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Wikileaks: Mass Surveillance Equipment Sold to Dictators by Western Companies

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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.

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Two Members of Basij Forces Killed in Iran

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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.

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American Reconnaissance Drone Crashes in Iran

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Iranian regime's UAV Program will Further Contribute to Domestic Oppression and Regional Inestability.

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.”

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Iran Executed 37 People in November

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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.

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Camp Ashraf – Deadly Countdown to Catastrophe

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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. 

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Iranian Authorities Deny Explosion in Isfehan

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Satellite image of Isfahan nuclear facilities
Satellite image of Isfahan nuclear facilities

Satellite image of Isfahan nuclear facilities

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.

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Hungry Denied Iran’s Foreign Minister Fly-Over

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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.

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High Rep. Catherine Ashton Will Ask EU 27 to Accept Ashraf Residents

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Stop Fundamentalism – High Representative Catherine Ashton is going to ask the 27 member countries of the European Union to take in those residents of Camp Ashraf who have links to them, said an anonymous official to AP Thursday.

This will make a big portion of the total number of residents in the camp.  However the actual number has not been disclosed yet.

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Iran Told to Back Off its Nuclear Weapons Program

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Stop Fundamentalism – The Obama administration unveiled a new list of Iranian financial sanctions designed to force Iran to back off from its aggressive nuclear ambitions and activities, Monday.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a joint press conference with Secretary of Treasury, Timothy Geithner, announced the new initiative to further press Iran after the release of a report by United Nations’ Nuclear agency.

“President Obama signed an executive order that, for the first time, specifically targets Iran’s Petro-chemical industry,” Clinton told reporters at the press conference.

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Camp Ashraf Relocation, Prelude to a Grand Massacre – Rajavi

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Stop Fundamentalism – President-elect of the Iranian Resistance Maryam Rajavi, condemned talks on relocating Camp Ashraf residents inside Iraq, today in a statement, as a ploy to stage a “grand massacre devised by the Iranian theocratic and fascist rulers and the government of Iraq.”

Rajavi in her strongly worded statement stressed, “Forcible relocation of Ashraf residents is tantamount to sending them to their deaths and that is something they will never give in to.”

Camp Ashraf has been twice the scene of raid by Iraqi forces killing dozens of residents and wounding hundreds.  The 3400 unarmed residents of the camp, who are members of Iran’s main opposition movement, MEK or PMOI, published video clips of the incident on YouTube showing Iraqi soldiers directly shooting at them. 

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