May 12, 2010

UPDATE ON IRAN - No. 598 – May 12, 2010

The Beginning of the End of the Clerical Rule in Iran
No.598

The Downfall

Mullahs’ nightmare
Tehran, May 10, 2010

An internet base belonging to Khamenei’s band called Reporters Club quoted Vali Ismaili an MP of the fraction on last Sunday as: “the call for a march on June 12 is the starting point of a new sedition thus Interior Ministry must never accept this call. The heads of sedition have imposed heavy materialistic and spiritual damages on the System. They have laid open the grounds for foreign conspiracies and domestic seditions…:.
Ismaili continued: “how dare those who by acting against national security and interests have caused the death of tens in the events after the election want to continue their anti Islamic and anti Iranian acts and ask for official permission. For sure the System will not retreat and will punish them as necessary”.

The imposter Khatami yields to the end to Khamenei
Tehran, May 10, 2010

Regime’s former president, Khatami, said that if there is more pressure on the defeated fraction “the way will be open for those whom we don’t want to and it will be against the whole System”.
Talking amongst some members of defeated fraction Khatami obviously lied and shamelessly offended the political prisoners and said: “most of those under detention are those who have proved that they like the System and they have even stood in front of those who wanted to conspire against Islamic Republic”.
He actually endorsed trial and punishment of those who participated in the protests and added: “these people are accused with charges that is suitable for the enemies of Iran, Islam and revolution…”.

More check points
Tehran, May 10, 2010

An ISC member reported that in fear of the anniversary of the Uprising new check points are established one of them is located in Afsarieh region in Tehran.


Resistance


The following reports of resistance were narrated by ISC members
Bandar Abbas, May 10, 2010

In protest to the misogynous regime’s plan of compulsory veil female students of Hormozgan burned the directive called as ‘moral directive’ in their dormitory.
Tehran, May 10, 2010-
Writing anti regime slogans has increased in some regions of Tehran including region one, Zaferaneih (north of Tehran), Velenjak (north of Tehran) and some other regions.
Though the agents cover the slogans with paint but they can be read from beneath mostly inviting for a march on the anniversary of the Uprising or reading ‘death to Khamenei’.
Tehran, May 10, 2010

Students are gathering signatures in Tehran University’s Department of biology to prevent the ousting of those professors who support the students.
Tehran, May 10, 2010
Cry of nightly protests; Allah O Akbar on roof tops is heard in different regions of Tehran at the wake of the anniversary of the Uprising. In some regions people have decided to continue their nightly protests till June 12. One of these regions is Shahrake Apadana.

Suppression

Prison officials refuse to hand over bodies of executed political prisoners to family in fear of protests
May 10, 2010

Evin Prison officials refused to hand over the bodies of five political prisoners who were executed in the Evin prison on May 9, 2010, to their families.
According to reports, the families of these prisoners went to the Revolutionary Court and Evin Prison requesting the bodies of their loved ones but Prison and Court officials brought up security reasons not to hand over the bodies saying that they have to consider the circumstances. Officials said that until further notice and until it is determined that the bodies can be handed over without any problems they will not give the bodies for burial.
Prison officials told Farzad Kamangar’s family to only take his personal items but his family refused and stressed on receiving his body.
The family of Shirin Alamhouli, another executed political prisoner, have also not been able to receive their daughter’s body despite being referred to the Behesht Zahra Cemetery and the Kahrizak Coroners.

Iran cuts off cell phone and internet lines in Sanandaj and Kamyaran in fear of protests
May 10, 2010

The Kurdistan Communications Company cut off cell phone and internet lines to prevent protest gatherings in Sanandaj and Kamyaran.
According to reports, this company cut off cell phone lines and internet lines in Sanandaj and Kamyaran in the morning.

Government agents beat protesting students in Beheshti University
May 10, 2010

According to reports, after Ahmadinejad left the Abu-reihan Hall in Beheshti University following his surprise visit to this university, agents of the Protection Department attacked and beat protesting students. These forces had cut off the university dormitory’s internet lines from the night before to prevent the spread of this news.

Three arrested in front of Tehran University
Tehran, May 10, 2010

As the families of 5 executed political prisoners of May 9 announced that they will go for a protest gathering in front of Tehran University since 10 in the morning on Monday May 10 more than 100 motorcyclists of Especial Units were stationed at Enghelab Square. The distance between the university and the square was covered by more than a thousand suppressive forces. Three were arrested in front of the university and transferred to police vans.

Executed political prisoner were under pressure to request amnesty from Khamenei
May 10, 2010

An analysis of the experience of political prisoners in the last few years in Iran shows that putting political prisoners and prisoners of conscience under pressure to write letters requesting amnesty from Khamenei has been the policy of intelligence agent interrogators for years. Despite knowing that many of those on death row are innocent, they do this to satisfy some officials of the Islamic Republic.
“You get to the point where you are forced to write the letter. If you don’t, your execution is certain. It is very hard to know that you will be executed and not write the letter”, a former political prisoner explained.
Khalil Bahramian, Farzad Kamangar’s lawyer said, “Farzad was also innocent. His interrogator had admitted to his innocence but wanted Farzad to write a letter requesting amnesty from Khamenei something that Farzad refused to do”.
“If he wrote the letter, it meant that he had actually done something wrong”, the lawyer of this executed political prisoner added.
Farhad Vakili, another political prisoner who was executed with him was also pressured to write a letter to Khamenei to request amnesty. But he refused and told his wife and friends that he would rather be executed than write such a letter.

A political prisoner abducted!
Tehran, May 9, 2010

ISC reports that a group of political prisoners of Karaj’s Gohardasht Prison have issued a statement asking for help from international bodies and free media for finding political prisoner Rasool Hardani 27.
In the statement it is explained that Mr. Hardani who has been on a treatment leave has been abducted along with two others. They have last been seen in Tehran’s Bureau of Detectives and then transferred from there to an unknown location on Wednesday March 17. Some people seeing him at the bureau had called his brother informing him of the event.
Mr. Khaled Hardani started a search in different suppressive organs of regime but in vein.

Savage torturing of political prisoner Kazemi
Tehran, May 9, 2010

The henchmen of clerical regime in ward 209 of Evin Prison have viciously tortured death row political prisoner Mr. Jafar Kazemi father of a PMOI member residing in Ashraf City, Iraq. They want him to confess in regime’s TV shows.
ISC reported that Mr. Kazemi was arrested on Aug.18, 2010 on charge of conspiring against the clerical regime and the fact that his child was in Ashraf. He went under torture for two months in the dreadful ward of 209 in Evin Prison.
Regime’s court condemned him to death on the charge of Moharebe, propagating against regime’s System, acting against regime’s security, organizing students of Amirkabir University, meeting families of former political prisoners and other charges.
The decree was endorsed by Ahmad Zargar the head of branch 36 of regime’s courts.
Ahmad Zargar was one of the elements of the massacre of political prisoners in 1988.
Currently henchmen of Evin being led by Alavi, Intelligence Ministry’s vicious interrogator, impose severe tortures on Mr. Jafari.
He is continuously kicked at head and face, his teeth are broken and he is injured seriously at his shoulders and ribs. Mr. Jafari has lost lots of weight and has bleed several times from mouth and nose.
Alavi has threatened him that if he does not surrender, his wife and children will be arrested and tortured in front of him.

High chance of death row, political prisoner under torture
May 10, 2010

According to credible reports, Kurd political prisoner Aziz Mohammadzadeh who was sentenced to death in a court in Saqez on charges of membership in a Kurd opposition party and acting against national security has probably died under torture while on a hunger strike. He had gone on a hunger strike in protest to his sentence. Security forces in Saqez have transferred him to an unknown location and there has been no news on his whereabouts for months despite constant pursuits by his family.
All relevant government institutions have denied the existence of such a prisoner in their detention centers and this has led to serious concerns for his family and there is high chance of his death under torture.
Aziz Mohammadzadeh, 26 is from the town of Baneh and was arrested on October 13, 2009 by security forces in this city and taken to the Baneh Detention Center. He was transferred to Saqez Prison after 3 months of severe torture.

More suppressive plans
Tehran, May 10, 2010

In fear of people’s wrath against the clerical rule Pasdar Ahmad Roozbehani said that the ‘moral security’ plan that was executed in minimums due to the seditions of last year will be fully executed. He said even last year they had confiscated 14 pieces of parts of satellite equipments including dishes, receivers and LMBs.
He said that importing satellite receivers is an organized act because the regime is at soft-war in regard with satellites and internet.
Roozbehani showed his regime’s weakness and said: “it is for 100% that when satellite equipments are imported into our country it is not for profit it is because they want to bring their programs into our homes and that is intentional for sure”.

Security climate surges in Ilam
Ialm, May 10, 2010

Security climate in Ilam was very intense on Monday May 10. A great number of Security forces were seen in the city. Several vans belonging to suppressive forces were brought in front of the university. At the university entrance the guards took away cell phones.

Misogyny, regime’s specification
Tehran, May 10, 2010

On Saturday may 8 girls were stopped at the entrance of Tehran University’s Department of Biology and were told that they had to go to university wearing a Maghnae from the next day.

You want to use internet, your ration is over!
Orumieh, May 10, 2010

Internet access in Orumieh’s university is rationed. Students can only use the internet one hour a week by receiving a password.
Using the internet is severely controlled by university’s officials.


Workers of Iran


Reported by ISC members:
Workers under attack of teargas

Tehran, May 10, 2010

On Monday morning 150 workers of Sazmayeh Company who had sat- in with their families were attacked by SSF forces firing teargas at their protest gathering.
It’s for long that the workers of this company have referred to different regime organs from the Office of Presidency to Labor Ministry and etc. to receive their unpaid wages and to make the government to reopen the company.
On Monday morning they referred to the company again but regime’s elements at the company which are related to regime’s Bureau of Labor and Prosecutor Office summoned SSF there.
The suppressive forces attacked the workers, beat them, threatened them and shot teargas canisters at them.
The workers said that they will not retreat. A worker said that they had brought blankets to spent the night there until they reach their demands.

Workers warned by SSF
Shiraz, May 10, 2010

All workers of Fars Meat Company who had participated in the protest gathering of May Day against regime’s anti laborers policies, the closure of the factories and firing of the workers received threats and warnings from Intelligence Ministry’s agents and SSF.

Farnakh Factory on protest
Qazvin, May 10, 2010

Currently only 600 officially hired workers are left at Farnakh Factory and all contracted laborers are fired adding to the army of the unemployed in the country.
A worker at the protest gathering on Saturday May 8 said that not only no official has given any answer to them but also they have stationed suppressive agents in front of the factory and if a worker persists on his rights he is either beaten or offended and accused of provoking riot.

Another company closed; workers on strike
Hashtgerd, May 10, 2010

Workers of Fard Behrang Company went on strike on Sunday May 9 demanding the reopening of the company and receiving their 6-months unpaid wages.

Sasan Factory workers under attack
Tehran, May 10, 2010

On Monday May 10, 200 workers of Sasan Soft Drink Factory who had gathered in protest were surrounded by three cars and two motorcycles of SSF suppressive forces. The workers clashed with suppressive SSF and broke the glasses and entered the factory. SSF attacked them with teargas to disperse them but the workers resisted.
As the news show after the uprising on May Day in which the brave workers of Iran defied the clerical regime in its entirety by the slogan of death to Khamenei and death to dictator a new phase of workers resistance in their protests and accordingly a new wave of suppression against them has started which speaks by itself of the escalation of the nationwide uprising of people of Iran at the wake of its anniversary.


News of Iran’s Economy



The head of regime’s Accounting Office revealed a glimpse of its plundering
Tehran, May 10, 2010

Rahman Fazli regime’s head of Accounting Office said: “the proportion of money owed to banks, to banks financial aids paid, has grown since 3.9% in 2005 to 5.24% in2009. Since the beginning of the existence of the banks till now the total amount owed to the banks has reached 50,000 billion tomans which is equal to the cash and liquidity circulating in the society”.
Calling regime’s plundering of billions of dollars as budget deficiency he said: “Ministry of Economy and Assets and the Interior Ministry along with companies of oil section and the banks had the greatest role in budget deficiency of (2208-2009). Some payments done by Oil Ministry to legal and real personalities were without permission and illegal”.

Western Companies pulled out; regime became desperate
Tehran, May 10, 2010

As large western oil companies stopped working with the clerical regime, Ahmadinejad’s Minister of Oil said: “we have told those who had left the projects in some of South Pars Sites undone that these projects will be handed over to domestic enterprises”.
Due to international sanctions foreign companies such as Total, Shell, Ani and Repsoul that were active in Iran or were negotiating for projects to spread oil and gas fields had to pull out.
To confront this, the desperate regime held a session called ‘gathering for challenges and opportunities of Iranian enterprises in oil and gas contracts”.
Regime’s Oil Minister Mirkazemi who had participated in this show said with imposturous words: “we have told those foreign companies which haven’t finished their projects after several years that we will not negotiate with them and we will hand over their project to domestic enterprises”.
But with the lack of cash and liquidity handing over such heavy projects to domestic enterprises is not possible.
Economic experts say that by pulling out of foreign companies, cut of foreign financial resources, sanctions on banks and limitation in reaching foreign services regime will be more than 11 years behind from Qatar in regard with the common oil and gas reservoirs in South Pars.

Gasoline Crisis
Tehran, May 10, 2010

During the last few days some gas stations in Tehran have posted statements on their walls that they don’t have any free gasoline to sell. This has made people desperate.
While this is the case in Tehran’s gas stations the head of the Gas Station Owners’ Association said that there are not enough cards for free gasoline.
He emphasized: “Purification and Distribution Company of Oil Products doesn’t give the owners enough cards for free gasoline and that is the reason that we are facing its shortage in gas stations”.
Note: Free gasoline means the gasoline that people can buy beside the rationed amount by paying more for it.


Students Committee in Iran (Supporters of PMOI)

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