NCRI, October 10 - Interior Minister Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi appointed Brig. Gen. Amir Hayat-Moghaddam, among Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) commanders, as the governor of the oil-rich southwestern Khuzistan province.

The appointment is part of the regime's overall plan to hand over key posts to IRGC commanders and Intelligence Ministry henchmen.

Ms. Claire Miskin a distinguished Barrister and former Chair of the International Practice Committee of the Bar Council and Former Chair of the Bar European Group and also the joint chair of the Women's Interest Group of the International Bar Association in a network and mutual help group of international women lawyers, addressed the conference on the Iraqi draft constitution with respect to refugee rights on September 13. The follow is an excerpt of her speech:

By Con Coughlin

The Sunday Telegraph, October 9 - It was not the outcome the Foreign Office had been planning. When it was announced early last week that a senior British diplomat in Baghdad was flying back to London to give a briefing on Iraq's constitutional referendum, the general expectation in Whitehall was that the following day's headlines would focus exclusively on whether sufficient numbers of Iraqis would turn out to validate the exercise.

By Philip Sherwell in Washington

The Sunday Telegraph, October 9 - Iran's new hardline president has placed his country's nuclear programme under the control of militant commanders of the Revolutionary Guards, the military's most committed wing.

Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who has launched a purge of moderates in national and provincial government since his election two months ago, has drafted in fellow radical revolutionaries to top administrative posts - a move that will heighten Western fears over Iran's nuclear ambitions.

NCRI, October 8 – In the city of Blackpool, along with the annual conference of the British Conservative Party, Iran was the issue of a debate in a meeting entitled, “critical situation in Iran and the solution.”

The meeting was chaired by Mr. David Amess, MP, and the panel included Dr. Abdullah Jabouri, former Governor of Diyala Province in Iraq, Ayatollah Jalal Ganjei, chair of the NCRI Committee on Religious Freedom and Denominations, Mr. Brian Binley, Conservative MP and Mr. Hossein Abedini, member of the NCRI Foreign Affairs Committee.

NCRI, October 8 – A conference entitled “Islamic Fundamentalism, the New Global Threat” organized by a new committee "Together Against Fundamentalism" addressed the threats posed by the fundamentalist regime in Iran on October 5 in London’s Foreign Press Association. At the end of the conference a resolution was adopted which reads as follows:

NCRI, October 8 - In a conference on Islamic fundamentalism in London on October 5, Ayatollah Jalal Gangei, Chair of the Religious Tolerance Committee of the National Council of Resistance of Iran addressed the issue as an authority on Islam. He dealt with the issue from three angles as it follows:  

 

NCRI, October 7 - Dozens of supporters of the Iranian Resistance in Copenhagen and Oslo gathered in front of the embassies of the Russian Federation and South Africa to call for these countries’ support of mullahs’ nuclear file referral to the UN Security Council.

In Oslo gathering Mr. Parviz Khazai, NCRI representative to Nordic countries, reminded these countries of their dark days before they gained their freedom and democracy. He particularly spoke of the support given to the people of South Africa by Iranians in their struggle against apartheid and said: “Fundamentalism is a global threat and a nuclear weapon in the hands of Iranian regime, the God father of international terrorism and fundamentalism, will seriously threaten peace and security in the world.”

NCRI, October 7 – World is now facing a growing threat from the Islamic fundamentalism which requires an in-depth study. Ayatollah Jalal Ganjei, chair of the NCRI committee on religious freedom together with other experts addressed this issue in a conference on October 5 in London’s Foreign Press Association.