NCRI- Last February, Shiraz University campus was the scene of ten days of courageous protests by the student activists in the southern city of Shiraz.

The mullahs' hand picked school management jumped at an opportunity in the Nowruoz (Iranian New Year holidays) to install hundreds of surveillance cameras on the campus to monitor the students every move.

NCRI - On Saturday, more than 400 laid off workers of Iran-Sadra Shipyard in the southern city of Bushehr ended the 8th day of their ongoing sit-in. The workers are protesting against sudden dismissal from their jobs by the factory's management last month. They have held a sit-in outside the shipyard's administration building.

The protesting workers blocked the main entrance to the facility, other workers did not turn out and many parts of the shipyard are closed down.

At a time when Ahmadinejad calls for deployment of the regime's entire nuclear capacity following Majlis sham elections, the imposition of comprehensive sanctions against the regime is a necessity far more than before

NCRI - Manouchehr Motaki, the clerical regime's Foreign Minister, in a letter addressed to the United Nations Secretary General, officially rejected implementation of the UN Security Council resolution 1803. He brazenly described the resolution as being "unlawful" and stated that his government would not be "bound to respect or implement" the resolutions.

NCRI - Brig. Gen. Ismail Ahmadi-Moqadam, chief of the State Security Forces (SSF), stressed that the suppressive plan known as "Boosting Public Security" will be "complemented" and "not abandoned" and suppression in the New Year will intensified.

Speaking to a gathering of border regiment personnel in Paveh, western Iran, he said that people may think "these plans were temporary … the SSF is determined and I promise people that the plan will not be abandoned and it is not going to end under any circumstances and the trend is irreversible," the official news agency IRNA reported on March 26.

NCRI - Brig. Gen. Ismail Ahmadi-Moqaddam, chief of the State Security Forces (SSF) in Iran described "boosting public security and increasing morality plan," as a major success.

"The SSF has decided to introduce a variety of security measures next year [2008] to improve security standards to an acceptable level," said Ahmadi-Moqaddam.

NCRI - The Iranian regime has been shelling Iraqi Kurdish villages amid the Persian New Year celebrations. 

The Iranian regime's artillery once again bombarded the border areas of Qaleh-Dizeh and Chowman. The inhuman measures have inflicted heavy financial losses in the area and the bombardment caused panic among local residents. A number of villages along the border have been totally evacuated.