June 9, 2010

UPDATE ON IRAN- No. 629 - June 9, 2010

The Beginning of the End of the Clerical Rule in Iran
No.629

Uprising of June 10-20

News Obtained by ISC
Resistance challenges regime at the wake of June Uprising
June 7, 2010
Tehran- on Thursday June 3 families of those slain during the uprising went to their graves in section 222 of Beheshte Zahra Cemetery and distributed posters and leaflets to commemorate them and to inform others of the ceremony on June 25 for their commemoration.
Birjand- as the anniversary of June’s Uprising gets near writing slogans against the regime and calling for another uprising in this month has increased in Birjand, though Bassijies clean the slogans but new ones are written instead.
Tehran- last night on phase 6 of Shahrake Qarb people chanted ‘Allah O Akbar’ on their roof tops. Immediately about 70 to 80 mobile patrols flooded into the region threatening people.

Suppressive measures of regime at the wake of the uprising in June shows the degree of its fear from the uprising
June 7, 2010
Tehran- on the evening of June 6 from 6 to 10 pm units of motorbike patrols were stationed in Sadeghieh’s first Falake (a small square).
Tehran- about 30 motorcyclist of regime’s suppressive Especial Unit rose atmosphere of horror on Saturday night in Aryashar. These suppressive patrols harassed young girls and boys, stopped cars with ladies in it and harassed women and men walking together. These patrols were stationed in that region for four hours.
Terhan- since Sunday these mobile patrols have been stationed around Vali-e-Asr Square,Vanak Square and Tajrish Square.
Shiraz- a student publication was banned in Shiraz Medical Science University. The publication belonged to non-Bassiji students.
Rasht- to control all moves of students, regime has installed surveillance cameras at Gilan University.
Uromieh- the city of Uromieh is totally under control with surveillance cameras. Because this city is a border city military forces and army are strongly present there.
Terhan- on Saturday June 5 in Velenjak region north of Tehran SSF and intelligence agents harassed youths, arrested some and took some away. As an example as students studying in an alley was questioned by the agents, his mobile was checked and then he was taken away.
Qazvin- SSF agents in Qazvin are putting intense pressure on youths. They stop them, interrogate them, detain them and take them to police stations in the streets on such excuses as wearing T-shirts, having improper veil, for the model of their haircuts, and if a boy and girl talk together. At the station they give written obligations and then they are freed.
Tabriz- an unannounced curfew is ruling Tabriz. SSF units are stationed all over the city patrolling and a helicopter patrols the city’s sky all the time.
Kurdistan- Bazaar shopkeepers of different cities of Kurdistan who had protested against the execution of 4 Kurd political prisoners on May 9 are being summoned to the intelligence bureaus of the cities and some of their shops have been closed by the regime.
Tehran- Last Monday 2 students of Department of Social Science of Tehran University, Jamal Rahmatipoor and Amjad (Hjair) Kurdnejad were detained by agents of Intelligence Ministry without a known reason.
Arak- Some students of Azad University in Arak are vanished including Ali Mohseni studying Electronics, Mohammad Moradi studying Computer Science and Mostafa Aslani studying Construction.
Tehran- the decree for execution of three inmates was issued in Tehran by branch 79 of regime’s kangaroo courts.
Tehran- Sajedinia, SSF commander in Tehran announced a new security plan for parks in fear of the June uprising and said: “’Park Police’ will start its work since this week in parks and recreational areas. They will be on foot and mobile and they are present all the time”. This is the seventh suppressive plan of clerical regime by implementation of which it tries to provoke fear and terror at the wake of June Uprising.


The Downfall

Schism deepens amongst regime’s bands
Tehran, June 7, 2010
In an article the deputy of Publication of Khomeini’s Works Institute, Hamid Ansari called the event of the ceremony for the anniversary of Khomeini’s death as ‘the dreadful event of disrupting the ceremony by a small group of people’ and wrote: “good for Haj Ahmad Agha (Khomeini’s son, father of Hasan Khomeini), Ayatollah Tavasoli and those who died and didn’t see this astonishing prediction of Imam come true (pointing to schism and the fact the Hossein Khomeini was prevented by regime’s dominant fraction from continuing his speech)”.
Ansari counted the consequences of the event of the ceremony as ‘deeply concerning’ and wrote that if needed he will write more in the future about the quarrel between Hossein Khomeini and Najar, Ahmadinejad’s minister, and the fact that Hasan Khomeini was prevented from speaking.
He wrote: “what was the result? Hundreds of foreign guests invited to the ceremony were shocked, most of the official of the System were ashamed... and this disrespect committed by the radicals...was the best gift for foreign media to challenge the System, use it for their analysis and use it to disunion those who care for the Revolution”.


Resistance
Regime’s suppressive plan of ‘improper veil’ is defeated
Clerical regime desperate of imposing compulsory veil
Tehran, June 7, 2010
As women and girls of Iran resisted the compulsory veil and as the suppressive plans of regime to make women yield to it are defeated now the mullahs are trying “encouraging” plans.
Arya state-run news agency wrote that in the ninth session of the so-called Cultural, Social and Athletic Council “the culture of proper Islamic outfit and ways to implement it as a law in Tehran’s Daralamin region was discussed”.
Emphasizing on compulsory veil Ali Mohammad Nejad regime’s mayor of region 14 said: “veil, chastity, and being bashful are the pieces of one chain and have a great role in preserving the religious values and beliefs. So the municipality of region 14 installs banners and posters with the content of ‘veil and chastity’ to encourage the residents, and uses Islamic quotations and narratives to propagate more in the city”.
He also added that they will encourage women in the bureaus to wear Chador and if they cannot afford it they will receive help in that regard”.

Vast protest of freedom loving women of Iran against the suppressive plan of ‘improper veil’ has put the regime in a dead-end The suppressive ‘Guidance Patrol’ had to retreat
Dezful, June 7, 2010
On Saturday June 5 ‘Guidance Patrol’ in Dezful started harassing people in the streets but was confronted with people’s protests.
Frightened that the protest might surge and turn to a protest gathering the suppressive forces left the scene.
When leaving, they said: “because of the existing conditions (close to June uprising) we will retreat but we will take care of you later one by one”.

Boycotting regime’s official
Mashad, June 7, 2010
On Friday night a regime official who was invited to Mashad University to talk about Khomeini’s goals was confronted with heavy criticism by male and female students. At the end the students booed him.
The students of this university are also discontent because regime intends to deprive them of dormitory in summer to hand it over to Bassijies.


Suppression

Suppressive plan of Improper Veil
Regime’s plundering under the name of veil and chastity
Tehran, June 7, 2010
The suppressive regime frees men and women on the condition of paying fine!
With new patrols of ‘Relation Finders’ and the plan of ‘Veil and Chastity’ the clerical regime is finding a new source of income.
By the directive issued by Interior Ministry addressing SSF this force is tasked to confront people with improper veil and those who disrupt the peace of the society.
By this directive the words ‘having improper veil’ include make-up, tight or short dresses, being present with not normal features in the society both for men and women’ the words ‘disrupting the peace of the society’ refers to men, women, boys and girls who do not respect public chastity!
In mullahs views disrupting public chastity is taking each others hands in parks, streets, cafe shops, restaurants and...
According to this directive the executers of these laws can free detained persons by receiving fines.
It seems that financial crisis has made Ahmadinejad’s government to take money from people under this disguise showing the true nature of such directives.
There are fines including:
A fine of 40000 to 100000 tomans will be allocated to nail polish.
A fine of 200000 to 500000 tomans will be allocated to tight and short Manteus.
A fine of 600000 to 800000 will be allocated to heavy make-up with tight dresses.
Fine for make-up, tight and short dress, improper scarf and some part of the body being visible will be over one million tomans.
Fine for girls and boys having relation with each other in public starts from 100000 tomans and ends to incarceration, lashes and heavy fines.
These fines are what the eyewitnesses throughout the city have said.

Iran arrests suntanned girls and boys
June 7, 2010
The Iranian regime has organized patrols known as the ‘Suntan Patrol’ which arrest or charge people with a suntan. Security forces force those with a suntan to pay a 400 toman fine and girls with nail polish to pay a 150 toman fine.

Iran confirms death by firing squad sentence for two political prisoners
June 7, 2010
The death by firing squad sentence of two Kurd political activists was confirmed by the Supreme Court and was announced to their lawyers.
According to reports, the death sentences of political prisoners Mohammad Ami Agushi and Ahmad Pulad Khani which was issued by a military court was announced to their lawyers today after it was upheld by the Supreme Court.
Mohammad Amin Agushi is a retired teacher who has been detained in Orumieh Prison for 20 months. He was arrested in 2007. Ahmad Pulad Khani, from Piranshahr, was also arrested in 2007 and was sentenced to death by a firing squad in the Orumieh Military Court on December 2009 on charges of espionage, and being a member of and cooperating with the Kurdistan Life Party.

Health of sister of Ashraf residents deteriorates in prison; Baha’i prisoner denied medication
June 7, 2010
Political prisoner Zahra Jabari who was sentenced to 4 years of prison in the 28th branch of the Revolutionary Court on charges of acting against national security had a visit with the Tehran Prosecutor. She is suffering from severe rheumatism and is in poor health.
In this visit, Jabari protested her sentence. The prosecutor told her that, “The sensitivity of issues to do with your family” was the reason behind the four year sentence.
Zahra Jabari was arrested on Quds day and is the mother of a 4 year old child. She has to use a strong medication which can only be taken under the constant supervision of a doctor.
According to other reports, Sahba Rezvani, who is a Baha’i female prisoner, has been detained for more than a year with a temporary detention order. She is facing limitations in taking her medication and in her last visit to the infirmary she was mistreated and disrespected by infirmary officials in Evin Prison.
This Baha’i prisoner who was transferred from Semnan Prison to Evin Prison was taken to the infirmary because of her critical condition but was refused medicine under the pretext that they had ran out of medicine.
This is while after she was taken to the infirmary again, another medic told her that there was enough supply of the medicine in the infirmary.

Labor activist sentenced to prison and lashes
June 7, 2010
Pejman Rahimi, a labor activist in Khuzestan in southern Iran was sentenced to one year of prison and 40 lashes by the Ahwaz Public Court on April 17 on charges of disrupting order. The verdict of the court was announced to him on May 31.
This labor activist was sentenced to 5 years of prison before this on charges of instigating workers of the Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane Factory and the Ahwaz Tubing Factory.


News on Iran’s Economy

Fuel subsidy will be cut from the beginning of Fall
Tehran, June 7, 2010
IRNA official news agency wrote that the clerical regime intents to cut the subsidy for gasoline from next Fall.
According to the ration plan presented in 2007 a motorcyclist can buy 60 liters of fuel for 100 tomans per liter each month with the help of subsidy. For any amount more than that the subsidy will be cut in half and the price will be 400 tomans per liter.
The last time Ahmadinejad’s government cut the subsidy for fuel riots occurred and they might happen again this time.
By cutting the subsidy for fuel the clerical regime’s tries to lessen the consumption of fuel to confront its weakness in regard with sanctions in field of energy.


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