The Beginning of the End of the Clerical Rule in Iran
No.605
The Downfall
Mullahs’ fear of uprisings in June
Tehran, May 19, 2010
In fear of uprisings in June mullah Ramezani the head of ‘Protection Committee for the Anniversary of Khomeinie’s Death’ (June 4th) said: “usually in month of June we have great events in the country and thus we must always be prepared for them. It is easy for the enemy and the anti-revolutionists to plan for provoking insecurity in this month. We must act coordinated and different organs (read suppressive organs) must be ready for it”.
He pointed to people’s reaction against the massacre of political prisoners and added: “today different dissident currents are getting active for their anti-security acts thus we must plan for our own agenda”.
It is to be mentioned that the leader of the resistance of Iran, Mr. Massoud Rajavi has called for nationwide uprising between June 10 and 20 in his message.
Harassing people to terrorize them
Tehran, May 18, 2010
Members of ISC have reported that to terrorize people before June 12 the anniversary of the Uprising, Bassiji forces are harassing people in different locations in Tehran.
In Pasdaran Street they stop people and street-interrogate them. If a young girl and boy are in a car together they stop the car and ask for its license and then ask about the relation between the two. They warn women and girls about their ‘improper veil’.
In one case they wanted to attack two girls in that regard in Pasdaran St. but people interfered and rescued the two.
Worried about the retreat
Tehran, May 19, 2010
Mullah Rahbar an MP revealed that some MPs of different regime’s bands had expressed their concern about regime’s retreat in regard with nuclear fuel exchange in a parliament’s session behind closed doors. The mullah admitted that this retreat was for ‘reducing global pressure against the System’.
He comforted other MPs by saying that: “we might be worried that there might be fraud or violations in the statement but it is far beyond possible that a good state such as Turkey who is our neighbor and has mutual interests with us would betray us”.
In another event Larijani the head of regime’s parliament warned the MPs that they should not oppose the agreement because it would lower the spirit of regime’s subordinates and said: “it is essential that the government and parliament have the same positions in such an important issue as nuclear issue”.
We have met the world community’s demands, Mehmanparast said!
Tehran, May 19, 2010
While worlds’ countries have not taken recent show of mullahs about nuclear fuel exchange serious and have emphasized on harder sanctions, Mehmanparast regime’s Foreign Ministry’s spokesman absurdly called regime’s retreat ‘an answer to world community’s demand’.
Wanting to raise the spirit of regime’s elements he said: “we count this agreement between Iran, Turkey and Brazil as world community’s will and this will also be the assurance that we were looking for”.
He conceded that regime’s retreat was to stop political pressures and issuing of another resolution intentionally forgetting Ahmadinejad’s and other regime elements’ words about non-stop uranium enrichment: “we are optimistic to receive fuel, there is also a small possibility that the Vienna Group would not be ready for fuel exchange if not then the world community will judge that they wanted to prevent Iran from reaching her rights”.
A former MP arrested
Tehran, May 19, 2010
As the crisis within the regime and Khamenei band’s pressure on defeated fraction intensifies state run media announced that Mohsen Armin regime’s former MP was arrested.
In addition to Mohsen Armin, Haj Ahmad Yazdanfar, Mir Hossein Mosavi’s bodyguard since the time Mosavi was prime minister and a trusted Pasdar of regime who has also been present during Khomeini’s speeches in his place (Jamaran) as a bodyguard too was arrested.
Regime’s head henchmen threatened the defeated fraction
Tehran, May 19, 2010
To terrify the defeated fraction and to make it yield, mullah Sadegh Larijani the head of regime’s Judiciary announced: “the
Judiciary has expressed its point of view about identifying the sedition, the heads of sedition and their crimes and there is no doubt about it but we act according to the Systems general policies... We know our path and we will not compromise. We have no fear in confronting and punishing the heads of sedition”.
Larijani answering to the letter of some MPs for escalating suppression said: “I clearly told those who had signed the letter that the Judiciary will not compromise...The head of Judiciary must have the Leaders guidelines in mind...”
RGC tries to concentrate forces of the anniversary of Khomeini’s death
Tehran, May 19, 2010
In fear of unrest during the anniversary of Khomeini’s death, RGC is trying to mobilize is forces from other cities to come to Tehran.
Araghi the head of (anti)Mohammad Rasollahs Corps said: “the organs in different provinces must try to enroll those who want to come to the ceremony for the first time”.
Naghdi and Fazli heads of Bassij and Fahmideh Base belonging to RGC emphasized on this mobilization and demanded facilities for force transportation.
Fazli said: “We must have the greatest divine-political gathering on June 4 (anniversary of Khomeini’s death)”.
To drag even more regime’s forces to Tehran Momeni the head of traffic police said: “the current of sedition is counting on month of June and wants to take advantage of any event. The heavy presence of people (read regime’s mercenaries and forces) on June 4th ...will turn their hopes into disappointments”.
Iran bans diplomat’s children from studying abroad
May 18, 2010
According to the head of the Affairs of Students Studying Abroad Department of Iran’s Science Ministry, until last year, more than 200 children of Iranian diplomats studying abroad were returned to Iran to continue their studies. Before this, a member of the parliament had said that the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has banned children of Iranian ambassadors from studying in European countries, including Britain.
Resistance
Families of political prisoners, supporters of PMOI issued a statement
Tehran, May 18, 2010
Having in mind the dangerous conditions ruling Iran’s prisons and prisoners, having in mind the decrees issued by Iran’s Judiciary none of them complying with international laws and even Iran’s Constitutional Law and laws related to Islamic decrees, having in mind the recent executions the decrees of which has had no compliance with the existing bill of indictment in the records of those executed, having in mind that there has been no quest by any official inside or outside Iran to save their lives which has just added to some more families without any guardians and without any official taking responsibility in their regard and having in mind the conditions ruling our society, we a group of families of political prisoners in Iran seriously demand UN’s General Assembly to act as an international organ and to confront these anti human and illegal decrees.
Stop just issuing useless statements and just monitoring the situation do something about our children and beloveds who have been arrested and are in critical conditions just for visiting their children in Ashraf City and save them.
We wish for your immediate act
A group of families of political prisoners, supporters of PMOI
Tehran, May 2010
Mr. Jafar Kazemi’s wife calls for saving his life
Tehran, May 17, 2010
Roodabeh Akbari the wife of death row political prisoner Jafar Kazemi wrote about the savage tortures imposed on him by Evin Prison’s hechmen and called on UN’s general secretary and the High Commission of Human Rights to save his life.
Mr. Kazemi is amongst 6 political prisoners condemned to death because of their relation with PMOI and visiting his son in Ashraf (Iraq, where the PMOI members live)
Honoring the innocents
May 18, 2010
Families of the slain political prisoners on May 9 honored their memories.
In Shiraz families of Mehdi Islamian had a ritual for his commemoration in which people participated and paid tribute to Mehdi.
Regime’s suppressive forces tried hard to prevent his family from holding the gathering but they resisted and the ceremony was held though the place was surrounded with regime’s suppressive forces offending and harassing those attending it.
Due to the pressure of Mehdi’s loss his mother Mrs. Maryam Rahemi was hospitalized.
In another event female political prisoners honored Shirin Alamhooli during a ceremony in women’s ward of Evin Prison. To take revenge the henchmen cut all their visits.
Armed attack against a Pasdar
Ilam, May 18, 2010
The deputy commander of the province’s SSF was attacked by an armed man and was transferred to CCU.
After the announcement of the execution of political prisoners four of them Kurds the Kurdish regions are very uneasy.
Suppression
Misagh Yazdannejad was condemned to 13 years imprisonment
Tehran, May 18, 2010
Misagh Yazdannejad PMOI political prisoner who was arrested because he attended the 19th anniversary of massacre of political prisoners in 1988 was condemned to a 13 years term by the criminal judge Salavati.
Misagh 23 was student of Translating in Payamenoor Univeristy. He was arrested in a raid by Intelligence agents and was taken to solitary cells of 209 and kept there for 6 months. He was constantly under torture implemented on him by head interrogator known as Alavi and the interrogator known as Rahmati.
Bassiji women harass youths
Qom, May 18, 2010
According to regime’s suppressive plan of ‘fighting bad veil’ Bassiji women are stationed in the streets warning women and girls who they count as having bad veil. They take women’s cosmetics away. They even arrest boys for their haircuts.
Kurd political prisoner suffering from lung cancer in critical condition
May 18, 2010
The physical condition of Kaveh Kurd Moqadam, a political prisoner in Orumieh Prison, is very critical.
He was sentenced to three years of prison by the first branch of the Revolutionary Court in Orumieh on charges of acting against national security and was afflicted with lung and gastric cancer in prison.
Judicial and prison officials have refused to give him a medical leave despite seeing his critical condition and recommendations from doctors that he needs urgent chemotherapy.
Death row political prisoner denied due process
May 17, 2010
The execution sentence for PMOI political prisoner Ali Saremi which was upheld and announced has not even gone through the Iranian regime’s own legal judicial process. According to reports, the right to appeal the death sentence which was issued by Salavati for Saremi in the 15th branch of the court of first instance was not given to him in the Supreme Court.
His death sentence was announced to him on December 29, 2009 in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj. Saremi refused to sign the death sentence and demanded that the sentence be announced to his lawyer. Hosseini, his lawyer was waiting to receive an official sentence from the court of first instance to appeal it in the Supreme Court but after four months, the sentence has still not been announced to him.
On May 15, 2010, Abbas Jafari Dolat Abadi, Tehran’s Prosecutor, announced in an interview that the sentence for Mr. Saremi along with 5 other political prisoners has been finalized. His lawyer Mr. Hosseini was surprised from the announcement because he still had not received an official death sentence from the court of first instance and was not able to appeal the sentence. The question is how the death sentence could have been finalized without it being upheld by the Supreme Court.
On the other hand, Dolat Abadi said that Saremi was arrested on September 18, 2009 while he was arrested on September 4, 2007 after an attack by intelligence agents to his office following his participation in the 19th anniversary of the massacre of political prisoners in 1988.
Renowned Iranian director goes on hunger strike in prison
May 18, 2010
Jafar Panahi went on a hunger strike in Evin Prison and published a letter in this respect.
“After the ill treatment on Saturday night (May 15, 2010) following an attack by prison agents to cell 56 in Evin Prison, me and my cellmates were kept outside in the cold without any clothes for one hour and a half.
On Sunday morning I was interrogated and accused of filming the inside of my cell, which is a complete lie. They then threatened that they would arrest my whole family and bring them to Evin Prison and that they would detain my daughter in an insecure detention center in Rajayi Shahr in Karaj.
I have not eaten nor drank anything from May 16 and now announce that if the demands below are not met, I will continue to refuse to eat and drink:
1-The right to call and visit with my family and make sure they are safe
2-The right to a lawyer after 77 days to consult with him/her
3-My unconditional release until I am tried and receive a final sentence
I will not cease my hunger strike until all my demands are met and my only request is that my body be given to my family so that they could bury me where they wish. Jafar Panahi – May 18, 2010”.
Iran once again arrests paralyzed political prisoner
May 18, 2010
According to reports, Hadi (Homayoun) Abed Bakhoda, who was a political prisoner in the 80’s and was shot by security forces in the spinal cord upon his arrest was once again jailed in Rasht Prison after a 3 month medical leave.
This 50-year-old political prisoner was taken to Rasht Prison on May 3. He is paralyzed because of his spinal cord damage and uses a wheelchair. He is not able to do his personal tasks on his own. Bakhoda is kept in the prison infirmary due to his critical condition next to newly arrested drug addicts and the conditions under which he is kept are inhumane and medieval.
The head of this prison, the prison doctor and the judge on his case have stressed that this political prisoner can not tolerate prison conditions but the Ministry of Intelligence and the Rasht Revolutionary Court Prosecutor refuse to release him. Abed Bakhoda has a urinary sack because he is paralyzed and is also suffering from critical heart and artery problems.
He was sentenced to two years of prison by the second branch of the Revolutionary court and was arrested on November 8, 2009 and jailed in the Central Rasht Prison.
Blogger tortured and pressured to make false confessions
May – 16, 2010
Hossein Ronaqi Maleki, a blogger who was arrested on December 13, 2009 and is in cellblock 2A in Evin Prison which is run by the Revolutionary Guards Corps is once again under severe pressure after 5 months of incarceration to make confessions and say that the results of presidential elections held last year were correct.
According to reports, interrogators who have severely beaten him on several occasions have asked him to cooperate with them because of his computer and internet skills. But Ronaqi has refused. Interrogators have threatened that if he does not cooperate and accept their demands he will be kept in prison for years.
According to reports, Ronaqi was under severe physical and psychological pressure until last month to give in to the demands of his interrogators, but the pressures have once again started from a few days ago. Ronaqi has so far denied all the charges made against him.
No news on student activist one week after arrest
May 18, 2010
There is no news on the condition and whereabouts of Bahman Khodadadi, a student activist in Isfahan. Khodadadi who is a member of the Freedom Loving Students for Equality was summoned to the intelligence agency in Isfahan and arrested but there has been no news on why he was arrested and what he was charged with.
His family is worried because they have absolutely no news on his whereabouts and condition and the Revolutionary Court in this city has even stated that they are not aware of his arrest.
No news on jailed women’s rights activist
May 18, 2010
The family of Mahboubeh Karami (jailed women’s rights activist) has no news on her condition since May 6.
According to her brother, Mohsen Karami, her last phone call was on May 6. Before that, she called her family every other day on average and was to be transferred to the women’s public cellblock, but there is no news on her whereabouts after this transfer.
Seventy-five days after her arrest and after she lost contact with her family, there are serious concerns for her physical and mental condition in prison. Her brother also said that in his last visit with her, she was suffering from weight loss because of a digestive illness.
No news on arrested 15-year-old protester in Sanandaj
May 18, 2010
During the strikes in Kurdistan (in protest to the execution of 5 political prisoners), Eunice Sheikh Ahmadi, 15, was arrested by intelligence agents in Sanandaj and taken to the Intelligence Agency in this city on May 13. This teenager was violently beaten in public upon his arrest. His family’s constant pursuit of his condition has so far been without result.
Parents of 3 detained students in Marivan not aware of their whereabouts
May 17, 2010
After the arrest of 15 Kurd students in Marivan by security forces, 12 of them were released on bail after signing written pledges and three others by the names of Tofiq Partouyi, Dana Lenj Abadi and Aram Veisi are still jailed.
According to reports, after their families went to the Marivan Intelligence Agency, they were threatened by agency officials and told that they had no right to follow up their cases for another 15 days.
These students were summoned and arrested after protests in Kurd regions in Iran to the (May 9) execution of political prisoners.
Four student activists in Tehran’s Science and Industry University banned from education
May 17, 2010
The sentence for four students of the Science and Industry University in Tehran was increased after it was referred to the Central Committee of the Science Ministry 9 months ago.
These sentences are as follows:
Puya Sharifi, expulsion from university and a 5 year ban on studying at any university in the country
Hamid-Reza Sahrayi, four semester suspension from university (which will lead to his expulsion)
Ali Asadollahi, four semester suspension from university (which will lead to his expulsion)
Sajad Darvish, four semester suspension from university (which will lead to his expulsion)
Students Committee in Iran (Supporters of PMOI)
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