Iran: always more March 15 2013

In recent months Iran
stepped up the military help to president Assad solidifying, alongside Russia a lifeline to increasingly sectarian civil war.
Iranian weapons keep pouring into Syria through Iraq, but also other routes, including via Turkey and Lebanon, in violation of a U.N. arms embargo on Iran. Iraqi and Turkish officials denied the allegations.
source: iranbriefing.net, guardian.co.uk



The governor of Tehran said on Wednesday March 13 that 99 Basij batallions and 15,000 police officers are prepared to keep the peace during the presidential election in June.
The last presidential election in 2009 led to mass street protests and were very costly.
source: radiozamaneh

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Iran: names March 13, 2013

The nine Iranians whose names were added to the sanctions-list of the EU are:
RASHIDI AGHDAM, Ali Ashraf head of Evinprison,
KIASATI, Morteza judge in Ahwaz, court 4,
MOUSSAVI, Seyed Mohammad Bagher judge in Ahwaz, court 2,
SARAFRAZ, Mohammad (Dr.) (alias: Haj-agha Sarafraz) head of PressTV and IRIB
JAFARI, Asadollah prosecutor in Mazandaran province,
EMADI, Hamid Reza (alias: Hamidreza Emadi), head of the newsdepartment of PressTV
HAMLBAR, Rahim judge in Tabriz, court 1
MUSAVI-TABAR, Seyyed Reza head of the prosecutors in Shiraz
KHORAMABADI, Abdolsamad leader of the Committee for investigation of criminal content.
source: arshama.wordpress.com


Over the past few weeks agents of Mahabad Intelligence Office arrested several Kurdish civil activists and journalists and brought them to Mahabad Intelligence Office’s Information Unit and telling their families not to talk about the arrests.
The identities of those arrested are not yet known, but local sources say that at least 10 people are arrested. On March 7 were in Sanandaj five labor activists arrested by the Sanandaj Intelligence Office .
Arrested are: Farzad Samani, Farough Samani, and his cousin, and arrests of more individuals, but due to pressure on families, the identities of the others have not yet been revealed, and Rasoul Khezr Morovat, Ghasem Ahmadi, Khosrow Kordpour. In Sanandaj were Khaled Hosseini, Hamed Mohammad Nejad, Behzad Farajollahi, Vafa Ghaderi, and Ali Azadi arrested. The five are members of a coordination committee to form a labor organization.
source: iranhumanrights.org


Witness-statement Hamed, homosexual.

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Iran: more March 12, 2013

The Iranian Ministry of Information and Communications Technology Thursday blocked most software used to bypass the internetfilters.
Also Viber, for free phone calls, and WhatsApp, for free text messaging service, are experiencing problems.
People trying to visit illegal websites are being directed to a page, Peyvandha.ir, where users are encouraged to report illegal use of the Internet.
source: nytimes.com


On March 11 the EU added 9 people to the blacklist of Iranians facing a travel ban and an assets freeze. The total number of Iranians facing EU sanctions is 87.
There is also an assets freeze on one "entity," meaning a company or organization.
The sanctions will be in place until April 13, 2014.The total list will be published on March 12.
source: rferl.org



Committee of Human Rights Reporters reports that Mohsen Ghashghiyayizadeh, Mohammad Parsi, Ahmadreza Ahmadi, Pejman Zafarmand, and Akbar Amini members of Saraye Ahle Ghalam (Association of Writers) who were detained before, were summoned to appear in court to face charges against them.
In Shiraz is student, writer and blogger of the blog "sufi" Badri Safyari on March 6 arrested by 3 plainclothed officers. After that they searched the house and confiscated personal items including her computer.
The former dean of Tehran Medical Sciences department of Islamic Azad University Parvin Ghafarkhani who was arrested on charges of "insulting the leadership" and was released on a bail of 50 million tomans, put herself on fire and is in hospital in serious physical and mental condition.
source: chrr.biz


Reporters without Borders announced in a report that China, Iran, Syria, Bahrain, and Vietnam are five state enemies of the internet for their internetcensorship and spying that report is here.
Without advanced technology, authoritarian regimes would not be able to spy on their citizens. RSF made a list of five “Corporate Enemies of the Internet, the five companies are Gamma, Trovicor, Hacking Team, Amesys and Blue Coat.
source: en.rsf.org


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Iran: more March 11, 2013

A company that is founded by the Science and Technology Center of Iran's Hamadan province is engaged in manufacturing anti-explosive devices for CNG-run cars.
The device is installed in the car, and it measures the amount of gas leakage.
When there is a threat it sends signals to the driver.
source: en.trend.az



Mostafa Mohammad Najjar, Iran’s Interior Minister and former Minister of Defense is set to speak Monday in Vienna at the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s (UNODC) 56th session of the Commission on Narcotic Drugs.
Najjar is on the U.S. human rights sanctions list with other individuals, responsible for the sustained and severe violation of human rights during or after Iran’s 2009 presidential election.
Persons on the U.S. sanctions list are barred from travel to the U.S., their assets in the U.S. or U.S. institutions are blocked, and Americans are prohibited from doing business with them.
The spokesman of Iran Human Rights says that Austrian police should arrest the man and hopes human rights groups in Austria will protest against Mr. Najjar’s presence in their country.
source: persian2english.com


Iran will build small refineries for Algeria, Angola, and South Africa. According to Fars newsagency Iran has also been holding talks with Pakistan to build a refinery.
IRNA reports that Iran allocated 2.1 billion Euro to establish the Persian Gulf Star refinery in Hormozgan province.
source: payvand.com


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Iran: improper March 10, 2013

A member of Iranian parlement told website Khane Mellat that Central Bank and the pharmaceuticals deputy of the Ministry of Health don't act responsible in drugs that have been stalled in customs and allow them entry into the market.
The lack on foreign currency due to international sanctions on Iranian banks and inadequate management by some authorities has further exacerbated the shortage of drugs and the sharp rise in their prices.
source: radiozamaneh.com


ILNA reports that one hundred workers at the Iran Pouya Refigeration Factory were laid off. Similar reports about factories in Rasht have been cause for concern that at least four main factories in Rasht are on the verge of closure.
The Ahmadinejad administration has been repeatedly accused of not releasing the real statistics regarding unemployment and inflation.
source: radiozamaneh.com



President Ahmadinejad is being criticised for embracing the mother of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who died last week .
According to Iran's Islamic rules, unrelated men and women are not allowed to touch.
Iranian officials and diplomats often bow instead of shaking hands with female foreign officials.
source: rferl.org

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Iran: The same, March 9, 2013

US. Secretary of State John Kerry has according to a statement met the family of Robert Levinson who disappeared in Iran.
The statement called on Iran to uphold its offer to help find Levinson.
Robert Levinson disappeared on March 8 2007 on the isle of Kish.
source: rferl.org


Human Rights Reporters Committee reported on March 8 that five prisoners in Ahwaz who are sentenced to death Hashem Shabaninejad, Hadi Rashedi, Mohammadali Amourinejad, and Jaber and Mokhtar Alboshokeh, along with Rahman Asakereh, who is sentenced to 20 years in jail, began a hunger strike on March 2 in protest against the conditions at Karoon Prison in Ahwaz.
The report indicates that the prisoners on hungerstrike are no longer allowed to contact their families by phone.
source: chrr.biz

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Iran: more March 8, 2013

Kaleme reports that activist and spokesman of Council to Defend the Right to Education Seyed Zia Nabavi who is convicted to 10 years in exile in Karoonprison in Ahwaz has been transferred to an unknown location.
source: banouyesabz.wordpress.com





Journalist and humanrightsactivist Khosro Kordpour has been arrested in Mahabad. His brother told that after his arrest on March 7 security agents searched his house and confiscated computer and personal belongings.
Kordpour is director of Mokerian News Agency which mostly covers news of Kurdestan Province and human rights issues.
source: radiozamaneh


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Iran: continue March 7 2013

News agency Mehr reported that on March 2 in Torkmanchai area of Mianeh 2 prisoners were hanged in public.
The prisoners, A. R. and S. N. were convicted for murdering a man in 2011.
In the prison of Sari is a man hanged on February 28. The not named man was convicted on drugsrelated charges.
source: iranhr.net


March 6, weekly Aseman, monthly Tajrobeh and monthly Mehrnameh were closed, and security agents arrested the newspaper’s license holder Mohammad Mehdi Emam Naseri and political desk editor Alireza Aghaee Rad from daily Maghreb.
source: iranhumanrights.org




The mother ofp incarcerated blogger Sattar Beheshti who died in prison in November 2012, has vowed to take her own life if authorities fail to bring to justice those responsible for her son’s suspicious death.
Despite promises by officials that the case would be sent to the courts before mid-February, this did not happen. Security officials have put his mother and other family members under close surveillance and have told them not to speak to the media or international rights organizations about the case.
source: en.irangreenvoice.com, hrw.org


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Iran: further March 6, 2013

Kurdish activist Ali Ahmad Soleiman and four other prisoners were October 2012 transferred from Orumiyeh Central Prison to the Intelligence Office Detention Center.
Soleiman was convicted to 1 year in prison on charges of ‘contact with foreign media and the office of the UN Special Rapporteur,’ and ‘propaganda against the regime.’
Ahmad Tamouee, Yousef Kakeh Meimi, Jahangir Badouzadeh, and Mostafa Ali Ahmad who were arrested along with him, wwre also tortured and interrogated on charges of ‘contact with foreign media and the office of the UN Special Rapporteur,’ and ‘propaganda against the regime.’
source: iranhumanrights.org


Committee of Human Rights Reporters reports that journalists Nasrin Takhoyori, Saba Azarpeik and Sasan Aghayee are released on bail. They were arrested in January.
Of the 19 journalists detained during the wave of arrests, 17 have now been released on bail.
Ehsan Mazandarani and Mohammad Javad Rouh are still detained.
source: chrr.biz


The actors who performed in Jafar Panahi’s film Closed Curtain spelen, Kambozia Partovi and Maryam Moghadam, are banned from leaving Iran.
The travelban was imposed on their return from Berlin.
The film won the Silver Bear at the Berlin Festival.
source: iranbriefingnet



THE question at this week's board of governors' meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna is, will Iran let international nuclear inspectors visit Parchin.
source: rferl.org

Witnesstatement from Saeed Pourheydar

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Iran: more March 5, 2013

Staff-editor at monthly Mehmaheh MohammadJavad Rouh has been arrested on March 4 maart in his house by security agents.
Rouha is a former member of Association for the Defence of Prisoner Rights and the Islamic Iran Participation Front. He worked for Iranian Labour News Agency as for reformist daily's Norooz and Yas-e No.
The ministry of intelligence had announced that in the course of its investigations it may arrest more journalists.
source: iranbriefing.net


According to the official newsagency Irna, Iranian Intelligence Ministry has dealt a heavy blow to 600 journalists operating against the regime. 150 of journalists had been working from inside the country and the rest from abroad.
Referring to the unrest that followed the widely disputed 2009 presidential elections, Heidar Moslehi said that the sedition now comprised domestic and foreign “rings” and their main goal in the upcoming elections in June was to comeback and to strike a revolution.
He added that his goal is to prevent this.
source: en.ira.greenvoice.com

There is growing concern about the health of Dr. Mehdi Khazali .
Since he was transferred to ward 209 of Evinprison 66 days ago, he is on a hungerstrike.
A week ago the judge ordered to release him on bail, and the bail has been posted for his release. But the interrogators, with the cooperation of Dr. Khazali’s youngest brother, Alireza Khazali, have pressed new charges against him.
source: persianbanoo.wordpress.com




Committee of Human Rights Reporters reports that after 50 days of incommunicado political prisoner Sirvan Hossein Panahi along with Shirzad Hossein Panahi on January 27 was transferred from the detention center of the Ministry of Intelligence in Sanandaj to Ghorveh prison.
source: chrr.biz


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Iran: more March 4, 2013

Website Kaleme reports that on Saturday March 2, the journalists Soleyman Mohammadi and Pejman Mousavi have been released.
They both work on the staff of the Bahar daily and were arrested on February 1 in a wave of journalist arrests.
source: radiozameneh.com


Central Bank of Iran announced that inflationrate in the 12-month period ended the eleventh Iranian calendar month of Bahman (February 18) hit 29.8 percent, 1.1 percent higher compared to the 12-month period ended on January 19.
The prices of a favorite snack during Persian New Year,nuts, are sharply risen.
For most Iranians the nuts are now out of reach, like many other items.
source: payvand.com


Tehran Times reported that Iran in 2014 plans to build a $1.6 billion natural liquid gas plant on the isle Kharg.
The output will be 600 million cubic feet a daye.
source: iranfocus.com

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Iran: more March 3, 2013

ILNA reports that the Iranian Minister of Information warned for the abuse of government budgets for illegitimate purposes in the presidential and city council elections.
The elections will take place in June 2013.
After two terms as president, Ahmadinejad is not eligible to run in the 2013 elections, but there is speculation that he might be grooming his allies to take his place.
source: radiozamaneh.com


Journalist, blogger, womenrightsctivist,member of Committee of Human Rights Reporters, One Million Signature Campaign, Right to Education Campaign, and Society for Defending Street and Working Children Shiva Nazar Ahari, is nominated by Reporters Without Borders for the 2013 Netizen of the Yearaward, which has been awarded on March 12th every year to commemorate World Day Against Cyber-Censorship.
Currently she is serving a prisonsentence of 4 years and 74 lashes in Evinprison.
She was charged with “moharebeh” (enmity with God), “propaganda against the regime,” and “illegal gathering with the intent of disturbing national security.”
source: chrr.biz

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Iran: further March 2, 2013

The head of Iran’s Qods force which has been accused of providing military aid to the regime in Syria, said that if the Syrian regime had a few commanders like the IRGC and Basij leaders who lost their lives in the Iran-Iraq War, it would be "insured" against "incursions".
source: rferl.org


UN reports that in twin reports U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and U.N. special investigator on human rights in Iran, Ahmed Shaheed, voice their concern for apparent rise of executions of prisoners including juveniles as well as arrests of dissidents who are often tortured in jail, sometimes to death.
bvoice: en.irangreenvoice.com



Shippingline India’s Mercator Lines announced they will no longer transport Iranian oil.
India has cut back the amount of Iranian oil its buys by some 20%.
source: rferl.org



report Ahmed Shaheed

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