The National Council of Resistance if Iran (NCRI), has reported gross human right violations due to poverty in Iran.  

Shahin Gobadi, spokesperson for the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, PMOI (Mujahedin-e Khalq, MEK) has stated that: “The bitter reality is that the overwhelming majority of Iranians are living in poverty and destitution due to the regime’s policies and conduct, such as spending an estimated $300 billion on its nuclear weapons program; and plundering astronomical amounts of the nation’s wealth has become common practice among the regime’s top officials who live a lavish life of luxury.”

The regime in Iran on Sunday hanged a Kurdish dissident in the central prison of the city of Tabriz (north-west Iran) without first informing his family.

Sirvan Nezhavi, was arrested on July 5, 2011 in Karaj (north-west of Tehran) and was charged with ‘Moharebeh’ (waging war on God) for membership in a Kurdish group that opposes the Iranian regime.

Iranians in Paris on Saturday held a protest and photo exhibition to expose and denounce the rapid rise in the rate of executions in Iran under the presidency of Hassan Rouhani and call on European governments to make human rights the focus of their Iran policy. The gathering coincided with the 27th anniversary of the 1988 massacre of Iran’s political prisoners.

The Iranian regime on Wednesday destroyed a Sunni prayer hall in the capital Tehran, the National Council of Resistance of Iran reported.

In the early hours of the day on Wednesday, suppressive forces (police), raided and destroyed the Sunni ‘Poonak’ prayer hall in Tehran and  further searched the premises of the mosque’s Sunni imam Abdullah Moussa-Zadeh and confiscated his mobile phone.