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Proposed Iranian defenseminister, Ahmad Vahidi is on a "red notice" list of Interpol.
He is is accused of involvement in the bombing of the Israeli-Argentine Mutual Association (AMIA) building in Buenos Aires, at which attack 85 people died.
Argentine says Vahidi was in charge of Al-Qods, a unit of Iran's Revolutionary Guard who were involved at the attack.
Iran rejects the accusations.
source: news.bbc.co.uk


An Iranian member of Principlist says that the list of proposed ministers for the new cabinet of Ahmadinejads is very feeble.
He criticized Ahmadinejad on picking nominees who follow Ahmadinejads attitudes without any question and criticism.
He also commented on the issue of women ministers and said this broad-minded gesture was done under the influence of Rahim- Mashaei.
Esfandyar Rahim- Mashaei became a controversial figure last year over a series of comments about friendship between the Iranian people and the Israelis.
He said the best thing would be not to give a confidence vote to disqualified ministers.
source: PressTV


Global Voices Online writes that Jomhoriyat's Blog posted (fa) hundreds of young people carried green flags and wore green t-shirts in football stadiums in Isfahan and Shiraz.

source: Global Voices Online



The mother of imprisoned political journalist Hengameh Shahidi, who is also a member of Etemad Melli Party, reported after visiting her daughter about psychological torture of prisoners.
She told that her daughter made not a fully conscious impression.
Her daughter told her that pills that drain one’s cognition and incapacitate one’s thought processes were given every day to prisoners and they come into her cell repeatedly and say, ‘we want to take you to be executed’”.



August 17 have prisoners of quarantine ward 7 of Evinprison started a hungerstrike to protest against existing conditions in Evinprison.

Their names are:
Jalal Zolfaghari
Reza Shabani
Sohran Rezapour
Aryasb Moghan-Bavand
Mohammad-Reza Aoroji
Hossein Rezaei-Barsari
Mohammad-Sadegh Fomani (Abdulaala)
Ayoub Ghanbarpourian
Hamid Taraghi
Sheikhi Ablali

bron: ihrv.org

List of people who are killed by governmental violence since the election.
Many of the victims names were not known until recently.
The list is updated frequently.


On the blog of onlymehdi, son of Isa Saharkhiz, is a blogpost about a shot demonstrator at a peaceful demonstration.



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In Iran there are childoffenders, still on death row.

Children are being hanged to death.
A child will be hanged to death.
Poster amnesty.nl