Stop Fundamentalism – Amnesty International called on Asma al-Assad, the British born wife of Syrian dictator Bashar Al-Assad, to break silence and speak out on behalf of Syrian people and specially the Syrian women.
Amnesty’s statement came as the International Women’s Day is approaching on Thursday, March 8.
Stop Fundamentalism – A Saudi Arabian diplomat, Khalaf Al Ali, was shot in the chest and died in the Bangladesh capital in the early hours of Tuesday, the deputy commissioner of Dhaka police told AFP. He was found by the police near his home and rushed to the hospital where he died three hours later.
Stop Fundamentalism – German language news publications reported last week that Iran and North Korea have cooperated in a number of nuclear tests in early 2010. Die Welt newspaper reported Sunday that Iran has completed at least one nuclear weapons test in North Korea in 2010, says the website of Radio Farda, a Persian language radio program based in Europe.
Stop Fundamentalism – While the Iranian regime leaders are trying to create an illusion that the international sanctions have had no effect on the regime’s ability to control, lower rank fallouts create growing reason to concern for the ruling clerics.
Hussein Salami, Iranian Deputy Commander for the IRGC (Islamic Revolution Guards Corps) described the situation of the Iranian regime to be “most isolated and in technical, scientific and economic blockade,” and considered all “doors to be closed on regime.”
Stop Fundamentalism – Media sources from Iran warn that the number of arrested Christians in Iran is on the rise in various cities.
HRA News reports that the arrested, are mostly new Christians who have converted from Islam.
Stop Fundamentalism – An Iranian government center organizing the country’s Cyber war, Center for Cyber Warfare, says it has employed 20,000 people to fight the “soft war” for it, reported ISNA state-run news agency Thursday.
Stop Fundamentalism – Amid rising clashes in Syria between Assad forces and Syrian people, and climbing number of victims in that country as a result, an internal Iranian IRGC source says that a considerable number of bodies of revolutionary guards members killed in Syria have secretly been transferring to Iran from that country during the past few days.
Stop Fundamentalism – An Iranian-Christian news website, Mohabat News, says that Mr. Hekmat Salimi, the pastor of the Church of St. Paul in Esfahan was arrested in a raid by Iranian security forces on his house on February 22.
Stop Fundamentalism – A confidential report to be presented to the 35 member nations of the UN International Atomic Energy Agency board of directors says that the agency continues to have “serious concerns regarding possible military dimensions to Iran’s nuclear program,” said Associated Press that obtained a draft of the report in advance of its submission.
The report is the latest assessment of Iran’s nuclear efforts prepared by IAEA. It shows that Iran is rapidly speeding up its efforts to produce larger amount of higher grade uranium which can lead this country to having the capability to produce nuclear bombs.
Stop Fundamentalism – Worlds most import financial hub, SWIFT, will have to reconsider its relationship with all Iranian Banks once the European Union introduces its new regulations to sanction the Islamic Republic’s financial institutions, limiting their access to international financial resources.
“The European Union is preparing regulations that will shut out Iran’s banks from a major financial clearinghouse used by virtually every country in the world,” a Senior European Union official told Associated Press Thursday. The official who wanted to stay anonymous told AP reporter that the “regulations should be adopted rather quickly.”
SWIFT, the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, which handles cross-border payments, said it is prepared to cutoff Iranian banks.
