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: 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: mullahs sent students from Qom to Tehran to vote for specific candidates

Supporters of Khamenei’s faction in Iran intend to send a large number of student mullahs from the city of Qom to Tehran to fill the voting polls in favor of Jannati, Yazdi and Mesbah Yazdi during the elections on Friday, February 26^th. These three individuals are three of the main Khamenei faction members in Tehran running in the elections for the Assembly of Experts, and Khamenei is terrified they may not get the necessary votes.

Iran: I want to vote, but to who and for what?

On the verge of the Iranian regime’s twin elections, a heartbreaking incident took place in the village of Siahkal, located in northern Iran. This text shows how the Iranian people actually view elections in Iran.

24 February 2016

A teacher, wounded back in the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s and a loyal believer in the Islamic republic, told his students:

“Kids, the elections are near, write an essay about the elections,” he said. Every one of the students wrote an essay and read it before the class until it was A.K.’s turn. With very ragged clothing and a face revealing his inner pains, A.K. stood before the blackboard and began reading his essay:

“In the name of God…

I take my pen and write my essay as:

Why do we vote!?

Iran: A young man commits suicide in Ahwaz

 

A young man from Ahwaz, the center of Iranian province of Khuzestan, by the name of Hassan Salemi, committed suicide on Monday, Feb 22 due to his unemployment and poverty. He was married and had a child.

Iran: protests against sham elections in various cities

Election Dogfights

On Wednesday, Feb. 24, Khamenei’s proxies in Ramsar, at Caspian Sea, attacked Rafsanjani’s campaign center and knocked down banners.

Assault on the house of a candidate in Shabestar

According to the news received from Iran, home of Massoud Namazi, the candidate from Shabestar in Azerbaijan, northwest of Iran, was attacked at midnight of Tuesday, Feb. 23^rd. The attackers, whose identity is not known yet, set fire on his car.

Iran - Widespread rip up of election posters by people

On Wednesday Feb. 24, many of the election banners in Tehran were set on fire. Streets of the capital were scenes of torn off posters and pictures of different candidates. This was how people showed their exasperation towards the Mullahs.

Similar scenes were also reported from the cities of Karaj, Qom, Kashan, Khoram Abad, Boroujerd, Kermanshah, and Oroomieh.

"Prisoners are forced to take part in "elections

An independent source reported on Wed. Feb. 24 that the head warden in Gorgan’s central prison, north of Iran, has threatened that prisoners’ temporarily leave would be cancelled unless they take part in the elections.

The Feb. 26^th election is boycotted by a large number of Iranian people.

Two candidates ‘proxies attack each other with knives

Fight between the two sides in Koohdasht

Koohdasht, in western province of Lorestan:

 A fight On Monday Feb. 22 between followers of the two city candidates, in which stones and then knives were used, left some injured.

Protesting against election in Iran

Iran: people are crying “our vote is regime overthrown”

"Our vote = regime change, Our vote= Freedom”

Isfahan – sale of spray paints is forbidden.

Thursday Feb. 18 – All the paint shops in Isfahan (Iran’s second largest city) have received written commands from the government that prohibits them from selling spray paints till after elections. This command is to impede people from writing snide slogans on the posters and banners.

All over the city of Isfahan is full of anti-government slogans especially written by youths. The slogans include, “Down with Khamenei, Our vote = regime change, my vote= Freedom”.

A gift from Ayatollahs

Civil rights taken away, unemployment, and poverty have produced increasing number of women begging in the streets with their children. 

Why should I vote?

Greeting International Women Day

Iran: Elections… a repeated demagogic theatrics

Dr. Mohammad Malaki is: a known figure of the mullahs’ opposition inside Iran and the first dean of Tehran University following the 1979 revolution who spent years in prison for the “crime” of opposing the mullahs’ dictatorship in Iran. Dr. Malaki has written an article entitled, “Elections… a repeated demagogic theatrics” regarding elections in Iran. This piece has been published in Al Arabiya website on Friday, February 19^th. We have translated this article to English for all readers.

To all those yearning for years, seeking freedom in free and popular elections

Mohammad Malaki

Demagogic theatrics is a type of show aimed at amusing its spectators. Above a stage-box sits the performer with a number of strings, each attached to a small doll, and with a specific tone of voice he reads out the screenplay, moving the dolls here and there on the stage. The audience hear the voice of the dolls, seeing them going from here to there, while everything is controlled by the performer. The Allame Dehkhoda dictionary defines the word demagogic theatrics as: “A type of play in which dolls are built in different shapes and brought on stage, and the dolls are attached to thin strings with which the dolls are moved around in different ways.”

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).

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

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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.

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