NCRI- This morning, more than 500 protesting kiyan-Tire factory workers blocked Tehran-Saveh highway demanding their unpaid salaries.

The State Security Forces (SSF) -- mullahs' suppressive police – brought in helicopters to suppress the demonstrators.

NCRI - A 34-year-old woman identified only by her first name as Shabnam is scheduled to be executed on August 13, reported the state-run daily Etemaad on Tuesday. Shabnam allegedly killed her husband in a domestic dispute. She has already spent three years in prison, the report said.

NCRI – The US troops captured nine members of a "pro-Iranian" group in a predominantly Sunni area of the Iraqi capital, the AFP quoted a US military statement on Tuesday.

"Intelligence sources led coalition forces to the location of a suspected Kataib Hezbollah associate believed to be in control of at least one terrorist cell" operating in the southern city of Basra, the statement added.

NCRI - The mullahs' regime introduced on Monday a new suppressive force for what it called  "help restoring order in the gas stations" in case of potential public protests.

"With assistance from the Oil Ministry, in enforcing the law and order, we will use Bassij personnel to help police the gas stations. The new measure will go into effect in 10 days time," the state-run news agency Fars quoted Colonel Hadi Hashemi, chief of the traffic violation in the State Security Forces (SSF) – mullahs' suppressive police --  in greater Tehran. 

By JOHN ROSS
Source: NEWS.scotsman.com

LOCAL, national and international figures joined in tribute yesterday to the Liberal Democrat peer Lord Russell-Johnston of Minginish, who died last month.

The former MP and Scottish Liberal Party leader died after collapsing in a Paris street on 27 July, the eve of his 76th birthday.

A teenager faces gallows soon

NCRI - The mullahs' inhuman regime hanged 4 prisoners identified as Gole-Mohammad Salehzehi, Rahim Baranzehi, Lal-Mohammad Zainidini and Asadollah Eshaqzehi in the prison yard in the southeastern city of Zahedan, the state-run news agency Fars reported on Monday. 

NCRI - More than 200 protesting workers of Zarbaft Textile Factory of Kurdistan, early Monday morning, gathered outside social security office in the western city of Sanandaj.

The workers demanded their unpaid salaries and benefits. The State Security Forces (SSF) – mullahs' suppressive police – drove the protesters into a deserted corner of the building to isolate the event.