Stop Fundamentalism, June 24, 2008 - Two students took their own lives when severely pressured by the security forces in northern city of Lahijan and southeastern city of Zahedan. 

A female student whose identity was not disclosed commit suicide when she was called to the security office in Lahijan University. The student apparently jumped off the 4th floor suite where the office is located. She pronounced dead immediately after the fall.

In a separate but related incident another student took his life by taking an overdose of prescription drugs in the southeastern city of Zahedan in the troubled Sistan and Baluchistan Province.

Reza Shafa
Ali Larijani, long time mullahs' top negotiator in the nuclear stand-off with the West and former representative of the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei's in the regime's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), has now been elevated to the Majlis' (parliament) new speaker. Larijani himself a veteran Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander has a habit of working with his own team of security cronies since he headed the state television.