Divine assessment vs people power Jun 19, 2009
The Fars News Agency, talking about the recounting now underway, points out that in Kermanshah, a Kurdish province, there was "no irregularity". Ahmadinejad is as popular with Kurds as Palestinians are with Israeli Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu. (Asia Times Online)
US and Iran stuck at pre-dialogue Apr 29, 2009
Some 54 Iranian pilgrims were massacred by suicide bombers in Iraq, 20 or so Iranian policemen were killed near Kermanshah by the Kurdish terrorist group PJAK - Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan - and Iran apprehended a terror group that had planned bomb attacks ahead of the June presidential elections. Meanwhile, Egypt has criticized Iran for allegedly using its Hezbollah proxies to gain influence inside Egypt, a charge flatly denied by Iran. (Asia Times Online)
Alireza Jafarzadeh: Iran to Expand Terrorist Network in... Feb 14, 2008
To this end, the Qods Force has created a new command headquarters in the western Iranian city of Kermanshah, from where it directs three operational axes northern, central and southern ... To effectively train would-be Iraqi terrorists, the new command HQ in Kermanshah utilizes several fully equipped and staffed training bases ... Two bases in Kermanshah's Kenesht valley, the Jalil-Abad Hizbollah Base in Varamin near Tehran, and the Isfahan Training Base in central Iran are presently the... (Fox News)
Sneak peek at a desert Armageddon Jan 3, 2008
Qom, Ahwaz, Kermanshah), though Israel has the ability to attack all major Iranian cities, the casualties range from 16 to 28 million. The briefing states, "Iranian recovery is not possible in the normal sense of the term.". (Asia Times Online)
Ireland: Gay Execution in Iran Dec 12, 2007
Makwan was dragged at dawn from his jail cell in the Kermanshah Central Prison and hanged in secret within the prison, without the required presence of his lawyer and family, for the so-called "crime" of having had anal sexual relations, which the authorities claimed was rape, with boys of his own age eight years ago, when he was 13 ... "A few days later," according to Khalatbari, "the case was sent to Tehran, and despite the chief justice's opinion, Makwan's death sentence was confirmed and... (Zmag.org)
Iranian hanged after verdict stay Dec 7, 2007
The hanging took place on Wednesday morning at a prison in Kermanshah province in western Iran ... "On 11 November the head of the justice administration of Kermanshah received an order from the judiciary head, Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, to stop the verdict being carried out," the lawyer, Saeed Eqbali, was quoted as saying ... "But the case, which was supposed to be reviewed in Tehran, was sent back from there to Kermanshah, and the execution was carried out quickly," the lawyer said. (BBC News -- Africa)
56 comments Dec 7, 2007
"Mr. Mouloodzadeh was a 21-year-old Iranian citizen who was accused of committing "anal rape" with other young boys when he was 13 years old (8 years ago in 1999). However, at Mr. Mouloodzadeh's trial, all the witnesses retracted their pre-trial testimonies, claiming to have lied to the authorities under duress. Makvan also told the court that his confession was made under coercion and pleaded not guilty. On June 7, 2007, the Seventh District Criminal Court of Kermanshah in Western Iran found... (Human Events Online)
Iran hangs man despite court-ordered review Dec 7, 2007
During the trial in a court in the nearby city of Kermanshah, Mr. Moloudzadeh tried unsuccessfully to revoke his earlier confession to the crime, which he said was extracted under coercion ... But the case, which was supposed to be reviewed in Tehran, was sent back to Kermanshah, where local judicial authorities speedily approved the execution, and it was carried out quickly, the lawyer said. (Globe and Mail -- International)
Stay of execution fails to save Iranian man Dec 7, 2007
Makwan Mouloudzadeh, 20, was executed in the western city of Kermanshah, after being convicted for raping three boys in 2000 ... The execution was carried out in Kermanshah prison. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
Iran seen hanging man for raping boys Dec 6, 2007
Makwan Mouloudzadeh, 20, was put to death on Wednesday in a prison in the western province of Kermanshah, daily Etemad-e Melli said ... Human Rights Watch had called on the Islamic Republic to prevent Mouloudzadeh's execution, saying he was sentenced to death in May by a Kermanshah court even though it said all of his accusers had retracted their statements ... Etemad-e Melli on Thursday quoted Mouloudzadeh's lawyer Saeed Eghbali as saying that, contrary to Hashemi-Shahroudi's preliminary... (International Herald Tribune)
Spared by judge, Iranian hangs anyway Dec 6, 2007
Less than a month after Irans chief justice spared the life of a 21-year-old condemned to die for sex crimes allegedly committed at age 13, the young man was reportedly hanged Wednesday morning at a prison in Kermanshah province. "This is a shameful and outrageous travesty of justice and international human rights law," said Paula Ettelbrick, executive director of the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission, one of a number of human rights watchdogs that had focused attention on... (MSNBC -- International)
US tripped up over Iranian captives Nov 20, 2007
But officials of the Kurdistan Regional Government and the Kurdish president of Iraq, Jalal Talabani, publicly confirmed the Iranian government's assertion that Farhadi was a civilian official of the Kermanshah (a province in Iran) governor-general's office on a "commercial mission with the knowledge of the federal government in Baghdad and the government of Kurdistan" ... The political arm of the MEK, the National Council or Resistance of Iran, which had been providing information to US... (Asia Times Online)
Iran reviews execution for accused teenage rapist Nov 17, 2007
Etemad-e Melli, which only gave the first name of the accused, said he was arrested in September last year near his family home in the western province Kermanshah and paraded around the town of Paveh on a donkey. Human Rights Watch said in a statement this month that Iran leads the world in executing juvenile offenders -- those who are under 18 at the time of the crime. (The Star Online, Malaysia -- News)
Roots of the Kurdish struggle run deep Nov 3, 2007
It borders Iraq and Turkey and includes parts of Azerbaijan, Kermanshah, Ilam and Lorestan. These districts house most of the Iran's 4 million Kurds. (Asia Times Online)
* Turkey says attack on militants in Iraq `still on the table' Oct 29, 2007
Iran's Kordestan, Kermanshah and West Azarbaijan provinces, which border northern Iraq, have substantial Kurdish populations. This story has been viewed 169 times. (Taipei Times, Taiwan)
Turkey says all options open on Kurdish militants Oct 28, 2007
Iran's Kordestan, Kermanshah and West Azarbaijan provinces, which border northern Iraq, have substantial Kurdish populations. Mottaki, however, gave an equivocal answer to a question over whether Iran would support a Turkish military strike on northern Iraq against the militants. (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
Iranian women tackle rugby Oct 27, 2007
Other women's rugby teams in the country are from Golestan, Kerman, Kermanshah, Semnan, North Khorasan, Shiraz and Isfahan. Source: Agencies. (Aljazeera.Net)
Iranian women tackle rugby in Islamic republic... Oct 26, 2007
Other teams in the country are from Golestan, Kerman, Kermanshah, Semnan, North Khorasan, Shiraz and Isfahan. Copyright AFP 2007, AFP stories and photos shall not be published, broadcast, rewritten for broadcast or publication or redistributed directly or indirectly in any medium. (The Drudge Report)
Iran closes crucial border crossings, Kurds say Sep 25, 2007
Majid Ghafori, the governor of Iran's Kermanshah province, which borders northern Iraq, had threatened Sunday to shut the border if Mahmoud Farhadi, identified by Iran as a regional customs official, was not released. U.S. forces detained Farhadi in Sulaymaniya on Thursday, accusing him of providing weapons and training to Shiite militiamen on behalf of Iran's Revolutionary Guard. (Los Angeles Times)
Iran closes borders with Iraq's N region Sep 25, 2007
He noted Farhadi, who was is in charge of border trade in Iran's western Kermanshah province, had been invited by officials in the Iraqi northern Kurdistan region for some business affairs. Earlier on Monday, Jamal Abdullah, an Iraqi Kurdish government spokesman, also said that Iran has closed its five border crossing points with the Iraqi northern autonomous region. (Xinhuanet, China)
Iran shuts border with Iraq's Kurdish region: local official Sep 24, 2007
" He said the arrest had triggered an angry reaction from Tehran which has "threatened to close its border with the Kurdish region if Mahmudi Farhadi, a civilian employee of Kermanshah (province in western Iran) is not released". "This will handicap trade in the Kurdish region in this blessed month," he added in a reference to Ramadan, the holiest month in the Islamic calendar. The US military insists that the detainee is a Quds Force officer, saying they used a photograph to identify him.... (Yahoo News -- Top Stories)
Iraq Concedes Possible 'Security Vacuum' Sep 24, 2007
Hosseini said the man, who he identified as "Mr. Farhadi," was in charge of border transactions in the western Iranian province of Kermanshah and went to Iraq on an official invitation. He said Iran expects the Iraqi government to provide security for Iranian nationals there. (Newsmax)
Iraq Kurds urge Iranian's release Sep 22, 2007
The Kurdish regional government and the Iranian foreign ministry said the detained man was the head of cross-border trade for Kermanshah province in western Iran. The US has accused the Quds Force of helping arm Shia militias in Iraq. (BBC News -- Africa)
IPI project will reduce Indo-Pak tensions: Iran May 4, 2007
At a meeting with Pakistan Foreign Minister Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri in Kermanshah in western Iran on Wednesday, Ahmadinejad said "construction of a natural gas pipeline from Iran to India through Pakistan would not only lead to strengthening friendly ties among our three countries, but also decrease tensions in the entire region". Construction of the "peace pipeline" would lead to a lowering of tensions between India and Pakistan, which "is one of the reasons why Iran is looking for a trilateral... (Hindustan Times)
Tourists snub Persian treasures Apr 12, 2007
Bisotun Rock bas-reliefs at a site near the Zagros mountains in Kermanshah province. A big archaeological pull is the carving with an inscription ordered by Darius I. (Guardian Unlimited -- World)
CLAUDE SALHANI: Iran training Iraqi death squads? Mar 23, 2007
The Islamic Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force has allocated several bases in the cities of Tehran, Karaj, Qom, Isfahan, as well as provinces near Iraqi borders, such as Kermanshah, Ilam, Kurdistan and Khuzestan -- using veteran commanders -- to train death squads and terrorist networks, the Iranian dissident said. These individuals travel to Iran in different groups, under different covers and use various legal and illegal borders, and go back to Iraq after their training is complete. (Washington Times)
