Iran: Over 60 executed in 10 days

NCRI – At least four more prisoners have been hanged during the last 10 days in cities across Iran - raising the total number of victims to 63 inmates.

The information received from sources inside Iran indicates that two prisoners were hanged last Sunday in Shahab Prison in the city of Kerman. A man identified as Norouz Basiri was sent to the gallows in the main prison in the city of Tabriz. Another 35-year-old man was hanged on Thursday in the city of Gachsaran in southern Iran.

The Iranian regime has not provided any information on the executions that were carried out in Kerman and Tabriz, however on Friday the state-run IRNA news agency published a short report on hangings in the city of Gachsaran.

On the recent spate of executions in Iran, Soona Samsami, NCRI's US Representative, told IBTimes India on Thursday: "The political climate of repression and censorship in Iran, coupled with lack of due process in the judiciary, create severe difficulties in finding the truth behind Iran's executions."

"However, one thing is certain: the regime continues to use the death penalty, not as a deterrent to drug abuse or to stem ordinary crimes, but as a means of inflicting terror in a young and increasing restless and enraged population," Samsami said.

Samsami also hit out at Hassan Rouhani's failure to curb human rights abuses in the country.

”Hassan Rouhani's approval of these barbaric hangings notwithstanding, there is no room for reform in a constitution with a non-representative 'Supreme Leader', and a judiciary that executed 30,000 political prisoners in a matter of months in 1988 alone. Ironically, Mostafa Pourmohammadi, one of the three people who sat on the 'death commission' that sent these political prisoners, mostly MEK members, to the gallows, is Rouhani's Justice Minister," she added

Trente-une exécutions en une semaine, en Iran, dont trois en public

Augmentation des châtiments de fouet et des tortures en public 

CNRI - Du 23 au 29 mai, les villes de Karadj, Tabriz, Kerman, Gatchsaran, Machad et Ardebil ont été le théâtre de pendaisons de 31 prisonniers. Trois d'entre eux, dont deux hommes de 27 ans, ont été pendus en public à Machad le 27 mai. 

Comme dans les semaines précédentes, la prison de Ghezel-Hessar en banlieue de Téhéran a connu un terrible carnage. Les 24 et 25 mai, vingt-deux prisonniers y ont été pendus, dont plusieurs membres de la minorité Baloutche. Un autre condamné a été pendu dans la prison voisine de Gohardacht le 25 mai.

La tyrannie religieuse a par ailleurs augmenté les cas de châtiments cruels, comme la torture des prisonniers en public. Le 23 mai, les autorités judiciaires de la province de Khorassan-Razavi dans le nord-est de l’Iran ont évoqué la nécessité de « traiter avec fermeté les coupables » et ont écrit : «Afin de mettre en œuvre la justice et les mesures préventives, le système judiciaire a procédé à trois flagellations en public dans la ville de Jaghta’i. Ça servira d’avertissement sérieux à tous ceux qui transgressent les limites divines ".

Le 19 mai, un prisonnier a été fouetté à Chahine-Villa, dans la banlieue de Karadj, près de la capitale iranienne. La veille, les agents du régime ont donné 111 coups de fouet à un malheureux prisonnier avant de le pendre en public. 

Les pendaisons et les tortures en public de prisonniers visent à intensifier le climat de terreur dans la société iranienne dans le but de contenir les protestations sociales. Elles sont menées sous le prétexte de "malfaisance", "atteinte à la sécurité", "vol" et "trafic de stupéfiants ". 

Or, la dictature intégriste au pouvoir en Iran est elle-même la plus grande source de malfaisance, d'insécurité et de trafic de drogue, non seulement en Iran, mais au Moyen-Orient et au-delà. Ce n’est qu’avec son renversement que l’Iran, la région et le monde connaitront la paix et la tranquillité.

Iran – Photos : Trois prisonniers pendus en public

Le mercredi 27 mai, trois jeunes hommes ont été pendus en public dans la ville de Machhad, au nord-ouest de l’Iran. Parmi les trois prisonniers qui ont été pendus sur l’une des places principales de la ville, deux étaient âgés de 23 ans et le troisième avait une trentaine années.

Ces pendaisons publiques à Machhad interviennent à la suite d’une vague d’exécutions secrètes à l’intérieur des prisons en Iran.

Entre le samedi 23 et le lundi 25 mai, au moins 22 prisonniers ont été exécutés dans l’une des nombreuses prisons en Iran. Les médias du régime iranien n’ont publié aucune information sur ces exécutions.

Il y a quelques mois, les responsables de l’ONU ont déclaré que le nombre élevé des exécutions en Iran est «profondément troublante ».

Entre le 19 et le 21 mai, le régime des mollahs a exécuté 37 personnes dans les prisons ou dans les rues de plusieurs villes.

Le régime iranien a augmenté le nombre des exécutions dans le but d’intensifier le climat de terreur dans la société et d’empêcher toute expression publique de la dissidence à l’intérieur du pays.

Iran - Les manifestants arrêtés à Mahabad transférés à la prison d'Oroumieh

Après trois semaines de tortures et de harcèlements, le régime iranien a décidé de transférer les manifestants arrêtés lors du soulèvement de Mahabad le 7 mai dernier, à la prison d’Oroumieh en préparation de leur simulacre de procès. Certains sont âgés de 15 ans et plusieurs sont de la même famille et sont père et fils.

Il y a deux semaines, le Vevak a envoyé ses agents dans les prisons du Kurdistan et de l'Azerbaïdjan occidental pour mener des interrogatoires musclés avec ces manifestants arrêtés.

Le soulèvement héroïque de la population de Mahabad avait été provoqué par la mort d’une jeune femme, Farinaz Khosravani, qui s’est défenestrée du quatrième étage d'un hôtel pour échapper aux griffes d'un agent du renseignement qui voulait la violer. Au cours des manifestations qui ont suivi, des centaines de jeunes Kurdes ont été arrêtés et de nombreux autres blessés.

La Résistance iranienne appelle toutes les organisations internationales de défense des droits humains, le Conseil des droits de l'homme de l’ONU, le Haut-Commissaire aux droits de l'homme et les rapporteurs pertinents des Nations Unies à condamner vigoureusement ces arrestations arbitraires. Elles leur demande d’agir de toute urgence pour assurer la libération des personnes détenues.

Iran: Public Execution of 3 prisoners in Mashhad

The Mullahs’ regime publicly Executed 3 prisoners in Mashhad on Wednesday, May 27, 2015. One of the executed persons was 38 and the other two were 27 years old.
This public hanging took place at a crowded intersection on Moslem Ave. eastern gas district of Mashhad.

 The wave of recent executions especially in public, are to create an atmosphere of terror and intimidation in order to confront the ever rising unrest in the country, but on the contrary it only increases the anger and hardens the people’s resolve to expand their dissent and overthrow the  criminal mullahs’ regime.

Iran: 4000 truck drivers go on strike

About 4000 truck drivers in Bandar Abbas protested on May 27, 2015 against the rise diesel fuel prices.
The drivers at Babagholam Terminal in Bandar Abbas disconnect the speakers in the terminal and broke the glasses of the cargo building to voice their protest.
This strike began on the evening of Tuesday May 26, 2015 and continued untill Wednesday afternoon, May 27, 2015.

Iran: Protest gathering of the restaurant owners in front of Tehran tax bureau.

A Group of restaurant owners who have closed their place of business since Monday, May 25 in protest to heavy and out of ordinary taxations in Tajrish square, northern Tehran, gathered on Wednesday, May 27, 2015 in front of the Tehran tax bureau to declare their objections to the regimes’ tax extortion. 
 This was the second time the restaurant owners are gathering during past month. 

Iran: More than a month of strike and protest by 1000 SAFA Pipe rolling mill workers.

Strike and protest by some 1000 SAFA Pipe rolling mill workers passed the thirty fifth day mark on Monday, while the workers appeared at their workplace, but refrained from going back to their jobs.  The protesting workers demanded to receive their salary for past 4 months. The officials have been putting off the payment of their salary since January. The workers also demanded to receive their insurance payment delayed since last 16 months. 
The regimes agent under the cover of support from the suppressive security forces tried to put an end to this strike and breakup their protest by arresting a number of workers, expelling some of them and creating  panic among them on one hand, and bribing and giving promises to others on the other hand. The workers have declared that they continue their strike till their demands are fulfilled.

Iran: Arresting 89 young man and women under illusive charges

Wednesday, May 27, 2015 - In an interview with state run media, the prosecutor of Pardice County in Tehran unveiled the details of a major mass arrest of 42 men and 47 young women at a party under illusive charges. Haydar Fattahi Tehran-Pardice procedutor said: The captives were quests at a social gathering (Party) and were invited through social network. The party was held at the suburb of Tehran, a township called Pardice.
During this barbaric operation, the suppressive agents from police police, besieged and raided the house arresting all men and women at the party. The judiciary agents were also participating in that raid.

 

Iran: Harassments of Baha’i citizens in Sari (northern Iran)

Wednesday, May 27, 2015- eleven Shops belonging to the Baha’i citizens in Sari were raided and sealed. 
The Shops were confiscated and sealed by the Sari’s police force on Sunday, May 24, 2015 under the pretext of being closed on days that aren’t the official holydays!
In Bahaie tradition, there are 9 religious holydays which sometimes they don’t coincide with the Moslem holydays based on regime calendar. But the mullah’s public property bureau says Bahaies don’t have the right to close their shops on days which are not officially considered as holyday!
The Shops of 15 Baha’i citizens in Sari were sealed under this pretext during last 2 months.

UNSC resolution calls for end to impunity for attacks on journalists

The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday condemned the frequent attacks against journalists worldwide and demanded an end to the impunity enjoyed by those guilty of violent crimes against members of the press.

The UN body unanimously adopted a resolution drafted by this month's Security Council president, Lithuania which also calls for the release of all professionals in the field of media "who have been kidnapped or taken as hostages, in situations of armed conflict."

Mariane Pearl, a journalist and widow of Daniel Pearl, a Wall Street Journal reporter who was beheaded by Pakistani militants in 2002, told the 15-nation council that it was "a troubled time for our profession."

"In 2014, impunity in journalism murder cases reached a staggering 96 per cent and the remaining 4 per cent obtained only partial justice," she said."
“We have become targets. Insurgent groups no longer use reporters to transmit news, but instead kidnap them to make news. They treat us as enemy combatants and spies. This is our everyday reality."

Press freedom watchdog Reporters without Borders says 66 reporters were killed in 2014, 25 since the start of this year, and more than 700 over the past decade.
Many members of the council and other UN member states cited the beheadings of Western journalists by ISIS in Syria and Iraq, as among the most heinous examples of violence against reporters."

Deputy UN Secretary-General Jan Eliasson reminded council members that
In addition to Syria and Iraq, speakers cited the treatment of journalists in Iran which has been described as being amongst the worst offenders in holding journalists jailed.

Iran: des dizaines d’exécutions rappellent l’implacable répression

Les autorités islamistes ont exécuté au moins 22 prisonniers en trois jours en Iran. Parmi les victimes pendues entre le 23 et 25 mai à la prison de Ghezel Hessar, il y a : Mohammad Barani, Asghar Koshki, Haj Ahmad Ibarahimi, Massoud Zibaei, Karim Bagheri, Ahmad Rabdoust, Abbas Ameri, Bakhshi Bameri Fooladzehi et Mehran Balouchzahi .

Les médias du régime iranien n'ont publié aucune information au sujet de ces exécutions par groupes.

Du 19 mai au 21, le régime des mollahs a exécuté 37 autres personnes, dont certains en public, dans les rues de Qouchan, Minab et Chiraz. L'exécution à Minab a été réalisée sur un terrain de football afin d'instaurer un climat de peur parmi la jeunesse.

À Chiraz, un prisonnier condamné à mort a reçu 111 coups de fouet avant la pendaison.

Les 20 et 21 mai ont vu l’exécution de vingt-quatre prisonniers en trois groupes dans les prisons de Ghezel Hessar et Gohardacht. Huit des pendus aux premières heures de jeudi à Hessar Ghezel étaient des prisonniers qui avaient courageusement protesté, le 17 août 2014, contre la vague d'exécutions collectives et secrètes. Ils avaient alors affronté les gardiens de prison.

L’exécution de neuf prisonniers par deux groupes à Arak est un autre crime du régime pendant cette même période.

Depuis le début avril, on a rapporté une moyenne de six exécutions par jour. La dernière vague porte le nombre total des pendaisons depuis le 1er janvier 2015 à près de 400, dont au moins six prisonniers politiques et sept femmes.

Le Rapporteur spécial des Nations Unies sur la situation des droits de l'homme en Iran, Ahmed Shaheed, a condamné récemment la recrudescence des exécutions en Iran.

Le Rapporteur spécial sur les exécutions extrajudiciaires, Christof Heyns, s’est pour sa part dit « alarmé par la récente augmentation du nombre des pendaisons, qui ont eues lieu en dépit de sérieuses questions sur les normes d'un procès équitable ».

« Les exécutions en public ont un effet déshumanisant sur la victime et les témoins de l'exécution, ajoutant au caractère déjà cruel, inhumain et dégradant de la peine de mort. »

Rising executions highlight Iran’s human rights record

Al Arabiya News - 25 May 2015 - Earlier this year, the United Nations described the numbers of executions in Iran as “deeply troubling,” with more than 320 people put to death this year alone.
In 2014, Iran executed 721 people, according to the U.S.-based Iran Human Rights Documentation center.
Despite promises of reforming Iran’s human rights record, President Hassan Rowhani’s two years in office have witnessed a record-breaking number of executions with more than 1,700 people killed since 2013.
Murder, drug trafficking, and robbery are all punishable by death in the Islamic Republic. But capital punishment has also been used to quell dissent against Tehran, Al Arabiya reported.
A report from the office of Secretary General Ban Ki-moon to the U.N. Human Rights Council said Iran had not kept Rowhani’s promise to “extend protection to all religious groups and to amend legislation that discriminates against minority groups.”
“The above-mentioned commitments have not ... been translated into results,” the report said.
“Individuals seeking greater recognition for their cultural and linguistic rights risk facing harsh penalties, including capital punishment.”

Tehran: Captive teacher, Rasoul Bodaghy under presser to step down from Teacher Syndicate Center

Based on the news received from inside Iran, one of the teachers’ rights activists announced on Monday, May 25, 2015 that the mullahs’ regime is pressuring Mr. Rasoul Bodaghy, the member of Administrative Board of the Teacher Syndicate Center in Tehran, currently captive in Evin prison under torture, to step down. They told him if he steps down from his post in the Syndicate, they would set him free. 
The statement says this is basically part of regimes concern following the continued teachers’ gathering in more than 100 cities earlier this month.   

Iran: Dozens executed as repression mounts

The Iranian regime’s henchmen have executed at least 22 prisoners in one of the many prisons in Iran during the three day period of May 23-25.

The victims that were hanged in Ghezel Hessar prison in the city of Karaj included nine men who were identified as: Mohammad Barani, Asghar Koshki, Haj Ahmad Ibarahimi, Massoud Zibaei, Karim Bagheri, Ahmad Rabdoust, Abbas Ameri, Bakhshi Bameri Fooladzehi and Mehran Balouchzahi.

The Iranian regime’s media has not published any information about the group executions that have been carried out.

Earlier this year, the United Nations described the number of executions in Iran as “deeply troubling”.

From May 19 to 21, the clerical regime in Iran executed 37 people in prisons or on the streets of various cities.

Three prisoners were executed in public in the cities of Qouchan, Minab and Shiraz. The execution in Minab was carried out in a football field in the town to further intensify the atmosphere of fear among the youth. In Shiraz, a prisoner that was condemned to death and about to be executed received 111 lashes.

Just on May 20 and 21, twenty-four prisoners were executed in three group hangings in Ghezel Hessar and Gohardasht prisons in Karaj. Eight of those who were hanged in the early morning hours of Thursday, May 21, in Ghezel Hessar Prison were prisoners who had protested against the wave of collective and secret executions in this prison on 17 August 2014 in order to stop the execution of a number of their cellmates and had clashed with prison guards.

Execution of nine prisoners in two group hangings took place in prisons in Shiraz and Arak on May 19 plus another prisoner in the central prison of Arak are the other crimes of this regime during this time span.

The executions are aimed at raising the atmosphere of terror in the society in order to prevent any public expression of dissent in the country.

Iran : immolation et protestations populaires contre l'augmentation des prix du carburant

Les pressions économiques augmentent avec l’élimination des quotas de l'essence et une augmentation de 40% de son prix

CNRI - Dans un drame survenu le matin du 26 mai à Téhéran, un conducteur démuni qui travaillait avec sa moto pour subvenir aux besoins de sa famille, s’est immolé par le feu pour protester contre l'augmentation du prix de l'essence. L’événement tragique a été rapporté à une station service de la zone 2 de Téhéran et le blessé a été transporté à l'hôpital Chohada à Tarniche.

Vers midi, de nombreux conducteurs de véhicules et de taxi de Varamine ont protesté contre la hausse des prix du carburant et se sont rassemblés devant le gouvernorat. Mais les forces de police ont fait irruption et les ont tabassés.

Dans la soirée du lundi 25 mai, après l’annonce de l’augmentation des prix de l'énergie, des heurts ont éclatées entre les manifestants et la police dans une station service à Robat Karim, dans la province de Téhéran. Les manifestants ont fracassé les vitres de la station et une dizaine de personnes ont été arrêtées. Les chauffeurs de taxi de Mehrchahr, à Karadj, ont également exprimé leur mécontentement de la suppression des quotas par le régime.

Dans la crainte de la propagation des protestations, les forces de police, la milice du Bassidj et des agents du Renseignement sont en état d'alerte à Téhéran.

Le 26 mai, dans une mesure anti-démocratique, les mollahs ont décidé de supprimer le quota de 60 litres d'essence subventionné pour les particuliers, unifiant ainsi le prix de l'essence mais aussi du gazole avec une augmentation de 40 % pour l’essence.

Les quotas d'essence pour les taxis et les subventions sur les carburants dans le secteur agricole ont également été supprimés. Cette action sera suivie par une vague de hausse des prix, dont la pression principale sera ressentie par les segments les plus pauvres de la population. Des millions de personnes ont de la difficulté à subvenir à leurs besoins en Iran.

Selon les médias du régime, au cours des 400 derniers jours, le prix de l'essence a augmenté de 118%, le super de 100%, le gaz liquide de 326%, le kérosène de 50%, l'huile de carburant de 200% et de carburant diesel d'environ 100% (agence de presse Mehr, le 25 mai).

Le régime des mollahs augmente la pression sur les couches défavorisées alors qu'il dilapide des milliards de dollars dans son projet nucléaire illégitime et l'exportation de la crise en Syrie, en Irak, au Liban, au Yémen et dans d'autres pays.

Hamid Hosseini, membre de l'Union des exportateurs de pétrole, de gaz et des produits pétrochimiques a déclaré : « A l'approche de l'été, certaines raffineries du pays vont devoir fermer pendant environ deux mois. Les pressions régionales et l'aventure au Yémen ont compliqué la fourniture et l'achat du gaz pour le gouvernement. Le volume des subventions et d'autres questions ont changé la situation. » (Agence de presse Mehr, le 25 mai).

Iran – Ancien président de l’Université de Téhéran demande que les dirigeants du régime des mollahs soient traduits devant la Justice internationale

Le Dr. Mohammad Malaki, le premier président de l’Université de Téhéran après la chute du Chah en 1979, a protesté contre la répression sous la dictature des mollahs et s’est dit prêt à témoigner devant un tribunal international contre le régime iranien concernant le grand nombre des exécutions, les mauvais traitements infligés aux détenus et spécialement concernant le massacre des prisonniers politiques en Iran.

Le Dr Malaki a déclaré dans une interview : « Les Etats occidentaux et les organisations internationales sont à la recherche de leurs propres intérêts et ne sont pas intéressés par la situation des droits de l’Homme en Iran. »

M. Malaki, âgé de 83 ans, est un militant des droits de l’Homme qui a été arrêté et emprisonné à plusieurs reprises par le régime des mollahs et il est actuellement privé du droit de voyager à l’étranger.

Le Dr. Malaki a déclaré que Khamenei a créé une dictature fasciste absolue en Iran. Il a critiqué Hassan Rohani pour ses promesses fallacieuses. Il a souligné que la situation des prisonniers politiques en Iran s’est fortement détériorée depuis que Rohani a pris ses fonctions.

Il a comparé les deux dictatures des mollahs et du Shah, en déclarant que les violations des droits de l’Homme sous le régime des mollahs ont été sans précédent et pires que celles commises sous le régime monarchique. Malheureusement, les choses s’empirent de jour en jour et Rohani a seulement donné des promesses vides, a-t-il ajouté.

Dr Malaki, a contesté les déclarations du ministre des Affaires étrangères de Rohani, Mohammad Djavad Zarif, qui avait prétendu qu’il n’y a pas de prisonniers d’opinion en Iran. « Ceci est un non-sens que le régime iranien répète depuis trois décennies », a-t-il dit. « Si nous ne sommes pas des prisonniers d’opinion, alors que sommes-nous ? Pourquoi avons-nous été emprisonnés ? Nous avons été emprisonnés parce que nous avons rejeté le système de vélayat-e-faghih », a conclut le Dr. Malaki.

Iran: Execution of a prisoner in Gohardasht prison

A prisoner was executed on Monday morning in Gohardasht prison, Karaj, west of Tehran.
According to the reports from human rights organizations, on the morning of Monday, May 25, 2015, one prisoner was executed by hanging in Gohardasht prison compound.
The prisoner has been identified as “Ali Norouzi”.

Iran: Ex-Tehran University chancellor calls for international trial of Iranian regime

Dr. Mohammad Maleki, the first president of Tehran University after the fall of the Shah in 1979, protested against repression under the mullahs’ dictatorship and expressed readiness to testify before any international court against the Islamic Republic concerning the large number of executions and the ill treatment of prisoners, especially the massacre of political prisoners in Iran.

Dr. Maleki said in interview, “Western states and international organizations are looking for their own interests and are not interested in the situation of human rights in Iran.”

Dr. Maleki, 83, is a human rights activist that has been arrested and imprisoned by the Iranian regime many times and is banned from leaving the country.

Dr. Maleki stated that Khamenei has created an absolute fascist dictatorship in Iran. He criticized Iranian Hassan Rouhani for making hollow promises. He emphasized that the situation of political prisoners has sharply deteriorated since he has taken office.

He compared the two dictatorships (mullahs and the Shah) and stated that these human rights violations were unprecedented even during monarchial rule. Unfortunately, things are getting worse by the day and Rouhani has just given empty promises, he added.

Dr. Maleki, challenged statements by Rouhani’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif who has claimed there are no prisoners of conscience in Iran. This is a nonsense that gets repeated by the Islamic Republic in the past three decades, he said. “If we are not prisoners of conscience, then what are we? Why are we imprisoned for rejecting the velayat-e faqih?” Maleki asked Zarif.

SELF-SACRIFICE - Life with the Iranian Mojahedin PMOI/MEK - new book by Struan Stevenson

'SELF-SACRIFICE - Life with the Iranian Mojahedin is the title of new book published by Struan Stevenson, the President of the European Iraqi Friendship Association (EIFA) who was also the president of the Delegation for Relations with Iraq at the European Parliament until 2013.

The book details his fight to expose and confront brutality, human rights abuse and corruption in Iran and Iraq and he provides disturbing evidence of how mistakes, duplicities and blunders by the West led directly to the rise of ISIS and the catastrophic events that now engulf the Middle East.

Patrick J. Kennedy Former Member of the US Congress writes in foreword of the book:

Struan Stevenson's remarkable book details the horrors of repression, torture and execution in Iran and the strange acquiescence of the West in the face of irrefutable evidence of the mullahs' desire to deploy nuclear weapons and to sponsor terror across the Middle East and worldwide.

In Self-Sacrifice: Life with the Iranian Mojahedin, the author outlines his own role as an elected member of the European Parliament, standing shoulder-to-shoulder with the main Iranian opposition movement at a time when they were listed as a foreign terrorist organization.

More than three decades ago, my father -the late Senator Ted Kennedy -stood alongside Nelson Mandela and the ANC when they were listed as terrorists. Like Stevenson, he was prepared to put his reputation on the line in his fight for freedom, democracy and human rights.

Self-Sacrifice: Life with the Iranian Mojahedin is perhaps the first such book in which the author takes the reader through his personal experiences to show how, as a British Conservative MEP, he ended up getting to know, engaging with, trusting and supporting the People's Mojahedin of Iran (PMOI/MEK), despite all the allegations levelled against the organization.

L’Irak empêche l'entrée de matériels logistiques essentiels à la réparation et l'entretien de l'infrastructure du camp Liberty

Poursuite du blocus inhumain contre le camp Liberty :
L’Irak empêche l'entrée de matériels logistiques essentiels à la réparation et l'entretien de l'infrastructure du camp

Sur ordre du comité irakien chargé des mesures répressives contre le camp Liberty, les forces irakiennes ont empêché, pour la deuxième semaine consécutive, l'entrée des véhicules transportant du matériel de réparation et d'entretien pour le camp.

Ces articles sont nécessaires pour le maintien de l'infrastructure, notamment le système de purification des eaux et le groupe électrogène du camp. Si cette situation devait continuer, les infrastructures risquent d’être sérieusement perturbées, et compte tenu de la saison chaude en Irak, les habitants seront bientôt confrontés à une crise grave.

Sadegh-Mohammed Kazem et Ahmed Khozeir, du Comité chargé de la répression du camp Liberty, continuent d’empêcher l'entrée de ces articles achetés par les habitants et déjà transférés au conteneur qui leur appartient.

L’entrave à l'entrée des articles humanitaires élémentaires est une violation flagrante du protocole d'accord signé entre les Nations Unies et le gouvernement irakien le 25 décembre 2011. Ces obstructions violent également les conventions internationales et relèvent de poursuites judiciaires.

La Résistance iranienne appelle les Nations Unies et le gouvernement des Etats-Unis, qui se sont à plusieurs reprises engagés à assurer la sécurité et le bien-être des habitants du camp Liberty, à intervenir immédiatement pour mettre fin à ce siège inhumain.

L’Irak empêche l'inhumation d’un opposant iranien décédé en raison du blocus médical de Liberty

CNRI - Quarante jours après le décès de Jalal Abedini, membre de l’organisation des Moudjahidine du peuple d'Iran (OMPI), en raison du blocus médical du camp Liberty, les autorités irakiennes refusent toujours de restituer sa dépouille et de permettre son inhumation.

Jalal Abedini est décédé le 17 avril dernier en raison du retard provoqué par les autorités dans une opération qu’il devait subir pour une tumeur à l'intestin dans un hôpital de Bagdad.

Cette obstruction inhumaine et anti-islamique intervient alors que toutes les démarches administratives et légales ont été faites. Or, les agents à la solde du régime iranien, Sadegh-Mohammed Kazem et Ahmed Khozeir, déjà impliqués dans le massacre des habitants du camp d'Achraf en 2009 et actuellement responsables de l'administration du camp Liberty, empêchent l’enterrement de Jalal Abedini.

Les multiples démarches et requêtes des représentants et conseillers légaux des habitants auprès des forces irakiennes, de la MANUI et du HCR, sont jusqu'à présent restés vains.

La Résistance iranienne appelle le Secrétaire général des Nations unies, le Haut-commissaire de l'ONU pour les réfugiés, le Haut-commissaire pour les Droits de l'homme et les autorités américaines à intervenir immédiatement pour mettre fin à ces agissements inhumains. Ceux-ci sont en violation flagrante des pactes et conventions internationales obligeant au respect des dépouilles des défunts.

Iran: More prisoners facing imminent execution

In Iran, on May 23, sixteen prisoners were transferred to solitary confinement in Ghezel Hessar Prison in the city of Karaj in preparation for their imminent executions.

The transfer of these 16 is taking place while just two days ago, on May 21, eleven prisoners were hanged in this prison.

According to the statement of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), the Iranian regime executed 37 people from May 19 to 21 in prisons or the streets of various cities.

Just in May 20 and 21, a total of 24 prisoners were executed in three collective hangings in Ghezel Hessar and Gohardasht prisons in Karaj.

The Iranian regime that is called “Godfather of ISIS” is looking to intensify the atmosphere of terror in the country by these large number of executions in order to control social protests and the tumultuous state of the country.

IRAN: Gasoline prices will increase 40%

The price of gasoline will be increased 40% as the Iranian regime will abolish a motorists' allowance for heavily subsidised fuel and set a price, the deputy oil minister said on Sunday.

"We have decided that petrol will be sold at a single rate of 1,000 tomans ($0.35) per litre," Abbas Kazemi was quoted as saying by the ISNA news agency, using a common measure of currency equal to 10 rials.

An Oil Ministry advisor on Saturday suggested that fuel subsidies could be lifted altogether, but the government appears to have decided to proceed more cautiously, as the new flat rate is still below market prices.

Previous attempts to raise prices have sparked dissent in Iran, There was widespread rioting in 2007 when an allowance was first introduced to limit motorists' access to the cheapest-priced fuel. Dozens were arrested and angry protesters damaged gas stations.

The changes will take effect in mid-September, Kazemi said. Eligible motorists currently receive an allowance of 60 litres of petrol a month at 700 tomans ($0.24) a litre, and pay 1,000 tomans a litre for any additional consumption.

The IRNA report today said the new prices will take effect tomorrow.

IRNA said the price per litre for subsidised gasoline would be 10,000 rials (RM1.25), up from 7,000 rials. That’s about a US$1.28 (RM4.60) gallon, compared to the average US price of US$2.66 a gallon.

Diesel fuel prices also will rise to 3,000 rials per litre.

Iran, an OPEC member, consumes 70 million litres (18.49 million gallons) of gasoline daily.

West should support Iranian Resistance, Amb. Giulio Terzi urges

The West should support the forces of moderation and tolerance in the Islamic world lead by the Iranian resistance, and not an Iran that sponsors terrorism and anti-semitism, a leading Italian diplomat has urged.

Ambassador Giulio Terzi, the former Italian foreign minister, also warned the international community against backing the extremist rulers in Tehran in the battle against the extremists of the Islamic State.

Mr Terzi was answering questions from journalists during an online question and answer session on May 25 entitled 'Crisis in the Middle East & Iran´s Destructive Role, Europe´s Policy, P5+1 Nuclear Agreement With Iran'.

He said: "Since the Khomeini revolution, Tehran has always acted as the guardian of the Shiite community in Lebanon, Bahrain, Yemen, Syria, Iraq. It has established a strong network of Shiite militias: the Hezbollah in Lebanon; the Houthis in Yemen; the Badr Organization, Asa’ib Ahl al-Haq, Kata’ib Hezbollah and the Popular Mobilization Forces in Iraq.

"While controlling the Shiite clerical establishment and financial networks throughout the Middle East, and even in Europe and in Latin America, the Iranian regime has also befriended Sunni actors in order to reinforce its regional status: it has developed strong ties with Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza, and made inroads into Sunni Sudan, in order to deliver Iranian weapons to Gaza."

And the current war against Isis should not deflect attention from Iran, he warned.

Ramadi will be recaptured from Islamic State within days, Iraqi leader says

The Los Angeles Times – May 25, 2015 - Pro-government Iraqi forces will recapture the city of Ramadi from Islamic State militants within days, Iraq Prime Minister Haider Abadi told the BBC in an interview aired Monday.
Asked how long it would take to wrest the Anbar provincial capital back from the extremists, Abadi said: “I’m talking about days now.”
The Iraqi leader added: “It makes my heart bleed because we lost Ramadi. But I can assure you we can bring it back soon.”
Abadi also rejected comments from U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter to CNN that Iraqi forces “showed no will to fight” in Ramadi.
“I am sure he [Carter] was fed with the wrong information,” the Iraqi prime minister said of the U.S. defense chief’s scathing comments.
The loss last week of the strategic city of Ramadi was a major embarrassment for the government of Abadi, who took office last year with strong U.S. and international backing. A barrage of U.S.-led air strikes in and around the city didn’t avert Ramadi’s fall.
Video images of Iraqi forces in full-throttle withdrawal from Ramadi in Humvees as a much smaller militant force swept through the city rekindled memories of the battlefield debacle last June, when Iraqi troops retreated from the northern city of Mosul and elsewhere. Mosul, a city of more than 1 million, remains an Islamic State stronghold.
Analysts in Iraq and elsewhere have cautioned that an operation to retake Ramadi -- once a city of almost 500,000, though now largely depopulated -- could drag on for some time against well-entrenched militants adept at urban warfare and slowing down attackers with explosives planted in buildings and vehicles. It took a large pro-government Iraq force several weeks in March to recapture the smaller city of Tikrit, also a largely Sunni town. In Tikrit, as in Ramadi, loyalist fighters also greatly outnumbered Islamic State forces.

Half of Iran’s young generation is unemployed or having no hope for their future

An Iranian official announced that 50 percent of Iranian graduates stay at home. The unemployment rate of women in this sector was more than 30 percent. 5.7 million students and graduates of the country are inactive and have no role in production and economic added value.
In the most recent report on the state of the labor market and the unemployment of university graduates, Kourosh Parand, Deputy Minister of Cooperatives, Labor and Welfare of the Iranian regime, said: 'Right now, we have 5 million and 700 thousand students and graduates across the country who play no role in production and economic added value.'
He added: 'Out of 11.2 million students and graduates, 5.7 million people are inactive and have no role in the economy.”
He added: 'The highest unemployment rate is in the fields of computer, fisheries, forestry and the environment, and in computing this rate is 27.2 percent and the lowest rate is in transport services by 1.7 percent.'
One of the main causes of unemployment in Iran is the elimination of domestic industries. Because of the widespread economic corruption in the Iranian regime, uncontrolled imports, and the lack of protection of domestic industry against excessive import of Chinese products, virtually all domestic industries have been destroyed and few job opportunities exist for young people.
Another factor is the establishment of private universities that have been established by the regime officials solely to fill their own pockets. Despite the high annual fees, in practice, these university certificates are worthless and are not valid in many academic environments.

NCRI Women’s Committee condemns the arrest and imprisonment of Ms. Narges Mohammadi, calls for her immediate release

NCRI - Ms. Narges Mohammadi, a human rights activist, has gone on hunger strike since Monday May 18, to protest the denial of access to medical treatment and drugs she needs. Denial of the drugs that she should be using on a daily basis according to the prescribing physician, has deteriorated her health. Yesterday her heart beat and fluctuation was to the point that her cellmates took her to Evin prison clinic six times, but the henchmen continue to decline to deliver her essential drugs.
Narges Mohammadi was arrested on May 5 illegally and without any judicial order by state intelligence agents at her home and was taken to Evin Prison . Upon arrival, the henchmen took Mrs. Mohammadi’s drugs. Torturers, in order to apply more pressure, during the two weeks since her arrest and despite the severity of her condition and repeated visits to the clinic of Evin prison, continue to deprive her of medical treatment she needs. Two head henchmen of Evin, Nasiripour and Hamidi, have threatened her to issue a heavy sentence for her because of the protests that have taken place in her support.
She is the mother of two, and was arrested first in June 2010, charged with 'assembly and collusion against national security' and 'propaganda against the system', and was sentenced to six years in prison. But as a result of torture and poor prison conditions, she suffered nerve and muscle paralysis during interrogation, following which, because of the severity of her condition, she was released on heavy bail for 'not being able to tolerate the punishment'.
Paying tribute to the families of political prisoners, participation and a speech at the ceremony commemorating Sattar Beheshti, a worker and blogger who was martyred under torture, protest against acid attacks on girls, working to stop the death penalty, defending prisoners of ethnic and religious minorities, are among the activities of Ms. Mohammadi that has angered the religious fascism ruling Iran, that intends to increase pressure on her by making her dossier heavier.
Ms. Sarvenaz Chitsaz, the Chair of the Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, called on the Iranian public, especially women and young people to show support and solidarity with Ms. Narges Mohammadi and urged international human rights and women’s rights organizations to take effective measures to release her and other female political prisoners.

Unrests in Iran quickly turn political, why?

Just a few days after the uprising of the people and the youth in city of Mahabad (northwestern Iran) and while the Kurdish cities were restive, last Friday, we had another protest move against the dictatorial regime by the youth attending a soccer match.

No wonder that Iranian regime leaders, including Khamenei and Rouhani, were warning of the explosive state of the society, especially the youth in Iran. Regime’s president Hassan Rouhani said, “We should be very watchful about the youth… our young generation is in a special situation”.

The supreme leader also said, “Today, the youth in our country are threatened by dangerous mentalities”. In another instant he warned: “The security forces need to have contingency plans for different levels of security conditions and they should be able to confront it.”

The Iranian people, especially the youth and women, are fed up with suppression in mullahs’ regime and this tyranny is quickly moving toward its demise. Following the uprising in Mahabad on May 8, we saw that the announcement of a tampered soccer match result in Tabriz on May 15 quickly turned into a revolt that disrupted the order in this city with a similar incident in Tehran on that same day. We had the youth clash with the security forces.

The youth in Tabriz first set the chairs and the facilities in the stadium on fire and then on their way out tore banners with the pictures of Rouhani. The unrest in Tabriz was unprecedented for this capital of Eastern Azerbaijan Province.

Similarly in Tehran, the youth demonstrated along the way from Azadi Stadium to Azadi Square and clashed with regime’s suppressive forces that were there to disperse the crowd. Clashes continued for several hours and the antiriot police was placed on alert.

Apprehensive of the expansion of the demonstrations, the dictatorial regime forces swarmed to the streets in Tabriz and Tehran where they hysterically attacked the youth. In Tehran, special guard units, water cannons, and horsemen units were brought in to terrorize the youth and disperse them. The youth braved the oppressive measures and stood together against the repressive forces.

During the uprising in Mahabad, a senior regime official had acknowledged that this phenomenon is not limited to Mahabad, but that in every city a small incident quickly turns political with dangerous security implications for the regime.

The Iranian people, especially the women and the youth, who are under the pressure of oppression and unemployment, poverty and hunger as a result of a devastated economy have the greatest loath for the religious fascism ruling Iran and they use every opportunity to show their rage against this regime.

Droits humains : 37 exécutions en Iran dont trois en public

CNRI - Le régime cruel des mollahs a exécuté trente-sept personnes dans diverses villes d’Iran du 19 au 21 mai. Trois détenus ont été pendus en public à Ghouchan, à Minab et à Chiraz. L'exécution à Minab a eu lieu dans un stade afin d’aviver le climat de peur chez les jeunes. À Chiraz, le condamné a reçu 111 coups de fouet avant d’être pendu.

En deux jours, les 20 et 21 mai, vingt-quatre prisonniers ont été exécutés en trois groupes dans les sinistres prisons de Ghezel-Hessar et Gohardacht, àKaraj, en banlieue de Téhéran. Huit d’entre eux, pendus à l’aube du jeudi 21 mai à Ghezel-Hessar, faisaient partie des prisonniers qui avaient protesté le 17 août 2014 contre la vague d'exécutions collectives et secrètes qui ensanglante les prisons iraniennes. Ils avaient cherché à empêcher la pendaison de plusieurs de leurs camarades et s’étaient battus contre les gardiens.

L’exécution de dix prisonniers en deux groupes à Chiraz et à Arak, le 19 mai, est également à ajouter au bilan des crimes des mollahs.

Par sa brutalité, le régime du guide suprême, que les Iraniens surnomment le parrain de Daech, cherche à intensifier le climat de terreur afin de contenir les protestations sociales qui sont devenus un cauchemar pour le régime ces dernières semaines.

PHOTOS - IRAN: Prisoner flogged in public

A man lashed in public on Monday in the city of Karaj for in central Iran for offences of disturbing public order and mischief. The victim was identified as Kamran Jamalzadeh.

The prisoner had been sentenced to one year in prison and exiled. The lashing sentence was carried out at 9:00 am in one the main streets of the city.

Public floggings have soared in Iran in recent weeks in a bid to spread fear amongst the country's youth and suppress to prevent public expression of dissent.

The number floggings across is Iran is much higher than officially announced.

Iran: Prisoner hanged in football field

The Iranian regime henchmen hanged at least ten prisoners including one in public in a soccer field on Tuesday.

According to a report by the state-run daily Jomhouri Islami a man was hanged in the municipality’s soccer field in the city of the Minab. The victim was identified as Ayob Torkamani.

The international governing body of football had previously warned Iranian regime about executions of prisoners on the football fields.

FIFA had in past sent warning to the regime's officials regarding the executions on football fields, a regime official had acknowledged.

Meanwhile, the Iranian regime’s judiciary in Arak province announced that on Tuesday four death row prisoners were hanged in city’s main prison.

UN human rights experts have condemned the recent surge in executions in Iran, the majority of which are unreported.

United Nations Special Rapporteurs involving the situation of human rights in Iran by Ahmed Shaheed and on extrajudicial executions by Christof Heyns have condemned the drastic increase in executions since the past few weeks.

In many cases executions have gone unreported by official sources and the names of those being executed have not been disclosed to the public.

“When the Iranian government refuses to even acknowledge the full extent of executions which have occurred, it shows a callous disregard for both human dignity and international human rights law,” Mr. Shaheed stressed.