BY:Lord David Waddington
*Source:The Washington Times

The announcement that the United States would withdraw its troops from Iraq by 2011 caused much furor in Washington but it must have caused the ayatollahs in Iran even more excitement.

NCRI – On Sunday, students gathered outside administration office of Tehran's Polytechnic (Amirkabir) University protesting to reckless handling of a fellow classmate's falling from a three story building.

Said Arablou, an electrical engineering student fell from third floor of a school building and nearly lost both his legs.

NCRI – More than 400 students in a symbolic move cover the university grounds with the food trays in protest to spoiled food served by at the school's cafeteria which sent 233 students to hospital. 

Angry students covered all 500 meters sidewalk between Mofateh Dormitory and their cafeteria with food trays.

NCRI – The mullahs' Supreme Court upheld a stoning sentence on Thursday for a young woman identified as Afsaneh R. A lower court first ruled in her case in the southern city of Shiraz.

An appeal on her behalf was turned down by the Supreme Court on August 4 -- the same day Alireza Jamshidi, mullahs' judiciary spokesman, announced that stoning as a sentence was abolished altogether from the Iranian criminal laws.

NCRI – The mullahs' regime hanged a prisoner identified as Mohammad B. in the western city of Borujerd, the official daily Kayhan reported on Thursday.

In the past two weeks, 19 prisoners have been executed on the order of mullahs' chief of judiciary, Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi.