Iran has unveiled a brand new finger-amputating machine that it will use in its increasingly strict punishment of thieves.

Photographs published by Iran’s official press agency show a blindfolded man having his fingers severed by what appears to be a crude amputation device.

The Iranian regime's public prosecutor in Sari (northern Iran) on Saturday ( January 26)  announced the amputation of  fingers of a prisoner in city's prison. The prisoner had been charged with robbery.

Two days earlier, regime’s henchmen amputated four fingers of a 29 year old man in public in Shiraz. The city's public prosecutor Ali Alghasi described the amputation as “serious warning” to all those who “cause insecurity”.

British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom Press release

A group of cross-Party MPs on Tuesday urged the British government to cut ties with the Iranian government and support the democratic opposition to bring about regime change.

At a meeting of the British Parliamentary Committee for Iran Freedom in Committee Room 14 of the House of Commons, the MPs and Peers reiterated that the Tehran regime's nuclear weapons projects and meddling in Syria and Iraq made it the greatest threat to international peace and security.

Al Babeliya TV, 19 Jan 2013 –The Association of Jurists in Defense of Liberty Residents said the Iraqi government prevented Senator Robert Torricelli and Dr. Schneebaum from visiting Camp Ashraf to resolve the issue of Ashraf and Liberty residents’ property.

Mr Gholamhossein Sadeghi, one of the most prominent merchants in Tehran’s Bazaar and a member of the National Council of Resistance of Iran, passed away on Wednesday in a Baghdad hospital at the age of 74.

Mr Sadeghi died of heart attack two weeks after a major, and much delayed, operation.

The UN agency also condemned the rise in public executions in Iran

The United Nations human rights office on Tuesday (22nd of January), strongly condemned the execution of Ali Naderi, a 21-year-old who was sentenced to death for a crime he allegedly committed when he was 17.

Since two weeks ago, Iraqi forces have been hampering evacuation of sewage from Camp Liberty. For example on Monday, January 22, sewage tankers- except for few- were prevented from leaving the camp. This new anti-humane attitude is being carried out upon the order of Sadeq Mohammad Kazem aimed at harassing the residents.

The Iranian regime's henchmen chopped off a hand of a man in public on Thursday in southern city of Shiraz, the state-run news agency Mehr reported.

The victim, a 29 years old man also was sentenced to three years imprisonment. He had been charged with stealing and adultery.

Sunday Telegraph, By Christopher Booker - If it were reported that a senior UN official had been drawn into a conspiracy which, having already led to death or injury for hundreds of innocent people, would then trick thousands more into thinking they would reach freedom, only to find that they were trapped in a vile concentration camp, this might seem pretty serious. If the same official was then revealed to have fabricated a document assuring the world that all was well, the scandal might seem even worse.

The humane and moral virtues of Lord Tarsem King are a flame that shall be never dimmed

Mrs. Mraym Rajavi, the President-elect of the Iranian Resistance offered her condolences on the sudden demise of Lord Tarsem King to the English people and UK Parliament, the Parliamentary Group for Iran Freedom, and especially to his wife Mrs. Mohinder son Raj.

The execution in Iran this week of a 21-year-old man for a crime he allegedly committed while apparently still a juvenile shows a deplorable disregard for international law, Amnesty International said.

According to state-run media agency Mehr, Ali (Kianoush) Naderi was executed in Raja’i Shahr Prison in Karaj, north-west of Tehran on Wednesday.

I have long been an opponent of the present Iranian regime. In short, I think that President Ahmadinejad a truly wicked man. Nevertheless, I do not favour other countries, including Britain and the United States of America, intervening in the internal affairs of Iran, by which I mean, aiding and abetting the overthrow of the present regime. I have always favoured peaceful change from within the country itself.

• Document dated January 19, 2012; UNHCR cannot certify and/or verify that Camp Liberty meets Humanitarian Standards

• Kobler on January 31, 2012: The infrastructure and facilities of Liberty are in accordance with international standards

• Call on the U.S. and the UN for immediate and impartial investigation into the criminal activities of Martin Kobler in making Ashraf residents homeless and sending them to Camp Liberty prison under the banner of the United Nations and the UN High Commissioner for Refugees