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The attack on the offices of the Executives of Construction Party came less than 48 hours before the country votes in the first municipal poll since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, an election that has heightened tensions between the various political factions.
Several bursts of automatic weapons fire were aimed from the road at the building in the north of the Iranian capital at around 9:00 p.m (1730 GMT) Wednesday, Hamshahri newspaper reported.
According to Akhbar newspaper, three people were lightly injured in the attack, while the English-language newspaper Iran News said one female party employee was wounded.
Mosques Collect Money to Kill Rushdie - Mosques in a northern Iranian town have begun collecting donations to help finance the assassination of British author Salman Rushdie, a Tehran evening newspaper reported Wednesday.
The mosques in the town of Behshahr have founded an "Islamic People's Association" charged with collecting money to carry out the "fatwa" or religious decree condemning Rushdie to death, Kayhan said.
"The association intends to apply the fatwa of Imam Khomenei and was set up by cultural centers and mosques in Behshahr," the newspaper said.
Recent Clashes and Protests in Iran :
Kurdistan-T housands of Iranian Kurds have clashed with
security forces during angry demonstrations. The demonstrations were initially
allowed to protest against
the capture by Turkey of the Kurdish rebel leader,
Abdullah Ocalan. However the people took the opportunity and shouted slogans
against the Islamic Republic and its leaders.
Reports from the region say that several people were killed and around 2000 people were arrested.
Iranian Kurdish groups say that security forces opened fire on demonstrators chanting slogans against the Iranian government.
Babol, Mazanderan-Residents of a number of villages around the city of Babol (northern Mazandaran province) staged a protest on Sunday, February 16, over the burial of the city's trash near their residential areas. They confronted the State Security Force and municipality workers dispatched to the area and thwarted the implementation of the plan.
The location chosen by the municipality as the city dump is near a wooded area in Enjil See region of Babol Kenar where 6,000 families live in seven villages.
During the clashes, three residents were killed and 200 were arrested. Some of the municipality's machines and equipment was also destroyed.
Jarjam, Khorasan -Riot police have clashed with groups of youths in Jajarm in northeastern Iran over a decision to merge the town with another nearby locality, newspapers here reported Thursday.
The Tehran press reports, which were confirmed by a number of residents of Jajarm, said there had been "isolated clashes" in neighborhoods in the town of some 15,000 people over the past two days.
According to the papers, a number of public buildings and banks were sacked in Jajarm, located in the Bojnurd region of Khorasan province.
The unrest follows a decision by the interior ministry to amalgamate Jajarm with a smaller town, Garmeh, located some nine kilometers (five miles) to the west, said a teacher in Jajarm who did not want to be identified.
We shall bring you more news on this later on.
Amir-Entezam's Lawyers Walk Out - Lawyers for Mr. Abbas Amir-Entezam have walked out after their client was refused permission to be present in his own trial!.
The incident happened just a few days after calls for unity between the feuding factions of the mullah state, during the celeberations of the revolution's 20th anniversary.
German National Shot Dead in Tehran - A man thought to be a German national was kidnapped and shot dead in Iran on Saturday after a gunman stopped his car on the side of a major highway, the official IRNA news agency said.
The gunman forced all passengers out of the victim's car before kidnapping him and then shooting him after a brief struggle, it said, adding that the dead man was "apparently a German national."
While trying to escape, the gunman then killed a policeman before being shot dead himself by security forces, IRNA said without elaborating.
The incident took place on the highway south of Tehran running from Kashan to the holy city of Qom.
Leaders of the 330 strong cross-party group of MPs who signed the statement said Britain should not have changed its policy towards Iran until there was clear evidence of greater freedom of expression and human rights.
``Why have we become friends with one of the nastiest regimes in the world? Where is the evidence of change? The hangings go on, the stonings go on, the persecution of writers goes on,'' Labour MP Robin Corbett told reporters.
He said the group was seeking a meeting with Foreign Secretary Robin Cook in the hope of persuading him to change Britain's position.
The statement said little had changed since President Mohammad Khatami came to power 18 months ago and quoted a report from pressure group Amnesty International condemning the Iranian justice system.
``The UK should not give any trade concessions, credits or loans to a regime which is incapable of change and which is under increasing social and economic pressures from the people to whom it brutally denies basic rights and democratic representation,'' the statement said.
It followed a similar declaration signed by a majority of members of the U.S. House of Representatives last year.
Last September, Iran and Britain agreed to raise diplomatic relations to ambassadorial level after Tehran dissociated itself from any potential attempts to kill British author Salman Rushdie and from bounties offered for his death by Iranian organisations.
See the open letter by Mrs. Amir-Entezam.
Clashes in Sanandaj - Reports from Sanandaj indicate a violent clash between the people and the opressive regime's security forces.
Pictures of the islamic republic leaders were torn by the people having destroyed several jeeps of the Militia.
Several people have been injured and arrested by the mullahs' forces.