The Beginning of the End of the Clerical Rule in Iran
No. 727
Downfall
Nov. 15, 2010
The paramilitary Bassij Organization announced after a session it had on November 11 and November 12 in Mashhad that it has established a new media organization called ‘Bassij Press’ and has elected its founding committee.
In this session, the heads of the Resalat daily, Javan Online and Fars News Agency were chosen as members of the founding board and were tasked with writing the statute of this organization.
Naqdi, a Revolutionary Guards Corps official said in a speech in this session that this ‘media’ was for ‘coordination’ with other media.
He listed some of the activities of this organization as ‘indicating the mentality of the leadership and the Bassij way of thinking, recognizing the enemy, educating Bassij forces and using the Bassij in the media’.
He welcomed the establishment of this new suppressive organization and said, “We all know that the communications of armed forces and the media in our country is an important issue and we have to use this opportunity and it will benefit our power and national security”.
Nov. 15, 2010
The Iranian regime has tasked Bassij members with countering popular protests against the new subsidy plan. The state-run Khabar Online website announced this and said that more than 5,000 Bassij forces in the government offices have been tasked with carrying the plan to cut subsidies.
Pasdar Yaddolah Javani: enemies are after making internal opposition
Nov. 15, 2010
Yaddolah Javani, head of the political department of Guards corps, with anxiety about the after comes of tax cancellations, said: enemy is after taking advantage from the situation. They are looking for the weakness of the government and create dissatisfaction among the people in order to make internal opposition.
Fear of the Regime from the Strike of Bazaar Jewelers
Nov. 15, 2010
Javan online site gave the news of jewelers' further strike and said about threatening the member of this guild by oppressive forces. This site wrote: there are signs of new wave of protests.
According to Javan online, while the member of jewelers union have been told to enroll for doing the tax over profit in tax office site but there are efforts for new protests over this act.
One of the members of this guild in past few days by appearing in gold bazzar of center and east of Tehran during a discussion with jewelers have asked them to close their shops. This man who is doing this by a group of 10 has received warnings.
Crack within the Regime
Iran’s minority faction ridicules subsidy plan
Nov. 15, 2010
The state-run Mardom Salari daily, run by the minority faction of the Iranian regime, ridiculed Ahmadinejad’s plan to cut subsidies and wrote: “Everyone is happy that cash subsidies have been transferred to their bank accounts (of course without them having the right to use it). You can buy 2 kilos of meat with the money transferred to your account. It’s just too bad you’re not allowed to use it. Even if you were allowed to use it, how would you pay your water, electricity and gas bills? So you can cross out buying meat for now and try to make due with bread.
Iran arrests former RGC official
Nov. 15, 2010
There is no news on the condition and whereabouts of Mohammad-Reza Farzin, the deputy commander of the Khatam Anbia RGC Base in the Iran Iraq war, who was arrested on October 14 by the Revolutionary Guards Forces Intelligence Unit in the Khorasan Corps and was taken to an unknown location. The Mashhad Intelligence Agency has announced that it does not know anything about the whereabouts of Farzin. His family has been threatened several times that if they talk to the media, they will have a fate like that of their father.
Notably, his family says that his arrest was linked to a municipality council in Mashhad three days before his arrest where he severely criticized the RGC.
Economic Situation in Iran
Nov. 15, 2010
‘Underground economy’ is another name for smuggling which has reached 20 billion dollars under the rule of the Iranian regime. Of course these are statistics announced by regime officials and the real numbers are much higher. The underground economy consists of an extensive collection of goods including shoes, textile, satellite equipment, computer, cellphones and other technological goods. This is a growing industry. According to evaluations, this smuggling has so far eliminated 30 percent of productions in Iran. For example, because the price of shoes and textile that is smuggled into Isfahan is very cheap, the oldest factories and industries in this city have gone bankrupt and have forced to close down. Mohammad-Reza Jannesari, a regime official in Isfahan said, “Smuggled goods are very prevalent in the markets. Despite the fact that all airports and borders and mailing systems and carrying companies are under control and monitoring, we have still not been able to prevent this smuggling”.
It is very clear why they have not been able to prevent this issue. It is because Iran’s airports, ports and other border areas are all controlled by the Revolutionary Guards Corps and the main operators of the underground economy are institutions and gangs linked to the RGC.
30 percent of bakeries will probably go bankrupt after Smart Subsidy Plan
Nov. 15, 2010
Hossein Naziri, the head of the Baker’s Union said, “The Smart Subsidy Plan for flour and bread will increase the freedom of bakers in buying suitable flour; Of course, one third of bakers will be eliminated from the production cycle in the ensuing rivalry.
News on Universities
Retreat of Mullah’s dictatorship from breakup of Medical Science University of Iran
Nov. 15, 2010
Students of Medical Science university of Iran, with their wide protests, made the Mullah’s dictatorship to retreat from breaking up this university. Mullah Islami, the spokesman of commission 90 of parliament said: it is possible to cancel the breakup of this university.
Suppression
Retention of more than 1000 pieces of satellite equipment in central province
Nov. 15, 2010
In continuation of suppression and censorship of media and to stop giving information to people, head of security and intelligence department of police force of the central province gave the news of retention of more than 1000 pieces of wave receiving satellite in the city of Arak.
Colonel Ahad Ahmadi said: agents of police forces for moral security were successful in arresting the man who was active in provision of satellite equipment.
Young protester suspiciously dies in detention
Nov. 14, 2010
Last week, 30 year old Hamid Madmali who was arrested by the Intelligence Unit of the Revolutionary Guards Corps, suspiciously passed away in an unknown detention center. He was arrested on charges of insulting the leader in his contacts a satellite Persian network.
According to reports, Hamid Madmali who was from the town of Masjid Soleiman was arrested some time ago in his home in Tehran for having communications with a satellite Persian network and criticizing the leader and president of Iran.
RGC forces violently beat him upon his arrest and took him to an unknown location. His family’s months long pursuits for his whereabouts led to nowhere.
Finally after constant pursuits, intelligence agents buried his body in his birth place, Masjid Soleiman, under severe security measures and his brother was also threatened for filing a complaint against the relevant institution.
Iran arrests another labor activist in Saqez
Nov. 14, 2010
On Thursday, November 11, labor activist Omar Ismail Pour, was summoned and arrested by the Revolutionary Guards Corps. According to reports, no one knows where he was taken and what his current condition is.
Iran expels student activist from medical university
Nov. 15, 2010
Yaser Rahmani, a medical student at the Shiraz Medical Science University and the political secretary of the Islamic Association in this university was finally expelled from university after being kept in a state of limbo for one and a half years. He was expelled in a sentence by the Central Disciplinary Committee of the Ministry of Health and Hygiene…
Notably, in this time, the Protection Department of his university and security officials in the province of Fars tried to ruin the image of this student activist and member of the Office for Consolidating Unity by saying that he had given interviews and had made confessions under pressure whish he has strongly denies.
15 protesters sentenced to prison for post-election protests
Nov. 15, 2010
According to reports from Mashhad, 15 people were tried on charges of acting against national security and propagating against the government. Some of these people were arrested in 2009 and spent time in prison. They were sentenced to 3-16 years of prison. Their charges were having email communications with a number of people outside of the country. Three of them identified as Ali Ebadi, Mohammad Mirzayi and Mehdi Jalili are currently in prison and the rest are free on bail.
Notably, Ali Ebadi is a former political prisoner and has been detained in a solitary cell for more than a year.
Some of those sentenced are as follows:
Ali Ebadi, six years of prison
Mehdi Jalili, 16 years of prison
Hassan Oganji, 6 years of prison
Zohre Ebadi, wife of Hassan Oganji, three and a half years of prison
Javad Ebadi, 3 years of prison
Ahmad Mirzayi, six years of prison
Mohammad Ghobrayi, six years of prison
Salmas Parsi, three years of prison
Other News
Nov. 15, 2010
It was announced about 10 days ago that Brigadier General Ibrahim Jabari has been appointed as the new commander of Khamenei’s protection guards. The reason behind this appointment was not announced.
Background info:
Khamenei’s protection guard known as the Vali Amr Corps consists of 12,000 people. Ibrahim Jafari was appointed as the head of the Zanjan RGC Base after the Iran Iraq war as a second brigadier. He was chosen as the head of the Qazvin RGC Base in 2002 and in this post, suppressed the people in this city for six years. Seven months before the elections in 2009, Jabari was transferred to Tehran and was appointed as the deputy commander of the RGC in Tehran. Eleven days before the elections, he was elected as deputy to the head of the Bassij, Hossein Taeb.
In this time, from June 15 to Aug. 16, 2009, the Bassij directly controlled everything in the capital along with the RGC and suppressed the post-election protests. In the first six months after the elections, Jabari acted as the senior deputy to Taeb in violently suppressing the protests. He has close contacts with Mesbah Yazdi. Yazdi who is a cleric is known as the godfather of Ahmadinejad. Jabari went to Qom on November 17, 2009 on orders of the head of the RGC in Iran, Mohammad-Ali Jafari, and became the RGC commander in this town. In the 12 months of his command, there were many protests in Qom. He played a major part in suppressing these protests. This RGC official who has a history in suppression and committing crimes against the people has been chosen as the new head of protection for Khamenei.
Students Committee in Iran (Supporters of PMOI)
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