lundi 30 novembre 2015

Iran Center for Census: 110,000 unemployed PHD graduates in Iran


More than 110,000 unemployed PHD graduates in Iran

IRAN - In a shocking and a dreadful report by the Center for Census and Statistics in Iran, more than 110,000 PHD graduates are currently unemployed in Iran. The report reveals that according to this census during the 2014 working year the unemployed individuals among the university graduates in Iran with master’s degree have been much greater than other sectors of the working force. The report says that the majority of the unemployed graduates are women.  
The majority of the unemployed graduates during 2014 have been in the field of engineering followed by business and architecture.
The Center for Census and Statistics had previously announced that the official rate of unemployment during 2015 was %10.9. But even this number was manipulated and not the actual number, because according to the government’s definition for employment, even if a person works 1 hour per week, he would be considered employed, so he would not be included in the official unemployment figure. 

Iran: 2 executions in the city of Rasht


Two more prisoners executed in Lakan, Rasht

The criminal regime of Iran has yet added two more crimes to its unthinkable record of human rights violations by hanging two more prisoners at dawn on Saturday, Nov. 28th. 
These two were hanged in Lakan Prison, in the city of Rasht, northern Iran for a petty crime of drug charges. The head of Gilan province judiciary announced that the two prisoners, 29 and 30 years old were from the city of Rasht. 

EU pays $3b+ to prevent Syrian refugees to go to Europe


A boat carrying refugees land on the shores of Greece

The European Union and Turkey have agreed to measures to stem the flow of migrants and refugees in to Europe. Under the agreement more than 3 billion dollars would be given by the EU to help Syrian refugees to find shelter and avoid taking the dangerous and harsh journey to Europe.

Latest report on Iran regime’s involvement and casualties in Syria


Iranian regime in quagmire of war with Syrian people; extensive casualties of IRGC and its mercenaries
5000 revolutionary guards, elements of Hezbollah, thousands of Iraqi hirelings, and thousands of Afghan and Pakistani mercenaries in Syria
Names of 16 IRGC brigadier generals killed in Syria so far
NCRI - Pursuant to the November 28 statement by the NCRI Security and Anti-terrorism Committee about Qassem Soleimani, the criminal Commander of the terrorist Qods Force (QF), getting wounded in Syria, the following supplementary information from inside the revolutionary guards (IRGC) about the presence of IRGC forces or other Iranian regime’s mercenaries in Syria and the casualties that they constantly suffer is worth noting:
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Iran: Regime forces attack families of political prisoners, arrest scores


NCRI - On Monday, November 23, agents of regime’s Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS) brutally attacked families of martyrs and political prisoners in Tehran’s Vanak Square arresting some and taking them to undisclosed location. This measure taken to prevent their protest gathering was the second such attack by suppressive forces this week against these families. Just two days ago, the suppressive forces had attacked an assembly of families of martyrs and political prisoner in front of Evin Prison arresting dozens and transferring them to Evin or Qerchak Prison in Varamin.
Ms. Seamin Ayvaz-zadeh, 56, mother of political prisoner Omid Ali Shenas, who was arrested on November 21 and transferred with a number of other women to Qerchak Prison in Varamin is currently on hunger strike. She suffers of high blood pressure and arrhythmia.
Her son Mr. Omid Ali Shenas, a political prisoner in Ward 8 of Evin that has staged a hunger strike in protest to the MOIS agents attack on the families of prisoners and the arrest of his mother, was battered by head henchman Khazaii, a guard officer in Evin. This prisoner that has been detained for 14 months has been kept in limbo and his trial date has still not been announced.
The Iranian regime has found brutal suppression as the only tool to confront the wave of popular protests and public abhorrence.
The Iranian Resistance calls on the Iranian people, especially the valiant youth, to support and show solidarity with the families of political prisoners, especially those arrested in the recent days, and urges all international human rights agencies to take immediate and effective action to secure the release of all arrestees of the recent days.

IRAN: Concert cancelled over female musicians



The Iranian regime authorities has cancelled a major performance by the Tehran Symphony Orchestra at the last minute because it was due to feature female musicians.
The Tehran Symphony Orchestra conductor was informed of cancellation 15 minutes before the orchestra was scheduled to play at a major sporting event that they could not.
“It’s absolutely impossible for women to play musical instruments on stage,” the conductor quoted organisers of the ceremony as saying.
The Iranian regime has banned from singing solo in public since its inception in 1979, and female Iranian musicians have repeatedly been stopped from performing.
Many performers in Iran's orchestra have migrated abroad and now are playing for foreign orchestras.

Iran : la militante Narguesse Mohammadi dénonce les discriminations à l’encontre des femmes prisonnières politiques


Iran : la militante Narguesse Mohammadi dénonce les discriminations à l’encontre des femmes prisonnières politiques

 La militante Narguesse Mohamadi, vice-présidente de centre des défenseurs des droits de l’Homme en Iran, a dénoncé les discriminations dont sont victimes les femmes prisonnières politiques en Iran.
Dans une lettre écrit depuis la prison à l'adresse du procureur de Téhéran, la célèbre militante des droits de l'homme s'est insurgée contre les conditions infligées aux femmes dans les prisons iraniennes et les acharnements dont elles sont victimes. Elle a dénoncé les intimidations et les atteintes à la pudeur des prisonnières politiques, autant d'actes de torture qu'elle a dû elle-même subir depuis son incarcération en mai 2015.
Narguesse Mohammadi qui souffre de plusieurs problèmes de santé, a dénoncé les conditions inacceptables imposées par les gardiens qui ne la quittent même pas à l'hôpital, dans la salle de bain ou la salle d'opération, où elle doit constamment porter des menottes. Elle n'aurait pu accomplir des examens dans endoscopie, de colonoscopie et de biopsie demandée par les médecins.
« Considérant mon expérience des dernières années, je constate les discriminations flagrantes et l'acharnement extrême à l'encontre des femmes prisonnières politiques et prisonnières de conscience (dans les déplacements, les conditions d’hospitalisation et de détentions). Je considère que ces discriminations s'inscrivent dans la suite des discriminations à l'encontre des femmes dans la société iranienne et je m'insurge contre cette situation ».
Les militants des droits de l'homme en Iran déplorent les pressions exercées par les autorités iraniennes contre de cette militante courageuse dont l’état de santé s'est détériorée ces derniers mois. Les conditions difficiles de la prison ont aggravé ses problèmes et ceux-ci ont été provoqués notamment à cause de ses multiples séjours en prison. , dont la première remonte à 2010 quand elle a été placée en isolement pendant plusieurs mois. Elle avait alors été accusée de “réunion et complot contre la République islamique”, “publicité contre le régime” et “collaboration avec le Centre des défenseurs des droits de l’homme” (interdit).
Le 29 juin dernier, 650 militants de la société civile et des personnalités culturelles et universitaires ont signé un appel pour la libération de Nargesse Mohammadi qui est lauréate de prix internationaux pour son combat courageux en faveur des droits de l'homme en Iran. Ses enfants ont dû fuir à Paris pour échapper aux représailles de la redoutable Vevak (police secrète).
Narguesse Mohamadi purge une peine de six ans de prison ferme. Une des principales causes de l'acharnement du régime à son encontre c'est avoir osé rencontrer la chef de la diplomatie européenne, Catherine Ashton, en 2012. Elle accompagnait la mère de Sattar Behechti, un jeune blogueur tué sous la torture pour avoir dénoncé les forfaitures du Guide suprême
Narguesse Mohamadi a entrepris une grève de la faim en mai 2015 pour protester contre son arrestation ill
égale et dans une lettre envoyée de la prison, elle s’est insurgé contre les juges islamistes qui intriguent pour la mettre à genoux : «On m’a menacée que le juge (Salavati) prononcerait un verdict très défavorable parce qu’on fait trop de bruit à mon sujet à l’extérieur. J'ai été arrêtée par les forces de sécurité du ministère du Renseignement. On m'a menti lors de mon interpellation en affirmant que ce n’était que pour un bref interrogatoire. On ne m’a pas autorisée à m'occuper de mes enfants. Je n'ai toujours pas vu le mandat d'arrêt me concernant. »
Le 3 mai 2015, elle a été convoquée devant la 15e chambre du tribunal de la révolution de Téhéran pour répondre des accusations telles que “action contre la sécurité nationale et publicité contre le régime” et pour ces “récentes activités”, notamment pour avoir participé aux différentes campagnes contre la peine de mort ou contre l’impunité en Iran.
L’arrestation de Narguesse Mohammadi a entraîné de nombreuses réactions tant à l’intérieur qu’à l’extérieur du pays. Ses compagnons de lutte, notamment la mère de Sattar Beheshti et le professeur Mohammad Maleki, figure universitaire emblématique en Iran, ont organisé un sit-in devant la prison d’Evine. Sarvnaz Chitsaz, présidente de la commission des Femmes du CNRI, a appelé les instances internationales et les défenseurs des droits humains et des droits des femmes de prendre des mesures efficaces pour la faire libérer au plus vite, ainsi que les autres prisonnières politiques.

Iran : Le régime fait du chantage contre l’AIEA


Iran : Le régime fait du chantage contre l’AIEA

Dans un nouveau chantage contre la communauté internationale, le régime iranien a déclaré qu’il n'appliquera l'accord nucléaire avec les grandes puissances que si l'Agence internationale de l'énergie atomique (AIEA) ferme le dossier sur la "possible dimension militaire" (PMD) passée du programme nucléaire de l’Iran.
"Sans la fermeture du dossier (...), l'application de l'accord nucléaire n'est pas possible. Les pays du 5+1 doivent choisir entre l'accord nucléaire et le maintien du dossier du soit-disant PMD", a déclaré Ali Shamkhani, secrétaire du Conseil suprême de la sécurité nationale (CSSN), la plus haute instance politique du pays chargé de superviser l'application de l'accord nucléaire. De son côté, le chef de la diplomatie des mollahs, Mohammad Javad Zarif, a également affirmé dimanche que la fermeture du dossier du PMD est "la condition pour l'application de l'accord nucléaire".
Ces déclaration surviennent peu avant la remise par l'AIEA de son rapport sur la "possible dimension militaire" du programme nucléaire de l'Iran, soit "toutes les questions passées et présentes qui restent en suspens", selon les termes utilisés par le directeur général de l'AIEA Yukiya Amano.
Il sera examiné le 15 décembre par les gouverneurs de l'agence, selon une feuille de route adoptée en juillet à Vienne dans le cadre des négociations entre Téhéran et les grandes puissances du groupe 5+1 (Etats-Unis, France, Royaume-Uni, Russie, Chine et Allemagne) pour mettre un terme à plus de treize ans de différends concernant le dossier nucléaire iranien.
L'enquête de l'AIEA vise à faire la lumière sur des allégations selon lesquelles la République islamique aurait mené des recherches secrètes en vue de se doter de la bombe et de vecteurs pour la transporter, accusations toujours rejetées par l'Iran.
M. Amano a souligné que l'AIEA, tout en ayant désormais une "meilleure compréhension" des activités passées de l'Iran, ne rendrait pas la semaine prochaine un "audit en noir et blanc". Parallèlement au rapport sur la PMD, l'AIEA doit rendre dans les prochaines semaines ou les prochains mois un rapport sur le respect par l'Iran de ses engagements préliminaires à l'application de l'accord nucléaire.
Cet accord prévoit une réduction des capacités nucléaires de Téhéran en échange d'une levée des sanctions internationales qui étouffent l'économie du pays. Mais les responsables du régime iranien ont affirmé que le démantèlement d'une partie des centrifugeuses toujours en activité, la modification du réacteur à eau lourde d'Arak et l'envoi à l'étranger du stock d'uranium enrichi du pays, prévus dans l'accord nucléaire, n'interviendra qu'après la fermeture du dossier du PMD.
Avec l’AFP

dimanche 29 novembre 2015

Camp Liberty: New cameras installed for more precision reconnaissance to inflict more casualties in future attacks + photos of installing cameras


 The Governmental Committee tasked to suppress Camp Liberty installed new cameras around the place of residence of Liberty residents

On Thursday, 26 November 2015, agents of the Governmental Committee tasked to suppress Camp Liberty residents headed by Faleh Fayyaz, Iraq’s National Security Advisor, installed new cameras around the place of residence of Liberty residents. The purpose for theses cameras whose output will be passed on to the Iranian regime embassy in Baghdad and the terrorist Qods Force is for more accurate reconnaissance of the camp and the movement of residents in order to inflict more casualties in future missile attacks. After the last deadly attack, the antihuman regime was looking to collect information on the hit locations of the missiles, the names of the wounded, and the destroyed facilities.
The installation of new cameras is while a month after the deadly missile attack, the Iraqi forces prevent entry of the necessary construction machinery into the camp to clean up the destroyed trailers and the debris and they obstruct entry of basic items needed to repair the trailers and other facilities or the minimum security requirements such as T-walls. In addition to the destruction of a large number of trailers, many other trailers and facilities have been badly damaged and require repair; otherwise they will not be usable in the cold and rainy season.
The Iranian Resistance reminds the repeated and written commitments made by the United Nations and the United States to the safety and security of Camp Liberty residents and warns about the installation of these cameras and machinations by the regime and its proxies in the Iraqi government. It calls for urgent action by the United States and the United Nations for the removal of the cameras and to ensure the security of the residents.

After the Iran nuclear deal, a backlash inside Iran


Iran human rights after nuclear deal

This article was published in The Hill on Nov. 27, 2015 by Bree Baccaglini focusing on the plight of the Iranian civil rights activists as well as the dire human rights situation in Iran. Mr. Baccaglini rightfully points to the West’s inaction and pacifism regarding the support for the Iranian people in their struggle to bring freedom and democracy in Iran.
Here is an extraction from the article;
Iranian human rights activists, hungry for political openings and economic relief at home, are under attack by Iranian regime and they need international support more than ever.
But rather than simply vilify the Iranian regime for its actions, the United States and other governments should rally support for the United Nations ’ and other international efforts to address human rights concerns and to open space for civil society to flourish. 
The climate inside Iran is “dire,” according to Dr. Ahmed Shaheed, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in Iran. In his most recent report, Shaheed wrote that the Iranian government has persecuted and marginalized women and minorities, and is silencing, journalists, artists, political reformers, and anyone openly critical of the regime. 
A prominent cartoonist, Hadi Heidari, was arrested for drawing the Eiffel tower with tears in the wake of the Paris terrorist attack. Other journalists, poets, and advocates for children and labor rights languish in detention without access to legal counsel. 
An uptick in death penalty sentences in Iran, already the world’s leader in per capita executions, is even more alarming. More than 700 prisoners have been executed this year, the vast majority for petty drug offenses.  Iran is on track to set a new annual record.
While the Iran nuclear deal buoyed some hopes for progress on domestic issues, recent developments underscore the durability of conservative hardliners in Iran’s government. Backed by the intelligence and judiciary branches and defended by the powerful International Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), Iran’s security bodies and senior religious leaders remain opposed to any political openings to the United States.  They have emphatically signaled that collaboration on the nuclear nonproliferation accord will not herald cooperation in other areas. Ironically, their crackdown on Western journalists and businessmen may drive away the very foreign investment needed to reboot the economy.
Supporting human rights and its defenders in Iran is both the right thing to do and a smart, long-term policy. After all, civil society activists and reformers in Iran remain an important, if modest, check on the conservative regime. The international community’s failure to engage Iran on human rights issues would only reinforce the conservative crackdown and cut off pathways to strengthening civil society and improving human rights in the future. The U.S. and international community have an interest in shoring up civil society organizations and citizens working toward political reform and increased global engagement. 
A strategy to mobilize global civil society to denounce Iran’s human rights record and to support Dr. Shaheed’s mandate – up for renewal in 2016 –can best raise the reputational cost to Iran of continued repression. The U.S. should also press American and international companies looking to do business in Iran to maintain standards and practices that respect human rights. By joining with other governments to pressure Iran on human rights, the United States could lessen the distrust often associated with such American activism. 
For Iranian human rights and civil society activists, the nuclear agreement’s aftermath could still enable critical first steps towards building a more open society. But, until the international community can effectively pressure Iran’s political establishment to safeguard human rights and civil liberties, the nuclear deal’s full promise will remain elusive for both Iran and the West.

Baccaglini is a program assistant at the Open Society Foundations in Washington, DC.

U.N. warns Mali attack could be war crime


An “outraged” U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon expressed his condolences to the families of the victims

United Nations , AFP, 29 November 2015 - The United Nations Security Council condemned a rocket attack that killed two U.N. peacekeepers and a contractor Saturday in northeast Mali, warning it could be a war crime.
In a unanimous declaration, the council’s 15 member countries urged the Malian government to “swiftly investigate this attack and bring the perpetrators to justice and stressed that those responsible for the attack should be held accountable.”
“The members of the Security Council underlined that attacks targeting peacekeepers may constitute war crimes under international law,” a statement added.
An “outraged” U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon expressed his condolences to the families of the victims and wished the wounded a speedy recovery.
Another 20 people were injured, four of them seriously. Ban said they were peacekeepers and civilian personnel.
The Council, like Ban, stressed its “full support” for the U.N. mission in Mali, MINUSMA, and the French troops that support it.
Ansar Dine extremists claimed the pre-dawn attack on the camp in Kidal, a week after a deadly siege at a Bamako hotel shocked the country.
The contractor killed in the attack was from Burkina Faso, according to the Security Council

Iran’s illicit cyber espionage is active against Western governments


Hackers working for the Iranian regime have been active in infiltrating and disrupting western governmental agencies

Hackers working for the Iranian regime have been active in infiltrating and disrupting communications of western governmental agencies. One of such attacks has been against U.S. State Department officials over the past month, American officials and private security groups have declared.
Over the past month, Iranian hackers identified individual State Department officials who focus on Iran and the Middle East, and broke into their email and social media accounts, according to diplomatic and law enforcement officials familiar with the investigation, according to a New York Times report.
The State Department became aware of the compromises only after Facebook told the victims that state-sponsored hackers had compromised their accounts.
“It was very carefully designed and showed the degree to which they understood which of our staff was working on Iran issues now that the nuclear deal is done,” said one senior American official who oversees much of that operation and who requested anonymity to discuss a continuing investigation. “It was subtle.”
The attack against the State Department was carried out by using the social media accounts of young government employees to gain access to their friends across the administration.
In the aftermath of the nuclear accord, American intelligence officials have warned senior officials that they expected the Iranian regime to ramp up its use of cyberespionage.
The State Department learned of the compromises after a decision by Facebook last month to use a new alert system to notify users when Facebook’s security team believed state-sponsored hackers had hijacked their accounts.
Just weeks into the new alert system, State Department officials began to see a troubling new message pop up on their Facebook accounts: “We believe your Facebook account and your other online accounts may be the target of attacks by state-sponsored actors,” the message read.

Iran: suspicious death of an Arab political prisoner in prison in Ahwaz


Mr. Mohammad Hamadi a 35-year-old political prisoner and father of a child, suspiciously lost his life in prison in Ahwaz after languishing seven years in prison.

Call by Iranian Resistance for dispatch of an international investigative commission to probe suspicious deaths of political prisoners

On Friday, November 27, Mr. Mohammad Hamadi, a 35-year-old political prisoner and father of a child, suspiciously lost his life in prison in Ahwaz after languishing seven years in prison. This Arab Ahwazi compatriot was in complete health. According to eye witnesses he was already dead when transferred to Molla Sani Infirmary near Ahwaz that is controlled by the revolutionary guards. The Iranian regime announced that this political prisoner had died of a brain stroke.
Mr. Mohammad Hamadi who was an electrician was arrested in 2008 by elements of regime’s intelligence and sent to regime’s torture chambers. He was condemned to 10 years in prison for “acting against the security of the country”. He spent most of his prison term in Sepidar Prison of Ahwaz and was transferred in the recent months to Shayban Prison in this city.
Secret killing of the political prisoners is a known method used by the Iranian regime, especially in the recent years. Messrs. Valiollah Fayz Mahdavi, Amir Hossein Heshmat Saran, Mansour Radpour and Afshin Assanlou are among such prisoners. In the most recent case, the resistive political prisoner Mr. Shahrokh Zamani mysteriously lost his life in Gohardasht (Rajai Shahr) Prison on September 13.
The Iranian Resistance calls on all international human rights agencies to condemn the inhuman conditions in Iranian regime’s prisons and the criminal treatment of prisoners by prison henchmen. It urges the formation of an international commission to investigate the suspicious deaths of the political prisoners in Iran, including Mr. Mohammad Hamadi.

La présence des femmes provoque l’annulation de l'orchestre symphonique en Iran


La présence des femmes provoque l’annulation de l'orchestre symphonique en Iran
Citant l'agence de presse iranienne Isna, l’AFP a rapporté l’annulation d’une performance de l'orchestre symphonique de Téhéran en raison de la présence de femmes dans l'orchestre. La prestation lors d'une compétition internationale a été annulée au dernier moment, alors que «les chaises avaient été installées et que tout semblait bien se passer», a déclaré le chef d'orchestre iranien Ali Rahbari.
«Mais, juste avant de jouer l'hymne national, ils ont soudainement annoncé que les femmes ne pouvaient pas jouer sur scène», a-t-il ajouté, furieux, sans préciser qui étaient ces «ils», pas plus qu'Isna. Le chef d'orchestre s'est alors déclaré «offensé», estimant qu'il lui était «impossible d'accepter une telle insulte». «Ou bien nous jouons tous ensemble, ou bien nous partons», assure-t-il avoir affirmé aux organisateurs de la compétition.
Les femmes chanteuses n'ont pas le droit de se produire sur scène depuis la révolution islamique de 1979 en Iran. Les stations radios et les chaînes télévisées n’ont pas le droit de diffuser des chansons chantés par des femmes non plus.
Deux mollahs de haut-rang basés dans la ville religieuse de Qom ont confirmé en février dernier que le chant des femmes est strictement interdit dans le régime islamiste. Les mollahs Hossein Nouri-Hamadani et Nasser Makarem-Chirazi ont critiqué un album de musique mise en vente qui contenait la voix d’une femme. Nouri-Hamadani a affirmé : « Les femmes ont le droit de parler, mais elles n’ont pas le droit de chanter. Le chant des femmes ne peut être toléré et nous allons formellement l’interdire.
Le fait qu’une femme joue un instrument de musique devant des hommes ou chante devant des hommes est strictement interdit par la religion. Nous interdirons les films, les festivals, les livres et les concerts ayant des contenus non-conformes aux valeurs révolutionnaires. »
Le gouvernement soi-disant modéré d’Hassan Rohani collabore étroitement à l’application des lois misogynes du régime intégriste.

AFP : selon la résistance iranienne Ghassem Soleimani est "grièvement blessé"


AFP : selon la résistance iranienne Ghassem Soleimani est "grièvement blessé"

Citant un communiqué du Conseil national de la Résistance iranienne (CNRI) , l’Agence France Presse a rapporté que le général iranien, Ghassem Soleimani, chef des opérations extérieures des pasdaran a été grièvement atteint en Syrie.
Selon des informations en provenance "de l'intérieur du Corps des Gardiens de la Révolution", l'officier iranien "a été grièvement blessé à la tête par des éclats d'obus, au sud d'Alep, il y a deux semaines". "Le véhicule de Ghassem Soleimani, qui se trouvait sur les lieux pour superviser une opération des gardiens de la révolution et des forces paramilitaires à sa solde, a été ciblé par l'Armée syrienne libre, blessant Soleimani", a précisé dimanche le CNRI dans un communiqué.
Transféré à Damas par hélicoptère, il a été rapatrié à Téhéran où il a été admis "à l'Hôpital Baqiyatollah des Gardiens de la Révolution". "A ce jour il a subi au moins deux importantes interventions chirurgicales", affirme l'opposition iranienne. "Son état est jugé très grave et il est interdit de visites", selon la même source.
Mercredi, une source de sécurité syrienne et une ONG avaient indiqué que le général iranien avait été récemment légèrement blessé dans des combats contre les rebelles dans le nord de la Syrie.
La veille, réagissant à de précédentes informations allant dans le même sens, le porte-parole des Gardiens de la Révolution, le général Rameza Sharif, avait affirmé que le général Soleimani était "en parfaite santé et plein d'énergie". "Il aide la résistance islamique en Syrie et en Irak", avait-il précisé, cité par SephaNews, le site officiel des Gardiens.
Le CNRI, en exil en France, est une coalition politique de groupes d'opposants iraniens, dont les plus connus sont les Moudjahidine du peuple. C'est ce mouvement qui avait révélé en 2002 l'existence du programme nucléaire iranien. (…)

Deux Kényans arrêtés pour avoir organisé des attentats pour le compte du régime iranien


Deux Kényans arrêtés pour avoir organisé des attentats pour le compte du régime iranien

Deux Kényans soupçonnés d'avoir été recrutés par un "groupe iranien" pour organiser des attentats au Kenya ont été arrêtés, a annoncé samedi à Nairobi le chef de la police kényane Joseph Boinettm dont les propos ont été rapportés par l’AFP. "Nous avons des preuves irréfutables qu'ils ont été recrutés au sein d'un réseau d'espionnage iranien", a déclaré M. Boinett à la presse.
"La mission de ce réseau était d'organiser des attentats dans cette ville, visant non seulement des intérêts occidentaux, mais également nos concitoyens", a-t-il ajouté, remerciant "d'autres agences de sécurité" pour leur coopération, sans autre détail, ni sur la nationalité des agences concernées, ni sur le réseau auquel sont accusés d'appartenir les deux suspects.
M. Boinett a présenté les deux hommes comme étant Abubaker Sadiq Louw, 69 ans, et Yassim Sambai Juma - dont il n'a pas précisé l'âge. Selon la presse kényane, Yassim Sambai Juma serait âgé d'environ 25 ans.
Abubaker Sadiq Louw a été recruté "il y a plusieurs années" et a reçu l'ordre de "recruter d'autres Kényans", dont Yassim Sambai Juma. Les deux hommes ont effectué "plusieurs voyage en Iran, lors desquels ils ont rencontré leurs officiers traitants et se sont vu désigner des cibles et remettre de l'argent".
L'annonce de ces arrestations survient au lendemain du départ du pape Francis du Kenya, à l'issue d'une visite de 48 heures, première étape d'une tournée africaine qui l'a mené ensuite en Ouganda et se terminera lundi en Centrafrique.
Des mesures de sécurité draconiennes avaient été prises durant le séjour papal au Kenya, pays visé ces deux dernières années par plusieurs attaques d'ampleur des islamistes somaliens shebab.
Des intérêts israéliens au Kenya - allié de l'Etat hébreu - ont également été la cible d'attentats par le passé.
En mai 2013, la justice kényane avait condamné deux Iraniens à la prison à vie pour possession d'explosifs en vue de commettre des attentats au Kenya.
Ahmed Mohammed, 50 ans, et Sayed Mansour, 51 ans, arrêtés en juin 2012, avaient conduit la police à 15 kg de RDX, un puissant explosif militaire, cachés dans un golf de Mombasa, deuxième ville du pays et important centre touristique sur la côte de l'océan Indien.
Selon le tribunal, l'explosif devait être utilisé pour des attentats à Mombasa et Nairobi. A l'époque, le Premier ministre israélien Benjamin Netanyahou avait accusé l'Iran de préparer des attentats contre les intérêts israéliens au Kenya.

samedi 28 novembre 2015

IRAN: Execution of 5 prisoners in Gohardasht Prison


Five Public Executions in Iran

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

Obama’s Mideast paradox


Opposing violence while revitalizing revolutionary Iran is contradictory

 U.S.-Iran Policy Paradox Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times 
By Soona Samsami - Thursday, November 26, 2015
Most students of Physics 101 have been exposed to a well-known thought experiment called “Schrodinger’s Cat.” In this experiment, renowned Danish physicist Erwin Schrodinger illustrates an absurd feature of quantum theory that allows a hypothetical cat to be both be alive and dead at the same time. This, however, is impossible, a paradox. Sadly, Schrodinger’s dead-and-alive cat may just be the best illustration of the West’s contradictory policy toward the Middle East and most particularly, toward Iran.
In Syria, the Obama administration simultaneously opposes and supports Bashar Assad. While calling for Mr. Assad’s removal, billions of dollars from the U.S.-brokered nuclear deal with Iran helps bolster the dictator’s chances of survival. Indeed, without Tehran’s sustained support, the Syrian state as we know it might have crumbled long ago, denying ISIS a fertile breeding ground. That might well have happened as world oil prices plummeted, making it economically almost impossible to continue pouring cash into Syria to help Mr. Assad, but the new influx of cash from the nuclear deal has revitalized Iran’s ability to resume and actually increase both its training and material support for Mr. Assad.
Meanwhile in Iraq, the administration insists it supports an end to the vicious sectarian violence that has claimed thousands of American lives and trillions of American dollars while it tacitly endorses the Iranian regime’s dispatch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Qods Force fighters, money, training and command structure to Iraq to presumably fight ISIS. But this adds fuel to the fire, as ISIS grew out of sectarian violence in Iraq actively fomented by Tehran in the wake the U.S.-led invasion and subsequent withdrawal. Since Iraq’s Sunnis hate the Iranian regime far more than ISIS, Iran’s involvement in Iraq further enhances ISIS recruitment.
Indeed, nowhere are the inherent contradictions of current U.S. policy in the region more pronounced than in Washington’s policy toward Iran itself. Washington seems simultaneously against human rights violations in Iran and willing to tolerate whatever the regime does. In July, the administration condemned Iran’s human rights record and made some money available through the State Department to fund pro-democracy and human rights programs in Iran, but turned around and let billions of dollars of unfrozen funds pour into the coffers of a regime that, according to human rights groups such as Amnesty International, is slaughtering and imprisoning its own people at a “staggering pace.”
The U.S. State Department lists Iran as the world’s No. 1 state sponsor of terrorism. It is the primary patron to Hezbollah, Hamas and Syria’s dictatorship. Yet the same State Department has legitimized the Tehran regime in the eyes of the world through diplomacy.
Although not as widely reported in the United States as one might expect, Tehran’s mullahs continue to launch missiles into Iraq targeting those who have fled the regime to take refuge at Camp Liberty — the latest of which took place just last month. The State Department issues boilerplate condemnations when these attacks occur, but has thus far failed to live up to repeated commitments it has made regarding the safety and security of the residents of the camp.
The nuclear deal now in place will do little if anything to change Iran’s long-term behavior. It will not declaw the regime that to this day considers the United States to be the “Great Satan.” The day after the deal was struck, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei said that Tehran would continue to support its “friends” in the region, adding that Tehran’s Mideast policy is diametrically opposed to the goals of the United States. It’s been four months since the deal was made between Washington and Tehran, and during that time the regime has intensified domestic suppression while deepening its involvement in the war against the Syrian people. A month into Russian airstrikes, Tehran’s state-run media have reported 50 deaths among Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corp personnel, half of them senior officers.
To most independent observers, U.S. policy toward Iran and the wider region regime seems absurd. It’s as if the United States either has no real policy or is pursuing different and incompatible goals in a region more complicated and interconnected than it knows. This is hurting the United States in the region. World leaders wonder what Washington is really trying to accomplish, but it has even worse consequences for the millions of people in the region suffering under the yoke of dictatorships or as targets of terrorism. In the past they have been able to look to the United States as a beacon of hope, but can no longer do so.
• Soona Samsami is the representative in the United States for the National Council of Resistance of Iran.

Dutch to double places for asylum-seekers


A woman and her children look on as migrants and refugees wait to cross the Greece-Macedonia border in the rain on November 27, 2015

The Hague (AFP) - The Netherlands will double the number of beds and shelters for tens of thousands of asylum-seekers after striking a deal with local authorities, officials said Friday amid a burgeoning refugee crisis.
As Europe grapples with its biggest flow of migrants since World War II, the Dutch government is also freeing up a further 350 million euros ($370 million) for this year to help it meet the challenge.
An additional 42,500 spaces will be created for new asylum-seekers arriving in the country, of which 10,000 will only be available for three to six months.
'Given how many people are coming, it is inevitable that it will only be a modest welcome,' Prime Minister Mark Rutte told reporters Friday.
A further 24,000 places will be created for people whose requests for asylum have already been granted.
Hundreds of thousands of people fleeing war and poverty mainly in the Middle East and Africa have landed on European shores in recent months.
Some 46,000 people are already being housed in shelters for asylum-seekers in the Netherlands, a spokesman for the justice ministry told AFP.
But 16,000 of them have already won asylum and are now waiting to be rehoused.
A total of about 60,000 refugees are expected to have arrived in the country by the end of the year.
'The government and the local authorities have reached an agreement to confront the problems of housing, education and integration linked to the flow of asylum-seekers into the Netherlands,' the government said in a statement.
The issue of immigration has sharply divided the Netherlands in recent months, even though the Dutch have largely been known for their tolerant, multicultural society.
Local and national debates on how to handle the crisis have been tense and emotional, marked by insults and threats.
Riding the wave of discontent, the anti-immigrant Freedom Party of Geert Wilders has seen its popularity soar to record highs in recent weeks.
The ruling Liberal-Labour coalition has sharply divergent views on how to handle the crisis, but is aiming to ensure that the country is not seen as giving lucrative, easy hand-outs to those who cross its borders.
Rutte told reporters earlier this week: 'We need to stem the flow of migrants coming to Europe. We can’t continue at the present level.'
He was quoted by the Financial Times as saying late Thursday that 'the first step is to make sure the border is controlled.'
'As we all know from the Roman Empire, big empires go down if the borders are not well protected,' he said.

Iranian Resistance calls for probe into suspicious deaths of political prisoners


NCRI - On Friday, November 27, Mr. Mohammad Hamadi, a 35-year-old political prisoner and father of a child, suspiciously lost his life in prison in Ahwaz after languishing seven years in prison. This Arab Ahwazi compatriot was in complete health. According to eye witnesses he was already dead when transferred to Molla Sani Infirmary near Ahwaz that is controlled by the revolutionary guards. The Iranian regime announced that this political prisoner had died of a brain stroke.
Mr. Mohammad Hamadi who was an electrician was arrested in 2008 by elements of regime’s intelligence and sent to regime’s torture chambers. He was condemned to 10 years in prison for “acting against the security of the country”. He spent most of his prison term in Sepidar Prison of Ahwaz and was transferred in the recent months to Shayban Prison in this city.
Secret killing of the political prisoners is a known method used by the Iranian regime, especially in the recent years. Messrs. Valiollah Fayz Mahdavi, Amir Hossein Heshmat Saran, Mansour Radpour and Afshin Assanlou are among such prisoners. In the most recent case, the resistive political prisoner Mr. Shahrokh Zamani mysteriously lost his life in Gohardasht (Rajai Shahr) Prison on September 13.
The Iranian Resistance calls on all international human rights agencies to condemn the inhuman conditions in Iranian regime’s prisons and the criminal treatment of prisoners by prison henchmen. It urges the formation of an international commission to investigate the suspicious deaths of the political prisoners in Iran, including Mr. Mohammad Hamadi.

La Résistance iranienne condamne vigoureusement les attaques terroristes au Mali et en Tunisie


La Résistance iranienne condamne vigoureusement les attaques terroristes au Mali et en Tunisie

Le massacre d'innocents au nom de la religion exige de redoubler d’effort pour le combattre
La Résistance iranienne condamne vigoureusement les attaques criminelles et terroristes au Mali et en Tunisie. Elle présente ses sincères condoléances aux peuples et aux gouvernements de ces deux pays, ainsi qu’aux familles des victimes.
Le terrorisme et le massacre d'innocents pour quelle que raison que ce soit et quel que soit le prétexte, doivent être condamnés. Mais le fait de perpétrer ces actes au nom de Dieu et de la religion est d'autant plus dangereux et révoltant, que cela joue avec les croyances des gens à grande échelle et en abuse. Une confrontation globale est ainsi doublement justifiée.
L’usurpation de la révolution du peuple iranien contre la tyrannie monarchique (en 1979) et l'établissement du premier califat islamique sous la tutelle du Guide suprême des mollahs, a été à l’origine de l'expansion de l'intégrisme et du terrorisme au nom de l'Islam, chiite ou sunnite.
Ce phénomène inquiétant ne prendra fin que quand ce régime sera renversé. Des entités criminelles telles que le Hezbollah, les milices criminelles en Irak et en Syrie, al Qaïda ou Daech, ainsi que leurs sosies dans le monde entier, ont été soit créées par le régime iranien ou ont été inspirées par ce dernier. Ils ont pu se développer grâce aux atrocités de ce régime en Irak et la Syrie, qui ont créé un terrain fertile pour eux.

Iran : mort suspecte d’un prisonnier politique arabe à Ahwaz


Iran : mort suspecte d’un prisonnier politique arabe à Ahwaz

Appel de la Résistance iranienne à l’envoi d’une commission d’enquête internationale pour enquêter sur les morts suspectes de prisonniers politiques
Le vendredi 27 novembre, M. Mohammad Hamadi, un prisonnier politique de 35 ans et père d’un enfant, a perdu la vie de façon suspecte dans la prison d’Ahwaz après sept ans d’emprisonnement. Ce compatriote arabe ahwazi était en parfaite santé. Selon les témoins oculaires, il était déjà mort quand il a été transféré à l’infirmerie Mollasani près d’Ahwaz, contrôlée par les pasdarans. Le régime iranien a annoncé que le prisonnier politique était mort d’une attaque cérébrale.
M. Mohammad Hamadi, qui était électricien, a été arrêté en 2008 par des agents des renseignements du régime et envoyé en chambre de torture. Il a été condamné à 10 ans de prison pour « actions contre la sécurité du pays ». Il a passé la majeure partie de sa peine dans la prison de Sepidar à Ahwaz et a été récemment transféré dans la prison de Shayban dans la même ville.
L’assassinat clandestin de prisonniers politiques est une méthode bien connue employée par le régime iranien, en particulier ces dernières années. MM Valiollah Fayz Mahdavi, Amir Hossein Hesmat Saran, Mansour Radpour et Afshin Assanlou font partie de ces prisonniers. Très récemment, le 13 septembre, le prisonnier politique résistant Shahrokh Zamani est décédé mystérieusement dans la prison de Gohardasht.
La Résistance iranienne appelle les organisations internationales de défense des droits de l’homme à condamner les conditions inhumaines des prisons iraniennes et le traitement criminel infligé aux prisonniers par les tortionnaires pénitentiaires. Elle insiste pour que soit créée une commission internationale pour enquêter sur les morts suspectes de prisonniers politiques, dont celle de M. Mohammad Hamadi.

Alima Boumediene à la cérémonie de solidarité avec le peuple français au siège du Conseil national de la Résistance iranienne


Alima Boumediene à la cérémonie de solidarité avec le peuple français au siège du Conseil national de la Résistance iranienne

CNRI – « Alima Boumediene, ancienne sénatrice, participait le 21 novembre à une cérémonie de solidarité au siège du Conseil national de la Résistance iranienne (CNRI) à Auvers-sur-Oise pour commémorer les victimes des attentats terroristes à Paris.
Outre la présidente du CNRI, Maryam Radjavi, de nombreuses personnalités politiques, défenseurs des droits de l'homme et des dignitaires religieux représentant la communauté musulmane en France étaient présents à cette réunion de solidarité avec le peuple français. Notamment Alain Vivien, ancien ministre, Ingrid Betancourt candidate à la présidentielle en Colombie, Khalil Merroun, recteur de la mosquée d'Evry, et plusieurs maires d’Île-de-France. Les participants ont déposés des gerbes de fleurs sur une stèle à la mémoire des victimes de la tragédie du 13 novembre, et ont fait voler 130 ballons en forme de pigeon symbolisant les 130 innocents qui ont perdu leur vie sous le feu de l'intégrisme et du terrorisme à Paris.
Dans son intervention, la militante des droits de l’homme et membre du mouvement Ensemble a déclaré : « Toutes mes condoléances en premier aux familles, aux amis et à tous ceux qui ont été touché par cette terreur. Mais aussi à tout ce monde qui se bat aujourd'hui pour la liberté et la justice. Car tout le monde qui se bat pour la liberté et la justice est en deuil et nous le porterons.
Mais je voulais le dire avec force et vigueur que nous ne devons pas céder à la peur. Nous ne devons pas céder à la peur parce que c'est ce qu'ils veulent et parce que cette peur engendre des amalgames. Cette peur, elle va nous créer la haine et le rejet de l'autre. Alors que nous avons besoin d'être unis. La peur est mauvaise conseillère et créée aussi des guerres. Et si nous devons être unis aujourd'hui c'est contre les guerres. Il est important aujourd'hui d'être uni pour la paix, pour la justice et pour la liberté. Le peuple de France aujourd'hui a compris que nous devons être ensemble pour cette liberté, cette amour, cette diversité, ce respect de l'autre.
Condamner ne suffit pas, nous devons aussi comprendre, Comprendre non pas pour justifier l'injustifiable, bien sûr, mais comprendre pourquoi en notre sein, ici dans ce pays et dans cette Europe où nous sommes nés et avons grandi, nous vivons aujourd'hui autant de haine? Comprendre ce qui a nourrit cette haine : l’injustice, la discrimination, le racisme, les guerres, l’injustice des peuples comme en Palestine, l’injustice partout dans le monde. Ce qui ne fait que nourrir la guerre, les discriminations et la haine de l'autre.
Alors oui il est important aujourd'hui de comprendre, pour construire et redonner du sens à nos valeurs de liberté, d'égalité et de justice. Car seule la justice nous permettra de survivre. Car dans ce pays, comme partout dans le monde, il n'y a pas de paix sans justice. »

Camp des résistants iraniens : Des caméras installées pour une reconnaissance plus précise et davantage de victimes lors des prochaines attaques


Camp des résistants iraniens : Des caméras installées pour une reconnaissance plus précise et davantage de victimes lors des prochaines attaques

Camp Liberty : De nouvelles caméras installées pour une reconnaissance plus précise et davantage de victimes lors des prochaines attaques
CNRI - Le jeudi 26 novembre 2015, des agents du Comité Gouvernemental chargé de réprimer les résidents du Camp Liberty, sous les ordres de Faleh Fayyaz, le Conseiller à la Sécurité Nationale de l’Irak, ont installé de nouvelles caméras autour du lieu de résidence des habitants de Liberty.
Le but de ces caméras, dont les images seront transmises à l’ambassade du régime iranien à Bagdad et à la Force terroriste Qods, est d’assurer une reconnaissance plus précise du camp et des mouvements des résidents de manière à faire plus de victimes lors de futurs tirs de roquettes. Après la dernière attaque meurtrière, le régime inhumain chercherait à récolter des informations sur les points d’impact des missiles, les noms des blessés, et les équipements détruits.
L’installation de nouvelles caméras a lieu tandis qu’un mois après le tir de roquettes meurtrier, les forces irakiennes empêchent l’entrée d’équipements de construction nécessaires pour dégager le camp des baraquements détruits et des débris et font entrave à l’entrée de matériels essentiels à la réparation des baraquements et des autres équipements, et aux garanties minimales de sécurités telles que les murs de béton. En plus de la destruction d’un grand nombre de baraquements, beaucoup d’autres infrastructures ont été gravement endommagés et nécessitent des réparations ; ils seraient autrement inutilisable pendant la saison froide et pluvieuse.
La Résistance iranienne rappelle les engagements écrits et répétés pris par les Nations Unies et les Etats-Unis pour garantir la sûreté et la sécurité des résidents du Camp Liberty et donne l’alerte au sujet de l’installation de ces caméras et des machinations du régime et de ses mandataires au sein du gouvernement irakien. Elle appelle à une action immédiate des Etats-Unis et des Nations Unies pour l’élimination des caméras et la garantie de la sécurité des résidents.

vendredi 27 novembre 2015

URGENT ACTION: JUVENILE OFFENDER FACES THE GALLOWS AGAIN


Juvenile offender Salar Shadizadi has been rescheduled for execution on Saturday 28 November

Juvenile offender Salar Shadizadi has been rescheduled for execution on Saturday 28 November, despite the prohibition on the use of the death penalty against juvenile offenders under international law and standards, and his right to be granted a re-trial under Iran’s own domestic law.
Salar Shadizadi, now aged 24, was sentenced to death by Branch 11 of the Provincial Criminal Court of Gilan Province in December 2007 for stabbing his childhood friend. He was 15 years old at the time. The sentence was upheld by Branch 37 of the Supreme Court in March 20 08 and approved by the Head of the Judiciary in May 2013. Since then, the authorities have twice scheduled the execution and later postponed it. They have, however, failed to take the steps necessary to ensure that Salar Shadizadi is granted a re-trial, even though the General Board of Iran’s Supreme Court has ruled that all those on death row for crimes committed when they were under 18 are entitled to receive a re-trial based on the new juvenile sentencing provisions of Iran’s 2013 Islamic Penal Code.
Salar Shadizadi was arrested in February 2007 and charged with the murder of a friend when he was 15 years old. He was not granted access to a lawyer at the investigative stage and was only allowed to retain a lawyer when his case was sent to court for trial. He says that he was also tortured and otherwise ill-treated during the investigative stage. In a will letter written from prison in November 2015, Salar Shadizadi has revealed, for the first time, how he unintentionally caused the “catastrophic” death of his childhood friend by unintentionally stabbing a frightening moving object, covered in green cloth, in the dark, which he then realized to be his deceased friend. He writes that this happened in the context of a “silly game” where his friend had dared him to go to their family garden at night, knowing that Salar Shadizadi was afraid of the dark and had been warned by his grandmother since childhood that the garden is haunted by “evil spirits” (jen). The execution of Salar Shadizadi was scheduled on 1 August 2015 but was postponed at the last minute, possibly as a result of international pressure.

Iran: Call to save death row prisoner aged 15 at time of alleged crime


Execution of 17 prisoners, including 6 young men aged 20 to 25 only 5 days after UN condemned executions in Iran

Execution of 17 prisoners, including 6 young men aged 20 to 25 only 5 days after UN condemned executions in Iran

 The Iranian Resistance calls for measures to save the life of Mr. Salar Shadi Zadi, a young prisoner on death row who was merely 15 at the time of his alleged crime, and asks all international human rights dignitaries and organizations to protest this barbarity and medieval viciousness, and to take effective action to prevent the execution of this young man.
Salar Shadi Zadi is scheduled to be executed on November 28 after already enduring 9 years behind bars. At least 72 prisoners under the age of 18 have been executed under the mullahs’ rule during the past decade, Amnesty International reported.
The religious fascism ruling Iran, dubbed by the people as the “Godfather of ISIS”, has in the past five days alone executed at least 17 prisoners. This follows the recent United Nations resolution condemning vicious human rights violations in Iran and a UN call to stop executions in Iran. Six of those executed had only 20 to 25 years of age.
A 20-year-old man in the town of Mayamey in Semnan Province was hanged on Wednesday, November 25. Despite calls made by international organizations the day prior to that Alireza Shahi, aged 25, was executed along with four other individuals. From the age of 18 he has been behind bars for 7 years.
Three prisoners hanged on November 21 in Zahedan Central Prison were all young men. Mojtaba Lak-Zehi, 22, was aged 17 at the time of his alleged crime. He and Hassan Dori Moghadam, 20, were both from Iran’s Baluchi minority community. Nazir Ahmad Rigi, 24, was an Afghan national.
Also on November 21 Mehdi Budineh was executed in Zabol Central Prison at the age of 25.
The mullahs’ regime is resorting to the execution of youths in public and in prisons across the country in an attempt to cement a climate of fear across the society and prevent massive uprising by the fed-up population described by regime officials themselves as the “Corps of the hungry”. The Iranian Resistance calls on all Iranian people, especially the youth, to rise and protest these crimes.

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


Babak Zanjani middleman working with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards
Iranian regime authorities in the notorious Evin Prison in Tehran have prevented children from visiting their mothers who are held there as political prisoners. The reason given by the Khamenei point man in this nefarious prison is that Babak Zanjani, a corrupt middleman working with the Iranian Revolutionary Guards to circumvent sanctions, has visitors. And who might these visitors be? His 3 wives!
 
 Human rights activists on Wednesday Nov. 25th reported that Zanjani was expecting to meet with his 3 wives in the visiting hall of the Evin Prison, asked not to be disturbed by other visitors coming to visit their loved ones. So the children, who already were granted visit with their political prisoner mothers, were told the visits were canceled. And the children were forced to leave the area while crying and asking for their mothers. Reports continue to say that mothers who were counting days and hours to see their children were told the visits were off and were hauled back to their cells. 
After a short while these courageous and brave women protested and condemned the clerical regime for denying their basic and minimum rights of visiting their loved ones.
It should be noted that in the misogynist and perverted mullahs’ interpretation of Islam, bigamy is allowed and practiced routinely and a man can have up to 4 legal and official wives and dozens more still legally but unofficially. 

Camp Liberty: New cameras installed for more accurate reconnaissance to inflict more casualties in future attacks


NCRI - On Thursday, 26 November 2015, agents of the Governmental Committee tasked to suppress Camp Liberty residents headed by Faleh Fayyaz, Iraq’s National Security Advisor, installed new cameras around the place of residence of Liberty residents. The purpose for theses cameras whose output will be passed on to the Iranian regime embassy in Baghdad and the terrorist Qods Force is for more accurate reconnaissance of the camp and the movement of residents in order to inflict more casualties in future missile attacks. After the last deadly attack, the antihuman regime was looking to collect information on the hit locations of the missiles, the names of the wounded, and the destroyed facilities.
The installation of new cameras is while a month after the deadly missile attack, the Iraqi forces prevent entry of the necessary construction machinery into the camp to clean up the destroyed trailers and the debris and they obstruct entry of basic items needed to repair the trailers and other facilities or the minimum security requirements such as T-walls. In addition to the destruction of a large number of trailers, many other trailers and facilities have been badly damaged and require repair; otherwise they will not be usable in the cold and rainy season.
The Iranian Resistance reminds the repeated and written commitments made by the United Nations and the United States to the safety and security of Camp Liberty residents and warns about the installation of these cameras and machinations by the regime and its proxies in the Iraqi government. It calls for urgent action by the United States and the United Nations for the removal of the cameras and to ensure the security of the residents.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
November 27, 2015