UPDATE ON IRAN, JULY 17, 2010

The Beginning of the End of the Clerical Rule in Iran

No.663

Bazaar

Tehran’s Great Bazaar on strike

Bazaar on strike on Thursday
July 15, 2010
Bazaar of Carpet-sellers and Gold-Sellers were closed on Thursday July 15.
Bazaar of Tabriz was completely closed.


People support brave Bazaaris by chanting ‘death to dictator’
Tehran, July 14, 2010
On Wednesday at 1205 people were present at Sabze Maidan and Bazaar; a crowd of 250 chanted ‘death to dictator’ in Sabze Maidan in support of Bazaaris. They also chanted ‘we don’t want incapable government’.
The whole Bazaar was on strike on Wednesday including Shoe-Maker Bazaar and Gold-Sellers Bazaar.
SSF and intelligence agents were present at Bazaar and arrested any one who carried a cell phone.


SSF trying in vein to break the strike
Though the clerical regime retreated Bazaar is on its 9th day of strike
Tehran, July 14, 2010
One of the Bazaaris said that SSF has tried several times to break the strike and has entered bazaar with that intention but they were not successful because where ever they went a great number of people were present confronting them.
Though regime has reduced the tax to 15% which is 7% less than the previous year but still Bazaar continues the strike.

Fear of strike at Kurdistan Bazaar
Kurdistan, July 14, 2010
In fear of the spread of strike to Sanandaj’s Bazaar regime has threatened the shopkeepers that if they go on strike they will be punished?
Also in Oshnavieh regime has stationed a great number of suppressive forces. It invited shopkeepers, the head of tribes, governmental employees and some clerics via a letter to the Governor Office to bribe them not to go on strike but the participants left the session.
Eleven vehicles of IRGC forces two of them with female passengers have been deployed from Uromieh and Naghadeh to Oshnavieh.
These forces are stationed in Mirava, faroogh and Seyed Ava mosques.

Inflamed wrath and good for nothing tricks
Tehran, July 14, 2010
While bazaars’ strikes have increased regime’s fear, Khamenei is using a good for nothing trick to keep safe from the inflamed wrath of Bazaar.
Regime has used this trick of ‘it’s a holiday’ before under different excuses such as contamination of weather or the trip of foreign guests to Iran.
This trick has been ridiculed by people. Even the members of regime’s bands have protested to the act of announcing holidays for covering up Bazaar’s strike. One of them called it ‘the newest trick’ another one disclosed this act of Khamenei in Majlis.
Sites affiliated with Larijani; Parliament News and News Online demanded the true reason for holidays in 19 provinces.
But the question is: does this trick solve any problem for Khamenei whose talisman is broken and is at dead-end now?
The answer is no because Bazaar’s strike with the slogan of ‘death to dictator’ has root in deep explosive discontent of the society in the bedrock of the Nationwide Uprising of Iranians; another bell is ringing the end of dictatorship of Velayat-e-Faghih.

Isfahan and Mashad’s Bazaar were half closed
July 14, 2010
On Wednesday July 14 Isfahan’s Honar Bazaar was half closed.
Intelligence forces dispersed people even if two or three gathered together and prevented people from stopping in Bazaar.
In Naghshe Jahan Bazaar suppressive SSF and intelligence forces were stationed since morning and threatened Bazaaris to open their shops.
At the Bazaar of Gold-Sellers regime’s suppressive forces were stationed at a point threatening Bazaaris that if they protest they will be arrested.
Also in Mashad, Reza Bazaar was controlled since Wednesday morning by regime’s Intelligence forces and they referred to Bazaaris one by one and threatened them that it they go on strike their shops will be confiscated.

Representative of Fabric Guild arrested
Tehran, July 14, 2010
According to the received information the representative of Fabric Guild is arrested by Plainclothes and there is no news of his condition so far.


The Downfall

Khamenei expresses his fear of consequences of the sanctions
Tehran, July 14, 2010
In a meeting with some heads of IRGC Khamenei expressing his concern of the current situation of regime and said: “all the authorities in the country must act to their heavy duty in different fields and be ready to confront any situation”.
Fearing the consequences of the sanction resolution of UN’s Security Council he added: “they talk as such that we think that there this is something very dangerous. Of course whether these threats are hollow or real we should undoubtedly be ready to preserve the Islamic Revolution”.
Pointing to the fact that sanctions have aimed at IRGC, Khamenei claimed: “the fact that enemies and their followers inside the country propagate so hard against IRGC shows how effective this force is”.
Khamanei advised the participants to watch from inside.

Clerical regime’s horrified reaction to the words of Russia’s president
Tehran, July 14, 2010
When Russian president warned that the clerical regime is close to achieving nuclear weapon regime’s official news agency IRNA wrote: “Keremlin’s official must not forget that Tehran and Moscow have mutual interests. Russian officials must not be deceived by west and to give wrong address about Iran’s peaceful nuclear programs. Iran and Russia do not benefit from disputes and weakening of the relations between two countries which is at the interest of the West including US”.
In another event Manouchehr Motaki said: “we don’t know what the ultimate goal behind Madadof’s sayings is and what is behind this. Russia is our neighbor and we seek good relations with it but we do criticize some of its positions”.

The former head of IRGC warned regime
Tehran, July 14, 2010
The former head of IRGC, Mohsen Rezaie admitting to the breakage of talisman of Khamenei said that the events after the election brought Khomeini and his followers under question and had heavy consequences.
About the aftermaths of the national uprising of Iran and regime’s potential downfall he wrote in his site: “in the events after election from Velayat-e-faghih issue to Imam (Khomeini) to the followers of the Leader (Khamanei) and revolution’s principles all went under question”.
Rezaee counted these consequences as continuous and added: “in my opinion anti-revolutionists and enemies...of Islamic Republic benefit the most from the events after the election. The revolution’s honor was brought under question in the world, our political honor in international relations was brought under question and inside the country our beliefs were brought under question...”
While threatening, Rezaee said: “today we need a new capacity in confronting protests and managing them. Political activists, parties and political masterminds have no minor role than the government in that”.

IRGC expressed its fear in regard with the nationwide uprising
Tehran, July 14, 2010
Expressing its fear of the nationwide uprising IRGC announced in a statement issued in Tehran that (facing) the nationwide uprising is harder than the 8 years of war with Iraq.
The statement called on IRGC forces to stay on alert for preserving the Establishment: “undoubtedly attacks of soft-war conducted by the foreign enemy on one hand and hypocrites and provokers of sedition inside the country on the other hand is actually a heavy war for pulling down the Islamic Revolution”.



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