The Beginning of the End of the Clerical Rule in Iran
No.675
Uprising is alive,
clashes in soccer matches
Soccer match led to clashes with SSF
Tehran, July 28, 2010
In the last minutes of the soccer match between Perspolis and Teraktorsazi on Tuesday July 27 the protesting youths sat fire under some of the seats and torched them.
During the match suppressive forces attacked two youths and beat them but they resisted and other audiences came to their help and clashed with the agents but eventually the two youths were arrested and taken away.
Several times during the match especially at the second half the sound of the stadium was cut and not broadcasted because the audience was chanting anti-regime slogans.
It is to be mentioned that in fear of clashes during the match regime wanted to have the minimum audience present at the stadium so it provided no facilities for Traktorsazi fans to be able to get to Tehran from Tabriz.
The cell-phones of the team members too were under control.
Clashes in soccer match in Tabriz
Tabriz, July 28, 2010
On Monday July 26 during the soccer match between Shahrdari and Estaghlal teams in Tabriz the audience clashed with suppressive SSF and chanted slogans against them shouting ‘knavish’ at them.
Regime’s nuclear program & sanctions
Great decrease in gasoline import
Tehran, July 27, 2010
Following the escalation of sanctions against clerical regime, gasoline import in July has had great decrease in comparison with month of July of the last year.
Since the beginning of July only three ships had delivered gasoline to Iran which is a great decrease in the number of ships in comparison with the same time last year.
Another factory closes
Tehran, July 27, 2010
The Sandogh Nasooz Factory closes from July 27 till August 6. In the recent month due to constant cut in electricity the production of this factory as dramatically decreased.
There is no out of work hour’s jobs. All these have raised the concern and protest of the workers of this factory.
Noticeable drop in production
Tehran, July 27, 2010
Due to constant cuts in electricity Margarin Oil Factory’s is suffering from noticeable drop in its production. Because of the sanctions and shortage in fuel they cannot turn on the generator for long and thus the workers cannot work more to get paid more. This has raised their protest.
Electricity cut in Karaj
Karaj, July 27, 2010
Since the beginning of summer and the escalation of consumption of electricity, it is being cut throughout Karaj. In the region of Gohardasht in Karaj during the two first weeks of summer there has been an average of 30 to 60 minutes cut. Southern regions of the city are suffering few hours cut. The cut in the suburbs which are industrial regions like Hashtgerd industrial city the factories are forced to change their hours of work so that they can compensate for the cut.
Asking for Cooperation
Tehran, July 28, 2010
Regime Foreign Ministry’s spokesman, Mehmanparast expressed regime fear from tightening of the circle of sanctions around the clerical dictatorship and said: “we had said times and again that we are ready to cooperate”.
ILNA official news agency quoted Mehmanparast on July 7 after the finalization of sanctions of EU against the clerical dictatorship as: “EU is walking blindfolded in a wrong direction under the pressure of US. It is bringing its identity and independence under question by following US”.
The spokesman claimed that “Islamic Republic has been ready to cooperate times and again to establish a positive atmosphere but step taken by EU will make the situation more complicated”.
Larijani mourns on the tightening of sanctions against the clerical dictatorship
Tehran, July 28, 2010
Larijani, the head of regime’s Majlis warned regime’s elements in fear of the tightening of the sanctions not to treat everybody the same at the international scene.
Mehr state-run news agency quoted him on July 26 as: “didn’t US nuclear center announce that Iran is not seeking nuclear weapon then how come this country issued the resolution of sanctions against Islamic Republic of Iran in such a rush at Security Council”.
Larijani added: “they told Orduqan and Brazil’s president to come to Tehran and negotiate with Iran’s authorities about nuclear file but just in two weeks they acted differently. This shows that they are liars”.
He then threatened US and said: “they think that Lebanon is their toy. They are very wrong. They must watch out maybe this toy will amputate their hand”.
Ahmadinejad threatens foreign countries in regard with sanctions
Ahmadinejad: one of my wishes is that they impose sanctions on gasoline
Tehran, July 26, 2010
Addressing the European counties in a festival Ahmadinejad said: “Iran will count any country that participates in US scenario against Iran (read clerical dictatorship) as enemy”.
ISNA state-run news agency quoted him as: “one of my wishes is that they impose sanction on gasoline. We will substitute 17 million liters in two days”.
Ahmadinejad: “whoever decides to act against Iranian nation (read clerical dictatorship) and wants to inspect Iranian ships will immediately witness the reaction of the Iranian nation. Experience shows that they will regret this reaction.
The Iranian nation has buries hundreds like you and there is nothing left (of them)...”
Downfall
Khamenei pulled back from calling himself Vali-e-Faghih of Moslems
Tehran, July 26, 2010
As people took for nothing Khameneis saying last week that he is the Vali-e-Faghih of Moslems, his office had to take back the saying and say that this was a political act of Khamenei.
On July 25, Khabar On Line wrote that Khamenei’s office answered to the ambiguity raised by Khamenei’s answer to a question about Velayat-e-Faghih.
The office said: “we must notice that this questioning and the answer to it was the political path of the leader of Islamic Revolution being put in form of religious laws...”
Isa Saharkhiz complains to international organs from Khamenei!
Tehran, July 26, 2010
As schism gets even deeper within the regime, Isa Saharkhiz the former media deputy of regime’s Ministry of Guidance from the defeated fraction wrote in an open letter that he intends to complain to international organs from Khamenei!
In his open letter he has written: “Ayatollah Khamenei has role in the tortures. He who is the highest authority of Islamic Republic permits himself to meddle in all affairs of the three powers of the country and the heads of these three powers count his words as the ultimate words against the contents of the constitution so he must answer for the deeds of his subordinates”.
He continued: “Mohsen Eje-ee beat the detainees himself...being in position of the deputy of the Judiciary Power in an official session... he true the sugar pot at me ...and then bit my shoulder and injured me”.
Mullah Mesbah Yazdi emphasized on branching within Khamenei’s band
Tehran, July 26, 2010
Mullah Mesbah Yazdi, regime’s MP said that branching will occur within Khamenei’s band.
ILNA state-run news agency reported about this, quoting him that the branching is related to ‘the knowledge of the society’ and will occur within the hardliners too. He called this a ‘realistic analysis’.
He added: “I believe that different groups can show up within the current of hardliners”.
Admitting that people hate all bands of clerical dictatorship Moghadam said: “people are straight in regard with all groups and if they see that a group is going astray they will abandon it”.
Rahim Safavi demands that IRGC be on the state of alert
Tehran, July 26, 2010
Rahim Safavi the former head of IRGC asked that all the forces of this suppressive organ be on state of alert for confronting any potential attack against the clerical dictatorship.
ILNA state-run news agency quoted him on July 24 as: “the possibility of attacking Iran is not much and we enjoy a good defensive state of alert. But they might politically make the decision to attack. We have to wait and see”.
He continued: “the future war would be in air and sea and not in land... in the new plan that US government had presented to the congress the strategy of fight in land is ruled out and we must get ready to fight in air and sea”.
He claimed: “if US engages in a land with Iran our Bassijis will tear them apart at the border”.
Regime’s measures for confronting defects within SSF
Tehran, July 26, 2010
To confront wave of defection within its disciplinary and military forces the clerical regime announced that ‘Council for Prevention of Crimes in Military and Disciplinary Units’ is going to be established.
Mullah Mohammad Kazem Bahrami the head of regime’s ‘Judiciary Organization for Armed Forces’ admitted: “spying, committing suicide, deserting the service and damaging the belongings are amongst the most important crimes within armed forces”.
Resistance
Regime’s fear of the role of PMOI in the nationwide uprising
Tehran, July 28, 2010
Mullah Jafar Shajooni, a member of the central council of a band called ‘The Society of Clergymen’ showed how much regime fears PMOI’s role in the nationwide uprising.
In return from an eight-day long trip to Lebanon about his meeting with Hassan Nasrollah he said: “Hassan Nasrollah pointed to the sedition of last year in Iran and said the participants in the sedition were followers of Monafeghin who reside in Iraq”.
Writing anti-regime slogans and calls for strike
Tehran, July 28, 2010
On July 26 youths of Tehran wrote slogans in metro stations and gas stations throughout the city calling people to go on strike to continue the uprising.
At gas station in Kargar St, Hor Square the slogan of “worker, Bazaari, teacher and students strike, strike” attracted the attention of drivers and passengers.
At Imam Hossein Metro, Khazaneh, Toopkhaneh, Nezamabad and Baharestsn metro stations the slogan of “Iranian nation strike, strike- death to Khamenei” was seen in different locations of the stations attracting the attention of passer-byes.
At bus stations in Ponak, Tarbiat Moalem and Sadi slogans of “all together, we will strike and we will get rid of Velayat” caught the eyes of the passengers.
In another event on July 24 in Tehran bus stations in Enghelab Square, Farahzad Highway, Imam Hossein Square, Toopkhane and Rahahan a great number of slogans called upon people to strike. Some of these slogans were: “nationwide strike is the answer to this dictatorship”, “workers, Bazaaris, teachers and students strike, strike” and “we all together will pull down Velayat by going on strike”.
Suppression
Hunger striking political prisoner goes into coma
Tehran- – July 26, 2010
According to reports, political prisoner Reza Jushan went into a coma on his sixth day of hunger strike and was taken to the Gohardasht Prison infirmary on a stretcher.
He went into a coma on Monday, July 26. Other prisoners were not allowed to get near him in the infirmary and according to eye witnesses he is in critical condition. This political prisoner is in a very dangerous state. It is not know why he went into a coma.
Reza Jushan announced on July 21 that he would go on a hunger strike in protest to the intolerable conditions in prison. He announced his reasons for hunger strike in the letter below written to Gerami, Gohardasht Prison’s manager which has been sent for us as well:
1- My future state has not been determined and I have not been transferred to the public cellblock.
2 – Being banned from making calls and visiting my mother Mrs. Zahra Asadpour Gorji, son of Habibollah, who is currently in the female cellblock in Gohardasht Prison.
3 - Not having the right to call or see my family outside of prison.
Mohebi, a head interrogator in the Intelligence Agency ordered that Reza Jushan be transferred to the Secondary Section 17 in Cellblock 6 after subjecting him to violent physical and mental torture. This section is used to put pressure on prisoners. Mohebi also deprived his mother, Zahra Asadpour Gorji, from having any kind of communication with her son and other family members. Mohebi threatened political prisoner Reza Jushan that he would be physically eliminated. He is an official and head interrogator in the Intelligence Agency in Karaj. This torturer issues arrest warrants for student, labor, and political activists, dervishes and those who participated in the post-election protests. He also interrogates and physically and mentally tortures detainees along with another interrogator named Reza Arefi in the Sepah Cellblock in Gohardasht Prison. This intelligence interrogator threatens and puts pressure on political prisoners. He has committed numerous crimes in the last 30 years.
Jushan, 25, was arrested on December 1, 2009 after agents of the Intelligence Agency raided his home. He was taken to a solitary cell in the Sepah cellblock and after two months was taken to cellblock 4. Intelligence Agents once again raided the home of this family on December 7 and arrested his mother, Zahra Asadpour Gorji. She was also taken to the Sepah Cellblock and after weeks of interrogations and physical and mental torture, was transferred to Gohardasht Prison’s female cellblock. Gorji and her daughter Fatemeh Jushan were arrested before this for visiting their family members in Camp Ashraf in Iraq and were detained for 16 months in Gohardasht Prison. They were released after serving their prison term. Gorji and her son were sentenced to one year of prison to be served in Zanjan Prison and four years of exile in the Qeilar Village in Zanjan.
Currently, in addition to political prisoner Reza Jushan, political prisoner Arjang Davoudi and prisoner Khaled Hardani have also gone on hunger strikes this prison.
Notably, political prisoners have been murdered before while on hunger strike including political prisoners Akbar Mohammadi and Valiollah Feiz Mahdavi on orders of the Ministry of Intelligence and prison officials.
Iran hangs three men in Ahwaz
July 27, 2010
The death sentences of three prisoners in the Karoun Prison in Ahwaz were carried out yesterday morning in this prison.
The Attorney General had upheld their sentences.
IRGC takes control in Mashad’s airport
Mashad, July 28, 2010
The controlling section for women in Mashad’s airport that was under the control of SSF is handed over to IRGC.
Islamic Republic’s official anthem deserted
Isfahan, July 28, 2010
Last week during a play in Shahre Kurd University in Isfahan when at the end of the play the official anthem of Islamic Republic was played some of the students didn’t rise to sing the anthem. They were then summoned to the Disciplinary Committee of the university.
Threatening the active students
Mashad, July 28, 2010
Most of the leaders of the students for gatherings and protests against the clerical dictatorship have been identified in Mashad’s Ferdosi and Azad Universities by the Intelligence Committees stationed there.
In days that there is a probability of protest gathering Bassij calls these students and threatens them or when the gathering forms Bassiji students are mobilized against them.
One of these active students from Azad University called Farshid Azizi is recently ousted out of university.
In another event the publication belonging to Islamic Association of Ferdosi University called ‘Simia’ which was banned for 3 months was again banned for another 9 months.
Blogger goes on hunger strike in protest to being kept in solitary for 8 months
July 27, 2010
Blogger Hossein Ronaqi has gone on a hunger strike. He was arrested on December 13, 2009 and is still in a solitary cell in the Sepah Cellblock 2A.
He went on a hunger strike in protest to his prolonged detention in solitary and also pressure on him to give an interview on state-run TV. His mother, Zoleikha Moussavi said in this regard, “Hossein is under severe pressure to confess on television”.
She also expressed concern about her son being kept in solitary for eight months.
“Hossein called and said that they blindfolded him at night and told him he had to give an interview. I am very worried. My son is still under pressure to give an interview on TV and I really do not know what to do”, his mother added.
Family members of children’s rights lawyer arrested, no news on lawyer
Tehran- July 25, 2010
Fereshteh Halimi, the wife of Mohammad Mostafayi and her brother Farhad Halimi were arrested at 11 pm last night and there is no news on the whereabouts of children’s rights activist Mohammad Mostafayi.
Yesterday, Mostafayi went to the court in Evin Prison to answer some questions and was interrogated fro 4 hours. Subsequently, yesterday evening, security forces went to his office with a warrant for his arrest, but he was not in his office.
In the end, Fereshteh Halimi and Farhad Halimi were arrested near his office and there is no news on their whereabouts.
Former student prisoner witnesses horrifying sexual abuse in Babol Prison
Tehran- July 24, 2010
Iman Sediqi explained the horrifying condition of political prisoners in prison in an interview…
Iman Sediqi: Dangerous criminals were kept in the public cellblock. People who had committed crimes such as murder, kidnappings, rape, vandalizing and forced entrance into homes… In our room there were about 15 other prisoners who lived with us in the cell…
Most of them were arrested for street fights but there were other people who were arrested for kidnappings, vandalizing or raping their child.
Unfortunately that person (rapist) who was not in a suitable mental condition raped his 11 year old son and was sentenced to 10 years of prison and lived with us in one room. Of course no one had the right to know our charge and they had written that we had committed vandalizing in the prisoner list in our cell so that no one would notice (that we were political prisoners)…
There were two prisoners who had a fight with each other in the quarantine section… The next day when I went to the quarantine section to use the telephone I realized that prisoners who ran the quarantine section (we call them the prisoner’s representatives) had chained the legs of this prisoner to the leg of another prisoner in the middle of the yard and forced him to carry out a vulgar sexual act with the prisoner chained to him in front of all the other prisoners in the middle of the yard. And when he got tired and stopped what he was doing, he would be violently assaulted with the handle of a broom and would be forced to continue…
Three days after we were transferred to the public cellblock, we went to see the head of the prison and asked to be transferred to the Private Cellblock but he refused and said that we do not give a cell to anti-revolutionaries. He also told us that we had no right to tell anyone what our crime was and that we are not allowed to talk about our charge with anyone and if we did we would be transferred to the Ministry of Intelligence Detention Center in Sari.
Iran arrests activist in Tehran
Tehran- July 25, 2010
Hoda Saber, a national-religious activist was kidnapped on July 25 after leaving her place of work.
According to reports, Hoda Saber left her office at 5:30 and was to meet her husband at his office at 5:45pm. Her husband waited for her until 7 pm but she did not come. She was probably kidnapped and arrested. In the past week, security forces had gone to her office when she was not in.
She was summoned by phone to start her prison term but her lawyer went to court and asked that the sentence be given to them in a written form. He was told that it would be announced to them in written form. But no written sentence was given.
Workers of Iran
Protest at Naznakh Factory
Qazvin, July 26, 2010
Since Monday morning, July 26 more than 120 workers of Naznakh Factory in Qazvin gathered in protest to the condition of their livelihood and their 5 months unpaid wages and bonuses in front of the factory.
These workers refer almost on daily bases to different organs of the regime to receive what belongs to them but no body cares and gives an answer to them.
Employees of Qom’s 118 Communication on strike
Qom, July 26, 2010
Employees of Qom’s 118 Communication continued their strike for the second day. The turned off all the communication apparatus at the bureau and sat-in in the yard.
One of the employees said: “the new contractor has decided to fire half of us all having more than 10 years history of work at the bureau”.
Another employee said: “the new contractor has announced that those who does not get fired and stay have to work 12 hours a day 4 hours more than the legal work hours. This kind of work requires a good nerve and it is hard to bear it even for eight hours”.
Another employee: “after 10 to 15 years that we have been working here and we have lost our good ears and eyes and nerves they tell us Mr. get lost, you are fired”.
Other News
Regime’s new ambassador to Iraq an important commander of IRGC
Tehran, July 28, 2010
Hassan Danaeefar regime’s new ambassador in Iraq is one of the most important commanders of IRGC. He was formerly working at the Council of Expediency headed by Rafsanjani and he has been present in Iraq for the last few years.
Danaeefar who is originally from Iran went back to the country from Iraq at the time of Iran- Iraq war.
Later he joined Badr, the military branch of Alla Assembly. He can well speak Arabic and Kurdish.
He has played a great role in Qod’s force’s activities and operations out of Iran’s land.
He has a great bond with Iraqi, especially Shiite politician at the top of them Nori Maleki; he also has relations with Kurdish leaders.
Students Committee in Iran (Supporters of PMOI)
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