NCRI – On average, the mullahs' regime hangs three prisoners every week in the central city of Yazd, according to the Resistance sources in Iran. Last week alone 15 prisoners were sent to gallows in Yazd.

"Most of the hanged prisoners were in their twenties," the report added. The clerical regime hangs most of the prisoners under the pretext of fighting "thugs and hooligans."

NCRI – The guardian website went into the details of how a supposedly earned Oxford degree creates a commotion among the mullahs' regime.

"When skeptical MPs questioned the eligibility of Ali Kordan to be Iran's interior minister, he believed he had the perfect riposte; a law degree obtained from one of the world's most elite institutions, the University of Oxford," wrote guardian.

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.

NCRI - Some 1,500 part time teachers gathered outside mullahs' Majlis (parliament) from the western province of Lorestan protesting to contract conditions with the local branch of Ministry of Education.  

A vulnerable part of the country's work force with fixed incomes, the teachers have been protesting to unpaid salaries and contract conditions since last year.