Stop Fundamentalism – Iran will strongly confront those who use foul language against regime’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenie, said the Iranian Police Deputy for Cyber Warfare.
Iran’s after-election unrests in 2009 were nicknamed the “Twitter Revolution”. The reason was that protesters organized and informed eachother and also spread the news to the outside world using this online communications tool.
Stop Fundamentalism – A new law calling for separation of men and women employees in governmental offices will be enforced soon in Iran’s city of Bushehr, reported a Persian language news publication Asr-Iran yesterday.
The law is enforced because, “no one acts on his/her duty,” said Bushehr governor Mohammad Hussein Jahanbakhsh to news reporters.
SF News – Kepler, NASA’s planet hunting Telescope has spotted a planet with many similarities to earth including that it may contain water, land, and life.
NASA says that the temperature on the planet surface is about 72 degrees Fahrenheit and its sun is very similar to our own sun. The planet orbits its sun at a distance which is considered habitable. At this range liquid water can exist on surface of the planet.
Stop Fundamentalism – During the outbreak of social discontent in Iran back in 2009, many activists who used their mobile phones and public internet connections to make the international community aware of what was going on in the streets were quickly arrested by regime agents. Those dissidents who managed to escape the country after or during the unrest expressed anger at those western companies who have provided the Iranian dictators with the most sophisticated electronic equipments to filter, monitor, and track down dissidents.
The stories that used to come from Iran at time were so unbelievable that for some time people ignored the cries of those telling it as scince fiction and credited the quick response by Iranian Intelligence forces to their intelligence. But soon the world found out who has been giving away Iranian protesters to mullahs security forces.
Stop Fundamentalism – Iran Fars News agency affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards Corps, IRGC, reported Monday that two members of Basij forces have died in clashes in eastern province of Sistan-Balouchestan.
“The two died in a terrorist operation staged by foreign collaborators”, said the IRGC’s public relations office in the province to Fars news.
Stop Fundamentalism – An American reconnaissance Drone plan has crashed in eastern part of Iran, reported Iranian news agencies, Sunday.
“Tehran will respond to the violation of its airspace by the American plane,” reports the Iranian Fars News website affiliated to IRGC adding, “The response will be beyond Iranian borders.”
Stop Fundamentalism – Iranian regime executed 37 people last month including one woman in the western city of Kermanshah, reported Iranian opposition sources yesterday.
Five of the executions took place in public.
Eleven prisoners were executed together in a group in central city of Shiraz.
Stop Fundamentalism – Only a month remains for the Iranian exile refugees in Camp Ashraf as the Iraqi government continues to threaten the resident that it will close the camp at the end of the year. Many fear this may be a death call for many of the unarmed residents in the camp. The Iranian opposition sounds the alarms and calls on Europe to respond quickly in a conference held in Residence Palace in Brussels, Wednesday.
Earlier this year in April, Iraqi forces raided the camp killing at least 34 residents and wounding hundreds some by Iraqis shooting directly at them.
The remaining one month scheduled by Iraqi government to close Camp Ashraf should be considered an alarming issue for European Foreign Ministers to send a strong message to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki.
Stop Fundamentalism – Iranian officials are rejecting news of an explosion near the central city of Isfahan after some news agencies reported a terrifying explosion sound that was heard in various parts of the city Monday. Reports also indicate fire trucks started moving rapidly inside the city sounding sirens following the sound.
A security official in Isfahan categorically denied the existence of any reports about an explosion sound in the city saying no agency has reported hearing it.
An explosion that occurred two weeks ago in an IRGC ballistic missile base near Tehran killing up to 36 IRGC personnel according to some reports including Iran’s top military missile expert, General Hasan Moghaddam . Observers believe Moghaddam was there to test fire a new missile when something went wrong and the missile exploded.
Stop Fundamentalism – Iranian Foreign Minister, Ali Akbar Salehi, was rejected a fly-Over by Hungarian authorities, said an Iranian foreign ministry source Monday. He was on his way to Hague to attend an International meeting on Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Sunday when Hungarian air authorities forced his plane to return.
“Hungarian government refused to allow the airplane carrying Ali Akbar Salehi to fly across its space and raised some technical pretexts, whereas the plane had received permission to use air space of different countries, “said a source at Iran’s foreign ministry.
Hungarian officials say the plane had technical issues and did not meet country’s overflight standards.
