The Iranian regime will blind 5 prisoners with acid

These eyes will be blinded  by the Iranian regime

The horrible law of retribution, or as it is called by the mullahs’ regime in Iran as Qisas, which is based on the old saying of “an eye for an eye”, the Iranian regime is to blind at least five prisoners in Iran’s notorious Gohardasht Prison in Karaj, northwest of the capital Tehran. This barbaric punishment also includes to deafen the prisoners as well.
According to reports from inside the prison, some 40 kilometers from the Iranian capital Tehran, the Iranian regime’s judiciary is pushing for the sentences to be implemented quickly; however prison doctors have thus far refused to carry out the draconian procedures.
Mojtaba Saheli (Yasaveli), 31, who was previously blinded in his left eye by the regime, was recently informed by prison officials that he is to be blinded in the right eye with acid.
On March 3, 2015 he was blinded in one eye with acid in Gohardasht Prison in the presence of the regime’s deputy prosecutor in Tehran Mohammad Shahriari and prison officials after the draconian sentence was upheld by the regime’s Supreme Court.
On August 3, 2009 he allegedly blinded a driver in Qom, south of Tehran, with acid. The regime’s court in Qom sentenced Mr. Saheli to be blinded in both eyes with acid, pay blood money and serve a 10-year prison term as part of the regime’s inhumane law of retribution.
Mr. Saheli is currently imprisoned in Ward 2 of Hall 4 of Gohardasht Prison. He had been told to pay blood money to avoid the new blinding sentence from being implemented on his right eye.
According to one report, Mr. Saheli recently inquired from the prison’s office of implementations about his sentence and was informed that the implementation order for his sentence had been received, but until now no physician had been willing to break their doctor’s oath to carry out the sentence.
He was furthermore informed that the regime’s judiciary is pressing for the sentence to be carried out and that at any moment one of the doctors may decide to set aside their oath and carry out the blinding sentence.
Five prisoners are currently awaiting to be administered acid on to their eyes and ears. They are:
• Mojtaba Saheli (Yasaveli), 31, whose left eye has already been blinded, and who is awaiting implementation of a sentence to be blinded in the right eye.
• Fatollah Khojasteh, sentenced to be blinded in one eye and made deaf in one ear with acid.
• An unnamed prisoner, sentenced to be blinded in both eyes with acid.
• An unnamed prisoner, sentenced to be blinded in one eye and made deaf in one ear with acid.
• An unnamed prisoner, sentenced to be blinded in one eye with acid.
Dr. Sanabargh Zahedi, chairman of the Judicial Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran ( NCRI ), earlier this month said: “The inhumane law of retribution (qisas) has been implemented against the Iranian people for the past 37 years. These punishments date back to the medieval ages and show the clerical regime’s reactionary nature. These inhuman punishments are clear violations of all principles and norms of a modern judiciary, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and all civil and political covenants. Such punishments undoubtedly constitute a savage form of torture and should be condemned by any freedom-seeking person. The Iranian Resistance and NCRI members have since 1980 condemned the regime’s qisas law as anti-human.”“According to the logic of the Quran and modern democratic Islam the first principle which applies to the penal code is dynamism. Thus the Islamic penal provision should be interpreted within the context of social and economic conditions and scientific progress. The clerical regime is centuries away from this logic, and as such it is clear that there is no possibility of reform within this regime,” he added.
Amnesty International in a statement on March 5, 2015 condemned the Iranian regime for blinding Mr. Saheli in his left eye two days earlier.
“Punishing someone by deliberately blinding them is an unspeakably cruel and shocking act,' said Raha Bahreini, Amnesty International's Iran Researcher.
'This punishment exposes the utter brutality of Iran’s justice system and underlines the Iranian authorities' shocking disregard for basic humanity. Meting out cruel and inhuman retribution punishments is not justice. Blinding, like stoning, amputation and flogging, is a form of corporal punishment prohibited by international law. Such punishments should not be carried out under any circumstances.”

Iran regime’s crackdown on teachers, activists major concern for British MPs MPs

 

British peers and MPs have expressed deep concern about the crackdown on teachers and union activists by the mullahs' regime in Iran.

The all- party British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom (BPCIF) in a May 26 statement said it is 'extremely concerned' over the recent arrest and detention, under fraudulent national security charges, of teacher activists in Iran for their peaceful political activism to fight for their improved livelihood.

The British lawmakers in particular condemned the harsh sentences against Jafar Azimzadeh, Mahmoud Beheshti Langaroudi, and Ismail Abdi who have been sentenced to long prison terms, merely for their peaceful activities to secure better wages and living-conditions for Iranian teachers and workers.

'We warn that these prisoners of conscience are in a serious health condition due to their hunger strike in protest to their unjust sentences along with the Iranian authorities' ill-treatment and harassment of their families, fellow teachers, workers, and union members,' the BPCIF said in its statement.

'The notion that advocacy and peaceful activities meant to improve the livelihood of Iranian teachers and workers constitute acts against national security is not only ridiculous but appalling. Such a claim by the Iranian authorities can only be interpreted as silencing legitimate demands and social dissents under the pretext of national security.'

These repressive measures coincide with a recent warning by a group of United Nations Human Rights experts “that over a dozen political prisoners in Iran, including some prominent human rights defenders are at risk of death in detention due to their worsening health conditions and the continued refusal by the Iranian authorities to provide them with medical treatment.” The Iranian authorities’ rationale for withholding treatment to these prisoners is unacceptable especially since these prisoners “allegedly have been arrested, detained and convicted purely for their peaceful exercise of their fundamental freedoms and rights.”

The UK Parliamentarians joined the UN experts in reiterating the situation of political prisoners and activists.

The British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom BPCIF called for the immediate release of political prisoners in Iran.

It urged the UK government and the relevant UN bodies to condemn the Iranian regime's extensive use of national security charges to silence legitimate opposition and popular dissent. 'This in turn will pressure the Iranian authorities to release all political prisoners and respect the Iranian people's right to freedom of expression, assembly, and peaceful protests.'

Ehsan Bidi, Iran Ministry of Intelligence agent in Albania

Ehsan Bidi, an agent of the Iranian regime’s Ministry of Intelligence

Ehsan Bidi, an agent of the Iranian regime’s Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS/VEVAK) in Albania, entered this country on 16 October 2013 as a refugee and “former PMOI member” (People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran) with an Iranian passport issued by the MOIS/VEVAK.

Bidi’s passport, with which he entered Albania, registered on 27 January 2013 and numbered 16359072, is valid for five years. This reveals there is no need to recognize this individual as a refugee. 

Bidi’s transfer to Albania by the MOIS/VEVAK was aimed at establishing the cell of a spy ring amongst PMOI/MeK members transferred from Camp Liberty in Iraq to Albania. The goal of this mission is to obtain the information and intelligence necessary for a demonizing campaign targeting the PMOI/MeK and pave the path for future terrorist attacks. The MOIS/VEVAK is also using Bidi as a former PMOI/MeK member in its demonizing campaign against the PMOI/MeK to deceive the public and media in Albania against accepting Liberty residents on their soil, and ultimately prevent the residents’ transfer to a safe location. He is essentially a mole of a known MOIS/VEVAK agent by the name of Massoud Khodabandeh in the United Kingdom. Khodabandeh, along with his British wife Ann Singleton, are known to pursue an ongoing campaign against the PMOI/MeK, in service to the Iranian regime. Before any other MOIS/VEVAK organ, all texts related to Bidi is first and foremost posted by the Iran-Interlink website, managed by the Khodabandeh couple.

Background:

Bidi was born in 1977 and a number of his family members were executed by the Iranian regime for supporting the PMOI/MeK. He left Iran in 2002 and went to Camp Ashraf in Iraq to join the PMOI/MeK. He had been arrested twice for ordinary crimes prior to his departure of Iran. His mother and brother visited Ashraf in 2003 and 2004, spending a few days with him and encouraging Bidi to remain with PMOI/MeK. However, following the July 2009 and April 2011 attacks against Ashraf staged by forces of then Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki that made conditions of remaining in Ashraf all the more difficult, Bidi could no longer tolerate the circumstances and after being transferred to Liberty he left the camp at the first possible opportunity on 19 April 2012, going directly to Baghdad’s Hotel Mohajer. This facility is controlled by Iran’s MOIS/VEVAK and terrorist Quds Force as a recruiting center for the MOIS/VEVAK to conscript individuals who in the past departed Ashraf, and now choose to leave Liberty.

A few years later he wrote the true reason why he left Ashraf and Liberty.

“In early spring 2012 the Iraqi people made it clear for us, the Camp Ashraf residents, that we couldn’t go on like this and … I sensed the fact that there was to be a major conflict in the future… it was obvious the Iraqi forces would no longer show any mercy.” (Iran-Interlink, 10 November 2015)

Bidi was used by the MOIS/VEVAK in Hotel Mohajer and in mid-2012 with a fake passport he flew from Baghdad to Turkey, and from there to Egypt. However, Egyptian authorities were suspicious of his presence and had him arrested. An individual by the name of Haj Nosser, a senior official of the MOIS/VEVAK branch in Iran’s embassy in Baghdad, provided Bidi with money through a regime representative in Egypt. Iran’s MOIS/VEVAK then attempted to use its agents in Europe to have Bidi sent to Austria, Finland or Denmark. However, despite their initial agreements, related organs in these countries refused to accept him on their soil because of his unveiled relationship with the MOIS/VEVAK, forcing Bidi to return to Iraq. After returning to Baghdad using an Iranian passport provided to him by the MOIS/VEVAK, he once again travelled to Turkey, from there to Romania, and finally to Albania to establish an initial cell of a spying network against the PMOI/MeK in that country.

Objective in Transferring Bidi to Albania

As mentioned earlier, in addition to the demonizing campaign against the PMOI/MeK, with the main objective of justifying and paving the grounds for terrorist attacks against Camp Liberty residents in Iraq, by using Bidi the Iranian regime is seeking to instigate public opinion in Albania against accepting the PMOI/MeK.

Following measures implemented by the PMOI/MeK and the support shown by the U.S., the Albanian government in 2013 began accepting Camp Liberty residents.  Simultaneously, the Iranian regime – seeking the complete annihilation of the PMOI/MeK in Iraq – began threatening Albania to prevent any further transfer of Camp Liberty residents. For example, the state Keyhan daily in Iran, known as a major mouthpiece loyal to Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei, wrote in this regard on 21 September 2013:

“The Islamic Republic of Iran will never allow any country to station PMOI/MeK members on their soil, and if such measures actually take place they will have to bear the resulting political, economic and maybe security consequences.”

Prior to that Iranian officials and media outlets were seen threatening the Albanian government. “Balkan states will in the near future witness bombings and sabotage benefiting the United States and the Zionist regime.” (Iran’s state IRIB news network – 17 May 2013)

Consequently, in the winter of 2014 Iran’s MOIS/VEVAK sent one of its operatives by the name of “Fereidoon Zandi Ali Abadi” under the disguise of a diplomat stationed in Tehran’s embassy in Albania to run its intelligence apparatus against the PMOI/MeK. This individual came in contact with Bidi. (National Council of Resistance of Iran statement – 1 December 2014)

Expressing Utmost Gratitude for Massacring PMOI/MeK

Bidi was one of the numerous MOIS/VEVAK agents who wrote a letter to then Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, expressing their “utmost gratitude” for the massacre staged against the PMOI/MeK on 1 September 2013 in Ashraf, adding they were ready to provide their experience to the Iraqi government for the PMOI/MeK’s complete annihilation:

“We, the separated individuals from this organization, some of whom have family members in Camp Liberty, all… witnessed crimes, murder, physical and psychological tortures… by this organization … we are ready to provide our experience to the Iraqi government in measures aimed at separating the members and lower files of this organization in the related camp [Liberty] from the senior ranks of this notorious group, and announce the complete annihilation of its leadership and structure….” (Iran-Interlink – 6 March 2014)

Following all the bloody attacks staged by Maliki’s forces against the PMOI/MeK that failed to result in their annihilation, Bidi wrote: “Former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki failed in his measures regarding the PMOI/MeK in Ashraf and Liberty.” (Iran-Interlink – 17 February 2015)

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Bidi (on the left) was recruited by the MOIS/VEVAK after entering Hotel Mohajer. Following initial briefings and the necessary training, he was used in the ridiculous shows staged by Iran’s embassy outside of Ashraf. Alongside other similar agents he was seen holding placards and using 320 powerful loudspeakers installed around Ashraf to blare profanity and psychologically torture the residents on a 24/7 basis.

Ehsan Bidi, an agent of the Iranian regime’s Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS/VEVAK) in Albania, entered this country on 16 October 2013 as a refugee and “former PMOI member” (People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran) with an Iranian passport issued by the MOIS/VEVAK.
Bidi’s passport, with which he entered Albania, registered on 27 January 2013 and numbered 16359072, is valid for five years. This reveals there is no need to recognize this individual as a refugee.

Bidi’s transfer to Albania by the MOIS/VEVAK was aimed at establishing the cell of a spy ring amongst PMOI/MeK members transferred from Camp Liberty in Iraq to Albania. The goal of this mission is to obtain the information and intelligence necessary for a demonizing campaign targeting the PMOI/MeK and pave the path for future terrorist attacks. The MOIS/VEVAK is also using Bidi as a former PMOI/MeK member in its demonizing campaign against the PMOI/MeK to deceive the public and media in Albania against accepting Liberty residents on their soil, and ultimately prevent the residents’ transfer to a safe location. He is essentially a mole of a known MOIS/VEVAK agent by the name of Massoud Khodabandeh in the United Kingdom. Khodabandeh, along with his British wife Ann Singleton, are known to pursue an ongoing campaign against the PMOI/MeK, in service to the Iranian regime. Before any other MOIS/VEVAK organ, all texts related to Bidi is first and foremost posted by the Iran-Interlink website, managed by the Khodabandeh couple.

Background:

Bidi was born in 1977 and a number of his family members were executed by the Iranian regime for supporting the PMOI/MeK. He left Iran in 2002 and went to Camp Ashraf in Iraq to join the PMOI/MeK. He had been arrested twice for ordinary crimes prior to his departure of Iran. His mother and brother visited Ashraf in 2003 and 2004, spending a few days with him and encouraging Bidi to remain with PMOI/MeK. However, following the July 2009 and April 2011 attacks against Ashraf staged by forces of then Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki that made conditions of remaining in Ashraf all the more difficult, Bidi could no longer tolerate the circumstances and after being transferred to Liberty he left the camp at the first possible opportunity on 19 April 2012, going directly to Baghdad’s Hotel Mohajer. This facility is controlled by Iran’s MOIS/VEVAK and terrorist Quds Force as a recruiting center for the MOIS/VEVAK to conscript individuals who in the past departed Ashraf, and now choose to leave Liberty.
A few years later he wrote the true reason why he left Ashraf and Liberty.
“In early spring 2012 the Iraqi people made it clear for us, the Camp Ashraf residents, that we couldn’t go on like this and … I sensed the fact that there was to be a major conflict in the future… it was obvious the Iraqi forces would no longer show any mercy.” (Iran-Interlink, 10 November 2015)
Bidi was used by the MOIS/VEVAK in Hotel Mohajer and in mid-2012 with a fake passport he flew from Baghdad to Turkey, and from there to Egypt. However, Egyptian authorities were suspicious of his presence and had him arrested. An individual by the name of Haj Nosser, a senior official of the MOIS/VEVAK branch in Iran’s embassy in Baghdad, provided Bidi with money through a regime representative in Egypt. Iran’s MOIS/VEVAK then attempted to use its agents in Europe to have Bidi sent to Austria, Finland or Denmark. However, despite their initial agreements, related organs in these countries refused to accept him on their soil because of his unveiled relationship with the MOIS/VEVAK, forcing Bidi to return to Iraq. After returning to Baghdad using an Iranian passport provided to him by the MOIS/VEVAK, he once again travelled to Turkey, from there to Romania, and finally to Albania to establish an initial cell of a spying network against the PMOI/MeK in that country.

Objective in Transferring Bidi to Albania

As mentioned earlier, in addition to the demonizing campaign against the PMOI/MeK, with the main objective of justifying and paving the grounds for terrorist attacks against Camp Liberty residents in Iraq, by using Bidi the Iranian regime is seeking to instigate public opinion in Albania against accepting the PMOI/MeK.
Following measures implemented by the PMOI/MeK and the support shown by the U.S., the Albanian government in 2013 began accepting Camp Liberty residents.  Simultaneously, the Iranian regime – seeking the complete annihilation of the PMOI/MeK in Iraq – began threatening Albania to prevent any further transfer of Camp Liberty residents. For example, the state Keyhan daily in Iran, known as a major mouthpiece loyal to Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei, wrote in this regard on 21 September 2013 :
“The Islamic Republic of Iran will never allow any country to station PMOI/MeK members on their soil, and if such measures actually take place they will have to bear the resulting political, economic and maybe security consequences.”
Prior to that Iranian officials and media outlets were seen threatening the Albanian government. “Balkan states will in the near future witness bombings and sabotage benefiting  the United States and the Zionist regime.” (Iran’s state IRIB news network – 17 May 2013)
Consequently, in the winter of 2014 Iran’s MOIS/VEVAK sent one of its operatives by the name of “Fereidoon Zandi Ali Abadi” under the disguise of a diplomat stationed in Tehran’s embassy in Albania to run its intelligence apparatus against the PMOI/MeK. This individual came in contact with Bidi. (National Council of Resistance of Iran statement – 1 December 2014)

Expressing Utmost Gratitude for Massacring PMOI/MeK

Bidi was one of the numerous MOIS/VEVAK agents who wrote a letter to then Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, expressing their “utmost gratitude” for the massacre staged against the PMOI/MeK on 1 September 2013 in Ashraf, adding they were ready to provide their experience to the Iraqi government for the PMOI/MeK’s complete annihilation:
“We, the separated individuals from this organization, some of whom have family members in Camp Liberty, all… witnessed crimes, murder, physical and psychological tortures… by this organization … we are ready to provide our experience to the Iraqi government in measures aimed at separating the members and lower files of this organization in the related camp [Liberty] from the senior ranks of this notorious group, and announce the complete annihilation of its leadership and structure….” (Iran-Interlink – 6 March 2014)
Following all the bloody attacks staged by Maliki’s forces against the PMOI/MeK that failed to result in their annihilation, Bidi wrote: “Former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki failed in his measures regarding the PMOI/MeK in Ashraf and Liberty.” (Iran-Interlink – 17 February 2015)

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Bidi  (on the left) was recruited by the MOIS/VEVAK after entering Hotel Mohajer. Following initial briefings and the necessary training, he was used in the ridiculous shows staged by Iran’s embassy outside of Ashraf. Alongside other similar agents he was seen holding placards and using 320 powerful loudspeakers installed around Ashraf to blare profanity and psychologically torture the residents on a 24/7 basis.
- See more at: http://www.iran-efshagari.com/english/camp-liberty-2/mois-s-agents-and-spies/1044.html#sthash.zjBNsi9m.dpuf

Ehsan Bidi, an agent of the Iranian regime’s Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS/VEVAK) in Albania, entered this country on 16 October 2013 as a refugee and “former PMOI member” (People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran) with an Iranian passport issued by the MOIS/VEVAK.
Bidi’s passport, with which he entered Albania, registered on 27 January 2013 and numbered 16359072, is valid for five years. This reveals there is no need to recognize this individual as a refugee.

Bidi’s transfer to Albania by the MOIS/VEVAK was aimed at establishing the cell of a spy ring amongst PMOI/MeK members transferred from Camp Liberty in Iraq to Albania. The goal of this mission is to obtain the information and intelligence necessary for a demonizing campaign targeting the PMOI/MeK and pave the path for future terrorist attacks. The MOIS/VEVAK is also using Bidi as a former PMOI/MeK member in its demonizing campaign against the PMOI/MeK to deceive the public and media in Albania against accepting Liberty residents on their soil, and ultimately prevent the residents’ transfer to a safe location. He is essentially a mole of a known MOIS/VEVAK agent by the name of Massoud Khodabandeh in the United Kingdom. Khodabandeh, along with his British wife Ann Singleton, are known to pursue an ongoing campaign against the PMOI/MeK, in service to the Iranian regime. Before any other MOIS/VEVAK organ, all texts related to Bidi is first and foremost posted by the Iran-Interlink website, managed by the Khodabandeh couple.

Background:

Bidi was born in 1977 and a number of his family members were executed by the Iranian regime for supporting the PMOI/MeK. He left Iran in 2002 and went to Camp Ashraf in Iraq to join the PMOI/MeK. He had been arrested twice for ordinary crimes prior to his departure of Iran. His mother and brother visited Ashraf in 2003 and 2004, spending a few days with him and encouraging Bidi to remain with PMOI/MeK. However, following the July 2009 and April 2011 attacks against Ashraf staged by forces of then Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki that made conditions of remaining in Ashraf all the more difficult, Bidi could no longer tolerate the circumstances and after being transferred to Liberty he left the camp at the first possible opportunity on 19 April 2012, going directly to Baghdad’s Hotel Mohajer. This facility is controlled by Iran’s MOIS/VEVAK and terrorist Quds Force as a recruiting center for the MOIS/VEVAK to conscript individuals who in the past departed Ashraf, and now choose to leave Liberty.
A few years later he wrote the true reason why he left Ashraf and Liberty.
“In early spring 2012 the Iraqi people made it clear for us, the Camp Ashraf residents, that we couldn’t go on like this and … I sensed the fact that there was to be a major conflict in the future… it was obvious the Iraqi forces would no longer show any mercy.” (Iran-Interlink, 10 November 2015)
Bidi was used by the MOIS/VEVAK in Hotel Mohajer and in mid-2012 with a fake passport he flew from Baghdad to Turkey, and from there to Egypt. However, Egyptian authorities were suspicious of his presence and had him arrested. An individual by the name of Haj Nosser, a senior official of the MOIS/VEVAK branch in Iran’s embassy in Baghdad, provided Bidi with money through a regime representative in Egypt. Iran’s MOIS/VEVAK then attempted to use its agents in Europe to have Bidi sent to Austria, Finland or Denmark. However, despite their initial agreements, related organs in these countries refused to accept him on their soil because of his unveiled relationship with the MOIS/VEVAK, forcing Bidi to return to Iraq. After returning to Baghdad using an Iranian passport provided to him by the MOIS/VEVAK, he once again travelled to Turkey, from there to Romania, and finally to Albania to establish an initial cell of a spying network against the PMOI/MeK in that country.

Objective in Transferring Bidi to Albania

As mentioned earlier, in addition to the demonizing campaign against the PMOI/MeK, with the main objective of justifying and paving the grounds for terrorist attacks against Camp Liberty residents in Iraq, by using Bidi the Iranian regime is seeking to instigate public opinion in Albania against accepting the PMOI/MeK.
Following measures implemented by the PMOI/MeK and the support shown by the U.S., the Albanian government in 2013 began accepting Camp Liberty residents.  Simultaneously, the Iranian regime – seeking the complete annihilation of the PMOI/MeK in Iraq – began threatening Albania to prevent any further transfer of Camp Liberty residents. For example, the state Keyhan daily in Iran, known as a major mouthpiece loyal to Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei, wrote in this regard on 21 September 2013 :
“The Islamic Republic of Iran will never allow any country to station PMOI/MeK members on their soil, and if such measures actually take place they will have to bear the resulting political, economic and maybe security consequences.”
Prior to that Iranian officials and media outlets were seen threatening the Albanian government. “Balkan states will in the near future witness bombings and sabotage benefiting  the United States and the Zionist regime.” (Iran’s state IRIB news network – 17 May 2013)
Consequently, in the winter of 2014 Iran’s MOIS/VEVAK sent one of its operatives by the name of “Fereidoon Zandi Ali Abadi” under the disguise of a diplomat stationed in Tehran’s embassy in Albania to run its intelligence apparatus against the PMOI/MeK. This individual came in contact with Bidi. (National Council of Resistance of Iran statement – 1 December 2014)

Expressing Utmost Gratitude for Massacring PMOI/MeK

Bidi was one of the numerous MOIS/VEVAK agents who wrote a letter to then Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, expressing their “utmost gratitude” for the massacre staged against the PMOI/MeK on 1 September 2013 in Ashraf, adding they were ready to provide their experience to the Iraqi government for the PMOI/MeK’s complete annihilation:
“We, the separated individuals from this organization, some of whom have family members in Camp Liberty, all… witnessed crimes, murder, physical and psychological tortures… by this organization … we are ready to provide our experience to the Iraqi government in measures aimed at separating the members and lower files of this organization in the related camp [Liberty] from the senior ranks of this notorious group, and announce the complete annihilation of its leadership and structure….” (Iran-Interlink – 6 March 2014)
Following all the bloody attacks staged by Maliki’s forces against the PMOI/MeK that failed to result in their annihilation, Bidi wrote: “Former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki failed in his measures regarding the PMOI/MeK in Ashraf and Liberty.” (Iran-Interlink – 17 February 2015)

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Bidi  (on the left) was recruited by the MOIS/VEVAK after entering Hotel Mohajer. Following initial briefings and the necessary training, he was used in the ridiculous shows staged by Iran’s embassy outside of Ashraf. Alongside other similar agents he was seen holding placards and using 320 powerful loudspeakers installed around Ashraf to blare profanity and psychologically torture the residents on a 24/7 basis.
- See more at: http://www.iran-efshagari.com/english/camp-liberty-2/mois-s-agents-and-spies/1044.html#sthash.zjBNsi9m.dpuf

Ehsan Bidi, an agent of the Iranian regime’s Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS/VEVAK) in Albania, entered this country on 16 October 2013 as a refugee and “former PMOI member” (People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran) with an Iranian passport issued by the MOIS/VEVAK.
Bidi’s passport, with which he entered Albania, registered on 27 January 2013 and numbered 16359072, is valid for five years. This reveals there is no need to recognize this individual as a refugee.

Bidi’s transfer to Albania by the MOIS/VEVAK was aimed at establishing the cell of a spy ring amongst PMOI/MeK members transferred from Camp Liberty in Iraq to Albania. The goal of this mission is to obtain the information and intelligence necessary for a demonizing campaign targeting the PMOI/MeK and pave the path for future terrorist attacks. The MOIS/VEVAK is also using Bidi as a former PMOI/MeK member in its demonizing campaign against the PMOI/MeK to deceive the public and media in Albania against accepting Liberty residents on their soil, and ultimately prevent the residents’ transfer to a safe location. He is essentially a mole of a known MOIS/VEVAK agent by the name of Massoud Khodabandeh in the United Kingdom. Khodabandeh, along with his British wife Ann Singleton, are known to pursue an ongoing campaign against the PMOI/MeK, in service to the Iranian regime. Before any other MOIS/VEVAK organ, all texts related to Bidi is first and foremost posted by the Iran-Interlink website, managed by the Khodabandeh couple.

Background:

Bidi was born in 1977 and a number of his family members were executed by the Iranian regime for supporting the PMOI/MeK. He left Iran in 2002 and went to Camp Ashraf in Iraq to join the PMOI/MeK. He had been arrested twice for ordinary crimes prior to his departure of Iran. His mother and brother visited Ashraf in 2003 and 2004, spending a few days with him and encouraging Bidi to remain with PMOI/MeK. However, following the July 2009 and April 2011 attacks against Ashraf staged by forces of then Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki that made conditions of remaining in Ashraf all the more difficult, Bidi could no longer tolerate the circumstances and after being transferred to Liberty he left the camp at the first possible opportunity on 19 April 2012, going directly to Baghdad’s Hotel Mohajer. This facility is controlled by Iran’s MOIS/VEVAK and terrorist Quds Force as a recruiting center for the MOIS/VEVAK to conscript individuals who in the past departed Ashraf, and now choose to leave Liberty.
A few years later he wrote the true reason why he left Ashraf and Liberty.
“In early spring 2012 the Iraqi people made it clear for us, the Camp Ashraf residents, that we couldn’t go on like this and … I sensed the fact that there was to be a major conflict in the future… it was obvious the Iraqi forces would no longer show any mercy.” (Iran-Interlink, 10 November 2015)
Bidi was used by the MOIS/VEVAK in Hotel Mohajer and in mid-2012 with a fake passport he flew from Baghdad to Turkey, and from there to Egypt. However, Egyptian authorities were suspicious of his presence and had him arrested. An individual by the name of Haj Nosser, a senior official of the MOIS/VEVAK branch in Iran’s embassy in Baghdad, provided Bidi with money through a regime representative in Egypt. Iran’s MOIS/VEVAK then attempted to use its agents in Europe to have Bidi sent to Austria, Finland or Denmark. However, despite their initial agreements, related organs in these countries refused to accept him on their soil because of his unveiled relationship with the MOIS/VEVAK, forcing Bidi to return to Iraq. After returning to Baghdad using an Iranian passport provided to him by the MOIS/VEVAK, he once again travelled to Turkey, from there to Romania, and finally to Albania to establish an initial cell of a spying network against the PMOI/MeK in that country.

Objective in Transferring Bidi to Albania

As mentioned earlier, in addition to the demonizing campaign against the PMOI/MeK, with the main objective of justifying and paving the grounds for terrorist attacks against Camp Liberty residents in Iraq, by using Bidi the Iranian regime is seeking to instigate public opinion in Albania against accepting the PMOI/MeK.
Following measures implemented by the PMOI/MeK and the support shown by the U.S., the Albanian government in 2013 began accepting Camp Liberty residents.  Simultaneously, the Iranian regime – seeking the complete annihilation of the PMOI/MeK in Iraq – began threatening Albania to prevent any further transfer of Camp Liberty residents. For example, the state Keyhan daily in Iran, known as a major mouthpiece loyal to Iranian supreme leader Ali Khamenei, wrote in this regard on 21 September 2013 :
“The Islamic Republic of Iran will never allow any country to station PMOI/MeK members on their soil, and if such measures actually take place they will have to bear the resulting political, economic and maybe security consequences.”
Prior to that Iranian officials and media outlets were seen threatening the Albanian government. “Balkan states will in the near future witness bombings and sabotage benefiting  the United States and the Zionist regime.” (Iran’s state IRIB news network – 17 May 2013)
Consequently, in the winter of 2014 Iran’s MOIS/VEVAK sent one of its operatives by the name of “Fereidoon Zandi Ali Abadi” under the disguise of a diplomat stationed in Tehran’s embassy in Albania to run its intelligence apparatus against the PMOI/MeK. This individual came in contact with Bidi. (National Council of Resistance of Iran statement – 1 December 2014)

Expressing Utmost Gratitude for Massacring PMOI/MeK

Bidi was one of the numerous MOIS/VEVAK agents who wrote a letter to then Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, expressing their “utmost gratitude” for the massacre staged against the PMOI/MeK on 1 September 2013 in Ashraf, adding they were ready to provide their experience to the Iraqi government for the PMOI/MeK’s complete annihilation:
“We, the separated individuals from this organization, some of whom have family members in Camp Liberty, all… witnessed crimes, murder, physical and psychological tortures… by this organization … we are ready to provide our experience to the Iraqi government in measures aimed at separating the members and lower files of this organization in the related camp [Liberty] from the senior ranks of this notorious group, and announce the complete annihilation of its leadership and structure….” (Iran-Interlink – 6 March 2014)
Following all the bloody attacks staged by Maliki’s forces against the PMOI/MeK that failed to result in their annihilation, Bidi wrote: “Former Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki failed in his measures regarding the PMOI/MeK in Ashraf and Liberty.” (Iran-Interlink – 17 February 2015)

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Bidi  (on the left) was recruited by the MOIS/VEVAK after entering Hotel Mohajer. Following initial briefings and the necessary training, he was used in the ridiculous shows staged by Iran’s embassy outside of Ashraf. Alongside other similar agents he was seen holding placards and using 320 powerful loudspeakers installed around Ashraf to blare profanity and psychologically torture the residents on a 24/7 basis.
- See more at: http://www.iran-efshagari.com/english/camp-liberty-2/mois-s-agents-and-spies/1044.html#sthash.zjBNsi9m.dpuf

Wider crackdown in Iran: Students Lashed 99 Times for attending a graduation party

these barbaric acts prove that moderation during Rouhani is nothing but a myth.

According to Daily mail, Middle East Eye,Up to 30 students have been given 99 lashes each in Iran for attending a mixed-gender graduation party.
The young men and women were all flogged in Qazvin, about 90 miles north west of the capital Tehran, as part of a brutal new crackdown.
It came amid claims some of the women were not wearing Islamic coverings of scarves and long coats - and that the students had been 'mingling'.
The young men and women were all whipped in Qazvin, about 90 miles northwest of the capital Tehran (file picture), as part of a brutal new crackdown


Prosecutor Ismaeil Sadeqi Niaraki is reported to have held a special court session after the revellers were rounded up following the party at a villa on the outskirts of the city.
The National Council of Resistance to Iran cites the Mizan news agency as saying that the arrests, interrogation and punishment all took place within 24 hours.
Niaraki is quoted as saying: 'After we received information that a large number of men and women were mingling in a villa in the suburbs of Qazvin... all the participants at the party were arrested.
'Thanks God that the police questioning, investigation, court hearing, verdict and implementation of the punishment all took place in less than 24 hours.'
He added that the judiciary would not tolerate the actions of 'law-breakers who use excuses such as freedom and having fun in birthday parties and graduation ceremonies.'
Up to 30 students have been given 99 lashes each in Iran for attending a mixed-gender graduation party .
He also warned the victims that 'being arrested in mixed-gender parties and receiving sentences is a crime and would create problems for their future education and employment.'
Shahin Gobadi of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran said: 'This barbaric act once again proves that moderation during Hassan Rouhani ’s Presidency is nothing but a myth.
'Three years after Rouhani’s Presidency the human rights situation in Iran is deteriorating in every aspect.
'This also shows the regime’s fragile state and total isolation among the Iranian people, in particular among the youths.'
Iran's hardliners have orchestrated a crackdown on 'morality' violations.


Iran's morality police answer to the supreme leader, not the president.
Tehran's morality force this year launched an undercover campaign by 7,000 morality police officers to ensure women are dressed according to Iranian revolutionary custom - either fully veiled or wearing a headscarf.



Rouhani, described as a 'moderate' president, has himself been criticized by international rights organizations for presiding over a heavy handed justice system.
The president has signed hundreds of executions since coming to power three years ago. Many of those hung were convicted of drug offenses.
More than half of the 753 people hanged in 2014 were were drug offenders.
In 2015, Amnesty International 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”.

News - Iran News Saudi officials: Iran ends hajj talks without any agreement

RIYADH - Saudi officials said on Friday that an Iranian delegation wrapped up a visit to Saudi Arabia on Friday without reaching a final agreement on arrangements for hajj pilgrims from the Islamic republic.
The Saudi hajj ministry said that the delegation had 'asked to go back home without signing the agreement on arrangements for the pilgrims' despite two days of extensive talks.
A statement said the ministry had offered 'many solutions' to meet a string of demands made by the Iranians who had arrived on Tuesday and performed the minor Umra pilgrimage during their visit.
Agreement had been reached in some areas, including to use electronic visas which could be printed out by Iranian pilgrims, as Saudi diplomatic missions remain shut in Iran, it said.
Riyadh cut ties with Tehran in January after demonstrators torched its embassy and a consulate in the Iranian capital following the execution of a prominent Shiite cleric in Saudi Arabia.
Tehran said Riyadh had insisted that visas for Iranians be issued in a third country and would not allow pilgrims to be flown in aboard Iranian aircraft, which the Islamic republic rejected.
On Friday the Saudi hajj ministry said Riyadh had agreed to allow Iranians to obtain visas through the Swiss embassy in Tehran, which has looked after Saudi interests since ties were severed in January.
Riyadh also agreed to allow some Iranian carriers to fly pilgrims to the kingdom despite a ban imposed on Iranian airlines following the diplomatic row between the two countries, the ministry said.
Talks on an agreement were the second attempt by both countries to reach a deal on organizing this year's pilgrimage for Iranians after they held an unsuccessful first round last month in Saudi Arabia.
The Saudi ministry said the Iranian Hajj Organization would be held responsible 'in front of God and the people for the inability of its pilgrims to perform hajj this year.'
The kingdom 'categorically rejects all (attempts to) politicize the hajj... and is always ready to cooperate to serve pilgrims and facilitate their arrival,' it said.
The annual hajj is one of the five pillars of Islam which devout Muslims must perform at least once during the lifetime.
Another contentious issue has been security, after a stampede at last year's hajj killed about 2,300 foreign pilgrims including 464 Iranians.

No foreign investment flowing into Iran

They call themselves the leaders of Iranian people!!

When Iran and global powers signed a nuclear deal last year, supporters and detractors agreed on one thing: the accord would get billions of investment dollars flowing into the the so called Islamic Republic. The only question was how much,Bloomberg said
The answer so far -- 'not much' -- is infuriating Iranian officials, who are demanding more U.S. concessions, including access to dollar-denominated trades, after curbing their nuclear program. In the U.S., opponents of the original agreement are warning against any further easing of restrictions, vowing to hold up Treasury Department nominees to ensure it doesn’t happen.
“The deal was so contentious for both parties that the acrimony after the implementation is to be expected,” said Elizabeth Rosenberg, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security in Washington. “There are active detractors that are trying to collapse the deal.”
$55 Billion
The U.S. estimates that $3 billion of $55 billion in frozen assets that are supposed to be released to Iran has made it back to Tehran so far. Iranian officials -- who say they need the money to buy airliners, improve infrastructure and boost a struggling economy -- say European and Asian banks are reluctant to deal with them because they fear U.S. sanctions.
The House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate Banking Committee are discussing the Iran deal, completed last July, in separate hearings Wednesday. Acting Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Adam Szubin, whose Senate confirmation to the post has been held up for more than a year, is testifying before both committees.
 ‘Illicit Conduct’
However, some Iranian entities, including about 200 individuals and companies associated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards,(IRGC),  are still off-limits under remaining U.S. sanctions that punish Iran for its support for terrorism, launching and testing ballistic missiles and human-rights abuses. The U.S. also maintains a prohibition on Iran accessing the U.S. financial system, including conducting transactions in U.S. dollars.
 “The Iranians thought they’d get more help from the banks,” said Matthew Levitt, a former deputy assistant secretary of Treasury. “As long as they engage in illicit conduct, they’re going to find banks not willing to engage with them.”
Worried that the Obama administration’s efforts will go too far, Republican Senators Marco Rubio and Mark Kirk warned Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew in a May 19 letter that they will hold up Treasury Department nominees until they receive assurances that “the U.S. will not enable Iranian access to U.S. dollars elsewhere in the international financial system, including assisting Iran in gaining access to dollar payment systems outside the U.S. financial system.”
Banking Fines
Major non-U.S. banks remain wary after paying $15 billion in fines and signing settlements for violating earlier U.S. sanctions. French bank BNP Paribas SA agreed to pay $8.9 billion in July 2014 for violating U.S. sanctions against Sudan, Cuba and Iran. Germany’s Commerzbank AG agreed to pay $1.45 billion for moving funds through the U.S. financial system for Sudan and Iran.
That history makes doing business with Iran a hard sell, despite U.S. assurances.
“Promotion of banking and commercial activity in that environment is completely anathema to the message the U.S. government has been sending internationally for last 15 years,” said Juan Zarate, chairman of the Financial Integrity Network who was a White House adviser on combating terrorism under President George W. Bush.
While attacking critics of the Iran deal for having overestimated how much money would flow to the Islamic Republic, the Obama administration has also said that Iran’s behavior may be stifling investment.
Hezbollah Support
“If you were routinely testing ballistic missiles that violate the United Nations ’ sanctions that govern your ballistic missile program, well, that’s not going to inspire the confidence of business leaders that this is a safe place to do business,” White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters May 12. “If you are supporting terrorism around the world, that’s not going to be particularly persuasive to business leaders that Iran is a good place to make an investment.”
Iran continues to provide financial and military support for the Hezbollah militia in Lebanon, which is listed as a terrorist organization by the U.S. The Treasury Department is trying to cut off funding to the group, whose soldiers are in Syria defending President Bashar al-Assad against U.S.-backed rebels.
“We are taking action to keep Hezbollah out of the U.S. financial system,” said Daniel Glaser, Assistant Treasury Secretary for Terrorist Financing. “We want to disrupt Hezbollah’s use of the international financial system and stop their access to our financial system.”
The Financial Action Task Force, a 34-government agency sponsored by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, has also cited Iran for flouting efforts to stop money laundering and terrorism finance. The only other country on the list: North Korea.
To really draw investment, Iran needs to embrace wholesale economic and political reform, said Suzanne Maloney, a senior analyst at the Brookings Institution.
“Tehran’s challenges in luring capital is further complicated by its reputation for provocative domestic and regional behavior,” Maloney wrote in a May 20 report. “As the old adage goes, capital is a coward. And the Islamic Republic is a haunted house.”

Iran hard line cleric, a blow to the illusion of reformism

The hard line cleric and Khamenei’s stooge and close confidant, Ahmad Jannati was picked on Tuesday to chair the powerful Assembly of Experts which is tasked to choose or replace the Supreme Leader.
Jannati, a 90-year-old devoted fundamentalist also chairs the regime's Guardian Council, a vetting body that must approve all laws adopted by the Parliament according to the regime's extremist constitution.
The Assembly of Experts, an 88-member assembly, consisting mostly of elderly clerics, is tasked with appointing the regime's Supreme Leader who has the final say on all state matters, including foreign policy. He is commander-in-chief of the armed forces and appoints the heads of the judiciary, state broadcasting and major economic conglomerates. By comparison, the regime's President has little power.
Jannati was selected by the assembly as its new head with 51 out of 88 votes, according to state media.
In Iran, Jannati is notorious for his numerous crimes including supporting the execution of his own son Hossein Jannati who was a member of the main Iranian opposition group People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI or MEK) in the 1980s.

According to the  Iranian opposition  (NCRI ) ,Jannati is one of the most fervid retinues of Khamenei and his faction. The appointment of Jannati as the head of the Assembly of Experts is a sign of further contraction of the regime and clearly shows that the notion of reform within the clerical regime is a total myth. It also manifests the regime’s deadlock and the fact that it is devoid of any future.
This appointment was engineered by Khamenei, and scores of members of the Assembly of Experts were forced to concede to it by coercion or through financial rewards. It once again shows that moderation and reform or the notion of an ‘election’ is meaningless within this regime and the only solution for this medieval regime is its total overthrow. Appointing a 90-year-old mullah as the head of the regime’s two key entities, the Guardian Council and the Assembly of Experts, vividly manifests that the regime is devoid of any future and that Khamenei’s clique and trusted confidants are becoming fewer.
Jannati has been the head of the Guardian Council for the past quarter century and he has been in charge of purging the candidates in the regime’s election farce. In the Assembly of Experts ‘election’ last March, Jannati was the last person ‘elected’ from Tehran to the assembly. This shows the extent of isolation of Khamenei and his clique even within the regime.”