Iran Tests New Centrifuges

-- Wikinews

Ali Akbar Salehi, Head of Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, announced on Friday that Iran had successfully tested its third generation centrifuges. The new 200 millimeter diameter tubes are ten times as powerful as the ones operating in the Natanz uranium enrichment plant and are capable of spinning 900 times per second and producing 10 kilograms of UF6 in a year. The announcement came at a ceremony celebrating Iranian nuclear power. In attendance were President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Joint Armed Forces Chief of Staffs Major General Hassan Firouzabadi and Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council Saeed Jalili.

Despite Iran's claims that it's goals are for peaceful purposes only, Western powers, like the United States, remain alarmed at the nuclear program. This comes on the heels of an historic treaty signed by American president Barack Obama, who along with Russian president Dmitry Medvedev, pledged a systematic disarmament and draw down of nuclear warheads to a total of 1500 for each country, and laid out guidelines for the use of the remaining warheads. These guidelines did not rule out the option of nuclear weapons being used against Iran. The two leaders also agreed on greater co-operation to persuade Iran to give up its nuclear ambitions.

This has not dissuaded Iran. "If America makes a crazy move, its interests will be endangered by Iran's allies around the globe," said Ahmad Khatami, a cleric and member of Iran's powerful Assembly of Experts. While Iran speaks of it's allies around the globe, the United States and other Western powers, are now seeking help from China and Russia to urge the UN to impose a fourth set of sanctions against Tehran.

International Monarchists Denounce Iranian Execution of Dissident

-- Official statement of the International Monarchist Conference (IMC)

Iranian sources confirmed by the AFP released the information that the monarchist journalist Mohammad-Reza Ali-Zamani and the 20 years old Arash Rahmanpour, both members of the Association of the Monarchy in Iran, were hanged on January 28, 2010 in Teheran by the authorities of the Islamic Republic of Iran.

The two men had been sentenced to death for their participation in the protest movement which defied the Islamic Republic after June presidential election. Their call had been rejected on November 4.

Beyond the political commitment of these men, the whole international community should mobilize itself to save the life of political prisoners facing death penalty because of their opposition to an illegitimate and theocratic islamist dictatorship. The International Monarchist Conference violently protests against these executions carried out by the arbitrary which governs the destiny of Iran.

The International Monarchist Conference denounces the silence of many media and of Western governments.

We remain without information about the three others prisoners sentenced to death and still waiting for their execution and nine others still waiting for their call.

The International Monarchist Conference calls for a new mobilization of energies in order to save the remaining prisoners and honours the two monarchists, martyrs of their cause and their engagement.

Sylvain ROUSSILLON
General secretary of the IMC
http://internationale.monarchiste.com

International Monarchist Conference Issues Plea for Mohammad Reza Ali Zamani

The International Monarchist Conference (IMC), confederal organization gathering 64 organizations monarchists representing 29 nations, protests against the judgment with the capital punishment of Mohammad-Reza Ali-Zamani, a 37 years old monarchist militant member oAssociation of the Iran Monarchy Association.

He had appeared last on August 8, in company of the french woman Clothilde REISS before the revolutionary Tribunal of Teheran Mohammad Reza Ali Zamani has just been condemned to dead for its role in the protest movement which shook the Islamic Republic, after the presidential election of June.

It s' acts of the first capital punishment marked by Iranian justice against one of the participants in the demonstrations which followed the disputed re-election on June 12 of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the presidency of the Republic.

Mohammad-Reza Ali-Zamani is today in deferment until November 4, 2009.

Beyond the political commitment monarchist of Mohammad-Reza Ali-Zamani, it is the whole of the international community which must mobilize itself today to save the life of a political prisoner condemned to died of the simple fact of its opposition to an illegitimate and theocratic islamist dictatorship.

In order to help with the mobilization of energies and the consciences, the International Monarchist Conference thus decided to create a “Comitee for the release of Mohammad-Reza Ali-Zamani” and launching a petition to save Mohammad-Reza Ali-Zamani. freezamani@monarchiste.com

Other initiatives are in preparation.
Sylvain ROUSSILLON General secretary of the IMC
http://internationale.monarchiste.com
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=151478437097

G-G Commends Iranian Promise to Halt Execution of Minors.

The Government of Her Majesty's Dominion of British West Florida commends Hossein Zabhi, the Iranian assistant Attorney Genera and the Iranian Government for announcing that they intend to discontinue the execution of children.

We are pleased that the Iranian Government has moved a step closer to affirmation of the Pensacola Convention on the Rights of the Child.