GENEVA (AFP) — World powers on Wednesday piled pressure on Iran to come clean about its disputed nuclear activities ahead of crucial talks in Geneva, but a defiant Tehran said it would emerge from the meeting unharmed.

The talks on Thursday come after Iran disclosed last week the existence of a hitherto secret second uranium enrichment plant and just days after it caused more world anger by testing missiles that could reach Israel.

"Iran is comprehensively failing to cooperate, it is comprehensively failing to live up to its international commitments," German Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman Ulrich Wilhelm told reporters.

The UN Security Council has imposed three sets of sanctions against Iran over its refusal to freeze nuclear activities.

The United States and its allies also want Iran to provide UN inspectors immediate access to the newly disclosed uranium plant, which has fueled suspicions that it is seeking the capability to build a nuclear bomb.

The head of the UN's nuclear watchdog, Mohamed ElBaradei, said that Iran was "on the wrong side of the law" by not declaring its new enrichment plant before last week.

"Iran was supposed to inform us on the day it was decided to construct the facility. They have not done that," Mohamed ElBaradei, director of the International Atomic Energy Agency, told Indian TV channel CNN-IBN.

European Union foreign affairs chief Javier Solana will conduct the talks with the top Iranian nuclear negotiator, Saeed Jalili, along with senior officials from Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States.

Jalili said on Wednesday he was heading for the talks with a "positive approach" while atomic energy chief Ali Akbar Salehi said Iran was ready to discuss concerns about its new enrichment plant.

However, Salehi also maintained there can be no bargaining about Iran's right to master the civilian nuclear fuel cycle under the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and ruled out a freeze on enrichment.

German foreign ministry spokesman Jens Ploetner said the talks were "an opportunity to establish together whether these words, this assurance of a readiness to talk, will be followed by deeds."

Solana stressed ahead of the meeting, the first of its kind for 14 months, that the five permanent powers in the UN Security Council and Germany needed guarantees from Tehran that its nuclear programme was "only peaceful."

Western countries have maintained their aim for a halt of Iran's uranium enrichment in return for a freeze on sanctions, while Russia and China have urged Tehran to cooperate with the IAEA.

"I say to Iran as they face a crucial date this week; join the international community now or face isolation," British Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned.

But hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lashed out Wednesday at Western demands that Iran give access to the new enrichment site.

"The leaders of these countries made a historic mistake with their comments about the new plant," the state television website quoted Ahmadinejad as saying.

Ahmadinejad said the Geneva talks gave an "exceptional opportunity for US and a few European countries to correct the way they interact with other world nations."

"The negotiators can definitely adopt any policy that they want, but we will not be harmed," the Fars new agency quoted the president as saying.

White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said late Tuesday the United States will mark its return to an active role in the talks by raising its concerns about uranium enrichment, even if Tehran refuses to discuss the issue.

The disclosure of the new plant, being built adjacent to a military base near the central holy city of Qom, has raised suspicion about the nature of Iran's nuclear programme.

The Financial Times reported Wednesday that British intelligence believes Iran has also secretly been designing a nuclear warhead.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy warned last week that new sanctions would be imposed by December if Iran fails to change its stance.

Turkey, a NATO member, said sanctions would be useless. "We do not believe sanctions bear results," Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said Wednesday. "The problems must be resolved through diplomacy only."

NEW DELHI (AFP) — The head of the UN's nuclear watchdog said in remarks published Wednesday that Iran was "on the wrong side of the law" in not declaring its second uranium enrichment plant when construction began.

His comments came a day before international talks with Iran in Geneva amid growing concern about the covert build-up of its nuclear programme, with world leaders seeking guarantees that Tehran's nuclear plans are peaceful.

"Iran has been on the wrong side of the law in so far as the IAEA regulation to inform the agency at an earlier date," Mohamed ElBaradei, director of the UN's International Atomic Energy Agency, told Indian TV channel CNN-IBN.

"Iran was supposed to inform us on the day it was decided to construct the facility. They have not done that," ElBaradei said in a transcript on the channel's website.

European Union foreign affairs chief Javier Solana will conduct the Geneva talks with the Iranian nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili, along with senior officials from Britain, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States.

Iran's atomic energy chief Ali Akbar Salehi has said he is ready to discuss concerns about its previously undisclosed second enrichment plant, but he has ruled out a freeze on enrichment.

ElBaradei, speaking on a trip to New Delhi, said that Salehi had told him the plant was far from complete and was "just ready in term of cables and construction."

But the IAEA head described Iran's failure to disclose the facility as "a setback to the principle of transparency" and said UN inspectors had to visit the site as soon as possible to assess if it was for peaceful purposes.

Disclosure to the IAEA last week of the plant cast a shadow over the talks in Geneva, with Washington calling on Tehran to agree to "immediate, unfettered access" by IAEA inspectors.

Uranium enrichment is a sensitive issue as the process can produce the fuel for nuclear power or, in highly refined form, the fissile core of an atomic bomb.

The UN Security Council has imposed three sets of sanctions against Iran over its failure to heed repeated ultimatums to suspend enrichment.

The United States and its allies are reportedly considering much tougher sanctions in case of continued Iranian defiance.

Iran has said it is building the plant, located near the holy city of Qom, because of the military threat hanging over its existing nuclear facilities.

Both Washington and Iran's regional arch-foe Israel have refused to rule out military action.

ElBaradei said he hoped the talks starting on Thursday would "usher in a comprehensive, meaningful dialogue."

But Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad lashed out at world leaders for demanding access to the Qom plant.

"The leaders of these countries made a historic mistake with their comments about the new plant," state television quoted Ahmadinejad as saying on Wednesday.

He said the talks were an "exceptional opportunity for US and a few European countries to correct the way they interact with other world nations."

Western powers suspect the programme is aimed at making atomic weapons, something Iran denies.

EastKurd:Islamic regime ordered the revolutionary court in Kurdistan province, in two weeks fifteen political prisoners to be executed.

The Kurdish news websites have been published.

Fourteen names of political prisoners as follows:
1- Ramazan Ahmed
2- Farhad Chalesh
3- Sherko Marafi
4- Rostam Narkia
5- Farzad Kamangar
6- Ali Haydarian
7- Farhad Vakili
8- Hiwa Botimar
9- Anwar Hosain Panahi
10- Habiballa Lotfi
11- Fasih Basamani
12- Arsalan Awlyaie
13- Ms:Zaynab Jalalian
14- Ehsan Fatahian

According to obtained reports from inside Iran, the Iranian regime’s anti-riot forces attacked the campus of the University of Tehran tonight and arrested a number of students. They took the detainees to an undisclosed location.

The agents, enraged at this morning’s student protests and anti-regime chants, were stationed in front of a male dorm building at the campus starting at 17:40 local time in order to prepare to arrest some of the student activists identified in the course of the protest earlier in the day. After it got dark, the number of the agents increased as they set up formation.

Witnessing the presence of the agents, students began to rush out of their dorms and chant slogans. Some of the slogans included, “With the help of God, victory is imminent. Death to this deceitful government,” “Seyyed Ali [Khamenei] Pinochet, Iran will not become another Chile.” The suppressive forces attacked the students and arrested a number of them.

The Iranian Resistance warns about the torture of the students and calls on international organizations, particularly the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention and the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, to enact immediate and binding measures to free political prisoners in Iran.
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By Hiedeh Farmani

TEHRAN (AFP) — A senior Iranian MP warned Western powers on Monday against "propaganda" over Iran's new uranium enrichment facility which he said could lead to a breakdown in much-anticipated nuclear talks.

"If this propaganda is effective, the talks will fail and these countries will be back to square one," Alaeddin Borujerdi, the head of parliament's national security and foreign policy commission, told Mehr news agency.

He also said Iran "will not accept any new conditions in the nuclear issue" ahead of talks due to be held between Iran and six global powers in Geneva on Thursday.

Earlier on Monday Iran reiterated that its newly disclosed second uranium enrichment plant does not violate international law and said that concerns raised by the West were baseless.

"It does not violate any international law. Western countries are making unrealistic comments," foreign ministry spokesman Hassan Ghashghavi told reporters.

On Friday, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) announced that Tehran had told it the Islamic republic was building a second uranium enrichment plant in addition to its existing facility at Natanz.

The revelation unleashed a global outcry against Tehran which is already at loggerheads with world powers over its controversial atomic programme.

"The allegations... the media hype is baseless," Ghashghavi said, referring to the outrage expressed by Western leaders including US President Barack Obama.

He said Iran was "prepared to clarify all aspects of the new nuclear plant."

The new enrichment facility is being constructed south of Tehran on the road to the holy city of Qom.

On Sunday, Iran's nuclear chief Ali Akbar Salehi vowed that Tehran will stick to enriching uranium up to the five percent level -- much lower than bomb-grade requirement, suggesting Tehran's atomic drive had peaceful aims.

Uranium enrichment lies at the centre of fears over Iran's controversial atomic work since the process to make nuclear fuel can also be used to make the fissile core of an atom bomb in much higher purifications of over 90 percent.

But US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, in an interview with CBS network, said "we don't believe that they can present convincing evidence that it's only for peaceful purposes, but we are going to put them to the test on October 1."

Global powers suspect Tehran's nuclear drive is aimed at making nuclear weapons. Tehran denies the charge.

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

“This year’s Quds day demonstrations are considered as a turning point in the events of the past few months. The auspicious consequences of what happened as a result of this event are not exclusive to any group or way of thinking and is an achievement and excellence for all who have roots in this land, even for those who due to wrong judgements are not able to feel this gift and mercy at this time and day.

This blessing was the fruit of the Imam [Khomeini’s] foresight. He used to tell us many times to lay the right foundations so that even after you, those who would like to destroy are not able to do so. We may not have been successful in carrying out this guidance, however he himself did and raised all the pillars of the Islamic Republic based on the trust of the people and in each year, he established many rituals and assemblies so that no one would be capable of wiping out this base.

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Fariba Pajouh, journalist and blogger, was arrested more than a month ago and is currently detained in the Evin prison. Last week she was transferred from solitary confinement to a cell she shares with another detained journalist, Henhameh Shahidi. Her charges have not yet officially been announced. Fariba’s mother has written the following letter to her detained daughter:

You used to tell me: Mom you are a doctor and I still have to envy your patients. Please look at me as one your patients; I will even pay you…….

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Human Rights Activists News Agency: The Baha'i Affairs Committee of the Human Rights Activists in Iran has prepared the following report, which details the widespread human rights violations of Baha'i citizens in Iran in the month of Shahrivar 1388 (August-September 2009).

Shahrivar 1st: On this day, unidentified individuals set fire to Mr. Mirza Agha Fanaian’s harvest in a village near Semnan, thereby voiding this farmer’s many months of tiresome work.

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Iran Human Rights: One woman was hanged in the prison of Sarakhs, north-east Iran, reported the state run Iranian news agency ISNA.

The woman, whose name and age were bnot mentioned, was convicted of murdering her husband 10 years ago in a village near the town of Sarakhs, accroding to the report.

She was hanged in the prison of Sarakhs on Thursday September 24., said the report.

EastKurd: The security office of Tabriz University prevented a Kurdish female student from enrolling because of her political beliefs.

HRA reported, Zahar Faraji, a Bookan resident who is a geography student, received a letter from the security office of the university prior to the start of new semester, asking her to go to the security office instead of the admissions office.

When Ms. Faragi went to the security office, she was told that her enrollment had been disallowed because of the support her family had shown for political parties who opposed the regime, and because her brother was member of these parties.

Under the ninth and tenth IRI governments, both of which have been under the presidency of Ahmadinejad, the banning of students based on their religious and political beliefs has increased significantly.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad brushed off Western criticism over a newly disclosed uranium enrichment plant, and said he was hopeful about upcoming talks to defuse the nuclear standoff.

In a one-hour news conference in New York on Friday, Ahmadinejad took a relatively moderate stance after US President Barack Obama, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown and French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Tehran admitted to the UN nuclear watchdog that it had built a second enrichment plant. Uranium enrichment explained.

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PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Friday the United States preferred diplomacy in dealing with Iran over its nuclear program, but would consider imposing "sanctions that bite" if the diplomatic track did not work.

Obama, speaking at a news conference at the end of a Group of 20 summit, would not go into details about what potential sanctions might be considered. The United States and other Western countries blasted Iran on Friday over its construction of a second nuclear plant.

TEHRAN (Reuters Life!) – Iranian police warned shopkeepers on Tuesday not to use mannequins without headscarves or which exposed body curves, official news agency IRNA reported.

"Using unusual mannequins exposing the body curves and with the heads without Hijabs (Muslim veil) are prohibited to be used in the shops," Iran's moral security police in charge of Islamic dress codes said in a statement carried by IRNA.

Iranian police have stepped up a crackdown on both women and men, boutiques and small companies which fail to enforce strict religious dress codes since President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came to office in 2005.

The measures are the latest in a country-wide campaign against Western cultural influences in the Islamic Republic, where strict dress codes are enforced.

"Both showing necktie and bowtie behind the windows ... and (the) selling (of) women's underwear by men are prohibited," said the police statement.

In the past, crackdowns tended to be launched at the start of Iran's hot summers and petered out soon after. But last year they extended into winter and included a drive against tight women's trousers and even men with spiky "Western" hairstyles.

Those who violate dress codes are usually cautioned on a first offence, sometimes after a brief visit to a police station. But they can be detained for longer, taken to court and required to have "guidance classes" after repeat offences.

Dress codes are most often flouted in wealthier, urban areas. Conservative dress is the norm in poorer, rural areas.

(Writing by Reza Derakhshi; Editing by Paul Casciato)

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The Group of Eight nations backs a U.S. policy of giving Iran a chance to negotiate over its nuclear program, but believes time is running out before new sanctions should be considered, Italy's foreign minister said on Thursday.

Reporting on a dinner of G8 foreign ministers on Wednesday evening, Franco Frattini said: "What has emerged ... is that G8 partners believe that we are to support the policy of United States President Obama to give Iran a chance ... (but) on the substance, we want to reaffirm that time is running out.

"Now (it) is premature to ... talk about sanctions, but we have to make it absolutely clear that our window of opportunity will not remain open indefinitely," Frattini told reporters on the sidelines of the U.N. General Assembly gathering.

Italy currently holds the presidency of the G8, which groups the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Japan and Russia.

In defiance of Security Council resolutions, Iran refuses to stop enriching uranium, which the West says indicates Tehran is trying to develop nuclear weapons. Iran says it merely wants to generate nuclear power for civil purposes.

The five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council -- the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China -- and Germany are due to hold talks with Iran in Geneva on October 1. China has been the most reluctant to impose sanctions.

Frattini suggested there could be further rounds of talks.

Frattini said he proposed that Gulf Arab states and Asian countries such as India and South Korea should also be involved in discussions on Iran, although he did not elaborate. He said India was Iran's principal supplier of refined oil products -- which some have suggested should be subject to sanctions.

(Reporting by Patrick Worsnip, editing by Todd Eastham)

EastKurd: Near the village of Meraneh of functions in Marivan, Iranian regime forces were shooting towards the border young tradesman called Arkan Tarin was killed.
With killed Arkan, the number of killed has reached 30 people.
The era of President Ahmadinejad, the intensity of killing people of Kurdistan.
Iranian government, People of Kurdistan most basic human services is denied.
Kurdish in Iran are second class citizens.

The ruling Justice and Development Party, or AKP, has produced a draft road map for its Kurdish move and plans to implement it by October, a source has revealed.

The draft includes democratic steps that would grant more rights to secure freedom of expression for Kurds, broaden the authority of local administrations and increase economic prosperity in Southeast Anatolia.

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Iranians in New York because of the presence of Ahmadinejad at the United Nations to protests.

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The 64th annual session of the UN General Assembly will be held tomorrow, a time for the leaders of 195 countries and Ahmadinejad to gather in New York. At the same time, mowjcamp promises to deliver the latest news and analysis along with green activists from New York as the unelected president of Iran is let loose onto the streets of New York.

Ahmadinejad, a “president” whose legitimacy comes from the leader instead of the people of Iran, will appear in New York. A “president” whose re-election cost the lives of our brothers and sisters and their freedom; a re-election only made possible through torture and rape; a presidency born out of stealing peace and security from a nation.

Many thousands of miles away from the streets of Tehran where his goons arrest, beat up, torture, kill and rape Iranians, green protestors from all walks of life will remind the “president” of Iran that his presidency is more vulnerable than a spider’s web. The self-proclaimed “president” has deprived the people of Iran of their peace and security, and yet he will somehow find the audacity to call himself the saviour of world peace, as he always does.

He wants to convince the world that he is a president, that he is our president. But if he thinks for one second that we will remain silent against this great insult to the Iranian nation, he has another thing coming.

Continents away, he will once again try to convince everyone that he is one of us, the people. He wants to tell everyone that he is our rightful guardian with his deceptive ways.

But tomorrow, the world will hear once again, the true cries of the Green Movement: He is not one of us; he never has been.

He will firmly and comfortable deny the crimes committed by his death squads, as he always does. And again, he will somehow find a way of looking into the eyes of the world and will deny the shutting down of newspapers and opposition website and the existence of political prisoners. He will have no problem whatsoever with lying to the world’s press and telling them that there are no longer any protests in Iran that everything is just fine and tranquil.

Ahmadinejad has yet to find a place to sleep in the city of New York, but as he gloats every time he is addressed as “Mr President,” he will try to use his rotting pernicious arguments, hoping against hope that somehow no one will remember to grill him about his government’s continued breach of Human rights.

Only a few days ago Iranians showed that their green hopes are still alive, more than ever before. They made it clear to all of us that they reject war and any form of foreign influence in their country’s affairs, whether it is from Russia or the United States. Nevertheless, the government’s propaganda machines will make one last attempt to point their cameras towards the few Zionist supporters of Israel and its crime and will try to paint a different picture of the truth and say, “see? These are the only ones who went against Ahmadinejad!”

And tomorrow, thousands of New Yorkers shall take on the task of being the voice of the Iranian people. So a word of encouragement to the our justice seeking comrades in New York who are hell-bent on making the “president’s” trip a living hell that will stay in memories for times to come:

When you stand in front of the UN, remember us when we are terrorised, tortured, and killed every day on the streets of Iran. As you flood the streets of NY, remember us when we take beatings and inhale tear gas until we can’t stand-up anymore, but we still refuse to give in, and instead shout “don’t be afraid, we are all together!” Let “Mr President” know that the green wave shall haunt him wherever he may go. Make sure he remembers that every time he leaves his little hiding hole, the green wave will meet him wherever he goes, be it Tehran, be it New York. Now, you are our voice. So pick up your green flags, wear your green shirts and wristbands and knock on every door and let everyone know that the city whose symbol is lady liberty shall be immersed in green for the sake of freedom in an ancient and distant land. New York! We’ve done our part, now it’s your turn.

The following video is the work of a group of Iranians in New York. Please watch to the end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dv4ZLd4kZcI

This week the unelected president of Iran is attending the UN General Assembly and will speak on behalf of the Iranian people! Iranians in the US are gathering in Ny to show their objection to his presence. Since the election day on 12 June, Iranians have demonstrated against the outcome. the government has detained about 5000 and the number of those murdered in various detention centres or street demonstrations is unknown. A list of 72 was recently published.

In NY, the two kilometre Green Scroll, which thousands of Iranians signed; "Ahmadinejs is not Iran's President" and was displayed in Paris on 25 July, then in Stockholm on 7 September will be displayed across the Brooklyn Bridge. Apart from that there are press conferences by the Iranian human rights organisations and rallies. Please join and help us if you are there and have spare time.
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TEHRAN (AFP) – Iran has arrested a prominent woman reformist as part of its continuing crackdown on those challenging the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a reformist website said on Wednesday.

The reformist, Azar Mansouri of the Islamic Iran Participation Front (IIPF), was arrested on Tuesday evening, website Norooznews said.

Mansouri is a deputy to Mohsen Mirdamadi who himself has been arrested and is on trial on charges of being involved in unrest which rocked Tehran after the June 12 election.

The IIPF said that Iran's intelligence authorities have so far arrested at least 20 of its members.

"The IIPF expresses resentment towards the new wave of arrests... by coup people," it said on the website.

"More than others, the judiciary which is submitted to the will of some military and security bodies, will be harmed by a fire that will burn... the Islamic republic and the revolution."

In the initial post-election crackdown, security forces arrested some 4,000 people. Most have now been released but around 140 including top reformists and political activists have been put on trial at mass hearings.

Other top activists currently on trial and who are members of IIPF are Saeed Hajjarian, Abdollah Ramezanzadeh and Mostafa Tajzadeh.

By Hiedeh Farmani

TEHRAN (AFP) — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday that no country would dare to launch aggressive actions against the Islamic republic and demanded that US-led foreign troops leave the region.

"No power will ever dare to think of launching aggression against Iran. Today, Iran is experienced and powerful," the hardliner said in an address to the nation on the anniversary of the breakout of the Iran-Iraq war in 1980.

"Our armed forces are ready to confront the forces of darkness. If anybody wants to shoot a bullet at us from anywhere, we will cut off his hands."

Ahmadinejad, who was to head later Tuesday to New York to attend the UN General Assembly meeting, demanded that US-led foreign forces leave Iraq and Afghanistan.

"We advise you to go back to your own land. Our region will never accept a lengthy presence of foreigners," the re-elected president, dressed in his trademark light-colour jacket and wearing sunglasses, said in a ceremony attended by top military and administrative officials.

"As you saw in Iraq and Afghanistan, people are against the presence of foreigners. It is impossible (for foreign troops) to have a stable base in the region."

Ahmadinejad's speech was followed by a military parade, an annual event marking the breakout of the war between Iran and Iraq which lasted almost a decade.

A military plane taking part in the parade crashed near Tehran on Tuesday, the official IRNA news agency reported.

"One plane which was conducting manoeuvres during the parade crashed in the village of Vali Abad," near Tehran, the report said. It did not say if there were any casualties.

About a million people died on both the sides in the war which erupted soon after the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran.

Ahmadinejad said the war, which Iran describes as the "Sacred Defence", was a "humiliation to Satanic forces." Iranian officials refer to the United States as the Great Satan.

"Chemical weapons were used against our nation and the Satanic powers equipped Saddam (Hussein) against our nation. Saddam was backed by certain arrogant powers," the president said, reminiscing about the brutal conflict.

"We ask the arrogant powers to revise their polices... they sell weapons and then talk of peace."

Ahmadinejad's comments come just days ahead of a high-profile international meeting between Iran and representatives of the six world powers on Tehran's latest package of proposals.

The package aims to allay global concerns over Tehran's nuclear programme which Western powers suspect is aimed at making an atomic bomb, a charge vociferously denied by Iran.

Ahead of the talks and his New York visit, Ahmadinejad has once again adopted an aggressive tone, repeatedly blasting arch-foe Israel.

On Friday, at a pro-Palestinian rally, he reiterated his belief that the Holocaust was a "myth", a remark which once again outraged the international community.

During the military parade on Tuesday, in which thousands of Iranian soldiers participated, the military showcased fighter plane, Saegheh, which Iran claims to have built domestically.

The parade took place opposite the mausoleum built for Iran's revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini on the outskirts of Tehran.

This week, the annual General Assembly of the United Nations will take place in New York, and Ahmadinejad will hope to take centre stage as many times as he can, as he has shown before.

His controversial remarks in New York in previous years regarding the Holocaust and Israel have always attracted an incredible amount of attention and have at times dominated news reporting. His presence in New York has usually been followed by protests in New York too. In recent years, the protests have usually been dominated by pro-Israel Jewish groups or Iranians in favour of regime change in Iran. This year however, the composition of the protestors will most likely be different, following the events of the summer and Ahmadinejad’s brutal suppression of Iran’s people.

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Iranian police have prevented supporters wearing green from entering the stadium for a football match between Persepolis and Rah-Ahan.

According to the official fan website of one of Iran’s football powerhouses Persepolis, police forces had been deployed outside the stadium and not only prevented supporters wearing green from entering the stadium, but also treated them in a degrading manner.

Even the fan club’s reporter, who had worn green on match day, was met with verbal abuse from police, but was allowed in after the intervention of club officials.

In the end, the fan club asks “does a person travelling from a distant city to watch his favourite team play, deserve this ugly behaviour?”

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A truck displaying posters aganist Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad drives near the UN building in New York. Two human rights groups on Monday pressed the UN General Assembly to appoint a special envoy to probe grave rights abuses in Iran since the disputed June 12 presidential election.

The coup makers fear nothing, and they will resort to any measure to keep their tight grip on power. In achieving their sinister goals, they have concocted cunning plans which in the long term lead to the destruction of Iran and the Iranian people and we must do our utmost to expose them wisely.

As the historical statement of Mir Hossein Mousavi had predicted, the illegal government of Ahmadinejad is seeking legitimacy from outside Iran after lacking legitimacy from the people and he will do so even it means abandoning our rights in favour of outsiders.

Buying oil from Venezuela at a price higher than that of the international rate, and his pre-sermon speech yesterday were two clear signs of a traitorous foreign policy which would give in to the demands of foreign governments. The evidence suggests that his speech yesterday was a planned invitation to the foreign press (who had been banned from even visiting Iran) just prior to his trip to New York in the week.

The main idea behind this strategy is the same as the one Ahmadinejad has experienced (mostly unsuccessfully) in his first four years of presidency: creating a massive news wave with the intention of diverting attention from the main news. However this time around, this tactic will mean giving up on national interests.

As planned by the coup makers, Yesterday Ahmadinejad decided to return to a point in foreign policy from which he started 4 years ago. However, during his first term he refrained from continuing with his behaviour after the counsel of reasonable figures in the system. Nevertheless, with the current state of affairs in the country, he has no choice but to return to his early strategy: denying the holocaust, anti-Semitic tirades (instead of rational criticism of Israel’s crimes) and attracting the attention of global media. Hoping that this way, the international media will focus on Ahmadinejad instead of focusing on masses that oppose him and on his lack of internal legitimacy.

At the same time supporters of Israel will hold massive protests and will attempt to overshadow the protests of Iranians giving Ahmadinejad a chance to portray himself as an “anti-Israel” and “anti-western” figure.
As we have seen many times before, Ahmadinejad’s supporters would like to make every possible effort to link any criticism of Ahmadinejad to Zionism.

As mowjcamp has stated many times, Ahmadinejad and Israel are actually rare complements of each other despite all the rhetoric that’s usually toss around between the two sides.

They both need each other to divert attention from the lack of legitimacy they face on their domestic fronts. However, what is sacrificed here is the rights of the Iranian people.

We must all therefore join hands to neutralise this dirty and foul tactic.

According to our reports, the coup makers are well aware of the importance of Ahmadinejad’s trip to New York in gathering followers (especially in the Islamic world) and are showing relentless efforts in planning for this occasion. Yesterday’s speech, invitations Western media and forcing MPs who represent religious minorities to accompany him in New York are only parts of their cunning plans.
  
If the coup forces succeed in their plot to manipulate headlines, they will be encouraged even further to trade our national interests for their own gains.

New York is the first step in making sure this old tactic never comes to fruition.

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Systematic repression by the Islamic Republic has now become so explicit that even Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader who is chiefly responsible for these crimes, has acknowledged the widespread torture and murder of Iranians at Tehran University’s dormitories and Kahrizak Detention Center. The military and paramilitary forces of the Islamic Republic have openly murdered Iranian citizens. But instead of putting those responsible for these crimes on trial, the security apparatus of the Islamic Republic has arrested, incarcerated, tortured, and raped the brave men and women of the country while holding them in solitary confinement.

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EastKurd: Seyed Mehdi Takht Firoze, head of Sanandaj city council today Saturday at Shahpur Street in Sanandaj killed by unknown persons.

In two weeks this is the fifth assassination carried out.

People say, the Iranian government is responsible for the assassinations because the Iranian government is only performs such crimes.

Source:Rawanews

Tens of thousands of protesters chanted and carried banners through the heart of Tehran and other Iranian cities on Friday, hijacking a government-organized anti-Israel march and injecting new life into the country’s opposition movement.

The protests, held in defiance of warnings from the clerical and military elite, served as a public embarrassment to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who had hoped to showcase national unity just two weeks before he is set to meet Western leaders for talks on Iran’s nuclear program.

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EastKurd: from Marivan and Baneh cities reported the names of two cross-border worker Farid and Sorkew the border were killed by regime forces.

Farid was wounded at the Marivan border but severely tortured by the regime forces he has been killed with tortured.

Tehran today friday sep 18 2009 Quds day

Iranian hardliners attacked opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi and security forces clashed with his supporters during an annual anti-Israeli rally in Tehran on Friday.

The state news agency IRNA said Mousavi and reformist cleric Mehdi Karoubi, both defeated candidates in the disputed poll in June, were forced to leave the rally after being attacked by "angry people."

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TEHRAN: A group of Iranian hard-liners have attacked a reformist former president while he was marching with opposition supporters at an anti-government rally in Tehran.

A reformist Web site cites witnesses as saying the attackers pushed ex-President Mohammad Khatami to the ground. It says opposition activists rescued him and quickly repelled the assailants.

Khatami has sided with the opposition in the post-election crisis that has gripped Iran. Another reformist Webs site says his turban was disheveled and he was forced to leave the march.

The reports came as tens of thousands of Iranians joined government-sponsored marches Friday marking an annual pro-Palestinian commemoration.
Thousands of opposition activists are holding a coinciding anti-government rally.
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According to an informed source, the security forces, based on prior plans, intend to arrest Mir-Hossein Moussavi and Mehdi karroubi; following the Quds Day Marches.

This informed source, in continuation of his interview with NouroozNews, said: Analysis leads to believe that the reason that government organizations and institutions have given their employees two days off; Saturday and Monday of this week [coming week], is to decrease the population of the City [in those two days] and to pave the way for these arrests.

He also [the informed source] thinks it is probable that with prior planning [by the authorities] and in order to create excuses for these arrests, pre-planned clashes will take place during Quds Day marches so that they [authorities] can later attribute the clashes to the popular Green Movement.  mowj

TEHRAN (Reuters) – Iran security forces clashed with supporters of opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi and arrested at least 10 of them during annual anti-Israel rallies in central Tehran on Friday, a witness said.

"Security forces just arrested over 10 people," the witness said. "They are pushing protesters and beating them."

Iranian authorities, including Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had warned the opposition against turning anti-Israel rallies to street protests against the clerical establishment.

Defeated presidential candidates Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi said they would attend the rally.

Thousands of supporters of Mousavi, wearing green wristbands or shawls, were among the crowds marching in the "Qods (Jerusalem) Day" rallies held nationwide every year on the last Friday of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan.

"Death to the dictators," and "Not Gaza, Not Lebanon, We are

ready to die for Iran," chanted protesters.

Iran's June presidential election, which was followed by huge opposition protests, plunged Iran into political turmoil and exposed deepening divisions within its ruling elites.

The opposition leaders say the poll was rigged to secure President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election. The authorities deny it.

(Writing by Parisa Hafezi; Editing by Louise Ireland)

EastKurd: gunmen have assassinated a prominent Sunni cleric in a province home to Iran's Kurdish minority.

Thursday's report says Mohammad Sheikholeslam was killed at the gate of his house. The cleric represented the province in the Assembly of Experts, a key religious body entrusted by law with appointing and dismissing Iran's supreme leader.

This is the fourth person were killed in two weeks, Kurdish people said they were killed by regime forces.

Seventeenth anniversary of the assassination doctor Sadeq Sharafkandi, by mercenaries Islamic Republic of Iran.
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Dr. Sharafkandi was born on January 1st, 1938, in the Bokan region of Iranian Kurdistan. He spent two years of his elementary studies in his native village, then his family moved to Mahabad, where he completed his primary and secondary education.

In 1959, he received his degree in chemistry at the Institute of Higher Education in Teheran; from then onwards, up to 1965, he taught chemistry in the Kurdish towns of Ourmieh and Mahabad.

Because of his political activities, he was transferred first to Arak, then to Karaj by the Shah's regime, before being appointed assistant lecturer in chemistry at the Teachers' Higher Training College in Teheran.

In 1972, he went to France to study at the University of Paris VI, where he received his Ph.D. in analytical chemistry in 1976. The same year, he went back to Iran to teach at the Teachers' Higher Training College in Teheran.

After the fall of the Shah's regime in February 1979, he resigned from his position and joined the reawakening Kurdish movement, which in August became the target of a "Holy War" decreed by Ayatollah Khomeini.

Married and the father of 3 children, aside from Kurdish, he also spoke Persian, Arabic, Turkish and French.

HIS POLITICAL LIFE

While studying in Paris in 1973, he met Dr. Abdul Rahman GHASSEMLOU, the Secretary-general of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI), and joined the Party. Upon his retum to Iran, he became Dr. Ghassemlou's representative in his country.

In February 1979, after the fall of the Shah's regime, the PDKI's activities became legal. Dr. Sharafkandi was elected alternate member of the Central Committee and appointed as the Party's official in Teheran.

During the summer of 1979, he became a permanent Party cadre and in 1980, during the following Congress, he acceded to the Political Bureau. From then onwards, up to the assassination in July 1989 in Vienna of Dr. Ghassemlou by Iranian emissaries, he was regularly re-elected and put in charge of the Party's publications. In 1986, he also took office as assistant Secretary-seneral of PDKI.

After Dr. Ghassemlou's assassination, he temporarily took over the Party's leadership until December 1991, when he was unanimously elected Secretary-general during the IXth Congress.

Some individuals and groups believed that Dr. GHASSEMLOU's death meant the end of our fight and would bring about the dissolution of PDKI. However, Dr. SHARAFKANDI, in the exercise of his duties as head of the Party, showed such great clear-sightedness, know-how and stout perseverance that the cruel loss of Dr. GHASSEMLOU, immortal leader of the Kurdish people, had less effect on our friends than our enemies had predicted. In all respects, Dr. SHARAFKANDI showed himself to be a worthy successor of Dr. GHASSEMLOU and an exemplary leader of the Kurdish people during a particularly troubled phase of its national liberation fight.

Like his predecessor, Dr. SHARAFKANDI fully understood the necessity to link our people's struggle to the fight of the Iranian population as a whole. He strove incessantly to create stronger ties with the organisations belonging to the Iranian democratic opposition. And it was precisely during one of his meetings with members of the Iranian opposition that he was brutally killed by the enemies of the union of all liberation forces of the peoples of Iran.

Comrade SHARAFKANDI was equally convinced of the need to establish ties of mutual solidarity between the population of Iranian Kurdistan and the Kurds living in other parts of Kurdistan. He proved to be a man of conscience in this respect as well, fully aware of the duties and responsibilities that were his. He also strove to do away with the paradoxical feelings shared by quite a few people about being Iranians as well as Kurds. Dr. SHARAFKANDI saw no contradiction between these terms. He firmly believed that there was not opposition anywhere in the world between the legitimate rights of peoples.

Our Secretary-general also realized the necessity of heightening public awareness of the Kurdish issue, and the important role played by international organisations through their efforts to help the Kurdish liberation movement to achieve victory. It was his aim to draw the international community's attention to the Kurdish issue and to try to obtain its full support. That was the reason for his coming to Europe that summer in 1992. It was also with this aim in mind that he went to Berlin to attend the Congress of the Socialist International between September 15-17 of 1992. Also, barely a few hours after its closing session, the life of this great man in the history of the Kurdish people was brutally and heinously cut short by criminal hands.

These qualities, and many others, earned him the implacable hatred of the Iranian Republic's criminal regime to such an extent that its terrorists pursued him relentlessly wherever he went and eventually managed to assassinate him on September 17, 2001 in Mykonous Restaurant in Berlin.

EastKurd: The participants in this meeting, while referring to the significance of cancelling annual religious ceremonies of “Ihya” (night of prayers) normally held at Khomeini’s grave site during Ramadan, stressed on the need to deploy forces along the routs of demonstrations on Friday, NCRI reported.

To this end, they have limited the routes leading to Enghelab Square, the final gathering point, to only seven routs which are under the strict control of the regime’s suppressive forces.

According to the plan, the State Security Forces will be stationed along the route wearing their uniforms while members of the IRGC, particularly those from Sarallah Garrison that played a special role in suppression of recent bloody uprisings, will have an active presence in the crowd wearing plainclothes. Other agents of the regime such as prayer leaders of mosques will also be used in this plan.

The IRGC has been assigned the special mission of protecting portraits of the supreme leader of being defaced by people throwing paint at them.

EastKurd:Regime forces, inhumane mullahs continues to kill Kurdish youth, The shooting of the regime's forces near the Urmia border One killed and three others were injured.
The government forces also bombed the mountain region.

in the regime forces attack to the market frontier border Gewzaly, Sardasht 22-year-old Kurdish youth has been killed.

Name killed and injured is the following:

1-Amir Sardasht City has been killed
2-Shafih Haki village has been killed
3- Khayradin Haki village wounded
4-Kamran Mirazie Haki village wounded
5-Fakhradin Haki village wounded

TEHRAN — Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards have warned of a "decisive" crackdown if opposition supporters stage demonstrations at a Quds Day rally on Friday, the official IRNA news agency reported.

"We are warning people and the movements who want to help the Zionist regime that if you seek any disruption or disorder during the glorious Quds Day rally, you will be decisively confronted by the courageous children of Iran," the Guards said in a statement.

Hundreds of thousands of Iranians are expected to pour onto streets of Tehran on Friday to participate in the annual pro-Palestinian Quds Day march, a brainchild of the Islamic republic's founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

But this year the annual pro-Palestinian rally is expected to see protesters of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's election to stage demonstrations against his disputed victory in the June 12 polls.
AFP

The General Secretary of Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) and Iraqi President Jalal Talabani hopes that Kurds in Turkey get benefit from the democratic atmosphere in the country.

 A high-level delegation from the Turkish Democratic Society Party (DTP), headed by Ahmed Turk, arrived in Sulaymaniyah on Thursday 15; the visit comes in response to an invitation of the political bureau of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK).

 The delegation met with the General Secretary of PUK to discuss the way of consolidating relations between both parties. President Talabani hoped that Kurdish community in Turkey take advantage of the democratic situation there.   

 Arriving at the Sulaimaniyah International Airport, Ahmed Turk received by a number of PUK politburo's members, the members of the Kurdistan Parliament and government officials.

 The members of the two main Kurdish parties in Iraqi Kurdistan region are supporting the Kurdish interests in Turkey. The delegation's visit is also to inform Kurdish officials of the democratic initiative which has been started by Turkish government to settle the Kurdish issue there. Ksat

Turkish government has realized that the Kurdish issue there should be settled in peaceful way and we all support that, said Kurdistan Region's President Massoud Barzani.

 This came during a meeting held between President Massoud Barzani and the head of Turkish Democratic Society Party (DTP) Ahmed Turk who arrived in Iraqi Kurdistan Region Wednesday and met other officials.

 They talked about the resolution of Kurdish issue in Turkey peacefully, reiterating that Kurds should take advantage from this positive atmosphere which has been emerged in the region.

A judge in Iran’s Kurdistan province was shot outside his home, the third attack in a week on a prominent person in the western region.

Judge Hasan Davtalab was targeted early today in the city of Sanandaj, where witnesses said he was struck in the neck, the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency reported. He was hospitalized and is recovering, the state-run Fars news agency said.

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A high-level delegation from the Turkish Democratic Society Party (DTP), headed by Ahmed Turk, arrived in Sulaymaniyah on Thursday 15; the visit comes in response to an invitation of the political bureau of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK).

 Arriving at the Sulaimaniyah International Airport, Ahmed Turk received by a number of PUK politburo's members, the members of the Kurdistan Parliament and government officials.

The visit of the DTP, formed in 2005, will last two days. Turk will meet with the Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, the President of the Kurdistan region, Massoud Barzani and other senior Kurdish officials. The members of the two main Kurdish parties in Iraqi Kurdistan region are supporting the Kurdish interests in Turkey.

 The delegation's visit is also to inform Kurdish officials of the democratic initiative which has been started by Turkish government to settle the Kurdish issue there.

EastKurd: Iraqi former Deputy Prime Minister Barham Saleh was elected Wednesday as the new prime minister of the country's northern autonomous Kurdish region, Xinhua reported.

Saleh was elected for the new post after he gained 73 votes in the Kurdish 111-seat parliament, according to the report.

Saleh, who replaces Nechirvan Barzani, had once served as prime minister of the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) from 2001 to 2004.

He is a Kurdish politician who was born in 1960, and served as deputy prime minister of Iraq since 2006.

In August, Saleh resigned from his post as one of two deputy prime ministers in the Iraqi government.

He was a key figure in the Kurdish alliance for the July 25 Kurdish parliamentary polls. The alliance is composed of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) headed by Masaud Barzani, the president of the Kurdish region, and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.

He was elected to the Iraqi National Assembly in December 2005 as part of the Kurdistani Alliance list. Salih was also in charge of a committee on oil and energy policy.

EastKurd: After a series of contradictions and cancellations (which were all signs of behind the scenes disputes) the radical conservative cleric Ahmad Khatami will deliver the Friday prayer sermon on Al-Quds day and Ahmadinejad will deliver the pre-sermon speech, Green Wave of freedom reported.

It is no secret that had it not been for Ahmadinejad’s provocative speech just two days after his “defeat,” the protests on the following days might not have been as massive as they were. And yet again it seems that the perpetrators of the coup have committed another foolish mistake by giving an even bigger incentive to citizens to march.

Ahmad Khatami’s role as Imam on Friday in addition to Ahmadinejad’s pre-sermon speech will enrage and motivate Iranians even more and will serve the purpose of providing more opportunity for voicing opposition and disgust towards Ahmadinejad by chanting slogans and sending a clear message to Ahmadinejad that he is not the rightful president of the people.

The supporters of the coup have therefore given a rare and fateful gift to the green movement with this line-up on Friday.

An agent of the Iranian regime opened fire on a number of vehicles of suspected gasoline smugglers, killing four and wounding two others in the Iranian Kurdistan on Monday, September 14. The attack was carried out by the agents stationed at Gashki police base on Kamyaran-Marivan axis in Kurdistan province. In this incident the vehicles collided and led to a explosion.

Three of the victims were identified as Sirvan Moradveisi from Marivan, Omar Mostafai and a man known as Moaref from Paveh. The fourth man could not be identified due to severe burns. Two other local men from May-Sorab (a village in the vicinity of Kamyaran) were severely wounded in the incident.

Instead of providing the basic needs of the nation, the mullahs’ regime is spending Iranian people’s wealth on export of terrorism and fundamentalism, and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. This has driven the impoverished people into dangerous ways to make their ends meet and feed their families.
NCRI

TEHRAN (AFP) — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday appointed a new first vice president after his previous choice was rejected by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the official IRNA news agency reported.

The hardline president chose for the post Mohammad Reza Rahimi, who was one of several vice presidents during his first four-year term.

On September 3, Ahmadinejad won a vote of confidence from Iranian lawmakers for 18 nominees out of his 21-member cabinet, proposed in the wake of the June disputed presidential election.

Ahmadinejad had come under fire from his own hardline supporters after he appointed his close relative Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie as his first deputy and then delayed in sacking him, despite being ordered to do so by Khamenei.

Hardliners had not forgiven Rahim Mashaie for saying last year that Iran was a friend of the Israeli people. Ahmadinejad has said the Jewish state is doomed to be "wiped off the map."

Rahim Mashaie has since been made the president's chief of staff.

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EastKurd: When he was Governor of Kurdistan,  Rahimi openly in Kurdistan drugs played and unfortunately thousands of young Kurdish able to addicts.
his degree is fake, he has not university degree.

EastKurd: Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki and his Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu have called for the expansion of security cooperation between the two neighbors.

“Iran and Turkey are determined to fight kurdish rebel and extremism,” Mottaki said during a joint press conference with Davutoglu in Tehran on Saturday.

"Groups like the PKK (Kurdish Workers' Party) and PEJAK (Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan) must know that the messages exchanged between the two countries on kurdish rebel are very clear and the two countries' borders are not a place to damage their ties," he stated.

The Minister also noted that trade exchanges between the two countries hit $11 billion in 2008 and efforts are being made to raise the figure to $20 billion in the near future.

TEHRAN (AFP) — Iran's presidency is to sue top reformist cleric Grand Ayatollah Yusef Sanei for allegedly insulting President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Fars news agency reported on Sunday.

"Following an insulting speech made in a ceremony by Mr Sanei against the president, the president's legal office has prepared a complaint against him," Fars said, quoting an unnamed source in the presidential office.

"The complaint will be submitted to the Special Court for Clergy," the source said, without offering further details.

In August, hardline newspaper Javan accused Sanei of calling Ahmadinejad a "bastard" in comments made among his supporters but the cleric's office denied the report.

Sanei is a respected Shiite "source of emulation" and is based in the religious city of Qom with many followers across Iran and abroad.

Known for his progressive fatwas, especially on women's rights, he is also a vocal supporter of Iran's opposition which has rejected Ahmadinejad's re-election as fraudulent.

Ahmadinejad has had a tough time with Iran's clerical elite and most senior ayatollahs have refused to congratulate him on his re-election.

TEHRAN (AFP) — An Iranian revolutionary court is to hold on Monday the fifth hearing in a mass trial of protesters accused of rioting after the June presidential election, the official IRNA news agency reported.

Some reporters for Iranian media will be admitted to the 9:00 am (0430 GMT) hearing before the Tehran revolutionary court but foreign media will be barred, IRNA said.

Iran has put about 140 protesters on trial for contesting the re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in the June 12 poll.

Those on trial include leading reformist politicians, activists and employees of the British and French embassies.

The opposition has denounced what it has called a "show trial".

The post-election unrest left 36 people dead, according to Iranian officials, but opposition groups say 72 people died, some of them in police custody.

TEHRAN (AFP) — An Iranian judiciary panel on Saturday dismissed claims made by Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi that several jailed vote protesters had been raped and called for action against the cleric.

In a report published by Fars news agency, the panel said its members met Karroubi and found that his allegations were baseless.

"The panel concludes that there is no proof that people who Karroubi alleged of being raped, have been raped," the panel's report said.

"These allegations have been made without any proof, and all the documents given by Karroubi are baseless. These allegations were aimed at distracting public opinion."

The panel report recommended that action be taken against Karroubi and those airing rape allegations.

"This commission proposes ... sending its report to the judiciary so it can act with determination against those who are responsible for spreading such allegations which harm the regime," it said.

Karroubi, a reformist who was defeated in the June 12 presidential election, has claimed that several male and female protesters who were jailed during post-election unrest were raped in custody.

Following his claims, Iran's newly appointed chief of judiciary, Sadeq Larijani, set up a panel to probe his allegations.

Karroubi has been the most vocal in airing allegations that protesters had been sexually abused and beaten in police custody. Iranian officials have already dismissed his claims.

Earlier on Saturday, Tehran's military prosecutor said 90 former inmates of an Iranian detention centre closed over allegations of excesses during the post-election crackdown have formally complained of abuse.

Shokrollah Bahrami, quoted by the Mehr news agency, did not give any details on what kind of abuse had been claimed.

The re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad triggered the worst crisis in the 30-year history of the Islamic republic as massive public demonstrations against his victory rocked Tehran.

Iranian officials say 36 people were killed during the unrest, but opposition groups claim that 72 died.

EastKurd: Vahid Nabi Zadeh, 23-year-old from the village "Girabad" Salmas area a few days ago was arrested, was sentenced to 25 years imprisonment Kurdish news agency reported.
Nabi zadeh that a year ago with the charge to one of the opposition parties had been arrested, some time before obtaining collateral was released.
Vahid Nabi Zadeh family called his charges not proven, this conspiracy of espionage and mercenaries from the Iranian regime is against Vahid.
his from salmas prison will be transferred to a prison in Karaj.

EastKurd: Iranian Revolutionary Guards forces regime, creating database in schools and mosques nearby villages Salmas, cause people harassment area.

forces of the regime after eight o'clock at night, moving people or even those who intended to do special rituals go to mosques during Ramadan are harassed by soldiers.
this action forces the IRGC, hatred and concern is people in the region.

EastKurd: Mamousta Ayoub Ganji, writers and religious activists in Kurdistan province  after 17 months of detention, by the clergy court to ten years imprisonment and was sentenced to ten years in exile.

Ganji digestive disease, stomach, and intestine also suffers.

EastKurd: Kurdish prisoner named Hamed Ahmadi, a few weeks in prison that Urmia, under severe torture of the regime's agents.

his charge of cooperation with Kurdish opposition parties, by the regime's intelligence forces arrested in Baneh and was transferred to Urmia prison . Hamed Ahmadi village resident "Darineh" but Baneh lives.
Baneh in Kurdistan province.

EastKurd: Bahman Karimi, student resident Javanroud, in connection with protests and unrest after the Iranian presidential election, was detained has been transferred to an unknown location.

his family have attempted to detention but failed to find Bahman.

EastKurd: Eleven o'clock last night Mamousta Borhan Aali, Friday prayer in Sanandaj was killed by persons unknown.
so far no group responsibility for not killing him.

political activists say, by the Ministry of Intelligence of Islamic Republic of Iran has been killed.
he was knowledgeable individual Islamic Sharia.
Iranian news agency had said he was Ahmadinejad campaign activists، But people say Mamousta Aali was assassinated by the Iranian government.

After Mamousta Ganji, Mamousta Borhan imam of Qoba mosque. Ganji to ten years in prison by the government and sentenced to ten years in exile.

Hunger strikes in Iraq, London and elsewhere as concerns for residents mount

Source: Amnesty International
Amnesty International has written to the Iraqi prime minister Nuri al-Maliki expressing its deep concern about killings and other abuses committed by Iraqi security forces at Camp Ashraf this summer.

On 28-29 July a large number of Iraqi security personnel seized control of Camp Ashraf in Iraq's Diyala province, north of Baghdad, a settlement that has been home to some 3,400 Iranian exiles for over 20 years. At least nine camp residents were shot dead and others sustained serious injuries during the storming of the camp, during which vehicles were driven into crowds of protesting residents and live ammunition used, apparently without adequate justification. Since July, 36 camp residents have been held without charge or trial.

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Turkey‌s ethnic Kurds will be able to study their language at a Turkish university. The country‌s Higher Education Board on Thursday approved Kurdish language studies at Mardin Artuklu University, in the mostly Kurdish southeast.

The university‌s application was approved in the wake of renewed government efforts to resolve a quarter-century of armed conflict through democratic means.

The language had long been officially banned among the almost 12 million Kurds in Turkey, but was partially recognized after Parliament approved a public television network and private language courses in Kurdish last year.

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Iran's new offer for talks with six world powers ignores their key demand of a freeze of Tehran's uranium enrichment program, according to a copy obtained Friday by The Associated Press, and instead amounts to a manifesto calling for a new international order.

The five-page proposal, formally submitted Wednesday to the six nations trying to entice Iran to make nuclear concessions, says Tehran stands ready to "embark on comprehensive, all-encompassing and constructive negotiations."

"The difficult era characterized by the domination of empires, (and) predominance of military powers ... is coming to an end," the Iranian document says.

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The European Union's foreign policy chief Javier Solana said on Friday that he was seeking an urgent meeting with the Iranian chief nuclear negotiator after consulting six major powers over proposals submitted by Iran.

"We are in contact with Dr (Saeed) Jalili's (Iran's chief nuclear negotiator) office to arrange a meeting at the earliest possible opportunity," Solana said in a statement.

Iran handed on Wednesday a package of proposals to major powers including the United States, Russia, France, Britain, China and Germany. The countries are evaluating the proposals after giving the Islamic Republic until this month to respond to their demand for talks on its nuclear programme.

The Iranian proposals include a global system to eliminate nuclear weapons as well as cooperation on Afghanistan and fighting terrorism. But, crucially, Iran said it would not discuss its uranium enrichment programme, which some Western powers fear could be used to build a nuclear bomb.

"We are all committed to meaningful negotiations with Iran to resolve the International Community's concerns about their nuclear programme," Solana said.
(Reporting by Bate Felix) Reuters

EastKurd: Kurdish young named Kayvan Hosaini by Iranian forces was killed near the town of Paveh..
every day several young Kurdish in the Kurdish regions of Iran by the regime forces are killed.
he was killed without reason. Paveh in the province of Kermanshah
Kurds in Iran are deprived of all services.

EastKurd: young Kurdish name is Adris Shikha pour by regime forces has been killed at the border.

the Government forces in a month killed dozens of Kurdish youth.
Kurdish people in Iran are deprived of most elementary human rights.

The following short reports have come out of Ward 209 of Evin and its interrogation rooms.

· Reports indicate that security forces have put some of the detainees under pressure to confess that Mir Hossein Mousavi had been aware and had agreed to the production and distribution of CDs containing a video called Political 90. This is while the producer of the Cds, which depict the rivals of Ahmadinejad in the election, is a journalist known as A-F who had been previously detained for two days.

· Mohammad Reza Jalaipoor, the spokesman of the “Campaign for Khatami and Mousavi” remains in ward 209 of Evin. He is under pressure for his alleged role as the main organizer of the nightly Allah Akabar chants which have become a symbol of the recent protests.

· Reports indicate prisoners’ sexual relationships are still being used during most of the interrogation sessions to put pressure on the detained activists.

· On September 7th 2009, Fariba Pajouh the detained journalist denied previous reports of her transfer to a public ward and informed her husband’s family that she remains in solitary confinement.

HRAI

EastKurd: Three weeks after her arrest, Faiba Pajouh (journalist) remains in solitary confinement and is under extreme pressure to confess.

In a phone call to her family on Monday, Fariba Pajouh who is a member of the International Federation of Journalists said that she remains in solitary confinement.

HRA reporters previously that she was being detained in Evin but was sharing her cell with other prisoners. She is in a bad psychological state and being in solitary confinement in Evin is putting pressure on her.

Fariba Pajouh had worked for Etemad Melli Newspaper and ILNA News Agency in the past. There is no information on the reasons of her arrest or what she has been charged with. The judiciary has not released any information on her case.

In a show trial in an Iranian regime’s court on September 7, 2009, Meesagh Yazdan-nejad, a 23-year-old student was sentenced to 14 years imprisonment and exile.

Prior to this he had been imprisoned in Wards 209 and 350 of the notorious Evin prison of Tehran for two years, he was arrested during a brutal raid by the agents of the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) on his parents’ home and taken to Ward 209 of Evin on September 9, 2007, and is being subjected to physical and psychological tortures.

The alleged charges for which this young student was arrested include participation in the memorial services held for the victims of the massacre of 30,000 political prisoners in Iran in 1988, visiting his sister in Camp Ashraf – Iraq, and being in e-mail contact with the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK).

His father, Mojtaba Yazdan-nejad, and his mother, Akram Sanjari, along with her young child were in jail for three years in unbearable conditions of mullahs’ prisons in the early eighties. His three uncles, Hassan, Hossein and Ibrahim Sanjari, all members of the PMOI, were executed by the regime’s henchmen in the eighties.

Meesagh is at the moment seriously ill and in need of medical attention due to the effects of torture and the appalling state of the prison.

The Iranian Resistance calls on all international human rights organizations to condemn blatant violations of human rights and in particular the arrests of the Iranian students and to adopt urgent measures to free all the detainees.
NCRI

Hundreds of workers of the Haft Tapeh Agricultural & Industrial Company went on strike today.

According to a report by the labor committee of the Human Rights Activists of Iran, workers are asking for an orderly payment of their wages. They also want the management to explain the reductions on overtime, the reduction of the wages, the non-compliance of the factory management with the job categorization bill and the management’s refusal to adjust the wages to the inflation rates.

The workers and union members have gathered in front of the management office since this morning. The gathering ended this afternoon without any answer from the management to the workers’ demands.
HRAI

Seyed Ali Akbar Kheradnejad is among the many protesters who were detained after June 12th election. During his detention, he was subjected to torture and many other illegal acts. He has a bitter story of his detention to tell. We sat down to talk to him to shed light on countless crimes that Ali Akbar and other prisoners have been subjected to. During the conversation he refers to Amir Javadifar’s death whom he had seen in Evin prison. He says Javadifar was very ill and the refusal of the prison guards to let the doctor take Amir to the hospital led to his death later.

Seyed Ali Akbar Kherdnejad was arrested by plain clothes forces on July 9th 2009 at about 4.30 pm around Vali Asr square. He says “They beat me brutally; pepper sprayed my eyes and dragged me into a police van while beating me.”

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EastKurd: A mid aged citizen was shot in Qum by plain clothes forces.

HRA reports At about noon time yesterday, September 8, 2009, a mid aged man was arrested by plain clothe forces while he was driving a Pride 132 on 19 Day Street heading to Kashan peripheral highway. His wife and his young child were in the car at the time of his arrest. Plain clothe forces were driving a Peugeot JLX.

Plain clothes forces blocked his way by stopping their car in front of his and tried to take him away while his wife and his child were watching. He resisted the arrest and tried to run away. Plain clothes forces then opened fire and shot him in the shoulder in the middle of the crowded street.

The man started to chant political slogans after he was shot including “Down with Khamenei”. Plain clothes forces took the man and his family away to an unknown location.

There is no information available on his identity or the plain clothes unit that arrested him. HRA will update this report when additional information is available

TEHRAN (AFP) – Iranian authorities have arrested two top aides of opposition leaders, reformist websites said on Wednesday, amid a new crackdown on groups protesting the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Alireza Beheshti, a senior aide of the main opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, and Morteza Alviri, former Tehran mayor and top aide of the reformist Mehdi Karroubi, were arrested over the past two days, mowjcamp.com reported.

The news of their arrests comes soon after ILNA news agency reported on Tuesday that authorities had raided the office of Karroubi himself and even arrested the chief editor of the website of his political party, Etemad Melli.

Another reformist website, Norooznews, reported that authorities had sealed the office of prominent dissident Emadeddin Baghi's group, the Society to Defend Prisoners' Rights.

It said that property was also confiscated during the raid on the established non-governmental organisation.

Beheshti, who recently said that 72 people died during the unrest which erupted after the re-election of Ahmadinejad, was arrested on Tuesday after his office too was raided on Monday, mowjcamp said.

His office followed up the cases of those detained or injured in the post-election unrest. Iranian officials say about 30 people were killed.

Iran has carried out repeated crackdowns on opposition groups who continue to dispute Ahmadinejad's victory in the June 12 presidential election.

In the initial post-election crackdown, security forces arrested some 4,000 people. Most have now been released but around 140 have been put on mass trials.

The political turmoil unleashed since Ahmadinejad's disputed victory is the worst in the 30-year history of the Islamic republic.

It has bitterly divided the country's ruling political and clerical elites, and shaken the pillars of the regime.

Reformist media say the arrest of Beheshti and Alviri takes on added significance in the light sustained claims by opposition groups that Ahmadinejad's victory was fraudulent and that some of the protesters who were detained in the post-election unrest were raped in custody.

Karroubi himself has been the most vocal in airing charges that both male and female detainees were raped. Iranian officials have dismissed the allegations.

On Tuesday, Karroubi's office was raided by authorities, his party spokesman Esmaeel Gerami Moghaddam told the ILNA news agency.

Mehdi Karroubi's "office was sealed by order of the Tehran prosecutor after a number of agents with a prosecutor's warrant came to his office near the Saadabad Palace in north Tehran," said Moghaddam.

"They searched the premises and collected documents, CDs, computers and films," he said. "They also arrested the chief editor of the Etemad Melli website." The website was run by Karroubi's party of the same name.

Both Karroubi and Ahmadinejad's other defeated challenger Mousavi have refused to acknowledge the hardliner's victory.

On August 17, following Karroubi's allegations of custodial rapes, the judiciary banned his party newspaper, also called Etemad Melli.

Meanwhile, Iran's police chief warned on Tuesday against using the annual pro-Palestinian Quds Day march to stage anti-Ahmadinejad protests.

Karroubi had vowed that his supporters would come out in force on the day, and Mousavi has also called for continued civil disobedience.

The event, first held in Iran but now marked in other places as well, is to express solidarity with the Palestinian people. This year it will be held on September 18.

Kurdish separatist rebels killed six Turkish soldiers in two attacks in the predominantly Kurdish southeast of the country, security sources said.

Turkey's government is working on a wave of reforms aimed at addressing decades-old Kurdish complaints of discrimination which it hopes will erode support for the PKK and help combat violence and poverty in the south east.

The measures have met with criticism from opposition parties.

Nearly 40,000 people have been killed in the 25-year conflict between the separatist Kurdish Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and the Turkish military.

In one of Tuesday's attacks, five soldiers were killed and five others wounded in an ambush by Kurdish separatist rebels at Eruh in the province of Siirt, with five rebels also killed in the fighting.

Security sources said troop reinforcements and helicopters were being sent to the region where sporadic clashes were continuing.

The other attack, killing one soldier and seriously wounding another, occurred in Hakkari province, where four soldiers died in a blast at the end of last month.

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EastKurd: The Tehran prosecutor today closed the office of Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi, a spokesman for Karroubi's political party was quoted as saying by ILNA news agency.

TEHRAN (AFP) – Iran's police chief warned the opposition on Tuesday against using an annual pro-Palestinian march to stage protests against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the official IRNA news agency reported.

"The Quds Day (march), which is to express support for oppressed Palestinians and condemn occupiers, should not be tainted for political purposes," Esmail Ahmadi Moghadam said.

"Derailing Quds Day would be added to the fraud folder for showing the true colours of those who direct this view," he said in apparent warning to leaders of the opposition, who charge that Ahmadinejad's June re-election was rigged.

According to their websites, supporters of defeated candidates known as the greens plan to pour on to Tehran's streets again in the annual state-sponsored Quds Day demonstration, which will be held this year on September 18.

Opposition leader and defeated candidate Mehdi Karroubi vowed that his supporters will come out in force on the day, and Ahmadinejad's main rival Mir Hossein Mousavi has also called for continued civil disobedience.

The mass demonstrations after June's election gripped the Iranian capital for a week, and ended only after a heavy security crackdown. Thousands of protesters still managed to stage sporadic demonstrations later, however.

Baton-wielding police were swift to break up gatherings, identifying demonstrators who wore green.

In a bid to prevent opposition gatherings, the authorities have replaced traditional speakers such as reformist former president Mohammad Khatami with hardliners during some ceremonies during the current holy month of Ramadan.

On Monday officials also raided an office run by Mousavi's top aide and seized documents, Etemad newspaper reported.

The aide, Alireza Beheshti, has disputed the official toll of 30 victims in the post-election protests, claiming that in fact 72 people were killed.

EastKurd: Within the last ten days, tens of Baluchi citizens, most of whom constitute young people, have been arrested in Zahedan and Saravan by the Security Forces, and have been transferred to unknown locations.

Iran human right reported,Tens of Baluchi citizens, most of whom constitute young people, have been arrested in Zahedan and Saravan by the Security Forces, and have been transferred to unknown locations.

There is no information about the exact numbers of those who have been detained; nor is it clear what charges are brought against them or why they have been arrested. However, reliable sources have reported that the common factor between all the arrestees is their family relationship with Baluchi political activists and with the Baluchistan Opposition Group. Local sources have all denied any involvement by the arrestees in political activities.

The names of 13 of those arrested are as follows:

Hamzeh Rigi, Saeid Naru’i, ‘Abdul-Rahman Rigi, ‘Ezzatullah Rigi, ‘Abdul-Malek Rigi, Habibullah Rigi, Ebrahim Rigi, Ismael Rigi, Hamed Rigi, Ahmad Qanbarzehi, ‘Abdullah Narui, Asadullah Shahbakhsh, Naser Shahbakhsh.

It should be noted that despite the families’ many attempts to obtain information from judicial authorities and the Police, nothing has yet been divulged about the fate or the whereabouts of these individuals. Meanwhile, Baluchi populated areas of the country have seen the arrests of at least 22 Baluchi teachers and educators in the city of Saravan.

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A Brief Examination of Ahmadinejad's First Cabinet (the Ninth Cabinet) Track Record in Kurdish Regions

The following report has been published on the occasion of the 30th anniversary that marks the beginning of the conflict in Kurdistan.

Thirty years ago (1979) in the name of fighting the counter revolution and reestablishment of security in Kurdish regions, the authorities of the time ordered the deployment of the military to Paveh, Sanandaj, Marivan and other cities in Kurdistan. A war that was supposed to bring about peace and prosperity for the Kurds has thus far only resulted in insecurity, ruthless killings, destruction of countless villages, displacement of hundreds of families and arrests and inhumane torture of civilians.

To examine the situation in Kurdish regions, we have divided it into three different time periods:

1. First Phase: Early years of the revolution;

2. Second Phase: Retreat of the Kurdish opposition parties to Iraqi Kurdistan and the rise to power of the reformists;

3. Third Phase: First four years of the Ahmadinejad government (the Ninth Cabinet of the IRI)

Each period has its own characteristics. The first two periods have already been analyzed in depth many times by independent intellectuals, human rights defenders, media, local authorities and different Kurdish opposition parties.

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EastKurd: From different regions of Kurdistan has been reported in a week, twelve killed and five Kurdish was wounded.

Killed and injured, cities Marivan, Saqez, Sardasht, Piranshahr, Salmas and Khoy was. In a month has killed about 30 Kurdish.

Name were killed, is the following:

Miss Golale Salimi Sardasht City

Rahman Khedri Rasol Sardasht City

Hossin has been killed and 8 years old child has been wounded Saqez city

Karim Mam Bahrami has been killed and 1 wounded Mehabad City

Abdulla has been killed and 1 wounded Sardasht City

Mohammad Salehi Saqez

Salah haj ali Marivan City

Deler Marian City

Asad Mohammadi Salmas City

Rasol Qezel Bash Salmas City

Ayoub has been killed and 2 wounded Khoy City

Rahman Hassan Zade Piranshahr City

Wild forces of Iran, annually hundreds of Kurdish in the border killing.

VIENNA (AFP) — The UN atomic watchdog begins a week-long meeting Monday with allegations that Iran conducted experiments aimed at making a nuclear bomb expected to take centre stage.

The International Atomic Energy Agency's 35-member board of governors convenes for its traditional September meeting amid accusations that IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei is withholding evidence that may help determine whether or not Iran is trying to build an atomic bomb, as the West -- and the United States in particular -- charges.

At the same time, Iran insists that Washington's intelligence on the alleged weaponisation studies is forged and has not handed over any original documents to back up its accusations.

In his latest report on the IAEA's six-year investigation into Iran's controversial programme, ElBaradei complained that one of the main sticking points remains Tehran's refusal to cooperate on the issue of the so-called alleged studies.

This comprises documentation collected from a wide range of intelligence sources that suggest Iran was trying to develop a nuclear warhead, convert uranium and test high explosives and a missile re-entry vehicle.

Iran has repeatedly dismissed the allegations as "baseless" and the evidence used to back up the charges as "fabricated", but has done little so far to disprove them.

"Regrettably, the agency has not been able to engage Iran in any substantive discussions about these outstanding issues for over a year," ElBaradei stated in his latest report.

Iran nevertheless saw the new report, which noted a reduction in the number of centrifuges actively enriching uranium at the enrichment plant in Natanz during a visit in August, as "positive".

Furthermore, Iran also granted UN inspectors access to a research reactor in Arak.

But diplomats within the IAEA were wary of reading too much into these developments, as the observation on the centrifuges was based on just one visit, and they were likely were shut down due to technical problems.

David Albright, president of the Washington-based think tank the Institute for Science and International Security, noted that Iran continued to increase the number of centrifuges at the plant and kept the rate of production of low-enriched uranium remained steady throughout July 2009.

The IAEA board will also hear allegations -- made first by Israel and more recently by France -- that ElBaradei is holding back key parts of his report on Iran.

ElBaradei, who steps down as IAEA chief at the end of November, has regularly been accused of being too soft on Iran in the past, not least by the United States.

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner has asked publicly why ElBaradei refuses to provide the annexes of the report, in which he said "there are elements which enable us to ask questions about the reality of an atomic bomb," in particular on issues of warheads and transport.

One foreign intelligence source told AFP that the paper in question was a "thick document", but a number of diplomats, as well as sources within the IAEA, were sceptical whether such an annex really existed.

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TEHRAN (AFP) – Opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi renewed on Saturday fraud allegations against Iranian authorities over the June election and called for continued protest.

"People, your friends are committed not to betray you on the path of fighting liars and fraudsters," Mousavi said in a statement carried on his official website, Kaleme.com.

"With respect to this commitment, the only way that I recommend is to continue on the green path that you have followed in the past months ... with small and large gatherings, campaigns and questions," he said.

Mousavi's call came two days after Iran's conservative-dominated parliament united behind President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and approved the vast majority of his proposed cabinet as reportedly advised by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Mousavi, who came in second, dismissed the June 12 poll as a "shameful fraud" as hundreds of thousands of Iranians poured on to streets in protest against the hardliner's re-election.

The protests, in which dozens of people were killed and thousands were arrested, have plunged Iran into its worst crisis since the 1979 Islamic revolution.

But Khamenei strongly backed Ahmadinejad, dismissed fraud allegations, pointed an accusing finger at Western states over the unrest and held opposition leaders responsible for the ensuing violence.

The election and its aftermath have bitterly divided Iran's political elite and the authorities have also faced mounting criticism over their handling of the protests amid charges that protesters were raped and tortured in custody.

TEHRAN, Sept 5 (Reuters) - An annual religious ceremony which could have become a rallying point for Iran's pro-reform opposition has been cancelled, Iranian media said on Saturday.

A reformist website also published the names of 72 people it said had been killed in unrest following the disputed June presidential election.

Some 30 died from gunshot wounds, others from baton blows, one had his throat slit, one was thrown from the third floor of a building and one woman was burnt beyond recognition, it said.

The cancellation of next week's ceremony may reflect authorities' concern it could have become the scene of renewed opposition protests against hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his re-election.

The poll results sparked huge opposition demonstrations, plunged Iran into its deepest internal crisis since the 1979 Islamic Revolution and further strained ties with the West.

The Mardomsalari newspaper cited "pressure" on the family of late revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to call off the speeches traditionally held at his shrine near Tehran to mark the seventh century death of Imam Ali, Shi'ite Islam's most revered figure after the Prophet Mohammad.

"This is the first year in which the mourning is not held at the Imam's (Khomeini's) shrine," Mardomsalari said. "The official communique says the Imam's shrine is unable to hold the mourning period in view of the problems it is facing."

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The newspaper gave no further explanation for the unprecedented move to cancel the mourning ceremony which was to have been held over three nights between Sept 9-11.

Reformist former President Mohammad Khatami normally speaks on one of the nights at Khomeini's shrine. Several of Khatami's close allies have been detained since the June presidential poll, which moderates say was rigged in favour of Ahmadinejad.

Other newspapers also carried similar reports, which did not say whether Khatami might appear at any of the many other such events held at the same time in mainly Shi'ite Iran.

Mardomsalari said Hassan Khomeini, grandson of the Islamic Republic's founder and in charge of the shrine, was "ideologically closer" to Khatami and Mousavi and that there were indications of differences of opinion with the government.

Authorities put the death toll in post-election violence at 26 and say the dead include members of the pro-government Islamic Basij militia which was used to put down the protests.

But the reformist Norooz website said 72 "martyrs" had been killed in the protests and none of the people it listed were members of state security forces.

The list included eight women, students and others. The Norooz website, which did not give a source, also gave information on when and where many of them were killed.

One person listed by Norooz, chemistry student Kianush Asa, died "as a result of gunshot wounds" in Tehran's Freedom Square on June 15. Another, Alireza Eftekhari, 29, died on the same day and place "as a consequence of baton blows to the head." (Additional reporting by Hashem Kalantari; Editing by Jon Hemming)

Caspian Makan, the fiancé of Neda Agha Soltan, a young woman killed in the recent protests in Iran, has been held in detention since 26 June, after he made a statement linking her murder to the pro-government Basij militia.

Currently held in Evin Prison in Tehran, Caspian Makan is reported to have told his family that if he signs a "confession" saying that the People's Mojahedeen Organization of Iran (PMOI), a political body banned in Iran since 1981, killed her, then he may be released.

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EastKurd: Two men received jail sentences of 11 years and one month for protesting Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan's trip to southeastern Diyarbakir province last year, local Dogan news agency reported on Friday.

The two men, aged 18 and 20, staged a protest in the Cizre region of the southeastern province of Sirnak and were charged with committing a crime in the name of a terrorist organization, according to the Xinhua report.

In the indictment against them, prosecutors argued that the pair had committed a crime by attending an illegal rally even though they were not members of the banned outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party (PKK), said the report.

The 20-year-old told the court that he was supposed to start his compulsory military services the day after he was detained, saying, "as a person who was going to join the military, I could not have participated in these acts."

His lawyer argued that prosecutors had failed to provide the necessary evidence against his clients.

Radical forces burnt down the crop of a Bahai farmer.

"Mirza Agha Fanaian" is the only Bahai living in "Darjazin" village located 7 kilometer north of Semnan. On August 19th bunch of radicals set fire into hey and barley crops of this very old farmer. His sole income is based on his farming. Damage to his crop is about 10 million Rial ($1000.00)

More radical acts has been witnessed this year in province of Semnan. Legal action of citizens against it had no result so far.
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People's protest against killing of a young man by military forces has been turned to violence.

Military forces shot a young man to his death in "Kolbar". This happened last Thursday August 29th in "Savan" area of Sardasht city. His name was "Samet Khadr Rasool". People of "Davdaveh, Momkaveh and Savan" villages gathered in front of "Savan" police station to show their objection to this young man killing. Somehow the event turned violence and resulted in a few injured and killing of commander of police station.

After confrontation between people and police more military forces came to the region from Sardasht. They injured quite a few people in a bloody battle and arrested a few others.

Also to mention that in the last few days it's been another confrontation between police and people in "Darmanava" county of Sardasht city. They raided to people's house in order to confiscate the smuggled goods which ended up injuring a girl by the name of "Golaleh Salimi" in shooting.
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Rasoul Baddagi, human rights activist and member of the Iranian Teachers Union, has been arrested by Intelligence ministry forces.

Intelligence ministry forces went to Mr. Baddagi’s residence last week to search his house. They arrested the teacher activist, who is a colleague of ours, and took away his personal belongings.

There is no information as to his whereabouts or the reasons of his arrest.
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Omid Golbaz a student who has been barred from continuing his education as a Philosophy major at the Ferdowsi University, school of Theology, was arrested using pepper spray, and under sever beatings, on 23rd of Tir (14th of July), and was transferred to a penitentiary that remains unknown to him to this day.

Golbaz ended up with broken fingers due to beatings and even the cutting of a potion of his finger by being placed in-between Iron doors of this unknown penitentiary. Additionally, continuous, unprecedented and violent torture in this prison, has left him with internal bleeding of his stomach, bleeding of his bladder, injuries to his back and a broken tooth.

All through the questionings, the prisoner’s eyes were covered, and the inspectors wore black head covers and referred to each other as Hajji or Alavi.

After the prisoner was transferred to Evin prison, with so many broken body parts and a lost finger, even after a week of stay in Evin, this Student was not given permission to receive medical attention.

Repeatedly through his imprisonment, during all hours of night and day, and in the most difficult conditions in addition to mental distress and lack of sleep, he under went severe beatings, most disgracing insults, and threats of rape. Golbaz was also threatened that his family and friends would be captured if he did not cooperate and agree to the charges.

Contact and communications with foreign sources, Acting against the national security, Causing unrest, and destruction of public belongings, in addition to fighting against God, … were among charges brought against Golbaz by the government.

Currently Golbaz is being treated for his injuries, on a medical leave with a 50 million touman bail.
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EastKurd: In the week, the regime forces in Baneh, with different grounds, twenty young people arrested.

The regime in Qorochay, Dehgolan arrested dozens of young and transferred to unknown locations.

The shooting of the Iranian regime forces in Salmas has killed two young Kurdish.
Two names were killed Rasol Mohammadi and Adel Rasol Qezelbash.

Killing young Kurdish, for the regime and daily routine in several Kurdish, Kurdish regions are killed.

Brutality of the Islamic Republic of Iran reached so that shows the face of Shiite clerics.

TEHRAN (AFP) — An aide to Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi said in a website report posted Thursday that 72 people died in post-election violence, upping an earlier toll of 69.

"The number of people killed in street protests has reached 72," Ali Reza Behesti was quoted on reformist website Kaleme.com as saying.

He also suggested that the actual death toll could be higher as "several families who lost their loved ones have not revealed their deaths due to the current political situation in the country."

On August 11, Behesti said 69 people were killed in the violence triggered after the disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, which the opposition claims was rigged.

Iranian officials claim about 30 people were killed.

Soon after the June 12 victory of Ahmadinejad, Iran was rocked by violence unseen in the 30-year history of the Islamic republic.

Around 4,000 protesters who opposed Ahmadinejad were initially arrested. While most of them have since been released, 140 have been put on trial.

Iran's other opposition leader, Mehdi Karroubi, has claimed that several detained protesters have been raped in custody, and some even beaten to death.

Iranian officials have dismissed these claims.

After a whole year, A Bahá’í couple is being tried for teaching the Bahá’í Faith.

On July 2nd of last year, the security forces searched the personal residence of Mr. Faizollah Ghanvatian and Mrs. Shirin Nourani, his wife, in the city of Ahvaz, and confiscated books and personal items with a charge of Teaching the Bahá’í Faith and acting against the Regime.

The husband and wife were questioned on location, and then were transferred to the prosecution’s office. They paid their bail and were freed until their court date.

Throughout last year, they continued to be questioned by the security forces on numerous occasions.

The case of the Baha’i couple was transferred to General Court of the City of Ahvaz, and maximum sentence was requested by prosecutors, however due to lack of qualifications of this court to decide the case, the Judge transferred the case to the Revolutionary court of Ahvaz, and finally on August 4th, their court got underway, a sentence will be issued within next few days.
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EastKurd: In this week three young men Resident in cities Marivan and Sardasht has been killed and a young resident Baneh has been killed in Bukan.

also been reported from the city of Dehgolan, the regime forces arrested two young students and was transferred to an unknown location.
Of Urmia reported that a young Iraqi Kurdish has been killed by the iranian forces.

Regime severely puts pressure on the people of Kurdistan and destroyed villages is brutal.

Source Kurdistan News Media and Rights Group