NCRI - Former mullahs' president Aliakbar Hashemi Rafsanjani speaking in Friday prayer sermon rejected any time table set by the Western governments for the mullahs' nuclear standoff with the world.

"Now that negotiations are supposed to be held, why are you setting deadlines and giving ultimatums?" Rafsanjani asked in a Friday prayers sermon carried live on state radio.

"Iran is ready to go there and talk -- say whatever you have to say there," said the former president who currently heads two of Iranian regime's top clerical and arbitration bodies in Iran.

NCRI - The mullahs' regime took advantage of summer recess to purge out nine other professors with years of experience in their own fields. The nine were on the top of the list of most renowned Iranian professors of political science teaching at prestigious Tehran University.

Since the inception of the mullahs' regime in the late 1970s, it has been a pattern to fire professors with experience and suspected of political affiliations with the Iranian opposition the People's Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK). The pick of such purges were in the spring of 1980 when Khomeini announced his brand of "cultural revolution" in the higher education schools nationwide. Following was three years of something mullahs' called "cleansing the universities from counter- revolutionary elements."   

Media Fax- 24 July 2008
Exiled Iranian opposition leader Maryam Rajavi, president of the National Council of Resistance of Iran gives a press conference at Italian Parliament in Rome on July 23, 2008. Rajavi's group is a coalition of which the armed opposition People's Mojahedin Organisation of Iran (PMOI) is a member. Supporters of Maryam Rajavi, wear T-shirts featuring Rajavi in front of Italian parliament. (AFP PHOTO)

ANSA- Roma, 23 July. Maryam Rajavi, President of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, speaking in a press conference in Rome, said: “The export of Islamic fundamentalism by the Iranian regime and Ahmadinejad is not just a threat to the Middle East, but an urgent threat throughout the entire Islamic countries and the world”. Rajavi added:“This threat is a hundred times more dangerous than the atomic bomb the mullahs’ regime is in the process of obtaining”.

NCRI – ON July 22, in a statement the EU called on the mullahs' regime not to uphold the execution sentences for two young men, Mohammed Fadaei and Behnood Shojaee. 

"The Presidency of the Council of the European Union expresses its deep concern regarding the announcement of the imminent execution of Mohammed Fadaei and Behnood Shojaee, who are both sentenced to death for alleged crimes committed when they were minors. The Presidency deplores the decision by Iranian

By: KAZEM KAZEROUNIAN
Source: Middle East Times

Iran's lobbyists in Washington are celebrating the White House announcement that U.S. Undersecretary of State William Burns will attend talks in Geneva between the EU foreign policy chief Javier Solana and Iran's negotiator Saeed Jalili.

NCRI – The EU rotary president France in a statement on behalf of the entire bloc called on the mullahs' regime to call off execution by stoning of eight women and a man in Iran.
Rights groups in Tehran said the nine were convicted in separate cases in Iranian cities and could be executed at any time.
Under mullahs' penal codes, an individual sentenced to death by stoning, if a man should be buried up to his waist, while a woman is buried up to her neck. Stones are thrown until the condemned dies.

  NCRI- Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, held a press conference on Wednesday in the Parliament of Italy. Following is the full text of her presentation:

NCRI- On Wednesday, the State Security Forces (SSF) – mullahs' suppressive police – attacked a gathering at Ahmad Shamlou's tomb in Emamzadeh Taher Cemetery in western suburbs of Tehran. Shamlou was a great contemporary Iranian poet with international recognition who passed away in July 24, 2000.

Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Special Units and plain-cloths members of the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) brought in various vehicles including cars, vans and buses to the gathering of more than 300 mourners to take away possible detainees. They attacked the