November 24, 2010

UPDATE ON IRAN - Nov. 24, 2010

The Beginning of the End of the Clerical Rule in Iran
No. 730


Latest News on Iran


Nov. 23, 2010

Tehran – more than 60 people who were the families of political prisoners gathered outside Evin Prison to follow up the cases of their jailed loved ones yesterday.

Nov. 23, 2010
Tehran- the price of some goods has sharply risen in the last two weeks for example:
A 10 kilo bag of rice which was 25,000 tomans two weeks in a discount store was 30,000 tomans this week. The price of a house in Khoramshahr Street was 10 million tomans (about 10,000 dollars) in 2007 but the same house was sold at 40 million tomans (about 40,000 dollars) in 2009.

Nov. 22, 2010
Zanjan – the Iranian regime tried to mobilize the residents of Zanjan to welcome Ahmadinejad to this town and closed universities to this end. According to reports, the regime tried to mobilize villagers to welcome Ahmadinejad and increase the crowds but even they did not participate because they knew that Ahmadinejad would not live up to his promises.

Nov. 22, 2010
Tehran – The internet in the dormitories of Iran Medical Science University is filtered and users cannot use Yahoo Messengers. Users cannot even have access to website such as Mibo with proxies. Also, the student’s accounts are disconnected once every 30 minutes making it impossible to download anything from the internet.

Nov. 22, 2010
Law and psychology students in Tehran protest
Students of the Law and Psychology College located in the central building of the Olympic Township gathered in protest to a plan to separate the entrances and exits of boys and girls and the lack of security for female student in this college.

Nov. 22, 2010
Two agents die in armed clash
Two state security force agents died in an armed clash in Firouz Abad in the Fars Province. The state run Siasate Rouz daily wrote, “Agents of the Mouk Base in Firouz Abad ordered a car to stop but the driver of the car started speeding instead and this led to an armed clash between the car passengers and the police agents and in the end, two agents were killed and the car fled the scene”.

Nov. 22, 2010
Storeowners who do not ban ‘improperly veiled women’ from entering stores will be punished
Store owners who do not put up signs which say ‘improperly veiled women are banned from entering’ their stores will be fined.
According to reports, the Tehran Trade Room is looking to implement a plan which would make it possible to fine store owners who do not put up a sign banning improperly veiled women from entering.
Some time ago, Friday Prayer heads simultaneously complained about the state of improper veiling in the country and the Clerical Fraction in the parliament asked the commander of the State Security Forces to give an explanation about improper veiling in the society.

Nov. 22, 2010
Political prisoner violently interrogated and threatened in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj
According to reports, political prisoner Arjang Davoudi was transferred to the Sepah Cellblock in Gohardasht (Rajayi Shahr) Prison and was interrogated and threatened for several hours by agents of the Intelligence Agency.
On Monday, November 22 political prisoner Arjang Davoudi was interrogated from 10:30 am to 2:30 pm in the Sepah Cellblock where he was threatened by intelligence interrogators. This political prisoner was abused and mistreated.
Davoudi has been jailed for years under inhumane conditions. Some time ago, his house which was his family’s only shelter was sealed off under the orders of Khamenei’s office in a letter which is in the Revolutionary Court and his family does not have a home.


Students Committee in Iran (Supporters of PMOI)

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