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Trapped Journalists in Homs, Syria Call for Help

Stop Fundamentalism – Sunday Times Photographer, Paul Conroy, and Le Figaro’s reporter, Edith Bouvier have appeared on YouTube released videos calling for help.

UN Nuclear Delegation Leaves Iran Empty Handed

Stop Fundamentalism – United Nations team of five members left Iran today complaining about the lack of results from two times talks with this country’s officials.

“The United Nations atomic energy watchdog has voiced disappointment at the lack of progress made during a two-day visit to Iran aimed at clarifying possible military dimensions to the country’s nuclear program,” said the nuclear agency of the United Nations, IAEA in a statement today.

The team of UN exports visited Iran yesterday and today as well as three days last month.  While both parties considered the meeting constructive when the IAEA left Iran last time, it was later revealed that Iran had not allowed the UN agency to visit a top secret nuclear military site called Parchin near Tehran.

Bomb Attacks Target Iraqi Top Shiite Leader

Stop Fundamentalism – A number of Ayatollah Ali Sistani’s representatives in various Iraqi cities have been targeted by terrorist attacks during the past three day, say Iraqi media reports.

Syrian Journalists and Bloggers Arrested for Reporting Unrest

Stop Fundamentalism – 14 Journalist and bloggers were arrested in a raid by the Syrian government in Damascus Thursday, reports the Committee to Protect Journalists, a nonprofit organization that aims to promote press freedom worldwide.

Iran – Earthquake Shakes Tehran Central Province

Stop Fundamentalism –  A 4.3 magnitude on the Richter scale quake shot the eastern part of Tehran today, say Iranian news agencies and media.

Syria – Crime Against Humanity in Progress

Stop Fundamentalism – Latest report by the Human Rights Council of United Nations in which Syrian dictator was accused of committing ‘Crime Against Humanity’, was protested by the Iranian regime.

“This will open a new way that would undermine the UN General Assembly’s impartiality and the Islamic Republic will protest it,” said Iran’s Ambassador to the United Nations General Assembly, today.

Iran – Protesters and Police Clash in Tehran

Stop Fundamentalism – Iranian dissident media reports from Tehran indicate new occurrences of demonstrations and clashes between Iranian protesters and the police.  Demonstrators chanted “death to dictator” and set fire on trash bins and clashed with security forces.

In Narmak area about 7:30 pm, police had to fire teargas into the crowd gathered there to demonstrate.

Iran Is the Enemy of All Democracies: Dissident

Stop Fundamentalism –  On the anniversary of Iranian 1979 Revolution that happen 33 years ago, under the leadership of Ayatollah Rouhollah Khomeini, Iranian dissident considers the mullahs’ regime to be the enemy of all democracies in the world. 

Iran Human Rights Violations in January 2012

The Iranian regime announced publicly the executions of 45 people in the in January 2012.  That number included 16 public executions.

According to state-run media, the Iranian regime hanged a total of 11 people in various cities on January 4, 2012. Just Eleven days later, on January 15, twelve other prisoners were hanged.

Rajavi: Prevent Camp Liberty from Becoming a Prison

Stop Fundamentalism – President-elect Maryam Rajavi, of the National Council of Resistance of Iran called on the United States, the European Union, and the United Nations, today, to step in and prevent the Iranian and Iraqi governments from turning Camp Liberty in to a prison for Camp Ashraf residents.

Rajavi who was speaking at a conference held in the European Parliament in Brussels while sitting alongside of number of European and American personalities such as Howard Dean and Patrick Kennedy, stated that the residents of the camp are “still committed to the relocation to Liberty, only demanding minimum assurances namely  a dignified and humane treatment at the new location.”