April 29, 2010

UPDATE ON IRAN - April 29, 2010

The Beginning of the End of the Clerical Rule in Iran
No.588

The Downfall


Suppressive measures to escalate the climate of fear and terror
Tehran, April 27, 2010

At the wake of Labor Day regime’s suppressive agents try to escalate the climate of fear and terror in any manner possible. In Tehran khamenei’s mercenaries sit in main squares of the city such as Vali-e-Asr, Imam Hossein and Vanak in black cars and once in a while they bring out a camera from the window and pretend that they are filming passer byes.
In this manner they try to show as if they have complete security control over the city.


Parliament continues its disputes with Ahmadinejad’s cabinet
Tehran, April 27, 2010

Alireza Zakani an MP said: “we insist on our complaints in regard with Rahimi, Ahmadinejad’s first deputy. He added: “this issue must be pursued by Judiciary System aside political or fractional issues”.
Mohammadreza Khabaz another MP attacked Ahmadinejad and said: “the government shouldn’t think that National Development Cash Asset is its own safe. The government has used part of backup currency illegally and has not paid any attention to the private section.
Moghimi, MP said: “we don’t know how Ahmadinejad predicted that there will be an earthquake. We haven’t received any new report from the experts”.
He continued: “it is better for Ahmadinejad to implement the Sophisticated City Plan which has been approved five years ago instead of giving hollow promises to people with no backup for their expenditure”.
In a counter attack following a complaint made by Ahmadinejad’s cabinet MP, Abdoljabar Karami was summoned by Prosecutor Office of Tehran.
Karami is charged with offending the government and its officials.
Referring to the disputes Daryoush Qanbari, MP, warned the dominant band: “the course of action adopted by the government eliminates other fractions”.

Sanctions work
Tehran, April 27, 2010

In fear of international sanctions the clerical regime announced that it is storing gasoline.

Resistance

Protest in Qazvin
Tehran, April 27, 2010

In Qazvin about 20000 m of lands under the Vali-e-Asr Bridge close to Mar Mar Hotel was confiscated by City’s Providing Council. Land owners protested against the act.
The council decided to pay 50 for each meter of the land to hush them up but they didn’t accept the money and resisted.
Then SSF attacked them with batons and other suppressive equipments to help the officials of the council. They even destroyed some buildings belonging to the residents.
The protests and consecutive clashes have started since one week ago but the protesting residents have received no answer other than suppression.

Suppression


Hitting on the drum of improper veil a mean for suppressing women more

Tehran, April 27, 2010

Khamenei’s representative in Hajj and Pilgrimage Organization, mullah Seyyed Ghazi Asgar expressed his concern about what he called “export of improper veil” to Saudi Arabia and said: “some Iranian women are negligent even in the land of revelation. Female pilgrims will have uniforms”.
He added: “we are negligent about veil issue in the country and we are exporting this to Saudi Arabia too”.
Ghazi Asgar explained that there has been no complaint by Saudi Arabia about the veil of Iranian women but added: “it is not about Saudi Arabia, it is about Iran”.
As summer comes and at the wake of the first anniversary of protests after the election forcing women and girls to comply with what mullahs comprehend of Islamic veil has become one of the main concerns of religious fascism’s suppressive SSF, parliament and mullahs.

ٍRegime’s subordinates babbling about veil

Tehran, April 27, 2010
Recently regime’s Interior Minister, Mohammad Najar announced the execution of “veil and chastity plan” in the current year and Ahmadimoghadam commander of SSF said that the Interior Ministry and the Judiciary are having a new plan for confronting coarsen acts in the society.
Ahmadimoghadam added: “Satellites have put religious people in jeopardy and this is something to worry about because even religious families have a tendency towards these media”.
Efat Shariati (fe) MP complained about the outfit of airline stewardesses and said: “when you get on a plain the stewardess advises female passengers to watch their veil but she doesn’t do that herself. She has make up and wear’s tight outfit”.

Another site filtered
Tehran, April 27, 2010

 In fear of the uprising and vast anti regime protests the clerical regime filtered Moalem Site the site belonging to Iran’s Teachers Caucus (in Iran Teachers Day is on May 2).
In a statement the caucus announced that this caucus will go on hunger strike on May 1 and 2 in protest to the terrible conditions of teachers under the mullah’s rule.
Currently two of the teachers Farzad Kamangar and Abdolreza Qhanbari are condemned to execution and many others are awaiting their trials.

Three people hanged, another man lashed in public
April 27, 2010 -
In the past week, three people were hanged in Mashhad and Dezful while the flogging sentence of another person was carried out in public by the Department of Justice.
Quds state-run daily said today that the execution of two people in Mashhad prison was carried out. Their names were not mentioned in this report.
The Khuzestan Justice Department also announced yesterday that last Tuesday (April 20, 2010) a person by the name of Rahman R. was hanged in Dezful Prison.
In a statement, the Khuzestan Justice Department also said that a person identified as Reza S. was lashed in public in the Homafaran Intersection in Masjed Soleiman on April 20. The number of lashes was not specified.

Security forces shoot and kill Kurd man in Marivan
April 25, 2010
- According to reports from Kurdistan, Kamran Faraji, son of Hassanali, was killed after being directly targeted by security forces in the Khanoum Sheikhan Base in the border town of Marivan.

10 months without visits; 20 year old man kept in state of limbo in prison
April 27, 2010
- Ayub Qanbarpourian, who was arrested during the post election protests, has been kept in prison for 10 months without any visits with his family and relatives.
He has been taken to court 3 times in these 10 months but no sentence has been issued for him and he is kept in a total state of limbo.
Qanbarpourian, 20, is from a village in Lorestan and worked as a construction worker in Tehran. He participated in the peaceful demos in protest to election results on June 12 and was arrested and jailed. He was the breadwinner of his family and in the past few months, his family has been suffering from severe financial problems.

Appalling state of political prisoners in cellblock 350 in Evin Prison
April 27, 2010
- Credible reports say that the living conditions of prisoners in cellblock 350 in Evin Prison are very poor.
The crowdedness and the unprecedented number of prisoners in this cell is way over the capacity of this block and these prisoners are denied from minimum welfare and hygiene facilities which have made conditions very difficult for them.
According to this report, the sanitary condition and the state of medical treatment have reached a critical point and many prisoners have come down with the influenza and other contagious diseases.
The very low quality of food, cleanliness and the presence of more than 40 to 45 prisoners in every cell has caused many problems for the prisoners.
The condition in block 350 is so concerning that in the past few days, the prosecutor and a number of interrogators from the Revolutionary Court visited this block and were informed of the many problems prisoners were facing, but nothing has been done to solve them yet. 

Dutch – Iranian woman under torture in Evin Prison
April 27, 2010
- According to reports, a female political prisoner has been held in a state of limbo in the notorious cellblock 209 in Evin Prison since her arrest on Ashura (December 27, 2009). Zahra Bahrami is a resident of Holland and has a dual Iranian and Dutch nationality. She came to Iran to visit her child.
This 45-year-old political prisoner is kept along with two other prisoners in one cell and has been banned from visiting her family since her arrest. Bahrami is suffering from depression because of the physical and psychological torture she was subjected to in prison.
Her family has been under pressure and threats by interrogators banning them from publishing news on Bahrami. They have been threatened that if they do, they will also be in trouble.
Bahrami was arrested in the Ashura protests after she was attacked by security forces and taken to cellblock 209 in Evin Prison. She was then transferred to a solitary cell in the Sepah Cellblock in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj where she was mentally and physically tortured and immorally insulted by interrogators of the Ministry of Intelligence to give televised interviews. She was forced to give a couple of interviews.
Interrogators broadcasted her interviews after she signed a written pledge of cooperation and used her interviews as confessions against her. She has been charged with Moharebeh, acting against national security, and being a member of the Royalist Association among other things. 

Iran arrests another Baha'i

April 27, 2010
- On the evening of April 27, Foad Khanjani, a Baha'i man, was arrested by security forces.
Foad Khanjani is the grandson of Jamaloddin Khanjani, one of the seven Baha'i leaders in Iran.


Hospitalized student taken to prison from hospital
April 27, 2010
- Ali Parviz, a student at Khajeh Nasir University in Tehran who went on a leave from prison before the Iranian New Year was taken back to prison from the hospital by security forces despite his critical condition.
He went on a furlough on a  300 million toman (about 300,000 dollars) bail and after going to the doctor because of constant asthma attacks he was hospitalized in the Special Lung Hospital of Masih Daneshvari after the doctor diagnosed him with lung infection and internal bleeding in his lungs which he had gotten in prison.
Last week after the end of his furlough, his family asked the representative of the prosecutor in Evin Prison that his furlough be extended because of the fact that he was hospitalized. But their constant pleas in this regard were left unanswered. Immediately after it was announced that he was hospitalized, the representative of the prosecutor went to the hospital at night and interrogated the Ali Parviz and all the hospital personnel and asked for his medical records. 
The frequent visits of the prosecutor's representative to the hospital and a visit by the representative of the medical examiner on behalf of the prosecutor led Ali Parviz's doctor to release him from prison before the end of his treatment. After the announcement of his release from prison, agents of the prosecutor's office immediately came to the hospital for his arrest and separated him from his family. They took him to Evin Prison with an ambulance.
Ali Parviz was arrested on November 3, 2009 after security forces raided his home and was under constant interrogations while in a solitary cell. He was sentenced to 3 years of prison in an initial sentence by the 28th branch of the Revolutionary Court headed by Moqiseh. Parviz is a computer engineering student at Khajeh Nasir University.

Students Committee in Iran (Supporters of PMOI)

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