To coincide with the International Teachers Day, the current and retired staff from the faculty of the Ministry of Education in Tehran staged a demonstration. On the morning of 5th October, they protested their low wages and lack of benefits as well as the terrible living conditions they are subject to.
An article on groundreport.com presents suggestions on how the Iranian regime’s terrorism can be combatted, a hot topic following the U.S. presidential debate between Clinton and Trump. The nuclear deal and the trouble caused by Iranian boats in the Persian Gulf was discussed, however the main problem – the violation of human rights – was not mentioned by either candidate. Once again, in a repetition of the last 38 years, the “egregious” violation of human rights has been ignored.
The US Navy dispatched three military vessels off the coast of Yemen following the rocket attacks on a United Arab Emirates auxiliary ship, this past Saturday.
The Director of the Iranian Regime’s Water Resources Management has called the country’s Underground Water Crisis “Disastrous”.
A former member of the Iranian regime’s parliament has questioned the role of the Iranian regime in Syria. Yadollah Eslami asked if keeping Assad in power should come at the price of destructing a whole country.
The Women’s Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran has released a statement condemning the awarding of the Women’s World Chess Championship to Iran. They urge FIDE, the world chess body, to cancel this decision.
Mostafa Naderi, a former Iranian political prisoner who spent 11 years in an Iranian prison and one of the few survivors of Iran’s 1988 massacre of political prisoners, wrote a piece for the National Post.
In a statement, the Iranian Resistance has strongly condemned the atrocities taking place in Syria. The statement (which can be read in full on the National Council of Resistance of Iran’s, NCRI, website) condemns the international inaction in relation to the catastrophe in Aleppo. They say that this inaction has jeopardised peace, not only in the region, but in the rest of the world too.
