UPDATE ON IRAN - Sept. 30, 2010

The Beginning of the End of the Clerical Rule in Iran

No. 710

Downfall

Atomic bomb -Sanction - Crack within regime

Downfall




Iran tries to prevent Bazaar strike reports in media
Sept. 29, 2010
According to published reports, regime officials have asked state-run media not to cover the strikes of Bazaar merchants in Iran.






Qom gold merchants strike continued until yesterday
Sept. 29, 2010
Qom gold merchants continued their strike until yesterday. This strike started from September 27 on the verge of a visit by Khamenei to this city.

Orumieh gold merchants join strikers
Sept. 29, 2010
Gold merchants and jewelers in Orumieh closed their shops and joined the strike of gold merchants in other Iranian cities. These merchants have gone on strike in protest to a 3 percent tax raise. There strikes are ongoing.

Mullah’s regime reaction against the cancelation of selling s300 missiles
Sept. 28, 2010
Following the speech of Foreign minister of Russian on the refusal of giving S300 missiles to the Iranian regime, Mehmanparast the spokesman of Foreign ministry said: this decision is based on the 1929 resolution which is unlawful and unjust and it has been issued because of our peaceful nuclear activities and they are trying to put political pressures till our people retreat from their rights.
Spokesman added:  Playing in the USA ground does not meet the revenue of the Russian people. USA officials are not after the revenues of the people living in this zone and the Russian will react against this in the future.

Sanction & Economic

Thousands of unfinished industrial plans have been abandoned
Sept. 29, 2010
Thousands of half finished industrial plans have been abandoned and billions of tomans have become useless.
Nineteen thousand and 583 industrial plans have been abandoned in Iran. In addition to this, close to 50 thousand billion tomans (about 50 thousand million dollars) has been abandoned. This amount of money could have created 682 thousand new jobs. These plans have been abandoned in all the cities of Iran. For example, with 2,536 unfinished industrial plans, East Azarbaijan has the most unfinished plans in the country.
Also Mazandaran has the most of unfinished plans among Northern provinces with 1,494 plans; Khuzestan Province has 613 unfinished plans which makes it the highest number among Southern provinces.
Some of these plans have only been carried out up to 20 percent and have then been stopped. The most important element behind this is the fact that investments have been stolen by government officials, investments have altogether decreased and machinery and equipment is not provided to continue these projects. The economical crisis in Iran has also led to a decrease of investments compared to previous years and has added to the problems for these projects.

Giving Loans to regime’s close sides 
Sept. 29, 2010 
About $ 50 Milliard bank loans have been given to the 100 persons of regime’s close sides. This is at a time that there are numbers of growing unemployed and these loans have done nothing in creating jobs in the country.
According to Ilna (state run new agency), Hassan Allahverdinejad, secretary general of RefahEslami party of Iran, has expressed his sorrow of this news and said, even the assurances of these loans which has been given to the bank instead does not meet with the realities of country’s economy. For example the price of a land of $10 Milliard at the time giving assurance it will be estimated as $100 milliard. How that is when a worker or an employee who needs a loan of $500, he has to put forward number of checks, credits and so on. But the banking system of the country without any calculations gives loans of milliards to them.
Hassan Allahverdinejad confirmed that these 100 people who have been given $50 milliard are economic terrorists.
Including to this, judiciary system should instead of being after those who get loans of milliards, should be after managers of these banks. Those who give these high loans to some people should be in jail. But instead unemployed are being put into prisons. He emphasized: I  am sorry to say that one of the manager of these governmental banks have the residential of 3 countries Canada, England and America and his wife and children are all live abroad.

Iran, a country on a sea of oil is suffering from excessive poverty
Sept. 29, 2010
A girl in order to secure her parent’s roof, is selling her kidney and eye
Vatan Emrouz newspaper reported, a girl who had a scorch accident, for her plastic surgery, she asked for financial donation. In that report there was a need for a girl who 14 years ago in an accident and for the surgery she needed 35000 $. On the other hand her parents sold all their belongings for their daughter’s surgery and then the owner of their house threw them out so they sleep in park. This newspaper wrote today, this was only one side of the story, now she doesn’t want to have surgery anymore, now she wants to sell her kidney and eye to buy a roof for her parents and her two sisters. She said that she doesn’t expect support from anybody but she intends to sell her eye and kidney to rescue her family from tearing apart.


Crack within regime


170 MPs give written notice to Ahmadinejad
Sept. 29, 2010
One hundred and seventy members of the Iranian parliament have given written notices to Ahmadinejad who said that the parliament is not on top of all affairs. They asked him to solve the country’s problems instead of bringing up useless issues against the parliament and interfering in the affairs of other institutions in the government.




Cleric demands prosecution of Rafsanjani’s sons
Sept. 29, 2010
Mohammad-Taqi Rahbar, a pro-Khamenei member of the parliament, asked that Rafsanjani’s sons be put on trial. He called his son ‘head seditionist’ and said, “The people want the judiciary to deal seriously with the heads of the sedition which means those who carried out illegal measures in the past elections or did something that was used by the enemies of Islam. The judiciary has to see to the charges of those who have not been prosecuted and those who are undermining the prestige of the government by writing letters and also those who have still not been summoned to court”.
“Mr. Ejeyi announced that Mehdi Hashemi also has issues and that his charges could be seen to in absentia. The people want Mehdi Hashemi to be tried and he has to be prosecuted through Interpol”, he said.

Ahmadinejad looses more supports among Mullahs 
Sept. 29, 2010 
Fars press reported of a meeting of Ahmadinejad with five members of Assembly of Experts and absence of mullahs who supported Ahmadinejad.
In this meeting MesbahYazdi, Jannati and Yazdi did not take part.
Jahan news added: Political and clerical features like Jannati, Yazdi and specially MesbahYazdi, are known features whose absence increases suspicious of separation of more clerical leaders of the country from the government.
Mesbahyazdi in his speech by pointing out to Mashaii’s talks, said: those who introduce shamefully, the academy of Iran instead of Islamic academy, are from us. We have to be very careful.

Issa Saharkiz has been given 3 years imprisonment
Sept. 28, 2010
Following the made up trials to delete the defeated wing of the regime completely, News online site of the regime said that Issa Saharkhiz is given 3 years imprisonment.
News online: Issa Saharkiz journalist and member of central council of defending the freedom of press society was given 3 years imprisonment and 5 years ban and privation  of every political and press activities, one of barred departure. Saharkiz is in the Rajaii Shahr prison in Karaj.


Resistance

Gathering of Lorry drivers in front of parliament
Sept. 29, 2010
Some of the buyers of Chinese Lorries of Dang Fong, gathered in front of parliament. They protested against rooking of one car Producer Company and said: one of car producer companies inside country have taken money from them for Nissan Dissel lorries from Japan but instead drivers have received Chinese Dang Fong which do not have required standards.
Protesters demand to take back the unstandard Lorries of China and give them Japanese Lorries.


Suppression

Iran sentences blogger to 19.5 yrs. of prison
Sep. 28, 2010
The sentence of Iranian blogger Hossein Derakhshan was announced today to his lawyer.
According to a sentence which was issued today by the 15th branch of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran headed by Judge Salavati, Derakhshan who was arrested in October 2008 was sentenced to 19 and a half years of prison, a five year ban on membership in parties and media activities and returning funds given to him in the amount of 3,750 Euros, 2,900 dollars and 22 British pounds on charges of cooperating with hostile countries, propagating against the Islamic government, advertising for anti-revolutionary grouplets, insulting sanctities and running and managing immoral websites.
Hossein Derakhshan was one of the first to blog in Farsi and wrote about himself, politics and the Iranian culture in both Farsi and English in his weblog called ‘My Own Editor’.

Iran sentences Baha’i woman to two years of prison
Sep. 28, 2010
Lava Khanjani, a Baha’i who has been banned from continuing her education because of her faith and was arrested on January 3, 2010 was sentenced to two years of prison.
According to reports, Khanjani was released on bail from Rajayi Shahr Prison in March 1, 2010. Notably, she is the granddaughter of Jamaloddin Khanjani, one of the seven Baha’i leaders who were recently sentenced to 10 years of prison.


Kurd activist sentenced to 10 years of prison without right to lawyer 
Sep. 28, 2010
A resident of the Salemaneh Village in Marivan was sentenced to 10 years of prison.
Gharib Fatemi, 45, who was arrested nine months ago by security forces, was sentenced to 10 years of prison.
He was charged with cooperating with dissident parties and is currently in the Marivan Central Prison. According to those close to this Kurd activist, he was denied the right to a lawyer in all the stages of his legal procedure.

Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company drivers forced to pledge not to talk to media
Sep. 28, 2010
According to reports, the Protection Department of the Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company are trying to force the employees of this company to sign pledges that they will not talk to internal or external press about company problems.
In the past few days, under the orders of the Protection Department, it has been announced in all districts that employees in Tehran have to sign a pledge which says that all drivers are committed not to talk about the issues of the company including the condition of detained union activists, the expulsion of employees, not receiving their wages and bonuses, inhumane treatment of the Protection Department with drivers, hard working conditions and other issues.


Students Committee in Iran (Supporters of PMOI)