Acid attacks and stabbings continue in Iran

NCRI - The spate of acid attacks on young women and the stabbing of youths by regime-backed thugs is continuing across Iran.

Men riding on motorcycles stabbed a female and a male youth in the back in two separate incidents in Tehran on Monday, December 15.

Two motorcycle riders wearing face masks threw acid in the face of a young woman in Tehran in another horrific attack on the same day.

More than a dozen women and girls have been the victims of acid attacks in the central city of Isfahan in recent weeks, and five university students have been stabbed in
in the southern city of Jahrom.

The students identified one attacker as paramilitary Basij Force member Mohamad Beheshtifar, who was caught on a security camera close to where he attacked one victim.

Beheshtifar is the son of IRGC Colonel Jalil Beheshtifar, who heads the Basij force in Ghotbabad district, in Jahrom County, south of the city of Jahrom.

He said he was motivated to attack after one cleric said the 'killing of a Bad-Hejab (improperly veiled women) is permissible' in order to 'prevent vice'.

Earlier this month the regime’s parliament approved a bill officially putting the members of the Basij paramilitary force in charge of enforcing the dress code in Iran and harassing and repressing women and youths in public under the pretext of 'Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice'.

The law institutionalized the work of members of the Basij paramilitaries that patrol streets to enforce the dress code, interrogate couples about their relationships, and other behavior prescribed under the clerical regime’s misogynist laws

Australia- Iranian man " former spy " got boot from Iranian Government ?

NCRI - The Iranian Resistance strongly condemns the criminal hostage-taking of innocent civilians in Sidney, Australia, and expresses its solidarity with the victims’ families.

The hostage-taker, mullah Haron Monis, when arrived many years ago in Australia from Iran, had declared that he had been an advisor to the Iranian regime’s Minister of Intelligence.The cleric who used the name Manteghi Boroujerdi in Iran, had also declared he knew many secrets of the regime and had transferred much information out of Iran.

On Tuesday, December 16, the Financial Review of Australia reminded that back in 2001, in an “interview with ABC, Monis said he was an Iranian spy who was turned on by his own government… Asked why he fled Iran in 1996, Monis said he had formerly worked with Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security… ‘The Iranian regime wants to make me silent, because I have some secret information about the (Iranian) government and about their terrorist operations,’ he said at that time.”

On 5 February 2001, in a call-in message to Radio Israel Farsi service, Boroujerdi (Monis) had said: “It is time to disclose the information.”

On 8 April 2001, he made a disclosure through the same radio saying that he had discussed the blowing up of Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia with the Iranian regime’s Chief of General Command Headquarters of Armed Forces Major General Firuzabadi.

The explosion of Khobar Tower was carried out on 25 June 1996 by the terrorist Qods Force and was commanded by Ahmad Vahidi who was Defense Minister in the second term of government of Ahmadinejad.

As is the routine with the Iranian regime, in a ridiculous attempt to cover up, state-run Tasnim News Agency, affiliated with the terrorist Qods Force, brazenly claimed in an absurd lie on December 16 that the hostage-taker mullah had been among those “expelled from one of the country’s universities who later became a supporter of PMOI.”

Meanwhile, the spokesperson for the Iranian regime Foreign Ministry claimed: “The background and the mental and psychological condition of this individual who sought refuge in Australia two decades ago had been repeatedly discussed with the Australian authorities and his condition was perfectly clear to that country’s officials” (Iranian state TV – December 16, 2014)

Fars News Agency, affiliated with the revolutionary guards, intentionally blamed the Iranian refugees for this criminal hostage-taking act and described the hostage-taker as a hustler that “was not handed over to Iran under the pretext of being a political refugee”.

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
December 16, 2014

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Indians Face Off vs. Police with Bows and Arrows Before Brazil Congress

BRASILIA – Dozens of Indians protesting against a bill proposing to alter the regulations for marking their reservations faced off against police, whom they attacked with bows and arrows, in front of the Brazilian Congress on Tuesday.

The Indians, with painted faces and festooned with feathers tried to enter the legislative headquarters but were kept back by a police cordon, resulting in several incidents that concluded without any injuries, despite the fact that the demonstrators began to use the bows and arrows they were carrying.

One of the arrows fired by the Indians hit a police officer’s shoe and split the sole, but he was not injured.

The bill that sparked the protest has been pending since 2000 in the lower house of Congress and, after being shelved for almost 12 years, it was dusted off two years ago and approved in several legislative committees.

Its most controversial aspect proposes that authority to mark new indigenous lands, which currently resides with the executive branch, would pass to Congress.

The Indians oppose that move and say that it would give more power to the large landowners and mining, lumber and other firms that operate in the Amazon region, where most of the country’s Indian reservations are located.

Those businessmen maintain tight links with lawmakers of the so-called “rural bench,” a group comprised of upper and lower house members from different parties who defend in Congress the interests of the country’s large landowners.

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Iran: Female political prisoner transferred to harsh condition prison

NCRI - The authorities in Tehran’s Evin prison have transferred a female political prisoner to a prison known for its life-threatening conditions after she protested the appalling conditions at Evin’s women’s section.

Mrs. Hakimeh Shekari has been among the Mothers of Laleh Park (Mourning Mothers), a group of Iranian women whose spouses or children were killed by government agents and held protests in Laleh Park in Tehran demanding accountability for the death, arrests and disappearances of their children.

On numerous occasions Mourning Mothers were arrested by security agents at Laleh Park. They were chased down by the police, piled into the back of police vans and carted off to prison.

Mrs. Shekari was first arrested on December 7, 2010 while attending a memorial ceremony for an anti-regime protester killed in 2009 and she was imprisoned in section 209 of Evin prison for two months after being released on bail.

She was sentenced to three years in prison by a Revolutionary Court on April 11, 2012 on the charges of “propaganda against the system” and “acting against national security”.

Located in the outskirts of Tehran, Qarchak prison has been described as hell on earth, where inmates have expressed they would rather be executed than live in those conditions.

Pakistan Police: Taliban attack school, all gunmen killed

 16 December 2014

A bloody Taliban raid on an army-run school in northwest Pakistan has ended, police said Tuesday, with all six attackers dead.

The assault on the school in the city of Peshawar killed at least 130 people, most of them students, according to officials.

Earlier, the health minister for Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, the restive northwestern province where the attack took place, said two other teachers were among the dead, according to AFP.

Sharif Khan, a doctor at the Lady Reading Hospital in the city of Peshawar, where the attack is still under way, said they had received the bodies. A senior police official confirmed the toll.

A Reuters journalist at the scene could hear heavy gunfire from inside the school as soldiers surrounded it. Ambulances were transporting wounded children to hospital.

"We were standing outside the school and firing suddenly started and there was chaos everywhere and the screams of children and teachers," said Jamshed Khan, a school bus driver.

Military officials said at least six armed men had entered the military-run Army Public School. About 500 students and teachers were believed to be inside. 

"Our suicide bombers have entered the school, they have instructions not to harm the children, but to target the army personnel," Taliban spokesman Muhammad Umar Khorasani told Reuters.

Revenge

Explaining the reason behind the attack, the Taliban said it was a revenge for the Pakistani military targeting their own families, a spokesman said.

“We selected the army's school for the attack because the government is targeting our families and females,” said Taliban spokesman Muhammad Umar Khorasani.

“We want them to feel the pain.”

Following the tragic event, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif called the school massacre a “national tragedy” and said he was heading to Peshawar.