The Beginning of the End of the Clerical Rule in Iran
No. 709
Downfall
Atomic bomb -Sanction - Crack within regime
Qazvin gold merchants march in protest to raised taxesSept. 28, 2010
In solidarity with gold sellers in other Iranian cities, Qazvin gold sellers went on strike in protest to raised taxes. They marched in protest to the Tax Affairs Organization in the province of Qazvin.
Regime thugs attack Tehran Bazaar
Sept. 28, 2010
According to reports from Tehran, a number of pro-regime thugs and Bassij and plainclothes agents entered the gold merchants Bazaar in Tehran to counter the striking merchants. These thugs attacked the closed shutters of a number of shops with metal bars chanting ‘death to the hypocrites’. (The term hypocrite, monafeq in Farsi is used by the Iranian regime to refer to the PMOI)
This attack was met with the reaction of a number of the merchant which led to clashes between the merchants and thugs. According to reports, this clash occurred at 2 pm when a Bassiji who attacked the closed shutters of shop was beaten up by merchants and was then taken to the hospital.
This report also says that the fabric merchants’ bazaar was also half closed and it was announced that other merchants intend to join the strike.
Qom gold merchants go on strike
Sept. 28, 2010
In protest to raised taxes, Qom gold sellers, especially in the Tala Mall, went on strike yesterday and closed their shops and did not open their shops today. This is while Khamenei is to make a trip to Qom next week. There were a large amount of plainclothes agents around the closed shops which made is impossible to take pictures of the strike. According to reports, the gold seller will continue their strike tomorrow.
What went in the meeting of jewelers with tax department?
Sept. 28, 2010
On Saturday there was a meeting between the heads of Gold unions of all the country with tax department authorities. Goal of this meeting was to make an agreement in implementing tax rule on gained profit. But this meeting ended without any results due to continuous protests by union activists and they declared that this rule should not be implemented.
After this unsuccessful meeting this morning, there was going to be another meeting that afternoon in the office of secretary general of tax organization. But two hours to this second meeting, union authorities declared that they are not going to take part in the meeting and they prefer to follow their requests by continuation of closing their shops. (State run -Tabnak Site)
Assassinated doctor had links to Kahrizak scandal Sept. 28, 2010
A website which belongs to the minority faction of the Iranian regime shed light on the fact that Dr. Abdolreza Soudbakhsh who was recently assassinated was linked to the Kahrizak detention center torture case and intended to leave Iran one day before his assassination.
This website wrote: “Dr. Abdolreza Soudbakhsh, a Tehran University assistant professor was one of the doctors seeing to the cases of the Kahrizak Detention Center and prisoners who were suffering from infections in the urinary tract or damaged reproductive systems. Security officials had ordered that he had to officially announce that all the prisoners who came to him for treatment had meningitis”.
According to this website, ‘Abdolreza Soudbakhsh was shot one day before leaving Iran to go abroad’.
In this way, Soudbakhsh was the second medic who was killed over the Kahrizak Prison scandal. Soudbakhsh was informed of the medical files of all those killed in Kahrizak. He was also the specialist who checked all the prisoners who were sexually abused or raped and had special information in this regard.
Soudbakhsh, who had recently felt that he was in danger because of the increased pressure by regime forces, sent his family abroad a few days before his assassination. He had a ticket to leave Iran on September 22. He was fatally shot outside his clinic in the Keshavarz Blvd. in Tehran.
The two main doctors who had checked and treated Kahrizak Prisoners are now dead and there is still no sign of a finalized sentence for those linked to these crimes and the Kahrizak Detention Center culprits. The assassination of Dr. Soudbakhsh shows that the main elements of Kahrizak are still alive and active.
Prison officials make millions from narcotics trade in prisonSep. 26, 2010
Political prisoner Arjang Davoudi who is detained in Rajayi Shahr (Gohardasht) Prison in Karaj wrote a report on the narcotics gangs in prison and their links to prison officials.
(This letter reads in part):
It has been some time now that the number of prisoners in Rajayi Shahr Prison has passed the line of 5,000 and at least 4,500 of these prisoner use narcotics. If we say that from this number 1,500 are recreational drug users and we will not include them in our calculations, this means that there are at least one thousand professional drug users in this prison.
If we consider that three people only use one gram of narcotics a day this means that at least one thousand grams are used daily in this prison and because crack (kind of chemical narcotic) is used the most because it is cheap, we will use crack in our calculations.
One gram of crack is at most 8,000 tomans outside of prison.
One gram of crack is at least 60,000 tomans inside of prison.
If we say that drug dealers in prison get 12,000 tomans for every gram, every gram of crack will cost at least a total of 20 thousand tomans for those who import the drugs into prison. Therefore the leftovers of this amount will be 40,000 tomans for every gram and because the daily use of crack in prison is 1000 grams, the daily proceeds of narcotics amounts to 40 million tomans (about $40,000). This means that entering only one kilogram of crack in prison amounts to a 1.2 billion toman (about 1.2 million dollar) trade in one month.
The violent and somewhat accurate inspections and body searches of prisoner’s families on visiting days and also the inspections of prisoners who have been sent to court which is carried out in several stages are all to prevent the import of narcotics to prison outside of the narcotics network to keep this million dollar trade under the control and in the grasp (of prison officials) …
The notorious head of Rajayi Shahr Prison, Ali Haji Kazem, is getting the most profits from all of this and after Karaj turns into a province which will see him become the General Manager of the Alborz Province Prisons, he will make even more money because he will get the profits from all other prisons in the province.
Unfortunately, we see that regime elements pocket millions of dollars while many people are desperate for a piece of bread.
Long live freedom, death to the ruling tyranny, Arjang Davoudi
Sanction
Regime’s claim on the sanction of gasoline, Rahimi: one drop of gas have not been imported
Sept. 28, 2010
Mohammad RezaRahimi, first deputy of Ahmadinejad continued: Iran’s government intends to turn away from the sanctions. He pointed that despite sanction nearly $21000 million were invested in south pars and declared that foreign companies went out and were replaced by internal companies. Rahimi by pointing to the $50000 million investment in South Pars, immediately after the sanction of selling gas to Iran, Oil Ministry declared independence.
At the moment we do not import even on drop of gas. (State run -Tabnak Site)
Crack within regime
Regime specialist speculate Ahmadinejad’s useless trip to NY
Sept. 28, 2010
The state-run Mehr News Agency quoted a specialist named Hassan Beheshti over Ahmadinejad’s proposition for the formation of a fact finding committee to see to the September 11 attacks and wrote: “I wish this proposition was not brought up by Ahmadinejad because when such a proposition is submitted by the president of a country, it has a legal meaning for that country”.
On Ahmadinejad’s plan for nuclear disarmament he said, “In my opinion, the proposition of the disarmament of nuclear weapons in New York was an unpractical suggestion because this cannot be done all at once and measures have to be taken before this can be done”.
This regime specialist stressed that Ahmadinejad’s trip was ineffective and said, “For example instead of having 30 visits with other heads of countries, one can have only 3 effective visits that have a positive effect for the national interest of the country”.
A website affiliated with the minority faction of Iran also attacked Ahmadinejad’s proposition regarding 9\11 and wrote, “Instead of September 11, it is better that a fact finding committee be formed for the incidents at the Tehran university dormitories” in 2009.
(Regime elements violently attacked Tehran University dormitories after the 2009 presidential elections and beat university students and ransacked the dorms. This issue was never seen to by the Ahmadinejad administration)
Resistance
Women gather outside Iran’s parliament in protest to polygamy law
Sept. 28, 2010
Yesterday, a group of women gathered outside the Iranian parliament in protest to the polygamy law and demanded that it not be passed by the parliament.
Airplane Industry University students held protest gathering
Sept. 28, 2010
The students of the Airplane Industry University held a gathering in protest to the lack of dormitories.
Suppression
Iran Judiciary says Ashtiani sentenced to stoning despite Ahmadinejad’s claims in NYSep. 27, 2010
In the first news conference of the spokesman of the judiciary, Mohsen Ejeyi answered questions from reporters.
The first question in this news conference was about the case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani and the spokesman of the judiciary was asked to give more explanations regarding this case and its current state. The reporter asking the question also said that the president said that the issue of stoning was never brought up in this case.
Mohsen Ejeyi stressed on the independence of judges in issuing sentences and said, “We will never back down from Islamic laws and divine values because of the pressure of those who are in the first place for violating human rights today and want us not to implement the law”…
“In the case of Mrs. Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani such a sentence (stoning) has been issued; but it has to go through its procedure. The preceding sentence for this lady is retribution because retribution is the right of the people. This case has to follow its procedures and I stress again that retribution (eye for an eye on charges of murder) comes before Had (stoning on charges of adultery)”. (ISNA state-run news agency – Sep. 27, 2010)
New ways to force prisoners to do repentance in Evin Prison
Sept. 28, 2010
Judiciary and security officials, have increased the project of putting mental pressures on prisoners by diffusing news of remission and forgiveness among the prisoners, officials and investigators are asking the prisoners to write against the leaders of green revolution and some of political prisoners and gather news for officials, so that they get their possible freedom or remission. One of the requests of investigators from some of the prisoners is to confess that there has not been any cheating in the tenth presidential elections.
Political prisoner beaten on arrival in Ahwaz PrisonSep. 27, 2010
Zia-Eddin Nabavi, a student activist who was transferred to the Karoun Prison in Ahwaz in the last few days is in an unsuitable condition.
Zia Nabavi was severely beaten on arrival in this prison and was kept in a solitary cell for 48 hours.
According to reports, he is currently in the security cellblock of this prison. The food and hygiene conditions in the Ahwaz Prison are poor.
The spokesman of the Council in Defense of the Right to Education was only given “one breakfast and one dinner and was allowed to use the restroom only once” in the first two days of his incarceration.
There is only “one working bathroom and shower in the security cellblock and the cellblock is extremely hot and lacks ventilation. Prisoners do not have enough water”.
Nabavi who has been expelled from university was arrested on June 15, 2009 and was initially sentenced to 15 years of prison.
A court of review lowered his prison term to 10 years of prison to be served in Izeh Prison which was later changed to the Karoun Prison in Ahwaz.
Jailed lawyer not allowed to attend father’s funeral Sep. 27, 2010
Despite efforts by Nasrin Sutodeh’s family for her to attend a mourning ceremony for her father, who passed away two days ago, security and judicial officials seeing to her case refused to grant this lawyer a leave from prison.
Nasrin Sutodeh who has been detained for about a month was also not allowed to attend her father’s funeral and now despite the fact that her family paid the announced amount of bail, made legal follow ups on this issue and talked with security and judicial authorities seeing to her case, in the end she was not granted a leave.
Labor activist laid-off from work
Sep. 27, 2010
Sediq Amjadi, a labor activist in the city of Sanandaj was made unemployed by the public places department in this city.
Amjadi who worked as a taxi driver before being fired was arrested in 2007 for participating in a Labor Day ceremony. He was sentenced to three months of prison and 10 lashes.
Students Committee in Iran (Supporters of PMOI)
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