Sunday, September 24, 2006

The unrest inside of Iran


[8/13/06 - 8/19/06]
  • Khaleej Times Online reported that armed bandits killed eight Iranian police and wounded three others in an ambush in southern Iran.
[7/09/06 - 7/15/06]
  • DoctorZin reported that on the anniversary of the July 9th, 1999 attack by the Iranian regime on the Iranian student movement in Tehran the Iranian community failed mobilize its supporters in massive demonstrations. While there were demonstrations both inside and outside of Iran they were smaller in comparison with past years. Some argue that future demonstrations will come at a time of their own choosing.
  • Iran Focus reported that a large number of students from several universities in the Iranian capital staged anti-government protests July 9th, with the largest demonstrations taking place at Tehran University.
[7/02/06 - 7/08/06]
  • Mehr News.ir reported that Iranian Intelligence Minister Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Ejei saidthat the Intelligence Ministry has devised various strategies to combat internal and external measures taken against Iran’s Islamic system and is closely monitoring foreign "subversives" activities.
  • Iran Focus reported that Iran’s State Security Forces (SSF) are setting up several hundred police checkpoints across Tehran. It is believed this is in response to the regime's fear of protests inside Iran starting this coming weekend. July 9th is the anniversary of the 1999 bloody crackdown of the regime against Iranian students. Each year the students have sought to commemorate the crackdown with demonstrations. . Let's hope the Western media is poised to report on any demonstrations this weekend.
[6/25/06 - 7/01/06]
  • IRNA reported that unofficial reports said four people were injured and five cars damaged as a result of a blast in the southern city of Shiraz.
  • SMCCDI also reported on the blast and that while authorities have attributed the blast to an incident that involved an oil tanker they added: the same type of strange reason has been advanced, in the past, in reference to strange explosions.
  • Iran Focus reported that there have been some 480 anti-government protests inside of Iran in the past month. But the Western media remains silent. Photo.
  • SMCCDI reported that a feared cleric was shot to death by a local resident in western Iran. The victim, Rahim Dastyar, was a representative of the regime' s supreme leader.
  • Rooz Online reported that the Islamic Republic of Iran spent $350 million to equip and arm 2 brigades of Baseej mass-mobilization forces with heavy weapons. These two brigades had been involved in crushing the student protests. (This is just the latest investment, but the US Senate still can't seem to approve the White House's request for $75 million to support the Iranian opposition.) A must read.
  • Reuters reported that suspected tribal militants, fighting for greater political and economic autonomy, blew up a railway line linking southwestern Pakistan to Iran early on Saturday.
  • Middle East Newsline reported that Iran was said to have been besieged by unrest. Iranian opposition sources reported a sharp increase in civil unrest throughout the country.
[6/11/06 - 6/17/06]
  • SMCCDI reported on the unrest, sporadic clashes and attack of some public buildings and materials in several Iranian cities, yesterday night, following Iran's 3-1 loss to Mexico in the frame of the 2006 Soccer World Cup.
  • BBC News reported that Iranian news websites and women bloggers have been full of angry comments about the way that policewomen took part in breaking up a women's demonstration for more legal rights in Tehran.
  • Iran Press News provided a detailed report on the Islamic Regime's attack and assault attendants of the peaceful Women's March. Among those present at the march were academics, well-known human and women's rights activists, student leaders, and members of the greater Tehran bus drivers union. Photos.
  • Radio Free Europe reported on the Women's March and eyewitnesses claimed there were maybe as many security forces as protesters.
  • SMCCDI reported that Islamist female agents named by most Iranians as "Black Crows" (due to their black veils), used of clubs, chains and Tear-Gas spray against helpless and women who were shouting slogans against the regime.
  • BBC News reported that the viciousness of the police attack on the protestors caused men who were passing by in the street to protest. "These are our sisters, how can you do this?"
  • Rooz Online reported that as Iranian women activists continued their preparations for their June 12th rally to call for ending gender discrimination, over 10 women activists have been summoned by Iranian judiciary and security officials.
  • Kosoof.com published more photos of today's protest.
  • SOSIRAN.com published their letter to Amnesty International more asking them to condemn the recent atrocities against women in Iran.
  • Amnesty International condemned the Iranian security forces' violent disruption of a peaceful demonstration on 12 June by women and men advocating an end to legal discrimination against women in Iran.
  • Reporters Without Borders confirmed earlier reports that the demonstration in Tehran attracted more than 5,000 women.
[6/04/06 - 6/10/06]
  • Rooz Online reported that a large number of writers and journalists were among those arrested during the recent popular protests in the province of Azarbaijan.
  • Ali M. Koknar, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy reports on the tens of thousands of
  • Iran Press News published a photo of Iranian women demanding equal rights in Iran. Plus an announcement for the June 12th Women's protest in Tehran.
  • Rooz Online reported that five women Nobel Peace Prize winners came out in support of the rally in Tehran on June 12th, 2006 against legal discrimination of women.
  • Iranian Azeris took to the streets for several days of demonstrations and the implications for U.S. and Western policy toward Tehran.
  • SMCCDI reported that tens have been arrested, in the last days, in several Iranian cities with the approach of Iran-Mexico World Cup soccer game on Sunday June 11th in an effort to avoid any massive popular unrest to take place following the game.
[5/28/06 - 6/03/06]
  • Rooz Online provided a detailed report on the recent student unrest in Tehran.
  • The Christian Science Monitor argued that ethnic tensions could crack Iran's firm resolve against the world.
  • Ken Timmerman, Iran.org reported on the recent protests by Christian Iranians in the Northwest city of Ourimieh, in West Azerjaijan province.
  • Rooz Online reported that an Iranian MP had informed other MPs of the march of some 10,000 protestors from the towns of Orumie, Ardebil, Tabriz, and Zanjan to Tehran to hold a sit-in in front of the Parliament.
  • Rooz Online reported on the ban on media coverage of the growing Azerbaijan unrest.
  • Rooz Online reported on the arrest of a large number of student activists and crackdown of students.
  • Rooz Online reported that the planned trips of 8 Iranian journalists and intellectuals who had been invited to participate in international forums outside Iran have been cancelled.
  • SMCCDI reported that several women and their male supporters were beaten or rounded up, yesterday, at the occasion of a soccer game.
  • CNSNews.com reported that ethnic unrest continues in parts of Iran, prompting some exiled members of Iranian minorities to step up calls for a concerted effort to topple the clerical regime.
  • Bill Samii, Radio Free Europe reported that as unrest among ethnic Azeris in Iran settles down, disturbances involving university students are picking up.
[5/21/06 - 5/27/06]
  • Reuters reported that thousands of Iran's Azeri minority hurled stones in violent protests, enraged by a newspaper cartoon they said insulted them.
  • Yahoo News reported that the government closed one of the country's top three newspapers, detaining its editor and cartoonist for publishing a caricature that caused members of Iran's Azeri minority to riot in protest. Photo's of the demonstration.
  • Turkish Press reported that two of the Iranian capital's main universities have been rocked by overnight protests and clashes between students and police.
  • Iranian Student News Agency published photos of the protests at Tehran Universities with translations of several signs.
  • SMCCDI reported that sporadic clashes have continued, on Wednesday, in several Iranian universities, such as, Tehran, Hamedan and Zanjan.
  • Yahoo News reported that stone-throwing Iranian students fought police and Islamic vigilante in protest against restrictions imposed by the government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
  • SMCCDI reported that several students were critically injured during clashes that happened, today, in several Iranian universities. Slogans, such as, "Down with Dictator", "Down with Islamic Republic", "Freedom, Freedom" were shouted by the students.
  • Eli Lake, The New York Sun reported that while foreign ministers met in London to finalize measures to persuade the Iranian regime to suspend uranium enrichment, the country's ruling clerics will be facing the most determined opposition they have seen in three years. A must read.
  • Iran Press News reported on the anti-regime slogans in the protest gathering of students in Tehran University campus. A must read.
  • Rooz Online reported on the growing unrest in Azerbaijan.
  • Rooz Online reported that during the week that just ended, Iranian society expressed its concealed and suppressed feelings and senses through three major events. Events that revealed the deep tornado that is buried deep in a nation.
  • Sheema Kalbasi, Zaneirani argued that revolutions don't wait for calendar dates and many times they happen over seemingly unimportant things.
  • More Photos of the anti-government protests at an Iranian university.
  • MEMRI reported that several media outlets in Iran reported, albeit in a restricted and censured fashion, that there has been rioting on several university campuses in Tehran for the past four days. Eyewitnesses reported that students were chanting anti-regime slogans, such as "We don't want nuclear energy" and "Forget Palestine - think of us."
  • Iran Focus reported that at least six anti-government protestors were killed by security forces during clashes in the north-western town of Naqadeh as more than 1,000 Iranian Azeris took part in a rally outside the governor’s office.
  • SMCCDI reported that tens of Islamist militiamen have taken over the Tehran's College of Law in an effort to increase terror and smash any protest action.
  • Amir Taheri, Arab News reported on the unrest in Iran's provinces.
[5/07/06 - 5/13/06]
  • Forbes.com reported an explosion injured several people Monday in the governor's office in Kermanshah, a city with a large Kurdish population in southwestern Iran.
  • SMCCDI reported that a senior Islamist militia commander was killed, on Saturday, by 'unknown assailants.'
  • Rooz Online published a telephone conversation with Abdol-Malek Rigi, the commander of the armed group Jondollah which has killed Iranian military personnel and even officials or taken them hostage.
  • Iran Press News reported that revolutionary guard Hassan Mohammadpour, deputy commander of the disciplinary forces from the town of Gorgan, Iran was shot and killed.
  • Iran Press News reported that the Iranian workers of Gilan clothing industries gathered in front of the Gilan department of industries to protest 10 months of non-receipt of their wages.
  • Iran Press News reported that one hundred employed workers from the Iranian Tide Water and Kaveh companies at the Anzali shipping protested in front of the governor's office of the province of Gilan were arrested and sent to prison.
  • Iran Press News reported that a seminar on democracy and daily life that was organized by the association of social sciences faculty of school of Social Sciences of Tehran University has been cancelled under pressure and threats from the ministry of intelligence and security.
  • Iran Press News reported that subsequent to the cancellation of the permit for the Democracy and Daily life seminar university students gathered for a peaceful protest.
  • Iran Press News reported that students from the faculty of social sciences while gathering at the main entrance of Tehran University called for other students from the other schools of Tehran University campus to join them. The disciplinary guards who had mobilized on the university grounds assaulted and severely beat students.
  • Radio Free Europe reported that some 400 students protested in front of a Tehran university on May 2 to protest the expulsion of a student by the country's Education Ministry for "general and ideological competence."
  • Iran Press News reported that nine of the leading Iranian women activists who attended the International Women's Day gathering in Tehran said they had officially filed a complaint with the public prosecutor's office.
[4/30/06 - 5/06/06]
  • DoctorZin published an extensive report on thousands of Iranians that joined in the May Day or International Workers Day march to express their anger at the Iranian regime's failure to listen to their needs. Photos of the demonstrators with translations and first hand reports.
  • Iran Press News published an update on the May Day demonstrations. According to reports between 18 to 20,000 people participated in the demonstrations. They chanted: "Incompetent labor minister, resign, resign, strike, strike...is our absolute right" or "Imprisoned worker must be freed" or "Let go of the Palestinians and start thinking about us." A must read.
  • Rooz Online reported on the May Day demonstrations, the protesting workers rushed to the area that was reserved for reporters and there chanted their slogans, and called for greater media attention to their problems and criticized them for failing to do so. They reported one police man was heard saying, “What a shame that they have instructed us not to do anything that would make you angry.”
  • Rooz Online reported on recent demonstrations by Tehrani teachers protesting their grave living conditions and chanting "Better living conditions and dignity are our absolute rights". The regime's mantra that "nuclear power is our absolute right" is backfiring on the regime as it reminds people of other human rights the regime suppresses.
  • Business Week reported that Iran is establishing an oil market denominated in euros, a plan analysts described as highly unlikely to materialize but which in theory could have serious consequences for the U.S. economy.
[4/23/06 - 4/29/06]
  • SMCCDI reported the assassination of a top Pasdaran Corp. (Islamic Revolutionary Guards) commander in the religious city of Ghom.
  • Iran Focus reported that a young man was hanged in prison charged with killing a local Iranian police commander.
  • SMCCDI reported that the Islamist prosecutor of the City of Shadgan was seriously wounded during an armed attack by an unknown masked commando.
[4/16/06 - 4/22/06]
  • SMCCDI reported that a mass execution at the infamous Evin jail located in North Tehran. 9 un-identified victims were executed in the facility in which tens of political activists are being held including several student activists. Several other executions are to take place, in the days ahead, to spread more fear among the population.
  • Iran Press News reported that runaway girls and deserted women are being rounded up by the Islamic regime’s forces to unknown locations. Security forces had been warning them "leave the country or stay and die.”
  • Iran Press News reported that the regime is organizing its own bogus international workers day ceremony in front of ex-U.S. embassy. Activists responded: "We women and men workers of Iran cannot be used by the Islamic regime for their propaganda."
  • Iran Press News reported that the regime's agents stormed a party arresting 37 young women and men.
  • The Guardian reported that Iran's Islamic authorities are preparing a crackdown on women flouting the stringent dress code in the clearest sign yet of social and political repression under President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
  • Korosh, The Price of Freedom, an Iranian blogger, reported on the increasing number of pro-democracy protests in Iran.
  • SMCCDI reported that hundreds of Iranians used a soccer match to protest against the Islamic republic regime. Tens were seen injured or arrested.
[4/09/06 - 4/15/06]
  • IranMania reported that armed rebels have killed two army officers, and shot a top cleric in troubled Sistan-Baluchistan province in southeastern Iran.
  • Reuters reported that an Iranian Sunni rebel group video broadcast on Arab satellite television showed the killing by firing squad of a man identified as an Iranian Revolutionary Guard officer.
[4/02/06 -4/08/06]
  • Iran Focus reported that some 400 people were arrested in the Iranian capital on the final day of the Persian New Year.
  • The Australian reported that the Iranian regime arrested seven men posing as the national wrestling team seeking to flee the country.
  • SMCCDI reported that Iranians defied the Islamist regime and taboos in massive cultural outdoor event, the end of Persian New Year.
  • Iran Focus reported that another agent of Iran’s State Security Forces (SSF) was killed during armed clashes in the western province of Kermanshah.
[3/26/06 -4/01/06]
  • Reuters reported that three members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards were killed in a clash with Kurdish separatists.
[3/19/06 -3/25/06]
  • Rooz Online reported that a new wave of attacks on Iran’s university students is increasing, step by step.
  • Reuters reported that seven Iranian men taken hostage by a Sunni rebel group appeared in a video aired on Tuesday and urged Iran's authorities to help win their release.
  • Iran Focus reported that Islamist militiamen affiliated to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps have launched military exercises near the Iraqi border to “deal with possible unrest.”
[3/12/06 -3/18/06]
  • SMCCDI reported that violent clashes rocked, yesterday, the western City of Piranshahr following the murder of a resident, by Islamist Militiamen.
  • Iran Focus reported that some 150 textile workers gathered on Monday outside the offices of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to protest. “Instead of justice-spreading government”, the workers said, Ahmadinejad’s government should be called the “sacking government”.
  • Iran Press News reported that last Saturday the angry residents of Piranshahr (Kurdish town in Province of West Azerbaijan) clashed with the regime's brutal security forces.
  • Iran Press News reported that the regime's forces clashed with young activists in Tehran suburb of Fardees-Karadj.
  • Iran Press News reported the anger on Iranian universities over the regime's plan to bury martyrs on the university grounds.
  • New York Post reported that if the Security Council won't act Europe's leadership on the Iranian nuclear problem suggests a third option: NATO.
  • The Jerusalem Post reported that the Pentagon is looking into the possibility of Israel launching a strike against Iran's nuclear facilities.
  • Radio Free Europe reported that University students in Iran are expressing deep concern over official attempts to turn university grounds into burial sites for the remains of Iranian soldiers.
  • Iran Press News reported that 1000 workers from the Kerman coal mines have gone on strike.
  • Iran Press News reported that 400 production units of household good and electrical factories inside Iran face financial crisis.
  • Iran Press News reported that approximately 150 workers of the Miral Glass factory who have neither been paid for more than 11 months.
  • Iran Press News reported that 300 workers from the Iran Auto factory gathered in protest.
  • Iran Press News reported that hundreds of protesting workers from the Sangrood mines (Province of Gilan), have remained unpaid for 13 months.
  • Iran Press News published a report and photo of the graves being prepared on University grounds for the burial of designated martyrs.
  • Radio Free Europe reported that Iranian General Ismail Ahmadi-Moghaddam said rebels posed as security forces, stopped cars traveling along the Zabol-Zahedan road and then killed 22 passengers and suggested that U.S. and British intelligence agents were involved.
  • Reuters reported that a Sunni rebel group said it was behind an attack that killed 22 people in a remote region in southeastern Iran saying that they attacked the convoy of a provincial governor, killing 22 soldiers, and took seven hostages, including a senior security official to obtain the release of members detained by Iran.
  • Iran Press News published an update on the armed attack on regional authorities in the road between Zabol and Zahedan (Province of Sistan & Baluchestan).
[3/05/06 -3/11/06]
  • SMCCDI reported that an Intelligence Officer named Rahman Ghaderi (AKA Rahman Griss) was gunned down, this morning, by the residents of the western City of Bookan.
  • Radio Free Europe reported that Iran arrested more than 50 people involved in recent bombings in the Southwestern province of Khuzestan.
  • Iran Focus reported that hundreds of disenchanted youth damaged more than a dozen buses in the Iranian capital Friday after a football match.
  • Early reports indicated there were three demonstrations in Tehran and more were reported around the nation and they were met with violence and force.
  • Iran Focus reported that hundreds of women gathered Wednesday afternoon in Tehran’s Laleh Park and took part in a demonstration against the Iranian government.
  • SMCCDI reported that tens of female demonstrators and a well known poet, Simin Behbahani, were injured due to the brutality used against the demonstrators.
  • Samii Shahla reported that a group of about 130 women’s rights activists who gathered in Deneshjoo Park in central Tehran to celebrate International Women’s Day were brutally beaten by the police. Photos.
  • Reuters reported that Iranian police and plainclothes agents yesterday beat hundreds of women and men who had gathered to commemorate International Women's Day. Plus 4 videos.
  • Women’s Rights Association of Iran published a detailed report on International Women’s Day Protest in Laleh Park in Tehran. Videos.
  • Azarmehr Weblog reported that the elderly Simin Behbehani, one of Iran's greatest contemporary poets and writers was amongst those women who were beaten up in yesterday's rally in Tehran.
  • Rooz Online reported on the gathering of Iranian women on International Women’s Day turned violence when Iran’s prominent poetess, Simin Behbahani who has been losing her eye sight, was beaten up.
[2/27/06 -3/04/06]
  • BBC News reported that two bombs have exploded in the southern Iranian cities of Dezful and Abadan, planted in the governor's offices.
  • Middle East Newsline reported Iran has expanded the authority of the Basij militia to include police, defense and relief operations.
  • Fibre 2 Fashion reported that textile workers blocked a major highway from the city of Isfahan to Tehran to protest against non-payment of their salaries.
  • Iran Press News reported that Bina Darab-Zand, activist political prisoner, in a letter to the warden of Evin prison, refused any more visitors due to the humiliating abuse they receive.
  • BBC News reported that a bomb exploded in the southern Iranian city of Ahwaz, hours after two men were hung for an attack last year.
  • Iran Focus reported that Iranian authorities are using a fatwa, or religious decree, to ban the use of fireworks during this year’s traditional “fire festival” marking the end of the Persian year.
[2/20/06 -2/26/06]
  • Reuters reported that once again a small bomb shook the Iranian oil city of Ahvaz, a center of much unrest.
  • Iran Press News reported that Tehran university students gathered to protest. The students were heard chanting: "Political prisoners must be released" and singing the song: NO, NO, NO which is the new anthem against the Islamic regime.
  • The Women of Iran are asking for the international media to join them March 8th in Tehran, for the commemoration of: The International Women's Day in Tehran - to fight for our freedom.
  • SMCCDI reported that on Tuesday March 14th, millions of Iranians will defy once again, the Islamic republic regime as they gather in an act of civil disobedience to celebrate the famous "Tchahr Shanbe Soori" (Fire Fiest).
[2/13/06 -2/19/06]
  • Iran Press News reported that two hundred of the 620 miners from Sangrood (Province of Gilan) who have not been paid for an entire year made their way to Tehran to protest.
  • SMCCDI reported that a fire of an unknown origin destroyed parts of the Tehran's Oil Refinery and there are suspicions that it was the result of sabotage.
[2/06/06 -2/12/06]
  • SMCCDI reported some sporadic but violent clashes in the North Tehran, started bt zealous militiamen who were angered, by the lack of attention of tens of young Iranians for the Shia ritual of Moharam.
  • Iran Press News reported on the protests and clashes between people and Islamic regimes forces in Mahabad (Province of Kurdistan).
[1/30/06 -2/05/06]
  • IranMania reported that a group of Iranian soldiers kidnapped near the border with Pakistan nearly two months ago was freed.
  • ExpressIndia reported that Iran had detained dozens of suspects in two bombings that killed at least nine people in the southwestern city of Ahvaz last week.
  • SMCCDI reported clashes rocked a suburb of the western City of Sannandaj.
[1/23/06 -1/29/06]
  • BBC News reported that at least six people have been killed and 24 injured in a series of blasts in the south-western Iranian city of Ahwaz, the scence of numerous anti-regime protests.
  • Agence France-Presse reported that the double bomb attack in Ahvaz occurred at the same time President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had been scheduled to visit the city.
  • Mehr News Agency published photos of the newest bombings in Ahvaz, Iran.
  • SMCCDI reported that Tehran's Collective Bus drivers issued another notice of strike scheduled for Saturday.
  • Reuters reported that Iran accused Britain of cooperating with bombers who killed eight people in the southern Iranian city of Ahvaz on Tuesday.
  • Bloomberg reported that Prime Minister Tony Blair rejected Iranian claims that British soldiers were involved in two bombings that killed at least nine people in the city of Ahvaz.
  • SMCCDI reported that hundreds of Tehran's Collective Bus drivers, technicians and workers have been arrested, since yesterday, following the issuance of a notice of strike, scheduled for Saturday. Major reports expected tomorrow.
  • SMCCDI reported that tens of Tehran's Collective Bus drivers, technicians, workers and wives have been wounded by brutal militiamen as a result of Saturday's strike.
  • SMCCDI added that several buses have been damaged as angry crowds protested against the presence of Bassij Para-military appointed drivers attempting to break the strike.
  • SMCCDI also reported that a fire forced the closure of a Tehran Metro Station, believed to be an act of arson on the same day that many of Tehran's Collective Bus drivers observed a protest action. Metro Station workers were heard shouting slogans by calling for solidarity with the Bus company's strikers.
[1/16/06 -1/07/22]
  • Massoud Ansari, Telegraph reported on the Iranian hostages being held by Sunni rebels in Iran and the growing insurgency there.
  • SMCCDI reported that several demonstrators were injured or arrested, yesterday, following a brutal attack made by the Islamic regime's militiamen and security agents in a suburb of the Iranian Capital.
  • SMCCDI reported that an Islamist judge and his wife were killed in a mysterious accident near Rasht-Khar.
  • Barbad Kaveh, Rooz Online reported that protesting Iranian Teachers are demanding rights in the new government budget.
  • Reuters reported that an Iranian Sunni militant group said it had killed one of a group of Iranian soldiers it has held hostage.
[1/08/06 -1/07/15]
  • SMCCDIreported that Tehran's Collective Bus drivers organized, yesterday, a symbolic protest action by setting on their head lights during the day time.
[1/01/06 -1/07/06]
  • BBC News reported that Pakistan is working with Tehran to help locate nine Iranian border guards who have reportedly been abducted.
  • Iran Press News reported that Tehran's Bus drivers are continuing to demand release of their union leader.
  • CNN reported that Arabic-language network Al Arabiya has aired video of what it said were Iranian soldiers recently kidnapped near the Iran-Pakistan border.
  • Peter Ackerman and Ramin Ahmadi, International Herald Tribune reported that there is positive news on Iran, that the world should not miss: civic defiance against Ahmadinejad's authoritarianism is increasing.
  • Iran Press News reported on series of what it described as "incidents" at the Shahreh-Kord prison.
  • Iran Press News reported on the 200 workers from Miral Glass Factory who had gathered to protest months of non-receipt of their wages.
[12/18-12/24]
  • SMCCDI reported that a draftee soldier killed three militiamen in the Varche Military post. Many army members and residents still consider him as a hero for having revolted against injustice.
  • SMCCDI reported that a former Militia officer was gunned down in the western City of Sannandaj. Local rumors are stating about the involvement of the regime's intelligence circles as Tchapari was known for openly criticizing many aspects of the daily life and his regret to have taken part in "the creation of a monster".
  • SMCCDI reported that dozens of Iranian women closed the highway by setting up barricades and setting car tyres' ablaze in protest to the bad conditions there.
  • SMCCDI reported that tens of drivers of the Greater Tehran's Collective Buses were rounded up, today, for intending to protest.
[12/04-12/10]
  • Iran Focus reported that Iranian students from Tehran’s University of Science and Technology plan to hold a demonstration against a ban on a demonstration.
  • YNet reported that Iran warned Israel: if it makes a 'mistake' we’ll respond harshly.
  • Iran Press News published a statement from the Student freedom fighters regarding December 7th demonstrations in Tehran University.
  • Iran Press News reported that Iranian Kurdish students will join in the student demonstrations at Tehran University, Wednesday. A statement.
  • Iran Focus reported that radical Islamists are furious at the recent student protests in Iran's capital.
  • Iran Press News reported that while Tehran University was closed on Wednesday, December 7th due to "air pollution," however the student's demonstrations in front of the university gates took place, as planned.
  • Iran Press News reported on the extreme measures the regime has recently employed to stop further demonstrations in Tehran.
  • Iran Press News reported on two of the female university student freedom fighters arrested during the Tehran University demonstrations.
  • Iran Press News reported that protesting women blocked the Tehran-Boumehen road.
  • Adnkronos International reported on the new unrest In Iranian Kurdistan.
  • Iran Press News reported that Iran's Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) have begun a new reign of terror on student activists. They are being kidnapped and blindfolded and then the students are then driven to unknown locations undergo brutal interrogations that go on for hours and days.
  • Iran Press News reported that workers from IRAN BERK protested in front of the Office of General Industries and Mines are protesting 8 months worth of non-receipt of their wages.
  • SMCCDI reported that hundreds of students marked the "International Human Rights Day" by making gatherings in several Iranian universities. Yes, SMCCDI is back.
[11/27-12/03]
  • Iran Press News reported that disabled war veterans protested in front of Ahmadinejad’s office.
  • Iran Press News reported that Tehran University students protested and threw out the new Mullah president of the university installed by Ahmadinejad. Photos.
  • Iran Press News published a statement regarding the installment of a Mullah to presidency of Tehran University.
  • Rooz Online reported that the cleric Zahedi, recently appointed as Chancellor of Tehran University, quickly resigned after massive student demonstrations.
  • Iran Press News reported on the regime’s laughable description of Tehran University demonstrations.
  • Iran Focus reported that there were more than 420 recorded political protests in Iran over the past month.
  • Iran Press News reported that protesting workers blocked the Rasht-Bandar’eh Anzali main road.
[11/20-11/26]
  • Islamic Republic News Agency reported that a group of workers staged rally outside the Majlis (Parliament) on Sunday to protest the enforcement of the law on employment on temporary basis.
  • Iran Press News reported on a worker from Esfahan who self-immolated in front of the Islamic Parliament’s Assembly.
  • Iran Press News reported on the arrest of members of the regime’s information and security forces in provinces on charges of corruption.
  • Iran Press News reported on the regime’s new crimes in the town of Mahabad, Kurdistan.
  • Iran Press News reported on the story behind the execution of three people who raped an Islamic a novitiate seminarian.
  • Radio Farda reported that a group of strangers destroyed the grave markings created by families of those who perished in the massacres of political prisoners in Iran in 1988.
  • Iran Mania reported more unrest in Iran's northwestern city of Mahabad.
  • Iran Press News reported that a group of teachers from Qazvin protested in front of the Islamic Parliament’s Assembly.
  • Iran Press News reported on the gruesome murder of a Sunni cleric and his son in Kermanshah.
  • Iran Press News reported that Mullah Meshkini told members of the Basij and the revolutionary guards that their main mission was to guard the existence of the regime against the ire of the Iranian people.
  • Iran Press News reported that the Iranian regime tightened security at Amir Kabir industrial University over student protests.
  • Reuters reported that in a "show of force" thousands of members of Iran's volunteer militia, the basij, paraded and formed human chains in Iranian cities. But state television showed human chains and small crowds, mostly numbering several hundred people, much fewer than expected.
  • Meysam Tavab, Rooz Online asked why the Basij Volunteer Militia has started arming some of its units with heavy arms.
[11/13-11/19]
  • Iran Press News reported on workers protests in Tabas, Yazd and Abadan.
  • Iran Focus reported that more than a hundred people have been arrested in the province of north-western province of Ardebil for “disturbing the peace” and “causing trouble.”
  • Iran Press News reported that a sports photographer was attacked and beaten to near death by the regime’s disciplinary forces in front of thousands of spectators, players and reporters.
  • Iran Press News reported that the law library of Tehran University caught fire; the majority of the library burned. Some suspect arson by pro-regime forces since this library contained massive volumes of books on western jurisprudence and internal law.
[11/06-11/12]
  • SMCCDI reported that hundreds of protesters clashed with Islamic regime's security forces, once again after a soccer game.
  • BBC News reported that ethnic unrest has broken out in Iran's Arabic-speaking province of Khuzestan.
  • Iran Press News reported that during the recent soccer protests, the regimes forces were overwhelmed and said to have been unable to control the crowds and stop the protest.
  • Iran Press News reported on recent protests in Tehran and Dezfool.
  • Iran Press News reported that hundreds of hungry workers protested in front of the Islamic Parliament’s Assembly saying: We’d rather die…take our lives. Photo.
  • Morteza Abdolalian, Iran Watch Canada reported that political, economical and social unrest in Iran has entered to a new stage. The situation now seems uncontrollable and moving toward a disaster.
  • Iran Focus reported that the chief of police in Greater Tehran announced that Iranian police are planning to boost a national security plan that will effectively increase a crackdown already in effect.
  • Iran Press News reported that teachers and workers continue their protests all around Iran.
  • IranMania reported that several teachers who were laid off in the southern province of Fars joined protests by hundreds of workers from the western province of Qazvin against their dismissal and poor working conditions.
[10/30-11/05]
  • SMCCDI repprted that the Islamic republic's security forces attacked and wounded tens of protesters in the northern City of Babolsar.
  • SMCCDI reported that a student activist named, "Ali Rasti" was killed, yesterday evening, at the Yoosef-Abad dorm located in Tehran. Ali seems to have been pushed from the six floor's balcony by members of the repressive Harrasat (University's Intelligence) or Bassij.
  • Iran Press News reported that a group of armed individuals who claimed to be intelligence agents of the city of Saari (Province of Mazandaraan) kidnapped the editor of Daryaasar newspaper and after brutally beating him, cut his ear off.
  • Iran Focus reported that over 290 recorded demonstrations, sit-ins, and strikes took place past month. Bringing the total number of demonstrations in Iran this year now stands at above 1,800.
  • Iran Press News reported that the regime fearing wrath of protesting youth postponed a Soccer match.
  • Iran Press News reported that the regime's military and disciplinary forces attacked and beat the residents of the town of Mahaabad.
  • Iran Focus reported that dozens of people protested in the Arab-dominated city of Ahwaz.
[10/23-10/29]
  • Iran Press News reported that several of the employees, professors and students of Azad University of Qazvin were arrested; they were charged with "establishing a network of corruption in a university."
[10/16-10/22]
  • SMCCDI reported that a young man was killed, with a shot to the head, by the local militia. They young man was after angry at the regime's humiliating parade of young dissidents.
  • SMCCDI reported that tens of inmates have been wounded and reportedly some killed in a bloody clash at the Adel-Abad ('Just' Place) Prison located in the central City of Shiraz.
  • SMCCDI reported that an informant was gunned down in the Iranian Capital.
  • SMCCDI reported that another young man was killed by the Islamic regime's security forces in the Greater Tehran area, Friday.
  • SMCCDI reported that a riot took place, on Saturday, in the Island of Gheshm located in the Persian Gulf.
  • Agence France Presse reported that witnesses claim, Iranian police shot and killed a motorist after he failed to stop when spotted eating during holy month of Ramadan.Winston, The Spirit of Man reported on the IRGC units nightly live fire exercises in the mountains of eastern Tehran.
  • Iran Press News reported that Revolutionary Guard commander Ahmadi-Moqadam reported the regime is preparing a new way to deal with social corruption and said: This plan will be soon implemented all over Iran.
  • Iran Press News reported that a member of the Islamic Parliament's Assembly, representing the city of Sanandadj said: The Kurds and Sunnis in the Province of Kurdistan have had it... their patience has been tested and will not stand for a non-Kurd, Shiite Governor.
  • Iran Focus reported that in some regions of the country, Iran’s para-military police, the State Security Forces (SSF), have been given unlimited powers to raid and search premises.
  • TurkishPress reported that Iranian police said they had defused a large bomb planted under a bridge in the restive southwestern city of Ahvaz.
  • Shahram Rafizadeh, Rooz Online reported that Iran is preparing to block SMS (Short Message Service) fearing it can be used by the government's critics and opposition groups.
  • Middle East Newsline: Iran has disclosed a plan to create a huge Islamic volunteer force to protect the regime. Under the plan, the Basij would have more than 1 million men under arms.
  • Iran Press News reported on the protest and conflict at Najafabad University. A first hand account.
  • Iran Press News reported that students from the Abbasspour University for Water and Power Industry protested against the regime's guards in their university.
  • Iran Press News reported that an angry mob, protesting the violent and oppressive actions of the disciplinary forces of the regime, attacked governmental bureaus in the Province of Qeshm.
  • SMCCDI reported that drivers of many Iranian Collective Buses refused to validate passenger's tickets, today, in order to protest against their poor conditions.
  • SMCCDI reported that dozens of Iranian women gathered at the "Enghelab" square in order to protest peacefully against the social and poor economic conditions in Iran.
  • SMCCDI reported that hundreds of students of Beheshti University of Tehran protested, yesterday night, against the repressive measures and poor conditions.
  • Iran Press News added that the Beheshti University students then set their dorm on fire. ISNA published photos.
  • Iran Focus reported that students from a female dormitory of Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran started another protest.
  • Iran Press News reported that prisoners of Adelabad prison in Shiraz protested their horrible conditions and brutal treatment.
  • Iran Press News reported that a group of teachers this time from the provinces of Fars and Kermanshah, gathered today in protest in front of the main gates of the Islamic Parliament's Assembly.
  • Iran Press News reported that orderlies from medical centers and hospitals around the township of Baabol (Mazandaraan/Capsian Province) gathered to protest 6 months non-receipt of their wages and their benefits.
  • Iran Press News reported that the Workers of Kurdistan have reported on the 3 week long strike by the Kurdish Textile workers and that the workers show up to work but they simply refuse to work.
  • Iran Press News reported on a clandestine strike and work stoppage under way in the Ministry of Oil.
[10/09-10/15]
  • SMCCDI reported that several students were injured, on Sunday evening, by brutal Bassij Force's elements who attacked them with knives and clubs. Iran focus and Iran Press News have more details.
  • SMCCDI reported that an Islamist judge was wounded by an individual who had planned to burn his victim and himself in sign of protest against the Islamic regime's judiciary system.
  • Iran Press News reported that the Commander of the Area Basiji Resistance of greater Tehran have equipped the ASHURA Battalions with semi-heavy and heavy artillery.
  • Reuters reported that in the Iranian city of Ahvaz, two bombs set off minutes apart killed four people and wounded dozens of others.
  • Gulf Times, Reuters reported that Iran’s new police chief has vowed to crack down on illicit alcohol, music CDs and parties where people of the opposite sex mingle, months after promising a policy which would respect people’s privacy.
  • Iran Press Newsreported that hundreds of protesting workers of the FARNAKH and MEHNAKH thread factory once again gathered in protest for continued non-receipt of their wages and blocked the road between the towns of Qazveen and Shahreh San'ati.
  • Iran Press News reported that a group of hospital employees from Mahdee'yeh Hospital, in the city of Kermanshah traveled to Tehran to protest non-receipt of 10 months worth of their wages.
  • Iran Press News reported that hundreds of West Alborz Coal miners and employees gathered to protest in Tehran.
  • SMCCDI reported that students of Najaf-Abad University protested, today, against the increase of Gender Apartheid policy.
[10/02-10/08]
  • Iran Focus reported that the Iranian capital’s police chief warned that State Security Forces would crack down on people eating in public during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
  • SMCCDI reported that official warnings, threats, anti-riot maneuvers and barbarian acts are increasing in Iran.
  • Iran Press News reported that the regime's own analysts are criticizing some of the extreme remarks made by Senior Iranian officials.
  • Iran Press News reported that in Iranian Kurdistan, 23 wedding halls were closed down and pad-locked, charged with disobeying religious law. Security forces noticed a lack of respect for Islamic decency such as inappropriate [glittery] women's clothing, men and women dancing and celebrating together.
  • Iran Press News reported that the Kurdish people's animosity with the Iranian government has nothing to do with a foreign conspiracy!
  • Iran Press News reported that according to reports, Hossein Khodaayaari, Fine Arts student in Kerman University will be prosecuted on Nov. 16th, 2005.
  • Farhad Mahdavi, Rooz Online reported that over the three-day weekend, residents of Tehran and its outer suburbs witnessed unannounced military exercises that involved the use of live munitions and firepower. They asked: Which threat needs to be cracked down?
  • SMCCDIreported that at least two dozens of collective buses were set on fire, on Friday, after a football game played at Tehran's Azadi ('Freedom') Stadium.
  • Iran Press News reported that after 9 months of non-receipt of their wages, 620 mine workers intensified their protests against Sangrood Mines.
  • Iran Press News reported on the 3rd day of a sit-in by Fine Arts students protesting the issuance of suspension of two university terms of two of the fellow classmates.
  • Iran Press News reported the 5th day of the Fine Arts University students' sit-in. After days of willful dereliction, the president of the university finally issued a statement.
[9/25-10/01]
  • Iran Press News reported that Reza Jalaali, a member of the "People's Leadership" Party which is faction of the now defunct ruling Reformist's said: The conjecture emerging from the authorities of the Islamic regime, vis a vis the nuclear issues, is confusing and disconcerting to the world. If things continue in this vein, everyone will be consumed.
  • Iran Focus reported that Tehran’s Islamic Revolutionary Prosecutor, Saeed Mortazavi, announced their plan to fight trouble-makers, or dissidents, in the Iranian capital and extended the campaign by one month.
  • SMCCDI reported that two more militiamen were killed and another wounded, yesterday, near the City of Yazd located in central Iran.
  • Mission Centered News reported that more than 3,000 satellite dishes have been confiscated in Iran as the government cracks down on what they're calling "trouble makers" in the country's capital city and more than 12,000 "social polluters" have been arrested.
  • Iran Press News reported that Mohammad Kasraii, 35-year-old shopkeeper, resident of the village of Kaani-Sepilkeh, suburb of the town of Marivaan was shot and killed by the regime's agents.
  • Tehran Times reported that Ayatollah Shahrudi called on the authorities to provide the Judiciary with a list of students kept in prisons immediately to free them or grant leave of absence to them.
  • Iran Focus reported that Iran’s Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Seyyed Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi called for a “decisive” crackdown on “trouble-makers”, a term commonly used by authorities to refer to dissidents or ordinary Iranians deemed to act un-Islamic ways.
  • Iran Press News reported that more than 1600 workers and retirees from the city of Qazveen's thread company gathered in front of the gates of the factory to protest non-receipt of their wages.
  • The Media Line reported that Arab opposition groups in Iran's Ahvaz region began a 'full boycott' on Monday against what they called the "Iranian occupier."
  • Iran Focus reported that at least two people have been killed during clashes between demonstrators and State Security Forces (SSF) in the city of Ahwaz.
[9/18-9/24]
  • Iran Press News reported on further uprisings in the southern city of Ahvaz (Province of Khuzestan).
  • Iran Focus reported clashes erupted at night in the strategic oil-rich city of Ahwaz, southern Iran, between people and State Security Forces (SSF).
[9/11-9/17]
  • Iran Press News reported that the Deputy Governor of Kurdistan, Jamshidi, was killed in a car crash along with one of his children. This is the second government official in Kurdistan who has presumably been killed in a car accident, in the past two weeks.
  • Iran Focus reported that some 200 special units of the State Security Forces (SSF) moved into different locations across the Iranian capital on Saturday.
  • Iranian blogger, Shahram Kholdi, S'CAN-IRANIC reported a few hardliner websites, whose credibility cannot be verified and cite their "informed sources", report that the assassins of Judge Moghaddas were two brothers. One of the brothers is currently under arrest.
  • Iran Press News reported that the Dezfool Sugar Factory workers marched 448 miles from Dezfool to bring their protest to Tehran.
  • Iran Focus reported that the chancellors of ten of Iran’s prestigious universities have resigned in protest against the policies of the new radical Islamist government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
[9/04-9/10]
  • Iran Press News reported that starting tomorrow, the Islamic regime's disciplinary forces fearing widespread protests, demonstrations and uprisings have plan to strategically place their disciplinary forces around university campuses and high schools, calling it: a direct confrontation with hoodlums and misfits.
  • TurkishPress reported clashes in western Iran with Kurdish terrorists have left 120 Iranian police dead and a further 64 injured in less than six months.
  • Iran Focus reported that more than 500 people attacked two government buildings and set fire to tyres in the streets of the town of Basamanj, northwest Iran, in protest to constant water and electricity disruptions.
  • Iran Press News reported that workers in Khuzestan blocked the transit road between the cities of Ahvaz and Khorramshahr for an hour. The workers protested the company's conditions and apathy in the work place as well non payment of their salaries for the past two months.
  • Iran Press News reported that workers gathered in Tehran to protest the mismanagement and dereliction of the authorities of said factory.
  • Iran Press News reported that Azad Lotfpour, spokesman for the Committee for the National Civil and non-Government Protestors who attended the protest in front of the office of the governor of Kurdistan, was arrested today in Sanandadj.
  • Iran Press News reported that the people of a suburb of Tabriz (Azerbaijan Province) protested the lack of water then attacked and invaded government offices and set fire to tires in the town square.
  • KurdishMedia News called for the release of Ms. Roya Tolouie, an activist in the women’s movement, and a member of the Association for the Defence of Women in Kurdistan. She was arrested following a peaceful sit-in to demand the release of prisoners.
[8/28-9/03]
  • Iran Press News reported that a group of women who are permitted to teach gathered in front of the Islamic Assembly of the Parliament today.
  • Iran Press News reported on a protest in Sanandadj for lack of pay.
  • SMCCDI reported dozens gathered, today, at Khavaran cemetery located near Tehran in order to pay tribute to thousands of activists and dissidents executed in 1988 by the Islamic republic regime. Photos below.
  • Iran Press News provided more details of the massacre of the innocent people of Kurdistan and added that one of the commanders of the massacres was Mostafa Mohammad Najjar, Ahmadinejad's Minister of Defense.
[8/28-9/03]
  • Reuters reported that a gunman shot an Iranian judge in the eye and hand outside his Tehran home, seriously wounding him, a justice minister said on Sunday.
  • Reuters reported that Iranian judges are to carry handguns after a judge was seriously wounded on Sunday in the fourth attack on a judiciary official in the last four weeks.
  • Rooz Online published a brief history of assassinations of judicial Officials in Iran.
  • Iran Focus reported that Iran’s State Security Forces have arrested 442 “trouble-makers” in the coastal province of Gilan.
  • SMCCDI reported two members of the Bassij paramilitary force were stabbed to death yesterday in the Iranian Capital.
  • SMCCDI reported an armed clash erupted, late afternoon, in Emamzadeh-Hassan area located in Greater Tehran.
  • Iran Press News reported that one of the regime's Intelligence service agents stationed in Tehran was shot and severely injured.
  • Iran Press News reported that Attorney General of the Islamic Republic, Saeed Mortazavi Effective said: immediately, coordinated efforts will be under way to purge Tehran from evildoers and elements of corruption.
  • SMCCDI reported that several prisoners have been killed in another prison riot.
  • Iran Press News reported that Tehran is preparing to install loud speakers and cameras in 140 neighborhoods throughout Tehran, meant to broadcast the call to prayers (5 times a day), but it is also meant to broadcast directives to the populace and photograph them during times of escalation of conflict in order to contain resulting hostilities.
  • Iran Press News reported that Iranian citizens clashed with disciplinary forces in Sardasht, Province of Azerbaijan.
  • SMCCDI reported that two more militiamen have been killed in the last two days in the provincial cities of Zabol and Sari.
  • SMCCDI reported that three Oil Wells have exploded near the southeastern City of Ahwaz. The explosions which are act of sabotage.
  • Iran Press News also reported on the explosions adding that the representative from the Dashazadegan region to the Parliament said: "These actions are planned and lead by 'London'."
  • SMCCDI reported that several hundreds of individuals qualified as "trouble makers" have been arrested in the last days in Iran with the official ISNA announcing the official number of 1,000 for Tehran arrests alone.
  • Daily Times confirmed earlier reports that small bombs damaged 15 pipelines and one oil well in restive southwest Iran on Thursday, but quick repairs meant crude output from OPEC’s second exporter was unaffected.
[8/21-8/27]
  • Assyrian International News Agency reported that Iran's State Security Forces have stepped up arrests of Kurds who took part in large-scale anti-government demonstrations.
  • SMCCDI reported the death of the Governor of the northwestern City of Bookan in what has been declared as a 'car accident'.
  • SMCCDI reported that Islamic regime forces have organized an unprecedented man hunt in the strategic southern City-Port of Bandar-Abbas.
  • SMCCDI reported that a brutal militiaman was seriously wounded after brutalizing two young individuals. Local residents helped the group to escape.
  • SMCCDI reported that several militiamen and armed individuals have died in a clash which happened near the northwestern City of Mian-do-Ab.
[8/14-8/20]
  • SMCCDI: The Islamic republic regime is preparing itself for its last stand against the Iranian People and the world community.
  • SMCCDI reported that hundreds of workers and civil servants protested, today, in the strategic City of Abadan.
  • SMCCDI reported fresh clashes rocked, yesterday afternoon, several areas of the northwestern City of Mahabad.
  • News24 reported that about 300 Islamist students bombarded the British embassy in Tehran with stones and tomatoes on Sunday in protest at Britain's role in opposing Iran's nuclear activities. SMCCDI responded.
  • SMCCDI (Information Service):A brutal militiaman was able to escape from an ambush in the City of Varamin.
  • AFP reported that a group of some 30 Islamist protesters Tuesday burnt the French flag outside France's embassy in Tehran.
[8/07-8/13]
  • Reuters reported that two people have been killed, eight injured and 145 arrested in unrest among the Kurds of western Iran.
  • Iran Focus, an MEK website, reported that Iran's State Security Forces have been on heightened alert on Sunday in the Kurdish town of Bukan.
  • SMCCDI reported on the general strike has started to paralyze northwestern Iran.
  • KurdishMedia reported on the escalating crisis in Iran’s north-west Kurdish regions that has left at least 20 dead and numerous wounded and imprisoned.
  • SMCCDI reported that a bank was set ablaze, with a Molotov Cocktail, in the central City of Abadeh located near Shiraz.
  • SMCCDI reported new clashes in northwestern Iranian cities, saying scattered but violent clashes opposed some of the Sannandaji and Mahabadis residents.
  • Iranian Students News Agency reported that many female teachers blocked the streets leading to the Islamic Parliament in a protest. SMCCDI also published a report.
  • Reporters Without Borders condemned the current crackdown on Iran's Kurdish journalists.
  • SMCCDI reported tens of inmates have been injured during a riot at the Abadan penitentiary located in southwest Iran.
  • SMCCDI reported scattered and violent clashes rocked, today, several areas of the northwestern City of Oroomiah.
  • Iran Focus reported on clashes in Iran’s holy city of Qom.
  • The NY Times reported the unrest in Iran's Kurdish region has left 17 dead; hundreds wounded.
  • Rancher, RedState.org said in light of Bush's promise to stand with the Iranian people, Don't the Kurds in Iran count as Iranian people?
  • Iran Focus reported that more than a dozen protestors arrested in Ahwaz, southern Iran, during a demonstration in July were sentenced to serve prison time and will be flogged in public.
  • Gooya News reported that the infamous Judge Mortezavi was threatened with death.
  • SMCCDI reported that an Islamist judge was able to escape from an ambush Sunday night in northern Tehran. Fazli-Nejad who's known for his role in crackdown on Iranian bloggers was on his way home when he was attacked by armed assailants.
  • SMCCDI reported a heavy explosion rocked parts of southern Tehran.
[7/30-8/06]
  • SMCCDIreported on the scattered clashes which took place, today, in the northwestern City of Sannandaj located in the Iranian province of Kurdistan.
  • Iran Focus, an MEK website, reported that disenchanted Iranians stated more than 280 anti-government protests, clashes, strikes, and other forms of social unrest throughout Iran over the past month.
  • SMCCDI reported that at least 4 demonstrators and members of the security forces were killed in the violent clashes that rocked, yesterday, the northwestern City of Sannandaj.
  • SMCCDI reported that tens of Saghezi residents have been killed or wounded following bloody aerial attacks.
  • Potkin Azarmehr, Iran va Jahan reported that protests by the Iranian Kurds condemning the brutal murder of Shwane Ghaderi reached the Kurdistan province capital, Sanandaj.
  • The Guardian reported that Iran sent in 100,000 troops to crush border unrest.
  • Iran Focus and SMCCDI both reported that Iranian security forces are using helicopters to fire on demonstrators.
  • SMCCDI reported that a heavy explosion rocked a militia camp located in the northwestern City of Marivan by resulting in tens of wounded among Islamic republic's security forces.
  • SMCCDI reported that for the first time several Iranian militiamen were injured by an IED.
  • Roozonline reported that the head of the Basij militia said sweeping changes will be taking place in Iran.
  • Iran Focus, an MEK website, reported that a prominent women’s rights activist in Iranian Kurdistan was arrested in the Kurdish region.
  • Iran Press Service reported that the bloody unrest continues in at least three Iranian provinces.
  • Reuters reported that Kurdish police dispersed hundreds of Kurds protesting outside U.N. offices in northern Iraq on Saturday over reports of detentions of dozens of Iranian Kurds just across the border.
  • SMCCDI reported that the unrest and clashes continued in several northwestern cities, such as, Mahabad and Bookan.
  • Iran Press News reported on the unrest in the Iranian city of Saqqez. Huge protests there have lead to clashes with the authorities and the number of injured continues to increase and witnesses described the hospitals as having been turned into prisons! A must read.
  • BBC News reported that the Judge that sentenced Ganji was shot dead in Tehran today.
  • ScanIranic asked, who assassinated Judge Moghaddas (the judge who sentence Ganji)?
  • Iranian blogger, Windsteed, Iran Hopes reported that police say they are still investigating the assassination of Moghaddasi which took place last Tuesday in Tehran. But speculation is rampant.
  • Iranian bloggers and news sources reported that a group took full responsibility of murder of the judge who was shot a few days ago in Tehran, saying they killed the judge because he has been killing and torturing political prisoners.
  • CNN reported that an explosive device has detonated in a building housing offices for British Airways and oil company BP.
[7/24-7/29]
  • Potkin Azarmehr, Iran va Jahan reported that the state of repression in Mahabad is reaching new proportions. Unrest has continued for eight days and is spreading. The city is now under complete general strike. Not one Western correspondence as yet has gone to Mahabad to view the situation.
  • British Ahwazi Friendship Society reported anti-government protests erupted in Ahwaz, the first since last month's presidential elections.
  • BBC News reported on Iran press reports of about the Kurdish riots.
  • Reuters reported that three Iranian policemen have died fighting Kurdish insurgents.
  • DozaMe.org reported that a Kurdish man was killed when Iranian soldiers opened fire on demonstrators on July 25 in the city of [Oshonoieh] in northwestern Iran.
  • BBC News reported that Iranian police have arrested at least 12 people in connection with fresh protests in Khuzestan province.
  • Mahabad.org provided photos of the regime bringing in truckloads of trucks with heavy guns. The unrest in Mahabad (located in the Kurdish region of Iran) is spreading throughout the region.
  • Iran Press News reported that protestors attacked the offices of the 'Supreme Leader' Khamnei in that province of Khorveen.
  • Iran Press News reported that in response to the stream of continued protests around Iran and clashes with protestors, the regime has begun installing suicide bombers around the various provinces in Iran.
  • Iran Press News reported on the month-long clashes and strike in the Kurdish region.
  • Baku Today reported that 300 Kurdish activists staged a sit-in outside the governor’s office in Iran’s western province of Kurdistan.
  • Reuters reported that a UN report said that Iran is denying basic amenities to its ethnic and religious minorities and in some cases confiscating their land.
  • Iran Focus: an MEK website, reported that an officer in Iran’s armed forces and an Iranian soldier were arrested in Iraq.
  • SMCCDI reported that the unrest is continuing in several northwestern cities of Iran located in the Kurdistan and W. Azarbaijan provinces.
  • Dr. Corsi, WorldNetDaily reported that Kurds in Iran's western city of Mahabad are rioting providing horrifying evidence of mullahs' rule of terror.
[7/17-7/23]
  • Iran Focus reported that Iran’s new police chief today called on the forces under his command to deal “decisively with criminals” and use live bullets if necessary.
  • Iran Focus reported that an Iranian man arrested for taking part in an anti-government demonstration in Tehran on Tuesday died as he was trying to escape.
  • Iran Focus reported that a colonel in the elite Qods (Jerusalem) Force of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps was killed in a fashionable neighbourhood of Tehran.
  • The World Tribune reported that Iran's opposition is targeting senior officers of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
  • Monday Morning reported that Police in Tehran are preparing a fresh crackdown targeting “open examples of corruption in tourist and recreation resorts” around the Iranian capital.
  • Iran Focus reported that more than 50,000 workers took to the streets of cities across Iran.
[7/10-7/16]
  • Iranian blogger,Windsteed, Iran Hopes 2005 was a witness to the July 1999 crackdown of the student in Iran. With the collapse of most demonstrations yesterday in Iran, he concluded, Let the regime be happy for the moment that it has silenced the people. But it is only silence before the storm.
  • Roozonline reminded us on the sixth anniversary of the July 9th Student Uprising no one is yet to be charged with the murder of Ezzat Ebrahimnejad.
  • Iran Focus reported that a government official from the town of Chabahar (southeast Iran) was gunned down by unknown assailants.
  • Reuters reported that a little-known Sunni Muslim group has beheaded an Iranian security agent abducted last month in officially Shiite Iran and has issued a video tape of the killing.
  • Iran Focus reported that Iran's State Security Forces on Sunday opened fire at youths in the north-western volatile Kurdish town of Mahabad, leaving one young man dead, dragging his body through the town. Graphic photos.
  • Kurdmedia reported that thousands of Kurds protested the murder of the Kurdish youth by Iranian Pasdarans in the city of Mahabad.
  • Tehran Times reported that Iran’s new national police chief said, Our society is a young one... we must deal with them patiently.
  • Iran Focus reported that at least 200 agents of Iran’s State Security Forces on Monday conducted a midnight raid in the central park in Tabriz, arresting anyone in sight.
  • Iran Focus reported that at least 100 demonstrators were arrested and 60 buses damaged in clashes that erupted Saturday in Iran's second largest city.
  • Iran Focus reported that unrest continued in Mahabad. Close to 1,000 people gathered in the main path leading to Independence Square and started to march forward. They were joined quickly by several thousand of the local population shouting anti regime slogans. The regime retaliated brutally.
[7/03-7/09]
  • SMCCDI reported that several militiamen were killed in an ambush near the southeastern City of Zahedan.
  • FrontPageMag reported that more and more young Iranians are resorting to violence against the regime and its representatives.
  • SMCCDI reported that repressive measures are increasing with the approach of the anniversary of Students' Uprising on July 9th.
  • SMCCDI reported a scheduled demonstration at Tehran University did not happen. The regime had sent all students home and surrounded the University with security forces.
[7/03-7/09]
  • Iranian.ws reported that Grand Ayatollah Hassan Ali Montazeri criticized the recent presidential elections, and called for the urgent amendment of Iran's constitution.
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