P4Z-0hy22ZRyqh5IUeLwjcY3L_M
Saturday, December 20, 2014
Maryam Rajavi: Iran regime's human rights dossier must be referred to UNSC
NCRI - Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, described the 61st resolution condemning the brutal and systematic violation of human rights in Iran adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on December 18, 2014, as another decisive document on illegitimacy of having economic and political relationship with the ruling clerical regime in Iran and added: "This resolution leaves no doubt that the regime's appalling human rights record must be referred to the Security Council for binding and preventive measures, and those responsible for 120,000 political executions must be brought to justice."
Mrs. Rajavi said: “While the religious tyranny has consistently defied 61 adopted resolutions by various United Nations bodies, the international community must take binding measures vis-à-vis the increasing number of executions and brutal and systematic violation of human rights in Iran. This regime, not only in terms of the number of executions, but in most areas is a record holder for the most repressive actions in today’s world. Therefore, mentioning a portion of these crimes that are mentioned in today’s resolution is not enough at all. The General Assembly should have demanded the referral of the crimes of the clerical regime to the International Criminal Court by the UN Security Council, as it did in its December 18 resolution about North Korea.”
Rajavi said: “While according to this resolution the mullahs have spared no field in the lives of the Iranian people from repression, crime, control and harassment, the P5+1 in their nuclear negotiations with the regime must end silence on human rights violation in Iran. Silence on unabated torture and execution in Iran, and silence and inaction on forcible displacement of Ashraf residents and making Camp Liberty a prison, and in one word sacrificing human rights, freedom and the Iranian resistance that the Western governments had adopted, is a shameful failed policy that has led to emboldening the regime in its bomb making program and aggressive policies in the region.”
She stressed as lomg as the mullahs are not held accountable for the violation of human rights in increasing executions,
She emphasized that as long as the mullahs are not held accountable for human rights violations and increasing executions, they will abandon neither the production of nuclear weapons nor terrorism and domination in the Middle East.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
Iran is ‘inflexible’ in nuclear talks, Britain and France say
The Iranian regime has not been flexible enough in talks with the West aimed at halting the regime's project to build a nuclear bomb, officials from Britain and France said this week.
The criticism of Iran's stance at the end of another round of negotiations between the regime and officials from the United States, Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China.
Senior French diplomat Philippe Bertoux told the UN Security Council: "In spite of insufficient flexibility demonstrated at this stage by Iranian negotiators, we'd like to believe that Iran does seek a long-term agreement.
"We would expect that Iran takes strategic choices and courageous decisions in upcoming rounds of negotiations."
Senior British diplomat Michael Tatham also urging Iran to be more flexible in the next round of negotiations.
Western officials say Iran has not compromised on major sticking points in the talks, including the size and scope of its future uranium enrichment program and the speed of ending sanctions.
Deputy US Ambassador David Pressman said: "While we continue to believe that the best way to achieve our goals is thorough diplomacy, we are not going to sit at the negotiating table forever."
He said the UN Security Council's sanctions committee should continue monitoring the implementation of UN sanctions, and referred to a recent report by the Iran Panel of Experts which said Tehran was continuing to skirt the sanctions.
Mr Pressman added: "We know that Iran is still trying to procure sensitive technology. We know Iran is still smuggling arms in violation of the UN arms embargo on it."
Iran , China, and Russia may have played a role in " Sony hacking "
Iran may played a role in a recent hacking attack at Sony Pictures Entertainment after the company released a film about the fictional assassination of North Korean Leader Kim Jong-Un.
The FBI believes the Iranian regime, as well as China or Russia, could have provided the highly sophisticated malware that corrupted Sony's computers, an intelligence source said.
There was also no evidence of a forced entry into the Sony systems, pointing to an insider threat or stolen credentials, and emails sent to Sony included blackmail demands unrelated to the movie, the source added.
And US officials said the attack originated outside North Korea, but believe the individuals behind it were acting on orders from the North Korean government.
US State Department Spokeswoman Jen Psaki said: "Given the destructive efforts or effects of this attack, we're treating this as a national security matter, and as such, members of the president's national security team have been in regular meetings regarding this attack."
The White House has also declined to directly blame North Korea for the attack, though Press Secretary Josh Earnest referred to the incident as a 'serious national security matter'.
Friday, December 19, 2014
Iran - Basij militia member arrested for stabbing 6 women
Stabbing of Six Women Continue Series of Attacks Against Women
DECEMBER 2, 2014
Concern Mounts that Parliament’s “Virtue Plan” is Spurring Attacks
In a continuing series of attacks against women in Iran, a suspect has been arrested for the stabbing of six women in the southern town of Jahrom in Fars Province over the past week. The stabbings follow the numerous acid attacks against women in Isfahan over the last few months, which were allegedly linked to vigilante justice that was aimed at punishing “improper” hijab and encouraged by the Iranian Parliament’s proposed “Plan to Promote Virtue and Prevent Vice.”
There is growing concern that the stabbings reflect a continuation of such “Virtue Plan”-inspired attacks, especially as state officials have rushed to dissociate the suspect in the stabbing attacks from the proposed Parliamentary Plan.
Moreover, Saham News reported that the perpetrator is a Basij militia member (an all-volunteer paramilitary force under the supervision of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards, which is used to enforce the regime’s ideological dictates) and the Parliament has designated the Basij to be the principal enforcers of the proposed Plan.
Mohammad Reza Rezaei Kouchi, the MP from Jahrom claimed on November 30, 2014, that the perpetrator’s actions were not related to the Virtue Plan, and that his motives for the crimes were “completely personal.” In an interview with Iran Khabar news website, Kouchi said, “among the injured, there were women whose Islamic covering, hijab, was flawless. They were even wearing the veil (chador), therefore the claim that the perpetrator’s motivation was to confront poor hijab, to promote virtue and prevent vice is absolutely incorrect.”
According to Kouchi, the perpetrator is Mohammad Beheshtifar, 22, who is the son of Jalil Beheshtfar, an IRGC colonel. “When he learned that his son has committed a crime, Colonel Beheshtifar turned his son in.”
Saham News website, however, said in a news article that the perpetrator was the son of a Basij Commander from Ghotbabad (a village located 10 kilometers outside of Jahrom). Saham News added that in addition to the assault on the women with a knife, the dormitory windows of female Jahrom university students have also been broken over the past week, and classes have been cancelled since November 26 as a result of heightened fear among the students.
Except for one woman who was also stabbed in the stomach, all the women were stabbed with a knife in their buttocks area, according to reports. Four or five of the victims are university students, according the same reports.
It is not clear when the attacks began but the perpetrator, Mohammad Beheshtifar, was arrested on November 27, 2014.
Regarding the state of the six female victims, Jahrom Deputy Governor told ILNA, “they were treated in the outpatient unit and were released from hospital.”
Hojatollah Rezaei, the Jahrom Governor, told Mehr News that the perpetrator “injured six women from behind during this time. In a separate act, he intimidated two women with pepper spray.”
Fars Province Governor, Seyed Mohammad Ahmadi, told Fars News on November 30 that the perpetrator has a personality disorder, rejecting suspicions that his acts of violence are motivated by “promoting virtue and preventing vice.” “No team, group, or organization was involved in these incidents and after arrest, the perpetrator confessed to his crime of attacking and injuring six women in this town,” he added.
On October 16, news of acid attacks by anonymous assailants on women in Isfahan was firstannounced. Many Iranian citizens, including leading members of Iranian civil society such as the prominent lawyer and human rights defender Nasrin Sotoudeh, have pointed to the Iranian Parliament’s “Plan to Promote Virtue and Prevent Vice” as the root cause of the attacks and demanded an end to the Plan’s review.
There was also a large gathering of citizens and civil and women’s rights activists in Tehran and Isfahan to protest the attacks on October 22. More than a month after the acid attacks took lace, no suspects have yet been arrested.
Note from blogger -Iran - This is how their women " Live in Fear "
This is how women live " in fear " in Iran . If you look close you could see the knife in the hand of the man sitting on the back of the motorcycle " red helmet " ! They say these men are the Basij, a paramilitary volunteer militia established in 1979 by order of the Islamic Revolution's leader Ayatollah Khomeini.
It's clear these men are the Basij serve as an auxiliary force engaged in activities such as internal security as well as law enforcement auxiliary, the providing of social service, organizing of public religious ceremonies, and policing of morals and the suppression of dissident gatherings.
blogger
Thursday, December 18, 2014
UN condemns human rights abuses in Iran
The United Nations General Assembly on Thursday slammed the violations of human rights by the Iranian regime.
The resolution criticizes the Iranian regime's use of inhuman punishments, including flogging and amputations, and its use of the death penalty against young people under age 18.
This is the 61st resolution by UN condemning the vicious and systematic violation of Human Rights in Iran.
This resolution by the UNGA censures the mullahs’ dictatorship ruling Iran for the rise in executions, public executions and execution of juveniles.
In this resolution, the UNGA has condemned the Iranian regime for cruel, inhumane and degrading punishments, especially flogging and amputation of limbs and hands.
It also denounces widespread and serious limitation of right to assemble, freedom of congregation and freedom of thought and speech.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)