NCRI Statement, Dec. 21 - According to state-run Fars news agency, three young men were hanged in Sabzevar (in north eastern Iran) yesterday. Two of the youths were 25 years old and another was 21 years old. One of the victims was accused of injuring a member of Iran’s security forces. Also, on December 18, ISNA reported that two youths named Mohsen and Ali Babaipour were hanged in Tehran’s Evin prison while another man was hanged in public in Tehran.

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NCRI Statement, Dec. 16 – As European leaders opened a summit meeting to discuss the demagogic remarks of the president of the theocratic dictatorship in Iran, Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, called on EU leaders to halt diplomatic and trade ties to Tehran and refer the regime’s sponsorship of terrorism, nuclear file, and human rights record to the United Nations Security Council.

NCRI Statement, Dec. 14 – Mrs. Rajavi said that the only correct policy vis-à-vis the regime was a policy of firmness. A necessary element of such a policy, she said, was the referral of the regime’s sponsorship of terrorism, spread of fundamentalism, nuclear file, and human rights violations to the United Nations Security Council. The Iranian Resistance's President-elect added that it was also important to halt diplomatic and trade relations with the mullahs’ regime and put aside all vestiges of appeasement, the main consequence of which in the past was proscribing the Iranian Mojahedin; a decision that greatly encouraged the religious dictatorship in Iran.

NCRI Statement, Dec. 13 - The discovery of a new Iraqi Interior Ministry secret detention center in Baghdad controlled by agents of the clerical regime in Iran has shocked the international community. Based on news reports, more than 625 prisoners were held in inhumane conditions in the prison, located adjacent to the Interior Ministry. The victims had been whipped with electric cables, received electric shock, and had their fingernails pulled out in barbaric tortures. All of them suffered from starvation.

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NCRI Statement, Dec. 13 - The state-run daily Hamshahri wrote on December 11, that the clerical regime’s judiciary had condemned a woman identified only as Masoumeh and a resident of Varamin (near Tehran) to death by stoning. This is the second person sentenced to death by stoning in the past two months. More than 110 persons have been hanged or sentenced to death since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took office. Several victims were under 18 years of age at the time of the alleged offence.

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NCRI Statement, Dec. 10 - Gholamreza Aghazadeh, head of the clerical regime’s Atomic Energy Organization, said today: “For me, there is no doubt that the process of producing nuclear fuel in Iran will be accomplished.” He also revealed a new project to build a 360-Megawatt nuclear reactor in Darkhovin in the southwestern Iranian province of Khuzistan using “domestically produced fuel.” The announcement reaffirms the ominous ambitions of the Tehran regime in pursuing nuclear weapons in a bid to consolidate its disgraceful rule in Iran, and pursue expansionism in the region and the Islamic world. NCRI's Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Mohammad Mohaddessin described the Tehran regime's new advances in nuclear projects as a product of the failure of the international community to adopt a firm policy vis-à-vis the clerical regime.

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NCRI Statement, Dec. 9 - The clerical regime hanged three prisoners on December 7.  According to reports by state-run media, a woman was hanged in Shirvan (northeast Iran) and two men named Abdulreza Akbaridiba, 28, and Farhad Akbaridiba, 22, from Asadabad in Hamedan, were executed in the Arak-Khomein (western Iran) highway. The Iranian Resistance draws the attention of international human rights organizations to the increasing number of executions in Iran, in particular the execution of minors, and demands condemnation of the alarming wave of executions and the increasing violations of human rights in Iran. It calls for the referral of the clerical regime’s human rights crimes to the UN Security Council for adoption of appropriate and binding measures.

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NCRI Statement, Dec. 7 - Despite an official clampdown, Iranian students across the country, launched protest demonstrations to mark Iran’s Students Day on December 7. The Iranian regime, in an unprecedented move, declared the 7th and 8th of December as official holidays in the greater Tehran area and prevented access to universities. The move was in response to a call by the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran for commemoration protests on Students Day and in fear of student uprisings, under the pretext of an air pollution alert.

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NCRI Statement, Dec. 5 - Ali Larijani, secretary of the clerical regime’s Supreme Security Council, said yesterday in an interview with the French News Agency that the clerical regime “will not submit to Western demands to limit its disputed nuclear fuel drive.” Referring to the Russian proposal, Larijani said Tehran will not accept the kind of accord the West is now hoping for: “The negotiations will be about making nuclear fuel inside Iran. There is nothing else to talk about.” Mr. Mohammad Mohaddessin, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the NCRI, stressed: “Larijani's remarks demonstrate the futility of any negotiations with the mullahs’ regime over the nuclear file and show that negotiations only give the regime more time to complete its evil nuclear weapons projects. Any hesitation or delay in referring the mullahs! ’ nuclear file to the UN Security Council draws the region and the world closer to the precipice of crisis and war.”

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