The Beginning of the End of the Clerical Rule in Iran
No. 711
Downfall
Atomic bomb -Sanction - Crack within regime
The strike of Gold sellers spreads to other cities in Iran including Arak, Yassoj, and Kermanshah
Oct. 3, 2010
The strike of golden sellers in different cities still continues.
According to reports shops selling gold and jewelry in the Arak Bazaar are still closed and are on strike. In Yassoj gold sellers started their strike on Thursday, Sept. 30, 2010.
In Kermanshah the gold bazaar is on its fourth day of strike. Also in Hamadan all the gold sellers in the Gold Bazaar are in their tenth day of strike.
Strike of Gold sellers in Tehran, Tabriz and Boshehr continues
Oct. 3, 2010
According to reports the strike of gold sellers in the Great Tehran Bazaar and other cities of Iran are still ongoing.
It is about a week that the gold sellers of Tabriz are on strike. Also Amir Kabir Bazaar, Mohammadi Bazaar, Amir Bazaar and also Ghtran Bazaar started their strike on October 2, 2010.
Other than gold sellers, iron sellers in Tabriz and Boshehr are also on strike because of a 3 percent tax increase.
Strike of gold sellers of Tabriz extended to other cities of East Azerbaijan
Oct. 2, 2010
The strike of gold sellers of Tabriz has extended to other cities of East Azerbaijan including Margheh.
The Strike of gold sellers of Mashad has continued to other cities of Iran. The merchants have said they will not cancel their strike until they reach their requests.
Clock sellers also joined to Tehran Bazzar strike
Oct. 2, 2010
Following the strike of gold sellers in the recent days, clock sellers also joined this strike. Saturday, Oct. 2, 2010 most of the shops of clock sellers in Tehran Bazzar were closed.
Strike in jewelers stores in, Shiraz, Mashad, , Qazvin, Shahroud and Semnan
Oct. 3, 2010
In protest to the new state of tax on profit law, strike in jewelers stores in Shiraz, Mashad, Qazvin, Shahroud and Semnan, still goes on.
Protest gathering of Iron sellers of Zanjan
Oct. 2, 2010
Iron sellers of Zanjan in protest to close down of more than 100 active units, held a gathering in of one assembly places of Zanjan and asked for consideration of this matter. One protester said: closing down of more than 100 Iron seller units which they have not even entered to warehouse yet, that has been issued by the guilds assemblies, this act is being done in a situation which there is not enough space for units activities, and this is not a wise act to be implemented. He added considering shops of about 60 square meter for Iron selling activities who have shops of more 500 meter area is not enough. But still the authorities don’t give attention to such acts.
Confession of Mullah’s regime to strike of Bazzar
Oct. 2, 2010
Pasdaran site Javan Online, called all the stores which were on stike, a bunch of gangster and wrote: the attack of 200 gangsters and the treat of setting fire to the shops in SabzeMeydan last Saturday caused shop keepers to fear and close the shops forcefully.
This site on behalf of one of the grubs wrote: opening the stores of gold sellers is out of our hand, reason is if it was in our hand we wouldn’t have close it at the first place.
Iran Intelligence Minister admits to damage of government computer systems
Oct. 3, 2010
After reports were published in international media that Iranian nuclear plants were attacked and damaged by a computer worm, Moslehi, Iran’s Minister of Intelligence announced, “We have always been faced with subversive measures against out services and have arrested a number of nuclear spies to prevent the subversive measures of the enemy”.
“The intelligence group has now found a complete awareness and control on the cyber atmosphere and will not allow any penetrations and subversive measures against the country’s nuclear activities”, he said in remarks that were carried by the Mehr state-run news agency to lift the low morale of regime forces.
Sanction & Economic
Dollar goes up 20 percent in Iranian market
Oct. 3, 2010
After the 20 percent raise of the dollar in Iranian markets in the past three days, the Central Bank of Iran is trying to stabilize 106 tomans as the base of the price of the dollar but according to state-run media, this attempt has been unsuccessful.
Khabar Online cited the value of the dollar in the unofficial markets and wrote: “While the value of the USD in the past 5 years had only increased 10 percent in the unofficial currency markets, by lowering the currency in the internal markets the Central Bank has caused the value of one USD to go up by 5.6 percent only in the course of the first six months of the (Persian) year”.
“Following two days of silence, the Central Bank is constantly giving promises to the people after the dollar went up to 1,200 tomans that it will lower the value of the dollar to 106 tomans until the end of the week”, this website said.
“But the latest reports from the Tehran currency markets show today that the value of the USD is between 1,090 to 1,100 tomans. Therefore it seems that despite promises, the heads of the currency market in the country are not really bent on swiftly lowering the value of the dollar”.
Crack within regime
Sadeq Larijani: A penalty will issue for 50 members of group who are accused of governmental corruption
Oct. 2, 2010
They are accused of milliards dollars financial corruption. Larijani clearly said that Ahmadinejad stopped the expose of this wide corruption and huge rubbery and said: we didn’t expect from those who pretend about justice, to stop investigating about such documents. It is wise not to name them. But those who shout justice slogans resist. Larijani without pointing out the large number of this robbery in all the levels of the government, added: for example since few months ago a penalty was going to be issued for 50 people. Reminding that last year, following Larijani declaration on the arrest of a large group, official press wrote: a high rank is in the head of this huge milliard defalcation, including, manager of tax company and some of managers and government employees are present. According to hostile groups of the regime, the high rank is Rahimi, first deputy of Ahmadinejad.
Resistance
Writing slogans in areas of Shahrara, Azadi, Navab and khosh in Tehran
Oct. 3, 2010
The people who live in these areas told about new wall writings about the supports of international sanctions against regime. One of the slogans is: don’t be afraid from sanctions we are all together. Strike, strike is mullahs' answer.
Protest gathering of law department of Tehran University
Oct. 2, 2010
students of law department of Tehran University, in protest to the anti-Islamic plan of regime, for reactionary change of lessons and suppressing in way of cloths and wearing of students under the plan of so called making Islamic universities, held a protest in front of university café and shouted slogans of death to the dictator. The security officers violently dispatched the gathering. According to witnesses, 4 or 5 of students were arrested by the guards.
Suppression
Iran promises crack down on fresh protests
Oct. 3, 2010
Ahmad-Reza Radan, the deputy commander of the State Security Forces expressed concern over reaction from the people regarding the purpose- made subsidies plan and threatened that security forces are ready to deal with any kind of sedition.
Radan who is one of the eight criminals that was recently put on the US list of human rights violators in Iran said, “With the execution of the purpose-made subsidies plan it is natural that some might try to cause sedition… the police have to forecast the threats and preempt them to a certain extent”.
“If there is to be another sedition in the country, it would be the lack of the confidence of the people in the authorities”, he said in remarks that were carried by the Mehr state-run news agency.
Another human rights violator who was recently blacklisted by the US, Mohseni Ejeyi, also expressed concern over popular protests and said, “We always have to be ready to deal with these issues”.
“If anything happens in the country, our forces are ready to counter it”, Iran’s Attorney General said.
AhmadiMoqadamconfesses about torturing prisoners
Oct. 2, 2010
AhmadiMoqadam the head of police forces confesses clearly about doing torture in prisons and claimed that we have been hard on torturers not to use physical act for getting confessions from prisoners.
According to Fars press agency report on 29th of September, AhmadiMoqadam said: we have taken hard measures in police stations, not to use physical manners and instead use technical ways to get confessions from prisoners, these hard measures have put so much pressure on our officers.
AhmadiMoqadam said: of course there have been some in sufficient behaviors from some of our agents but we try to resolve them. By pointing out to Kahrizad prison events in the respect to the week of police ceremony he said to the reporters: that dreadful event caused us to make our prisoners standard and to control the behaviors of police agents and to consider it as rules.
Regime officials pocket enormous riches while Iran issues amputation sentence for petty thief
Oct. 2, 2010
The Qazvin Prosecutor issued a bill of indictment requesting that the fingers of a man be amputated.
According to state-run media, Sadeq Niaraki said, “The suspect had many instance of picking pockets”.
The suspect is 42 years old, illiterate and married.
This is while according to the Jahan News state run website, an Iranian MP has made an enormous fortune. This website who did not mention the MPs name wrote that this MP is involved in making fake university degrees for regime officials.
This website wrote that this MP has a number of expensive mansions, and luxury automobiles and that he has recently bought an expensive villa in Paris.
Iran hangs two men in Orumieh prison
Sep. 30, 2010
Two prisoners in the Central Orumieh Prison were executed in the past three days.
According to reports, Yahya Zare from Orumieh was executed on Tuesday morning in this prison.
Another prisoner identified as Saber Amir Hosseini from Sanandaj was also hanged.
State-run media did not report their executions. Judicial officials secretly execute hundreds of prisoners every year without officially announcing their executions.
Names of death row minor offenders
Oct. 1, 2010
A group of minor offenders are in Gohardasht (Rajayi Shahr) Prison in Karaj. Death sentences have been issued for many of them and they are considered to be on death row. The identification documents of some of these young prisoners have also been invalidated and they do not have a true and legal identity.
Some of these young men are:
1- Saied Mohsen Miri (his death sentence has been issued and his identity has been invalidated)
2- Reza Padashi (on death row)
3- Hamed Pour Heidar (on death row and transferred to cellblock 2)
4- Hossein Ranjbarzadeh (on death row)
5- Kazem Khosravi (on death row)
6- Ehsan Ejdehaki (on death row)
7- Alireza Johari (on death row)
8- Daniel Hassanpour (on death row)
9- Safar Angouti (on death row)
10- Mohammad Aqili (on death row)
11- Saber Sharbati (on death row)
12- Mohsen Taher Nejad (on death row)
All these prisoners were under 18 when committing a crime and some of them have been jailed for up to 3 years.
Iran fires 4 labor activists from sugarcane factory
Oct. 1, 2010
The Dispute Solving Committee of the Labor Department in the town of Shush ruled for the expulsion of four of the workers of the Haft Tapeh Sugarcane Factory.
Reza Rakhshan, a labor activist in this factory said, “The Dispute Solving Committee of the Shush Labor Department confirmed the expulsion of Fereidoun Nikofar, Jalil Ahmadi, Qorban Alipour and Mohammad Heidari in its latest sentence”.
“These people were members of the Haft Tapeh Labor Union who were expelled over labor protests and other activities for laborers by the head of the factory”, he added. (ILNA state-run News Agency)
Prisoners thrown in solitary for 3 months and banned from family visits after being tortured
Oct. 2, 2010
Two Kurd political prisoners in the Orumieh Central prison who have recently been transferred from the Intelligence Agency of this city to prison are being kept in solitary cells for three months so that torture signs on their bodies disappear.
According to reports, Behrouz Aqa Khani from Salmas and Akbar Akbarlou from Khoy were subjected to severe torture for six months in the Orumieh Intelligence Agency and are now being held in solitary cells in the Orumieh Prison. They are also denied phone calls and visits with their families until the signs of physical tortures clear off.
The physical condition of these men who have been arrested on charges of acting against national security is very concerning and prison officials refuse to give them medical treatment.
Iran abducts student activist in Tehran
Oct. 3, 2010
Habib Farahzadi, a student who was denied the right to education in Tehran University was kidnapped by plainclothes agents on October 2 while going to register at this university.
According to reports, Farahzadi who was suspended for three semesters because of political activities and opposition had come to the university to register again after these three semesters. After leaving the university through the western door he was attacked and abducted by plainclothes agents in front of the Tehran University Protection Department forces.
Agents who were waiting in a car violently forced him into the car and immediately left the scene.
Evin Prison female inmates have no water for 4 days
Oct. 3, 2010
The sanitary and health condition of female prisoners in Evin Prison has reached a critical point because the water has been cut off for four days in the female cellblock.
According to reports, the water has been cut off for four days in the female cellblock of Evin Prison and this has seriously endangered the health of prisoners.
Until yesterday, prisoners were able to use a tanker to provide water for the restroom but this tanker also ran out of water yesterday and prison officials have only said that the ‘tanker has a leak’ in answer to protests from prisoners…
Because of the lack of water, prisoners are suffering from various stomach, kidney, skin and infectious diseases.
A number of drug addicts and homeless women who were brought to prison in the last four days were admitted to prison without the usual mandatory shower and cleansing, therefore lice has also increased among the women.
Also because the dishes were not washed in the past few days, in addition to the bad smell that the unwashed dishes have caused, prisoners are not able to eat food.
Since a number of women are jailed with their children and infants and toddlers have to be washed more frequently, the lack of water for the daily cleaning of babies has endangered their health and has made the bad smell of the female cellblock more unbearable.
Political prisoner sentenced to 9 years of prison and 74 lashes
Oct. 3, 2010
The 26th branch of the Revolutionary Court in Tehran headed by Judge Pir Abbasi sentenced Heshmatollah Tabarzadi, a well-known political activist, to 9 years of prison and 74 lashes.
According to reports, Tabarzadi has been charged with ‘assembling and conspiring to commit a crime against the internal security of the country’ and ‘insulting the Supreme Leader’.
Tabarzadi is the spokesman for the Solitary Council for Democracy and Human Rights and the Secretary General of the Iran Democratic Front and has been detained for more than nine months now. He has been transferred to Gohardasht Prison in Karaj for the four past months and is kept under hard conditions with minimum sanitary facilities.
Iran flogs two men in public in Ahwaz
Oct. 3, 2010
Two people convicted were flogged in public with a court order. These two were arrested during operations to clean out contaminated areas of Ahwaz which was carried out by the Revolutionary and Public courts. According to the court orders, the flogging sentence of one of the two prisoners who was sentenced to 12 years and 2 months of prison, 80 lashes and a fine was carried out in the Koye Ramezan region in Ahwaz. Also the flogging sentence for another man who was sentenced to 5 years and 50 days of prison, 46 lashes and a fine was carried out on the same day in the Khashayar region in this town. (Qods state-run daily)
Singer says he was abused and beaten in prison for singing song that ‘endangered national security’
Oct. 1, 2010
Yesterday in a court session, singer Aria Aramnejad read out his defense detailing some of what he endured in his time in prison including mental and physical torture by prison agents…
This young singer and musician was arrested in Babol on February 15, 2010 for singing a song named “Ali Barkhiz (Ali Standup)”. He spent two months of his detention in a solitary cell…
“I was arrested on February 15, 2010 after intelligence agents raided my home. They terrorized us and ransacked our home and did not even spare our bedroom. All of this was because of a song that was deemed a danger to national security by the gentlemen!!!!! After that, I was under mental and physical torture for 44 days in a solitary cell and I will detail for the judges on how humanely I was treated by the agents there:
1- I was insulted [by agents] and my personality was crushed with profane language and even ridiculing my appearance.
2- I was terrorized with threats that my wife, who was not involved in any political activities or in my activities, would be arrested.
3- My brother [who has been injured in the Iran-Iraq war] was insulted and I was threatened that they would arrest him if I did not cooperate.
4- I was threatened to death by the Intelligence Agency guard (he would say: I am an intelligent agent and I can easily kill you with a bullet outside of the agency and I will not be prosecuted for it.)
5- I was threatened to death by Mati Kalay Prison officials.
6- I was kept in a 1.5 by 2 meter cell without the minimum sanitary facilities and it reached the point that after some time my whole body was filled with infected pimples.
7- {Prison officials} intentionally deprived me of my medicine for my heart condition.
8- I was in a cell next to a HIV positive inmate and I was forced to walk barefoot on his blood which was on the ground because he had tried to commit suicide.
9- I was given offensive, perverse and incorrect information about my wife.
10- I was stripped under the excuse of a body search while an agent had a camera in his hand. After I constantly protested he smirked at me and said ‘Are you afraid?’
11- After I requested to see my doctor, I was brutally beaten by an agent in the Mati Kalay Prison to the extent that the signs were evident on my body for a long time afterwards.
12- My hands and feet were chained for a long time in Mati Kalay Prison.
These are just small examples of what I endured in my time in detention.
Security forces kill mother and blind 19 year old girl in forced eviction in Mazandaran
Sep. 30, 2010
In an attack to homes near a property in Fereidoon Kenar in the province of Mazandaran, the mother of two mentally disabled children was killed while a 19-year old girl was blinded in one eye.
According to reports, after a woman who recently came from abroad filed a complaint demanding a property she owned which is the home of 3 families, judicial orders were issued for the evacuation and demolition of these homes built in this property. This woman who has lived in the US for the last 30 years is the owner of seven homes in which 7 to 8 families lived in while paying their dues and taxes…
Last Wednesday, security forces came to this property with a warrant for the evacuation and demolition of the homes and clashed with the residents. These clashes reached their climax when people in the vicinity also interfered. In the middle of the clashes a woman of about 60 years who was the mother of a mentally disabled girl and boy was killed after being struck on the head with a baton.
When the clashes increased, security forces used tear gas, plastic bullets and batons to disperse the crowds which led to injuries on both sides of the clashes. According to eyewitnesses, a 19-year-old girl was shot in the eye with a plastic bullet and was blinded.
Student prisoner put under pressure to deny prison abuse
Sep. 30, 2010
One of the friends of jailed student activist Zia Nabavi who has been transferred to Ahwaz Prison said Zia talked about being abused and beaten in prison in a phone call to him. He also said that the head of this prison has forced this political prisoner to sign a statement to deny he was mistreated.
Political prisoner in critical condition refused treatment
Sep. 30, 2010
Mashallah Haeri, a political prisoner (PMOI supporter) who was arrested after the elections in Iran and was recently transferred from Evin Prison to Rajayi Shahr (Gohardasht) Prison in Karaj is in critical condition because of heart problems.
According to reports, Haeri who was transferred from cellblock 350 in Evin Prison to cellblock 4 in Rajayi Shahr Prison to serve his 15 year prison sentence needs urgent care and special cardiac medicine. Rajayi Shahr Prison officials have still not provided his medicine and his family has not been able to provide this expensive medicine to send to him in prison.
Haeri has stands in four of his cardiac arteries and therefore the negligence for his health by prison officials is dangerous.
This political prisoner was arrested on December 6, 2009 and was sentenced to 15 years of prison in exile on charges of ‘waging war with God by communicating with hypocrite groups’.
Iran says it will not back down from chastity plan and forced veiling
Sep. 28, 2010
Bahman Kargar said in a trip to Isfahan, “Social Security Plans will soon be carried out in some provinces including Isfahan”.
“These plans will include dealing with troublemakers, fighting drug addicts and a comprehensive plan regarding chastity and the veil”…
“Those who bother women have to be dealt with harshly and we in the State Security Forces actually act severely in this regard”, the social deputy of the State Security Forces added. (State-run Javan Online website)
Iran arrests blogger and ransacks home
Sep. 29, 2010
According to reports, agents of the ministry of intelligence arrested blogger Mohammad-Reza Pourshajari and transferred him to a solitary cell in Gohardasht (Rajayi Shahr) Prison in Karaj.
On Sunday September 22, intelligence agents raided the home of this blogger and arrested him. They violently searched his home for a long time afterwards and confiscated his identification documents, home ownership documents, computer, satellite receiver, writings, family pictures and some of his books.
This jailed blogger’s physical health has deteriorated and he has been taken to the prison infirmary twice since his arrest because of the pressure and torture he was subjected to.
Pourshajari, 50, has been blogging for a few years now and some of his articles and posts have been published in various websites. This political prisoner is also suffering from serious a slipped disk disorder.
Political prisoner in critical condition in Evin Prison
Sep. 29, 2010
Political prisoner Gholamhossein Arshi who is detained in cellblock 350 in Evin Prison is in critical condition because of an internal kidney bleeding.
The physical condition of this political prisoner who was suffering from a severe kidney illness deteriorated in the past few days which led to an internal kidney bleeding. The prison infirmary refuses to give him serious treatment and he is in critical condition.
He was arrested on March 7, 2010 in his home b security forces and taken to Evin Prison. He was transferred to cellblock 350 after a few months of solitary in cellblock 209 and was sentenced to four years of prison in a show trial by Judge Salavati. This sentence was lowered to one year of prison in a review court.
He was subjected to physical and mental torture while interrogated and intelligence agency interrogators threatened him with rape.
Notably, seven months after his arrest, he has not been granted a leave from prison and has been denied the right to a conditional release.
Iran increases pressure on Baha’i female prisoners in Mashhad
Sep. 29, 2010
With new limitations for four Baha’i female prisoners in the Vakil Abad Prison in Mashhad, these women have been put under increased pressure.
The heads of Vakil Abad Prison in Mashhad have limited their visiting rights, phone calls and even the time that prisoners have for fresh air during the day.
According to reports, after Rozita Vaseqi joined the other three Baha’is in this prison after over six months of solitary, prison officials subjected these women to harder conditions by limiting their visits and phone calls.
New scenario for murder of one of Tehran physicians
Oct. 2, 2010
Mullah’s dictatorship published another scenario for the murder of one of Tehran’s physicians.
The person who claimed that he was the killer of that doctor and committed suicide by gun, now he had committed suicide in shepherd’s cloths with a rifle.
One of judiciary torturers called Mohammad Shahriary, said: this convicted man, after staying for a night in Sekhor village, next day morning with shepherd’s cloths and with the help of two villagers scaped from the village but the police forces arrested him after he was sieged in a mountain in GilanGharb, but after a while shot guns were heard which later on guards found his body and realized that he had committed suicide but shooting bullets to his chin.
Students Committee in Iran (Supporters of PMOI)
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