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01-Jun The factional struggle behind the Islamic presidential election show in Iran is having a devastating impact on human rights. The Islamic dominated institutions like Council of Guardians in Iran have used arbitrary detention, unfair trial, political violence, and restrictions on basic freedoms in order to prevent the so called "reform" candidates campaign. - 01-Jun The border guards on both sides of the Pakistan-Iran border are allegedly ignoring the movement of people across the border after receiving bribe. The Frontier Corps or other anti-smuggling agencies, but only when the victims are unable to oblige with illegal gratification seize a large number of vehicles. They make demands from the regular visitors crossing the international frontiers without lawful travel documents. If they fail to fulfill these demands, their vehicles and other goods are seized. The goods of daily use are much cheaper on the Iranian side. Both the countries issue entry and exit passes to their citizens residing in the border regions for visits to their relatives on the other side of the border. This facility is available for the residents of Kharan, Chaghai, Panjgur, Turbat and Gwadar, the five border districts of Baluchistan. - 03-Jun A Canadian judge rejects an extradition request for two men wanted in the United States on charges of trying to buy U.S.-made missile parts and ship them to Iran. Justice Selwyn Romilly of the British Columbia Supreme Court ruled Thursday the United States had failed to provide proof the men intended to buy the missile defense system parts in the United States and send them to Iran, in violation of a U.S. embargo. One of the men arrested, Reza Akrami, was a former doctor in the Iranian army who acknowledged being a purchasing agent for Iran. He conceded he had discussed buying used jets and military parts but said he never intended to go through with the deal. His associate Mohsen Lessan, a local real estate agent in Vancouver, told investigators he and Akrami traveled to San Francisco and were entertained aboard the yacht of a man they believed was a wealthy merchant. The supposed yacht owner was an undercover U.S. agent. - 04-Jun Arab foreign ministers meeting in the Saudi Arabian city of Jeddah have urged Iran to accept arbitration in its dispute with the United Arab Emirates over three strategic Iranian islands. The ministers of the "Gulf" Co-operation Council invited Iran to submit the conflict to the International Court of Justice in The Hague. The dispute is over the Iranian islands of Abu Mussa, the Greater and Lesser Tunbs, which command access to the Strait of Hormuz, at the entrance to the Gulf. - 05-Jun Rice-growing belt of northern Iran, the Caspian province of Gilan is in drought. - 05-Jun Ahmad Behbahani, a defector who claims to be the former czar of Islamic regime's state-sponsored terrorism admits that Iran, not Libya, had planned and directed the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people. - 01-Jun Henry Precht urges U.S Congress not to extend economic sanctions against the Islamic terrorist regime in Iran. |
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