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Regime-orchestrated protests in support of nuclear activities

Following the weekly Friday prayers spectacle, the regime's operatives and hirelings took to the streets of various cities and towns around Iran to demonstrate their support for the Islamic Republic's nuclear activities.

They yelled: "Nuclear energy is our absolute right. The Board of Governors' session is an American conspiracy; Death to France, Death to Germany, Death to Britain, Death to the U.S...."

According to reports from the regime-run news agencies: "These protestors called the efforts of the regime's authorities in reinstating the nuclear activities as a courageous act." Their placards and banners read: "The suspension of the centrifuges was an idle thought" AND "If the Supreme Leader commands, we will sacrifice our lives for him."

No visitors allowed for imprisoned activist Payman Peeraan

Tabriz News - Human Rights Service: Imprisoned activist, Payman Piran has had his visitation rights taken away.

Based on received reports, Peeraan's mother who tried to visit her son on Wednesday, October 5th at Evin Prison in Tehran, was turned away by confrontational officials.

Peeraan who has served 18 months from his 6 years sentence has not been given permission [unlike all other prisoners] for either a "medical" or "deserved" furlough from prison.

When is Soltanis' trial?

Based on reports from the regime-run news agency ILNA, Massoumeh Dehqaan, wife of imprisoned defense attorney, Abdolfatah Soltani has criticized the regime for failure to investigate the accusations leveled against her husband. Seventy days since Soltani's "temporary" arrest has passed and there have been no developments.

Dehqaan said: "If my husband is guilty of misconduct why is it not being looked into. Otherwise, why is he still in detention? It appears that it is the public prosecutor himself who has a beef with my husband as my husband has spoken out against him; does the religious and common law permit the plaintiff and the judge to be the same person?"

Mullah Jannati: "Sometimes we are overcome with fear"

84-year-old Mullah Jannati, the Secretary of the Guardian Council of the regime, in one of his grandstanding Friday Prayer sermons, mentioning the regime's nuclear crisis, revealed the deep fear and distress of several top brass of the Islamic regime where the referral of the IRI dossier to the U.N. Security Council is concerned. He said: "The problem with what we're doing is that sometimes fear gets the best of us and we can see that happening where the nuclear issues are concerned. We should not fear sanctions however because after all what we have developed in terms of our military industry and building missiles is quite progressive; we have developed these in spite of sanctions otherwise, we would be like those Arab countries who are chumps for their sustenance and then when the day comes that something goes wrong, they show just how two-faced and deceitful they really are. We are not looking to have sanctions put on us but if they do, we will not surrender. We are not as weak as they think. Westerners always defraud those who sit down to negotiate with them. I wish we had not started what we cannot finish."

President of the Fine Arts University issues a statement to protesting students

The Fine Arts University students' sit-in is now on day 5. After days of willful dereliction, the president of the university finally issued a statement that read: "The issuance of the order against 3 students has been completed via legal processes and with concise consideration of the rules; based on these, said students, prior to having presented their request for reconsideration, claiming the original order to be unwarrantable, have exploited the chance to start a riot and make trouble at the beginning of a new scholastic year...just to be defiant."

The students have been protesting the suspension of two university terms of three of their fellow classmates; over the 5-day-long sit-in, repeated efforts were made to speak with University authorities in order to properly address the problem, , however, no one had come forward.

One of the protesting students said: "Not one of the University directors came to meet and dialogue with us. They even blundered by contacting our families to have them come and take us home!"

IRI Foreign Minister: "Next step, Uranium enrichment at the Natanz plant"

Manouchehr Mot'taki, the regime's Foreign Minister, upon his return from a quick trip around a few of the Persian Gulf countries, said: "The resolution prepared by the Board of Governors of the IAEA, must be corrected in the next session. We are intent on enriching Uranium in our Natanz plant. It is evident that the regime is not interested in making extrajudicial commitments and if the resolution is not in fact corrected in the next session of the Board of Governors and they insist on carrying it out, then obviously the regime will not be compelled to adhere to the
NPT."