Iran: punishment July 31, 2012

The International Union of Food, Agricultural, Hotel, Restaurant, Catering, Tobacco and Allied Workers’ Associations (IUF) released a message because of the renewed police pressure on the unionleaders of the IUF affiliated Haft Tapeh sugarworkers union in Iran.
source: iranlaborreport



A Tehran court has sentenced 4 suspects in the bankingscandal to death.
IRNA reported that 39 persons were sentenced.
Two suspects were sentenced to life in prison while the remaining received jail sentences of 25 years or less after also being found guilty of corruption.
source: rferl.org

During the month of ramadan special modestysquads of the police will hand a rose to women who dress modest and  to the islamic clothing rules.
Women wearing headscarves improperly and those in "vulgar" dress will be given a warning before being fined or even held by police.
source: au.ibntimee.com

In a broadcast on statetelevision said President Ahmadinejad to a group of oilofficials that the economical sanctions to Iran's oilsector are ridiculous . He said that only "politically retarded" governments would use badly needed oil as a tool of "political warfare" in opposition to Iran's nuclear program.
source: iranfocus.com


American members of parliament reached an agreement on a new round of economical sanctions to stop Iran's suspected push for nuclear weapons.
The sanctions would target Iran's energy, shipping and insurance sectors.
July 30 a bill is filed which has to be accepted before the Congres goes on its Augustrecess.
source: rferl.org


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Iran: following July 30, 2012

Groups of men and women gathered Sunday near the patliament to protest the cuts in subsidies and loose of their workplaces due to economical sanctions and governmental decisions.
source: freedomessenger

A member of parliament said that Iran may face a shortage in wheat for bakeries because large parts of this year’s harvest has been sold to livestock farmers.
Wheat farmers have been forced to sell their harvest to livestock farmers in order to make up for their expenses.
The government only pays 420 touman a kilo, while each kilo costs wheatfarmers 500 toumans.The country also suffers a lack of rain.
source: radiozamaneh

Crude oil imports in Japan rose with 60% from May.
This is because refiners ramped up loadings before a halt in oil flows this month due to the imposition of sanctions on the Middle Eastern country.
Meanwhile Ayatollah Khamenei said that crude oilsales in  the country   are a trap and it was important that the country reaches a point where it could easily shut down its oil wells.
source: iranfocus


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Iran: teach July 29 2012

This autumn 2 new courses for how to be a prison warden will be started at two higher educational colleges. This coincides the abolition of several social science degrees at prominent institutions.
According to the head of Iran's prisons there are 220.000 prisoners nationwide.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has ordered a halt to the expansion of a range of social sciences degrees, including women’s studies, human rights and law, after declaring them “founded on materialism” hostile to Islam.
By contrast, the jail warden courses – offered under the title “Judiciary Aid Work” – have the highest official blessing after senior prison officials spent three years preparing them.
source: freedomessenger


According to Farhad Denshjoo, the chancellor of one of Iran’s Free Islamic Universities, 80% of the lecturers at these private educational establishments will be vetted by student members of the Basij militia. He called on them to spend the next three months investigating appointees’ backgrounds and passing the information on to the personnel department.
The revolutionary guard and the bassij militias are increasingly involved in the social and political life of the country.
source: iranbriefing.net




It is reported that the health of political prisoner Esmaeil Barzegari, who is in hospital is getting worse. Barzegari who has launched a hunger strike eight times, was arrested in April 2011 in Tabriz and was sentenced to 7½ years in prison on charges of acting against national security.
Till now each time he was in hungerstrike, him was promised a review but that has not occurred as of yet.
source: persianbanoo.wordpress.com

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Iran: jailed July 28, 2012

Thursday the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said that at least 28 Kurds were sentenced to death and are in prisons of Sanandaj, Urmia, Semnan, Rajaei Shahr and Saqqez.
In seventeen cases the deathsentence was upheld.
Habibollah Latifi, Rashid Akhkandi, Mostafa Salimi, Shirko Moarefi, Habibollah Golparipour, Zanyar Moradi and Loghman Moradi are among these 17,
ICHRI claims that 10 of these have been linked to Salafist groups.
The cases of 11 other prisoners, Samko Khorshidi, Sirvan Nejadi, Ebrahim Isapour, Rouzgar (Habib) Afshari, Ali Afshari, Houshang Rezaei, Reza Esmaili, Behrouz Alkhani, Seyed Sami Hosseini and Seyed Jamal Mohammad and Bakhtiar Memari. are still in the appeal phase.
source: iranbriefing.net


It is reported that members of Kurdish Green Association, environmental activists Akbar Gavili, Veria Khosravi and Kamram Rahimi, were sentenced to four, two and three years in prison.
source: iranbriefing.net


Ten days ago is Adibeh Kalantari,  from Ravansar arrested.
Since then her whereabouts or constitution are unknown.
source: iranbriefing.net



Last Saturday is Habib Halfi arrested.
Some months ago he was released after serving a 2 years prisonsentence. He is a member of Iran’s Arab minority.
His brother, Ali Halfi, serves in the prison of Gonabadi a sentence of 30 years.
source: iranbriefing.net

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Iran: more July 27 2012

Davoud Shiri, an environmental activist from Tabriz who protested against drying Lake Orumiyeh, has been sentenced to 4 months in prison.The charge was illegal gathering.
source: iranbriefing.net

Thursday Iran said that despite mounting international pressure on President Bashar al-Assad to step down, the country will support Syria.
source: iranbriefing.net




An anonymous diplomatic source in Yemen has said that Iran is continuing its espionage activities in Yemen under medical and trade guises .
Last week Yemen’s Defense Minister announced that authorities had dismantled an “Iranian spy network".
source: iranbriefing.net

Imprisoned humanrightsactivist Mohammad Seddigh Kaboodvand halted his hungerstrike after 59 days.
The Kurdistan Human Rights Organization reported that prisonauthorities promised to give him a furlough to visit his sick son.
source: radiozamaneh


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Iran: summoned July 26, 2012

The bahai Zahra Nik-A’in and Taraneh Torabi, were summoned to serve their sentences of resp. 23 and 20 months despite they both have infants of five months and one month old.
source: iranbriefing.net


Humanrightsactivist Dr.Mohamed Hasan Yousef Pourseifi is convicted to 5 years and 6 months in prison. Human Rights Activists News Agency in Iran reports that the member of Human Rights Activists Organization in Iran and member of Defense of Child Laborers is convicted on July 25 for articles 500, 513 and 610 of Islamic Penal Code.
source: persianbanoo.wordpress.com

Seventeen Gonabadi derwishes from Kovar have been summoned by the revolutionary court in Shiraz.
Charges are: acting against national security, disturbing public order, assault and battery and carrying of illegal weapon.
Their names are: Mehrdad Keshavarz, Omidali Akbaritabar, Mohamad Ali Shamshirzan, Mohamad Ali Dehghan, Gholamali Bairami, Amir Hamzeh Dehghan, Mohamad Ali Sadeghi, Behyar Rajabi, Kazem Dehghan, Seyed Ebrahim Bahrami, Abozar Malekpour, Abdolreza Aarayesh, Mohamad Aarayesh, Hamid Aarayesh, Mohsen Esmaeili, Manoochehr Zare and Aman Cheragh
source: persianbanoo.wordpress.com

Humanrightsactivist Nargess Mohammadi, who was brought to the hospital was allowed to contact her family after 13 days and told them that she lost her vision and then recovered it after five days of hospital care.Despite negative advice from doctors she has not been released.
source: iranbriefing.net

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Iran: more July 25, 2012

Sixteen Iranian members of parliament, conservatives and pro reformists urged the minister of justice to “speed up” the 2009 case involving detainees at the Kahrizak Detention Centre who were reportedly tortured and murdered.
In 2009 former Tehran prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi along with 2 judges were quickly removed when a a parliamentary probe found that the officials in charge of transferring prisoners to the notorious prison must have known they would be subjected to torture.
source: iranbriefing.net



Iran Daily Brief writes that the pro-government blogger Ahmad Shariat, from the site Nedaee az daroon, is arrested and because he is unable to pay the fine of $ 80,000, he is in jail.
source: iranbriefing.net



Website Masregh News reports that former pro reformist member of parliament Rajabali Mazrooei is convicted to 18 months in jail on charges of insulting the president and propaganda against the regime. He also is banned from membership in political parties and press-related activities.
source: iranbriefing.net


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Iran: before July 24, 2012

The official judicial website reported that on July 19 in the prison of Ilam a man was hanged.
The man, H.B. was convicted for keeping and carrying drugs.
source: iranhr.net

The ecological situation of Lake Urmia is very tense.
Newsagency Fars reported that the Deputy Head of Iranian Environmental Protection Department, said on Monday that if nothing changes, in the near future this will create problems also in the security sphere.
The area of Lake Urmia is about 6000 square kilometres. By the dehydration of more then onethird of the lake, the saltconcentration is extremely high, which is disastrous, not only for flora and fauna, but also for drinkwaterresources.
source: en.trend.az

F-Secure Security Labs wrote that an Iranian scientist who works for Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) reported that probably a cyberworm in Natanz and Qom affected computers with “some music playing randomly” at high volumes on workstations during the night.
F-Secure says that the report not is confirmed.
source:  businessinsider.com


In Iran has been announced that suspects had been arrested in connection with the July 2011 killing of a nuclear scientist. The minister of intelligence said this on Sunday on the anniversary of the death of one of the victims. He gave no further details.
source: CNN

The "Aids-doctors" Arash and Kamiar Alaei, who were jailed in Iran on spycharges were at the worlds biggest Aidsconference in Washington awarded with the "Elizabeth Taylor" award.
source: rferl.org

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Iran: further July 23, 2012

On July 22 were in the prison of Isfahan 3 men hanged.
The men, named Eidi Sh. , 55, convicted for participating in 148 kilos and 850 grams of opium, Malang S.A., 54 convicted for possession of 10,435 grams of crack, Teymor M. Gh, 49, convicted for possession of 147 kilograms and 850 grams of opium.
source: iranhr.net




Noorollah Qabitizade48 a converted Christian has been released on July 17th from Karoonprison in Ahwaz.
He had been arrested along with 10 others on Christmas Eve 2010 in Dezful.
He had been tortured during interrogations and him was told that he was going to be sentenced to death.
source: worthynews

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Iran: July 22nd, 2012

Executiondate has been set on September 10 for political prisoner Gholamreza Khosravi




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Iran: more July 21, 2012

Imprisoned studentactivist and former vice secretary of Tehran’s Tahkim Vahdat (student alumni organization) and the Islamic Student Association at the Tarbiat Moalem University Shabnam Madadzadeh wrote a letter about the transfer of two female political prisoners from Evin prison to Gharchak prison in Varamin.
She has been sentenced to 5 years in prison and is currently held in Evin prison.
Her brother Farzad Madadzadeh, is also sentenced to five years in jail. He is currently held incommunicado in Rajai Shahr ‘Gohardasht’ prison.
source: persian2english.com

New York police says that Iranian revolutionary guards and their proxies so far this year are involved in at least nine plots on Israelian or jewish organizations.
Reports from intelligence analysts for the New York Police Department (NYPD) say three plots were foiled in January, three in February and another three since late June.Iran repeatedly denied supporting militant attacks abroad.
source: iranbriefing.net



Political prisoner Afshin Yavari, who is imprisoned in Rejaei-Shahr prison (in Gohardasht), was hospitalized after suffering a nervous breakdown.
Reports claim this is the result of not receiving his medication. The infirmery in Rajaei Shahrprison long ago stopped supplying many prisoners with critical medications.
source: iranbriefing.net



The Iranian government already privatized 17 of its 45 power plants and will transfer 28 more plants with an estimated value of $11.4 billion , by the end of the current Iranian calendaryear.
The price for 18 of the plants have been set and will be offered in the form of shares or assets. The value of 10 more stations is being evaluated and will be announced by the end of the summer.
source: en.ttend.az.

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Iran: punishment July 20 2012

On July 19 were 2 men hanged in public.
In Shiraz was A.T. hanged for rape and murder.
In Zahedan was an unnamed man hanged for murdering Gholamhossein Jafari, a commander of the revolutionary guards.
source: iranhr.net

USA urges harborauthorities to be on extra watch that no Iranian vessels flying false flags or sailing under fraudulent registrations.
Treasury Department said Thursday that Irans stateshipping line, IRISIL, was caught operating vessels with altered registrationnumbers to avoid the sanctions.
Friday the price for oil dropped  in Bangkok to $92.
The American government said Iran is developing a plan to disrupt international oiltrade, including attacks on oilplatforms and tankers.
source: iranfocus.com, online.wsj.com

The official deadline for closing Camp Ashraf in Iraq is July 20.
The UN Special Representative for Iraq, said to the Security Council that 1,200 members of the People's Mujahedeen of Iran despite an agreement to move, stay in Camp Ashraf.
source: rferl.org

Since the head of Iran’s Defenders of Human Rights Center, Narges Mohamadi was admitted to a hospital eleven days ago, she has had no contact with her family.
There are unconfirmed reports that Narges Mohammadi was severely beaten ring clashes between prisoners in Zanjan prison.
source: persianbanoo.wordpress.com

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Iran: explosives July 19 2012

Studentactivist and journalist Peyman Aref was suspended once again and not permitted to continue studying.
Before he was sentenced to 74 lashes after being convicted of insulting the President.
source: iranbriefing.net


The humanrightscommittee of studentorganization Tahkim-e Vahdat issued a second report to the UN’s special rapporteur on human rights for Iran..
This 2nd report examines student rights violations in the past nine months.
Among other things it says that while some jailed student activists have been released after serving out their sentences, 50 students remain behind bars.
Among them are Bahareh Hedayat, 10 years in prison, Ziaeddin Nabaviand Majid Dori, who are exiled to one of the worst prisons in the south of the country and Majid Tavakoli, who is in Karaj’s Rejaishahr Prison.
source: iranbriefing.net


After the suicidebombing in Burgas, Bulgaria on a bus with Israeli tourists, Iran is accused by Israel. Iranian statemedia claimed that the accusations were ridiculous.
Bulgarian authorities started an investigation to determine who was responsible. At the attack were six people killed.
source: iranfocus.com, rferl.org


Newsagency SABA in Yemen reported that members of a spyring, led by a former IRGCcommander were arrested in Yemen.
SABA said the spy cell had operated in Yemen as well as in the Horn of Africa and that it had kept an operations center in Sana’a, Yemen’s capital. An Interior Ministry official said all those detained were Yemenis.
source: iranbriefing.net

The revolutionary guard said Wednesday that it is impossible for USA to clear the Gulf waters of mines in case of conflict .
September 16-27 USA and about 20 other nations are to hold a major anti-mine operation near the Gulf.
source: iranfocus.com






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