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Maryam Rajavi Welcomes PMOI’s removal from Europe Blacklist

Stop Fundamentalism – The below statement was released by the office of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, today, Monday 26 January, 2009.

 

Rajavi – Winds of Change Blow in Iran as Appeasement Policy is Defeated

 

Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, following the removal of the terror tag from the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), said that the core of Europe’s policy of appeasement was crushed and the winds of change will now blow in Iran. The strategic investment by the mullahs’ regime to destroy the Iranian Resistance was lost.

 

Iranian Mojahedin (PMOI) no longer considered Terrorists

Free at Last

Stop Fundamentalism, 26 January, 2009 â€“ After 7 years of continuous struggle in Europe, the Iranian main opposition group, People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran, has managed to remove itself from European list of terrorist organizations.

A European Court had earlier annulled the blacklisting and ruled that the council of ministers was wrong to include the organization in the list.  The final ruling came on 4 December last year, ordering the council to remove the organization immediately from the list.

Reuters reported today that the European states agreed on Monday to remove exiled Iranian opposition group, the People’s Mojahidin Organization of Iran (PMOI) from the EU list of banned terrorist groups. 

Iran – Crackdown on Christian Minority Continues

Stop Fundamentalism – On Tuesday, 21 August, Mr. Hossein Soodmand’s son, Ramtin, was summoned and arrested by the Intelligence Ministry in Mashad. 

Iran – Violence against Religious Sunni Minority in Balouchestan

Iran – Violence against Religious Sunni Minority in Balouchestan

Stop Fundamentalism – The Islamic Republic security forces in Balouchestan have staged a crackdown on the Sunni minority in this eastern Iranian province on Wednesday, August 27. 

According to reports, a leading Sunni cleric, Abu Hanifeh, has died as a result of these attacks.  Many teachers and theologiests have also been abducted.

Iran – Arbitrary inspection of private cell phones

Stop Fundamentalism – Iranian state-run news agencies have announced that from now on, security forces are allowed to inspect cell phones in public streets.

This is according to a new law endorsed by “Department of Preventing and Combating Crimes!!!” in Eastern Azerbaijani province in Iran.

Qods Force is training hit squads in Iran

Reza Shafa
Associated Press, on Friday published a report of "hit squads" being trained in four Iranian cities – quoting a US intelligence officer- by both the Qods Force and Lebanese Hezbollah. It is good news that the mullahs’ plans to export well trained terrorists — the US army called them "special group criminals" – to Iraq for carrying out a variety of terrorist operations are exposed.

Third option in Iran – Support the regime dissidents

Ali Safavi
The news of a senior U.S. envoy at the Geneva talks with Iranian negotiators could hardly count as a "groundbreaking policy shift" capable of ending the nuclear row with Tehran. Only a week after the talks, the Iranian regime raised the stakes by trumpeting the expansion of its enrichment program, underscoring the futility of the diplomatic push before it even got off the ground. This was another sad outcome of a profoundly counterproductive and inconsistent three-decade-old policy, which, if continued unabated by the West, has all the makings of a potential catastrophe an Iran bomb or a bombing of Iran. 
 

Iran – Two students commit suicide

women in IranStop Fundamentalism, June 24, 2008 – Two students took their own lives when severely pressured by the security forces in northern city of Lahijan and southeastern city of Zahedan. 

A female student whose identity was not disclosed commit suicide when she was called to the security office in Lahijan University. The student apparently jumped off the 4th floor suite where the office is located. She pronounced dead immediately after the fall.

In a separate but related incident another student took his life by taking an overdose of prescription drugs in the southeastern city of Zahedan in the troubled Sistan and Baluchistan Province.

Iran – Larijani brought his terrorist cronies with him to new Majlis

Reza Shafa
Ali Larijani, long time mullahs’ top negotiator in the nuclear stand-off with the West and former representative of the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei’s in the regime’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), has now been elevated to the Majlis’ (parliament) new speaker. Larijani himself a veteran Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander has a habit of working with his own team of security cronies since he headed the state television.

Iran – Honor killing claims life of 17-year-old girl

Iran – Honor killing claims life of 17-year-old girl

Stop Fundamentalism – A man identified as Ahmad (53) killed his 17 years old daughter, identified as Farzaneh, on May 7, in the central city Isfahan, reported several Iranian newspapers.

Farzaneh was kidnapped earlier and was held captive by her brother-in-law, for ten days, the father told reporters.  In order to save the family’s honor, he then decided to take her life.

“After talking to Farzaneh, she said that she would rather die,” Said Ahmad.

The 53 years old man told a more detailed version of the story to the reporters later.