BAGHDAD (AFP) — Iraqi and US military commanders on Sunday claimed a clear Iranian role in violence engulfing Baghdad's Sadr City, where Shiite militiamen have been battling security forces for the past month.
The claims come after the top US military leader, Admiral Michael Mullen, last week expressed concern at what he said was Iran's growing and lethal interference in Iraq and elsewhere in the region.
NCRI – Iranian regime hanged two men in the holy city of Qom, reported the state-run news agency Fars on Sunday.
The prisoners were identified only by their initials as 47-yeard-old M.N. and 56-yeard-old Gh. A. They were sent to gallows early in the morning in the central prison, the report added.
NCRI- The security and intelligence forces of the Iranian regime prevented a gathering of more than 500 members of labor movement in Tehran's Chitgar and Jahan-Nama Parks yesterday. They included workers from Iran Khodro factory, drivers from Tehran's Vahed bus company, workers from Sanandaj, Varamin, Pakdasht, Qom industrial city and some of the factories in Tehran. The gathering was organized to honor May Day, the international Labor Day.
By: Uzi Mahnaimi and Michael Smith Source: The Sunday Times Five British hostages who were kidnapped in Iraq almost a year ago are being held inside Iran by Revolutionary Guards, according to two separate sources in the Middle East and London.
The hostages were handed over to the Revolutionary Guards by their Iraqi kidnappers last November, the sources believe. One of the sources said they were being held in the western Iranian city of Hamadan.
Participation was three to four times less than the first round, forcing the regime to acknowledge the low turnout NCRI - The Iranian people boycotted the run-off for Majlis (Parliament) election sham even more extensively than the first round.
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, President-elect of the Iranian Resistance, described the farce as a greater fiasco and disgrace for the clerical regime, compelling it to acknowledge the sparse turnout.
NCRI - Students at Sahand University in Tabriz, provincial capital of Eastern Azerbaijan, northwest Iran, ended their second day of sit-in yesterday.
In a bid to end the students' protest, the regime has resorted to its usual methods of threats and intimidations. The university officials have been making threatening calls to the families of female students who play an active role in the sit-in to put pressure on their children for ending their protest. Students have been staying in the main university buildings over night.