18 Human Rights Groups and 22,500 Citizens: Halt Execution of 33 Kurds. 33 Kurdish men have been sentenced to death by Iranian authorities, including possibly a juvenile offender.
The international and Iranian community are standing in solidarity requesting new and fair trials. Iran. Iranian Kurdish Businessman Detained Without Contact - International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Iran accused of torturing blogger to death. U.S. to Take Iran Anti-Regime Group Off Terrorism List. Armed Conflicts, Global Geopolitics, Headlines, Middle East & North Africa, North America, Peace An Aug. 16, 2012 rally in support of Camp Ashraf.
Credit: Newtown graffiti/cc by 2.0 - In a move certain to ratchet up already-high tensions with Iran, the administration of President Barack Obama will remove a militant anti-regime group from the State Department’s terrorism list, U.S. officials told reporters here Friday. The decision, which is expected to be formally announced before Oct. 1, the deadline set earlier this year by a federal court to make a determination, was in the process of being transmitted in a classified report to Congress, according to the Department’s spokeswoman, Victoria Nuland. Most analysts here predicted that the administration’s decision to remove the MEK from the terrorism list would only worsen already abysmal relations with Iran and possibly make any effort to defuse the gathering crisis over its nuclear programme yet more difficult.
Imminent Iran nuclear threat? A timeline of warnings since 1979. - Earliest warnings: 1979-84. Breathless predictions that the Islamic Republic will soon be at the brink of nuclear capability, or – worse – acquire an actual nuclear bomb, are not new.
For more than quarter of a century Western officials have claimed repeatedly that Iran is close to joining the nuclear club. Such a result is always declared "unacceptable" and a possible reason for military action, with "all options on the table" to prevent upsetting the Mideast strategic balance dominated by the US and Israel. And yet, those predictions have time and again come and gone. Iran. Iranian court upholds Web programmer's death sentence. The execution of Iranian Web programmer Saeed Malekpour may be imminent.
The death sentence of Malekpour, who was convicted of "insulting and desecrating Islam" for developing software used by porn sites, was confirmed this week by Iran's Supreme Court. Israel's Assassins and Tehran's Killers. Iranian Nuclear Scientist Killed in Car Bomb Attack. An Iranian nuclear scientist who supervised a department at the Natanz uranium enrichment facility has been killed by a bomb placed on his car by two assailants in northern Tehran.
The attack strongly resembles earlier killings of scientists working on the country’s nuclear program, which have been linked to U.S. and Israeli covert actions. The car bomb killed Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a chemistry expert and a director of the Natanz facility. ”The deputy governor of Tehran is blaming [the attack] on Israel, saying it wants to destabilize the country ahead of presidential elections in March,” Al Jazeera’s Dorsa Jabbari said. Previously, a similar attack on January 2010, killed Masoud Ali Mohammadi, a senior physics professor at Tehran University, when a bomb-rigged motorcycle exploded near his car as he was about to leave for work. Israeli Source: Assassination of Iranian Nuclear Scientist Joint Mossad-MEK Operation. US behind Bolivia Crisis - Chavez BBC News Monday 13 June 2005 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has blamed Washington's brand of capitalism for the recent troubles in Bolivia.
Speaking on his weekly TV programme, he said US open market policies in Latin America had led to "exclusion, misery and destabilisation". Sabotaging Iran's Nuclear Program: Mossad Behind Tehran Assassinations, Says Source - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International. "Israel is not responding," Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak said earlier this week when asked if his country had been involved in the latest slaying of an Iranian nuclear scientist.
It didn't exactly sound like a denial, and the smile on his face suggested Israel isn't too bothered by suspicions that it is responsible for a series of murders of physicists involved in the controversial Iranian nuclear program. There is little doubt in the shadowy world of intelligence agencies that Israel is behind the assassination of Darioush Rezaei. Iran's nuclear ambitions have already started a war with west – a covert one. The covert war on Iran's nuclear programme was launched in earnest by George Bush in 2007.
It is a fair assumption that the western powers had been trying their best to spy on the Islamic Republic since the 1979 Iranian revolution, but the 2007 "presidential finding" put those efforts on a new footing. Bush asked Congress to approve $400m for a programme of support for rebel ethnic groups, as well as intelligence gathering and sabotage of the nuclear programme. Part of that effort involved slipping defective parts such as centrifuge components into the black market supply to Iran, designed to blow apart while in operation and in so doing bring down all the centrifuges in the vicinity. The UK, Germany, France and Israel are said to have been involved in similar efforts. Meanwhile, western intelligence agencies stepped up their attempt to infiltrate the programme, seeking to recruit Iranian scientists when they travelled abroad. Iranian Judiciary Must Reverse American Citizen’s Death Sentence. Judgment Issued in Summary Trial Without Due Process (9 January 2012) The Iranian judiciary should immediately rescind the death sentence in the appeals court issued for Iranian-American citizen Amir Mirzaei Hekmati, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today.
Urge Iran’s Parliament to Reject Anti-Human Rights Penal Code : United4Iran. Mortars hit Iranian dissident camp in Iraq: Iraqi army. Internet access in Iran limited further. Printer-friendly version Iran has widely blocked the use of Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) to keep Iranian web users from circumventing the government’s filters.
VPNs allow surfers in Iran to sign on to a server in another country and pretend that's where they are actually located. In this way, they bypass the Islamic Republic’s filters and avoid Iranian government efforts to track the surfer’s visit. Reza Taghipour, Iran’s Minister of Communication and Technology, said: “Blocking VPNs has nothing to do with the launch of a national network, and basically the use of VPNs is illegal.” The Islamic Republic has announced plans for a closed, national internet, which it refers to as a “clean internet.” Following the 2009 election, allegations that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gained his victory through vote fraud triggered widespread protests, and the internet and social networking sites were widely used to rally protesters.
Iran blocks Tor; Tor releases same-day fix. Iran daily closed over Ahmadinejad aide interview. Iranian hunger strikers sew their lips together in protest at UK deportation. Mahyar and Mehran Meyari and Keyvan Bahari (left to right) continue their hunger strike outside the UK Border Agency in London. Leading Human Rights Lawyer Detained on Spurious Charges. Case Highlights Attack on the Legal Community (24 April 2011) The Iranian Judiciary and Intelligence Ministry should immediately release prominent human rights lawyer Mohammad Seifzadeh, the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said today.
The Campaign expressed serious concern regarding Seifzadeh’s baseless detention and reported ill health. He has been denied access to his attorney, and other internationally guaranteed due process rights. Iran: Halt Execution of Kurdish Activist. (New York) - The Iranian Judiciary should immediately halt any planned execution of Sherko (Bahman) Moarefi and rescind his death sentence, Human Rights Watch said today. Human Rights Watch believes that Moarefi, currently being held at Saqez prison in Kurdistan province, may be at imminent risk of execution.
Unconfirmed reports suggest the authorities have set May 1, 2011, as the date for Moarefi's execution, following a death sentence imposed in 2009 for belonging to a banned Kurdish separatist group, but his lawyers have been unable to get official word of the date. On April 28, Moarefi began a hunger strike in Saqez prison in order to protest his "vague and unclear" legal status, according to several Iranian human rights groups. Join The Virtual Protest In Iran's Azadi Square. Amnesty activists carry out Azadi Square action Shortly after the Iranian Revolution in 1979, authorities renamed a large public square in Tehran Meidan-e Azadi, or Azadi Square. This square was the site of large demonstrations in the wake of the disputed 2009 Iranian presidential elections; thousands of peaceful protesters were arrested, beaten and tortured for exercising their right to freedom of expression while dozens were killed by security forces. And at the same time that the Iranian government publicly declared their support for the democracy activists in Egypt and Tunisia, they denied a permit for a peaceful solidarity demonstration in February, and have only intensified their brutal crackdown on civil society activists.
Iranian hackers obtain fraudulent HTTPS certificates: How close to a Web security meltdown did we get? On March 15th, an HTTPS/TLS Certificate Authority (CA) was tricked into issuing fraudulent certificates that posed a dire risk to Internet security. Based on currently available information, the incident got close to — but was not quite — an Internet-wide security meltdown. As this post will explain, these events show why we urgently need to start reinforcing the system that is currently used to authenticate and identify secure websites and email systems. Anonymous Targets Iran. The same week that Freedom House called Iran the world's worst Internet offender, the hacking group Anonymous has begun striking at the country.
Officially set to begin on Sunday, some reports indicate the politically-inspired hacking has already commenced, with messages left on several of the websites previously defaced by Iran's government-supported "Cyber Army. " Habibollah Latifi is scheduled to be executed this Sunday, December 26. « @shariatmadari. Take Action : United4Iran. URGENT ACTION NEEDED: Send e-letters demanding a halt to the execution of Kurdish minority, Habibollah Latifi : United4Iran. Blogger Hossein Ronaghi-Maleki Transferred to Hospital in Handcuffs. Iran’s Leader Relishes 2nd Chance to Make Waves. Iranian President Asserts Right to Nuclear Power. Ahmadinejad Spars With CFR Members. Author: Bernard Gwertzman, Consulting Editor September 20, 2006 Council on Foreign Relations President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran sparred with a high-level group from the Council on Foreign Relations for ninety minutes Wednesday on virtually every contentious issue between the United States and Iran.
There were no obvious changes in the responses given by Ahmadinejad, who has been granting interviews to major news organizations over the past week ahead of his trip to the opening session of the UN General Assembly.