Women in Iran: from unemployment to sleeping on the streets

Currently the phenomenon of homeless women sleeping on the streets has increased dramatically in Iran. This social problem has spread to such an extent that it is revealing the true nature of the mullahs’ regime and exposing the bogus promises made by Hassan Rouhani at the start of his tenure.
Habibollah Masoudi-Farid, deputy of social affairs in the regime’s Welfare Organization said around 15,000 to 17,000 homeless people are sleeping in the streets in Iran these days.
“Of this number around 1% are children, and 5 to 10% are women,” he added.
Farzad Hushiyar, a senior official in Tehran’s municipality had said a few months ago this year, “Nearly 3,000 people sleeping in the streets are rounded up each night in Tehran, and 90% of them are drug addicts.” (State-run ISNA news agency – September 5, 2015)
In the meantime, Shahindokht Molavardi, Hassan Rouahni’s vice president in women and family affairs said on September 6 that unemployment has reached over 40% amongst educated women in Iran. She went on to emphasize that unemployment is the most important economic challenge facing the country.
“We are witnessing college-educated girls and single mothers having major problems finding jobs,” she added. (State-run Shahrekhabar website – September 6, 2015)

New details of Iran terror network in Kuwai

The number of members of the terror network busted in Kuwait and placed under prosecution has reached 28, Al Arabiya TV reported on Saturday, September 6th. 26 of these individuals have been arrested and two others remain at large. This terrorist network was in contact with Iran’s Revolutionary Guards and received equipment and explosives coming from Iran. It is known as the “Abduli” group.
Kuwait attorney general has accused this network to terrorist measures and spying for Iran and the Lebanese Hezbollah.
A number of Kuwait MPs have described these measures by the terror network as aggressions by Iran against Kuwait, and went to say this is crossing red lines for Kuwait.

Macabre Cat-and-Mouse Game Plays Out on US-Mexico Border

FALFURRIAS, Texas - Even if the 3,000 Border Patrol agents in the Rio Grande sector stood 100 meters (109 yards) from each other along the border, the gangs profiting from human trafficking would find a way to get through.

But the agency has to work in shifts, distribute tasks and control hard-to-reach areas along the meandering Rio Grande, Border Patrol spokesman Oscar Saldaña told EFE.

Since Oct. 1, Border Patrol agents in this sector of southeastern Texas have detained more than 132,000 people, an average of 400 a day, surpassing the number of residents in McAllen, Texas.

To enhance surveillance, the Border Patrol uses helicopters, motion sensors, portable turrets and even several balloons that hover over the U.S.-Mexican border with their "eyes" scanning the land day and night.

"Those are some of the most useful tools," Saldaña said at Anzalduas Park, a wetland baked by a relentless sun during most of the day with temperatures in excess of 40 C (104 F).

The main difficulty for Border Patrol agents, many of them of Hispanic descent or who have strong connections to Mexico, is to discern who is an immigrant in distress or a "coyote," as migrant smugglers are known, or a drug trafficker.

"The hardest part in patrolling the border is that you can find yourself confronting dangerous and armed drug smugglers, or you might have to detain children who come through without parents or relatives, and they surrender voluntarily," Saldaña said. "Obviously, the responses are different."

Pointing to the green flowing waters of the Rio Grande, Saldaña said the waterway's peaceful appearance was deceptive and many would-be crossers had drowned tangled up in branches or carried away by strong currents.

Once they reach the U.S. side, migrants, usually guided by coyotes and, sometimes forced to carry drug bundles to pay for their crossing from Mexico, must avoid several lines of surveillance.

Those who are not detained there face an even more dangerous journey 100 kilometers (62 miles) beyond the border when human traffickers abandon them to their fate before reaching Falfurrias, site of one of the Border Patrol's more than 30 interior checkpoints.

This checkpoint, where the staff proudly displays the number of illegal immigrants and pounds of drugs seized so far this year at the entrance, is intended to stop vehicles transporting migrants to Houston.

"Smugglers drop the migrants from cars before reaching Falfurrias and tell them to walk cross country and that, in two or three hours, they will be in Houston," the agent said, adding that the actual distance from here to the metropolis is more than 434 kilometers (270 miles).

This second border strip and the inhospitable territory have made of the Falfurrias' surroundings a death field for unknown numbers of migrants. In 2014 at least 61 people are known to have died there.

The Falfurrias cemetery hides under the ground the consequences of this macabre game of avoiding the Border Patrol to start a new life in the United States.

There, among graves without names, Baylor University researchers have found a ditch where authorities for years have buried the remains of people who died on their journey into the United States.

The bodies could number in the hundreds and the graves are a testament to the dangerous journey Latin Americans undertake to escape poverty. 

Amnesty International Points to Mexico Mass Grave as Sign of Crisis

MEXICO CITY – This week’s discovery in northern Mexico of a mass grave holding more than 30,000 human bone fragments is evidence of a “rapidly deteriorating human rights crisis” in the Aztec nation, Amnesty International said Thursday.

The fragments, found at a ranch in Nuevo Leon state where drug traffickers allegedly burned the bodies of victims, belong to at least 31 people reported missing, state Attorney General’s Office spokeswoman Pricila Rivas told EFE.

“Mexico is miserably losing the battle against disappearances, with nearly 25,000 people going missing since 2007,” Erika Guevara-Rosas, Americas director at Amnesty International, said in a statement.

“This latest discovery must be a wake-up call for authorities in Mexico to take real action to stop what seems to be an endless list of horrors taking place across the country,” she said.

The bones were unearthed on a ranch in the municipality of Salinas Victoria, about 26 kilometers (16 miles) north of Monterrey, the capital of Nuevo Leon. The town is under the control of the notoriously violent Los Zetas drug cartel.

“As a first step, Mexican authorities must ensure that, unlike too many times in the past, forensic investigations into this shocking discovery are conducted in a way that protects all evidence and leads to the identification of the remains and to justice for the relatives of the victims,” Guevara-Rosas said.

About 1,100 people have gone missing in Nuevo Leon since 2007, according to official figures, while non-governmental organizations say 1,600 people have disappeared in the border state since that year.

The majority of the victims have disappeared at the hands of the criminal organizations that operate in the state.

Monterrey has been plagued by drug-related violence in recent years, with the worst incident occurring on Aug. 25, 2011, when Zetas cartel members set fire to a casino in the industrial city, killing 52 people.

PHOTOS: A crime against humanity - Massacre at Camp Ashraf

NCRI - Tuesday marks the second anniversary of the Camp Ashraf massacre. Iraqi forces at the behest of the mullahs' regime in Iran murdered in cold blood 52 unarmed and defenseless Iranian dissidents, all members of Iran’s main opposition group People’s Mojahedin 


Organization of Iran, PMOI (Mujahedin-e Khalq, MEK). A group of seven camp residents, including six women, were abducted by the Iraqi forces. The following are shocking images of the massacre captured by eye-witnesses at the scene.Despite the sheer brutality of the massacre and the chorus of international condemnations, no United Nations investigation was ever conducted and no one was ever held to account even though from the outset the identities of the masterminds and main culprits were evident.Over the past two years, 


the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) has repeatedly called on the UN Secretary-General and the High Commissioner for Human Rights to conduct an independent and comprehensive investigation into the September 1, 2013 massacre and to bring the culprits to justice and not to allow Nuri Maliki and Ali Khamenei (the Iranian regime’s Supreme Leader) to cover up this great crime against humanity.

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