Regime officials have pressured the family to pay for her transfer and her son from Gohardasht to Zanjan prison

NCRI - Ms. Zahra Asadpour Gorji (Joushan), 52, a political prison held in women’s ward of Karaj’s Gohardasht prison, has suffered from a heart attack due to appalling prison conditions and pressures exerted by the regime’s henchmen at the prison. She had already had an operation on her heart. She is in critical state.

NCRI - The clerical regime has intensified pressures on a number of political prisoners arrested for either having family contacts with or visiting the residents of Camp Ashraf.

There has been no information about Majid Rezai, a 50-year-old political prisoner, since he arrest on December 31, 2009. Mr. Rezai was detained on charges of the presence of his child and brother in Ashraf and sent to the notorious Evin prison in Tehran. He is a former political prisoner of the 1980s, who suffers from a variety of illnesses after going through 10 years of imprisonment.

A regime official admits to 38 execution and 4 amputation in Ahvaz

NCRI - On February 20, the clerical regime hanged a Sunni prisoner, Haj Dadollah Moradzehi, after eight months of imprisonment in the city of Zahedan. The execution took place even as many Sunni clerics and trustees in the province of Sistan and Baluchistan had called against it, describing the victim as someone who had helped build many of the Sunni mosques in the region.

The victim’s nephew, Khodayar Rahmat-Zehi-Shahnavazi, 35, had also been executed on January 23, 2010, after spending 4 years in prison. He was arrested after a bomb exploded in front of his residence.

NCRI - A member of the Iranian regime's Assembly of Experts, said on Saturday, that the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) had stroked blows causing irrecoverable damages to the clerical regime.

According to state news agency IRNA, Khazali, in a speech in the city of Varamin, said: “Islamic Republic of Iran is faced with the sedition by Monafeqin (PMOI). These people stood against velayat-e faqih (the absolute clerical rule), chanting slogans like Iranian Republic, they tore the portraits of Imam Khomeini (founder of the clerical dictatorship) and our current leader and went as far as setting fire to them.”

NCRI - In a written declaration, the Iraqi Christian Democratic Party, denounced pressures by the Iranian regime against the residents of Camp Ashraf as inhumane acts.

Below is the text of declaration by the Iraqi Christian Democratic Party:

WASHINGTON, February 22, 2010 (AFP) - The United States said Monday that Iran's plan to build two new uranium enrichment plants is "further evidence" it rejects engagement with the international community.

State Department spokesman Philip Crowley added that the United States and other powers were reviewing Iranian targets for sanctions and Washington would offer specific proposals to the United Nations in the coming weeks.

NCRI - Dr. Ahmad al-Alvani, a member of Iraqi parliament, condemned the joint conspiracy of Iranian regime's Ministry of Information Security and the Iraqi committee in charge of Ashraf, against the camps' residents.

Mr. al-Alvani urged the Iraqi government to live up to its international obligations towards the protection of residents of Ashraf.

WASHINGTON (AFP) — US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton should reveal the names of companies with "problematic" business dealings with Iran and sanction them, 30 lawmakers urged her in a letter released Monday.

Clinton should punish the firms under the Iran Sanctions Act, which authorizes sanctions against non-US companies that invest more than 20 million dollars in Iran's oil and gas sectors, they said in the message.

NCRI -  Iranian regime's henchmen have hanged three men, one in the eastern city of Zahedan and the others in the central city of Isfahan, state-run daily Kayhan reported on Monday.

It said two men were hanged on Saturday in a prison in Isfahan, while the other was executed on Sunday in a prison in Zahedan.

Associted Press - An Iranian opposition leader is urging the European Union to impose sanctions against Iran's Revolutionary Guards.

Maryam Rajavi, head of a Paris-based umbrella opposition group, says the guard corps should also be placed on a European list of banned terrorist organizations.

Maryam Rajavi calls on EU FMs not to link comprehensive sanctions against Iranian regime to Security Council decision; Place the IRGC and its affiliated institutions on the terrorist list and impose comprehensive sanctions against them

Democracy in Iran, peace in the region and prevention of the clerical regime from obtaining nuclear weapons all depend on change in Iran

NCRI - On the eve of the European Union foreign ministers meeting, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, called on Baroness Ashton, EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, and the 27 European foreign ministers to avoid making comprehensive sanctions against the religious fascism ruling Iran conditional on a UN Security Council decision.