23 December 2015 Maryam Rajavi’s New Year and Christmas greetings

Dear Christians in Iran and everywhere else,
Supporters of the Iranian Resistance across the world,

I would like to greet you on Christmas and the birth of Jesus Christ, which has coincided this year with the birthday of the Prophet Mohammad.
I would also like to extend my greetings for the New Year.
I wish  that 2016  would be a year  of unity and victory  over Islamic extremism  and especially  the religious fascism  ruling Iran  and its evil allies  in the Middle East  who sow  the seeds of enmity  in the world.
We remember Jesus Christ when he said:  “Love one another just as I love you”.
Also in the Quran, God says about Mohammad:  “We sent thee as a Mercy for all mankind”.
This is the message of all divine religions and therefore, the coincidence of the two births, is a feast of brotherhood among all nations. 
Fortunate are those who have found the essence of Christianity and Islam in love, compassion and freedom. 
And we salute Virgin Mary, the symbol of love and sacrifice who is described in the Bible as “loved by God”.
The birth and emergence of every prophet mark a new birth for mankind in social life. 
When our world is under the attack of terror and extremism, we can find the light of freedom and tolerance and perseverance against fundamentalism and extremism in these births.
Muslims and Christians can rely on their common values to stand up to those who pervert their religions 
So, in contrast to what the extremists want, we should make our hope and faith in humanity deeper than ever.
Let us hope for a swift end to extremism and for the freedom of the people of Syria from dictatorships of Bashar Assad, Khamenei and Daesh terrorists. 

 Let us hope for end to displacement and homelessness of Christians throughout the Middle East.
And let us hope for the relief of Christian converts in Iran from the oppression of ruling mullahs and for freedom of the whole Iranian nation from this religious dictatorship.
On this occasion,  I call on the world community  to form an international front  against the religious dictatorship in Iran  and its proxies and militia  in Syria and Iraq  and to fight Islamic extremism,  the enemy of true Muslims,  Christians  and all followers  of other divine religions.
May the message of compassion, freedom and tolerance engulf the Middle East.
May the world get relieved from tyranny and fundamentalism and have a new birth and revival.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you all.

The horrific scene of public hanging of a young man in Iran

The sickening scene of a public hanging in Iran

Iranian regime henchmen hanged another young man in public at an archaeological site in Fars Province in southern Iran on the eve of the International Human Rights Day.
The public hanging was carried out early morning at the archaeological site known as Noorabad Tal (Noorabad hill) in Noorabad Mamasani County in Fars Province at the presence of officials of the Iranian regime’s judiciary and State Security Forces.

The photos of the public hanging was published in local state media.

Also in the run-up to International Human Rights Day, a woman has been sentenced to stoning, lashing, and 25 years imprisonment in northern Iran, local state media reported.
The woman, who was identified only by the initials “A.Kh.”, was sentenced in a court in Gilan Province along with two other men for alleged complicity in the murder of her husband.
One of the two men, identified by the initials R.A., was sentenced to death while the other man was handed down a 25-year prison sentence.
Local state media reported the sentencing on Saturday, however the Iranian regime’s judiciary has not officially published any information on the verdicts.

Iranian woman to be stoned to death as world marks UN ’Human Rights Day’

 An Iranian woman symbolically dressed up as a victim of death by stoning as part of a protest by the National Council of Resistance of Iran in Brussels

Fox News, Dec. 10, 2015 - As the world marks International Human Rights Day on Thursday, Iran is continuing its execution spree with the announcement that a woman has been sentenced to death by stoning.
The gruesome penalty, in which the wrongdoer is buried up to their shoulders and pelted with rocks, was first reported on the Persian-language Iranian website LAHIG. The woman, who was identified only by the initials “A.Kh,” was convicted of being complicit in her husband’s murder.
An Iranian criminal court in Rasht, the capital city of the northern province of Gilan, handed down the brutal sentence.
“The rate of executions in Iran has not decreased in the last few years, it has increased,' Maryam Nayeb Yazdi, a prominent Canadian-Iranian human rights activist based in Toronto, told FoxNews.com. '… The probability of a stoning sentence to be carried out is slim due to the international sensitivity of the issue; there is a great chance her sentence may be ‘converted’ to death by hanging.”
“The rate of executions in Iran has not decreased in the last few years, it has increased.'
Iran is believed to have imposed death by stoning on at least 150 people since the Islamic Revolution in 1980, according to the International Committees against Execution and Stoning.

'The stoning sentence is an indication of the Iranian regime’s continued war against women in Iran. Arbitrary executions in Iran must be on top of the agenda in any dialogue between Iran and the West.”
After a widespread public-pressure campaign in the West in 2010, Iran dropped the stoning penalty against a 43-year-old Iranian woman. Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani was sentenced to stoning for alleged adultery. Her case remains shrouded in judicial mystery and it is unclear if she will still be executed.
“Whether or not one supports the nuclear deal with Iran, it is astonishing that the West cultivates an ever-closer alliance with a theocratic regime widely known for its abysmal human rights record and aggressive behavior in the region,' Julie Lenarz, executive director of the UK-based Human Security Center told FoxNews.com. 'They hang men for the 'crime' of writing poems; or engaging in peaceful protest; or loving someone of the same sex.
“Women are stoned for being raped and Iranian law even allows for juvenile executions. Iran is averaging three hangings per day at the moment and remains a pariah state with no regard for human life,' she added. 'In a despicable form of moral myopia, the gold rush for business, as the international sanctions regime begins to unravel, has made Western governments blind to the suffering of ordinary Iranians at the hands of the Ayatollahs.”
The UN’s Human Rights Day is observed every year on Dec. 10 and commemorates the day in 1948 on which the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

Iranian regime hangs another prisoner north of the country

A prisoner being hanged by the henchmen in Iran

A 36-year-old father of three was hanged in a prison by the Iranian regime’s henchmen in the city of Gorgan in northern Iran.
The victim identified as Hossein Naybandani had been sentenced to death for “transferring and being in possession of drugs.”
Naybandani was hanged early morning on Sunday in the main prison in Gorgan.
There has been no official information released on his execution.
Execution rates have been increasing at “an exponential rate” in Iran. Since Hassan Rouhani took office as president of the clerical regime, the rate of executions has reach its highest in 25 years.
Iran under the rule of the mullahs is the number one record holder for the number of executions per capita.
As Ahmed Shaheed, the U.N. special rapporteur for human rights in Iran, has pointed out, the Iranian regime “continues to execute more individuals per capita than any other country in the world.
The number of executions by the regime is much higher than those officially reported or published in state media

Iran: Chants of “student rather dies than be humiliated” and “political prisoner must be freed” during Rouhani’s speech

Students booed Rouhani and chanted- “student rather dies than be humiliated” and “death to dictator”.

 Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran reports:

Speech by Iranian regime’s President Rouhani at Tehran’s Sharif Industrial University was disrupted to such an extent that Rouhani was compelled to cut short his speech and make a quick exit.
This happened despite the fact that security elements and the branch of the intelligence ministry at the university, apprehensive of student protests, had barred entry of most students to the hall and had carefully selected people allowed to attend. As such, over 1500 seats were empty while students that had gathered outside the hall chanted, “political prisoner must be freed”.
Nevertheless, many students that found their way to the hall ridiculed Rouhani’s deceptive speech about the reduction in inflation rate and the achievements of his failed government. They booed Rouhani and chanted: “student rather dies than be humiliated” and “death to dictator”.

 

Tehran: Clashes at Sharif University during Rouhani’s speech

Clashes at Sharif University in Tehran

Eyewitness report from Sharif University in Tehran indicate that clashes erupted between the two factions of the government, the hardline clergies and the so called moderates, attending President Rouhani’s speech. 

The hardliners being backed by the Supreme leader, Khamenei chanted slogans against the other side, the supporters of Rafsanjani and Rouhani. While the Rouhani supporters shout back at the rival faction by chanting slogans in support of the powerless president. 

These clashes happened while the people in the audience where vetted carefully. The Rouhani faction had brought as many number of people to the event as possible to avoid embarrassment.   

Tehran Tabatabaie University peaceful protest was answered with teargas and Basiege Militia Forces attack

Students of Tehran Tabatabaie University demonstrated today to mark the National Students’ Day. The students gathered in the campus to honor this day and protest the continued repression and despotism in the universities and in the country in general. But suddenly a large number of Basiege militants and plane cloths agents attacked this peaceful gathering firing teargas and trying to disrupt their congregation. The students who saw this was coming stood their ground knowing that their gathering was legal and justified. Their resistance against this raid caused fear among the suppressive guards thinking this might grow larger and angrier. Teargas fired by the guards couldn’t force the students to back down and they continued with their protest. 
The students say this was the work of university police in conjunction with the Basiege militants. 

Iran’s most active achievement has been building more and more suppressive institutions especially for women

At least 26 official institution in Iran are involved in suppression of women under the pretext of mal-veiling or ‘improper clothing’, a regime’s official has declared.
The head of Khorramabad’s General Court announced on Wednesday, December 2, that a special branch will be allocated to mal-veiling in this city.
Hossein Reza Delfan, speaking to a group of reporters announced the opening of the special branch for mal-veiling. He said that those not observing the dress code will be detained anywhere from 10 days to two months or they have to pay fines.

This government official threatened that these files will be quickly processed and that women face imprisonment or fines if they show disdain for the imposed dress code.
Ashtari, a high ranking officer with the state suppressive forces emphasized that oppressive measures are to be heightened. In his meeting with the representative of Khamenei in Esfahan he said: There are 26 organs that work on the issue of mal-veiling and one of them are the security forces.
The fascist dictatorship ruling Iran that is fearful of popular uprisings and deems the oppressed women of Iran, along with the youth, as the most threatening force against its rule has chosen to ramp up the oppression to control the masses and is thus targeting women.
Harassing of Iranian people, much like rampant executions throughout Iran, have no purpose but to prop up a regime that belongs to history’s dustbin and to prevent public protests.

Iran: Tehran University Students protest against suppression and plundering

Tehran University students demonstrated today, on the occasion of National Student Day protesting against suppression and plundering of the country’s wealth by the Iranian clerical regime. Students chanted 'University is no a military base.'
Eyewitness reports indicate that the demonstration by Tehran University was against a bogus plan by the authorities to rip off the university’s budget under the pretext of privatization. 
They also expressed anger and dissent against repressive measures applied in the school and the government filtering the internet sites. 
In another case, students from Sharif University in Tehran taped their mouths during president Rouhani’s speech in a sign of clampdown and repression in the country which he and other clerics rule.

Iran-Prominent political activist recounts the torment she had to go through during her hospitalization under torture

Mrs. Nargess Mohammadi, Vice-President of the Human Rights League, Tehran

Extracted from her letter to Tehran prosecutor:

On October 5, I reported for inspection before being sent to hospital. I told the female guard that I would probably have to undergo echography for my heart; so, please don’t come behind the partition when I take off my clothes. She said, “No. We must come.” I asked her to go with me to the colonel so that we could resolve the issue, but the colonel was not in. I explained the situation to his deputy and I said it was not morally and religiously proper to do so. The person in charge of sending me to hospital impudently and in an offending manner said, “You shouldn’t speak of religion. If you were Muslim, your place would have not been in Evin.” He went on with more abusive words and manners. I returned to the ward because I was not feeling well.
The next day, I suffered a sudden attack and a nervous seizure. My beloved cell-mates helped me walk from the second floor down to the ward’s entrance on the first floor because there was no [wheelchair or any] other equipment in the ward. Then they got me on the ambulance. The ambulance’s door could not be completely closed. My head was located near the half-open doors and while I was in a terrible condition, I had to also worry about the likelihood of falling out of the ambulance.
Evin’s dispensary had coordinated my transfer with Imam-Khomeini Hospital as an emergency case. I was lying on the stretcher in the ambulance, when suddenly a female soldier and two male soldiers came with handcuffs and shackles and stood over my head. I put my hands under my arms and said, 'I won’t allow you to handcuff me, because I’m really not feeling well and I won’t be able to escape. On the other hand, you are four people inside the ambulance. What do you need the handcuffs for? The female soldier said, “Even if you go into coma, we are supposed to handcuff you” and then she put the handcuffs on me.
I had become really nervous and my convulsions began. Then I had another nervous seizure so they had to stop the ambulance for a few minutes by the side of the road.
When I was placed from the ambulance on the hospital’s stretcher, they put back the handcuffs. In all the stages at the hospital, from the beginning to the end when I left the hospital, I had to wear the handcuffs and they were attached to the stretcher. The only time they removed the iron handcuffs was for the CT scan.
A neurologist came to me and explained that because I had that nervous convulsion I had to be monitored until the next morning and that I had to be hospitalized for three days. In light of the history of my disease since 2010 in the solitary cells of the 209th ward of Evin, and considering the difficult conditions including the handcuffs, I asked the doctor to release me at my own consent. So the honorable doctor wrote a letter indicating that the patient needs to be visited by her doctors but she can leave the hospital.
After five days, I was finally hospitalized. Since the moment I was sent to the hospital, my hands were in handcuffs, even when the doctor was examining me. My handcuffs were not removed, even when he was taking my blood pressure. When we entered my hospital room, the soldiers immediately handcuffed me and tied me to the bed such that I could not even sit or sleep comfortably.
Due to nervous pressure, my situation deteriorated further more. My requests and protests went unheeded. From October 11 to October 19 (nine days), I was held without permission to be visited even by my parents. I was not allowed to go out of the room. I was on the bed and I could only use the bathroom. It was forbidden for me to have money and they did not even bring me the fruits I had in the ward in prison, either. I had nothing to eat except for hospital food. The room’s door and curtains were also closed all the time.
Two days after I was hospitalized, I went unconscious in the examination room. So upon doctor’s instructions, two nurses came the next day to give me a bath and wash my hair and prepare me for brain scan. The female soldier immediately called the colonel and asked for instructions. The instruction was that she had to accompany me in the bathroom. In protest to such a decision and such an inhuman treatment I went under the shower with all my clothes on and the female soldier was also present.
On October 18, the colonel came to my room. I asked him to please allow me to be examined alone whenever I had to undress for certain checkups or examinations and the female soldier can make her inspections beforehand and leave, so that I would not have to be examined in front of the soldiers. The colonel accepted.
From October 20 to 12 noon on October 21, I was being prepared for endoscopy and colonoscopy. I should have refrained from eating and I had to use 4 liters of material that would wash away my digestive system. Finally at 1 p.m. I was taken to the operation room. The female soldier also came in with me. I asked her to please stay behind the door of the operation room. She talked to the colonel and said that she would stay in the operation room. So, exactly at the last moment that I was supposed to be anesthetized, I walked out of the operation room and waited until evening may be she would agree to stay out, but she did not.
I talked to the colonel on the phone, explained my situation and asked him to allow the female soldier to stay out of the operation room so that I could receive my treatment. Again, he promised that the female soldier would stay out and that I could repeat the stage.
Again, the preparation lasted from 9 a.m. on October 24 until 12 noon on October 25. As I was getting ready to go to the operation room, again the colonel ordered the female soldier to stand inside the operation room during the colonoscopy. So, I refused to go to the operation room.
My doctor talked to the colonel on the phone and said they had to take samples. He explained that this stage is necessary for treatment of the patient and that it must be done in the operation room which is a sterilized environment and only the doctor and the nurses are allowed to be present. He asked the colonel to allow the medical operation go on, but the colonel did not allow the operation even in the presence of military inspectors and for the second time, I was deprived of receiving my treatment.

Mr. Prosecutor,
I would like to hereby declare my strong protest to this illegal, irreligious, and inhumane behavior and I urge Your Excellency to immediately attend to this case.
1. Handcuffs and shackles for political prisoners who do not plan to escape but have reported in to Evin Prisonby telephone summoning, is unreasonable and distressful. This is particularly so for patients who are sent to see the doctor or are hospitalized and would aggravate their illness as well as physical and psychological tension.
Indeed, why and based on what kind of rationale, did they put handcuffs on me, tying me to the stretcher inside the ambulance and then to the bed in the emergency room at the hospital and for several hours on October 7, while I was being sent to hospital as an emergency case, such that it caused another nervous seizure for me inside the ambulance? Isn’t it an inhuman treatment and an outright torture to handcuff a patient who suffers from repeated nervous convulsions and is not even able to stand up? Why was I handcuffed during examination by doctor in the hospital’s emergency room on October 11 and the doctor’s requests went unheeded?
2. On October 5, I refused to do my heart echography in the presence of military soldiers and did not accept to go to hospital. As I explained before, my operation for endoscopy and colonoscopy and taking samples did not take place on October 21 and 25 because of the military soldiers’ persistence to stay in the operation room. Therefore a crucial part of my treatment was not done. On all three occasions, I declared that when I have to undress for any examination, treatment or operation, I would not accept the presence of any military personnel, except the doctor and you must have respected the patient-doctor privacy. This action on your part is religiously, morally and legally wrong.
Mr. Prosecutor, I do not understand the necessity of the presence of military-security agents in the shower, in the operation room (for colonoscopy) or for the different stages of treatment when the patient has to take off her clothes. Not only I do not understand this and I believe it is contrary to a humane behavior, but the military personnel’s insistence on doing so is nothing but psychological torture for a patient who is not willing to accept it in any way and even accepts to cancel her treatment.
We have heard time and again that in some countries, the military-security personnel undress the prisoners to humiliate them as a method of torture (particularly the prisoners who have certain beliefs or traditions in this regard). This has been discussed in the public opinion and human rights circles.
Now, my question from you as the honorable Prosecutor is how and with which warrant do the military-security forces enter private places like showers, operation rooms (where patients are completely undressed) and examination rooms where patients are ordered to undress? With which warrant do they insist on staying in places where the prisoner does not have any chance of escape and preventing the latter’s treatment? Are these behaviors legal, humane and religious in your opinion?
You are well aware that 6to7-year-old girls are obliged to wear the veil in elementary schools to learn to preserve their chastity. Now my question is, isn’t such a treatment of prisoners against public chastity? Or the function of veil and chastity is merely for subjugation of women in Iranian society?
3. On October 26, military-security forces suddenly entered my room in hospital and ordered me to pack up my stuff to go to Baghiyatollah Hospital. In a letter to the Warden of Evin Prison, I declared that I was not going to the Baghiyatollah Hospital and if it was not possible to stay in this hospital, I asked for a 24-hour opportunity to obtain my medical prescriptions. On October 28, I returned to Evin Prison, with parts of my treatment including the endoscopy, colonoscopy and sample-taking not done while they were indispensable to my treatment according to the written instructions of my doctor. Therefore, I urge you to order that this operation could be done without the presence of military personnel. The operation room has only one door while the doctor and the anesthetist are the only persons present in the room. The military-security soldiers can perform their mission behind the door of the operation room.
4. In light of experiences of the past few years, I can see that there are obvious discriminations and extreme restrictions against female political prisoners and prisoners of conscience (in their dispatch to hospital, conditions of hospitalization and method of care). I see this discrimination in continuation of the discriminations enforced in society against women and I hereby object them.
Nargess Mohammadi
November 2015

Political prisoner Nargess Mohammadi, Vice-President of the Human Rights League, wrote an open letter to Tehran’s Prosecutor, explaining conditions of her dispatch to hospital and protested the way she was treated 

Iran orchestra barred over women musicians

Tehran Symphony Orchestra

Tehran - A high-profile performance in Iran by the Tehran Symphony Orchestra was cancelled at the last minute because it was due to feature female musicians; AFP quoted Ali Rahbari, the furious conductor saying on Sunday.

Ali Rahbari said he was told 15 minutes before the orchestra was scheduled to play at a major sporting event that they could not.
'The chairs were laid out and everything looked fine,' he said, referring to the World Wrestling Clubs Cup competition which opened in the Iranian capital on Thursday.
'But before performing the national anthem, all of a sudden they announced women cannot play on stage.'
'I was offended and said it was impossible for me to accept such an insult,' Rahbari added. 'We either play all together or we leave'.
Efforts to resolve the issue failed.
'It’s absolutely impossible for women to play musical instruments on stage,' Rahbari quoted organizers of the ceremony as saying.
Banned from singing solo in public or taking part in a musical group playing instruments since the mullahs’ regime came to power in 1979, female Iranian musicians have repeatedly protested against being sidelined and prevented from performing, particularly outside Tehran.
But Thursday’s refusal, according to ISNA, was the first time a performance by the Symphony Orchestra, one of Iran’s oldest, had been cancelled because of its female members.
'They invited us themselves and yet they disrespected us,' Rahbari said. 'Why shouldn’t they be allowed to perform the national anthem of their country?'
The issue of music in public has resurfaced in the past year with artists repeatedly complaining they have been stopped from performing at short notice despite having official authorization.
Many concerts have been cancelled in Iran due to either having women performers or other illogical excuses.
Religious clergies have spoken out against them and conservatives claim music can 'excite and cause deviation' among the country’s youth.
Since 1979, state television has rarely shown musical instruments on screen.
Recent concert cancellations have been viewed by some Iranians as a tactic used by the clerical establishment to impose greater suppression.
At the wrestling competition at Tehran’s Azadi stadium, two Iranian clubs took first and third place.
The Titan Mercury Wrestling Club from the United States, who entered the stadium with an Iranian man carrying the US flag, came second.

All against Islamic fundimentalism

IRAN: Execution of 5 prisoners in Gohardasht Prison

The anti-human clerical regime ruling Iran has sent five more prisoners to the gallows again. Among the five is Alireza Shahi whose death sentence was condemned by Amnesty International. The execution took place in Gohardasht Prison in the city of Karaj last Tuesday. 
Five men were part of a group of at least ten prisoners that their execution had been scheduled for 24 November.
The five victims, Said Najafi, Farshad Haqi, Mohammad Baygi, Mohammad Polombeh and Alireza Shahi had been transferred to isolation on Saturday.
There has been no public announcement of these executions by prison officials.
Amnesty International said on Monday that Alireza Shahi did not have a fair trial and “after his arrest he was placed in detention for two weeks where he says he was tortured and otherwise ill-treated to confess. He was also denied access to both a lawyer and his family.”
“It is always cruel and inhumane to take away an individual’s life by hanging but the cruelty is compounded when the execution follows an unfair trial which has relied on coerced confessions, and ignored allegations of torture and other ill-treatment,” said Said Boumedouha, Deputy Director of Amnesty International’s Middle East and North Africa Program.
“The rate of executions in Iran is deplorable which, if they continue at the current rate, could reach more than 1,000 this year. In case after case we hear allegations of torture, fundamentally flawed trials, all in breach of international law and standards,” Amnesty International said.

URGENT ACTION: JUVENILE OFFENDER FACES THE GALLOWS AGAIN

Juvenile offender Salar Shadizadi has been rescheduled for execution on Saturday 28 November, despite the prohibition on the use of the death penalty against juvenile offenders under international law and standards, and his right to be granted a re-trial under Iran’s own domestic law.

Salar Shadizadi, now aged 24, was sentenced to death by Branch 11 of the Provincial Criminal Court of Gilan Province in December 2007 for stabbing his childhood friend. He was 15 years old at the time. The sentence was upheld by Branch 37 of the Supreme Court in March 20 08 and approved by the Head of the Judiciary in May 2013. Since then, the authorities have twice scheduled the execution and later postponed it. They have, however, failed to take the steps necessary to ensure that Salar Shadizadi is granted a re-trial, even though the General Board of Iran’s Supreme Court has ruled that all those on death row for crimes committed when they were under 18 are entitled to receive a re-trial based on the new juvenile sentencing provisions of Iran’s 2013 Islamic Penal Code.
Salar Shadizadi was arrested in February 2007 and charged with the murder of a friend when he was 15 years old. He was not granted access to a lawyer at the investigative stage and was only allowed to retain a lawyer when his case was sent to court for trial. He says that he was also tortured and otherwise ill-treated during the investigative stage. In a will letter written from prison in November 2015, Salar Shadizadi has revealed, for the first time, how he unintentionally caused the “catastrophic” death of his childhood friend by unintentionally stabbing a frightening moving object, covered in green cloth, in the dark, which he then realized to be his deceased friend. He writes that this happened in the context of a “silly game” where his friend had dared him to go to their family garden at night, knowing that Salar Shadizadi was afraid of the dark and had been warned by his grandmother since childhood that the garden is haunted by “evil spirits” (jen). The execution of Salar Shadizadi was scheduled on 1 August 2015 but was postponed at the last minute, possibly as a result of international pressure.

Iran: Zanjani’s wives! visiting him in Evin prison prevented women political prisoners in to see their children

Iranian regime authorities in the notorious Evin Prison in Tehran have prevented children from visiting their mothers who are held there as political prisoners. The reason given by the Khamenei point man in this nefarious prison is that Babak Zanjani, a corrupt middleman working with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards to circumvent sanctions, has visitors. And who might these visitors be? His 3 wives!

Human rights activists on Wednesday Nov. 25th reported that Zanjani was expecting to meet with his 3 wives in the visiting hall of the Evin Prison, asked not to be disturbed by other visitors coming to visit their loved ones. So the children, who already were granted visit with their political prisoner mothers, were told the visits were canceled. And the children were forced to leave the area while crying and asking for their mothers. Reports continue to say that mothers who were counting days and hours to see their children were told the visits were off and were hauled back to their cells.
After a short while these courageous and brave women protested and condemned the clerical regime for denying their basic and minimum rights of visiting their loved ones.
It should be noted that in the misogynist and perverted mullahs’ interpretation of Islam, bigamy is allowed and practiced routinely and a man can have up to 4 legal and official wives and dozens more still legally but unofficially. 

Children trafficking in Iran, sold for under $60

Another painful product of colossal corruption among Iranian regime’s elite is children’s trafficking and abuse for money. A child is bought and sold for under 60 dollars outside hospitals in south of Tehran, a city official has said.
“New born babies are being sold between 100,000 to 200,000 Tomans (27 to 54 U.S. Dollars) in areas near hospitals in south of Tehran,” Fatemeh Daneshvar, the head of Social Committee of Tehran’s City Council has said, according to a report published by state-run news agency IRNA on Saturday.
The children belong to the families of poor and women who leave in streets of the capital city.
Despite official acknowledgment by city officials, the head of police in Greater Tehran Area denies his office receiving any report on the sale of children in the streets of the capital city.
Recently a senior official of the regime acknowledged that at least 20,000 homeless Iranians are living in cardboard boxes on the streets of Tehran, even as the real number of homeless people in the Iranian capital is believed to be several times the official figure.
Iran holds one tenth of the world’s proven oil reserves and has the second largest global natural gas reserves.
The vast proportion of Iran’s revenue are being spent on export of terrorism and fundamentalism to the region and on the regime’s nuclear weapons projects.
As economists have reported, from 2005 to 2008, Iran’s oil export revenue amounted to $244 billion, equalling the 13 preceding years from 1992 to 2004. That’s close to $500 billion in just 17 years.

US warns its citizens of travelling outside the country

The U.S. State Department has issued a warning to its citizens not to travel outside the country over possible risks of terrorism attacks

The U.S. State Department has issued a warning to its citizens not to travel outside the country over possible risks of terrorism attacks.

The travel alert, which is to be in effect until Feb. 24, comes amid information that terrorist groups continue to plan attacks in multiple regions by employing a “wide variety of tactics,” according to the State Department.
Authorities believe the likelihood of terror attacks will continue as members of ISIS return from Iraq and Syria, as well as the threat from “unaffiliated persons” planning attacks inspired by major terrorist organizations.
'U.S. citizens should exercise vigilance when in public places or using transportation,' said the alert released Monday. 'Be aware of immediate surroundings and avoid large crowds or crowded places. Exercise particular caution during the holiday season and at holiday festivals or events,' it said.
The travel alert was issued by the State Department on the same day that Belgium’s prime minister announced that Brussels would remain at the highest alert level for at least another week.
The increased security measures following the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris that killed 130 people have virtually shut down the Belgian capital.

Suppressive iranian agents again target gathering of families of political prisoners arrest more people

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
 On Monday, November 23, agents of regime’s Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS) brutally attacked families of martyrs and political prisoners in Tehran’s Vanak Square arresting some and taking them to undisclosed location. This measure taken to prevent their protest gathering was the second such attack by suppressive forces this week against these families. Just two days ago, the suppressive forces had attacked an assembly of families of martyrs and political prisoner in front ofEvin Prison arresting dozens and transferring them to Evin or Qerchak Prison in Varamin.

Ms. Seamin Ayvaz-zadeh, 56, mother of political prisoner Omid Ali Shenas, who was arrested on November 21 and transferred with a number of other women to Qerchak Prison in Varamin is currently on hunger strike. She suffers of high blood pressure and arrhythmia.
Her son Mr. Omid Ali Shenas, a political prisoner in Ward 8 of Evin that has staged a hunger strike in protest to the MOIS agents attack on the families of prisoners and the arrest of his mother, was battered by head henchman Khazaii, a guard officer in Evin. This prisoner that has been detained for 14 months has been kept in limbo and his trial date has still not been announced.
The Iranian regime has found brutal suppression as the only tool to confront the wave of popular protests and public abhorrence.
The Iranian Resistance calls on the Iranian people, especially the valiant youth, to support and show solidarity with the families of political prisoners, especially those arrested in the recent days, and urges all international human rights agencies to take immediate and effective action to secure the release of all arrestees of the recent days.

Iran is ranked in the bottom 10 in gender equality around the world

Economists warn that women are not likely to reach economic equality with men until the year 2133

  It will take another 118 years to close the global gender gap, research conducted by the World Economic Forum has revealed.

The annual Global Gender Gap report tracks changes in equality between men and women by analyzing female participation in four key categories: the economy, education, health and politics.
Economists have ranked 145 countries, with Iceland holding on to the top position for the seventh consecutive year. Other Nordic countries – Finland, Sweden and Norway – fill out the top four.
Rwanda ranks sixth and is the highest-rated developing country in the world, achieving a greater level of equality than the UK, the US or Germany. Women are almost equal members of the economy and the labor force, and hold the majority of seats in parliament – the highest proportion in the world.
The UK is ranked 18th, coming in below South Africa, Namibia and Nicaragua. It scores very highly in health and education, but a lack of women in parliament means it scores poorly for political empowerment.
North African and Middle Eastern countries feature heavily at the bottom of the rankings. Iran is ranked in the bottom 10 among 145 countries along with Syria and Yemen.
The current inequalities 'risk being exacerbated' in the future due to technological advancements that eradicate jobs traditionally held by women, Klaus Schwab, Founder and Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum told the Daily Telegraph.
'In that context, we need to create a world where women’s contributions and ideals are as valued as those of men,' he urged. 'Gender parity in our thinking and actions will be critical in helping to ensure that the future is served by humanity and not threatened by i

By supporting NCRI and fighting Islamic Extremism, we will ensure a lasting, effective defense against terror: Sir David Amess

Sir David Amess 

The Huffington Post-19/11/2015-I remember almost a year ago, the enormous crowds that came together all across France, to rally against extremism. This rally showed everything that was great about French society. The rally did not blame all Muslims for the deeds of a few radicals misleadingly carried out in the name of Islam and it was not the familiar angry call for bloodshed and revenge that all too often follows these tragic events. However, these latest attack shows that when it comes to Islamic extremism, it’s not just enough to speak softly and rationally, we must put the stick about.
Let us be clear about what should not occur in the reaction to this latest round of bloodshed perpetrated my Islamic extremists. France’s Muslim population, Europe’s Muslim populations and especially refugees should not receive blame for the actions of a few. Yes, eight attackers are guilty. Yes, this attack like so many others was carried out under the name of Islam and that this is happening far too often. Yet we should not forget that the vast majority of Muslims would never support such violence, that during the last attack Muslims died and risked their lives fighting against these extremists and that refugees are escaping these extremists.
France and indeed the western world need to attack Islamic extremism at its source. This means relentlessly going after Daesh. However, it further means fighting against the theocratic regime in Tehran and its allies whose policies give life to those groups. Iranian backed militias committed massacres in Iraq and the Iranian government pushed the Iraqi government towards sectarianism. Similarly in Syria, the Iranian regime sponsored Assad’s brutal crackdowns, chemical warfare and torture against innocent people on an unfathomable scale. While these actions may not have created Daesh, they at least added tremendously to their strength and serve as its main recruitment agent, as the Prime Minister David Cameron and Secretary Kerry have pointed out repeatedly.
Tactics used by Daesh, both in France and elsewhere were also largely adopted from the post-revolution Iranian regime. One of the first and largest hostage taking situations was carried out by the regime in Tehran. Suicide operations and tactics of bombing targets abroad were additionally adopted which enabled a state apparatus that could provide funding, organization, equipment and diplomatic cover that regular terror groups could only dream of. Daesh is just the radical Sunni version of what was and is a radical Shiite invention of Iran’s Ayatollahs.
We have let the Iranian regime continue along its radical path and we keep paying a hefty price, from regional chaos to bombings abroad and beyond. We cannot continue to keep paying such a high price in human sacrifice for permitting Iranian extremism and we cannot allow Daesh to follow in its footsteps. If it were not for Tehran supporting Assad in Syria, he would have been gone several years ago and Daesh would never have multiplied. The bottom line is, Assad must go and in order to do so, we have to contain Iran.
Let us empower the moderate Muslim majority. Although it seems like a pipe dream given the sensationalist news coverage, the reality is there are many groups organised and on the ground that have a good track record against the scourge of extremism.
In Syria and Iraq, Kurdish groups and other moderate rebels are pushing Daesh back and fighting against the Assad regime at the same time.
In Iran too, there is an organised opposition, which has the support of an Iranian population sympathetic towards the West. This opposition is the National Council of Resistance of Iran ( NCRI ), which has large-scale support among Iranians inside the country and abroad. In what is unique for today’s Middle East, this organised opposition to the theocratic regime in Iran is led by a Muslim woman, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi .
In April 2006, she presented the NCRI’s 10-point platform for a future Iran that commits to the abolition of the death penalty, ending the use of torture in a future Iran and calls for a democratic, non-nuclear Iran with a clear separation between religion and state, gender equality and elimination of all religious and ethnic discrimination. The regime sees such a threat as a way to undertake an unprecedented spree of imprisonment, torture and murder.
By supporting these groups and fighting Islamic Extremism whatever its form, we will ensure a lasting, effective defence against the types of terror faced in Paris recently. Without resolve to fight and empower our allies, Islamic Extremism will just continue to threaten our free and open societies with barbaric atrocities

Sir David Amess is a UK Member of Parliament for Southend West and co-chair of the British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom

Iranian Resistance hold memorial at the Bataclan for Paris Attacks victims

Members of the National Council of Resistance of Iran ( NCRI ) on Wednesday gathered opposite the Bataclan concert call in Paris to remember the 129 people who were killed in a terrorist attack by Islamic fundamentalist terrorists in the French capital last week.
Senior officials of the Iranian Resistance, including Ms. Sarvnaz Chitsaz, chair of the NCRI’s Women’s Committee, Mr. Mehdi Abrishamchi, chair of the NCRI’s Peace Committee, and Ms. Dowlat Nowrouzi, the NCRI’s representative in the United Kingdom, laid flowers at the site in memory of the victims of the brutal attack.
The statement issued by NCRI President-elect Mrs. Maryam Rajavi on November 13 immediately after the massacre was read out at the ceremony.

Mrs. Rajavi reiterated that fundamentalism in the name of Islam - whether under the banner of Shia and velayat-e faqih or under the banner of Sunni and Daesh – and their inhuman crimes have nothing to do with Islam, and this evil phenomenon, wherever it may be, is the enemy of peace and humanity.
Renowned Iranian musician Hamidreza Taherzadeh, a member of the NCRI, performed a violin solo in remembrance of the victims of the tragedy.

Prominent French singer and writer Sapho joined the supporters of the NCRI by giving a live performance at the memorial. Also present was French writer Olivier Steiner who welcomed the international unity among peoples against the threat of Islamic fundamentalism.

Parisians express support and solidarity with Iranian Resistance

The Iranian Resistance’s call for international solidarity against Islamic fundamentalism has been met with strong approval by the French public.
Immediately after the November 13 deadly terrorist attacks in Paris claimed by the Islamic fundamentalist group ISIS (ISIL or Islamic State), Iranian opposition leader Mrs. Maryam Rajavi issued a statement condemning the atrocity and stating that the terrorists responsible for the massacre in no way represented true Islam.
At least 129 people were killed in the Paris attacks.
Mrs. Rajavi reiterated that fundamentalism in the name of Islam - whether under the banner of Shia and velayat-e faqih or under the banner of Sunni and Daesh – and their inhuman crimes have nothing to do with Islam, and this evil phenomenon, wherever it may be, is the enemy of peace and humanity.
Over the past week, supporters of the National Council of Resistance of Iran ( NCRI) have held memorials and vigils in central Paris in memory of the victims of the massacre. They have also informed the French public of Mrs. Rajavi’s position which has been widely endorsed among the French people.

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