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President Obama, Up Hold the Law, Delist MEK

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Nima Sharif
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Nima Sharif
President Obama, the lives of 3400 Iranian refugees in Camp Ashraf, members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq (MEK), rests in your hands.  They were wrongly designated as a terrorist organization during past administrations while they are truly a democratic resistance movement.  The Iranian regime and the government of Iraq that we helped to power now consider United State’s terrorist designation of the MEK as a license to kill.  Keeping MEK on the list is literally a green light for those governments to massacre all 3400 unarmed residents of Ashraf.

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Iran Tops Group E Asian Qualifier Games for World Cup Brazil 2014

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As FIFA, the international organizer of the World Cup Soccer games, starts its countdown  at 1000 days away from the 2014 Brazil games, Iran tops the Asian qualifier chart in Group E followed by Bahrain, Qatar, and Indonesia in that respect.

When the 1000 days countdown is over, 32 qualifying national teams will meet in Brazil to start the games that will decide who the champion for the next four years will be.

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Young Woman’s Death Anger’s Syrian Protesters

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Stop Fundamentalism – Clashes between demonstrators and Syrian military and government forces continued throughout last week leaving many protesters dead.  Also reports of activists being killed and tortured at the hands of government forces and the level of brutality used is capturing much media attention nowadays. 

One major disturbing story has been about an 18-year-old girl named Zeinab al-Hassani whose mutilated body was found by her mother apparently on accident as she was trying to get the body of her activist sun from the government forces. 

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Iran – Young Girl Dies during Police Attack on a Party

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Stop Fundamentalism – A young girl attending a private party at a friend’s apartment has died due to receiving head injuries after falling off the sixth story of the building, when the police attempted to arrest her and her other friends said Iran’s Police in Khorasan province Thursday.

The police that was monitoring the building for some time, according to the head of police, Naser Najarian, decided to raid the building on Wednesday night after observing a number of young boys and girls entering it.

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Iran – Satelite Equipment Confiscated in Mazandaran Province

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Stop Fundamentalism – Iranian human rights news agency, an in exile news provider, reported today that head of police in Mazandaran province has reported the confiscation of 600, 000 piece of satellite program receiving equipment in this province.

According to the Iranian state-run news agency ISNA, Tagavi, the head of Mazandaran Police told reporters that, “The plan to collect satellite dishes and equipment in the Mazandaran Province is in-line with plans to raise Security in the country.”

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Barbi Decorated School Bags are a Hot Item in Iran

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SF – With the schools opening on September 21 in Iran, reports say that school bags with markings and pictures of the popular western doll Barbi has been a hot selling item.

The Items are usually with very low quality and are imported from East Asia.

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Gold Prices Falling in Iran

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Gold Prices in Iranian market seem to be falling, says Iran’s head of Gold and Jewelry Union.

Kashti Ari, told reporters today that the price of gold had dropped a sharp 9 percent this last week to 1657 Dollars per ounce from 1813 Dollars.  That is a total of 156 Dollars fall since last week.

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17-year-old Boy’s Execution Infuriates UN Experts

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Stop Fundamentalism – United Nations human rights experts including Ahmed Shaheed, the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Iran, expressed their anger about the news of the execution of a 17-year-old teenage boy by the Iranian regime last Thursday.

The UN experts in a statement released Thursday stated that, “We are outraged at the execution practice in Iran despite the international community’s and our repeated calls for a moratorium.”

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Iraq will not Host International Matches until Further Notice

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SF – Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA) is asking Iraq to choose a third country as a location to conduct its remaining preliminary matches to Olympic football Tournaments in London 2012 and all Preliminary matches to the Brazil 2014 World Cup.

The organizing committee made the decision due to security reasons.

The third country cannot be any of Australia, UAE or Uzbekistan as they are opponents of Iraq in the qualifying matches for Olympics.

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Iran Released American Hikers

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Stop Fundamentalism – Iranian news agencies reported today that the two American hikers, Shane Bauer and Josh Fattal have been released.  An Omani private plane landed in Tehran airport late last week to carry the two to Oman as soon as they were free. 

The release of the two Americans who were recently sentenced to 8 years of prison by the Iranian judiciary had become the subject of a major internal feud among ruling hardliners in Iran.

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