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November 24 2005

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Third Issue November 24 2005
In this issue

  • Iraqi jails, Iranian supervision
  • FOH invites you to join the Protest in Vienna

  • Signing the petition on our website, one of our friends writes:

    “I understand that other countries have different ideas about justice and different cultures follow different views, but cruel and inhuman punishment is wrong no matter what planet you live on or whose rules you follow!”

    True. Human values and basic rights are common sense, no matter where you are.

    Dictators and rogue governments try to use cultural differences to justify their wrong doings. The world community should not fall into this trap.

    Those who use culture, religion and particularly God as an excuse for their actions against humanity, know nothing about those subjects.

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    Iraqi jails, Iranian supervision

    Iraqi Interior Ministry runs six secret jails under Iranian supervision, a regional television network, Al- Arabia, reported Saturday.

    Montazer Sameraee, former high ranking officer of Iraqi special forces in the interior ministry told Al- Arabia that interior ministry has a secret force.

    These forces have arrested many people in different parts of the country and transferred them to the ministry. The families unable to find their loved ones in any detention facility would receive information about their body being found in streets.

    “All arrests are done without any court orders”, Sameraee adds.

    The interrogator in the ministry is a man named Ahmad Salman. He is an Iranian and a captain of Iranian information ministry.

    FOH invites you to join the Protest in Vienna

    The U.N. nuclear watchdog’s board of governors meets on Thursday to debate possible action over Iran’s nuclear programme, which has raised Western concern that Tehran may be seeking atomic weapons.

    Please join us in a rally
    To refer Iran regime’s nuke file to the Security Council now

    Nov 24, 2005, 10AM- 14PM
    International Atomic Energy
    Wagramer strasse 5
    A-1220 Vienna
    Austria

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    EU registers concerns about rights violations in Iran

    ImageTehran, Iran, Nov. 24 – The European Union criticised on Wednesday violations of freedom of speech in Iran and called on Tehran to adhere to its international obligations and commitments to human rights.

    The British Embassy in Tehran, in its role as the European Union (EU) Presidency, in a statement said that the Islamic Republic had violated “rights of freedom of expression and freedom of association”.

    EU: Iran papers solely for making nuclear arms

    ImageBy GEORGE JAHN

    Associated Press Writer

    VIENNA, Austria (AP) – The European Union is accusing Iran of possessing documents used solely for the production of nuclear arms and is warning of possible referral to the U.N. Security Council, according to a statement made available to The Associated Press on Thursday.

    World opposes Iran making nuclear fuel: EU draft

    ImageVIENNA (Reuters) – The U.N. nuclear watchdog’s governing board has reached a "broad consensus" that Iran should not be allowed to pursue nuclear enrichment, which would enable it to develop atom bombs, an EU diplomat said on Thursday.

    A draft statement outlining this position was submitted by the European Union’s three biggest powers — France, Britain and Germany — to the chairman of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) board as it began a 2-day meeting.

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    Second Issue November 23 2005
    In this issue

  • Iran speeds up work on Natanz nuclear site
  • FOH invites you to join the Protest in Vienna

  • As it was explained in our first issue, at FOH, we are trying to inform our readers about an ever growing threat called: “Fundamentalism.”

    Fundamentalism in Middle East brings poverty and oppression for the people of that region and to the whole world brings “terrorism.”

    War will not solve this problem, as you may see, but freedom and democracy will. It will bring knowledge and information to people so they may move away from backward ideologies that nourish on blood of innocent.

    Please do send us your comments to [email protected].

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    Iran speeds up work on Natanz nuclear site

    We have been informed by “Iran Focus” through an exclusive report that a secret construction work is going on right now in Iran’s massive nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz, central Iran. The construction includes more than a dozen new buildings being built, Iran focus reports.

    Iran Focus reports that it received the information from an Iranian engineer whose identity is being withheld as he lives in Iran. He provided Iran Focus with an account of 17 silos and bunkers being built in continuous shifts. The silos are all 24 meters high and have various-shaped entrances.

    Thirty construction contractors are carrying out the project. Workers are working 24 hours a day in several shifts.

    The source said that security at the site had been boosted to an unprecedented level following the recent visit by hard-line Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

    Mobile telephone contacts are banned for those working on the site. Workers are living in complete isolation from the outside world for the duration of the contract. They are only permitted to contact their families once in a while to let them know that they are well. Every worker has been asked to sign a pledge to remain on site until work has been completed.

    The source claimed that the buildings were being constructed to house new components and sensitive technology required for carrying out uranium enrichment at the site.

    Tehran has currently suspended uranium enrichment as negotiations with Europe’s Britain, France, and Germany continue over what the West suspects is a nuclear weapons program.

    FOH invites you to join the Protest in Vienna

    The U.N. nuclear watchdog’s board of governors meets on Thursday to debate possible action over Iran’s nuclear programme, which has raised Western concern that Tehran may be seeking atomic weapons.

    Please join us in a rally
    To refer Iran regime’s nuke file to the Security Council now

    Nov 24, 2005, 10AM- 14PM
    International Atomic Energy
    Wagramer strasse 5
    A-1220 Vienna
    Austria

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    Iran court sentences woman to hanging

    ImageTehran, Iran, Nov. 23 – Iran’s State Supreme Court upheld a death sentence against a woman, state dailies reported on Wednesday.

    The unidentified woman was accused of murdering the son of her second husband.

    An Islamic court in Tehran convicted her of murder last year and issued a sentence for her to be hanged.

    She now faces imminent execution
     

    Iran’s political prisoners plan hunger strike

    ImageTehran, Iran, Nov. 22 – Political prisoners in Tehran’s Evin Prison have announced that they will start a hunger strike from Tuesday evening after prison guards attacked prisoners in one of the wards and confiscated their personal property, Iran Focus has learnt.

    Guards acting on the orders of the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) beat up political prisoners in Ward 350 of Evin Prison. They confiscated personal property including books and prisoners’ handwritten material, according to the relative of a political prisoner in Evin, who spoke to Iran Focus on condition of anonymity

    Iran’s political prisoners plan hunger strike

    ImageTehran, Iran, Nov. 22 – Political prisoners in Tehran’s Evin Prison have announced that they will start a hunger strike from Tuesday evening after prison guards attacked prisoners in one of the wards and confiscated their personal property, Iran Focus has learnt.

    Guards acting on the orders of the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) beat up political prisoners in Ward 350 of Evin Prison. They confiscated personal property including books and prisoners’ handwritten material, according to the relative of a political prisoner in Evin, who spoke to Iran Focus on condition of anonymity

    Exclusive: Iran speeds up work on Natanz nuclear site

    ImageLondon, Nov. 22 – Secret construction work is going on in Iran’s massive nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz, central Iran, with more than a dozen new buildings being built, Iran Focus has learnt.

    Iran Focus received the information from an Iranian engineer whose identity is being withheld as he lives in Iran. He provided Iran Focus with an account of 17 silos and bunkers being built in continuous shifts. The silos are all 24 metres high and have various-shaped entrances.

    Thirty construction contractors are carrying out the project. Workers are working 24 hours a day in several shifts.

    Iraqi Interior Minister and Iran run 6 other torture chambers

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    London, Nov. 19 – Iraqi Interior Minister Bayan Jabr is running six other torture chambers similar to the notorious detention centre discovered north of Baghdad earlier this week, a senior Interior Ministry official who stepped down from his positition said on Saturday.

    Many opponents of the Iraqi government have been systematically arrested and taken to the detention centres where they are subjected to torture and in many cases their dead bodies are later discovered abandoned in the open, Brigadier General Montazer Samera’ee, the former Inspector of the Iraqi Interior Ministry’s Special Forces told the al-Arabiya satellite news channel, adding that senior officers in the ministry knew of the centres.