EastKurd:Salah Haj Ali sayf village residents, at the border of Iraqi Kurdistan has been killed by iranian forces.
annual hundreds of Kurdish, are killed at the border.Marivan in Kurdistan province.

EastKurd: Zabihollah Raoufi, a Baha’i citizen residing in Sanandaj County has been sentenced to one year imprisonment with exile to Minab County

Human Right Activists in Iran reported, Following his summon to the Revolutionary Court on 19 August 2009, he was later arrested in the same location and is still in detention. The exact date of his court hearing is not clear, but it is known that his trial was held without presence of a lawyer or official judicial procedure. According to the declared verdict, he is sentenced to one year imprisonment with exile to Minab prison.

During the recent days, 18 Muslim friends and acquaintances of Mr Raoufi have been summoned to Sanandaj Intelligence Office and have committed not to socialize with Zabihollah Raoufi’s family.

The following is the text version of an interview with one of the detainees of the past 2 months. For his safety the HDA has kept his ID confidential.

Q: Can you tell us how you were arrested?

I was on my way home from work along with a friend when we were arrested by plain clothes forces and special guard officers and were taken to Meghdad Basij Station. There were 60 other people who were taken there following their arrests. Two hours later they began taking us in smaller groups to the interrogation room where our IDs were taken. The beatings and insulting started the moment we were arrested and continued in the Meghdad Station. We were not given any food or water and were allowed once to drink from tap water in the washroom of the station. Less than 24 hours later we were taken to Kahrizak prison.

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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's parliament began a session Sunday to debate and vote on President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's proposed new cabinet following his disputed re-election in June.

The outcome is seen as a test of the hardline president's hold on power after the election, which plunged Iran into its deepest internal crisis since the 1979 Islamic revolution.

Some members of parliament have said they are likely to reject several nominees because of their lack of experience.

"It is a weak cabinet ... we see that some proposed ministers without having any experience in that ministry have been placed at the top of it," MP Ali Motahari said, singling out the candidates for the oil, energy and interior posts.

But another deputy, Hossein Garousi, voiced support for the proposed 21-member cabinet, saying Ahmadinejad had taken "all important criteria" into account.

Parliament is expected to spend three days debating the cabinet, with voting on each minister to take place on Wednesday, the official IRNA news agency said.

Political analysts expect it to approve a cabinet eventually but a stormy process could damage Ahmadinejad politically.

The president told parliament he planned "important steps forward" during his second four-year term.

"In the new government we are prepared to serve people with all our might ... and I'm certain parliament is going to support us," he said in comments translated by Iran's state Press TV.

GUARDS BACKGROUND

In foreign policy, he said Iran "should have constructive interaction with all nations and countries with the exception of the illegal Zionist entity," referring to Israel.

Ahmadinejad's proposed cabinet includes three women ministers, for the posts of education, health and social welfare. They would be the first female ministers in the socially conservative Islamic Republic.

The nominees also include Commerce Minister Massoud Mirkazemi as oil minister, a key position as crude sales account for most state revenue. Mirkazemi is seen as an Ahmadinejad ally but has little known oil industry experience.

In 2005, the president failed to get his first three choices for oil minister appointed because of parliament's opposition.

The new oil minister faces the challenge of boosting oil and gas output under U.S. and U.N. sanctions, imposed because of a dispute over Iran's nuclear program. The West suspects Iran of seeking to build nuclear weapons while Iran says its program is exclusively for peaceful power generation.

Mirkazemi and the proposed intelligence and interior ministers have a background with the elite Revolutionary Guards, as does Ahmadinejad. The force, seen as fiercely loyal to the Islamic Republic's values, appears to have grown in political and economic influence since he came to power four years ago.

The legislature is dominated by conservatives, but some of Ahmadinejad's supporters have abandoned him since the election, even though he enjoys the backing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's highest authority.

The president's moderate foes say the June 12 election was rigged in his favor and regard the government as illegitimate. The authorities deny the opposition's vote fraud charges.

(Writing by Fredrik Dahl; editing by Robin Pomeroy)

EastKurd:Massacre of the people of Kurdistan continue.
Regime forces tens of people in villages Sardasht region, were killed and wounded.
A teenager has been killed, dozens of people injured. dozens were arrested.detailed news in coming days.

EastKurd: Iran's Judiciary chief, Saeed Mortazavi to the dismissed and instead Abbas Ahmad was appointed to the Tehran Prosecutor's Office.
Abbas, head of Justice, the province of Khuzestan.
Mortazavi is individual criminal.

Basij Forces shot and killed Mr. Parviz Mirzai, 23, a Kurdish citizen of Soufian Village near Oroumieh.  He was on his way home after leaving the wedding ceremony of a family member in Ghasrik Village.

Eyewitnesses and others accompanying the victim reported that the Basij Forces ordered two vehicles to stop at a checkpoint at once.  However, the first vehicle fled and the Basij Forces, under the presumption that the two vehicles are linked, opened fire on the passengers of the second vehicle without any apparent reason or warning.  As a result of the shootings on the second vehicle, Mr. Mirzai was killed, and another passenger was critically injured.  Despite apparent gross injuries, the Basij Forces proceeded to remove all passengers from this vehicle and subjected them to beatings and violence.

Two months has elapsed since this event and since the complaint letter the Mirzai family was submitted to the Military Tribunal of Oroumieh requesting an investigation and identification and trial of the Basijis for the unwarranted violence against their son.  However, to date, no individual has been identified or put on trial regarding this event.
HRAI

Although Mr. Aref had a previous sentence of 18 months in prison, which was ratified by the appeals court, his prison term has now been submitted to the courts for execution.

Harana News Agency: The order for Paymon Aref's imprisonment from his previous case was submitted for execution without including the recent charges brought against him.

Mohammad Olyaie, the attorney for Paymon Aref, an imprisoned student activist, told Haran News: Mr. Aref had a sentence of 18 months imprisonment which was approved by the appeals courts as well; this order has been submitted for execution, while he is under arrest and in prison for some recent charges.  Concurrent with his recent arrest, courts ordered the execution of his previous sentence independent of the new charges, and are forcing him to continue to remain in prison.

The attorney for this prisoner continued to point out that although the recent charges against him have not been tried in the courts yet, the prisoner is to stay in prison and is denied his rights to temporary leave, and it does not look like he will be released anytime soon.
HRAI

TEHRAN (Reuters) - The rape of some Iranian reformers who were jailed after a disputed presidential election has been proven to a parliamentary committee, a lawmaker was quoted as saying on Thursday.

"Raping of some detainees with a baton and soda bottle has been proven to us," the Parlemannews website quoted the unidentified member of the investigative committee as saying.

Iran's moderate defeated presidential candidate, Mehdi Karoubi, had alleged that some of those detained after the poll were raped while in custody.

The authorities had rejected the accusations as baseless, but parliament speaker Ali Larijani last week said he would be ready to consider any documents or other evidence submitted by Karoubi to back up his claims.

Karoubi had said that four people were ready to testify to parliament that they were sexually abused in jail.

The reformist cleric has come under pressure by hardliners for raising the allegations, some suggesting that Karoubi should be jailed or lashed if failed to prove his claims.

Another moderate, losing candidate Mirhossein Mousavi, backed Karoubi, accusing "establishment agents" of raping and abusing detainees.

Iranian moderates say the vote was rigged to secure President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election.

The poll and its turbulent aftermath have plunged Iran into its biggest internal crisis in the past three decades.

Thousands of people were arrested during widespread street unrest after the election. Moderates say at least 69 reformers were killed since the vote, contradicting the official figure of 29 deaths.

(Writing by Parisa Hafezi, Editing by Angus MacSwan)

TEHRAN (AFP) — Top dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri has renewed his criticism of Iranian authorities, warning their handling of the post-election unrest could lead to the fall of the regime.

"I hope the authorities wake up before it is too late and do not hurt the reputation of the Islamic republic further ... and cause their own fall and that of the system," Montazeri said in a statement carried on his website Wednesday.

The dissident cleric called for an end to "show trials", which he said were a "mockery of Islamic justice" and urged the authorities "not to continue down the wrong turn they are taking".

"They should at least have the courage to declare that this government is neither a republic nor Islamic with nobody allowed to protest, comment or criticise," fumed Montazeri.

The disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has plunged Iran into its worst crisis since the establishment of the Islamic republic in 1979.

The opposition charged the June 12 poll was fraudulent, sparking massive street protests, in which about 30 people -- and by opposition accounts 69 -- have been killed.

Scores of senior reformist figures, journalists and activists have been jailed and put on mass trials on accusations of seeking to overthrow the regime in a "velvet coup."

Montazeri, who was once tipped to succeed revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as supreme leader, fell from grace in the late 1980s after he spoke out against the Islamic regime's treatment of its critics

They were sacrificing their lives for us to live comfortable

EastKurd: The Iranian government fears of the guerrillas to any non-human action causes.
photo by:  (Anjoman sabz chya) Green Mountain Association. Marivan people say that Iranian Revolutionary Guards know cause fire. Green Mountain Association did not mention due to fire.Marivan in Kurdistan Province.

EastKurd: The Government of Great Britain, makes thieves, murderers, criminals, Iranian Kurdish refugees.
we are human, we are an old civilization, we were the founder of Iran.
the government of Great Britain refugees has deprived most elementary human rights.
brutal government policy towards refugees we are intolerable.
you may be English and this is uncomfortable for you, but this policy has become a rule Great Britain, which has concerned me and you.
the government of Great Britain supports the mullahs of Tehran our life to black.
because Great Britain supports the mullahs of Tehran, also trample human rights we had.
we are human, we are better than you know how to live. We do not use words lie Please Excuse and .... we use the words heartfelt.
please think like humans, and check the status of political asylum.more than this, do not torture us mental because really is inhumane.

EastKurd: Ministry of fear(Homeoffice), oppression Ministry, Ministry of suffocation, the Ministry of refugee injustice,the Ministry of the animal it is shame.

brutal policies of the government of uk, Great Britain against the state mental tortures on refugees and Iranian Kurdish refugees, most Iranians has psychological.

Great Britain racist regime of Iranian refugees from the most basic human rights to divest.

UK government intimate relationship with mullahs regime, the refugees themselves have to become victims of politics.
Inhumane government policies, on refugees Great Britain, advanced and modern dictatorship really is.

Amnesty International head office in London but unfortunately closed their eyes.
How Poor are the people of Iran agree to Amnesty International.
Iranian people do not know well Amnesty International.
They are also partners in the crimes with british government, on Iranian and iranian Kurdish refugees.
If not food , is hungry, no shelter, no clothing, no work permit. What should do? do suicide? is not really brutal?
Where is democracy and human rights, the BBC language with 33 of them with defense.
exclude refugees from the most basic human rights is really brutal.
this is shameful for Anayat Fani, Head of BBC Persian.
not only shame for him but for all employees BBC Persian.
we want the UK government to put an end to this barbaric policies.

EastKurd: Komala Peshmerga(kurdish Guerrillaed)operations, dozens of guards have been killed and wounded.
dozens of members of the regime of Iranian Revolutionary Guards, on the road Meyandoaab and Mahabad have been killed and wounded.
komala Peshmerga main road Meyandoaab, Mahabad, Iranian Revolutionary Guards checkpoint with light and semi-heavy weapons attack were tens killed and wounded.
all guerrillas without harm location of the operation left.
friday night 12 guerrilla, had been killed.the operation was to avenge the guerrillas.

Iran will put on trial on Tuesday seven more protesters arrested in the aftermath of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's disputed election victory, the ISNA news agency said.

The Fars news agency said those facing prosecution were political activists and rioters arrested during the violence which erupted after the hardline president's re-election in June.

Iran has already staged mass trials of around 140 people on offences linked to the massive demonstrations that followed Ahmadinejad's victory.

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EastKurd: In Sarshiv, Saqez six Iranian Kurdistan Democratic Party Peshmerga has been killed.

Four Peshmerga Komala has been killed in villages near Kamyaran.
Two Peshmerga Kurdistan Democratic Party has been killed in Kamyaran.
none of PJAK members have been killed they were not in the region.the only battle in the province of Kurdistan.

Agency France Press(AFP) reported that 26 rebel has been killed.
the report of the Agency France Press, fourteen Peshmerga killed lie has been reported.

always governments of Iran and Turkey in the massacre of Kurdish rebels have been news reports factitive.

the twelve people Friday night has been killed.
Iranian Kurdish parties over 19 have stopped the war armed.for their political activities in the region were commissioned.

we are happy after 19 years, activities of armed Kurdish political parties to start. we all know to obtain freedom, should give blood.

Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards have killed 26 Kurdish rebels in northwestern Iran, a commander of the guards was quoted as saying on Sunday by the Fars news agency.

"In an operation to clean up the West Azerbaijan and Kurdistan provinces of counter-revolutionary and terrorist groups, 26 of the agents were killed," said Mohammad Pakpoor, who was described by Fars as commander of the Revolutionary Guards ground forces.

He said the operation had delivered a "massive blow" to the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan (PJAK) and other Kurdish rebel groups.

He gave no indication of the period in which the killings took place but said that no guards forces were killed in the operation.

The commander vowed a further "crackdown on any instigators of insecurity directed by foreign or internal counter-revolutionaries" in the region.

Western Iran, which has a sizeable Kurdish population, has seen deadly fighting in recent years between Iranian security forces and PJAK rebels operating from rear-bases in neighbouring Iraq.

The group is closely allied with the Turkish Kurdish rebel group, the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which is listed as a terrorist group by Ankara and much of the international community.

Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey all have significant ethnic Kurdish minorities.
AFP

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Agency France Press is so stupid?

BUENOS AIRES (AFP) — Argentina expressed outrage over Iran's nomination of a man wanted in connection with a 1994 Buenos Aires bombing that killed 85 people as the next defense minister.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tapping Ahmad Vahidi for the post is "an affront to Argentine justice and the victims of the terrorist attack" on the Jewish community center, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

News of the nomination was received "with grave concern and deserves the most energetic condemnation of the Argentine government," it said.

In 2007, Interpol issued a warrant for the arrest of Vahidi, a former head of Al Quds, an elite unit of Iran's Revolutionary Guard.

The July 9, 1994 bombing leveled the seven-floor Argentine Jewish Mutual Association building in Buenos Aires, killing 85 people and wounding 300. No single individual has ever been convicted for the bombing.

It was the worst terrorist attack in Argentina, which has the largest Jewish community in the Americas outside the United States, and the second large-scale anti-Jewish strike in Buenos Aires that decade.

In 1992, the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires was leveled in a bombing that killed 22 people and wounded 200.

In Washington, US officials reacted with concern.

"If this report is true and if this man is confirmed as a cabinet minister and is wanted by Interpol for his involvement in a terrorist act, of course this would be disturbing," State Department spokesman Ian Kelly said.

Argentina's condemnation cast fresh doubts on Ahmadinejad's cabinet nominations, which face stiff opposition from Iranian lawmakers.

But Tehran brushed aside the criticism as part of a "Zionist plot."

"How come they didn't bring it up in the past?" asked Ahmadinejad press adviser Ali Akbar Javanfekr, referring to the Argentine complaint.

"Mr Vahidi was a deputy defense minister and this is very senior political position," he told AFP.

"Therefore, it seems that this is a new trick being planned and is basically a Zionist plot."

Among the other Iranians also wanted by Interpol as part of its assistance to Buenos Aires in the case are Iran's former intelligence chief Ali Fallahian and the former head of the country's Revolutionary Guards, Mohsen Rezaei, as well as three Iranian diplomats.

Argentine prosecutors allege Iran masterminded the bombing in Buenos Aires and entrusted the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah to execute it.

In November 2006, Argentine prosecutors issued arrest warrants against several Iranians, including former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and former foreign minister Ali Akbar Velayati.

But Interpol's executive committee withdrew its warrants against Rafsanjani, Velayati and another Iranian.

The Times

Homa Homayoun

The 15-year-old boy sits weeping in a safehouse in central Iran, broken in body and spirit. Reza will not go outside — he is terrified of being left alone. He says he wants to end his life and it is not hard to understand why: for daring to wear the green wristband of Iran’s opposition he was locked up for 20 days, beaten, raped repeatedly and subjected to the Abu Ghraib-style sexual humiliations and abuse for which the Iranian regime denounced the United States.

“My life is over. I don’t think I can ever recover,” he said, as he recounted his experiences to The Times — on condition that his identity not be revealed. A doctor who is treating him, at great risk to herself, confirmed that he is suicidal, and bears the appalling injuries consistent with his story. The family is desperate, and is exploring ways of fleeing Iran.

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EastKurd: Yesterday in the thirtieth anniversary of Khomeini's order for the massacre of Kurdish general strike in different parts of Kurdistan and the Iranian regime forces in the extremely repressive.
this image is one of the workers who was tortured by the regime forces.
this is the name of young Hassan Mostafaei.

EastKurd: The unknown group attacked a military base regime in Sardasht all troops bases in the region were captured.
so far no group or party claimed responsibility for attack
Iranian government has been silent and not any statement.

EastKurd: Ministry of fear(Homeoffice), oppression Ministry, Ministry of suffocation, the Ministry of refugee injustice,the Ministry of the animal it is shame.
Brutal policies of the government of uk, Great Britain against the state mental tortures on refugees and Iranian Kurdish refugees, most Iranians has psychological.
Great Britain racist regime of Iranian refugees from the most basic human rights to divest.
UK government intimate relationship with mullahs regime, the refugees themselves have to become victims of politics.
Inhumane government policies, on refugees Great Britain, advanced and modern dictatorship really is.
Amnesty International head office in London but unfortunately closed their eyes.
How Poor are the people of Iran agree to Amnesty International.
Iranian people do not know well Amnesty International.
They are also partners in the crimes with british government, on Iranian and iranian Kurdish refugees.
If not food , is hungry, no shelter, no clothing, no work permit. What should do? do suicide? is not really brutal?
Where is democracy and human rights, the BBC language with 33 of them with defense.
exclude refugees from the most basic human rights is really brutal.
this is shameful for Anayat Fani, Head of BBC Persian.
not only shame for him but for all employees BBC Persian.
we want the UK government to put an end to this barbaric policies.

Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi called on Wednesday for a meeting with senior officials to present evidence backing his controversial allegations that post-election detainees were raped in jails.

Karroubi, who has come under fire from hardliners over his claims, made the call in a letter addressed to parliament speaker Ali Larijani, his party website reported.

"I urge you to hold a meeting with the heads of the three powers of government (judiciary, legislative and executive), the prosecutor general and the head of the Assembly of Experts and Expediency Council, where I will inform you of my documents on sexual assault in some jails," he said.

Karroubi's claims last week were immediately dismissed by Larijani as lies. Several hardliners have also said the reformist two-time former speaker of parliament should be whipped.

But Karroubi, who came a distant fourth at June 12 presidential poll, hit out at his critics again on Wednesday saying the angry reactions showed "there are some things that they want to hide by this noise."

He has also charged that some people arrested in street protests sparked by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election, have been tortured and beaten to death in jail.

Iranian police chief Esmail Ahmadi Mogaddam has claimed that detainees who died in prisons succumbed to a viral disease.

Karroubi's latest call comes soon after authorities shut down his newspaper, Etemad Melli.
AFP

TEHRAN (AFP) – Iran's new judiciary chief Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani has halted the execution of a man facing the gallows for committing murder when he was a minor, his lawyer was quoted as saying on Wednesday.

"My client was going to be hanged today in Evin prison but the judiciary chief ordered a stay," lawyer Mohammad Mostafai told the ILNA news agency.

It is the second time the Iranian authorities have stopped the execution of Behnood Shojai, 21, who had been sentenced to death for killing a fellow teenager in a street fight when he was 17.

Rights campaigners have repeatedly called on Iran to heed its commitment to a UN convention on children's rights which stipulates that signatories will not execute those found guilty of committing crimes as minors.

According to London-based rights group Amnesty International, more than 130 other juvenile offenders are known to face death sentences in Iran.

The judiciary has drawn up a bill that aims to make it difficult for the courts to sentence minors to death in Iran where the age of legal responsibility is nine for girls and 15 for boys but it has not yet been written into law.

Crimes including murder, drug trafficking and rape are punishable by death under the Sharia-based law practised in Iran since the 1979 Islamic revolution.

Says proof lies in the Iranian media's coverage

Shiite rebels in Yemen are receiving financial support from abroad, a government spokesman said on Tuesday, strongly implying Iranian involvement in an armed rebellion that has flared up in recent weeks.

Yemen said earlier on Tuesday that it wanted to arrest 55 rebel leaders and that fierce fighting was under way in northern Saada province, a rebel stronghold -- a day after the government said it was close to ending the uprising.

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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is due in Iran on Wednesday to congratulate his counterpart Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on his re-election, the state broadcaster said.

Assad will hold talks with Ahmadinejad, who is also due to unveil his cabinet on Wednesday, and other high-ranking officials in Iran, Syria's key regional ally.

His visit comes after France praised Syria for helping secure the release on bail of French university teaching assistant Clotilde Reiss and an Iranian employee at the French embassy in Tehran.

The two were detained for their alleged role in the riots unleashed in the aftermath of Ahmadinejad's disputed re-election.
AFP

EastKurd: Three women prisoners in Section 7 of the Women's Prison of Gohardasht in Karaj,Tehran province, are on the verge of execution.

Two of these women sentenced to death are Akram Mohammadi, 35, has served seven years in prison and Ameneh Abdollah Zadeh, 50, has served nearly 5 years in prison.

According to some reports, three other women prisoners of Section 7 of Gohardasht were executed last week. The executions have not yet been announced.

Faced with Iranian people’ outrage and disgust against rising executions, the mullah’s regime carries out executions in secret.

EastKurd: The government wants the prisoners soon to execution one of Kurdistan Justice officials said.
According to state, prisoners are drug traffickers but the government is not truthful.

More prisoners are politically active in Kurdistan the government wants to excuse drug execution of political prisoners to.

Drug traffickers in Kurdistan members the Ministry of Intelligence mullahs.
Drugs in Kurdistan province by government forces are distributed.

EastKurd: Press TV was reported the government not banned newspaper but witnesses reported that the government has banned the Etemad Melli newspaper.
Etemad Melli newspaper for printing the views Karroubi been banned.

EastKurd: Fatemeh Qorbani with sixteen-year-old son Milad Ibarhimi because of extreme poverty themselves thrown into the water and were drowned.

Into Gavshan dam they were thrown and drowned.

Witnesses attempted to rescue them but was ineffective.

Gavshan dam near the city of Kamyaran. Kamyaran Kurdistan Province.

Iranian police used batons to disperse dozens of opposition supporters chanting "death to the dictator" in central Tehran on Monday to protest against the closure of a reformist newspaper, a witness said.

The latest street unrest after Iran's disputed June 12 presidential vote took place near the offices of the Etemad-e Melli, the daily of leading pro-reform cleric Mehdi Karoubi.

Karoubi angered many hardliners last week by saying some

post-election protesters had been raped in jail. His party said on Monday that the paper had been temporarily shut down, and the prosecutor's office later confirmed this.

"In accordance with the law ... the Etemad-e Melli newspaper belonging to Mr Karoubi has been suspended until further notice," an official statement carried by the semi-official Mehr News Agency said, without giving a reason.

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Difference between black and white dog ?
Friend or rival ?

The Iranian authorities on Monday rejected reports that the newspaper of leading reformist Mehdi Karroubi had been banned, Iran's English-language satellite channel Press TV reported.

"Etemad-e Melli has not been shut down," Tehran's Prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi was quoted as saying, referring to the reformist newspaper owned by the defeated presidential candidate.

The newspaper "was not distributed on Monday following problems in its printing-office," he added.

Etemad-e Melli's news website, Saham News, said earlier that the daily had been shut down temporarily by Tehran prosecutor Sunday night.

It quoted Karroubi's son Hossein as saying that the order was submitted to the paper by a representative from Tehran's Prosecutor General Office, who came to the daily's publishing house Sunday evening.

Press TV said that the daily was closed because it planned to publish a letter by Karroubi who would give a response to the recent insult against him.

Karroubi angered many conservative hardliners after he claimed that some protestors detained in the post-election unrests, both men and women, had been raped.

The Iranian authorities said no cases of rape or sexual abuse had been found and Karroubi's allegations were "baseless" and "sheer lies."

Protests gripped Tehran and other Iranian cities after the June12 presidential election, amid claims that the vote had been rigged in favor of incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Iran's state media said about 30 people had been killed in relevant clashes, including some in custody.

Iran's judiciary said that 4,000 people were initially arrested by security forces during the unrests after the disputed presidential election and 3,700 were released later.
Xinhua

TEHRAN (AFP) – Iran's judiciary has banned defeated presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi's reformist newspaper after it printed his claims that some election protesters were raped or tortured in custody.

Karroubi's son Hossein said on his father's party website on Monday that a prosecution official had ordered a "temporary ban" on the publication of Etemed Melli on Sunday.

Mehdi Karroubi has stoked the ire of the authorities with allegations that women and young boys detained in custody after the massive protests over President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's June re-election had been raped.

His son said the paper was banned because his father had printed "responses to insults against him," over the rape claims which hardliners charge played into the hands of Iran's foreign critics.

Karroubi, a former parliament speaker who came a distant fourth in the election and is now a leading figure in the opposition, vowed on Sunday to seek the truth over the prison abuse allegations.

"But I say again that this behaviour and intimidation will not silence me and I will raise the issues I deem necessary. I will only shut up when all the dimensions of these incidents have been examined and the people are told the truth."

Another newspaper, Kalemeh Sabz (Green Word), which belonged to Ahmadinejad's main defeated rival Mir Hossein Mousavi was shut down by the authorities in the wake of the disputed election.

About 4,000 opposition supporters were initially arrested over the unrest that swept Tehran and other cities after the election. Most have since been released, but around 200 remain behind bars. Around 140 have also been put on trial.

The authorities say about 30 people were killed in post-election violence while the opposition has said 69 people died.

TEHRAN (AFP) – Three people on board were killed when an army training helicopter crashed on Sunday west of Tehran, a local official told state television.

"Three people on board the helicopter died," governor of Shahriar, Mohammad Ali Erfan Manesh, said.

"It was a training helicopter that belonged to the air force of the Islamic republic of Iran," he said without giving the cause of the accident.

The crash was previously reported to have occurred in the Tehran satellite residential area of Andisheh but Erfan Manesh said it actually took place near a village called Zarnan.

This is Iran's third fatal air accident in the past week.

An Iranian police chopper crashed on Monday in the southern province of Kerman, killing three and leaving three other people aboard injured.

Two people died on Saturday when a training plane crashed due to a technical glitch.

Iran, which has been under years of US sanctions hampering its ability to buy American aircrafts and spare parts, has suffered a number of aviation disasters over the past decade.

The country's civil and military fleet is made up of ancient aircraft in very poor condition due to their age and lack of maintenance.

In July, an Iranian airliner en route to Armenia caught fire in mid-air and plunged into farmland, killing all 168 people on board in the country's worst air disaster in years.

Also last month, an Iranian airliner overshot the runway in the city of Mashhad and slammed into a perimeter wall, killing 17 people.

The anniversary of the invasion of East Kurdistan by the revolutionary guards
and the security forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran at the behest of
Ayatollah Khomeini on 28th Mordad1358 (19th August 1979)

A meeting will take place to remember those who lost their lives and to hear the
first account testimonies of those who went through the horrors of their loved
ones being put to firing squads. It is also an occasion to celebrate the fierce
resistance that the Kurdish people put up against the forces of aggression.

We would be grateful if you could attend this meeting to pay our respect to the
people of East Kurdistan and to remember the sacrifices that were made.

Organizing Committee of 28th Mordad

Date: Saturday 15th of August
Time: 2-5PM

PLACE:
Khalili Lecture Theatre, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG

Light refreshment will be provided
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The UK Kurdish Studies & Student Organisation is a non-political body that
strives to promote greater awareness of the Kurds, their political and cultural
situation in the Middle East and as a significant minority community in the UK.

Email: /mc@ksso.org.uk
Website: //www.ksso.org.uk

EastKurd: About 20 days, the Iranian regime forces killed Fourteen young people from Kurdistan
Name of those killed is as follows:

1- Hamid Qandkanglo resident Khoy

2-Mr:Asad Mosa Zade resident Khoy

3-Mr:Mehyadin Jelbako resident Salmas

4-Mr:Jalal resident Saqez

5-Mr:Eqbal Bakhtyari resident Mehabad

6-Mr:Anwar Eqbali resident Saqez

7-Mr:Rahim Mahmod pure resident Sardasht

8-Mr:Haji resident Sardasht

9-Mr:Shahram Shakari resident Nawsod

10-Mr:Saraj Mosalo resident Khoy

11-Mr:Sayd Fakher Omar Shiva resident Khoy

12- Mrs:Saadat Laie resident Mariwan

13-Mrs:Ayna Laie resident Mariwan

14-Miss:Mojde Naderian resident Mariwan

annual wild Islamic Republic government spurious forces killing Kurdish people without reason.

killing people without defense, major crime, no forgiveness.
Regimes that are supporting the Islamic Republic of iran to killing people in Kurdistan they will be mullahs partner .

Kurdish in Iran are deprived of basic human services.

The trial of seven Baha'i believers accused by Iranian authorities of spying for Israel will begin on Tuesday, Reuters quoted a report by the official IRNA news agency.

"The trial of the seven Baha'is accused of spying for the Zionist regime (of Israel) and insulting sanctities will be held on Tuesday," IRNA quoted Hassan Haddad, in charge of security affairs of Teheran's prosecutor office, as saying.

Iran has reportedly claimed that the group received orders from Jerusalem to undertake measures against the Islamic republic.

Iran will on Sunday put on trial 25 more people arrested after protests against the result of June's disputed presidential election, the ISNA news agency reported on Saturday.

"The third session of the elements of recent riots in Tehran will be held on Sunday... in branch 15 of the revolutionary court," a court statement carried by the agency said.

"In this session charges against 25 defendants... will be presented."

The Islamic republic has already put on trial 110 people charged with protesting against the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Those already in the dock include top reformists, political activists, a French lecturer, and two employees of the French and the British embassies.

The trial of Clotilde Reiss, a French lecturer, has finished, although she remains in custody.

Securing her release has been a diplomatic priority for Paris, with President Nicolas Sarkozy raising the case with other leaders including Syrian President Bashar al-Assad who intervened on his behalf with Tehran.
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Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has appointed Hojatoleslam Sadegh Ardeshir Larijani as the country's new chief of the judiciary, state television reported on Saturday.

Larijani, the younger brother of parliament speaker Ali Larijani, replaces Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahrudi and will head the powerful judiciary for five years.

Born in 1960 in Iraq's Shiite holy city of Najaf, Larijani has been a member of the powerful electoral watchdog, the Guardians Council, since 2001. He is the author of several scholarly publications.

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Two men convicted of rape have been executed by hanging in a prison in the southern Iranian city of Shiraz, the Etemad newspaper reported on Saturday.
It said the two were hanged on Wednesday.

The report identified one of the rapists as an Afghan called Zaeim, who was convicted of raping a 12-year-old girl during a robbery at her home.

The second man sent to the gallows was identified as Hamed who was found guilty of raping a 19-year-old woman.

The latest hangings bring to at least 221 the number of people executed in the Islamic republic so far this year, according to an AFP count based on news reports.

In 2008, Iran executed 246 people, second only to China.

Tehran says the death penalty is a necessary tool for maintaining public security and is applied only after exhaustive judicial proceedings.

Murder, rape, armed robbery, drugs trafficking and adultery are all punishable by death in Iran.
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Two bombers wearing suicide vests blew themselves up in a popular cafe crowded with young people in Sinjar, northwestern Iraq, on Thursday evening, killing 25 and wounding 30 others, according to local hospital officials.

It was the third major bombing in a week in a stretch of Iraq in and around Mosul, where ethnic tensions, insurgent activity and political disputes have created a volatile mix that threatens the security gains made elsewhere in the country.

The attack on Thursday was carried out in the city of Sinjar, which is populated primarily by Yazidis.

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The Turkish solution to the Kurdish issue might face failure and might lead to disappointment, said head of the Democratic Society Party, the only Kurdish party in Turkey, Ahmet Turk on Friday.

After meeting with Interior Minister Besir Atalay, Turk said that Kurds were very optimistic about a solution for their problem but they feared that the new Turkish democratic solution to the problem might face failure as of the previous initiatives to close the dispute between Turkey and the Kurds.

President Abdullah Gul said previously that the government must find a settlement for the Kurdish problem, affirming that Kurds did not have the same rights as others in Turkey.

Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced that the government was preparing a number of proposals to find a solution for this question, beginning with economic openness with the Kurds in southeast of Turkey.
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Abdullah Ocalan, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), is expected to give a "roadmap" speech from his prison on Imrali Island on Saturday, suggesting a solution to the Kurdish issue in the country.
Ocaland had announced that he would make the address on August 15, the date which coincides with the anniversary of the establishment of the outlawed PKK. At that time every year, Turkish police are put on high alert in anticipation of looming riots, but this year no relevant security measures have been announced so far.

In his speech, Ocalan is expected to release a "roadmap" of PKK conditions for laying down arms in the ongoing, decades-old ethnic-Kurdish insurgency in southeast Turkey. Ocalan has been imprisoned by the Turkish government since 1999 on Imral Island in the Turkish Sea of Marmara.

Turkish Hurriyet daily reported on Friday that PKK leaders accused Turkish authorities of designedly denying access to the jailed PKK chief.
The PKK, which is designated by Turkey, Europe and the US as a terrorist organization, labeled Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's recent announcement of a project on Kurdish minority in southeast Turkey as merely a bid to undermine Ocalan's peace initiative.

Erdogan has recently urged Turkish political forces to support governmental steps to resolve the Kurdish issue.
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EastKurd: Yesterday thursday brutal regime forces attacked the homes of teachers and seven arrested.
Some of the names of teachers, Mohammad Saleh Islam Zehi with his son Mehdi Islam Zehi 17 years old and Alim Jangi Zehi teachers in Saravan.Saravan in Balochistan province.
a few days ago were arrested fifteen other teacher.

EastKurd: Britain and Western countries have always supported dictators ancient
Since 1979 the British government supported the Islamic Republic even in the media this has proved. If Britain did not support, People had overthrown the mullahs regime.

By sending the King of Oman to Tehran promise that the British government supports Ahmadinejad.

many Iranian people are victim of the British government's policies .some governments think stupid, they think people are stupid, but that governments are stupid.

european governments are not reliable, because of their commercial interests, all human rights and freedoms they suppress.

Among European countries UK, Germany, France, are fully supported of Iran. among the three countries Britain is the first row. the European governments are also guilty in the suppression of the Iranian nation by mullahs regime.

germany torture equipment sold to Iran, Mullahs most precious bought homes in the UK. France to Iran has assembled Peugeot.

This is a great sin.

EastKurd: BT before giving customers the service, gives them good tidings. Before using the services terms and condition is not explained by BT.
when customers use the phone service, two months after receive a bill £ 150 by post.
when the customer, from the company wants to explain they say the answer read the terms and condition.
This shows the BT is a thief. BT must before the Contract term and condition of the customer to explain.
BT is a great company but unfortunately, is fraud and thief.before using the service said the call to 0870 and 0845 are free but they did not explain the terms and condition.
their terms and condition after using services explained.really theft and fraud.
british people do not trust any of the Companies.because all methods are specific burglary.
In the UK there is no legal protection to customers, all companies support.

majority of companies here are the thief and fraud, I do not know where to complain.
If bill is £150 pounds, you have to spend £ 1000, the right to be able to defend ourselves.so this is why companies are THIEVES.

the complaint must be free of government review to be determined thief.perhaps the British government is stealing share.If not why complain about the cost not cheap or why not free.

EastKurd:regime forces based in Mountain Jalane, shooting in the passenger car and three passengers killed and injured.
two women has been killed in idem, a women is also sorely wounded.
Howraman regions of Kurdistan province.
annually by the regime's forces hundreds of Kurdish has been killed for no reason.

EastKurd: on Monday this week the regime forces at Sahne streets into two young boys in shooting one of them has been killed and others injured is extremely.
young injured by the regime forces arrested and transferred them to an unknown location.
since President Ahmadinejad is severely Kurdish massacre. regime has killed people for no reason.
Sahne regions of Kermanshah province.

Iran's defeated presidential candidate Mehdi Karoubi said on Thursday that some of those arrested after the June presidential election were tortured to death, his website reported.

"We observe that in an Islamic country some young people are beaten to death just for chanting slogans in (the post- election) protests," Karoubi's Etemademelli website said.

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EastKurd:15 teachers in Balochistan arrested by the forces of the Islamic Republic is illegitimate.
Brutal attack government troops bastard mullahs, 15 teachers were arrested in Baluchistan and were transferred to an unknown location.
Most people in Balochistan are sunni Muslims, the Iranian government a lot of pressure on the people of this region.
Mullahs regime since Ahmadinejad's presidency has promoted brutality.

EastKurd: Eleven Kurdish citizens residing Saqez, because the act of smuggling means such as textiles, clothing, satellite receiver had been detained by security police in Tehran have been tortured.
Prisoners in June while protesting the election results in Iran continue their continuing street protests by the security police in Tehran were arrested.

As security forces that "bring your satellite receiver to Tehran fundamental role in the widespread protests of play and always have" from them called the Confessions unrealistic.

The torture of prisoners, after a month beginning in August this year and while they did not even possible to walk also the parts 7 and 8 were transferred to Evin prison. "Atta Kasnazany" among the prisoners mentioned has the worst physical condition, he like the others because of damage incoming forced to use "hose urination" is one of torture by agents of the recoil hose and back into the bladder and urinary self as a body should be.

Currently all the people mentioned about the very bad physical condition and are entitled to these circumstances, the medical excuse Evin volume of work to examine the situation to their refusal.
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One of the victims of rape, Ali Larijani not see?

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interrogators often those who are arrested in recent protests, accused of espionage or enmity with the Islamic Republic and are addressing them infidels.
Each of them women and girls among the prisoners in the war trophies of the fight with the enemy clutch linkage, and are considered to violate their right to know and halal of girls and women prisoners in the Islamic Republic regime to life 30 years old rule of force and oppression and aggression. Evin prison, Qezel hasar, Gohar dasht,dezel abad,adil abad , Sanandaj prison, and all other prisons in the past witnessed the rape of women prisoners is.

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran's speaker of parliament on Wednesday rejected as "baseless" an opposition leader's accusation that some moderates had been raped in jails after their detention in unrest following the June election.

"Based on parliament's investigations, detainees have not been raped or sexually abused in Iran's Kahrizak and Evin prisons. Such claims are totally baseless," Iran's state television quoted Ali Larijani as saying.

Defeated moderate candidate Mehdi Karoubi said Sunday some protesters, both men and women, had been raped in prison.

Many of the post-election detainees were held in south Tehran's Kahrizak prison, built to house people breaching vice laws. At least three people died in custody there and widespread anger erupted as reports of abuse in jail spread.

Last month Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered the closure of the "sub-standard" detention center at Kahrizak. Iranian authorities have acknowledged some protesters were tortured at Kahrizak and said its director had been jailed.

Karoubi said he had written 10 days earlier to Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, who heads a powerful arbitration body, asking for an inquiry, but had received no response.

A committee set up by Karoubi and another defeated candidate Mirhossein Mousavi to pursue the issue submitted a list of 69 people killed in protests to parliament Monday. The list contradicted the official figure of 26 deaths.

The opposition says the poll was rigged, defying Khamenei who endorsed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's e-election.

(Writing by Parisa Hafezi; Editing by Jon Hemming)

QUETTA, Pakistan, Aug. 11 (UPI) -- An Iranian opposition movement based in Pakistan issued a warning to Baghdad to halt its assault on the enclave for the People's Mujahedin of Iran.

The People's Resistant Movement of Iran, or Jundallah, issued a warning to the Iraqi government that it would retaliate against the seizure of the Camp Ashraf enclave for the PMOI, Iran's Fars News Agency reports.

"The Iraqi government should know that its hostile measures against the residents of Camp Ashraf who are Iranian immigrants in this city are not and will not be in the interest of the Iraqi government," the statement read.

The PMOI is an Iranian opposition movement formed in the wake of the Islamic Revolution in 1979. It earned a label as a terrorist organization for its violent opposition to the clerical regime in Iran, though it now claims to support peaceful dissent over militancy.

Iraqi government forces stormed the Camp Ashraf enclave in July following a drawdown of U.S. combat forces. PMOI representatives claimed they were "savagely attacked," though Baghdad said the operation was part of an effort "to stabilize the security situation inside the camp."

Jundallah in its statement also called for international intervention to prevent the assaults on the estimated 3,500 residents of Camp Ashraf.

Jundallah is a Sunni dissident group based in Pakistan's Baluchistan province. It claimed responsibility for a May suicide attack on a mosque in the southern Iranian province of Sistan-Baluchestan, killing more than 20 people and wounding 70 others.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's opposition said Tuesday it had verified the deaths of 69 people in the two months of unrest since the disputed presidential election, confirming suspicions that the death toll was at least more than double the official figure.

Human rights groups have said throughout the crisis that they believe the death toll in the crackdown on protesters is far higher than the official Iranian count. But establishing a detailed picture of the number of casualties and their identities has been made difficult by restrictions on journalists and a reported prohibition on public mourning ceremonies.

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PARIS – Iranian authorities have freed a French Embassy employee on trial in Iran from a Tehran prison, President Nicolas Sarkozy's office announced Tuesday, asking that a young French academic also be quickly freed.

Sarkozy hopes charges will be dropped against Nazak Afshar, who has duel French-Iranian citizenship, and that another French citizen on trial, 24-year-old academic Clotilde Reiss, can soon return home, a statement said.

The release of Afshar, an employee in the embassy's cultural section, appeared as surprising as her arrest, which France learned about only after seeing her on television during filming of the mass trial Saturday of more than 100 people accused of fanning revolt in a "velvet" revolution aimed at toppling Iran's Islamic rulers.

Sarkozy credited France's EU partners "and other countries, specifically naming Syria, as among those "who provided their support in this first phase."

France had said it had been using all available contacts in an effort to free the two, who it had said were unjustly suspected of roles in the postelection unrest that engulfed Iran.

Sarkozy spoke with Afshar "as soon as she left prison," the statement said.

Details of Syria's role in the release of Afshar were not immediately clear. Iran is a strong ally of Syria, and Sarkozy has strengthened France's ties with Damascus.

Sarkozy visited Damascus in January, meeting with President Bashar Assad as part of an international bid at the time to stop an Israeli offensive in the Gaza Strip — his second visit there.

Sarkozy first went to Syria in September 2008 in a bid to forge stronger ties between France and its former colony. Sarkozy has backed a go-between role for Damascus to bring across Western demands on Tehran.

Afshar cried as she admitted in court Saturday she was involved in postelection disturbances and said "brothers at the Intelligence Ministry made me understand my mistake," the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported.

Reiss also apologized before the court for attending at least one demonstration but did so because she was curious. She has been charged with acting against national security by joining protests, gathering information, taking photos and sending them abroad during postelection unrest in Iran.

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said Sunday that such an admission was "worked on," suggesting that it had been coerced.

France's Foreign Ministry, meanwhile, summoned Iran's ambassador, hours after he told French radio station RFI that an Iranian offer of conditional freedom for Reiss had gone unanswered, although Tehran was seeking to "create favorable conditions" for the young woman.

Seyeb Mehdi Miraboutalebi told RFI that Iran's vice minister for foreign affairs told judicial authorities that Reiss could be freed if she resides in the French Embassy in Tehran during the rest of the trial. He said the French ambassador had not yet responded.

"We categorically refute this," a ministry statement said, indicating that the Iranians were dragging their feet on the offer. "The Iranian authorities were informed weeks ago that the French Embassy in Tehran was prepared to welcome Clotilde Reiss as soon as she benefits from a measure freeing her, which is not the case today."

Reiss had spent five months teaching in Isfahan before being arrested July 1 as she was leaving Iran.

She is among more than 100 suspects in the mass trial.
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EastKurd:Young men because of financial problems and because of heavy fines from the council put fire on his self.
he is under treatment in hospital. he is from Marivan in Kurdistan province and he is married.

The two main opposition parties, the Republican People's Party and the Nationalist Action Party, refused to participate in a meeting with the government Monday (August 10th), to discuss granting more rights to the Kurdish minority.
This is part of beefed up efforts by the government to reconcile with the Kurds ahead of Saturday's 25th anniversary of the start of the Kurdish insurgency Saturday.
The two opposition parties say the government is preparing to make concessions to the Kurds, which they say could result in further ethnic division.

EastKurd:"Fakher Mohammadi" Salmas resident near the village of "Kozaresh" has been killed by security forces.
The night of the seventh of July at the border with Turkey has been killed by Iranian forces.

Annually at hundreds of Kurdish borders Iran, Iraq and Turkey Are killed by Iranian forces and Turkish forces.

TEHRAN (AFP) – An Iranian opposition leader has claimed that women and boys detained over the wave of unrest that swept the nation after the disputed presidential election have been brutally raped in custody.

The allegations by defeated presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi surfaced as Iran hit back at Western criticism of its mass trials of protesters, including British and French embassy staff.

"A number of detainees have said that some female detainees have been raped savagely. Young boys held in detention have also been savagely raped," Karroubi said in a letter to powerful cleric and ex-president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.

"The young boys are suffering from depression and serious physical and mental damage since their rapes," he said, urging a probe into the claims.

Karroubi made the allegations in a "confidential letter" delivered on July 29 to Rafsanjani in his capacity as head of the Assembly of Experts, the powerful body which selects the supreme leader and supervises his activities.

Karroubi, a reformist former parliamentary speaker who came a distant fourth in the June 12 election that returned President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to power, has previously alleged that protesters were being abused and beaten in custody.

About 2,000 opposition supporters were arrested in the aftermath of Ahmadinejad's disputed victory. Most have been released, but around 200 remain behind bars. At least 110 have also been put on trial.

Karroubi urged Rafsanjani to take up the issue with supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, saying the "clergy and the Islamic republic will be held responsible" for such acts.

"The people who told me about this hold sensitive positions and some are veterans of the war (with Iraq)," he said in the letter, a copy of which was obtained by AFP.

On Sunday, the head of the Revolutionary Guards' political bureau called for Karroubi, fellow defeated election challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi and Ahmadinejad's predecessor Mohammad Khatami to go on trial for plotting a "velvet coup."

Iranian opposition leaders have repeatedly accused security forces of mistreating detained protesters as they maintain a defiant campaign against Ahmadinejad's victory in what they say was a rigged election.

Last month Khamenei ordered the closure of one detention centre, saying it was not "up to required standards."

Several reformist newspapers have also reported that several protesters have died in custody, but officials say they succumbed to disease and denied they were beaten.

The crackdowns have outraged the international community as Iran continues to battle its worst crisis since the 1979 Islamic revolution, with deep rifts between the country's clerical groups and the ruling elite.

But Tehran hit back on Monday after Washington branded the court proceedings against protesters as "show trials."

Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Hassan Ghashghavi described the Western criticism as "illegal and surprising," and said the court testimony by Iranian employees of foreign embassies was proof of foreign meddling.

"The comments made by Iranians working here is an example of foreign intervention in Iran's domestic affairs. We will strongly stand against any intervention," he said, the IRNA news agency reported.

Those on trial include French woman lecturer Clotilde Reiss, British embassy analyst Hossein Rassam and French embassy employee Nazak Afshar.

Ghashghavi denied that the court testimony given by Rassam on Saturday, who has now been charged with spying, was made under pressure.

"Rassam was already freed before he appeared in court. He was at home. He was under no pressure," Ghashghavi said at his weekly press conference.

Rassam, one of a total of nine local British embassy staff initially detained, said he had been instructed to monitor the protests for the British government.

Ghashghavi also criticised the actions of Reiss, who admitted in court that she took part in protests in Tehran and took photographs and video footage, according to local media reports.

Washington's envoy to the United Nations Susan Rice on Sunday condemned the "show trials," adding: "They are clearly a demonstration of the fact that the Iranian leadership is not reconciled to the concerns of its people regarding the validity of the elections."

Britain has voiced outrage over the trials and the Swedish EU presidency said actions against one EU country or citizen were considered an act against the entire 27-nation bloc.

EastKurd:Iran's defeated presidential candidate Mehdi Karoubi said some of those detained after the country's disputed June presidential vote had been raped in detention, according to his website on Sunday.

"Some senior officials told me that ... really shameful issues ... Some young male detainees were raped ... also some young female detainees were raped in a way that have caused serious injuries," the website quoted a letter Karoubi wrote 10 days ago to Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, head of a powerful arbitration body, as saying.

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interrogators often those who are arrested in recent protests, accused of espionage or enmity with the Islamic Republic and are addressing them infidels.
Each of them women and girls among the prisoners in the war trophies of the fight with the enemy clutch linkage, and are considered to violate their right to know and halal of girls and women prisoners in the Islamic Republic regime to life 30 years old rule of force and oppression and aggression. Evin prison, Qezel hasar, Gohar dasht,dezel abad,adil abad , Sanandaj prison, and all other prisons in the past witnessed the rape of women prisoners is.

EastKurd: Five Kurdish citizens by the Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj were sentenced to prison.
Four of these names Houshyar Ahmadi, Sirwan Mohammadi, Saywan Rahimi and Bahman Sa'idi each 6 years, and Jahanbakhsh Ahmadi was sentenced to sixteen months.
5 citizens that this village from Negl County Marivan functions are to cooperate and fight in favor of opposition parties have been charged. They are imprisoned in Sanandaj Central Prison report said.

Source:Mokryan News Agency

Brutal attack by Iraqi forces to Camp Ashraf last month, July 29

EastKurd: A woman called Zainab Jalalian charges that political activity and with Kurdish parties has been sentenced to death, from two years ago in solitary confinement now takes over the patient.

Zainab Jalali date of arrest, detention is a prison in Kermanshah intelligence office. Those two years ago on charges of political activity and membership in or connection to a political group has been arrested.

Zeynab Jalalian first political Kurdish woman sentenced to death in recent years is now in solitary confinement, and reports had been received stating that the offense of those comments health status and health is not good and that is extremely patient.

Source:Human Rights Watch Organization of Kurdistan

TEHRAN (Reuters) - A Frenchwoman on trial in Iran has been charged with acting against the country's national security for being involved in unrest after the June presidential vote, the state news agency IRNA reported on Saturday.

"She is charged with acting against national security by taking part in unrest ... collecting news and information and sending pictures of the unrest abroad," IRNA said.

She confessed her "mistakes", IRNA added.

"I wrote a one page report about the situation in Isfahan ... and handed it over to the French embassy's cultural section," IRNA quoted her as saying in court.

LONDON, Aug 8 (Reuters) - Britain strongly criticised the trial in Iran on Saturday of an Iranian staffer from its Tehran embassy, calling it an "outrage" and saying it was in breach of past assurances from senior Iranian officials.

Hossein Rassam is on trial with Iranian moderates and a French citizen accused of taking part in political unrest following the Islamic Republic's disputed June presidential election -- unrest that Iran says Britain and the United States have fuelled.

A spokeswoman for the Foreign Office said Britain's ambassador to Iran was urgently seeking clarification about the trial.

"We will then decide how to respond to this latest outrage," the spokeswoman said.

Iran's semi-official Fars news agency reported that Rassam was on trial for espionage, which carries a potential death penalty, and had confessed in court to Britain's involvement in the unrest.

"This is completely unacceptable and directly contradicts assurances we have repeatedly been given by senior Iranian officials," the spokeswoman said.

"We deplore these trials and the so-called confessions of prisoners who have been denied their basic human rights."

Leading Iranian moderates say the election was rigged in favour of hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the resulting dispute has plunged Iran into its biggest internal crisis in 30 years. At least 26 people were killed and hundreds arrested in the unrest.

Britain and other Western nations have had a tense relationship with Ahmadinejad over Iran's nuclear research, which Iran says is for civilian use but which Britain and the United States believe is intended for military purposes.

(Reporting by David Milliken; editing by Michael Roddy)
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By Aresu Eqbali

TEHRAN (AFP) — A French lecturer and an Iranian employee of the French embassy were in the dock on Saturday alongside others detained during protests over the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as a Tehran court resumed their trial.

Clotilde Reiss, who turned 24 in her prison cell on July 31, was arrested on July 1 as she tried to fly out of Iran after a study trip.

She was wearing blue jeans, a dark coat and a colourful headscarf. A policewoman stood alongside.

"She is accused of collecting information and provoking rioters," the official IRNA news agency reported. It named the embassy employee only as Afshar.

A diplomatic source said it was "surprising to know Reiss was in the court."

"We came to know only this morning from television. We were not informed previously," he added.

Reiss was initially accused of spying because she had taken a photograph of an opposition demonstration in the central city of Isfahan and emailed it to a French friend in Tehran.

France's ambassador to Tehran, Bernard Poletti, has been allowed to see Reiss in the capital's notorious Evin prison just once since her arrest, but he has been allowed to talk to her twice by telephone.

On July 28, the French foreign minister said that in her latest telephone call Reiss told Poletti that "her morale and courage were holding up even if she remains worried about her future."

"We are continuing to demand that we be allowed to exercise our right to visit our countrywoman," ministry spokesman Frederic Desagneaux said at the time.

More than 10 other defendants detained during the wave of protests that followed Ahmadinejad's hotly disputed June 12 re-election were in the dock with Reiss.

It was the second hearing in their trial. A number of key reformist politicians and journalists are among them, the ISNA news agency said.

The new hearing had been due to be held on Thursday but was pushed back to Saturday as some defence lawyers asked for more time to study the charges against their clients.

Some 100 defendants were in the dock for the first hearing on August 1. They were charged with various offences, including rioting.

At that hearing, several of the accused withdrew earlier allegations of fraud in the presidential election, saying that Ahmadinejad's victory was clean.

Another 10 protesters were put in the dock in a separate trial on Sunday.

Ahmadinejad's main challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi and reformist former president Mohammad Khatami have both denounced the trials.

Ahmadinejad was sworn in on Wednesday for a second four-year term.

Prosecutor Abdolreza Mohabati said those in the dock on Saturday were accused of "designing a plan on behalf of the opposition and foreign countries to topple the regime by stealth."

Iranian officials have accused opposition leaders and their supporters of plotting a "velvet revolution."

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran put on trial a French citizen and a local employee of the French embassy in Tehran on Saturday following the country's disputed June presidential election, the semi-official Fars news agency said.
"Among those tried today are a French woman accused of collecting information and provoking rioters and also a local female French embassy staff person," Fars reported.

French citizen Clotilde Reiss, held in Tehran's Evin Prison, was arrested at Tehran airport on July 1 on charges of espionage when leaving the country after spending five months as a French language teaching assistant in the central city of Isfahan.

France has rejected the charge against Reiss as "baseless" and French President Nicolas Sarkozy has called for her immediate release.

The French Foreign Ministry said on July 15 that a French-Iranian woman, working for its embassy in Tehran, had been detained for three days by the Iranian authorities.

She was not identified by name and the reason for her arrest was not revealed.

Iran on Saturday put more prominent moderates on trial in connection with the unrest that erupted after the country's disputed June presidential election, Iranian media reported.

The June 12 vote has plunged the Islamic state into its biggest internal crisis since the 1979 Islamic revolution and exposed deepening divisions in its ruling elite.

Some 100 moderates were tried last Saturday for various charges including acting against national security, which is punishable by the death penalty under Iran's Islamic law.

The second hearing in the trial of protesters, including top reformists, who opposed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election resumed in Tehran on Saturday, local news agencies reported.

The session was to be held on Thursday but was pushed back to Saturday as some of the lawyers of the defendants had asked for more time to study the charges against their clients.

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EastKurd:Farideh Abdulahi, has 4 children Marivan residents due to family disputes. out of home by her husband, tortured by her husband. she that had suffered severe depression. her husband had married another woman. Farideh concern for children put herself on fire, she was dead a week after in hospital.

EastKurd:A few days ago, 18 year old young woman eating pills will end her own life.
youth suicide in Kurdistan of Iran is worrying.

reported, she attempted suicide because of poverty has been severe.

this name is Ms. M. K, we have no more details.
Harsin in Kermanshah regions.

EastKurd: Daughter named Maryam Wednesday night in Tehran after release from prison has attempted suicide.
she eating sleeping pills had committed suicide now lived in Coma range. Maryam on July 29 during protests by government forces arrested and being raped in prison. she 2nd August released, after being released will attempt suicide.
This is Islamic justice.

Tehran tonight

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Urgent call on United Nations and US Government to transfer critically wounded Ashraf residents to Balad Hospital and get hostages released

NCRI - The state of wounded members of the PMOI who were abducted by Iraqi forces in their attack on Camp Ashraf on July 28 is critical. Among the 36 who were taken hostage some have critical injuries. They have been on hunger strike for the past ten days. The state of seven of the wounded has deteriorated and four of them are as follows:

- Mehraban Balai’s both legs were shot and broken by the Iraqi forces have gone numb and he cannot walk.

- Sohrab Baluchi was run over by Iraqi military vehicle ‘Humvee’ and is suffering intolerable pains.

- Ebrahim Komari whose arm was broken is going through severe pain.

- Habib Ghorab is suffering from stomach bleeding and pain.

The Iranian Resistance calls on the US Government, the UN Secretary General and High Commissioner for Human Rights, Amnesty International and other international human rights organizations to take urgent measures to facilitate the transfer of the wounded who are currently on hunger strike to Balad Hospital of the American forces. It also calls for the release of all hostages and their return to Camp Ashraf. The hostages held by Iraqi forces are all protected persons under the Fourth Geneva Convention.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
August 6, 2009

The Presidency of the European Union condemns the execution of 24 persons in the city of Karaj in Iran on 30 July 2009. The Presidency is concerned about the continued large-scale use of the death penalty in Iran, including the repeated incidence of collective executions during the past month.

The Presidency recalls the EU’s longstanding opposition to the death penalty in all circumstances and recalls that any miscarriage or failure of justice in the application of capital punishment represents the irreparable and irreversible loss of human life.

The Presidency continues to call on the Iranian authorities to abolish the death penalty completely and, in the meantime, to establish a moratorium on executions as urged by United Nations General Assembly resolutions 62/149 and 63/168.

EastKurd: "Arsin Takin" the Kurdish political prisoners the long sentences in prison was spent in Orumiyeh, ten days ago has disappeared. This political prisoners by prison officials ten days ago to transfer prisoners to other prisons in Orumiyeh seating outside but after the lapse of ten days of this transition do not have any information from his fate.
Efforts to inform the status of his family without the benefit of Takin. Relatives and close friends in his concern about the fate of political prisoners suffered.
he is from Turkish Kurdistan.

Source:Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan

EastKurd: Yesterday Wednesday July fifth, the regime's forces near the village Qator near the border, toward the people in shooting.
brutal regime forces in the attack, one person killed "Saraj mosalo" and others have been injured.
annual hundreds of young Kurdish borders Iran, Iraq and Turkey are killed or injured.khoy in West Azarbaijan province is.

AN ENTICING weekend of feature films, shorts and Q&A sessions with international directors returns to the city for the fourth annual Manchester Kurdish Film Festival.

Its programme offers 10 feature films, both drama and documentary, and special screenings in association with Kinofilm and the Family Friendly Film Festival.

The line-up this year includes award winners from Cannes, Edinburgh, Sao Paolo and IV DeHumalc Human Rights Festival.

Sharam Alidi’s stunning Whisper with the Wind (2009) will be screening for only the second time ever in the UK. The film, featuring a devoted messenger who travels the Kurdish countryside, won three awards at Cannes.

Iraq’s entry for the Oscars, Jani Gal, was directed by Jamil Rostami, who will be one of several directors taking part in question and answer sessions. The festival will also be screening his film Requiem of Snow, which sensitively shows the story of a young girl as she is led unwillingly into marriage. Multi-award-winning director Bahman Ghobadi presents two of his works, family film A Time for Drunken Horses and the difficult-to-see Marooned in Iraq, and will also be answering questions.

The festival, taking place at the Cornerhouse between Friday 14 August to Sunday 16 August  opens with a spectacular performance of traditional and modern Kurdish music at Dancehouse.

Find out more by ringing 0161 200 1500 or visit kurdishcreativefilm.com

EastKurd: On Monday this week one person called "Abubaker Shafiy" by the Iranian regime has been executed in Baneh prison .his offense is still not announced.
Baneh functions of Kurdistan province.

Stigma on the forehead European governments

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GENEVA (AFP) — Human rights campaigners and an Iranian opposition group on Wednesday called on the international community to ensure the protection of Iranian dissidents in Iraq.

The World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT) and the vice president of a UN human rights body said they feared that at least 35 people arrested during a security operation in a camp for Iranian exiles in Iraq could be sent back to Iran and near certain death.

Eleven people were killed in the raid, Iraqi authorities said, but Iranian National Council for Resistance members said here that 13 people had died and 36 were arrested.

Eric Sottas, secretary general of the OMCT, said there had been multiple warnings about a possible clampdown on members of the People's Mujahedeen group and their families in the Ashraf camp as Iraq and Iran forged closer ties.

He said the international community had demonstrated an "incomprehensible sort of passivity" and called for an investigation into the incident.

"There's no way that the protection offered by the Iraqis would have been sufficient bearing in mind the pressure that has been exerted," Sottas told reporters.

Those who had been arrested faced "summary executions" if they were transferred to Iran, he said.

"The most practical thing would be that the Americans assume their responsibility and intervene again to ensure protection (and) that should later be transferred to an international force", Sottas said.

About 3,500 Mujahedeen and their families have lived in Ashraf since former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein allowed the Iranian opposition to set up bases on his territory during his 1980-88 war with Iran.

Following the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, American forces disarmed the Mujahedeen in Ashraf but placed the residents under protection.

Iraq's increasingly independent government has moved to take charge of the site.

"It's shameful. The United States and the European Union should be ashamed of what they did," said Jean Ziegler, vice president of the consultative committee of the UN Human Rights Council.

Elaheh Azinefaer of the Iranian exile National Council for Resistance also accused the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) of standing by despite the warnings.

ICRC spokesman Florian Westphal told AFP that the humanitarian agency, which only gained access to Ashraf in 2008, had been following the situation "closely" and was in contact with Iraqi authorities.

"It is the responsibility of the concerned authorities to treat these people in the limits of the law," he added.

GENEVA (Reuters) - Iraqi authorities are blocking supplies of food and water going into a camp east of Baghdad where Iranian exiles have been living for over 20 years, Swiss- based human rights activists said on Wednesday.

The activists, including senior U.N. expert Jean Ziegler, said they feared a repetition of what they called a brutal attack on the camp by Iraqi special forces on July 28 when at least 7 residents died and many others were injured.

"Preventing people getting food is a gross violation of international law ... This has been going on for 10 days. It is totally scandalous," Ziegler, a top adviser to the U.N. Human Rights Council, told a news conference.

Eric Sottas, General Secretary of the Geneva-based World Organization against Torture (OMCT), deplored what he called "a sort of passivity on the part of international bodies" over events around the camp, home to some 3,500 people.

"Unless these unarmed and defenseless people are properly protected, this could happen again, perhaps worse," he said.

The two called on the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) to establish a presence in Ashraf, which houses members of the anti-Tehran People's Mujahideen Organization of Iran (PMOI) and their families.

Asked later about their appeal, ICRC President Jakob Kellenberger told Reuters the humanitarian body "will always speak in favor of humane treatment and of respect of the existing law." It had sent a team to inspect Ashraf recently.

Ziegler and Sottas urged U.S. forces, which as part of Washington's withdrawal strategy have handed responsibility for the camp to the Iraqi government, to resume its security role there pending the dispatch of a United Nations force.

Camp residents say 13 people were killed when the Iraqis moved in, while 36 were seized. Iraqi police say these are under investigation for rioting but the exiles say they fear they will be handed over to Iran to face torture and death.

The Iraqi government says the July 28 action -- which has been fiercely criticized by other global human rights groups including Amnesty International -- was undertaken to establish control following the U.S. pull-back.

The news conference, called by the OMCT and also attended by Europe-based representatives of the PMOI and by mothers of men in the camp, was shown what Sottas said was film of the Iraqi operation with scenes of violence against the inmates.

It showed an armored vehicle drive into crowds apparently inside the camp, zig-zagging from side to side and running several people down. Police were shown beating men and women with staves, while one officer brandished an axe.

Iraqi government spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said last week that five of the seven the government acknowledges were killed threw themselves in front of police vehicles, while the other two were shot by PMOI snipers to stop them leaving the camp.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was sworn in Wednesday for a second term as president nearly two months after a disputed election triggered massive street protests, split Iran's clerical leadership and brought attacks from within his own conservative camp over mistreatment of detained opposition activists.

In streets near parliament, security forces using batons dispersed hundreds of protesters who chanted "Death to the Dictator," witnesses said. Some wore black T-shirts in a sign of grief and others wore green – the colour of the opposition movement. A middle-aged woman carried a banner warning Iran's leaders if they do not listen to people's demands, they will face the same fate as Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was toppled in the 1979 Islamic Revolution.

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TEHRAN (AFP) — Iranian hardline newspaper Kayhan, which has criticised Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over a controversial political decision that put him at odds with the supreme leader, welcomed on Tuesday his endorsement as president for a second term.

Ahmadinejad was approved by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at a ceremony on Monday and is to formally take the oath of office in parliament on Wednesday.

"What we saw yesterday shows the divine legitimacy of the president," Kayhan said in an editorial.

Kayhan has been a harsh critic of Ahmadinejad over his appointment last month of a controversial aide Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie as his first deputy and then his delay in dismissing him despite Khamenei's orders.

The paper's editor-in-chief is appointed by Khamenei, who has the final say on all matters of state in Iran.

WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States called Tuesday on Iran to release immediately Iranian-American scholar Kian Tajbakhsh, who was put on trial last weekend with around 100 Iranians accused of rioting.

"We are deeply concerned of reports that Iranian-American scholar Kian Tajbakhsh was recently charged by an Iranian court without the benefit of a lawyer," State Department deputy spokesman Robert Wood said.

"Given that the charges facing Mr Tajbakhsh are without foundation, we call on Iran's leadership to release Mr Tajbakhsh without delay," he added, reading a statement at the daily news briefing.

Iran on Saturday put on trial around 100 people, including Tajbakhsh, top reformists and aides of opposition leaders, on charges of rioting after the disputed re-election in June of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president.

The trial in a revolutionary court came as Ahmadinejad, due to be sworn in on August 5 for a new four-year term, sought to ease political tensions by denying a rift with all-powerful supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

"As an independent academic, Mr Tajbakhsh has always sought political neutrality," Wood said.

"The right to due process in Iran, which includes the right to legal representation, is not only addressed in the universal declaration of human rights to which Iran is a signatory," it is also contained in its own constitution, he said.

EastKurd:Thursday last week, 24 people were hanged in Rajaie Shahr prison in Karaj . 
"Salari kia" successor "Mortazavi" prison affairs said in an interview with Borna site: The 24 people in pardon, but did not include them. They were all convicted drug trafficker Salari Kia said.

Britain sparked controversy yesterday by sending its second most senior diplomat in Tehran to the ceremony at which Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader, officially endorsed President Ahmadinejad’s hotly disputed re-election. Iran’s opposition leaders, who say the election was rigged, boycotted the event.

The Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) sent Patrick Davies, the British Embassy’s deputy head of mission, even though the regime has repeatedly accused Britain of fomenting the turmoil that has engulfed Iran since the ballot, arrested Iranians working for the Embassy and expelled the BBC’s Tehran correspondent.

The FCO said that it sent Mr Davies to the ceremony instead of Simon Gass, the Ambassador, to show there was no “business as usual” with a regime accused of rigging the election, brutally suppressing the opposition and staging show trials of dissidents.

The FCO also argued that it had to keep talking to the regime about its nuclear programme, human rights and other pressing issues, and that “to do this, communication channels have to be open”.

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Defeated Iranian presidential candidates Mehdi Karoubi and Mirhossein Mousavi will keep up protests against the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Karoubi was quoted as saying on Tuesday.

Karoubi, the most liberal of Ahmadinejad’s three opponents in the disputed June 12 election, has been vocal in his complaints of irregularities in the process.

“Neither Mousavi nor I have withdrawn. We will continue to protest and we will never collaborate with this government. We will not harm it, but we will criticise what it does,” Karoubi said in an interview with the El Pais Spanish daily.

He attributed recent unrest and street protests in the country squarely on the way authorities handled the election.

“Quite honestly, if the authorities had acted in a different way, we would never have had these problems, because the majority of those protesting only did so for that reason,” Karoubi said.

The Iranian people want a solution to the unrest and stability as soon as possible, he said, adding that both he and Mousavi are concerned about the killing of street protesters.

Karoubi is in favour of negotiations with the United States and other Western governments to attempt to open up the channels of communication with Iran.

“The most beneficial thing for the Iranians is negotiations. Nobody benefits from our ongoing problems with the United States,” he said.

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EastKurd:At 10 am yesterday, a young 23 year old named Rahim Mahmodpour a village resident Gorankan in Bardapan by captain Ganj Ali has been killed. Captain Ganj Ali killed him for no reason.

Captain Ganj Ali untill now has killed 5 people.he has created fear among people in the region.

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Sunday, 1 July, a young 20 year old named Khezer kak Rasol, Dolato village residents. Mardowaw area, in agriculture has been killed by regime forces. Other young injured is not clear that his name.

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Sunday 1 July a young 19 year old named Sasan Tojali a village resident Nalas because of severe poverty the fire itself  dies after a few minutes.kurdish unemployment poverty, severe financial pressure with young people.They are forced to commit suicide.

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Yesterday near the village of Kalakawy, between the cities of Sardasht, Mahabad, pregnant woman after the torture has been killed.reason being killed is not clear.

Miss Peshmerga. Hi, you heroes.
They sacrificed their lives for Kurdistan and we are comfortable to continue living.

EastKurd:Iran has hanged three men convicted of murder and drug trafficking in the central city of Isfahan, the government newspaper Iran reported on Sunday.

The men executed in prison on Saturday were identified as Babak, who was convicted of killing a man in 2003, Ghorban-Ali, 22, who had stabbed another young man to death and Hassan, 33, convicted of selling heroin.

Execution in any way the ferocity.

EastKurd:One woman and one man were hanged in the prison of Shiraz (southern Iran) early Wednesday July 29, Iran Human Rights reported.

The woman, identified as Jamileh (25), was convicted of murdering her husband in 2004, while the man, identified as Faraz (age not mentioned) was convicted of a 19 years old man with the name Ghasem, said the report.

According to the reports gatheres by Iran Human Rights, at least 70 people have been hanged in the month of July 2009 in Iran.

Also Shoresh mahdi khani a Kurdish youth in the Central Prison of Sanandaj has been executed.

He by the Revolutionary Court in Sanandaj Branch Number Two convicted.

Shoresh mahdi khani because of opinion and belief is executed.

EastKurd:The regime forces, after the arrest of one person the body was delivered to his family.
Regime forces, on the way of Tabriz, would follow the young Kurdish guy, car and arrested him banned.

A few days later was killed under torture in prison. Young killed name is Loqman Bakhtyari.

EastKurd:Shooting oppressive regime forces, in checkpoint Hassan Salaran, Section Sarshiw Saqez, cause of one person killed and two others were injured.

After the regime's forces killed and wounded them, as their car confiscated.
Young killed the name of Anwar Eqbali is 25 years.

Iranian state TV on Saturday confirmed the arrests of three Americans who crossed into Iran from northern Iraq .

Several news reports described the three Americans as tourists who mistakenly ended up in Iran while hiking in a mountainous area near the border with the Iraqi Kurdistan region. Their identities haven't been released. The scenic area, near the town of Ahmed Awaa , is popular as a hiking and tourism destination.

The Iranian state-owned al Alam station, which broadcasts in Arabic, cited an interior ministry official as saying that the Americans were arrested after they failed to heed the warnings of border guards.

"We have seen Iranian media reports stating that the three American citizens have been detained in Iran ," said State Department deputy spokesman Robert A. Wood . "We have asked our Swiss protecting power to confirm these reports with Iranian authorities and, if true, to seek consular access."

In the absence of U.S.-Iranian diplomatic relations, which ended in 1980 during the hostage crisis at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran , the Swiss embassy oversees the consular needs of Americans in Iran .

Agencies

Mohammad Ali Abtahi

TEHRAN (AFP) – Iran on Saturday put on trial around 100 people, including top reformists and aides of opposition leaders, on charges of rioting after the disputed re-election in June of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president.

The trial in a revolutionary court comes as Ahmadinejad, due to be sworn in on August 5 for a new four-year term, sought to ease political tensions by denying a rift with all-powerful supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

The Fars news agency said around 100 people went on trial in Tehran for their alleged role in anti-Ahmadinejad riots after he was declared winner of the June 12 vote.

Iranian media said the accused are charged with having "participated in riots, acting against national security, disturbing public order, vandalising public and government property and having ties with counter-revolutionary groups."

Among those in the dock were Mohsen Aminzadeh and Mohsen Safai-Farahani, deputy ministers under the government of ex-president Mohammad Khatami, and Mohsen Mirdamadi, current head of the Islamic Iran Participation Front.

Also on trial were prominent reformists Behzad Nabavi of the Islamic Republic Mujahedeen Organisation, Mohammad Atrianfar of the Executives of Construction, and Mohammad Ali Abtahi, from the Assembly of Combatant Clerics.

All strongly supported opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, who have refused to acknowledge Ahmadinejad's victory and demanded a rerun of the June poll.

The post-election violence, mainly in Tehran, left around 30 people dead and hundreds wounded, Iranian officials said.

The official IRNA news agency quoted prosecutors as saying the defendants include people whose photographs were taken while "committing the crimes."

"Some of their accomplices are on the run but they will be surely identified by our dear people and handed over to the law," it said.

After the election -- which opposition leaders say was rigged -- up to 2,000 protesters, political activists, reformists and journalists were arrested as hundreds of thousands of people rallied to challenge the results.

Most detainees have been released but around 250 remain behind bars and their continued imprisonment has become a rallying cry for the anti-Ahmadinejad movement.

The Islamic republic is mired in the worst political crisis in its 30-year existence as the opposition led by former prime minister Mousavi refuses to acknowledge Ahmadinejad's victory.

Thousands of protesters clashed on Thursday with police at a cemetery and in central Tehran as they marked the 40th day since the June 20 death of Neda Agha-Soltan, a young woman whose killing during a protest has come to symbolise the anti-Ahmadinejad movement.

Iran has accused foreign governments of complicity in crimes and killings during the post-election unrest, and on Friday a fresh anti-West salvo was fired by Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki.

"Western and European countries, with their overt and covert capabilities, interfered in Iran's election... the worst among them being Britain," he was quoted as saying by the state broadcaster's website.

"The countries who interfered through their television networks by telling how to instigate riots, build explosives and other tension creating activities are accomplices in all the committed crimes, murders and are held responsible."

The crisis has further deepened after a series of controversial decisions by Ahmadinejad weakened his standing among his own hardline supporters.

Hardliners lashed out at Ahmadinejad after he appointed a controversial aide as his first deputy and was then tardy in firing him despite an order from Khamenei to do so.

The delay in sacking Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie, an outspoken politician who last year enraged hardliners by saying Iran was a friend of Israeli people, has angered the conservative wing of the regime who warned him to obey Khamenei.

The hardline camp was further irked when Ahmadinejad sacked intelligence minister Ghoman Hossein Mohseni Ejeie following a reported "quarrel" over Rahim Mashaie's appointment.

Ahmadinejad, in an attempt to regain their support, denied on Friday there was any rift between him and Khamenei and compared his relationship with the supreme leader to "father and son."

EastKurd:Muslim group kidnapped Americans and were delivered to Camp Ramadan.

Reported that the Islamic Movement of Iraqi Kurdistan and kidnapped and delivered to Iran.

3 people in the last phone call with a friend named Jone Power said they are surrounded by Iranian forces. Oraman areas in Kurdistan is a beautiful playground. Reported the Americans in Kermanshah in Ramadan station belonging to the Revolutionary Guards are in prison.

Be noted that about 17 years ago the Islamic group were delivered to Iran seven members of Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan. All of them after torture and brutal execution by the Iranian government.

Three foreign nationals believed to be US citizens disappeared close to northern Iraq's border with Iran, Iraqi security officials have said.

A security official in Sulaimaniya said four tourists had arrived in the Kurdish city 260km northeast of Baghdad, from Arbil, the capital of Iraq's largely autonomous Kurdish region on Wednesday.

On Thursday, three of the group went on to the Ahmed Awa tourist resort, known for its waterfalls, some 150km east of Sulaimaniya, near the Iranian border. The fourth member of the group was ill and remained in Sulaimaniya.

The official said he believed the travellers may have stumbled into Iranian territory.

"They phoned their friend in Sulaimaniya and told him 'We are in trouble and are being held by soldiers who are not speaking Kurdish or Arabic'," he said.

One of the group was believed to be an Arabic speaker.

US officials could not confirm the report.