Majlis move underscores need to refer Tehran nuclear file to Security Council

NCRI, September 28 - This morning, the clerical regime's Majlis (Parliament) voted to debate a bill that directs the government to suspend the implementation of the Additional Protocol of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty. Once approved, the bill will put an end to spot inspection of Iran's suspected nuclear sites by international inspectors.

NCRI, September 28 - In the past few weeks, Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has appointed a number of Islamic Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) commanders to key posts in the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), the clerical regime's highest decision-making body.

SNSC's secretariat that was previously comprised of advisory committees has been changed to different directorates, making it a decision-making body with vast executive powers.

NCRI, September 28 – Iraqi dailies including Az-Zaman, Al-Haqaeq, Al-Fourat reported that two thousand Iraqi lawyers and jurists, 41 political and social groups, sheikhs' councils and over 200,000 Iraqi citizens called for revision of Article 21(3) of draft constitution in their joint declaration released on September 25.

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Washington Post, September 27 - THE BUSH administration and its European allies have managed to take a small step toward holding Iran accountable for its secret and illegal steps aimed at the production of nuclear weapons. On Saturday the United Nations' International Atomic Energy Agency finally voted to refer Tehran's well-documented violation of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty to the U.N. Security Council. Because of opposition from Russia, China and nonaligned states, the measure was watered down, and the actual report was delayed for an unspecified period. Consequently, the prospect that Iran will be induced to give up its weapons program by a U.N.-led process looks no better now than it did two years ago, when secret facilities for enriching uranium were first reported. But the Bush administration is slowly advancing toward a more promising strategy: the construction of an ad hoc international coalition that could have the muscle and willpower to apply real pressure.

In an act of vengeance and in a bid to intimidate and terrorize the people of Ahwaz (southwest Iran), the mullahs' anti-human regime left the charred corpses of a number of those arrested during a September 16 demonstration in the city outside their families' home.

On September 16, people in Shelangabad, Mollah Shia, Khashayar and Kamplou districts in the city staged demonstrations and blocked Khorramshar – Nord Township. The protests led to clashes with the suppressive forces in which a number of young men were arrested. After murdering the detainees under torture, the mullahs' henchmen left their charred corpses outside their homes.

NCRI, September 26 - Following the adoption of IAEA's resolution on the Iranian regime's nuclear program on Saturday, September 24, the International Atomic Energy Agency chief Mohammad El-Baradei said: "I think the international community sent a message to Iran that it is not satisfied with its pace and level of cooperation with the IAEA in clarifying the outstanding issues, and that the international community is also not satisfied with the level of confidence building measures Iran has so far taken.”

Marking new Iranian school year, September 24, the Iranian Resistance's President-elect Mrs. Maryam Rajavi  addressed a gathering of hundreds of Iranian youth at her residence in Auvers-sur-Oise, north of Paris.

Addressing students in Iran via live satellite broadcast she said: “The new school year begins at a time when the clerical regime has exhausted all deceitful avenues during 16 years of Rafsanjani and Khatami's presidencies. This regime was eventually forced to put them aside disgracefully, frustrated and discouraged. It had to expose the true face of its dictatorial rule, the rule of velayat-e faqih or supreme religious jurisprudent.”

The Sunday Times, September 25 - TWO SAS soldiers rescued last week after being arrested by Iraqi police and handed over to a militia were engaged in a “secret war” against insurgents bringing sophisticated bombs into the country from Iran.

The men had left their base near the southern Iraqi city of Basra to carry out reconnaissance and supply a second patrol with “more tools and fire power”, said a source with knowledge of their activities.

The Sunday Times, September 25 - As the US special forces Hercules flew low over the desert in March 2003 before landing behind enemy lines, Hazim al-Shalan prepared to step onto Iraqi soil for the first time in almost 20 years.

Shalan — the exiled leader of a Shi’ite tribe with 1m members worldwide and 250,000 in southern Iraq — had already been helping British and American intelligence for several months.