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SSF crackdown on Shahinshahr shopkeepers
National Council of Resistance of Iran August 01 2008
NCRI: The State Security Forces (SSF) – mullahs' suppressive police – opened fire on a crowd of local shopkeepers protesting to power outage on July 30.
Eyewitness reports from the scene indicate that some local shopkeepers were gathered outside the governor's office carrying banners protesting to 5 hours of power outage causing their businesses huge damage. 
Iran cancels Indonesian band's concerts
MehrNews.com, Iran August 01 2008
TEHRAN. The Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance called off the concerts of the Muslim multinational band Debu in Tehran without giving any reason for the decision.
Iran Building Secret Nuclear Reactor
FrontPage magazine.com July 31 2008
By MEMRI
On July 29, 2008, the Kuwaiti daily Al-Siyassa reported that, according to "highly reliable sources," Iranian authorities had begun construction of a secret nuclear reactor in the Al-Zarqan region close to the city of Ahwaz in southwest Iran, on the Iran-Iraq border.
EU agrees to go beyond UN sanctions on Iran
Reuters July 30 2008
BRUSSELS. The European Union has agreed to go beyond United Nations sanctions on Iran, instructing its financial institutions to exercise "restraint" on export credits and allowing its navies to inspect all Iran-bound cargoes, a senior diplomat said on Wednesday.
Leader: Iran will continue on its N-path
PRESS TV, Iran July 30 2008
The Leader of the Islamic Revolution says Iran will not bow to threats made by bullying world powers and abandon its nuclear program.
Wiesenthal Center Blasts Questionable German-Iranian Gas Deal
Deutsche Welle July 30 2008
The Simon Wiesenthal Center has called on Chancellor Angela Merkel to block a 100 million-euro German-Iranian natural gas deal, saying it would "embolden" a regime that seeks the destruction of Israel.
Sixteen Christian converts arrested
Adnkronos July 29 2008
Sixteen Iranians who converted from Islam to Christianity were arrested on Tuesday in Malakshahr, on the outskirts of the central Iranian city of Isfahan.
Iran executions "an affront to human dignity"-EU
Reuters July 29 2008
BRUSSELS. The European Union on Tuesday denounced Iran's execution of 29 convicts at the weekend as "an affront to human dignity" and said it was deeply concerned about Tehran's increasing use of the death penalty.
Iran: Dissident leader visit sparks row with Italian politicians
Adnkronos International July 29 2008
Tehran. Italian politicians across the spectrum have responded strongly to a hostile attack by an Iranian newspaper that described the government and its institutions as a "Mafioso Italian regime".
Chris de Burgh to play in Iran
RTE.ie July 28 2008
Singer Chris de Burgh is to play a concert in Tehran in November, the first show of its type in nearly 30 years, an Iranian satellite news channel reported on its website.
Film on female footballers exposes more about regime
Adnkronos July 25 2008
Rome: Football Under Cover is a documentary about a 2006 women's football match between Iran and Germany. The film, directed by Ayat Najafi and David Assman, tells the story of a women's football team from Berlin that travelled to Tehran to play against the Iranian women's football team.
Rafsanjani rejects deadline for nuclear response
NCR Iran July 25 2008
Former mullahs' president Aliakbar Hashemi Rafsanjani speaking in Friday prayer sermon rejected any time table set by the Western governments for the mullahs' nuclear standoff with the world.
"Now that negotiations are supposed to be held, why are you setting deadlines and giving ultimatums?" Rafsanjani asked in a Friday prayers sermon carried live on state radio.
The mullahs' regime will hang fuel uprisings detainees
NCR Iran July 26 2008
Tehran: The mullahs' regime will hang individuals arrested in Iran's last year fuel uprisings among the 30 prisoners facing gallows tomorrow.
Hundreds of citizens demonstrate in Mahabad, Iran
NCR Iran July 26 2008
Iran: This morning hundreds of residents of the northwestern city of Mahabad demonstrated demanding the release of Farzad Kamangar, a Kurdish political prisoner, form jail.
Muslim intellectuals protest to EU
Tehran Times July 26 2008
Tehran: Hundreds of Muslim intellectuals released a statement here on Thursday condemning recent insults to Muslims and holy prophet by some western figures and governments.
Religious fascism ruling Iran announced that 30 prisoners will be hanged on Sunday
National Council of Resistance of Iran July 26 2008
NCRI - The prosecutor general of Tehran on Friday announced, "Thirty convicts and thugs in the capital will be executed Sunday morning July 27, 2008."
President declares 5 August 'Islamic human rights day'
ADNKronos July 24 2008
Iran's Supreme Cultural Revolution Council headed by hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has declared 5 August an annual international Islamic human rights day.
