70% of shoe making workshops in Tabriz are closed

Tabriz- Feb.5, 2011
ILNA news agency reported that Javad Hossein Nejad, the head of Tabriz’s Shoe-Making Union, announced on Feb. 5 that from 2000 shoe making units in Tabriz only 30% are active. 30 other percent are half closed and the rest are closed.
Tabriz made 40,000 hand-made pair of shoes yearly.
Hossein Nejad counted the shortage of row material with high quality in the market and the fact that no fine leather is made as the main factors of low quality of hand-made shoes of Tabirz.
He added: “we don’t have fine quality row material such as adhesive, leather, lining and upper layer as well as trappings and because custom tariffs are high we cannot import them either”.

Stationing check points from fear

Tehran- Feb.6, 2011
On Friday night Feb. 4 as the night fall in fear of unrest regime stationed many check points and searched all the vehicles in the region of Vali-e-Asr, Tajrish, Imam Hussein, Khazaneh and Jomhori. They fully checked the national cards of people.

Blocking internet

Tehran- Feb.2, 2011
A Café Net at west of Tehran have told its users that regime has ordered them: “for three weeks you cannot check emails and work with internet”. Right now internet is either cut or too slow.

Collecting mercenaries from other cities for Feb. 11

Tehran- Feb.5, 2011
Regime intends to bring its mercenaries from cities of Varamin, Packdasht, Azad Shahr and Qods Township and locate them in places such as Amjadieh’s Basketball Saloon and some similar places.
Some of them are going to be stationed at Olympic Village. Their buses will be parked around the village.

Clerical dictatorship tries to take advantage of the situation in Egypt and Tunisia in the days close to anniversary of anti monarchy revolution

Tehran- Feb.5, 2011
On Wednesday February 2 at 1830 regime’s mercenaries poured into the main squares of Tehran holding placards reading ‘Mobarak be ashamed and leave the power’ and they chanted pro-Khamenei slogans while regime’s armed agents were there to protect them.
They were served soup and Coke. In each group of these mercenaries half of them were female Bassijies and the rest armed SSF men.
Another report says that throughout 16 Azar St. and in front of Tehran University’s entrance regime’s suppressive forces were stationed and they were chanting pro-Khamenei slogans and they too were served with food and beverages. In alleys around the university SSF forces were stationed in their cars.

Mass arrests in Paveh

Paveh- Feb.4, 2011
News obtained by ISC say that 34 residents of Paveh are arrested and one of them has had a brain stroke due to tortures imposed on him.
These 34 have then been taken to an unknown location and have had not contacted with their families since.