High security measures adopted to stop "Int.'l Women Day" celebration
SMCCDI (information Service)
Mar 8, 2004
High security measures have been adopted and will be applied, later today, in order to stop the planned celebration of the "Int.l Women Day". The regime forces have been mobilized, especially in the Capital, to crackdown against Iranian women and their male supporters by pretexting the unlawful nature of the gatherings.
While the right of making peaceful demonstrations is recognized by the Islamic regime, its Ministry of Interior has not issued any response to the formal request made by several feminist organizations.
Iranian Women who are representing the majority of the Iranian Nation have been struggling, since the conception of the Islamic republic regime, to keep their rights which have been mainly revoked and disregarded.
They have all been subjected to the Sharia Apartheid Law and discriminatory measures while hundreds of them have been killed and thousands wounded and forced to leave their job for their braveries and having defied the backwarded regime's ideology. Several of them were killed on January 7, 2003, as they defied the regime and its taboos by burning their veils. Savage militiamen used of their knives and acid base substance to kill and wound several of them with the benediction of the regime's hardliners and the silent complicity of the sham reformists.
One of the Iranian Women's main slogan, since the Islamic revolution of 1979, has been the famous and so many times shouted: "Na Roosari, Na Too Sari" (No Veil, No submission).
It's to note that the Iranian Women had one of the most freer life styles during the former Iranian regime while some of the familial law had been changed according to their rights and many other were under discussion in order to secularize them. Many of them, unveiled, were exercing high rank professions and functions, such as, Ministry of State, Ambassador, Policewoman, Military Officer, Fighter Pilot, Doctor, Teacher, Nurse, Ingenior, Actress, Director and various other jobs.
Knowing these historical facts, some demagogue International Reporters, such as Christiane Amanpoor of CNN who's of Iranian origin, tried to promote the sham theory of reforms under Khatami's presidency and to cover this flagrant discrimination by pretexting that "Iranian women situation is better than in Saudi Arabia as they're allowed to drive car".
Ms. Amanpoor was able to take back her father's home, confiscated during the revolution, following several reports which highly credited the so-called reformists in the eyes of the unaware world opinion. She's married to M. Rubin who was the White House Speaker during the Clinton administration.
http://www.daneshjoo.org/generalnews/article/publish/article_5238.shtmlIAEA: Iran, Libya Violated Nuclear Treaty
VOA News
08 Mar 2004
The International Atomic Energy Agency says Iran and Libya are both guilty of long-term violations of their obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
Mohammed ElBaradei, director-general of the IAEA, told reporters in Vienna he would discuss violations by Iran and Libya during a meeting Monday of the U-N agency's board of governors.
A spokeswoman for the IAEA announced separately today that Libya has decided to sign an agreement giving U-N inspectors the right to conduct "intrusive" inspections of its nuclear facilities on short notice.
Libya admitted last year that it has been developing nuclear weapons in secret. Officials in Tripoli have promised to dismantle the program, under international supervision.
Before today's developments, Iran had called on the IAEA to complete its 13-month investigation of Tehran's nuclear program (on the grounds that Iran has taken steps to build confidence among members of the international community).
The head of Iran's security council, Hasan Rohani, said that Tehran expected the IAEA to close its files and confirm that Iran is developing nuclear capabilities for peaceful purposes.
The IAEA has previously said that, despite Iran's promises to co-operate fully with the agency, inspectors discovered that Tehran possessed (unreported) components -- equipment that could be used to build nuclear weapons. The IAEA says it is still investigating how sensitive nuclear technology was sent to Iran, and who sent it.
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