The Beginning of the End of the Clerical Rule in Iran
No. 715
Downfall
licated arrangements for Khamenei’s expensive visit to QomOctober 8, 2010
There are new reports about Khamenei’s expensive visit to this town. Complicated arrangements by government officials show that this trip will take place around October 10 to October 13.
All the main roads in the town of Qom are being controlled by security cameras. Plain clothes agents can be seen all over this city. All universities have been told to hold conferences and record all student problems, even family and financial problems, and try not to let in these kinds of students into conferences held by the leader to prevent protests in the middle of the conference.
All shops on the streets which will welcome Khamenei will also be shut down. (Ati News, Mehr News Agency)It is important to note that all these security measures for Khamenei’s trip show how much the Iranian people hate him forcing the Iranian regime to take out these measures. This shows that the people are not afraid of the ‘leader’ and his taboo has been broken.
Mullah Lari, defended from the crimes of regime in universityOct. 9, 2010
Lari, Internal Minister of Khatami cabinet, defended of the crimes done on students in the year 1999 and said, as a responsible in security department, I am satisfied police force and how they controlled the incidents of that year in university. He also said: as a person responsible for the security of the society at that time, I can defend them.
This minister of Khatami by reminding the uprise of 1999 of students, said: security zone at the time of incident wanted to do as that this contrast not to become permanent contrast.
He expressed his satisfaction of police forces’ crimes and added: “in the last day, some came to the city with mask and set fire to banks, which showed that they are from rioters but their acts were stopped by force of security forces of the country.
Top cleric: we have to believe in the existence of the enemy
October 9, 2010
Ahmad Khatami, the temporary head of Friday Prayers in Tehran warned that the regime should believe in the existence of the enemy and said, “The leadership is the main target of the enemies of the government”.
According to Fars state-run news Agency and the Mehr state-run news agency on October 8, Khatami counted five ways that the ‘enemies’ are fighting with the Islamic Republic and said, “The third way of the enemy is cutting down the pillar holding up the revolution which is the leadership… therefore the enemies do not even for a moment subside the weakening of the leadership and the leader”.
“Foreign enemies announce their animosity with the leadership openly and of course internal enemies weaken the place of the leadership with hints and gestures and taunts”, he said in another part of the Tehran Friday Prayer sermon.
Ardabil gold bazaar in strike after two weeks
October 9, 2010
Despite constant threats and warnings by judicial officials against the ongoing strike of Bazaar merchants and while a number of gold officials talked about an agreement with the government, the Ardabil Gold Bazaar is still on strike since 14 days ago in protest to valued added tax.
Resistance
New wall writings in support of sanctions against regime and public protestOct. 9, 2010
According to reports following region in Tehran Nezam abad, Shariati, Yaghchiabad and shahr Rey, new wall writings in support of international sanctions and public protests by active youths have been done. Some of the slogans were: “wide strikes-down with supreme leader” and “don’t be afraid of sanctions we are all together-down with Khamenei”
A Call on Tehran active youths to protest in the day of students on 7th of December
Oct. 9, 2010
According to residents of Narmak, Lavizan and Tehran no, on Thursday, 7th October, new slogans have been written by youths on walls which the newest were inviting people for 7th of December demonstration. The following slogans were written on the walls:
"Khamenei should know that he will soon be over thrown".
"7th of December will comes student fights and Khamenei shakes", "Don’t forget 7th of December".
Hard control on the road from Salmas and Mahabad to Sananaj by regimes grubs
Oct. 9, 2010
According to reports, following the military attack by two motorcyclists to Guards corps in Sanandaj on Thursday 7th of October, which a number of police agents were killed and wounded, regime in fear of continuation of such attacks has ordered his grubs, to take control of Salmas-Mahabad to Sanandaj road and to investigate all cars.
Protest gathering of Teacher training department of Tehran University In front of the Parliament
Oct. 8, 2010
Students of Teacher training department yesterday held a protest for bad situation of university chambers and the unknown employment situation in front of parliament.
Taking refuge of students of Qom University in protest against the unsuitable situation of the university
Oct. 9, 2010
Hundreds of students of Qom university in protest against the situation of the university and the replacement of the building shouted slogans of “student dies but does not accept bow down”, refused going to classes and took refuge in the university yard.
According to reports, university authorities for scattering the students asked for help from police forces, but there was no news of arrest.
Besides, at the same time on the first day of university of Rasht was opened, police of the university had physical contact and they were hit, students in protest against the arrests, held a gathering in front of the university and asked for their freedom.
Suppression
Limits in sleeping rooms for Tehran university students
Oct. 9, 2010
This year, the residential areas of Tehran University dormitory were emptied and regime has scattered all the students over different region of the city. Even sleeping rooms are not given to the overnight students. Islamic society of Tehran University is closed down and in active because all the members and leaders are either suspended or arrested. Security forces all the day and night have heavy security control on the university and they cut off the internet lines.
Cleric: dealing with improper veiling is necessary
Oct. 9, 2010
The temporary head of Friday Prayers in Qazvin said, “Those who do not follow the chastity and veil in an Islamic society should be seriously and legally dealt with”.
“A group of norm breakers who do not care about the veil and are looking to promote the western culture in the society have to be careful of their actions and we expect the judiciary and state security forces to deal with them more seriously”. (state-run Mehr News Agency)
Mashhad cleric: unveiling is the source of all problems
October 8, 2010
Ahmad Alamhoda stressed in his Friday Prayer sermon that all the problems of this country in the 200 years of the rule of the colonialism is because the educational system was secularized.
This member of the Assembly of Experts stressed that an unveiled woman is the key and source of all destruction and added that the “State Security Forces have to deal with these instances with more power”. (State-run ISNA news agency)
Details of brutal torture of death row political prisoner
Oct. 5, 2010
Death row political prisoner, Seyed Sami Hosseini who is in the Orumieh Central Prison detailed the tortures he was subjected to in a letter from prison.
Some sections of his letter which has been given to Harana News Agency are as follows:
I was arrested on June 4, 2008 and it was written in my files that I was interrogated in the first branch of court on June 5, 2008 even while I was detained in the Salmas Intelligence Agency then and was subjected to the most severe torture for 6 to 7 days by intelligence agents. Due to the torture I lost my speech and was sent to the Khomeini Hospital in Orumieh. Therefore how could I be present in the first branch of the Salmas court in this condition? I did not go to court until August 24 and I was completely in the hands of the Intelligence Agency. I was unconscious for 18 days after being tortured in the Western Azarbaijan Intelligence Agency and was hospitalized in the private intelligence agency hospital.
My friend Jamaloddin Mohammadi and I never actually saw the claimed evidence of the Intelligence Agency and Revolutionary Court even while we were sentenced to death based on this so-called evidence…
Interrogation methods by heads of the Intelligence Agency in Salmas and Oruimeh:
I was punched and kicked and beaten for hours… I was hanged with a rope from my wrists and given electric shocks. I had a 20 cm long gash in my shoulder because of the torture and after 2 years, the signs of the gash are still evident on my body and judges in the court of review even saw and confirmed this sign of torture. I was flogged on the soles of my feet and thighs. Because of these tortures, I was unconscious for 18 days and I was unable to eat for a week after I regained conscious and was nourished through an intravenous drip. My interrogators recorded my inability to eat as ‘hunger strike in detention’ in my file. I was banned from seeing my family and even from calling them for 3 and a half months. I was interrogated for a prolonged amount of time and sometimes up to 48 hours and was deprived from sleep so that my mental state and moral would decrease in order to force me to accept what they pleased.
Political prisoner Seyed Sami Hosseini – Orumieh Prison cellblock 12
Prisoner becomes paralyzed in both arms in Tabriz Criminal Intelligence Department from excessive torture
Oct. 8, 2010
Hamid Jahangir Vandian who is a resident of Tabriz has become paralyzed in both arms as a result of prolonged torture in the Tabriz Criminal Intelligence Department.
A person close to him said that Jahangir Vandian was transferred to the Criminal Intelligence Department after being accused of robbery and was subjected to severe torture which led to his hands being paralyzed from the shoulder down.
He was hanged with handcuffs for a few days by agents of the 3rd Team to Counter Robbery in the Tabriz Criminal Intelligence Department. These agents also hammered his fingers.
This Azeri citizen went to the doctor after leaving the Intelligence Department and was told that his hands had become paralyzed and would not go back to their original state.
Jahangir Vandian then filed a complaint against the three agents identified by their last names as Shahi, Atayi and Aqarbayi and the case was sent to the fifth branch of the Tabriz Judiciary.
Agents of the Criminal Intelligence Department then transferred him back to this department after being informed of the suit and he is currently under pressure to take back his complaint.
These agents told him that the judge seeing to this case was a former agent in the Tabriz Criminal Intelligence Department and was their friend and even if these agents killed him, no one would support him.
Capturing 81 of youths in the name of gangsters
Oct. 9, 2010
Regime in the path of being overthrown has no way but to repress our people.
Head of repressive police station in Tehran gave news of 81 arrests in the name of gangsters.
News channel TV (state run) said: Deputy Head of Tehran police gave news of 81 arrests of gangsters in forth process of clash with gangsters. Alipour by pointing to last night maneuver of police said: agents of relief unit in this operation recognized and arrested some of fugitives. This clash will be continued in Tehran.
Two jailed Christian priests in danger of execution for ‘apostasy’
Oct. 7, 2010
The 11th branch of the Gilan Judiciary has requested the death sentence for Christian priest, Yusef Nodrkhani, on the charge of apostasy. His jailed wife has also been sentenced to life in prison. Another jailed priest in Shiraz, Behrouz Khanjani, also faces the threat of execution.
Nodrkhani is a Rasht resident and has been detained in this town’s prison since 2009. He was arrested after being summoned several times for encouraging Christianity in his home church. This 35 year old priest has two small children.
Reza Dehghani, a priest and member of the Leadership Council of the Iran Church said that Yusef Nodrkhani was sentenced to death on charges of apostasy.
“He was tried three times and the last time he went to trial was three weeks ago. His lawyer was informed over the phone that a death sentence was issued for him but they have not made officially announced this and have not given them a written sentence. This is a common practice carried out to evaluate the reaction of the public”, he said.
Fatemeh Pasandideh, the wife of Yusef Nodrkhani, has been jailed since June 2010.
Dehghani said that the children (of this Christian couple) are under six years old and live with their aunt.
“Mrs. Pasandideh has been sentenced to life imprisonment because in Islam, the sentence for a man who has committed apostasy is death and for a woman it is life in prison”.
Dehghani also cited the dangerous state of Behrouz Khanjani in Shiraz Prison and said that he had also been sentenced to death.
“His wife was also arrested and released on bail”, he added.
Women in Evin Prison face continuing water shortage and unsanitary conditions
Oct. 7, 2010
Prisoners in the Public Women’s Cellblock in Evin Prison have been facing serious sanitary problems in the last eight days because of the constant water shortage and lack of water.
This cellblock has had a water shortage and water cut off in the last few months. Since last week, because the lack of water lasted for a longer time up to 24 hours, these jailed women have been faced with serious problems.
According to reports, there are about 20 infants and children under two year of age who are kept along with their mothers in this cellblock and the lack of water has led to problems for these children.
Nazila Dashti, Atefeh Nabavi, Mahdie Golro, Zahra Jabari, Farah Vazehan, Kobra Zagheh Doust, Alieh Eqdam Doust, Saba Rezvani, Hengameh Shahidi, Bahareh Hedayat, Parvin Javadzadeh, Reihaneh Haj Ibrahim Dabagh, Sousan Tarinian, Manijeh Safar Elahi, Fatemeh Khoramjou, Motahareh Bahrami Haqiqi, Ozra Sadat Qazi Mir Saied, Kefayat Malek Mohammadi and Mahsa Rahmat are all political prisoners in this cellblock.
This is while despite this problem which has existed from months ago, prison officials have not taken any measures to solve it and today the problem has deteriorated.
Yesterday, Gholamhossein Ismaili, the head of the Prison Organization, said that the sanitary condition of prisons in Iran is ‘satisfactory’.
Two Kurd activist still kept in solitary after 65 days; families pressured into keeping silent
Oct. 7, 2010
Two months after the arrest of two activists in Marivan, there is still no news on their condition and their families have been put under pressure by security forces.
These two Kurd activists identified as Bakhtiar Memari and Hajir Ibarahimi who were arrested about two months ago by security forces are still in solitary cells in the Sanandaj Intelligence Detention Center. These two activists have been under severe pressure for 65 days in solitary cells and have not been allowed to contact their families.
A person close to these detainees said that their conditions are a cause for concern because they have been kept in solitary for such a long time.
This source also said that their families were pressured not to talk to the media about their arrest and therefore no information has been put out about their condition until now.
Notably, despite the constant visits of their families to the court and intelligence agency in Sanandaj to follow up their conditions, they have not been able to get any information on their loved ones and relevant officials refuse to give them information on their charges and condition. (Kurdish Perspective)
Other News
2500 non Iranian Islamic propagandist were exported from Qom zone
Regime's export of fundamentalism
Oct. 9, 2010
During the recent year more than 2500 non Iranian Islamic propagandist were sent to their own countries from Qom.
Fars agency, (state- run) Reza Khorasani nejad , manager of communication and international committee of high education of jurisprudence said: in propaganda fields, good activities has been formed. At the time of Ramadan and Moharam last year and this year Ramadan, more than 2500 non Iranian propagandist returned to their countries. These students when they return to their countries will set up scientific work shops.
Students Committee in Iran (Supporters of PMOI)
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