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Islamic Republic regime and good news?

A thousands of bad news and one good !

Said Jazi a death row young offender is released from prison!

Mohammad Mostafaei a human rights defender and a juvenile offenders lawyer reported that ;Said Jazi a teenager who was on the death row for allegedly the crime he commited when he was only 16 years of age and spent five years in prison is released from prison. He said: the family of the victim agreed for his release. Mr. Mostafaei then thanked all human rights organizations which helped and supported for his release from prison.

Link to this news:
http://www.iran-emrooz.net/index.php?/news2/16429/

In another news ;
Two juvenile offenders have been executed in the city of Bushehr ./
Mr. Hassan Mozafari and Rahman Shahidi has been executed in Bushehr city prison. So far four young offenders have been executed this year.

Iran: End Executions of Juvenile Offenders
29 Adults and Two Juvenile Offenders Hanged
(Geneva, July 29, 2008) – The Iranian judiciary should immediately halt all executions of juvenile offenders and Iran’s parliament should move swiftly to ban such executions, a group of human rights organizations said today.
The groups, which include Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, and the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran, joined by six other international and regional human rights organizations – named below – strongly condemned Iran’s continuing execution of juvenile offenders in a joint statement.
“Iran is executing several children every year, despite the fact that it is banned under international law,” the organizations said. “It is cruel and inhumane to apply the death penalty even to adults, let alone to those convicted for crimes committed before the age of 18.”
This follows the executions by Iranian authorities on July 22 of Hassan Mozafari and Rahman Shahidi, both juvenile offenders, who were defined as persons under 18 at the time of their crime.
Iranian authorities executed Mozafari and Shahidi along with an adult offender, Hussein Rahnama, in the southern city of Bushehr. Bushehr Criminal Court had convicted them of rape, together with another juvenile offender, Mohammad Pezhman, and two other adults – Behrouz Zangeneh and Ali Khorramnejad. Iranian authorities executed Pezhman in May 2007 and the two other adults in October 2007.
Iran leads the world in executing persons for crimes committed under the age of 18. As a party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, Iran is obligated to abolish such executions.
However, in 2007, Iran carried out at least eight such executions. The recent executions of Mozafari and Shahidi bring the number of juvenile executions to four so far in 2008. No other country is known to have executed a juvenile offender in 2008.
The situation of juvenile offenders facing execution in Iran has reached crisis levels, making Iran’s violation of international standards much greater than any other country. There are at least 132 juvenile offenders known to be on death row in Iran, although the true number could be much higher.
Following intense international protests, two juvenile offenders facing execution for murder, Sa’eed Jazee and Reza Sheshblooki, were spared the death penalty last week after receiving pardons from the families of their victims.
On July 8, 24 major international and regional organizations called on the Iranian authorities immediately to stop juvenile executions. In December 2007, the UN General Assembly expressed concern about the “execution of persons who were under the age of 18 at the time their offence was committed contrary to the obligations of the Islamic Republic of Iran under article 37 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child and article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.”
“Iran’s insistence on executing juvenile offenders in the face of international law and international protests portrays an image of a judicial system bent on the application of state violence against juvenile offenders, but unconcerned about justice or international law,” the organizations said.
The organizations calling on Iran to end juvenile executions are: Amnesty International; Human Rights Watch; International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran; Iran Human Rights; Iranian League for the Defense of Human Rights (LDDHI); Penal Reform International; Human Rights Association; Stop Child Executions; and Vivere.
On July 27, the Iranian authorities hanged 29 adults inside Evin prison in Tehran. The authorities said the executed men had been convicted of drug smuggling and murder, but provided names for only 10 of them, and did not release the evidence against them or details of their prosecution. The United Nations General Assembly adopted resolution 62/149 on December 18, 2007, in which it called on states to establish a moratorium on executions with a view to abolishing the death penalty, but Iran continues to fly in the face of this global trend toward abolition. Iran has executed 191 people already in 2008, making it likely to maintain its position as carrying out more executions than any country in the world but China, although its population is 18 times smaller than China’s.
“Sending almost 30 people to their death by hanging in a single day invokes a grotesque image of Iranian judges,” the organizations said. “It is abhorrent that there is no information about those executed and it raises serious concerns about due process and the rule of law.”

Strike and protest in two factories!

Instead of the rights to have nuclear weapon ! Give the rights of the workers.

In the savagery of the Islamic Republic !

Why they have been executed?
Islamic Republic in the past executed thousands of political prisoners in Evin prison ( group death by hanging-summer of 1988 ). Now the regime is executing those who have commited armed robberies , sexual assult , murdering and...in Evin prison ( group death by hanging).
1st - they are all human being and deserve life.
2nd- capital punishment is wrong.
3rd- The regime is trying to make a message and to confuse or to deceive the Iranian people as well as the international human rights organizations for its action in 1988 and now in Evin prison.

The "Association of Human Rights Defenders in Iran" in a communique protested to the "death by hanging" of 29 people in Evin prison by the Islamic Republic on July 27 ,2008.

IRNA ( Islamic Republic News Agency ) reported:Said Mortazavi Tehran prosecutor said; At the dawn on Sunday, 30 "rascals and villains" and drug dealers were sent to the gallows .

Iran rank in 2nd for the execution among the countries in the world.

Link to this news:

http://news.gooya.com/politics/archives/2008/07/074636.php

News from Iran

Mr. Saman Rasulpoor the Iranian -Kurdish journalist and human rights advocate has been arrested on last Sunday.He was arrested after a gathering in the city of Mahabad in support of two imprisoned journalists ( Adnan Hassanpoor and Abdolvahed - Heywa Butimar )who were sentenced to death and a teacher ( Farzad Kamangar) who was also sentenced to death by the Islamic Republic judiciary power.

Saman's home was invaded by the security agents and his personal belonging including documents and writings were confiscated and transfered to an unkown location.

RSF( http://www.rsf.org )has protested his arrest and demanded for his release and freedom.

Reporters’ Rights Violated Every 36 Hours
Spring Report of Association of Iranian Journalists - 2008.07.27
The latest report of the Association of Iranian Journalists (AoIJ) concerning press freedoms in the Spring of 2008 claims that “the rights of Iranian journalists are violated once every 36 hours.”
The report is broken down into three sections: 1. Right to freely publish press; 2. Right to professional and occupational security for journalists; and 3. Right to legal security for journalists in court. The report’s first section, which deals with the “right to freely publish press,” shows that 29 news stories dealing with such issues were published in spring of 1387 [2008] in domestic publications. The report adds that 12 of the 29 mentioned reports attacked the right to freely publish press.
The report’s second section, which deals with the right to professional and occupations security for journalists, shows that 20 news stories were published regarding such matters in the first three months of 1387.
The reports that issues concerning professional and occupation security for journalists are classified into two categories: one dealing with reports of government actions attempting to deprive journalists of such rights. Reports concerning arrest of journalists, warning to 80 percent of publications in Kerman, and remarks of Ahmadinejad’s advisor in media affairs that the Fars news agency’s suspension is a lesson for other news agencies are classified in this section.
Among reported stories, 5 dealt with the ongoing row between the AoIJ and the ministries of labor and culture, as well as other government agencies. The AoIJ is attempting to protect the legal rights of the association as well as its 4,000 members.
The third section of the AoIJ’s report deals with the right to legal security for journalists in court. The report notes that 37 news reports concerning with such issues were published in the first three months of 1387(Iranian calendar = 2008 IWC) . From that number, 24 dealt with reports of trials for newspapers, weeklies, monthlies, etc., which were ruled on by the press jury. The report adds that 5 publications were suspended in the first three months of 1387 by direct orders of the Press Oversight Committee.

Link to this news:

http://www.roozonline.com/english/archives

/2008/07/reporters_rights_violated_ever.html

Human Rights in Kurdistan
Ali Afshari - 2008.07.22
The imminent possibility of enforcing the death sentence on a Kurdish teacher named ‎Farzad Kamangar, and the recent heavy punishments that were passed on to other civil ‎and political activists in Kurdistan has turned this western province in Iran into the ‎leading locale for the regime’s suppressive and oppressive practices.‎
The fear that allowing political and social freedoms may lead to the separation of the ‎province from Iran is the basis of the narrow-minded measures and policies that Tehran is ‎adapting. Certainly the resistance of the Kurds against the government’s use of force and ‎their demonstration of their grievances has had their impact in the form that during all ‎elections, the leanings of the Kurdish groups have been towards either independent ‎candidates or those whom the central government has opposed.‎
But because of the state’s unfair treatment and policies, a radical movement too has taken ‎shape which erroneously views the Kurdish problems to come from animosity of the ‎Persians, thus leading it to conclude that the only way to “liberation” is to take up arms ‎against the state. This movement, lead by the armed Pejvak group has itself exacerbated ‎the shortcomings and deprivations in the region and has at times even facilitated the ‎legitimacy of the severe policies of the state for the region.‎
These two views have been like the two blades of a pair or scissors which have harmed ‎the welfare, development and freedoms in Kurdistan.‎
The resultant conclusion of the long struggle and the turbulent history of this province ‎has been that the dominant movement now is the attainment of the Kurdish rights within ‎a democratic Iran and the provision of ethnic autonomy similar to that given to other ‎regions in the country that were achieved through peaceful and civil means in recent ‎years. From this perspective, the residents of every region, while accepting the larger ‎policies of the country, are free to pursue local policies, disburse local resources, and ‎hold organize events to strengthen their identity in the cultural and linguistic spheres ‎along with the Persian language.‎
This view is consistent with the conditions of Iranian society and its history as it meets ‎the specific needs and aspirations of the Iranian sub-national groups such as the Kurds, ‎Turks, Arabs, Kurkmen and Baluchis, while at the same time removing the concerns ‎about the territorial integrity of Iran as a whole.‎
The roots of the recent violent approaches of the central government in Kurdistan stem ‎from the strengthening of this approach whose activists have chosen peaceful means of ‎expressing their views. Security forces (from Tehran) prefer to deal with the violent ‎Pejvak group rather than dealing with the social and NGO groups who strive to ‎strengthen civil rights.‎
The central government tries to justify its use of violence by linking the provincial events ‎to be directed from outside the country and to armed groups, thus blocking the activities ‎of the peaceful groups.‎
Under these circumstances, it is important the pro-democracy movement in Iran define its ‎specific and legitimate positions about the ethnic groups and sub-national groups in Iran. ‎At the same time, ethnic groups should stress that their membership in Iran is serious and ‎clearly express their disdain for separatist groups within a democratic and peaceful ‎context.‎
The state’s inhuman policies that violate human rights in Kurdistan achieve nothing but ‎hate and revenge and can only lead to catastrophic and destructive results.‎
After all one must not forget that human rights are not confined to a national, sub-‎national or ethnic group and are above them, and so everybody must strive to enjoy their ‎benefits and combat their absence.‎

Link to this article:

http://www.roozonline.com

/english/archives/2008/07/

human_rights_in_kurdistan.html

Third strike of "Tehran Alborz Tire" workers !

Iran Watch Canada : Iranian workers can't work for free while the Islamic Republic officials become billionair!

Nine days have past since the strike of 1200 workers of "Tehran Alborz Tire".The workers demanded their unpaid salaries , New Year bonuses and other workers benefit be paid immediately. This is their third strike of the year.
The workers have started their strike from last Saturday July 12,2008.They demanded their three months delay on salaries be paid as well as their New Year bonuses and other benefit.
According to one of the worker their demands is the right to have union which has been ignored by the Ministry of Labor .
One of the worker who called himself as "Mansur" have said:
Why the Islamic Republic is silent towards our demands. This factory has been working for the last 58 years. Why they dont see our pain and suffering . Are they ready to work instead of us for several years and receive their salaries with several months delay and even not to be able to pay their rent.....? "
These problems was the cause for the death of one of our worker who had an heart attack in employer's office.
The workers warned if their demands left without answer in the coming days, they will stage a rally in front of the parliament .

Link to this news in Farsi:
http://www.roozonline.com/archives/2008/07/post_8430.php

24 human rights organizations demanded:
Save the life of four teenagers from execution!

Today 24 regional and world human rights organizations demanded from Islamic Republic officials to cancel the execution of four juvenile offenders and end the execution of young offenders who commited the crime when they were below 18 years of age and to follow the international undertakings based on banning the execution of young offenders.
On June 10, 2008 the Islamic Republic have executed Mohammad Hassanzadeh a 16 year old Iranian -Kurdish boy who commited the crime when he was only 14 years old. Four other young offenders are also awaiting their execution from July 11-25 . These international organizations demanded from Islamic Republic judiciary power to immidiately cancel the execution of these four teenagers.
Behnoud Shojaei and Mohammad Fadaei were to be executed on July 11,2008 but were postponed for a month in order to make a deal with the parents of the victims.
At least two other teenagers namely ; Salah Taseh and Said Jazi are going to be executed within few days.
send your letter to Islamic Republic judiciary and demand " Stop the Execution of Teenagers in Iran".

Link to this news in Farsi:
http://www.roozonline.com/archives/2008/07/post_8433.php

Iran:
Release Detained HIV/AIDS Experts Arrested Physicians Have Not Been Charged, Whereabouts Unknown
(New York, July 21, 2008) – Iranian authorities should immediately release or charge two physicians who are internationally recognized for their work on HIV/AIDS, Human Rights Watch said today. The men, Arash and Kamyar Alaei, who are brothers, were detained without charge by Iranian security forces in late June, and their whereabouts remain unknown.
On June 22, security forces detained Arash Alaei, holding him overnight at an unknown location. The following morning, they accompanied him to his home, where they arrested Kamyar Alaei and seized material and documents belonging to the brothers. The authorities have not yet announced why the brothers were detained or whether or not they intend to bring any charges against them. Moreover, they have refused to disclose information about where the Alaei brothers are being held and have not provided them access to counsel.
“Iran’s HIV/AIDS program has been acclaimed internationally for seriously addressing the AIDS epidemic,” said Joe Amon, HIV/AIDS program director at Human Rights Watch. “To fight AIDS effectively, the government has realized that it must engage in global efforts to combat the disease, work with civil society, and confront taboo issues, including sex and drugs. The detention without charges of the Alaei brothers has a chilling effect on all of those efforts.”
Arash and Kamyar are well known in Iran and internationally for their contributions to HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment programs. For more than 20 years, the Alaei brothers have been active in addressing problems relating to drug use, with a focus on the spread of HIV/AIDS, and have played a key role in putting these issues on the national health care agenda. They have worked closely with government and religious leaders to ensure support for education campaigns on HIV transmission, including those targeting youth, and for HIV and harm reduction programs in prisons. They have also worked to share their expertise with neighboring countries by holding training workshops for Afghan and Tajik health care professionals.
Iran is a party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and as such has strict legal obligations not to carry out arbitrary arrests or detention and to afford due process rights – including the prompt provision of reasons for an arrest and any charges which will be brought, access to counsel, and the right to be brought before a judicial officer to determine the legality of the detention – to anyone detained.
“The Iranian authorities have been holding the Alaei brothers for over three weeks now,” said Amon. “Unless they produce some evidence or charges, and bring them before an independent tribunal so they an enjoy due process, they should release the men immediately.”
Arash and Kamyar Alaei have traveled to various countries, including the United States, to participate in professional events and to share their experiences regarding HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment programs in Iran. Kamyar Alaei is currently a doctoral candidate at the SUNY Albany School of Public Health. Neither of the men is known to have any involvement in political activities.
“In two weeks, more than 25,000 people from around the world will gather in Mexico for an international AIDS conference, and Arash is supposed to make a presentation on Iran’s innovative HIV program,” said Amon. “The focus of the meeting will be on where we are making progress in the fight against AIDS and where we are failing. Iran cannot be considered to be making progress if it is blatantly violating the human rights of two if its most valuable activists in this area.”
For more of Human Rights Watch’s work on Iran, please visit:http://hrw.org/doc?t=mideast&c=iran

Dealing with Islamic Republic and ignoring the violation of human rights by this regime in Iran is against the interest of the country and Iranian people. Iranian people will never forgive those foreign government that have no respect for their human rights.

Dont execute our teacher!
A call by all human rights defenders in Iran .

The demand for civil society and human rights among Iranian people particularly the Iranian students and women as well as the workers , teachers ,bus drivers and minorities ( The Iranian Kurd, Turk, Bluch, Turkman, Arabs, Bahaei, armanian..) and the call for " Iran for all Iranian " despite of repression ,jail ,murder , threat and tricks by the Islamic Republic , it is rising and the wave isn't small anymore and it is becoming a tidal wave .

Kurdistan province is unrest because the Islamic Republic is going to execute one of its teacher.

Human rights defenders in all over Iran particularly Kurdistan are protesting the decission made by the Islamic Republic to execute teacher Fazad Kamangar.

Kurdistan province is unrest . Islamic Republic has sent many helicopters and ground forces to the region . Islamic Republic is losing decision making and in response to the peaceful protests and demand for human rights it is using its army. This will definitly backfire and will spark fire which will engulf Islamic Republics officials.

Link to this news in Farsi :
http://www.roozonline.com/archives/2008/07/post_8405.php

The parliament of the Islamic Republic in Iran has passed a bill requesting death penalty for those who manage website or blogs which propagate" prostitution and atheism-infidelity".

The European Parliament called this measure by the Islamic Republis as more control on Freedom of Expression.

Link to this news:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/iran/
story/2008/07/080718_si-euiran-deathpenalty.shtml

Save the life of Soghra Najafpoor . She allegedly commited murder when she was only 13 years old. She is going to be executed.

http://www.stopchildexecution.com/

google search: Child execution in Iran

To Sheema Kalbasi : Congratulation for your new book.
IRANI dedicate this posting to the memory of T.C. who passed away at the young age of 38 yesterday. Despite being born in Western Europe and having the advantage of living a luxurious life as an attorney, he chose to live and work in Afghanistan, Iran, and Pakistan.Peace is a Dinosaur bone where democracy and human rights don’t exist, justice is not done, corruption is an everyday norm, the laws that treat women badly, ethnic and cultural cleansing, and citizens who are arrested and killed. For these and more, I blog today.

Link: http://zaneirani.blogspot.com

Violation of Human rights in Iran by the Islamic Republic doesn't end in Tehran and human rights organization around the world which monitors Iran must look beyond Tehran and look into the minorities regions like Baluchestan and Sistan , Azarbayjan, Kurdistan, Khuzistan provinces and Turkman , Bahaei and other religious minorities.

Come to the rescue of Turkish journalists , political and human rights advocates in Iran Azarbayjan provinces!
In the past "Advar" news has reported that : Division number 115 of Tehran court of revolution with judge Salavati as its presiding judge held its session for nine political and civil rights Azarbayjan activists for alleged " action against national security ".
This behind the door session took 7 hours and Mr. Mohammad Ali Dadkhah the defense lawyer presented his defense for the following clients:
Abdollah Abbasi Javan , Behruz Safari, Leila Heidari , Alireza Matinpoor , Jalil Ghanilu, Yaghub Salakinia, Mohammad Nosrati and Mirghasem Seyedinzadeh.
Lawyer Esmail Mohammadi was also present for Mr. Saleh Kamrani.
Also the court session for two other civil rights advocate of Azarbayjan Mr. Said Matinpoor and Doctor Mohammad Ali Heidari will take place in near future,the report said.
The reports said : These political and civil rights activists of Azarbayjan were arrested last year by the security agents and were sent to ward number 209 in Evin prison. They were subjected on intense interrogation and pressure.Their families are unaware of their whereabouts.

Link to this news in Farsi:
http://news.gooya.com/politics/archives/2008/05/071347.php

In another news Ms. Fakhteh Zamani the person in charge of the "Association for the Defense of Azarbayjan Political Prisoners in Iran" ( ADAP) said :
During the past weeks closed to 100 person were arrested and tortured in the city of Tabriz.Some of these prisoners are still in prisons which runs by the Ministry of Information and are under physical and mental tortures.While many of them have been released by bail and surety but still tens of these activists are kept in an unkown location and without any contact with their families. At present these people are in the Ministry of Information prison:
Mr. Hassan Asadi, Ali Sedighi, Jamshid Zareei, Kamal Ashrafi, Ahad Razavi, Hojat Valipoor, Mehdi Najari, Amir Mohammad Banaei Sabegh, Farshid Mostafaei and Mr. Nader Mohammadpoor.
The health condition of Mr. Hassan Asadi who have spent 6 months in Ministry of Information prison in the city of "Ardebil" and Tabriz and Mr. Ahad Razavi and Amir Mohammad Banaei Sabegh who were arrested while distributing leaflets were tortured and are in bad health condition.
Other were arrested in the city of Tabriz and believ still are in prison are :
Akbar Hosaizadeh, Mohammad Rahnamaei, Ali Khakpoor, Ahad Rezaei, Hamid Rezaei, Mohammad Farhadi, Hosain Mirzakhani, Samad MohammadJafari, Yaser Heidarnejad, Hojat Mokhtarzadeh, Vali Abdollahpoor, Mehdi Dehghan, Morsal Bakhshi, Hojat Seifinejad, Asghar Naeimi, Abdolajad Tarvardian, Hassan Hosainzadeh, Rahman Ghasemi, Esmail Fathi, Hassan Touri, Vahid Rezaei, Farhad Mohseni, Ali Tadivan Gharamaleki and Hojat Tarvardian.
Several other prisoners who have been arrested in Tabriz including Mr. Mashaolah Razmi, Ramin Razmi and Akbar Hosainzadeh , two weeks after their arrest still there is no news on their whereabouts.

The widspread arrest in Azarbayjan of Iran doesn't end to these list . There are more prisoners and need to be investigated by an independent team and Human Rights journalists.

IRAN WATCH CANADA will try to monitor Azarbayjan of Iran and bring more news on violation of human rights by the Islamic Republic in Iran.

Movement for Human Rights and Democracy "

" Iran for all Iranian"

خزان : حسین موفق
"Fall"
A song by : Hosain Moafagh

Do Not Ignore the Calls of These Kids
Interview with Mahbubeh Karami’s Mother ‎ -
2008.07.13
Roozonline

‎“I only need a sheet of paper and a pen. But they have been denying this to us for days ‎now. We wish to write a letter to the deputy prison director. They do not respond to us. ‎Ten of us are kept in a cell. Our food is very bad. We are not taken outside for fresh air. ‎We are not cared for. They don’t even come to see if we are alive or dead. We have to ‎risk our lives to be heard. There is no other way.”‎
These are the last words of Mahbubeh Karami, journalist and women’s rights activist ‎during her first and only communication from Iran’s notorious Evin prison. This was a ‎message this political prisoner sent to her mother, Ms Masaedi, just before she began her ‎hunger strike.‎
Mahbubeh’s mother expresses ignorance about the whereabouts of her daughter and says, ‎‎“She contacted me on Sunday and spoke with me for a few seconds. She said, ‘Mother, I ‎have no other choice other than to go on a hunger strike so that my voice is heard by ‎prison officials. I have no other means.’ I told her, ‘Mahbubeh, do not do this.’ But she ‎did not reply and the telephone line went dead. That was more than a week ago, and I ‎have not heard since then.”‎
We at Rooz asked her how Mahbubeh was arrested. “She had a meeting with her brother ‎in prison and had told him, ‘She was in a bus. Plain-clothes men wanted to stop the bus, ‎but the driver did not heed. So they broke open the door of the bus, entered it and began ‎beating a young twenty six year old man. He was going to be murdered. His face and ‎head was blooded in blood. I protested and said, ‘Why are you beating this man? What ‎has he done? Is he not your compatriot?’ This turned their attention to me. They came to ‎me and began beating me and pulled me out of the bus. They even left my shoes on the ‎bus and tore up my clothes. They would not let me get my shoes and took me to the ‎detention center in those conditions.’ She is now in ward 209 of Evin prison and I have ‎not seen her even once since she was taken away from us.”‎
At the end of our conversation, Mahbubeh’s mother said this to the authorities, “Please ‎pay some attention to her. It is a shame that these kids, these women go to jail. The prison ‎is not the right place for them. We all form the same nation; this way of treatment is not ‎right for an Iranian. It is not right for any human being. I expect that the voices of all ‎people, not just Mahbubeh’s be heard and that their calls are not ignored.”‎
Link to this news:
http://www.roozonline.com/english/archives
/2008/07/do_not_ignore_the_calls_of_the.html

Jamshid Byrami the editor in chief of the photo group in" Jame-e " newspaper ( a reformist newspaper in Iran which was forced to closure) took the famous picture from Batebi ( a former student who held a bloody T-shirt above his head during student uprising in Tehran 10 years ago). He then sent this picture to Economist magazin . He was arrested and interrogated by the authorities because of taking this picture but later was released.
Zahra Kazemi the Canadian photojournalist was the unluky one , when arrested , was murdered later.

One of IRAN WATCH CANADA reader left me a comment which i have posted here with my response.
Here it goes:

Comment
John Maszka said...
I think what you're doing is noble and vital. However, we need to understand that Iran has its own culture and we need to respect its sovereignty. The young people of Iran will change their own society in the due course of time. The last thing we should do is impose our values upon another state (outside of clear cases of genocide...).Constructive Sovereignty is an emerging international relations theory intended to address globalization's increasing onslaught against state sovereignty. The theory maintains that states are not the primary actors, their constituents are. Therefore, their preferences are not fixed. Since states merely represent the preferences of their constituents, they will only adhere to and ultimately embed those international norms that their respective constituencies will accept. Rather than push for larger and more powerful international organizations that will impose global norms from the outside in, the theory of Constructive Sovereignty posits that ultimately change must come from the inside out. That is to say, from each state's own constituency. As each state's constituents become more and more international, they will become more receptive to international norms and they will voice their acceptance of these norms both politically and (especially) as consumers.It is therefore a central pillar of the theory that privatization is not only the driving force behind globalization, but also that private enterprise possesses the incentive to implement those international norms reflected in the preferences of consumers (profit). Private enterprise is also the primary consumer of proprietary data used to measure the preferences of consumers, and as such remains the most up-to-date source of changing consumer preferences. As private enterprise meets the increasingly international demands of consumers, it will itself become more international in scope. The cycle is self-perpetuating. In this way international norms are embedded and viewed with legitimacy by each state's constituency, while state sovereignty is maintained and respected.What Iran needs more than anything right now is something to lose. We've backed it into a corner and given it few options. We should leave Iran an honorable path of retreat. Engaging Iran in the global economy is the only approach that has merit.
10:47 AM

My response:
Thanks for the comment.
I agree with you that we should let things take their course . And i believe that we musn't push for radicalization of the society . When i say "radicalization" i mean pushing the movement toward bloodbath and accelerating it artificially.Human rights activists must never help "radicalize" the social movement.
I believe in gradual transformation not only through globalization but also in due internal course.Iran is a theocratic state and somewhat similar to authocratic states in former Eastern Europe. The main actors in these kind of systems are not the people but the ruling officials . It depends how many of these officials believe in changes despite of their principles which reject any changes.
The electoral system in Iran is undemocratic and the representatives (MP's) are sometimes elected without any other candidates to debate. Therefore people are left without choice.In Iran like the former Eastern Europe (1968) or earlier it is a few officials in the system which decide for the people .It is not about constituents at all. There are a few who are elected ( the minority MP's) and the regime lets it happen for show off which makes them a little bit different with Eastern Europe.
However , There is an Iranian proverb which says : "People get what they deserve ". But i would disagree that the 70% of Iranian youth deserve Islamic Republic.30 years ago perhaps but not now.
There are growing number of unrest and protest against the Islamic Republic's policy and the way they handle the internal and external affairs.Reform, civil society and " Iran for all Iranian " is what the regime can't avoid . Sooner or later the regime will face with these reality and i hope they do realise faster before it become dangerousely destructive.

Picture shows: Farzad, Farzad as a teacher with students, Farzad being tortured and his picture with slogan which reads: solidarity with Farzad Kamangar .

Please dont be silent on this:
Mr . Farzad Kamangar an innocent teacher is going to be executed by the Islamic Republic!

Farzad's mom:
Farzad is a very dear and lovable human being who was striving for the freedom of people. I invite all parties and progressive forces, all the news media , to help save my son from the execution. Farzad isn't just my son, he is the son of all Iranian people and i invite everyone who defend the humanity to do save my son from execution.

Background:
Farzad is a teacher. He is a Kurd from the city of Kamiaran. Islamic Republic have already executed 17 member of this family .
Dont let the justice system of the Islamic Republic execute this teacher.

More on Farzad's situation please search for previous post in Iran Watch Canada.

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3-to defend the people's interest

Six days that shook Islamic Republic !
Student uprising 10 years ago on July 8, 1988 in Iran which was continued for 6 days and brought fear among the regim officials !

See the rest of the pictures on this website :

http://www.18tir1378.com/18tirKamel.htm

Iran's Street kids !

In Iran 80% of Street kids are between 15-18 years of age.

The Islamic republic in Iran adopted the adulthood for boys at 15 years of age and for girl at 9 years( the parliament later increased it to 13 years) of age !
In the world only three countries do execute childeren under the age of 18 and Iran is one of them.

Based on article 37 of the convention on child's rights which has been approved by the members of the parliament ; executing childeren under the age of 18 is banned ; yet :
The Amnesty International has announced : In the last 17 years at least 24 people under the age of 18 were executed in Iran by the Islamic Republic!

Every day four kids die in Tehran as a result of traffic accident.

In every four Iranian youth one is jobless.

The average age in Iran is 24 years old!

Remember Arash Sigarchi?
The imprisoned Iranian journalist and blogger who was diagnosed with cancer while in "Lakan" prison in the city of Rasht . Arash was the editor in chief of "Gilan Emrooz" . He is now living in Washington DC and this is his English blog.
http://asigarchi.blogspot.com/

Five years have passed since the murder of Zahra Kazemi the Canadian-Iranian photojournalist!

Read "Iran Watch Canada" and see about how Islamic Republic's justic system works.

On July 10, 2003 five years ago Ms. Zahra Kazemi the Canadian-Iranian photojournalist was murdered in Evin prison by her captors during interrogation.According to news she was murdered by " blow on her head".

She was arrested behind the Evin prison gate while taking photo ( just photo).

The case is still open and the culprits are free and judge Mortazavi Tehran prosecutor who is also a suspect is still a judge.

RSF have issued a statement on this issue. you can read the statement on RSF website:
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=27804

Picture: An Iranian Street kid

Islamic Republic and Iran's childeren situation !

Open the file and read about this issue :
http://www.iranstreetchildren.com/maghalat/Report.pdf

Natural gas and gas for the car a worldwide problem including Iran.

Iran adopted rationing system in delivering car gas.

Iran:
Spare Four Youths From Execution
Enforce International Prohibition on Death Penalty for Juvenile Offenders
(Geneva, July 8, 2008) – Today 24 international and regional human rights organizations called on Iranian authorities to spare four youths facing execution and to stop imposing the death penalty for crimes committed by juvenile offenders – persons who commit crimes while under the age of 18 – and to uphold their international obligation to enforce the absolute prohibition on the death penalty.
Iran executed 16-year-old Mohammad Hassanzadeh, an Iranian Kurd on June 10, 2008 for a crime committed when he was 14. Four other juvenile offenders are at risk of execution between July 11 and July 25. The organizations called on the head of Iran’s judiciary to suspend these four executions immediately.
Behnoud Shojaee and Mohammad Feda’i face execution on July 11. Both were to be executed on June 11, 2008 but received last-minute, month-long reprieves to give them more time to seek pardons from the families of their victims.
At least two other juvenile offenders, Salah Taseb and Sa’eed Jazee, are also at risk of execution in the coming days. According to the group Human Rights Activists in Iran, Salah Taseb, from Sanandaj, who was convicted of a murder committed when he was 15, has been transferred from the children’s prison to the main prison in Sanandaj after recently turning 18. He may be executed before the end of the Iranian month of Tir, which ends on July 23, 2008, although spokesperson for the Judiciary Alireza Jamshidi stated on July 1 that the case remained subject to appeal. The other youth, Sa’eed Jazee, who was due to be executed on June25, reportedly had his execution postponed for a month. He was convicted of the murder of a 22-year-old man, which took place in 2003 when he was 17 years old. Almost 140 juvenile offenders are known to be on death row in Iran, but the true figure could be even higher – for example, Mohammad Hassanzadeh’s case was not known to campaigners prior to his execution.
In a press conference on June 17, 2008, carried by various Iranian media, Judiciary spokesperson Alireza Jamshidi denied that Mohammad Hassanzadeh had been under the age of 18 at the time of his execution. In response, Mohammad Mostafa’i, a lawyer who has defended many juvenile offenders sentenced to death, wrote on June 25 (http://mostafaei.blogfa.com/post-11.aspx) that he went to Sanandaj following Alireza Jamshidi’s statement, where he saw Mohammad Hassanzadeh’s identity papers. Mohammad Mostafa’i wrote that the documents proved that Mohammad Hassanzadeh was in fact only 16 years, 11 months and 20 days old at the time of his execution.
The use of the death penalty against those who committed their offenses while under the age of 18 is a gross violation of customary international law, no matter what age the person has reached at the time of their execution. The organizations said they were concerned that the authorities’ insistence that Mohammad Hassanzadeh was over 18 at the time of his execution could be a prelude to reprisals being taken against Iranian human rights defenders (HRDs) who have publicly criticized this and other executions of juvenile offenders, as they could potentially be accused of vaguely-worded charges such as “acting against state security” or “propaganda against the system.”
Iranian HRDs who have previously publicized human rights violations have suffered such reprisals. For example, in 2007 a court convicted Emadeddin Baghi, a leading Iranian campaigner against the death penalty, of “activities against national security” and “propaganda in favour of the regime’s opponents” for statements criticizing death sentences imposed after unfair trials in cases involving adults. That ruling was overturned on appeal, but Emadeddin Baghi continues to serve another sentence connected to his human rights work. Mohammad Sadiq Kabudvand, an Iranian Kurdish HRD is serving an 11-year prison sentence He was convicted of “acting against state security by establishing the Human Rights Organization of Kurdistan (HROK)” and “propaganda against the system.”
The Iranian authorities should respect the right to freedom of expression, including in the defense of human rights, as articulated in the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) and the UN Declaration on the Right and Responsibility of Individuals, Groups and Organs of Society to Promote and Protect Universally Recognized Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms.
Some Iranian officials have attempted to justify killing juvenile offenders by terming these killings “retribution” and not “execution.” According to Judiciary spokesperson Alireza Jamshidi: “In [Iranian] law we don’t have execution (‘edam) for persons under 18 years of age; what we have in the laws for persons between 15 to 18 is the issue of retribution (qesas).” In Islamic law, “retribution” for murder is the death penalty. Family members of a murder victim may pardon or accept compensation in lieu of execution, but they are not required to do so. Iranian law currently allows the death penalty – for “retribution” for murder and for other crimes – to be imposed on girls as young as 9, and boys from the age of 15, lunar years. A child younger than this could also be sentenced to death if the judge in the case considers that he or she has reached puberty.
This distinction between “execution” and “retribution” is a meaningless one. A person is executed when his or her death is brought about by the state pursuant to a final judgment issued by a competent court, which is the case in sentences of “retribution” issued by Iranian courts. By making such misleading statements, the Iranian authorities are attempting to obscure the fact that Iran is violating international law every time it executes a juvenile offender – whether or not the individual has reached 18 at the time of his or her execution. It is imperative that the authorities immediately stop such executions and amend legislation to ensure that no one is put to death by the state for any crime, including murder, committed when under the age of 18.
Iran is a state party to both the International Convention on Civil and Political Rights (without reservation) and the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), both of which prohibit the execution of persons under the age of 18 at the time of their offense. In ratifying the CRC, Iran declared an extremely broad reservation, “not to apply any provisions or articles of the Convention that are incompatible with Islamic Laws.” The Committee on the Rights of the Child, which monitors implementation of the CRC, expressed its concern in 2000 that the “broad and imprecise nature of the State party’s [Iran’s] general reservation potentially negates many of the Convention’s provision and raises concern as to its compatibility with the object and purpose of the Convention.” The 24 human rights groups called on Iran to withdraw its reservation to the CRC, which, the groups said, cannot in any case be invoked as legal authority to allow for the execution of juvenile offenders.
In 2007, only two other countries – Saudi Arabia and Yemen – also executed juvenile offenders, but the numbers are dwarfed by those carried out in Iran, where at least seven were executed that year. So far in 2008, two juvenile offenders, including Mohammad Hassanzadeh, who was only 16 at the time of his execution, have been hanged in Iran.
Iran should immediately commute all death sentences against juvenile offenders and cease all such executions, the 24 groups said.

The 24 international and regional human rights organizations calling on Iran include:
· Association Adala; Amnesty International; The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information; Arab Penal Reform Organization (APRO); Bahrein Center for Human Rights (BCHR); Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS); Defence for Children International; Egyptian Alliance to Challenge Death Penalty; International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH); Human Rights Association for the Assistance of Prisoners; Human Rights Association of Turkey (IHD); Human Rights Watch; Institut International des Droits de l’Enfant; International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran; Organisation Marocaine des droits de l'Homme (OMDH); Iran Human Rights; Iranian League for the Defense of Human Rights (LDDHI); Moroccan Centre for Human Rights (Centre Marocain des Droits Humains); Moroccan Coalition against the Death Penalty (Association Marocaine des Droits Humains, Amnesty International Section Marocaine, Organisation Marocaine des Droits Humains, Centre des Droits des Gens, Obsevatoire Marocains des Prisons, Association des Barreaux du Maroc, Forum Marocain de Verite et Justice); Penal Reform International; Stop Child Executions; VIVERE; and World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT).

Ministry of Guidance to newspapers,this is an order :
Dont cover the news from Association of Iranian Journalists !
Mr. Mohammad Parvizi the manager general of the internal media from Ministry of Guidance in a confidential letter to newspapers has banned them for covering the news about the Association of Iranian Journalists. This confidential letter was sent to newspaper on last Sunday. the letter indicated that; based on judiciary order the Association of Iranian Journalists is illegal and therefore covering news from this organization is banned.

Link to this news:

http://news.gooya.com/politics/archives/2008/07/073817.php

UPDATE - IRAN
7 July 2008
Parliament passes bill that would extend death penalty to include online
crimes; court re-imposes death penalty on journalist
SOURCE: Reporters sans frontières (RSF), Paris
(RSF/IFEX) - RSF is alarmed by a draft law that would extend the death
penalty to include crimes committed online. Passed by parliament on first
reading on 2 July 2008, the proposed law would, for example, apply the
death penalty to bloggers and website editors who "promote corruption,
prostitution or apostasy."
"This proposal is horrifying," RSF said. "Iranian Internet users and
bloggers already have to cope with very aggressive filtering policies. The
passage of such a law, based on ill-defined concepts and giving judges a
lot of room for interpretation, would have disastrous consequences for
online freedom. We urge the parliament's members to oppose this bill and
instead to start working on a moratorium on the death penalty."
The press freedom organisation added, "Death sentences were already passed
last year on two journalists, Adnan Hassanpour and Abdolvahed "Hiva"
Botimar, after judicial proceedings marked by many irregularities. They
have been held for more than a year without any certainty as to what will
happen to them, and we urge the authorities to free them at once."
Submitted by a score of pro-government parliamentarians and consisting of
13 articles with the declared aim of "reinforcing the penalties for crimes
against society's moral security," the bill was passed on first reading by
180 votes in favour, 29 against and 10 abstentions.
Article 2 of the bill lists the crimes that are already subject to the
death penalty, including armed robbery, rape and creating prostitution
networks. If the law is adopted, "the creation of blogs and websites
promoting corruption, prostitution and apostasy" will also become capital
crimes.
According to article 3, judges will be able to decide whether the person
found guilty of these crimes is a "mohareb" (enemy of God) or "corrupter on
earth." Article 190 of the criminal code stipulates that these crimes are
punishable by "hanging" or by "amputation of the right hand and left foot."
A blogger, Mojtaba Saminejad, was tried before a Tehran court in 2005 on a
charge of "insulting the prophets", which carries the death penalty. In the
end, the court acquitted him.
Hassanpour, 28, and Botimar, 30, were sentenced to death on 16 July 2007 by
a revolutionary court in the Kurdish city of Marivan on charges of
"subversive activities against national security", spying and "separatist
propaganda". Their convictions were overturned by the supreme court in
Tehran on procedural grounds. The Marivan court re-imposed the death
sentence on Botimar in April 2008. Hassanpour is awaiting a new trial.
Another journalist is also under sentence of death in neighbouring
Afghanistan. Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh, 23, of "Jahan-e Naw" (The New World)
newspaper, was arrested on 27 October 2007 in the northern city of
Mazar-i-Sharif and was given the death sentence on 22 January 2008, at the
end of a trial held behind closed doors and without any lawyer acting for
the defence.
Kambakhsh was arrested after downloading a controversial article from an
Iranian website that quoted suras from the Koran about women. He was
convicted of blasphemy although it was established that he was not the
article's author.

Mr. Arzhang Dawoodi has ended his 70 days of hunger strike!

Send your strong protest letter to Islamic Republic for continues violation of human rights !
Support Arzhang Dawoodi, Mostafa Alavi , Hana Abdi , Mohammad Sadigh Kabudvand, Mansour Osanlou and other political prisoners!
A video clip in Farsi language - An interview with the wife of Arzhang Dawoodi- Arzhang is a political prisoner in Iran , in protest to his arrest he continued his hunger strike for 70 days which ended today July 7/08. -She said that her husband went through alot of torture and beating and harshness. At present Mr. Mostafa Alavi another political prisoner is also on hunger strike for almost 67 days. In support with these and other political prisoners Mr. Froud Siyavashpoor a medical doctor living in abroad also went on hunger strike.

http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=9011575344373725198&q=tishktv&ei=9NlvSNGwCY7qigKujaytDw

10 women are on hunger strike inside the prison!
Ms. Mahbubeh Karami together with nine other women are in a small and narrow cell in the women ward and have started their hunger strike. The raeson why these women started huger strike is because of their protest against being held inside the prison in suspension.
In the evening of Sunday July 6, Ms. Karami called her family and told that; she together with nine other women have started hunger strike inside the prison.
Among them there are a 70 year old woman and a 17 year old girl. They have been in prison since three weeks ago without comiting any crime.
Ms. Karami was in a bus when picked by special police unit and was brought into the prison.

Link to this news:
http://www.iran-emrooz.net/index.php?/news1/16288/

05 Jul 08
» a letter from nternational Federation of Journalists From the General Secretary to president of iran

Mr. Mahmoud AhmadinejadPresident, Islamic Republic of IranBrussels 2 July 2008
Dear Mr. President,
In a June 24 communication the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs notified to the Association of Iranian Journalists (AoIJ) of its dissolution.
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) as the body representing journalists’ unions and associations around the world has worked for many years with the AoIJ which we recognise, both in terms of its leadership and its democratic status. Consulted by the Association, the IFJ has supported its 2006 congress and all legal steps taken following elections at this time. We also support the AoIJ proposal for fresh elections this summer, to which an IFJ observer will attend, as part of a monitoring process.
At this stage, we cannot understand why there should be any questioning of the legality or otherwise of the work of the Association. The Association should be allowed to continue to exist and to continue its activities. Its board has been elected in a transparent and credible process. The Board is democratically legitimate in the eyes of the association’s members, the IFJ and the international media community as a whole.
Mr. President, we urge you to reconsider the conditions of this matter. We particularly ask you to consider the legal reference set out in article 4 of the International Labor Office Convention No. 87 on Freedom of Association: “Workers' and employers' organisations shall not be liable to be dissolved or suspended by administrative authority”.
We call on your government to respect the independence of the AoIJ and not to interfere in this internal democratic process.
We hope that rule of law will be respected and that the AoIJ, a full member of the IFJ, will be able to continue its work and preparation of its Congress.
Yours Sincerely
Aidan WhiteGeneral Secretary
COPY:Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs, Tehran - Iran.International Labor Office (ILO), Geneva - Switzerland.Association of Iranian Journalists (AoIJ), Tehran - Iran.

On freedom of press Iran ranks 166 out of 169 countries in the world!

News from Iran:

1-The third student have been disappeared in the city of Mashhad.

In the past two students from "University of Ferdousi" in the city of Mashhad were arested by security organizations. These students are: "Touhid Dolat-shenas" and "Farzad Hasanzadeh ".
Mohammad Zaraati is the third student activist believed to be kidnapped by the security agents. Mr. Zeraati was on his way from home to participate to a gathering in Ferdousi University to support Touhid Dolatshenas and Farzad Hassanzadeh when disappeared.

2- The term "legal journalists" is what the Islamic Republic is after.

The fight back of the "Association of Journalists" with the Ministry of Labor continues as the ministry in the past few days called for the license cancellation of the Association of Iran's Journalists . Iranian journalists must become united in protest against the cancellation of the license of their association and get ready to form a new association.

Link for more news in Farsi:
http://www.zigzagmag.net/article/default.aspx/547

Alert..... Alert

The life of Kurdish journalist Mr. Kamal Sharifi is in great danger!

The "Association of Kurdish Freelance Journalists " in a statement expressed their worries about the life of their member journalist Mr Kamal Sharifi and requested from all human rights organizations and organizations that defends journalists to help save the life of their colleague.

Mr. Kamal Sharifi is in the ministry of information prison in the city of Sanandaj. For a week Mr. Sharifi was under intense torture.Mr. Kamal Sharifi is a high ranking member of the "Association of Kurdish freelance journalist". At the time of his arrest ; he was the editorial member of this website http://www.4rojhelat.org/ . Since his arrest he has been under intense torture and as a result his health condition is very poor and his parent were unable to visit him. He was arrested on July of 2007 in the city of "Saghez" .

Link to this news:
http://asre-nou.net/1387/tir/12/m-kanoon.html

Workers are unable to pay their rent!


Since last Saturday "Iran Khodro" workers went on strike!

" Iran Khodro" workers manufacturing authomobile have started their strike since last saturday for what they call :Forceful overtime working,low salary ,lack of benefit
and long hour of working.

One of the workers said : The workers in three shift didn't attend on their lunch and dinner and instead decided to rest at their workplace.

The workers who do not have home and live on a rented apartement are unable to pay their rent. Since the rent in Iran is extremly high . The workers are asking for increase in their salary.

The workers are going to continue their strike and demanded for their right to have their union and that the " Herasat " office ( a security watchdog ) in the factory not to attened in cafeteria.

Link to this news:
http://www.roozonline.com/archives/2008/07/post_8118.php

The population of Iran was just below 69,000,000 in a 2006 survey. The majority of Iranians live in the key Irani cities, with over 12 million residing in Tehran (the capital of Iran).
The population growth rate in Iran was estimated at 1.1% as per the survey referenced above.
What does the Iranian population look like? The majority of Iranians fall into the 15 – 64 age group (69%), whilst 26.1% are 0 – 14 years and only 4.9% are 65 years and over. The median age is 24 years for males and 25 years for females. For this reason, the general population of Iran is extremely young, which will provide challenges for the Iranian government to ensure that sufficient jobs are available for this significantly large part of the population who are either currently of working age, or, who will be of working age in the near future.
Life expectancy for the Iranian population at birth is approximately 70 years (68 years for Iranian males and 71 years for Iranian females).
The population in Iran is growing at an alarming rate of over 3.3% per year. This increase has been further fuelled by the numbers of individuals who have been forced to leave surrounding countries by the wars inflicted on their countries (e.g. Afghanistan, Iraq and Lebanon). It is likely that this figure will continue to grow in the near future.

The ethnicity of the Iranian population is primarily Persian with over 51%. The second biggest group is Azeri and the remaining portion of the population are either Gilaki (8%), Kurd (7%), Arab (3%) and other (7%).
The majority of the Iranian population are Shi’a Muslims (89%) whilst 10% are Sunni Muslims and the remaining 1% are Christian, Zorastrian, Baha’I and Jewish .

Link to this statistics:
http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/country/iran/population.html

Iran Watch Canada:
According to one survey 70% of Iranian population are young .
65% of world crude oil is deposited in the Middle East.
Middle East with : 542billion barrel of oil
America with : 30 billion barrel of oil
Saudi Arabia: 262 billion barrel
Iran: 137 billion
Kuwait: 105 billion

Iran has the 2nd ranking in the world for its natural gas with 18%.
Iran's National Oil managing director announced that:
Iran will be having its oil for another 100 years!
71 billion barrel of Iran's oil is still buried!
Daily production of oil in Iran is 4200,000 barrel.
Yet according to the website of "Motalafeh Eslami " party , a conservative party in Iran; around 16.5 million of Iran's population leave relatively below poverty line.

Mr. Hosainali Ziaei the managing director of social welfare organization have announced that ; 6100,000 of working people are under social welfare .

Iran, Iran- Mohammad NOURI