Germany mulls travel limits for Iran's president
Thursday, 15 December 2005
ImageBy Louis Charbonneau

BERLIN, Dec 15 (Reuters)
- German officials are weighing up imposing some form of travel restriction on Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad after his denials that the Holocaust happened, a senior foreign ministry official said on Thursday. Some six millions Jews were killed by the Nazis during World War Two. Publicly denying that the Holocaust happened, as Ahmadinejad has done twice, is a crime in Germany.
Police seize forged ballots headed to Iraq from Iran
Wednesday, 14 December 2005
ImageNew York Times

By DEXTER FILKINS

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Less than two days before nationwide elections, the Iraqi border police seized a tanker on Tuesday that had just crossed from Iran filled with thousands of forged ballots, an official at the Interior Ministry said.
Ahmadinejad calls holocaust “a myth”
Wednesday, 14 December 2005
ImageHard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has courted further controversy by explicitly calling the Nazi Holocaust of European Jewry a "myth".

"They have created a myth today that they call the massacre of Jews and they consider it a principle above God, religions and the prophets," he said.

Ex-general says Iranian led torture of detainees
Wednesday, 14 December 2005
ImageThe Washington Times, BAGHDAD - An Iraqi general formerly in charge of special Interior Ministry forces said yesterday that a senior Iranian intelligence officer was in charge of a network of detention centers where suspected insurgents were routinely tortured and sometimes killed.

Gen. Muntazar Jasim al-Samarrai spoke to The Washington Times just as Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari said he had widened an urgent investigation into complaints of abuse and torture in the country's detention facilities.
Iranian embassy bank accounts frozen in Italy
Tuesday, 13 December 2005
ImageItaly has frozen the Iranian embassy’s bank accounts in Italy on terror-related charges, state-run Ettemad Daily reported on December 12.

640 million dollars have been frozen inside the accounts on charges of “supporting international terrorism”.


Iran gaining influence, power in Iraq through militia
Tuesday, 13 December 2005
ImageKnight Ridder Newspapers

BY TOM LASSETER


BAGHDAD, Iraq - The Iranian-backed militia the Badr Organization has taken over many of the Iraqi Interior Ministry's intelligence activities and infiltrated its elite commando units, U.S. and Iraqi officials said.


Two members of PMOI abducted
Monday, 12 December 2005
ImageRelease A051211a

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Two members of the People’s Mojahedin of Iran, Hossein Pouyan and Mohammad-Ali Zahedi from the City of Ashraf, were reported to authorities as abducted on Aug. 4 in eastern Baghdad while on a routine logistics trip. The residents of Camp Ashraf have been considered protected persons under the fourth Geneva Convention since June 2004.


Iran orders “agents” to rig Iraq’s elections
Monday, 12 December 2005
ImageIran Focus - Iran has ordered its “agents” in Iraq to rig the parliamentary elections on Thursday, according to an Iraqi website.

The plan is to be carried out in three stages, the website Iraq al-Qad wrote on Wednesday.

The first stage involves voting multiple times with forged ballots. There will also be widespread propaganda to mislead ordinary Iraqis to vote for the pro-Iran Shiite slate led by the cleric Abdul-Aziz al-Hakim.


Who is Edward Termadoyan?
Saturday, 03 December 2005
ImageThe Counter Intelligence Committee of the NCRI released a statement on August 5, 2002 on Termadoyan stating: “Termadoyan was a soldier captured in Iran-Iraq war and in 1989. Based his own request, he joined the NLA. His registration no. with the ICRC is 0685 and he had been interviewed privately several times by the ICRC.

He was expelled from the National Liberation Army of Iran for violating the Army's code of ethics and lewd conduct, details of which are available in his own handwriting and signature. He eventually returned to Iran in February 2002.
Iranian Convert Kidnapped, Stabbed to Death
Friday, 02 December 2005
ImageThe Christian Post- An Iranian convert to Christianity was kidnapped last week from his home in northeastern Iran and stabbed to death, reported an Indian Christian religious freedom association.
The Global Council of Indian Christians (GCIC) released an article on Nov. 29 stating that Ghorban Tori, 50, who was pastoring an independent house church of Christian converts had been kidnapped, stabbed, and his body thrown in front of his home a few hours later. The house church is located in Gonbad-e-Kavus, a town just east of the Caspian Sea along the Turkmenistan border.

Who is Ardeshir Parhizkari?
Friday, 02 December 2005
ImageHe arrived in Iraq in February 1989 from Turkey and joined the Mojahedin. He pretended to be suffering from paralyses when he was called for security check before going to an operation. But the specialist physicians rejected his claim after carrying out tests (letter by a specialist is available).
Nevertheless, maximum care was taken and several people looked after him. He was particularly interested in collecting information. In 1998 when he felt that he was being considered as security suspect, he asked his membership to be suspended and wrote: “I would like my membership to be suspended and stripped of my organizational responsibilities.
Details about the assassination of " Mojbal Sheikh Issa"
Thursday, 01 December 2005
Yathreb weekly - Details about assassination of Mr. Mojbal Sheikh Issa, a Sunni member of Drafting Committee of Constitution, carried out by mercenaries of the Iranian Qods Force on August 8, 2005:

Upon orders issued by the Fajr Base in Ahwaz, affiliated with Iran's Qods Force, United Islamic Front(Naserieh branch) that is composed of " Badr Organisation", "15 Shaaban movement" , " Tallieh Eslami Organisation", " Islamic Dawa Party(Iraq Organization) " set up a meeting in Naserieh and determined their terrorist operations' targets and inserted the following names in their terror lists:

Madison County JP pushing for change in Iran
Wednesday, 30 November 2005
ImageBY ADAM WALLWORTH

Northwest Arkansas Times - Removing the terrorist label from the National Council of Resistance of Iran remains the best option for bringing democracy to Iran, said Hooshang Nazarali at a forum Tuesday.
Nazarali, a Madison County Justice of the Peace and business owner, is an Iranian American actively working to replace the current government in Iran, which he says is a threat to human rights, not only in that country but around the world.
Naghdi Murder: Rogatory Letter Request For Mesbahi
Wednesday, 30 November 2005
Image(AGI) - Rome, Italy - An international rogatory letter has been issued for the interrogation of Abolghasen Mesbahi, former manager of the Iranian information service in France. This has been requested by magistrate Franco Ionta at Rome's first court of assizes, at which is taking place the trial for the murder of Mohammed Hussein Naghdi, Iranian resistance worker killed in March 1993.

Mesbahi's declarations in 1997 and 1998 were useful for arriving at this trial, which sees Assl Mansur, Amir Bozorgian, both on the run, as the only accused.
Convert Stabbed To Death
Wednesday, 30 November 2005
ImageSecret police crackdown results in the torture of 10 other Christians.

Compass Direct – An Iranian convert to Christianity was kidnapped last week from his home in northeastern Iran and stabbed to death, his bleeding body thrown in front of his home a few hours later.

Ghorban Tori, 50, was pastoring an independent house church of convert Christians in Gonbad-e-Kavus, a town just east of the Caspian Sea along the Turkmenistan border.

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