The Beginning of the End of the Clerical Rule in Iran
No.686
War of political prisoners
Larijani asked for a go for execution of 1120 prisoners
Tehran, August 10, 2010
Sadegh Larijani the head of regime’s Judiciary, in a confidential letter to Ali Khamenei asked for permission for the execution of 1120 prisoners.
The reports received say that in his letter Larijani has said that these decrees have been approved by the Supreme Court and the Judiciary is waiting for khamenei’s permission to execute them.
In another event in the report of the head of Prisons Organization addressing Larijani the number of prisoners is 6 times the capacity of the prisons.
Gohardasht Prison’s guard viciously attacked prisonersKaraj, August 11, 2010
ISC reported from Gohardasht Prison that on Tuesday August 10, the vicious guards of prison raided ward 17 and beat the prisoners.
They destroyed the personal belongings of the defenseless prisoners including their telephone cards and foods.
At 9 am the prisoners were transferred to the yard and were kept under the heath being deprived of any water or using bathroom.
When one of the prisoners Yaghoub Baghery Jahed protested their savage behaviors he was severely beaten with baton.
The head of the guards, Mirza Aghaie, along with some other guards made Yaghoub to undress in front of all the prisoners present and humiliated him.
The second raid at the prisoners in Gohardasht
Karaj, August 11, 2010
The henchmen of Khamenei at Gohardasht Prison in Karaj brutally attacked prisoners in ward 6 and beat them severely. They destroyed the personal belonging of the prisoners.
Political prisoner on 28th day of hunger strike in critical condition denied treatment
Tehran -August 10, 2010
According to reports, political prisoner Arjang Davoudi is on his 28th day of hunger strike and in critical health. He is in danger of death.
The side effects of his hunger strike have led to his dangerous physical condition.
He is suffering from low blood pressure which has become more severe over time, a severe decrease of vision, headaches, dizzy spells and his is also unable to move.
On the other hand, interrogators of the Intelligence Agency and heads of Gohardasht Prison have increased pressure on this political prisoner and political prisoners who help him are summoned to the prison’s Department of Intelligence and Investigation where they are threatened that if they continue to help Davoudi, they will be thrown in solitary.
Political prisoner Mansour Radpour is one of the prisoners who was summoned and threatened by Reza Turabi, the head investigator of this prison, and Kermani and Faraji, the head and assistant head of the Intelligence Department. They threatened Mansour Radpour that if he helps Davoudi, he will be transferred to solitary cell in cellblock 1.
Ali Haj Kazem, the head of prison has ordered a ban on medical treatment for Davoudi and it has been a few days that he has not been treated while in critical condition.
This shows that the heads of the prison and intelligence interrogators intent to physically eliminate this political prisoner. Especially since one of his demands is that his complaint against Ali Haj Kazem be dealt with.
Political prisoner Arjang Davoudi who is currently jailed in cellblock 3 known as the Worker’s cell went on a hunger strike on July 14 in protest to prison conditions and inhumane limitations. Davoudi has demanded his minimum rights like ending his visitation and phone call ban to his family, medical treatment for his physical condition, ending the (illegal) confiscation of his home which has made his family homeless and seeing to his complaint against the head of Gohardasht Prison, Ali Haj Kazem.
Sanctions
Effect of sanctions on the clerical regime and denial of Ahmadinejad
Tehran, August 10, 2010
Despite the economical pressures imposed on the clerical regime in all aspects and every body can see that but regime and especially Ahmadinejad is trying to deny it.
In his speeches this week Ahmadinejd said that the sanctions have helped in uprooting the dominance of ‘dollar’ over global markets while it is obvious that the sanctions are gradually helping in uprooting the mullahs in Iran.
The clerical dictatorship is facing problems in selling its gasTehran, August 10, 2010
The clerical regime has two options for representing its gas, either by pipe lines or by selling liquefied gas.
Regime’s strategy from the beginning was to construct gas transfer pipe lines to Asia through Pakistan and India or to Europe through Turkey or Republic of Azerbaijan.
But US was opposed to the plan and it was not progressive. As the result regime tried the second way, meaning production of liquefied natural gas.
But on Monday August 9 regime’s Oil Ministry announced that the production of liquefied natural gas has stopped.
This is the result of oil and gas sanctions. Many of the great oil enterprises enjoying the facilities for transporting liquefied gas have announced that they will not cooperate with regime any more.
In addition to the investment and technology that regime needs a market exporting the gas.
Japan is one of the greatest consumers of liquefied gas and the clerical regime has had the greatest hope in exporting its product to that country.
But about two weeks ago Japan announced that it will join the harshest sanctions against the clerical dictatorship.
In that way the clerical regime has lost its market too.
The ring of sanctions got tighter
Tehran, August 11, 2010
- Brazil signed the sanctions issued by UN against the clerical dictatorship.
- Turkey’s export of gasoline to the clerical dictatorship was reduced 73% on July.
- Toyota Company announced that aligning with the international sanctions against regime’s nuclear programs it has suspended the exports of its cars to Iran. In its statement the company has said that ‘having in mind the international atmosphere’ it has stopped shipping its products to the clerical regime since June.
Ahmadinejad’s deputy: Korans must be slapped in face
Tehran, August 10, 2010
Being under the pressure of the international sanctions the clerical dictatorship is out of breath but tries to show that it doesn’t care but its nervous reactions and it threats towards those that impose sanctions speak enough.
Mohammad Reza Rahimi, Ahmadinejad’s deputy told Fars news agency affiliated with IRGC: “in our point of view Dollar and Euro are dirty currencies and we will not sell our oil by that...The sanctions will not stop our nuclear program it will just help us to reach technical independence in different industries...”.
He attacked Korea and said: “they must be slapped”. He also called Australians “a bunch of ranchers”.
The head of regime’s trade room: we must take the sanctions serious just like a military war
Tehran, August 10, 2010
Nahavandian the head of regime’s trade room called the international sanctions as ‘battle field’ and worriedly said: “we cannot be naive; we must take it serious as a military war.
In a session with the subject of sanctions he said that not paying attention to sanctions is like not paying attention to the enemy and added: “the pressure of sanctions ...will eventually lead to a rise in prices and unemployment...it is not logical to provoke them for more sanctions. This will stop our progress and will keep the future generation as retarded”.
Suppression
Female political prisoner sentenced to death for links to PMOI
Tehran August 10, 2010
An informed source said that a death sentence has been issued for Farah Vazehan who was arrested after Ashura.
On August 4, there were reports that the 15th branch of the Revolutionary Court sentenced her to 15 years of prison but this informed source said that she was actually sentenced to death.
This source, who asked not to be named, said that Vazehan’s family did not inform her of her death sentence to prevent her from becoming unhappy.
This sentence was issued by Judge Salavati in the 15th branch of the Revolutionary Court and is an initial sentence.
Farah Vazehan is currently in the Public Female Cellblock in Evin Prison and has been in temporary detention for 7 months. She was arrested in her home two days after Ashura on December 29, 2009.
She has been charged with participating in street protests and ‘waging war with God by cooperating with the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran’. She lived outside of the country for many years and only came back to Iran to be at the side of her 19 year old daughter who has cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy. (Rahana – Aug. 10, 2010)
Another Baha’i man sentenced to prison
Babol- August 10, 2010
In the ongoing suppression of religious minorities in Iran, another Baha’i citizen was sentenced to three years of prison by the Babol Revolutionary Court.
According to reports, Moshtaq Samandari who is a resident of Babol was sentenced to three years of prison on charges of disrespecting Islam by advertising Baha’ism.
He was arrested by security forces last June and his sentence was issued based on this case.
Tehran student sentenced to one year of prison and 74 lashesTehran -August 10, 2010
Mehdi Sa’ad Khosravi, a political law student at Tehran University was sentenced to one year of prison and 74 lashes by the 26th branch of the Revolutionary Court. Nine months of his one year prison term has been suspended for five years.
According to reports, his charges were announced as assembling and conspiring, acting against national security and disrupting public order by Judge Pir Abbas. He was cleared of the first charge and sentenced to one year of prison for acting against national security and 74 lashes for disrupting public order.
He was arrested on December 26, 2009 while going to a mourning ceremony in Jamaran by security forces and after many interrogations in Evin Prison was transferred to cellblock 350. He was released on bail in mid March.
Notably, his sentence was issued around last month and Khosravi who did not have a lawyer in court was not able to appeal the sentence.
Female journalist sentenced to 6 years of prison and 5 year ban on journalismTehran -August 10, 2010
Badrolsadat Mofidi, the Secretary of the Iran Journalist’s Association was sentenced to six years of prison and a five year ban on journalistic activities by the 26th branch of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran.
She was charged by Judge Ahmadzadeh with assembling and conspiring against the security of the nation and propagating against the government in a court which was held last Tuesday behind closed doors.
She was detained before this for five and a half year in temporary detention before being release on bail.
Imminent risk of execution
Tehran -August 10, 2010
Clerical regime’s Supreme Court has rejected Ja'far Kazemi's request to appeal against his death sentence. The sentence was imposed for his alleged participation in anti-government demonstrations and links with PMOI. His sentence may be carried out at any time. Six other people with alleged links to PMOI are said to be under sentence of death.
Ja’far Kazemi was arrested on 18 September 2009 and interrogated and tortured for months in Evin prison in Tehran. He was accused of participating in protests which followed the disputed outcome of Iran’s presidential election in June 2009, but was not accused of committing any violent acts; and for his alleged contact with PMOI.
He was sentenced to death for “enmity against God”, and is also believed to have been convicted of “propaganda against the system”. On 26 April, he learned that his death sentence had been confirmed by an appeal court. A further appeal was apparently rejected in late July.
Mohammad Ali Haj Aghaei, Ali Saremi (or Sarami), Abdolreza Ghanbari, Ahmad Daneshpour Moghaddam and Mohsen Daneshpour Moghaddam are also condemned to execution charged with “enmity against God”. Another political prisoner Javad Lari, a merchant in the Tehran bazaar, is sentenced to “death, without pardon” for “enmity against God.” He is also held in Evin prison, where he was tortured and forced to ‘confess’.
Ja’far Kazemi has been interrogated by security forces for months, and was pressured to make a televised “confession”, which he refused to do. Mr. Kazemi was also a political prisoner in the 1980s. One of his sons is a PMOI member and lives in Camp Ashraf, which houses PMOI members in Iraq. On 1 August, his wife, Roudabeh visited the Judiciary’s office in order to deliver a letter. They refused to accept it and informed her that the death sentence would be carried out.
Tehran’s prosecutor announced on 15 May that the death sentences of Ja’far Kazemi, Mohammad Ali Haj Aghaei, Mohammad Ali Saremi , Abdolreza Ghanbari, and father and son, Ahmad and Mohsen Daneshpour Moghaddam, were upheld by the Appeal Court after they were found guilty of “enmity against God” in relation to their alleged links to the PMOI. In some cases, these links may amount to no more than having contact with family members linked to the PMOI…
Ali Saremi (or Sarami), aged 62, has a son in the PMOI who lives in Camp Ashraf, Iraq, whom he has visited. Ali Saremi has spent 23 years in prison for his political activities both before and after the 1979 Islamic Revolution in Iran.
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