NCRI – In a joint statement on Monday, February 08, the European Union and the United States condemned the continuing human rights violations in Iran and called on the mullahs to “live up to its international human rights obligations.” Full text follows:

Feb. 4. 2010 (Norway's Foreign Ministry*) - Norwegian State Secretary for Foreign Affairs: “I am profoundly worried about the deterioration of the human rights situation in Iran after last year’s elections.”

Norway has condemned the hanging of two people in Iran last Thursday. Mohammad-Reza Ali Zamani and Arash Rahmanpour were sentenced in August of last year at a hearing for participating in the organization of the unrests which took hold after the June 2009 presidential elections in Iran.

Rome (APCOM*), Feb 5, 2010 – Iran cannot be negotiated with and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) must be blacklisted in the EU because “they are akin to Hitler’s brown shirts,” says Andrea Ronchi, Italy’s European Policy Minister. She made the comments as part of a delegation accompanying Prime Minister Berlusconi during bilateral meetings with the Israeli government.

Ronchi said: Europe has delayed. Everyone says that there should be a united foreign policy in Europe, but then they continue with their silence in the face of the degradation and insult perpetrated against thousands of citizens who struggle for democracy. In practice, the Iranian regime is also pushing ahead with its nuclear program and pursues a frightening anti-Semitic policy like the one in the year 900 which created fear and terror in Europe.

NCRI - Remarks by mullahs’ President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Sunday, February 7, regarding the production of 20 percent enriched uranium and his admission that the regime possesses laser enrichment technology are a foolish crack at blackmail and a despicable preemptive bid to evade the imposition of international sanctions. Faced with the nationwide uprising of the Iranian people and caught in a downward spiral towards its imminent downfall, the desperate clerical regime needs nuclear weapons for its survival.

By: Ted Poe, Member of U.S. House of Representatives
Source: Poe.house.gov
Washington, Feb 2, 2009 - Mr. Speaker, there's a grim update coming out of the nation of Iran. Last week, the Government of Iran executed two of the 11 people who had been arrested and sentenced to death for peacefully protesting the government. They were hanged. Iran announced yesterday that nine more people sentenced to death will be hanged in the public square.

On Saturday, 16 more protestors went on trial for their lives. Hundreds of people were arrested in December when liberty advocates again protested in the streets of Iran by the thousands and at least eight people were murdered by the government.

NCRI - For seven nights running, the mothers and families of martyrs and political prisoners joined by Tehran residents gathered outside notorious Evin prison on Friday, February 5, chanting Allahu Akbar. The crowd of up to 1,000 has been demanding the release of those detained during uprisings and the political prisoners. The suppressive forces tried to disperse the crowd but the families resisted by forming human chain and chanting louder anti-regime slogans.

40 wounded by pellet bullets in clashes on Thursday

NCRI - Courageous uprising of Lar residents continued on Friday, February 5. People’s protest was so intense and widespread that the clerics could not hold the weekly Friday prayers in the city. A large crowd, kilometers long, gathered outside the Hosseinieh Azam mosque chanting anti-regime slogans.

On Thursday evening, the Special Guard units attacked protesters by pellet bullets injuring at least 40. The suppressive forces wounded a large number of people including children, women and elderly men when attacked the crowd with batons.

NCRI - Navy Colonel Alborz Ghasemi, a 51-year-old political prisoner, died on January 19, 2010, after spending 20 months in the medieval prisons of the mullahs’ regime under the most brutal forms of torture. He suffered from chronic pain as a result of stomach cancer and died at Tehran’s notorious Evin prison. The regime’s henchmen deprived him of hospitalization and receiving proper medical treatment by specialists. Ghasemi was a former commander of the Center for Expert Naval Training in the city of Rasht and an instructor at one of the Army’s Naval Forces universities.

Ghasemi was arrested on May 12, 2008, and accused of transferring intelligence to the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). His brother, Hamid Ghasemi, a Canadian resident, was also arrested after returning to Iran. The two political prisoners were sentenced to death after preliminary hearings on charges of moharebeh (waging war against God). An appeals court later reduced their sentence to life imprisonment.

Honoring Ashura uprising victims – no. 2 

NCRI - People of Mashhad, provincial capital of Khorasan in northeast Iran, staged a gathering and a protest on Thursday, February 4, to pay homage to the fallen victims of Ashura uprising on December 27. They particularly honored the death of a student from Mashhad University killed by suppressive forces on that day. 

The Orange County Register

By NASSER SHARIF
2010-02-03
 
When Iranians poured into the streets of major cities to protest the fraudulent June 2009 presidential elections, many thought the protests would subside in a matter of days. Eight months later, not only were the protesters still out in force, but the focus of the protests has shifted to regime change.

Honoring Ashura uprising victims – no. 1

Paying homage to martyrs of Ashura uprising in Tehran’s Behesht Zahra Cemetery despite heavy presence of suppressive forces

NCRI - Bereaved mothers and families of those killed during Ashura uprising (December 27, 2009) and families of political prisoners were joined by thousands of people from Tehran to pay homage to the dead. They have gathered in sections 259, 302 and 304 of Tehran’s Behesht Zahra Cemetery since 9:00 am today to mark the fortieth day of their death.