Despite systematic discrimination in law and practice as well as widespread social privations and increasing pressures in the family, Iranian women achieved impressive success in nationwide university entrance exams.

Based on official results, 61.3 percent of those accepted in the nationwide exams this year were women. Out of five major fields of study, women came in first in three, experimental sciences, mathematics and technical sciences as well as liberal arts. In two other fields, foreign languages and human sciences, women were among the top five.

Mohammad Mohaddessin, chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran addressed a letter to H.E. Louise Arbour, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, on August 10, to express the concerns over the abduction of two members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran by agents of the Iranian regime in Iraq. The following is the full text of his letter:

PMOI members were first taken to the Interior Ministry and taken away shortly through the back door
According to eyewitnesses, Messrs. Hossein Pouyan and Mohammad-Ali Zahedi, two kidnapped members of the PMOI, were first taken to the Interior Ministry. They were taken out through the Ministry's back entrance shortly thereafter.

At the time when the clerical regime has officially resumed work at Isfahan uranium conversion facility, referring its nuclear file to the United Nations Security Council is of paramount importance.

The National Council of Resistance of Iran condemns Tehran's lobby's obstructionism in the Board of Governors of the International Atomic Energy Agency to this end. The arming of Iran's ruling theocracy with nuclear weapon runs counter to the highest interests of the Iranian people, peace and tranquility in the region and against the very regimes who are currently defending this regime.

In order to step up repression, terror and intimidation, the clerical regime hanged six people in Tehran and Hamedan (western Iran) today and yesterday. Two others in Tehran and another in Karaj (west of Tehran) were sentenced to death.

The clerical regime has reportedly instructed its agents in Iraq to transfer to Iran two abducted members of the People's Mojahedin (PMOI) through "safe borders" in Al-Amarah, southern Iraq.

Finally, after two years of buying time, deception and gaining major political, economic and security concessions from the European Union, the religious, terrorist dictatorship ruling Iran, in a blatant breach of the Paris Accord, formally resumed nuclear work at Isfahan UCF site.

As the European Union's three major powers prepare to present their latest package of incentives to the religious, terrorist dictatorship ruling Iran, Mr. Mohaddessin, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, sent a letter to Foreign Secretary Jack Straw of the United Kingdom, EU's rotating president, emphasizing that the Tehran regime had engaged in brinkmanship, threatening to resume the nuclear activities in Isfahan facility to extract greater concessions from the EU.

Mohaddessin added, "The clerical regime pursues two objectives in this cat-and-mouse game to which it has resorted since the National Council of Resistance of Iran blew the cover off its 18-year clandestine nuclear activities in August 2002. The first is to gain more time to complete its project to obtain nuclear weapons, considered by the clerical leaders as the sole strategic guarantee for their regime's survival. The second is to gain greater economic, political and security concessions from Western countries."