NCRI – In a clear insult to Iranian women, Ali Borhan, a prayer leader on Thursday compared Iranian women who refuse to wear the traditional chador to "bare-back donkeys," in the central city of Mehriz, reported the state-run website Asriran.

"Residents in Mehriz will not tolerate women wearing anything but chador. The way women appear in public is worse than appearing naked," Borhan said.

"We will not accept tapes [music cassettes] distributed in our city and will not tolerate women with improper outfits. They would be better off not wearing anything," he added.

Excerpts from the article "inside the ring" appearing in the Washington Times Thursday edition

A European-based Iranian exile group reports that there are major divisions within the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), the Islamic shock troops that the U.S. government has linked to international terrorism.

he group, the People's Mujahideen of Iran, stated in a report that its sources inside Iran think there is major discord within the paramilitary force that is believed to have a major role within the regime of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

The August report stated that both the leadership and the structure of the IRGC are undergoing widespread transformation.

NCRI - Kurdish political prisoners have gone on hunger strike nationwide over prison conditions, said a statement marking the start of the protest on Monday.

"There are 40 prisoners in the northwestern city of Orumieh, 15 in the northwestern city of Mahabad, 13 in the western city of Sanandaj and eight in Tehran's notorious Evin prison," said the statement not locating the four remaining prisoners.

NCRI – The mullahs' inhuman regime on Tuesday hanged Beham Zare for the alleged crime committed when he was 15, according to his attorney.

Despite much international appeals to save his life, the young man was executed in Adel Abad prison in the southern city of Shiraz.

France as the current EU rotary president issued a statement on Monday condemning the hanging of another juvenile, Reza Hejazi, on August 19 by the Iranian regime.

Source: www.20min.ch
August 25, 2008 - Dozens of supporters and families of the Iranian opposition in Iraq began an open-ended "sit-in" on Monday in Geneva.

They asked the International Committee of Red Cross (ICRC) to intervene to prevent the transfer or expulsion of 3,500 Iranian dissidents from Iraq.