Argentinian prosecutor who planned to expose alleged government cover-up found dead

Iranian Resistance condemns mysterious death of Argentina prosecutor

The Foreign Affairs Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) strongly condemns the suspicious death of the Argentinian prosecutor Alberto Nisman and offers its condolences to his relatives and friends.

In light of his prominence role on the investigation regarding the Iranian regime’s terrorism, the NCRI’s foreign affairs committee calls for launching an independent international investigation into the mysterious death of Mr Alberto Nisman and making public the relevant findings.

The Argentine prosecutor leading the probe into the 1994 terrorist bombing of the AMIA Jewish community centre in Buenos Aires had warned about the Iranian regime's terrorism and had said that he had 'irrefutable proof' that killers from Tehran carried out the 1994 attack.

He told a Buenos Aires radio station earlier in June 2013: "I am certain that I have irrefutable proof. Any prosecutor who sat in my office would reach to the same conclusions because that's where the evidence leads.”

He also urged Interpol to 'take further measures in order to ensure the arrest of all eight defendants in the bombing with an international arrest warrant'.

Argentine courts have charged eight current and former senior Iranian regime officials over the bombing, including Ali Akbar Velayati. the current advisor to the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei; Mohsen Rezai, the current secretary of the Expediency Council and former IRGC commander; Ahmad Vahidi, former Defense Minister; Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, former president of the clerical regime; Ali Fallahian, former Intelligence Minister; Mohsen Rabbani, former cultural attaché in the regime’s embassy in Argentina; and Ahmad Reza Asghari, the former third secretary in the regime’s embassy in Argentina.

Later it was revealed that Hassan Rouhani, the current president of the Iranian regime, had been on the special Iranian government committee that plotted the 1994 bombing, according to the investigation.

Iran - Barber shop closed " giving western haircut's " what ?

At least 30 shops, including photography shops, barber shops, and printing shops, were sealed in several cities in the Mazandaran Province (northern Iran) under the pretense that they have breached Islamic codes.

File photo: Police arrests a young man for 'improper haircut'

This suppressive measure was conducted in two stages in the cities of Amol, Babol and Qaemshahr on Saturday and Tuesday by the department that supervises public places in Mazandaran.

In the past, the Iranian regime’s ‘morality police’ shut down barber shops for reasons that included presenting “western hairstyles”.

In the recent years, many photographers, publishers and artists have been arrested and deprived of their jobs for using social networks such as Instagram and publishing their work on social networks.
Iranian police regularly carry out morality checks, arresting women and youth on the pretext of improper clothing and non-Islamic hairstyles.

The politically motivated crackdowns on women and youth in cities across Iran, along with public hangings, are aimed at increasing fear and intimidation in society to prevent public protests against the regime.

Muslim Immigrants Smash & Urinate on Virgin Mary Statue in Italy

Raymond Ibrahim reported:

 

A man was kneeling in prayer before the statue of the revered Madonna, with the photograph of a loved one in hand, in the small chapel of St. Barnabas in Perugia (Italy), when he was attacked by five “immigrants.”

The first thing they did was rip the photo from his hands.

Next they unleashed their hatred against the image of the Virgin Mary. They broke the statue to pieces and then urinated on it.

Don Scarda, pastor of St. Barnabas, said the event was led by five “foreigners.” By the time police arrived at the chapel, the unidentified attackers had already fled.

The incident has caused a stir among locals. Some have lambasted Pope Francis who is accused of appeasing immigrants—mostly Muslims—to wild extremes.Earlier he had said that “Migrants, through their own humanity, cultural values, expand the sense of human brotherhood.”

Although the Diocese condemned the act of sacrilege against the Madonna statue, it also followed the Pope’s lead by absolving Islam of any responsibility for what happened.

Iran: 21 arrested for selling satellite dishes in Tehran

NCRI – The Iranian regime’s morality police has arrested 21 individuals in Tehran who have been allegedly involved in the production and sale of satellite dishes and other equipment helping Iranians watch satellite TV channels.

The head of Tehran’s morality police claimed his forces have destroyed the ‘network’ with ‘very advanced workshops’ for their production of satellite equipment.

Colonel Mohammad Masoud Zahedian said: “In this regard, 21 people were arrested and more than 640 000 pieces of equipment were confiscated”.

Colonel Mohammad Masoud Zahedian said the network had six manufacturing plants and warehouses and was active in the central provinces, Greater Tehran, Alborz, East and West of Tehran province.

“All members of this group, which included 21 people, were arrested and a number of foreign workers who worked in the workshops were deported from the country after the arrest.”

Zahedian said: "The production workshops were very well equipped and had advanced to the point that they were equipped with painting furnaces and press machines.”

Along with intensifying the filtering of websites and social media and depriving the Iranian people of free access to the internet, the Iranian regime is increasing its crackdown on satellite channel viewers and distributors of satellite equipment.

In December, a representative of Ali Khamenei in the Revolutionary Guards, said the presence of Internet and satellites in the Iranian people’s houses are like the presence of "devil" which causes mankind to be deviated from the right path.

Saudi blogger’s wife says global pressure could force his release

The wife of imprisoned blogger Raif Badawi has called on the international community to pressure the Saudi Arabian authorities to release her husband, after his public flogging was postponed this weekend.

Ensaf Haidar was told that the second part of her husband’s punishment, due to take place on Friday after prayers, had been delayed because a doctor had judged that the injuries he had suffered from being lashed the previous week had still not healed and he would not be able to withstand more.

Badawi, 31, was found guilty of offences related to his blog, the Saudi Free Liberals Forum, as well as accusations that he insulted Islam. He was sentenced to 10  years in jail, a heavy fine and 600 lashes – raised on appeal to 1,000 – to be administered at a rate of 50 a week.

Haidar believes that, if leaders such as David Cameron put pressure on the Saudis, Badawi would be allowed to join her in Canada, where she fled with their children after a Saudi cleric put a fatwa on Badawi in 2011, leading to an attempt on his life. He was banned from leaving Saudi by the authorities in 2008 and jailed in 2012, labelled an infidel.

“I have a big hope that Raif will not be in prison for 10 years. I didn’t ever think it would come to me being in Canada and him being in prison, and waiting for him for 10 years.”

Amnesty International is also calling on Cameron to take direct action in support of the principle of free speech. Human rights campaigners, who have been supporting Badawi’s case, have attacked British politicians for “wearing the Saudi muzzle” and want them to press for Badawi’s immediate release.

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