NCRI – Dozens of boys and girls have been arrested by the State Security Forces (SSF) – mullahs' suppressive police – for their "immodest dress" in the central city of Yazd.

The SSF officials have announced that the recent crackdown is in line with the nationwide plan of "boosting public security." They vowed to deal firmly with those youngsters not abiding by the strict dress cods.

It is believed that arrested youths have been transferred to detention centers where they will be held for 24 hours before their release.

The SSF statement adds that if a youth is caught for the second time wearing something deeded immodest by the police standards, he would be jailed for a period of one month.

Rome, 23 July (AKI) - A leading Iranian dissident, Maryam Rajavi, said on Wednesday that the international community must support Iran's resistance movement if it wants to deal with the country's nuclear programme.

Maryam Rajavi, who is the elected president of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, made the remarks at a media conference at Italy's lower house of parliament on Wednesday.

"It [Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government] is a 21st century dictatorship, so weak and so in contrast with the international community, that if it takes one step back, it will dissolve," Rajavi told Adnkronos International (AKI)…

NCRI - Some 30,000 Iraqi soldiers and police are to launch a military assault against Al-Qaeda fighters and insurgents in Diyala province from August 1, army and police officers said Wednesday, reported AFP on Wednesday.

Having long borders with neighboring Iran, Diyala and its capital Baquba are Iraq's most dangerous regions with insurgents regularly carrying out attacks, including by female suicide bombers.

"Yes. Diyala remains the most dangerous province in Iraq," said Colonel Ali al-Karkhi, commanding officer of Iraqi forces in Khan Beni Sad, a town near Baquba which has been torn apart by the violence.

AP- Maryam Rajavi, 'president elect' of the National Council of Resistance of Iran and wife of Massoud Rajavi, a founder of the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI), acknowledges cheers from supporters as she arrives at the Italian Chamber of Deputies in Rome to hold a press conference Wednesday, July 23, 2008. Following her marriage, Maryam Rajavi became co-leader of the PMOI along with her husband, and together they made women a main portion of the group's fighting force.
(AP Photo/Pier Paolo Cito)

NCRI- Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran arrives at the Italian Parliament in Rome to hold a press conference on Wednesday.
Mrs. Rajavi received a warm reception from members of the Italian Parliament and parliamentarians from other European countries.
Reuters News Agency sent pictures of the event with a footnote: Maryam Rajavi, head of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, waves as she arrives in front of the Italian parliament in Rome, July 23, 2008.

NCRI – Egyptian official have shutdown a television channel, Al-Alam, belonging to the mullahs' regime. It was involved in making a film which the Egyptian official found it insulting to the former president Anwar Sadat.

Egyptian Foreign Minister Ahmed Abul Gheit earlier this month condemned the film, days after Egypt summoned Tehran's envoy in Cairo to lodge a formal protest over the airing of the film.

Al-Alam's main station is based in Tehran and run by IRIB - the Iranian state radio and TV service. It broadcasts on terrestrial airwaves to Iraq, as well as via satellite.

The transmissions are believed to be broadcast from a TV relay station on high ground in Iran overlooking parts of Iraq.

NCRI – Angry workers at Kiyan-Tire (Alborz-Tire) factory set ablaze part of its building in their 13th day of strikes over unpaid salaries by the mullahs' regime, reported the state-run news agency ILNA on Wednesday.

More than 600 workers chanting anti-government slogans gathered outside the management's building, ILNA added.

The workers threatened to have their next gathering outside mullahs' Majlis (parliament) should they not receive positive responds to the protests soon. 

The workers went on strike on April 12 for the first time when the hand picked management called in the suppressive State Security Force (SSF) – mullahs' suppressive police – to crush their demonstration. A number of the workers were arrested in that incident.

PARIS, July 22, 2008 (AFP) - AFP's deputy bureau chief in Tehran, Stuart Williams, was told Monday by Iranian authorities that he must leave the Islamic republic within days.
 
Williams, a British citizen who has been in the country for two years, was given no explanation when he was informed of the decision after being summoned to the foreign press service at the Iranian culture ministry.

He held a renewable resident's permit which was valid until August 28.
Williams will have to leave Iran as soon as he gets an exit visa, which is expected to be delivered within a few days.

NCRI - From early morning hours, the striking workers at Kiyan-Tire factory blocked the main highway between Tehran and Saveh.
 
The workers marked their 12th day of walkout over the wage dispute with the handpicked management starting in March.

Workers burned used tires to get the attention of commuters to and from Tehran.

Their demonstration today lasted for two hours. However, they threatened to do the same in the future if their demands of unpaid salaries are not met by the government.