam as interpreted by the Guardian Council. There is no separation of powers as we know it; it is essentially a system where one man rules: namely the Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei," Ms. Chavez wrote on Friday in TownHall.com.

Fmr U.S. House Speaker John Boehner calls Iran elections ‘phony’

Iran: My Vote is Overthrow of Islamic Republic

Another slogan on the wall of the city, “Our vote is overthrow of Islamic republic”

Iran: Painting Spray and Tearing Elections Banners

Iran: A young individual dissident in paint spraying and tearing off the Mullahs candidate banners in Shiraz.