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* * Below: Georgian women protest stoning and execution of Iranian women, in front of Iranian embassy in Tbilisi.

* * Firebrand Mullah Ahmad Khatami (not to be mistaken with former president Mohammad Khatami) who spoke at the pulpit at Tehran’s Friday (July 23rd) prayer called for Revolutionary Guards and Basij to be always alert as the flames of sedition can be fueled at any time. Khatami, a member of the Assembly of Experts of Leadership added: “The Continuation of people’s protests against the Iranian regime and the Supreme Leadership can flare up again, at any time. Our Revolutionary Guards, members of our Basij and protectors of our Islamic revolution should stand up to and block any advancement by our revolution’s enemies. Suffocate all conspiracies and inroads by the traitors, otherwise, chaos will break out again. Though for now, the elements of chaos and their movement has suffered a setback, there is always the possibility of their reemergence and the smoldering fire underneath the ashes to reignite.”

* * Iranian regime guards attack defenseless people of the township of Khaash, in the province of Sistan and Baluchestan. Received reports indicate that following the Jundollah suicide bombings in Zahedan last week, the Iranian regime has stepped up all efforts to further intimidate and oppress the people of the province of Sistan and Baluchestan.

The township of Khaash is the most far flung and poorest parts of that province. The residents who are Sunni Baluchis are said to be the latest victims of abuse and brutality at the hands of the Iranian regime’s agents. Caught between the ferocious conflict between Jundollah and the Iranian regime, the residents of that area are now the latest in the long line of abused minorities in Iran.

* * In a shootout in the center of Vienna, on Thursday afternoon a man was killed and two others were severely wounded.

According to police, that after a business meeting at CERAGEM Holdings Group, a dispute broke out among business partners. According to police spokeswoman Iris Seper the four Iranian men had met each other at 4 p.m. at the CERAGEM offices, on the second floor of a professional building in the Weihburggasse, to discuss business matters. But about 5 p.m. one of the men drew a pistol and fired several times on the others.  A 75-year-old man was struck and killed; the other two parties a 57-year-old was shot several time in the chest, and is said to be in critical condition as was the third, a 66-year-old man.

The assailant shot his victims with a 7.62 mm pistol manufactured in Eastern Europe. A women who was in another room at the time of the shooting was unharmed.

That 70-year-old suspect, who turned himself in on Thursday evening after the fatal dispute, has himself suffered a heart attack, shortly after his arrest and had to be hospitalized. Iris Seper said on Friday, that though the man was in stable condition, an interrogation was still not possible. One of the two seriously wounded victims on the other hand, is still hovering between life and death.

Seper said that the mild heart attack, the suspect was not played. Although he was on Friday morning no longer in critical condition, the police must wait for a hearing on the permission of the doctors. As long as the background would indeed remain unclear. The 66-year-old seriously injured, who had escaped with a Brustdurchschuss, is, according to police on the road to recovery. The 75-year-old victim, the alleged perpetrator was hit three times in the chest, was as of Friday morning still in danger.

The  reason for the dispute remains unclear. What the business meeting was about, also remains unclear. According to it’s website, the CERAGEM Group and its subsidiaries operate a number of projects inside Iran and claim to do “import/export” of gas, oil, cars and car parts.  However, the 75-year-old Iranian man who was shot and killed is said to be a well-known drug lord in Austria.

* * Extreme heat worsens already unsanitary conditions at Tehran’s Evin prison. A lack of funds to cool down the prison has lead to the spread of various diseases as well as an infestation of head and body lice. There is no cold running water and the sanitary facilities are also said to be out of order.

* * Iranians in Italy chant “death to the dictator” during Iranian National football team match with Italian team Lazio. In 2006 Lazio played a friendly match against Iranian team in Austria, where they defeated the Iranian football club 4-1.

Iran’s channel 3 broadcast the match live. At first the sounds of the spectators chanting could be heard however after several minutes the sound of the chanting spectators was turned down or off.

The team returns to Iran after finishing the two-week training camp. The three-time Asian champion is preparing itself for the AFC Asian Cup which will be held in Qatar in January 2011.