Iranian regime intensifies wave of executions following Security Council referral of Tehran's nuclear dossier

The Iranian state-controlled media reported that at least 13 persons had been hanged or sentenced to death in the past five days. 

Two prisoners, Ayat Kh. and Mehdi A., were sentenced to death by the Revolutionary Court in the southern Iranian Province of Fars on February 15.

By Dan Robinson

Voice of America - The U.S. House of Representatives has overwhelmingly approved a non-binding resolution condemning Iran over its nuclear program, and calling for international sanctions to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

Members of Congress and Experts Reinforce the IPC Call for Regime Change in Iran; IPC Releases Annual Review 2005

U.S. Newswire, WASHINGTON - On Wednesday, Feb. 15, in a congressional briefing titled, "Iran: Threats, Challenges, and Prospects for Change," the Iran Policy Committee released its Annual Review 2005. The event, held in the Cannon Caucus Room, was sponsored by representatives William Lacy Clay (D-Mo.), Ed Towns (D-N.Y.), Bob Filner (D-Calif.), John Boozman (R-Ark.), Sheila Jackson-Lee (D-Texas), Tom Tancredo (R-Colo.), and Eddie Bernice-Johnson (D-Texas).

The Bush team unveils a plan to push for Iranian-led reform. Can it really yield 'regime change'?

By Howard LaFranchi

The Christian Sciences Monitor - With Poland's Solidarity movement of the 1980s as its model, the Bush administration wants to boost support for opposition groups inside Iran as a way to counter the actions of the Tehran government.

NCRI - The following is a press release by the Amnesty International today expressing concern over deteriorating human rights violations in Iran:

Six months after Iran's new president came to power human rights violations remain widespread and the new government has failed to take any action to address the situation, Amnesty International revealed in a report published today.

NCRI - According to the Lebanese Daily Star, Walid Jumblatt, member of the Lebanese parliament revealed a joint plot by the Iranian regime and Syria to alter the Lebanese map in order to take advantage of the situation. Jumbalat spoke to visitors to his mountain refuge of Mukhtara on Sunday.

Jumbalat stressed that the Shebaa Farms is not Lebanese but in fact Syrian and that Syria had altered the maps pushing the borderline to show that Shebaa Farms is Lebanese and this way the resistance against the Israeli occupation of a supposedly Lebanese territory would be justified.

NCRI - The Committee of the Iranian-Dutch Drivers, supporters of the Iranian Resistance expressed its solidarity with transport workers in Iran who have been on strike for the past few weeks.

International labor organizations called Wednesday a day of solidarity with Iranian transport workers which included the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU) and the Consulting Committee of the Workers Union of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). They had called on all labor organizations and union workers across the world to hold protest rallies to express their support with the demands of their Iranian counter parts.

Agence France Presse - French Foreign Minister Philippe Douste-Blazy branded Iran's nuclear programme for the first time Thursday as a "clandestine, military" project.
 
"It's very simple: no civilian nuclear programme can explain Iran's nuclear programme," he told France 2 television in an interview, two days after Tehran confirmed it was resuming sensitive uranium enrichment work.

The anti-human clerical regime in Iran hanged Mojahedin member, Hojjat Zamani, a political prisoner since 2001 in Gohardasht prison near Tehran, on Tuesday, February 7.

Zamani had endured prison and torture for four and a half years. Ali Haji Kazem, warden of Gohardasht prison, and two other henchmen, Arjomandi and Syed, carried out the ruthless hanging.

Zamani was handed four death sentences by the branch six of the Revolutionary Court in summer of 2004. By the end of 2004, the Supreme Court, presided over by Gholamhossein Mohseni Eje'i [now Minister of Intelligence] and Nabi Raji, handed Mr. Zamani two death sentences and payment of blood money on bogus charges. When informed of the sentences, Zamani rejected the charges and wrote below the verdict: "I do not protest the sentence that has been issued."