Sean Coughlan, an education correspondent for the BBC has written a report about the Iranian regime’s intensifying campaign of harassment and imprisonment against teachers’ union representatives.
He points of that Hashem Khastar, a teachers’ union leader from Mashhad who has been jailed three times, has confirmed that “there have been hunger strikes staged by teachers in protest against jailings and the denial of human rights”.
A so-called economic expert of the mullahs’ regime, Gholamreza Kiamehr, has admitted that an average family of four in Tehran on an income of under 35 million Rials (US $1150) would be considered to be living below the poverty line.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) have published a commemorative text on the 44th anniversary of the martyrdom of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI) founders by the Shah’s regime.
In an article published on The Hill’s website, Shahriar Kia describes how Iran is getting more and more involved in the war in Syria. The Revolutionary Guards now have over 60,000 troops on the ground – 8,000 of which are agents of the Quds Force, as well as thousands of mercenaries from Afghanistan, Iraq, Lebanon and Pakistan. He said the “Green Berets”, the 65th Nohed Brigade, has also been dispatched – a strong indication of the desperate measures the Iranian regime is taking in preventing Assad’s downfall as this is their first mission in more than two decades.
It has been reported that the repressive agents of the Iranian regime, on Tuesday 17th May 2016, have raided the home of Mulavi Ghasem Ghanbarzehi, a Sunni cleric. He was then arrested in the centre of Daman village. Daman village is located about 25 kilometers Iranshahr town in the Sistan and Baluchestan province, south-east Iran.
Pakistan has hinted that a Taliban leader has links to Iran. At the site of a US drone attack that was targeting Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour, a passport was found belonging to a Pakistani man named Wali Muhammad according to an article on Newsweek. The Pakistani Foreign Ministry said on Sunday 22nd May that the passport showed evidence of a valid Iranian visa.
Over three quarters of Iran is expected to face drought according to the regime’s officials and state media. This is despite the heavy rainfall being experienced in several areas of the country.
The head of the National Drought Warning and Monitoring Center at the Iran Meteorological Organization (IRIMO), Shahrokh Fateh, told the state-run ISNA news agency on 6th May that short term rainfalls will have no change on the state of underground water.
The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), privy to reports from inside Iran, have reported that street vendors in Ahwaz, southwestern Iran, have been “subject to harassment by municipal agents” during the past couple of weeks.
Municipal agents surrounded the street vendors market in Naderi Street in Ahwaz on 16th May. They prevented people from entering the market, meaning that the vendors could not trade.
