NCRI - Brig. Gen. Ismail Ahmadi-Moqadam, chief of the State Security Forces (SSF), stressed that the suppressive plan known as "Boosting Public Security" will be "complemented" and "not abandoned" and suppression in the New Year will intensified.

Speaking to a gathering of border regiment personnel in Paveh, western Iran, he said that people may think "these plans were temporary … the SSF is determined and I promise people that the plan will not be abandoned and it is not going to end under any circumstances and the trend is irreversible," the official news agency IRNA reported on March 26.

NCRI - Brig. Gen. Ismail Ahmadi-Moqaddam, chief of the State Security Forces (SSF) in Iran described "boosting public security and increasing morality plan," as a major success.

"The SSF has decided to introduce a variety of security measures next year [2008] to improve security standards to an acceptable level," said Ahmadi-Moqaddam.

NCRI - The Iranian regime has been shelling Iraqi Kurdish villages amid the Persian New Year celebrations. 

The Iranian regime's artillery once again bombarded the border areas of Qaleh-Dizeh and Chowman. The inhuman measures have inflicted heavy financial losses in the area and the bombardment caused panic among local residents. A number of villages along the border have been totally evacuated. 

Sham Majlis elections – 14
NCRI - Despite vote riggings and attempts to tamper with ballot boxes, Mohammad Reza Faker with 211,624 won the elections as the front running in the northeastern city of Mashhad, the state-run news agency Mehr reported on Monday.

Hassan Movahedian, Mashhad's governor, announced the number of eligible voters to be 1,800,000. The first winner of the Majlis election from Mashhad won his seat only with 11.5 percent of the votes.

Official counts demonstrates mullahs' Majlis deputies elected by only 7 to 9 percent
Sham Majlis elections – 12
NCRI - Government-run media came up with the final figures of vote counts on Monday night. Despite vote riggings and claim of 60 percent turn-out, the mullahs' regime was not able to announce more than 1,909,000 turn-out for Greater Tehran.

NCRI - In the past weeks and run up to the Iranian New Year (Persian calendar year beginning March 21) more than 15 factories and workshops have gone on strike. Among them, 1,000 workers of Minoo Food Packing Factory walked out on March 12 over what the labor activists called "substantial pay cut in the salaries and their end of the year bounces" by the management.

Workers announced that they will stay on strike until their demands are met by the factory's management.

Sham Majlis elections – 13
NCRI - Despite vote riggings, mullahs' own account confirms electoral fraud in the northern city of Tabriz. Massoud Pezeshkzad won the first seat by 105,000 votes to the Majlis (parliament), 8.5 percent of all eligible voters in the East Azerbaijan province, reported the state-run news agency ISNA on Monday.

Ali Ghafari, deputy governor in political and security affairs, announced that 201,000 were eligible to vote in the East Azerbaijan province, according to the governor's office figures published on March 8. However, the actual number of eligible voters was much higher than what was published prior to the Election Day for covering the low turnout.

NCRI - On Friday's elections, a number of incidents of factional feuding were reported by the Resistance's sources inside Iran.

Two residents were shot to death by the Bassij Paramilitary Force in a polling station in Vali-Abad Township suburb of the northern city of Tonekabon. The local official tried to come up with bogus reasons to cover for the crime.