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Wednesday, February 11, 2015
IRAN: Tehran protest halts police action to confiscate satellite dishes
NCRI - A protest erupted in Tehran after Iranian police began removing satellite dishes from the roofs of homes and hurling them into the street below.
Police finally halted the removal of dishes in Iran Street in the Iranian capital on Sunday fearing the protest could spread to other areas of the city.
The police action was part of the latest crackdown on satellite TV by the regime's rulers, who have also used teenage members of the Basij paramilitary force to remove dishes and confiscate satellite equipment in other parts of the country.
A Revolutionary Guards’ website has reported that on the occasion of anniversary of the revolution, a teenage member of Basij collected 10 satellite receivers from the homes of the residents of Ahamad Abad village, in Fars province.
Prior to this, a number of young Basij force members also confiscated equipment in the village of Khosrow Abad.
The Cultural Deputy of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps said on January 29 that over 60 percent of Iranians watch satellite TV channels.
On February 8, Ali Jannati, the minister of Islamic Culture and Guidance, acknowledged that the regime’s efforts to prevent use of satellite TVs have failed.
He said: "Wherever we collected the satellite dishes from rooftops, two days later the dishes were returned. It seems that we only create business for the dish installers."
But he warned: "The enemy is seeking to change the behavior of citizens, particularly youths, in Iran."
IS Publicly Executes Former (Female) Parliamentary Candidate in Iraq
MOSUL, Iraq – The Islamic State, IS, jihadist group on Wednesday shot dead in public a female former candidate in the Iraqi parliamentary elections held last year, according to a local official in the city of Mosul where the killing took place.
The official, who declined to be identified for security reasons, told Efe that Nahla Yunis al-Badrani, who worked as an official in the province of Nineveh, was executed in the center of the provincial capital.
The Sunni jihadist group said it killed her for apostasy, for not complying with the teachings of Islam and for supporting the Iraqi government which it said was “loyal to the West and Iran.”
IS has executed a large number of candidates who took part in the last Iraq legislative elections, including several women.
Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Iran: Hassan Rouhani government will not permit women to sing, minister says
NCRI - Hassan Rouhani’s government will not issue permits for women to sing solo, Ali Jannati, the minister of Culture and Guidance has declared.
Speaking in Isfahan on Friday, Ali Jannati said: “Those political currents that to seek to weaken and destroy the government offer incorrect information to religious scholars and members of parliament and distort the issue.”
He stressed that: “The Ministry of Guidance and Culture does not issue permits for women to sing solo.”
He added: “Ministry of Guidance works in adherence to Supreme Leader’s viewpoint.”
Jannati remarks followed statements by two senior clerics in Qom announcing that women cannot sing in Iran.
Nouri Hamedani and Makarem Shirazi in their lectures in Qom protested an album that had songs of a female singer, state-run news agency website Tabnak reported on February 4.
Nouri Hamedani said in his lecture: There is no problem with women talking, but “women singing cannot become common and we will stop it”. He continued: it is “religiously forbidden” for women to sing or play musical instruments in front of men.
“Any film, festival, book or music that is in contrast with revolutionary values will be stopped,” he reminded.
Makarem Shirazi, another senior mullah also showed his opposition to women singers in his lecture as a matter that “causes popular discontent”.
Makarem Shirazi, another senior mullah also showed his opposition to women singers in his lecture as a matter that “causes popular discontent”.
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