Iran: more September 25, 2012

The arrest of a son and daughter of Rafsanjani is seen as the latest blow by hardliners to his position. He has been banned from leading Tehran’s Friday Prayers, lost his role as the head of the Assembly of Experts. He also had been openly attacked at public events.
Both arrests are an escalation at a moment he seems to regain his position.
source: rferl.org


Last week agents of security service arrested bloggers and translators Ali Ranjbar and Hamid-Reza Abdollahi. Their families were not informed of the reason for their arrest and were denie to contact them.
source: iranbriefing.org

weekly report 23-9-2012 systematic violations of the right to life

weekly report 23-09-2012 inhumane treatment and cruel punishments

weekly report 23-09-2012 religious and ethnic minoritiee

weekly report 23-09-1022" prison and arbitrary arrests

weekly report 23-09-2012 basic freedom and rights abused

weekly report 23-09-2012 violence against women

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Iran: filter September 24, 2012

IRNA wrote that on September in Shar-e-Tork, province Azerbaijan a man had been hanged in public.
The man. Reza M. was convicted for murder.
source: iranhr.net

Elcin Hatami, a humanrights activist from Southern Azerbaijan wrote an article over IRGC’s role in stoking up ethnic strife and fueling ethnic tension between Iranians and Azeri Turks.
source: iranbriefing.info




International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran has released a short video, for president Mahmoud Ahmadinejads visit in New York demonstrating and highlighting systematic cover-ups in human rights violations over the eight years of his presidency.
source: iranhumanrights.org

Mehdi Hashemi Rafsanjani, son of Akbar Rafsanjani arrived in Tehran on Sunday. He left Iran after the presidential elections in 2009 and lived 3 years in England.
Analysts suggest his father's political fortunes may be reviving.
source: reuters
Rferl reports that Hashemi Rafsanjani has been arrested.

Google and Gmail are filtered in Iran, in reaction to the antimoslim film. Fars newsagency did not indicate whether the filtering would be temporary or permanent.
Iran soon wants to close the world wide web and open its own "internet".
source:The Guardian


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Iran: more September 23, 2012

Kermanshah Post reports that on September 15 Kermansheh Bus Workers went on strike leaving the passengers stranded.They striked for not receiving gas subsidies and the low fares.City officials mobilized taxis and vans in the city.
The secretary of the Labor House in Qazvin says that last month more then 300 workers from factories of autoparts are laid off.
The workers with year of service ranging from 10 to 18 years worked with Poly Otan, Iranian Sanden Industries, Edrish Khodro, Malik Sun, etc.
A report about Plant closures, wages being delayed and protests due to the economical circumstances in various cities.
source: iranlaborreport



The daughter of Rafsanjani and member of Iranian parliament, editor-in-chief of banned newspaper Zan, Faezeh Hashemi Saturday has been arrested in Tehran to serve her six months prisonsentence.
source: iranhumanrights.org

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Iran: pri(c)ze Se22, 2012

Detained studentactivist Majid Tavakoli, won the 2013 Student Peace Prize.
The announcement coincides with the United Nations International Day of Peace.
The text of the announcement is here.
At this moment is Majid Tavakoli detained in Rajaei Shahr Prison.
source: iranhr.net




Human Rights Watch urged Iran to to lift restrictions on women attending university and enrolling in certain academic fields.
36 universities in Iran have banned women from 77 different majors, including accounting, counseling, and engineering, for this school year.
source: reuters



An anonymous source told AlArabya that Supreme Leader Khamenei ordered the Qods Forces of Iran Revolutionary Guard to stop their activities worldwide, especially in Africa and Latin America, and to focus on the neighboring countries.
The source said that the Supreme Guide fears a possible military strike against Tehran, on the one hand, and the grave financial effects of the international sanctions against Iran, on the other.
Joint Staff J-2 of the Pentagon says that the frequency of cyberattacks from Iran have increased. Recently there was a major cyber attack on a major U.S. financial institution that a military intelligence report said is a sign Tehran is waging covert war against the West.
For the first time, Iran’s highest-ranking military official has tied the reappearance of the last Islamic messiah to the regime being prepared to go to war based on ideology.
Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi said according to Mashregh news, which is run by the Revolutionary Guards, that wiith having the treasure of the holy Defense, Valayat and martyrs, Iran is ready for a big war.
Shiietes believe that at the end of time great wars will take place, and Imam Mahdi, the Shi’ites’ 12th imam, will reappear and kill all the infidels, raising the flag of Islam on the world.
source: iranbriefing.net


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Iran: more September 21, 2012

September 20were in Iran at least 6 people hanged.
IRNA reported that in the prison of Doroud, Lorestan Province one man has been hanged.
The unnamed man was sentenced for keeping 9 kilos and 618 grams of heroin.
In the prison of Shahrud were "M.M.", "A. M." and "M. R." hanged.
They were convicted for keeping and trafficking great amounts of crack.
Kurdish site Kurdpa writes that in the prison of Urmia Hashem Jahangiri and Iraj Deylami were hanged on drugsrelated charges.
Unconfirmed reports say that another 4 men had been hanged.
source: iranhr.net



Student activist Sarosh Sabat has been reported to Evinprison to begin serving a two-year sentence. He was accused of undermining state security and public order.
source: iranbriefing.net

A tombstone from an Iranian major in the IRGC in Behesht-e Zahra cemetery in Tehran with a picture is one of the proves that Iran is providing Syria with active military support.
Muharram Turk, born March 30, 1978 and died on January 19, 2012 in Damascus.A blog in Iran and various media wrote about this.
Iran continues to send more troops to Syria to help Assad.
source: iranbriefing.net


Since 2010 are more then 300 Christians in Iran arrested. They included at least 41 people detained from one month to more than a year, sometimes without official charges.
United Nations human rights investigators said Thursday that muslims who convert to Christianity face persecution and churches operate in a climate of fear.
source: freedomessenger.com


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Iran: more September 20, 2012

Oppositionleader Mir Hossein Moussavi spent on September 19th several hours at the Tehran Heart Center for coronary and heartdisease for follow-up treatment.
Moussavi,who was heavy secured and still is under housearrest, was hospitalized three weeks ago for a angioplasty treatment.
source: banouyesabz.wordpress.com

The Iranian Minister of Communications and Information Technology, said that Iran's National Internet will start next week.
Mehr Newsagency reported that about 42,000 government offices will have their internet networks transferred to the national network.
He added that National Information Network will not be available for the general public at this phase.
source: payvand.com




Mohammad Ali Javari said that IRGC has increased the precision  of its Zelzal rockets and narrowed their margin of error.
These rockets were produced for 20 years, but after a recent update, their margin of error has been lowered to less than 50 meters.
source: iranbriefing.net

Findings of the Truthcommission at the Irantribunal.

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Iran: more, September 19, 2012

Member of Iran’s Freedom Movement Party and activist Mohammad Tavasoli refused to defend himself in court to protest in what he called an “illegal court.”
Tavasoli was arrested in November 2011 gearresteerd in connection with a letter that 143 political activists had written to former president Mohammad Khatami.
source: radiozamaneh.com

Ali Akbar Salehi, Iranian minister of Foreign Affairs arrived in Damascus.
He meets the foreign minister of Syria after the meeting from the so-called "contact group" on Syria -- Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia and Turkey.
source: rferl.org


weekly report 16 september Suppressive maneuvers and violence against women.

weekly report 16 september Basic freedom and rights abused.
weekly report 16 september prison.

weekly report 16 september inhumane treatment and cruel punishments.

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Iran: sentence, September 18, 2012

Mohammad Nazari, a Kurdish political prisoner at Rajaee Shahr Prison in Karaj,has sewn his lips shut and started a  hungerstrike since August 28 to protest the judicial authorities’ disregard for his request for release.
He was arrested in 1994 and sentenced to death. In 1999 this sentence was changed to life in prison.
source: iranhumanrights.org



Human Rights Activist News Agency reported that student and member of Tahkim-e Vahdat, Rashid Esmaili had been arrested on September 8 without an arrestwarrant.
December 2009 he was arrested for the first time. He was banned from Allameh University and in recent months, was involved in journalistic activities with various websites.
source: iranbriefing.net

In the city of Babolsar security agents attacked and killed a man before the eyes of other pedestrians.
Statemedia tried to explain and justify this hideous act by reporting that when following the man, he fell down and was suddenly hit by a bullet from a policegun in the neck.
source: freedomessenger.com



The prisonsentence of students Kouhyar Goudarzi and Amir Garshasbi were confirmed by Iranian judiciary.
Goudarzi is sentenced to 5 years in prison in exile in Zabol. Electronicstudent Garshasbi is sentenced to 3 years in prison and he was taken to Evinprison to serve his sentence.
There are also reports that the member of Human Rights Activists Organization Mansour Naghipour, who was sentenced to seven years in jail, together with Abtin Jahanian and Ashkan Alahyari, who were given jail sentences of three years and one year respectively for participating in demonstrations, have been sent to Evin to serve out their sentences.
source: radiozamaneh.com

MehrAgency reports that cleric Hojatoleslam Ali Beheshti, in Shamirzad in Semnan Province, fell on the ground after confronting a woman about her "bad hijab"(describing women who do not fully observe the Islamic dress code) .
He said he was hospitalized for three days following the attack.
source: rferl.org

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Iran: more September 17th 2012

The head of IRGC, Major General Mohammad-Ali Jafari, says Iran is honored to share its experiences with the Syrian government.
According to PressTV he told reporters on Sunday that Iran condemns foreign countries for providing military support for the insurgents in Syria.
He further said that IRGC is fully equipped with the latest weapons and is ready to defend the Islamic Revolution against all types of soft or semi-hard war threats.
source: presstv.ir


According to Farsnews Iranian scientists developed and produced a new type of medication for the treatment of heart failure.
The President of Isfahan Pharmaceutical Company says that the heart or brain vessels are blocked by blood clots after a heart attack and the medicine can dissolve the blood clots and open the blood vessels immediately.
He also said that the drug, named ATP, is not a chemical compound but an enzyme which exists in the body of everyone.
source: farsnews.com

Six weeks after the heavy earthquakes that rocked Azerbaijan province, the quake survivors remain without shelter. The winter is coming and heavy rain is causing enormous problems.
Officials in the cities of Varzeghan and Haris admitted that the survivors of the earthquake continue to live in tents while rainfall during the past few days has brought about even more damages to their very little property.
Electricity is needed to use the heating appliances, the region’s electric cables are not adequate and new cables must be installed.
source: freedomessenger.com



Human Rights And Democracy Activists in Iran reports that political prisoner Karim Bakhshi Yali-dehi, 45, a Balochi who is imprisoned in Zahedan has been placed in solitary confinement and was tortured for the past 10 days.
His family members have not been able to meet or contact him.Yali-dehi was arrested in 2010 and is in limbo since.
source: freedomessenger.com

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Iran: further, September 16, 2012

Iranian politicians begin their moves ahead of next year’s presidential elections.
Mir Hossein Mousavi is under illegal house arrest for over 570 days. The blog banoyesabz.wordpress.com publishes excerpts of his 17th statement of January 1st.
The full statement no. 17 in Farsi
source: banouyesabz.wordpress.com

Iranian media report that cleric Hassan Sane'i, the head of 15 of Khordad Foundation, raised the bounty for the killing of Salman Rushdie with $500.000 to tot $ 3.3 million.
Since 1989 there is a fatwa on him for publishing the book Satanic Verses.Rushdie, 65, spent a decade in hiding after Iran's spiritual leader, the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, issued the 1989 fatwa against him for his book.
source: dailystar.com.lb

Iranian blogger Hossein Ronaghi Maleki who had been arrested in East-Azerbaijan by security forces has been moved to isolation in the prison of Tabriz.
The blog Nehzatsabz reports (fa) that his health condition is worsening.
source: globalvoicesonline.org




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Iran: more September 15th, 2012

The Kurdish televisionreporter Kihan Juhani, has been arrested in Maryun.
He worked for Iraq-Kurdish satellite networks on a filmed report on a road accident on the Maryuan road.
source: iranbriefing.net





Since more then two months ago social activists Makhsus Bokharaei and Mahmmoud Zakar, were arrested, , there is still no accurate information about the condition of the two.
They were arrested on charges of helping families of political prisoners and death row prisoners.
source: iranbriefing.net



Names of a number of other political prisoners and prisoners of conscience sentenced to death or in imminent threat of execution :Gholamreza Khosravi Savadjani,Bakhtiar Meimari, Habibollah Latifi, Saied Malekpour, Sirvan Nejavi, Abdollah Qanbari, Ibrahim Esapour, Habib Afshari, Ali Afshari, Ahmad Daneshpour Moqadam, Habibollah Golparipour, Samkou Khorshidi, Mohsen Daneshpour Moqadam, Zaniar Moradi, Loqman Moradi, Houshang Rezayi, Reza Ismaili, Ali Zahed, Mohammad-Ali Amouri, Hadi Rashedi, Hashem Shabani, Jaber Albushokeh, Mokhtar Albushokeh, Behrouz Alkhani, Hamid Qasemi Shal, Seyed Sami Hosseini, Jamal Mohammadi, Shirkoh Moarefi, and Mostafa Salimi
source: daughtersofthelight-briefs.blogspot.com

An article about the hard labor done by women to help in the aftermath of the earthquake in EastAzerbaijan.
source: we-change.org



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Iran: oil + statement September 14th 2012

Egyptian Minister of Oil, Kamal has rejected there are negotiations with Iran to buy oil.
Earlier this month Kamal told Egyptian state-owned-daily Al-Ahram that  Cairo had “no objection” to buying Iranian oil and processing it in its refineries.
source: iranbriefing.net


Iran is trying to evade the oilsanctions by storing the oil for Asia at a little-known port in Malaysia.
In recent months two Iranian-owned tankers, the Lantana and Motion, have off-loaded three million barrels of oil near Labuan, an island port close to the coast of Borneo.
The vessels are operated by the National Iranian Tanker Company (NITC).,
source: iranbriefing.net

Irangreenvoice published an 12-point article about the offensive film on the Prophet Muhammad which sparks outrage in the Muslimworld.



1.The film is not an issue of Freedom of Speech vs. religious sensitivity.
2.Al Quaeda, not Libyans, is behind the murder of the US ambassador.
3.The Libyan authorities and religious scholars have condemned this attack.
4.The Libyan people have demonstrated against the assassination of the ambassador.
5.The producers of the film openly admit to being Islam-haters.
6.The producer—whoever he is—has the right to produce his propaganda, even if it is hateful speech.
7.The distribution of the film has benefited from Terry Jones.
8. The youtube “film” was picked up by a fringe group of Coptic radicals.
9. American Muslim organizations have uniformly condemned the assassination of the American Ambassador.
10.This violent response to assaults on the dignity of the Prophet is not the example of the Prophet himself.
11.The producers of the film lied to their actors and crew about the content of the film.
12.We have a choice how to respond.
The article is originally published here
source: irangreenvoice.com

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Iran: more September 13th, 2012

Mariam Allengi the wife of political prisoner Mohsen Digmrechi who died of cancer last year, has been sentenced in appeal to 3 years in prison in exile in Rajai Shahr Prison.
source: iranbriefing.net



Childsrightsactivist and Bahai Samine Ahsani has been sentenced to five years in prison on charges of anti-regime propaganda, harming national security, membership in the Baha’i cult and membership in an illegal human rights organization.
source: iranbriefing.net


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