Stop Fundamentalism – At least 30 villagers in the Kurdish border region of Turkey have died following an air-attack by Turkey’s military forces today, report AFP and Kurdish media.
The attack was on a village with Kurd population near the Iraqi border. The name of the village is Ortasu in the border region province of Sirnak.
Stop Fundamentalism – A prominent Iranian political prisoner, Behrooz Javid-Tehrani , who was arrested as a student activist for having contact with anti-regime groups has been released, says HRA News Agency, the Iranian dissident Human Rights Activists.
Javid-Tehrani was 19 years old when first he was arrested and overall has spent 11 years in different Iranian prisons for political reasons.
Stop Fundamentalism – Iranian Resistance sources reported Tuesday night that another round of rockets have been fired at Camp Ashraf in Iraq where 3400 Iranian exiled dissidents live away from Iranian regime’s rule. This is the second time in the past 24 hours that the camp has been targeted by Katusha rockets.
The rockets landed inside the camp area at 8 pm local time, exactly the same as the reported attack time last night when the first attack occurred.
The rockets were fired from the southern side of the camp and landed near a residential compound housing the residents. There are no reports of possible casualties yet. The residents are searching the area at night time to gather evidence and assess damages.
Stop Fundamentalism – The economic sanctions imposed on Iran by the international community to force this country abandon its suspicious nuclear program is beginning to show major signs of effect on the country’s economy.
Dollar has just taken another jump reaching 1510 Tomans in Iran’s internal market. That is 45 Tomans rise in just a day. In recent weeks Dollar’s value has almost doubled showing Iran’s economy to be completely out of control.
SF News – The United States State Department says that the number of Brazilians who requested travel visa’s to the US rose 42 percent comparing to the year 2010. The department processed a record number of 820,000 visa applications at its Mission to Brazil last year, says a statement posted on State Department’s website.
To deal with the surge the department has had to deploy temporary employees to US Embassy in Brasilia and to US Consulates in Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Recife cities until permanent ones can be sent in.
Stop Fundamentalism – An Iranian dissident television station, Simay-e Azadi reported today that a number of rockets have hit the southern part of Camp Ashraf in Iraq. The TV station that stopped its normal television programming to report on the development did not mention any casualties among residents.
The rockets landed close to residential compound, reported the TV station.
Camp Ashraf was the target of raid last April in which 36 unarmed residents were killed. Since then the Iraqi government of Nouri al-Maliki has pressed the resident to leave the camp. The residents have filed for asylum with the United Nations Refugee agency UNHCR.
Stop Fundamentalism – Iranian Naval ships took to the sea today covering a distance of about 2000 kilometers east of Strait of Hormuz to the Persian Gulf and then Gulf of Aden. The parade kicked off Iran’s 10 day display of sea power using ships and submarines. During these maneuvers Iran’s Navy will be closing the Strait of Hormus as part of the drill.
The Iranian Navy, trying to show some might to the west, has been threatening to close the Strait of Hormuz in the event of an attack by the west due to its clandestine nuclear weapons program. The Strait of Hormuz is the most important sea pathway for international oil trade.
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Allegations against Vice-President and one of Al-Iraqiya’s leaders, Tareq Al-Hashemi, are “fabricated, false with no credence.”
Stop Fundamentalism –The Iraqi head of al-Iraqiya bloc, Dr. Ayad Allawi, has asked Ban Ki-moon, United Nations’ General Secretary to appoint a special human rights envoy for Iraq, said Arabic news agency, Al-Malaf on Wednesday.
In an interview with Al-Malaf, Allawy warned about recent developments in Iraq and said that the bloc’s participants in the cabinet of Nouri al-Maliki will have to stop attending meetings if the current situation continues. He also expressed concern that the current crisis would destroy the political process in Iraq and open ways for the Iranian regime to interfere in the country.
Stop Fundamentalism – While Bashar Al-Assad’s government has agreed to accept Arab League’s proposal to allow a team of its observers into Syria by Thursday, the government forces seem to have stepped up crackdown on the civilian population of the country, according to reports by activists in Syria.
On Tuesday, government forces advanced on the northwestern village of Kfar Owaid, completely surrounding the village. When villagers started to fleeing to save their own lives, government forces surrounded them outside the village and then started shelling and shooting at the them.
