By Armin Baldwin
Fereshteh Akhlaghi, a member of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI, Mujahedin-e Khalq or MEK) 70 years of, has spent almost half her life in the Iranian Resistance fighting for a Free Iran, with the type of endurance and patience that is needed to overthrow dictators.
Atousa Pilger
It has been reported that the Criminal Court of Gorgan has issued 20 Iranians with flogging sentences. The people were arrested in June and were charged with “acting against chastity”. Twelve of these people are male and eight are female. Their only crime was to attend a mixed-gender yoga class.
by Navid Felker
The mullahs’ regime executed four prisoners in Gohardasht prison in Karaj city on Wednesday. The names of the executed prisoners were Hassan Roshan, Mohammad Reza Ghanbari, Hamid Sheikhi and Mohsen.
A few days ago, the prison’s agents replaced six prisoners to solitary confinement, the action that the government takes it before executions.
by Navid Felker
It has been reported that two women in Iran have been handed finalized death sentences in the cities of Isfahan and Khoy. They were previously informed of the court’s decision to execute them, but now the appeals process is over.
Zahra Derakhshan has been in Khoy Prison in Urmia in the province of West Azerbaijan since the end of 2016. Last November, she was given a death decree but she objected to the court’s ruling. The Criminal Court of Urmia has now finalized the decree, upholding the original ruling.
By Armin Baldwin
The Iranian Regime has banned a pair of married political prisoners from visiting each other in prison because the husband refused to put on prisoner clothes and shackles for the transfer.
Hassan Sadeghi refused to wear the prison outfit, as well as handcuffs and shackles, which is only appropriate because he shouldn’t be in prison, so the prison supervisor canceled Sadeghi’s visit with his wife Fatemeh Mossanna, which would have been their first visit in several months.
The couple was arrested on April 9, 2014, for the apparent crime of organizing a memorial service for Sadeghi’s father, Gholamhossein, who had died on January 29, 2014, in Camp Liberty, Iraq. This is the place where the Iranian Regime and its proxies in Iraq held members of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI, Mujahedin-e Khalq or MEK) under siege.
Atousa Pilger
On September 30, four Iranians set themselves on fire and one man jumped off a building, all due to financial pressures in a dire economic situation, where even regime officials admit that 80% of people live below the poverty line.
A human rights group reported that two women, identified as Zeinab Mohammadi and Negar Ezzati, self-immolated on Monday in the western province of Kermanshah, due to economic problems.
By Atousa Pilger
300 inhabitants of the Lordegan county in Charmahal & Bakhtiari province, southern Iran, became inflicted with AIDS due to negligence of Iranian officials in the regime’s Health Ministry.
Dozens of locals held a protest rally on Wednesday in the aftermath of this incident. The crowd, mostly women, gathered in front of the governor’s office and the Health Ministry branch in Lordegan.
By Armin Baldwin
Canadian Conservative Party leader Andrew Scheer said on Tuesday that a Conservative government would designate Iran’s military unit, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), as a terrorist organization and follow a similar decision taken by the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump earlier this year.
By Atousa Pilger
On Saturday 14th September, a number of Saudi oil installations were attacked. Houthi rebels in Yemen claimed responsibility for the attack soon afterward, but it quickly became clear that this was highly unlikely.
Although Houthi rebels have launched numerous drone and missile attacks on Saudi Arabia over the past few years, they have usually been intercepted by Saudi defense systems. Or they have caused very little damage. So to have suddenly progressed to having the ability to be behind the Saudi attacks seems impossible.
A number of leaders were quick to point the finger at Iran. And after days of investigation, several other leaders came to the same conclusion. On the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York last week, an E3 joint statement also said that all evidence points to Iran’s involvement.
