Iraq: British MPs warn about Iran’s meddling in Camp Liberty

                       

The Iranian regime’s meddling in Camp Liberty will set the stage for another deadly attack on its 3,000 residents, the British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom has warned.
The alert comes after remarks by Iraq’s minister of Human Rights, Mahdi al-Bayati, who said the UN-protected Iranian dissidents in the camp were not refugees and their presence in the camp was ’illegal’.
Mr. al-Bayati claimed in a meeting with the Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General on Resettlement of Liberty Residents, Mrs Jane Holl-Lute, on 24 November that: 'The PMOI lack refugee status and their stay in Iraq is illegal.'
According to the website of Iraq’s Human Rights Ministry, the Iraqi minister reiterated similar remarks in a meeting with the UN Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Iraq, Mr. György Busztin, on November 16.
The British Parliamentary Committee said: 'Mr. al-Bayati’s baseless and misleading remarks deliberately ignore the fact that the residents of Camp Liberty are recognized as Protected Persons under fourth Geneva Convention as well as Persons of Concern and Asylum seekers by the UNHCR entitled to protection under international law.
'It also ignores the court rulings in Europe and United State rejecting the terror labeling of the Iranian opposition as unjust and perverse.
'The British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom firmly condemns these mistaken and worrying remarks by the Iraqi Human Rights minister, which jeopardize the life of defenseless Camp Liberty residents, who for their protection rely on the UN and the international community.
'We therefore reiterate our call on the Iraqi Prime Minister, Mr. Al Abadi, to take immediate action to make sure that his cabinet refrains from provocative comments endangering the life of Liberty residents and rejects any involvement of the Iranian regime in the Liberty dossier, since any attack on these defenseless refugees tarnishes the reputation of entire Government of Iraq.'
The Committee also urged the Iraqi Prime Minister to publicly declare Camp Liberty as a UN refugee camp and to cooperate with the residents and the UNHCR to ensure their safety.
The Committee added that the Iraqi Human Rights Ministry had quoted remarks by Mrs. Holl-Lute on its website, where she said: 'UNAMI is seeking to arrange family meetings for the members of this organization to relieve their problems and persuade them to return to their country.'
During her visit to Iran, Mrs. Holl-Lute also ’met with a number of Iranian officials and discussed the issue of these family meetings with them’, the report on the Iraqi website said.
The Committee said: 'If this report is true, by involving the authorities of a regime which these refugees have escaped, Mrs. Holl-Lute’s conduct clearly breaches international laws and conventions adopted in order to guarantee the safety and security of defenseless refugees and asylum seekers.
'Such statements by a senior UN Official will allow the Iranian regime to take advantage of the different UN Bodies in Iraq to advance its murderous plots against the residents in Camp Liberty, as was the case during the office of the former UN Special Representative of Secretary-General for Iraq, Mr. Martin Kobler.
'We strongly urge Mrs. Holl-Lute to publicly distance herself from these remarks and make it absolutely clear that the involvement of the Iranian regime or any of its officials in the Camp Liberty dossier is not only unacceptable but also unlawful given the status of the residents and the Iranian regime’s appalling Human Rights records.
'Her failure to do so will allow the Iranian regime and its proxies in Iraq to use her office as a tool to promote their malign plan of exerting psychological pressure on these Iranian refugees in order to set the stage for future attacks to eliminate the legitimate opposition to the theocracy in Tehran.
'Ultimately, the final responsibility for implementing the above steps towards a peaceful solution to this Iran-created humanitarian crisis lies with the United States and its allies as well as the United Nations .
'Consequently, we once again call on them to take firm actions to make sure that the above demands - vital to the safety and well-being of the refugees in Camp Liberty - are being respected and implemented.'

Disclosure of fresh conspiracy by Intelligence Ministry and Quds Force against Liberty residents

                    

Dispatch of paid hands to Iraq under pretext of residents’ families

According to the information received from inside Iran, mullahs’ Intelligence Ministry (MOIS) and the terrorist Qods Force (QF) are preparing to once again send a number of their agents and paid hands to Iraq under the pretext of PMOI families and family visits to stage a dirty campaign against PMOI members in Camp Liberty.
For the purpose, the clerical regime has tasked the Nejat Association, a branch of MOIS, to dispatch paid hands to Iraq from different provinces. Moreover, in October, it dispatched a number of its well-known agents such as Abrahim   Khodabandeh to Iraq to meet with regime’s Iraqi elements and its ambassador Danaifar to pave the way for this demonizing campaign.
According to reports published in MOIS websites on November 22, in a meeting with Abrahim Khodabandeh at the regime’s embassy in Baghdad on October 16, Danaifar “promised to continue with his endeavors to establish contact between captive members of Rajavi sect and their families and to use the full capacity of the embassy of the Islamic republic of Iran in Iraq for this purpose”.
Moreover, mullahs’ regime is planning to directly and indirectly abuse UN and ICRC officials in this project. According to the MOIS plan, the Nejat Association will first send its paid hands to the Foreign Ministry under the pretext of families of Camp Liberty residents. Then the Foreign Ministry will refer them to the ICRC Office in Tehran to register them as families of Camp Liberty residents. Subsequently, they will be dispatched to Iraq.
As such, the clerical regime is planning to initiate another round of psychological torture of the residents. From February 2010 to December 2011, through dispatch of a group of its paid hands to Iraq under the pretext of families of Camp Ashraf residents and stationing them beside Ashraf, the regime was psychologically torturing the residents day and night with 320 loudspeakers. This anti-human act was supported by regime’s intelligence agents at its embassy in Baghdad.
Reminding the repeated and written commitments of the United States and the United Nations to the security of Camp Liberty residents, the Iranian Resistance warns of the ominous objectives of the MOIS, QF and mullahs’ embassy in Baghdad and calls for stopping all measures by the Iranian regime and its elements and paid hands against the residents of Camp Liberty under whatever pretext.
Given mullahs’ regime design to abuse international bodies for the purpose of psychologically torturing Camp Liberty residents under the pretext of residents’ families, as numerously declared during Kobler’s time, the National Council of Resistance of Iran, the residents, and their representatives shall not meet, cooperate or establish any contact with any party that involves the Iranian regime in the file of PMOI and Camp Liberty residents. Involving the Iranian regime in the file of Camp Liberty residents, members of People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), that would endanger the security and wellbeing of residents and their families is a criminal act and is in no way a matter for discussion.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
November 27, 2014 

Iran: repressive measures against political prisoners

                 

Reports from the Iranian capital Tehran indicates that the infamous ministry of intelligence is pressuring Ali Moezzi, a political prisoner and a family member to (PMOI\MEK) to cooperate with them. Iran’s justice and intelligence officials have told his family that he must cooperate. But he hasn’t said anything to us. He is not talking at all and as long as he is being silent and refrains from talking, he is going to remain in solitary and all his communications to the outside world would be cutoff. 
Ali Moezzi has rejected going to the court again and says he does not recognize any legitimacy for their judicial system.

Iran: Assailant in stabbing women identified

          

During past week 11 cases of stabbing women and girls in the city of Jahrom, southern Iran, has been reported. This heinous crime has created an atmosphere of horror and fear amongst young women and girls in this city. The victims included a number of university students as well as working women and house wives. In one case the windows of the girls’ dormitory of Jahrom University was smashed and the assailants fled on bikes. 
The students refrained to go to the classes out of fear of being attacked and also to protest the government authorities’ inaction to bring the perpetrators to the justice. But in all these cases the assailants were members of the local Basij militants. One young woman was attacked and injured in her stomach while she was walking with her mother. Fortunately the closed TV circuit camera belonging to a nearby store caught the attack on tape and the assailant was identified and later arrested. 
The aggressor was none other than a member of the local Basij militias as everybody had anticipated. He has been identified as Mohammad Beheshti-Far, 22, member of Qotb-Abad Basij militia of Jahrom. His father is a colonel and the commander of the same Basij base.
His father’s associates are right now trying to downplay his involvement in this crime by first, denying that he is a member of the Basij and second, to pretend that he is suffering from some kind of psychological disorder in order to let him go with a minor punishment. 
In the preliminary investigation he has confessed that he was encouraged by clerics’ speech during the Friday prayer saying shedding the blood of 'bad-veiled' woman is advised and that Basij should tackle the phenomenon of the mullahs’ self-made 'bad veiling' which targets women and girls who don’t wear the head to toe ’Chador’ or the black cloth that covers the entire body. He has also confessed that his goal was to punish women who in his view do not observe the misogynist law of 'Promotion of virtue and prevention of vice'.

Iran: children victim of land mines

         

Despite more than a quarter of a century passed since Iran-Iraq war ended, the aftermath of this devastating war keeps taking more and more lives in the form of landmine explosion killing or maiming dozens, especially the most vulnerable, children. Residents of landmine areas are mainly the victims of this inhuman war that took the lives of over one million people.

            

The latest incident relates to the city of Piranshahr, northwestern Iran. The city keeps records of about 65 deaths due to landmine explosion. This record in getting higher, but the local government is not doing anything to at least prevent further deaths. The corrupt regime of mullahs has not done anything during past 26 years to demarcate the landmine areas and to prevent defenseless and unaware residents from going in that area. 

Iran: Mass execution of 10 prisoners, as executions soars under Hassan Rouhani

        

In another mass execution, the Brutal Iranian regime has hanged 10 more prisoners in Ghezel-Hesar Prison, Karaj west of Tehran.  This which happened last Tuesday is part of ongoing hanging campaign by the Rouhani government to intimidate and frighten the people off away from any potential unrest. 
More than 1,000 men, women and youths have now been put to death here the so-called ’moderate’ leader who came to power 18 months ago.
On Wednesday, two men named as Ali M and Ali Q were hanged in public for ’mischief’ in north-eastern city of Mashhad.
A group of five inmates were hanged in Gohardasht prison in city of Karaj. They were part of a group of nine that had been transferred to isolation on Tuesday. Four others they were returned to their cells after their execution had been delayed.
The two men were also hanged in the Ghasem Abbad district of the city of Mashhad at 9.30am local time.
A video distributed on the internet last week shows the grief-stricken family members of eight executed prisoners mourning their loved-ones, whose bodies in black bags are lined up before them in a mortuary.
The video was secretly recorded on a mobile phone by an eyewitness who said a group of people are hanged secretly every Thursday in the city of Kerman.
Soaring human rights abuses in Iran, including an unprecedented rise in executions, the wave of state-organized acid attacks against women, and the continuing repression of religious and ethnic minorities, bloggers, reporters and activists are all taking place amid growing public discontent with the regime, but also in the absence of international action regarding the ongoing violation of human rights.

Iran: another execution in the Central Prison of Bandar-Abbas

                    

On Thursday Nov. 27th in Bandar Abbas Central Prison, a 27 years old man identified as Hassan Memari was hanged by the neck. 
The Mullahs’ regime has executed more than 20 prisoners in just 3 days. The unprecedented rise in number of executions for past few days follows the failed nuclear talks in Vienna that didn’t accomplish anything despite a yearlong intense negotiation. 

Iran: Large gathering of Ahwazi residents to protest rerouting of Karoon River water

On Thursday, Nov. 27th a large number of residents of Ahwaz, Southern Iran, gathered to insist the impeachment of the minister of Electricity. They also called for a committee to be established to oversight the Karoon River situation. The suppressive state security guards arrested 7 environment activists. Efforts to free these seven activists are ongoing.

 

People, meanwhile are insisting on the annulment of the ban on exploitation of Koohrang Water as it runs by their lands.

Iran: Prisoners hanged in Kashan and Qum

                   

NCRI - On Saturday morning a prisoner was hanged in the main prison in the Iranian city of Qum. Another prisoner was hanged in the main prison in the city of Kashan.

The inmate hanged in Kashan was identified as Reza Karim Dadeh Zehi, 38, who had been arrested for drug-related charges.

Meanwhile, a court in Iran upheld the earlier sentence for a prisoner to have his right eye gouged out and his left ear chopped off.

During the past week at least 20 prisoners have been hanged in Iran including a 20-year-old man in public for an ‘immoral act’ even though he had obtained clemency from the family of the murdered victim.

A group of ten prisoners were hanged in Ghezelhesar prison in the city of Karaj on Tuesday, according to information obtained from inside Iran.

On Wednesday, two men named only as Ali M and Ali Q were hanged in public for 'mischief' in the north-eastern city of Mashhad.

A group of five inmates were hanged in Gohardasht prison in the city of Karaj. They were part of a group of nine that had been transferred to isolation on Tuesday. Four others were returned to their cells after their execution had been delayed.

Soaring human rights abuses in Iran, including an unprecedented rise in executions, the wave of state-organized acid attacks against women and the continuing repression of religious and ethnic minorities, bloggers, reporters and activists, are all taking place amid growing public discontent with the regime, but also in the absence of international action regarding the ongoing violation of human rights.

Some 30 members of Iranian IRGC and Lebanese Hezbollah killed in Syria

                 
                   

NCRI - At least 30 members of the Iranian regime’s Revolutionary Guards and Lebanese Hezbollah have been killed in Syria while fighting opposition forces.

Syrian opposition forces have said most of those killed in the Daraa region carried Iranian identification cards.

The source said the bodies of those killed members of IRGC and Hezbollah have remained on the ground and they have not been able to remove them from the scene of the clashes.

Meanwhile, local media in Iran reported that on Sunday a commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards will be buried in the southern province of Khuzestan after being killed in a battle in Syria.

The commander, in his fifties, was said to be the second highest-ranking commander from Khuzestan killed in Syria for fighting for the Syrian dictator.

Source: Al-Arabiya, State-run media in Iran

Iran: A dozen women stabbed and injured by Basij in southern city - Report

                   

NCRI - A number of young Iranian women including at least five university students have been stabbed in their hips with knives in past few days in southern city of Jahrom.
According to the information received from source in Jahrom, at least 12 women have been victim of the violent attacks. The women were attached by at least four men riding on motorcycles.

The local official have acknowledged that at least six women have been injured in the wave of attacks and they include five university students.Sources in the city said the university students have identified the attackers who are members of the regime affiliated paramilitary Basij Force.

One of the attackers was identified as Beheshti, head of the Basij force in Ghotbabad, a town 15 kilometer south of the city of Jahrom.

The attacks on university students are taking place as university students across Iran is expected to take part in yearly protest on the occasion of Student Day on December 7 – known locally as 16 Azar – to demand political freedom in Iran.

This year protest is expected to address the last month acid attacks by the regime’s gangs that targeted many young women and girls leaving them with severe burns and injuries. Some lost their eyesight and at least one person reported killed.

The Iranian regime officials in the city have claimed that have arrested those involved in the attack against the women but they did not provide any information about the attackers and their motivations for carrying out such crimes.

Earlier this month the Iranian regime’s parliament approved a bill officially putting the members of the Basij paramilitary force in charge of enforcing dress code in Iran and harassing and repressing women and youth in public under the pretext of “Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice”.

The law which passed with a majority institutionalized the work of members of the Basij paramilitaries that often patrol streets to enforce dress code and other behavior prescribed under the clerical regime’s misogynist laws.

The new law bolsters the work of Basij members that often patrol streets, and stop cars to interrogate couples about their relationships, to the resentment of many Iranians.

Acid attacks began after the Iranian regime’s parliament began reviewing bills empowering the Basij paramilitaries.

Iran - Le maire Sylvie Fassier: ce sont très souvent des femmes qui permettent de gagner les combats

                    

CNRI - Une réunion était organisée mardi dernier par le Comité des maires pour ladéfense des Achrafiens, à la mairie du 2ème arrondissement de Paris, présidée par le maire Jacques Boutault. Sylvie Fassier, maire de Le Pin, a pris la parole lors de cetteconférence intitulée " Les élus français contre l’extrémisme religieux et solidaires avec la Résistance iranienne":

« J'avoue que je suis toujours très émue quand je vois des images comme celles que vous venez de montrer (sur les attaques à l'acide récemment contre les femmes en Iran). C'est quand même très loin de nos préoccupations ici dans les pays occidentaux et donc ça fait donc toujours beaucoup de mal.

En ma qualité de maire d'un petit village de Seine-et-Marne, Le Pin, mais également en tant que Vice-présidente de l’intercommunalité Plaines et Monts de France qui compte plus de 110 000 habitants, mais surtout en ma qualité de femme et de mère que je m'insurge aujourd'hui.

En effet les femmes et les enfants subissent en Iran des sévices épouvantables, des exécutions, des agressions. Ce sont des répressions persistantes des minorités ethniques et religieuses mais également de journalistes qui ont encore eu lieu récemment. C'est autant de terribles crimes des mollahs contre le peuple iranien qui se déroulent dans le silence des gouvernements occidentaux et qui participent au développement du terrorisme, de l'intégrisme et qui mettent aussi en danger la paix et la sécurité dans le monde.

Aussi il est de ma responsabilité en tant que femme et femme politique en France, de condamner ces actes et d’alerter le Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU afin de punir les auteurs des violations des droits de l'homme en Iran. Ce sont trop de concessions honteuses que l'on accorde à ce régime laissant ainsi femmes et enfants dans un désarroi total, sans soins, sans-abri, utilisant les enfants comme cibles, les enfants qui ramassent les ordures alors que les mollahs s'accaparent des richesses du pays.

C'est un régime inhumain et la seule solution pour libérer les Iraniens, et particulièrement les femmes et les enfants de la misère aujourd'hui créée par les mollahs, c'est de renverser ce régime. Et je me dois d'y participer activement en tant que maire et Vice-présidente de notre intercommunalité, mais encore plus en tant que mère, tout simplement.

Ce sont très souvent des femmes qui permettent de gagner les combats, des combats de cœur comme vous Mme Radjavi, et donc je m'y engage aussi. »

Iran: Kurdish pol. Prisoners ended their 9th day of hunger strike

29 Kurdish pol. Prisoners in Urumia prison, northwestern Iran, are continuing with their hunger strike. The strike started on Thursday Nov. 20th in Ward no. 12 of Urumia Central prison. Despite the critical conditions of a number of them, the barbaric prison authorities have refused to answer to their needs and demands. These hunger striking prisoners have asked to be separated from common criminals. 

Iran: government militants stabbing female university students

 

According to media a number of Iranian regime backed Basij militants in the city of Jahrom, Fars province, southern Iran, stabbed 6 young women with knives. By adopting new tactics, the hardline Basij militants which take their orders from the highest religious authority in Iran, stabbed and injured 6 young women, five of them university students. 
This is at a time when the fear of popular unrest and protest regarding last month acid attacks has caused lots of concern amongst the regime’s dictator officials. A general feeling of unease in Jahrom has been reported following this heinous crime. 

Iranian regime planning to execute another political prisoner

                       

Sources from inside the notorious Evin prison reveal that the criminal mullahs’ regime ruling Iran is planning to somehow get rid of Ali Moezzi, a well-known political prisoner and a relative of an MEK member without officially executing him. While the physicians have proscribed surgery for him due to his severe internal problems, the prison authorities are denying him medical treatment and have returned him back to the prison from hospital without going through with his treatment. The regime has also kept his family and specially his old mother in dark about his health. The intelligence officials working on Moezzi’s case have threatened a soldier, who is assisting his mother in the search for Ali, to exile to a faraway military outpost and to increase his service period if he leaks any information about Mr. Moezzi to his mother. 
The extreme pressures and limitations imposed on Pol. Prisoner Ali Moezzi have caused alarm for his cellmates and his family.

Iran: Workers’ protest and strike in different cities

       

Kashan: Workers of Behris weaving production factory in Ravand industrial city, Kashan province protested against firing a number of workers and delays of their wage payments. They also demanded to be paid their work bonuses. Workers of both working shifts gathered inside the factory as it was planned in advance. They refrained from going to work and proceeded with their planned demonstration to demand unpaid salaries.
The factory workers have previously demonstrated to receive unpaid salaries.
And now following the discharge of a number of workers, protest against the factory policies and backed up salaries occur prompting them to go on strike again.

Khorram-Abad: Workers of ongoing buildings project of Payame Noor University went on strike and stopped working on Nov. 21st. They were protesting against unpaid wages.
At the same day, university students residing in the Lorestan University dormitory gathered in front of College of Science building and protested the lack of security in their dormitory.  

Tehran: A number of construction workers working for Iran’s agriculture ministry in Tehran Taleghni Street stopped working to protest against unpaid salaries for past 2 weeks.

Iran: Teachers and Hotel personnel protest

A number of teachers in city of Khoram-Abad protested against low quality goods in the especial store for teachers, known as 'Refah'. Teachers gathered in front of the manager’s office, and called the situation and the bad quality goods as an insult to teachers.
In another act of protest, workers and personnel of Khorram-Abad, Karoon Hotel, chased out health ministry inspectors that were asking for bribes from the hotel personnel in exchange for giving positive reports.    

Iran: Clashes between football fans and oppressive forces

As Esteghlal football team played against Persepolis in Tehran Azadi stadium, fans of Derby football Match-79 clashed with suppressive State Security Forces, SSF, and shouted slogans against state authorities.
The frustrated fans which became very angry as they witnessed barbaric behaviors of the agents started to protest the continued playing of religious songs and tapes using the stadium’s laud speakers. As the protest intensified the frightened agents stop playing their tapes to avoid any further clashes and spread of protest to outside the stadium.

Iran: youth attacking a Basij outpost in Tehran suburb

Based on a report obtained from inside Iran, a group of young residents of Shahr-e Ray, suburb of Tehran attacked a hardline Basij militant base in their neighborhood. The angry youth were reacting to the constant harassment and suppressive interference by these Basij militants in their daily lives. Scores of equipment, banners and other propaganda kits in that base was destroyed and the windows were broken.
The Basij militants were collecting all these equipment to hold a week of exhibition to promote the cause of hardline Basij which in fact is another tool in the hands of clerical dictatorship ruling Iran to suppress people and especially women. 

Four condemned Sunnis 'abused and tortured' as they await execution in Iran

                  

Iranian regime has stepped up its persecution of the Sunni minority with death sentences imposed on four political prisoners. 

The four - named as Hamed Ahmadi, Kamal Molai, Jamshid Dehghani and Djahanguir Dehghani - have written an open letter protesting at the abuses, torture and lies by regime officials since their arrest.

They wrote on November 27: "We were arrested in 2009 and accused of preaching in favor of Sunni Islam. We were placed in isolation and suffered unbearable torture. The trial court sentenced us to death.

 "After the confirmation of our death sentence, the wardens took us to the the gallows on several occasions, and after making us suffer intense psychological torture, they took us back to our cells. At present, we are in limbo and still held in Rajai-Shahr Prison."

The prisoners also denounced lies broadcast on sate-run television giving the reasons for their imprisonment.

Eleven Sunnis have been sentenced to death in the past two weeks and are also awaiting execution in Gohardasht prison, 40km from Tehran.

Several Sunni clerics, including Nasser Piri and Molavi Hafez are also currently imprisoned without trial.

Mr Ahmed Shaheed، UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights situation in Iran recently expressed his concern over the persecution of religious minorities in Iran and in a news conference in Oslo, on 22 November 2012 said:

"I am troubled by the treatment of various minority groups in the country، who all too often bear the brunt of repressive policies. These include unrecognized religious minorities like the Baha’i and Yarsan، as well as recognized but increasingly suppressed religious communities like Christians and certain Sunni Muslim communities. I am also deeply concerned about ethnic minorities، including the Baluch، Kurdish، Ahwazi Arab، Turkmen، and Azerbaijani peoples، whose plights are often compounded by linguistic and cultural subjugation، in additional to political repression."

The majority of Iranians are Shiite Muslims, but Sunnis are Iran's second religious community numbering around ten million people.

Iran: 20-year-old young man hanged despite clemency from families of victim

                    

NCRI - The Iranian regime’s henchmen publicly hanged a 20-year-old man on Thursday in northeastern Iran for ‘immoral acts’ despite clemency from the family of the murdered victim.

The man identified by his initials as M. Gh. was hanged in the city of Joghatay in Khorasan province after his appeal for commuting his death sentence was rejected by the authorities.

The prosecutor general of the city whose remarks on the case were broadcasted in the media said that “the sentence was carried out in public with assertion to be an example” for others.

Ali Akbar Rahimi said: “Mr. M. Gh. had been convicted of murder and was sentenced to death for immoral acts.”

He did not elaborate on the ‘immoral acts.’

During the past week at least 20 prisoners have been hanged in Iran.

A group of ten prisoners were hanged in Ghezelhesar prison in the city of Karaj on Tuesday, according to information obtained from inside Iran.

On Wednesday, two men named only as Ali M and Ali Q were hanged in public for 'mischief' in north-eastern city of Mashhad.

A group of five inmates were hanged in Gohardasht prison in the city of Karaj. They were part of a group of nine that had been transferred to isolation on Tuesday. Four others were returned to their cells after their execution had been delayed.

A video distributed on the internet this week shows the grief-stricken family members of eight executed prisoners mourning their loved-ones, whose bodies in black bags were lined up before them in a mortuary.

The video was secretly recorded on a mobile phone by an eyewitness who said a group of people are hanged secretly every Thursday in the city of Kerman.

The eyewitness said: "Many of the executions in this city are for possession of drugs offences. Usually these are young people who have grown up as orphans and due to poverty are now the sole breadwinners for their families."

Soaring human rights abuses in Iran, including an unprecedented rise in executions, the wave of state-organized acid attacks against women and the continuing repression of religious and ethnic minorities, bloggers, reporters and activists, are all taking place amid growing public discontent with the regime, but also in the absence of international action regarding the ongoing violation of human rights.

Iran - L'intervention de Maryam Radjavi à la mairie de 2ème arrondissement de Paris

                    

CNRI - Maryam Radjavi, Présidente élue de la Résistance iranienne, a participé le 25 novembre à Paris à la mairie du 2e arrondissement, à une conférence intitulée « Les élus français contre l’extrémisme religieux et solidaires avec la Résistance iranienne ».

Cette conférence, présidée par le maire Jacques Boutault, se tenait à l’invitation du « Comité des maires français en défense d’Achraf » qui représentent 14.000 maires et élus. Voici le texte de son intervention à cette réunion qui se tenait au lendemain de la décision hier des gouvernements des pays 5+1 de prolonger les négociations nucléaires avec l'Iran:

« Je souhaiterai tout d’abord remercier pour cette initiative Monsieur le maire Jacques Boutault, ainsi que Monsieur le maire Jean-Pierre Muller et Monsieur le maire Jean-François Legaret, Présidents du comité des maires pour la défense des Achrafiens pour avoir organisé cette conférence.

Le vaste soutien des maires et des élus français à la Résistance iranienne et surtout aux combattants de la liberté à Achraf et Liberty démontre l’engagement des citoyens et des élus français dans la défense de la liberté et des droits de l’homme. Le peuple iranien est fier d’avoir les élus français à ses côtés dans sa lutte contre la tyrannie et le monstre de l’intégrisme.

La décision hier des gouvernements des pays 5+1 de prolonger les négociations nucléaires donne encore plus de temps au régime iranien pour pousser la paix et la sécurité de la région et du monde au bord d’un gouffre dangereux. L’absence d’accord après un an de négociations envoie deux messages importants. Premièrement : le régime des mollahs est si faible et si fragile que malgré les concessions injustifiables des Etats-Unis et des pays occidentaux, il ne peut pas renoncer à son projet de bombe atomique. Cette faiblesse s’est intensifiée depuis que son protégé en Irak, Maliki, a dû quitter le pouvoir.

Khamenei, le guide suprême des mollahs, a besoin de l'arme nucléaire pour rester au pouvoir. Deuxième message : la politique de concessions aux mollahs tout en sacrifiant le peuple iranien et sa Résistance, n’a mené à rien, c’est un échec. Continuer cette complaisance revient à offrir la bombe aux mollahs et à mettre en danger la paix et la sécurité du monde. L’an dernier, au début des négociations, les gouvernements occidentaux ont renoncé à l’application des résolutions du Conseil de sécurité de l’ONU. Ce recul a conduit à l’échec annoncé hier.

 La face cachée de ce comportement mesquin, c’est le silence honteux devant les terribles violations des droits de l’homme en Iran et les ingérences criminelles du régime iranien en Syrie, en Irak, au Liban et au Yémen. Ce silence des gouvernements sacrifie le destin du peuple iranien et des peuples de la région. La collaboration des Etats Unis pour chasser de force les Achrafiens de leur foyer pour le camp Liberty qui est une grande prison, fait aussi partie des concessions faites aux mollahs pendant les négociations ouvertes clandestinement en 2011. Mais dans la pratique, toutes ces concessions ont donné des résultats contraires.

La leçon de 12 années de négociations néfastes avec ce régime, c’est que seule une politique de fermeté peut empêcher ce régime de se doter de la bombe. Cette politique comporte l’application complète des résolutions du Conseil de sécurité de l’ONU, l’arrêt de l’enrichissement d’uranium et des inspections internationales inopinées de tous les sites suspects. D’autre part, cette politique de fermeté doit être accompagnée par une reconnaissance de la résistance du peuple iranien pour un changement de régime.

Aujourd’hui, le monde se préoccupe avec raison des crimes commis par le groupe anti-islamique Daech dans la région. En vérité, c’est le soutien des mollahs à Bachar Assad et au gouvernement sectaire de Maliki en Irak qui a permis à Daech de se renforcer. Daech est le résultat de la politique sectaire et répressive de Maliki et d’Assad qui sur les ordres du régime des mollahs, ont marginalisé une grande partie de la population dans ces pays.

Cependant, on voit un effort dangereux de vouloir ignorer les crimes du régime iranien et de ses milices en Irak et en Syrie. Pire encore, certains, par erreur ou par intérêt, présentent le régime des mollahs comme un allié dans la lutte contre Daech. Au mois d’aout dernier, dans une lettre à Khamenei, le Président américain a promis qu’en échange d’un accord sur le nucléaire, le régime iranien pourra participer à la coalition internationale contre Daech.

C’est la suite et la répétition de la grande erreur qui a conduit à la crise actuelle dans la région. Faire participer les mollahs à la crise irakienne ne va arrêter ni la bombe atomique ni Daech. Au contraire, cela va renforcer l’appareil terroriste de Daech, parce que la présence du régime iranien dans la région va renforcer les guerres confessionnelles.

Aujourd’hui, beaucoup de familles en France sont inquiètes de voir des jeunes Français rejoindre les djihadistes. La question importante c’est de savoir comment régler cette crise ? Est-ce qu’il faut donner une légitimité au pouvoir qui est la source de l’intégrisme et du terrorisme, C’est-à-dire le régime iranien, ou lui faire obstacle ? La réponse du peuple iranien et de sa résistance après 35 ans d’expérience de lutte contre la dictature intégriste, c’est de résister à ce régime et de refuser de collaborer avec lui.

La crise qui frappe le régime des mollahs est profonde. Elle est visible dans plusieurs domaines. D’abord, la montée du mécontentement contre le pouvoir. La répression sauvage ces derniers mois a renforcé l’esprit de protestation dans la société iranienne. Au mois d’octobre, la colère populaire a éclaté contre les agressions à l’acide menées par des agents du régime. On a vu une grande manifestation dans la ville historique d’Ispahan, où les femmes ont joué un rôle important. En cette journée internationale contre la violence faite aux femmes, je salue toutes les femmes d’Iran qui résistent à la barbarie des mollahs.

L’an dernier, selon les autorités officielles, il y a eu au moins 3000 mouvements de protestations en Iran. Les gens ne ratent aucune occasion de protester. Dernièrement, à la mort d’un jeune chanteur une foule immense est descendue dans la rue se transformant en une confrontation avec le pouvoir. Dans certaines villes, les agents ont chargé et arrêté des manifestants. Face au mécontentement, la réponse des mollahs, c’est des exécutions en public et une pendaison toutes les huit heures. Mais cette répression n’a plus l’effet attendu. Récemment, le mollah Ali Janati, un ministre de ce régime, a reconnu : « le nombre d’exécutions et de ceux qui attendent dans le couloir de la mort est incroyable » et il a admis que cette répression est un échec. Le président du régime, Hassan Rohani n’a même pas réussi à donner une apparence de modération.

Alors que le fascisme religieux en Iran est plongé dans des crises, internes et internationales, politiques, économiques et sociales, il se sent plus que jamais menacé par son opposition organisée, à savoir le CNRI et l’OMPI.

L’existence de cette opposition donne à la crise un potentiel qui peut mener au renversement de la dictature. C’est pourquoi combattre cette résistance et ses membres au camp Liberty en Irak est en tête des priorités du régime. Ces huit dernières années, le gouvernement vassal des mollahs en Irak a lancé 27 attaques contre Achraf et Liberty, faisant 116 morts, 1400 blessés et 7 otages. 22 opposants ont perdu la vie en raison du blocus médical.

Actuellement, des dizaines de personnes sont dans un état grave. Aujourd’hui, j’appelle les maires et les élus à développer leur soutien au peuple iranien et à sa résistance. Vous pouvez encourager le gouvernement français à prendre la tête d’une initiative internationale pour atteindre ces objectifs:
1- faire preuve d’une fermeté totale face aux projets d’armes nucléaire des mollahs.
2- subordonner à l’arrêt des exécutions, les relations politiques et commerciales avec le régime iranien.
3- Évincer de Syrie et d’Irak la dictature religieuse de Téhéran.
4- Mettre fin au blocus du camp Liberty et le reconnaitre comme un camp de réfugiés sous la supervision de l’ONU.
5- Soutenir la Résistance iranienne qui est l’alternative à l’intégrisme religieux dont la source est à Téhéran. »

 Je vous remercie.

Les députés britanniques mettent en garde contre l'ingérence iranienne dans le dossier du camp Liberty

                    

CNRI - L'ingérence du régime iranien dans les affaires du camp Liberty en Irak prépare le terrain à une autre attaque meurtrière contre ses 3000 habitants, a mis en garde le Comité parlementaire britannique pour la Liberté en Iran.

L'alerte intervient après que le ministre irakien des droits de l'homme, Mahdi al-Bayati, a déclaré que les opposants iraniens ne sont pas des réfugiés et que leur présence dans le camp est «illégale».

M. al-Bayati a prétendu dans une réunion, le 24 Novembre, avec la Conseillère spécial de l'ONU pour la réinstallation des habitants du camp Liberty, Mme Jane Holl-Lute: "L'OMPI n'a pas le statut de réfugié et sa présence en Irak est illégale."

Selon le site Web du ministère des Droits humains d'Irak, le ministre a réitéré des propos similaires lors d'une rencontre, le 16 Novembre, avec le Représentant spécial adjoint du Secrétaire général des Nations-Unis en Iraq, M. György Busztin.

Le Comité parlementaire britannique a déclaré: "Les propos sans fondement et trompeuses de M. al-Bayati ignorent délibérément le fait que les résidents du camp Liberty sont reconnues comme des personnes protégées en vertu de la 4ème Convention de Genève, ainsi que des "personnes en danger" et "demandeurs d'asile" par le HCR et ont droit, à ce titre, à la protection internationale.

"Nous réitérons notre appel au Premier ministre irakien, M. Al Abadi, de prendre des mesures immédiates pour s'assurer que les membres de son Cabinet s'abstiennent de commentaires provocateurs, susceptibles de mettre en danger la vie des habitants du camp Liberty. Par ailleurs il faut s'opposer à toute implication du régime iranien dans le dossier de Liberty ".

Le Comité exhorte le Premier ministre irakien à déclarer publiquement que le camp Liberty est un camp de réfugiés Onusien et de coopérer avec ses habitants et le HCR pour assurer leur sécurité.

Sur les propos de Mme Holl-Lute
Le ministère irakien, sur son site Internet, a également cité ces propos attribués à Mme Holl-Lute: "la MANUI cherche à organiser des réunions familiales pour les membres de cette organisation afin de soulager leurs problèmes et les persuader de retourner dans leur pays. "

Au cours de sa visite en Iran, Mme Holl Lute a également «rencontré un certain nombre de responsables iraniens et discuté de la question des réunions familiales avec eux», a ajouté le site Web irakien.

Le Comité britannique a déclaré: "Si ce rapport est exact, il convient de souligner qu'en impliquant les autorités d'un régime dont ces réfugiés ont fui, Mme Holl-Lute a clairement enfreint les lois et les conventions internationales adoptées en vue de garantir la sûreté et la sécurité des réfugiés sans défense et demandeurs d'asile.

"Ces déclarations, d'un haut fonctionnaire des Nations Unies, permettront au régime iranien de profiter des différents organes de l'ONU en Irak pour faire avancer ses cabales meurtrières contre les résidents dans le camp Liberty, comme ce fut le cas avec l'ancien Représentant spécial de l'ONU, M. Martin Kobler.

"Nous demandons instamment à Mme Holl Lute-de se distancer publiquement de ces remarques. Qu'il soit absolument clair que l'implication du régime iranien ou de ses agents dans le dossier du camp Liberty, est non seulement inacceptable, mais parfaitement illégale, étant donné le statut de ces derniers et le bilan épouvantable du régime iranien dans le domaine des droits humains."

Further reports of clashes & protest in Iran

                    

Iran, Ahvaz: protest gathering in support of Karoon River

A group of residents of Ahvaz, southern Iran gathered across the River Shore to protest the local government inaction to save the River. They demanded that a government body must be established to preserve the River and the environment surrounding it.
But the regime official instead of acknowledging the justified demand of people, unleashed the security forces to break up the demonstration and beat and arrest the demonstrators. As the result a number of people were arrested and some including Abdullah Obiat, Mehdi Bait Sayyah, Naji Obiat, Khalid Mahavi and Hamadi were taken for interrogation. 

Iran: protest gathering to receive housing units

A number of Islam-Shahr families gathered on Tuesday outside the municipality office for assigning housing units demanding to receive their houses, since they had already paid for them in advance. Islam-Shahr mayor had promised residents to assign new built houses to them as soon as they are completed, but the sales money was receive in advance. The government refrains from giving the people their houses or returns their money.  The people have demanded to be given housing units or to be refunded. 

Isfahan: Youth confront female Basij militants

Following the heinous acid attacks against women in the central city of Isfahan last month in which more than 25 young women were disfigured by Basij club welders, the mullahs’ regime has decided to unleash a group of female Basij militants in the streets of the city. The aim is to intimidate and distribute pamphlets regarding the law of 'promotion of virtue and prohibition of vice' recently passed by the parliament. The law is to oblige women to wear Mullahs made dress code or 'Hijab' and to prevent unrest especially amongst women. But instead of being intimidated, youth and young girls clashed with the Basij militants tearing up their pamphlets and chasing them out of streets. 

Iran: youth punish regime henchman in Tehran

Iranian regime henchman who tried to harass a couple of youth accusing them of bogus charges, clashed with them. This incident happened on Tuesday Nov.25th but as a result those young men overpowered the Basij militants and punished them forcing them to retreat.  

Iran: protest gathering in front of the parliament leads to clashes with Especial Forces

As angry workers were shouting slogans in protest to anti-labor laws in front of Parliament building on Nov. 24th the Parliament security forces and plain clothes henchmen of Especial Forces attacked them which led to clash with workers. A number of workers were injured and 10 of them were arrested under the Mullahs’ suppressive 'disrupting the public order' law.
The angry workers who had come from Alborz province and Tehran suburbs were protesting against the mullahs’ anti-labor laws passed by the parliament. They were also protesting government official embezzlement and against not receiving their insurance money.
More than 500 retired workers of Tehran province were also present at this protest gathering that lasted until 10:30 AM in a rainy day.  

Iran: protest against mullahs’ misogynist law banning women to watch games in sports stadiums

                    

A group of women appeared behind a Volleyball stadium in Hijab St. on Wednesday November 26 to protest the discriminatory law of women being banned from going to sports stadiums to watch games. The women continued with their protest for more than 3 hours despite security and plain clothes agents’ efforts to disperse the crowd and break up the demonstration. 
This is at a time when the Iranian regime had announced on its national television that women’s presence in sport stadiums is allowed. But despite this announcement, women fans of Volleyball couldn’t get in to the stadium and therefore stood outside the stadium protesting for over 3 hours. 

      

British MPs warn about Iranian regime’s meddling in Camp Liberty

                    

The Iranian regime's meddling in Camp Liberty will set the stage for another deadly attack on its 3,000 residents, the British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom has warned.

The alert comes after remarks by Iraq's minister of Human Rights, Mahdi al-Bayati, who said the UN-protected Iranian dissidents in the camp were not refugees and their presence in the camp was 'illegal'.

Mr al-Bayati claimed in a meeting with the Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General on Resettlement of Liberty Residents, Mrs Jane Holl-Lute, on 24 November that: "The PMOI lack refugee status and their stay in Iraq is illegal."

According to the website of Iraq's Human Rights Ministry, the Iraqi minister reiterated similar remarks in a meeting with the UN Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Iraq, Mr György Busztin, on November 16.

The British Parliamentary Committee said: "Mr al-Bayati's baseless and misleading remarks deliberately ignore the fact that the residents of Camp Liberty are recognised as Protected Persons under fourth Geneva Convention as well as Persons of Concern and Asylum seekers by the UNHCR entitled to protection under international law.

"It also ignores the court rulings in Europe and United State rejecting the terror labelling of the Iranian opposition as unjust and perverse.

"The British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom firmly condemns these mistaken and worrying remarks by the Iraqi Human Rights minister, which jeopardise the life of defenceless Camp Liberty residents, who for their protection rely on the UN and the international community.

"We therefore reiterate our call on the Iraqi Prime Minister, Mr Al Abadi, to take immediate action to make sure that his cabinet refrains from provocative comments endangering the life of Liberty residents and rejects any involvement of the Iranian regime in the Liberty dossier, since any attack on these defenceless refugees tarnishes the reputation of entire Government of Iraq."

The Committee also urged the Iraqi Prime Minister to publicly declare Camp Liberty as a UN refugee camp and to cooperate with the residents and the UNHCR to ensure their safety.

The Committee added that the Iraqi Human Rights Ministry had quoted remarks by Mrs Holl-Lute on its website, where she said: "UNAMI is seeking to arrange family meetings for the members of this organization to relieve their problems and persuade them to return to their country."

During her visit to Iran, Mrs Holl-Lute also 'met with a number of Iranian officials and discussed the issue of these family meetings with them', the report on the Iraqi website said.

The Committee said: "If this report is true, by involving the authorities of a regime which these refugees have escaped, Mrs Holl-Lute's conduct clearly breaches international laws and conventions adopted in order to guarantee the safety and security of defenceless refugees and asylum seekers.

"Such statements by a senior UN Official will allow the Iranian regime to take advantage of the different UN Bodies in Iraq to advance its murderous plots against the residents in Camp Liberty, as was the case during the office of the former UN Special Representative of Secretary-General for Iraq, Mr Martin Kobler.

"We strongly urge Mrs Holl-Lute to publicly distance herself from these remarks and make it absolutely clear that the involvement of the Iranian regime or any of its officials in the Camp Liberty dossier is not only unacceptable but also unlawful given the status of the residents and the Iranian regime's appalling Human Rights records.

"Her failure to do so will allow the Iranian regime and its proxies in Iraq to use her office as a tool to promote their malign plan of exerting psychological pressure on these Iranian refugees in order to set the stage for future attacks to eliminate the legitimate opposition to the theocracy in Tehran.

"Ultimately, the final responsibility for implementing the above steps towards a peaceful solution to this Iran-created humanitarian crisis lies with the United States and its allies as well as the United Nations.

"Consequently, we once again call on them to take firm actions to make sure that the above demands - vital to the safety and well-being of the refugees in Camp Liberty - are being respected and implemented."

Le régime iranien trame une nouvelle machination contre les habitants du camp Liberty

                        

 NCRI: Le Vevak et la force Qods envoient des agents sous couvert de parents proches des habitants
Selon des informations reçues d’Iran, le ministère du Renseignement (Vevak) et la force terroriste Qods ont l’intention une fois de plus d’envoyer en Irak des agents sous couvert de proches parents de membres de l’Ompi pour lancer une campagne ignoble contre les habitants de Liberty.

Le régime des mollahs a dans ce but chargé l’association Nejat, qui est une branche du Vevak, de rassembler des agents dans diverses régions d’Iran pour les envoyer en Irak. D’autres éléments bien connus comme Massoud Khodabandeh avaient aussi été envoyés en octobre dans ce pays pour rencontrer des hommes de main irakiens et l’ambassadeur des mollahs Danaïfar, afin de préparer cette campagne.

Selon des nouvelles parues dans divers sites du Vevak le 22 novembre, dans une rencontre avec Abrahim Khodabandeh à l’ambassade à Bagdad le 16 octobre, Danaïfar a “promis de continuer à s’efforcer d’établir des contacts entre les membres captifs de la secte de Radjavi et leurs familles et d’utiliser la pleine capacité de l’ambassade de la République islamique d’Iran dans ce but”.

De plus, le régime des mollahs a l’intention de tromper directement et indirectement l’ONU et le CICR dans ce projet. D’après le plan du Vevak, l’association Nejat enverra d’abord ses recrues payées au ministère des Affaires étrangères sous couvert de parents d’habitants du camp Liberty. Ensuite, le ministère les enverra au bureau du CICR à Téhéran pour les faire enregistrer comme tels. Puis ils seront envoyés en Irak.

Ainsi, le régime des mollahs va lancer un nouveau round de torture psychologique des habitants. De février 2010 à décembre 2011, il avait envoyé un groupe des recrues en Irak sous l’apparence de familles d’Achrafiens qu’il avait installé à côté du camp d’Achraf. Le régime avait ainsi fait subir de la torture blanche aux habitants avec 320 haut-parleurs hurlant nuit et jour. Cet acte inhumain était soutenu par les agents du Vevak à son ambassade à Bagdad.

Rappelant les engagements répétés et écrits des USA et de l’ONU sur la sécurité du camp Liberty, la Résistance iranienne met en garde contre les objectifs funestes du Vevak, de la Force Qods et de l’ambassade des mollahs. Elle appelle à stopper ces mesures, commises sous n’importe quelle prétexte, du régime iranien, de ses éléments et recrue contre les habitants de Liberty.

Etant donner le plan des mollahs de tromper les instances internationales pour torturer psychologiquement les habitants de Liberty sous prétextes qu’il s’agit de membres de leurs familles, comme cela a été déclaré à maintes reprises à l’époque de Kobler, le CNRI, les habitants et leurs représentants ne vont ni rencontrer, ni coopérer, ni contacter aucune des parties impliquées dans le dossier du régime iranien contre l’OMPI et les habitants de Liberty. Impliquer le régime iranien dans le dossier des habitants du camp Liberty, membres de l’organisation de l’OMPI, pour mettre en danger la sécurité et le bien-être des habitants et de leurs familles, est un acte criminel qui n’est en rien matière à discussion.

Iran, Karaj: Mass execution of 10 prisoners

                  

In a most inhumane and barbaric action, the brutal clerical regime of Iran on Tuesday Nov. 25th hanged 10 prisoners in a mass execution in Ghezel-Hesar Prison located in Karaj, west of Tehran. 9 of these prisoners have been identified as Hamid Javanmard, Abbas Basideh, Farhad, Reza, Karim, Hamid, Mehdi, Kanooni and Habib. 
The clerical regime on Wednesday hanged another 5 prisoners in Gohar-dasht Prison, Karaj west of Tehran. Two other prisoners were also hanged on the same day in Qazvin, northwestern Tehran.
The wave of brutal executions in Iran is aimed at confronting the society’s explosive mood of anger and hatred towards this regime, but undoubtedly would intensify the anger and protest in the frustrated population towards Khamenei and his henchmen cronies

Iran: Pol. Prisoner on hunger strike

                     

In protest to the lack of medical treatment in the notorious Evin Prison in Tehran, political prisoner Rasoul Hardani has gone on hunger strike since Monday Nov. 24th. He has also threatened to sew his lips, if his demands are not met. 
In reaction to his hunger strike and in order to separate him from other political prisoners to prevent any solidarity amongst them and possible spread of protest inside the prison, the prison authorities transferred him out of the political prisoners’ ward and in to the correctional ward. 
Rasoul Hardani was arrested with his brother Khalid back in 2000 and spend 7 years’ incarceration, but was released in 2007. He was again arrested in 2009 during a 'Feast of Fire' demonstration and has been in the prison since.

Conference commemorates the late French First Lady Danielle Mitterrand, condemns soaring executions and abuses in Iran

                     

NCRI - In a meeting to commemorate the late French First Lady Danielle Mitterrand, Dutch dignitaries and politicians praised her relentless campaign for human rights and democracy and in defense of the victims of injustice throughout the world.

Mrs Mitterand's son Gilbert Mitterrand, president of Danielle Mitterrand Foundation, told the event how his mother advocated human rights in Iran and the rights of the residents of Camp Ashraf.

Mr Mitterrand said: "Your struggle for freedom in Iran is our struggle and the Danielle Mitterrand Foundation supports your struggle more achieving fundamental rights for the Iranian people in a free and democratic Iran, in which separation of religion and state is ensured. With you, building a new free world is more possible."

The surge in executions and systematic abuses of human rights in the Iranian regime was also condemned by Dutch campaigners for a free Iran

Urgent action must be taken to halt the 'alarming and unprecedented' rise in death sentences to more than 1,000 under so-called 'moderate' president Hassan Rouhani, speakers at the event held by the Dutch Group of the Friends of Free Iran said.

The Dutch group's chairman Professor Henk De Haan, Senator Kees de Lange, a member of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Dutch Senate, and human rights activist Mr Geert Van der Meer were also among the speakers at the event.

They also noted to the 61st censure resolution by the UN on the Iranian regime’s human rights abuses and called for the referral of Iran’s human rights record to the UN Security Council.

Members of the Iranian associations of youth and women in the Netherlands also expressed their support for the Iranian Resistance leader Mrs Maryam Rajavi and her ten-point plan for the future of Iran.