The Beginning of the End of the Clerical Rule in Iran
No. 748
Aftermaths of scraping subsidy of goods
in different cities of Iran
Gas stations torched; people answer to Ahmadinejad’s subsidy cuts
Dec. 24, 2010
Reports obtained says that two gas stations, one in Tehran and one in Tabriz have been torched by angry crowd after the subsidy cuts and sky rise prices of fuel.
Dec. 23, 2010
Tehran- taxi rates are now 500 Tomans the previous rate was 200 tomans.
Tehran- water’s cost has been announced as 370 Tomans per m3 for Tehran residents.
Tehran- eyewitnesses said that taxi rate for the root of Azadi to Andisheh has risen from 1000 Tomans to 1500 Tomans at one night.
Tehran- many of hen-breeding places around Tehran (in Shahriar and Robat Karim) are closed till further notice because lorries and trucks are on strike.
The price for truck fuel has risen 10 times so they want to raise the price of the transportation but the owners of the hen-breeding facilities have no income to pay such a rate so they close the place instead.
Tehran- during the last two days the price of 3rd grade tomatoes has been announced 1300 Tomans per kg. Free sold tomatoes are 3000 per kg. These kind of prices have risen discontent amongst the residents.
Tehran- truck drivers are not transporting goods because of gas oil price. The strike is going to reach bus terminals too.
Tehran- eyewitnesses say that though it was announced in the news that the agencies will have 300 liters ration fuel by the price of 100 Tomans but that was only a lie and the amount was only 250 liters.
Tehran- an eyewitness said: I went to bakery today at 8 in the morning and the bread was 30 Tomans per piece. The second time that I referred there at 11.5 am it was posted there that the bread would be 100 Tomans per piece afterwards and the government would deposit 4000 Tomans for each person for bread in their accounts.
The papers wrote that the president has said that people will use only 2000 Tomans from that 4000 per month and this would be a saving for them! In townships too the price of each piece of bread has risen from 16 Tomans to 70 Tomans. Residents there are becoming desperate too.
Karaj- eyewitnesses say that after subsidy cuts angry people have torn Ahmadinejad’s posters that were installed throughout the city.
Sari (north of Iran) - Sari’s taxi drivers went on strike because of gasoline’s price. Many of them were arrested by the agents of Intelligence Ministry.
Tabriz- in Tabriz, residents are riding donkeys in the streets to show their dissatisfaction.
Chabahar- a resident from Chabahar said: in our city we don’t have taxis but there are some people acting as such instead. Now the rates have doubled after the subsidy cuts. We are going to return to the age that people used donkeys and horses.
Booshehr- the day after subsidy cuts were announced the residents didn’t know that the price of gasoline has risen. When they referred to gas stations they were not able to pay for the new price.
Dec. 22, 2010
Tehran- all bus terminals for transporting passengers between cities are full of buses that don’t work due to rise in fuel price. Only a few of them transport the passengers.
Tehran- craft shops needing fuel for their apparatuses are closed.
Tehran- The number of women who have no choice other than using their body for an income under the rule of religious tyranny has risen drastically after the execution of plan of ‘Subsidy Overhaul’.
Tehran- Detective Bureau of Tehran reported that during last three days the number of robberies has multiplied 20 times in Tehran. The report says that people with no record of theft are now being arrested because of it.
Tehran- on Dec. 22 Taxi Guild’s Union of Tehran issued a statement announcing the new rates. The rates have risen 15% and the drivers are not satisfied with that because the rationed fuel’s price has risen four times. As a result most taxi agencies are inactive and half closed.
Mashhad- regime’s suppressive security forces mostly from Especial Guards Forces are seen in Mashad’s streets patrolling on foot or riding. People have rushed to gas stations and suppressive forces intensely control come and goes. Close to Melat Park four vans belonging to black outfit Special Forces are stationed. No pedestrians are seen in Sajad St. only patrolling forces can be seen.
Qom- A group of Qom’s taxi drivers went on strike in Amin Bolvar Street in protest to raise in price of CNG gas in front of regime’s Radio & TV Station of this city.
Karaj- on Dec. 22 Karaj’s gas stations were crowded following the subsidy cuts and bakeries were half closed.
Tehran- since Monday Dec. 20 lines for receiving gas have become shorter. Residents have tried not to use it as a sign of protest. The gas price has multiplied 8 times.
Price of bread announced
Dec. 22, 2010 - Tehran
On-line news belonging to the clerical regime announced the new price of different kinds of bread approved at Tehran’s provincial session. The prices are as such: Lavash bread 100 tomans/ Sangak bread 400 toman/ Barbari bread 350 tomans and Taftoon bread 200 toman.
Students protest ‘Subsidy Overhaul’ plan
Dec. 22, 2010 - Tehran
On Dec. 21 a group of students at Khaje-Nasir University protested against the ‘subsidy overhaul’ plan supporting the vulnerable class of the society.
Fist they distributed leaflets reading ‘students will die but will not yield to oppression’ and then started hitting their plates with their spoons at the dinning hall to show their protest.
After the distribution of the leaflets Harasat agents started collecting them and prevented the students to form a protest gathering.
Qazvin is uneasy
Dec. 24, 2010 - Qazvin
Residents of Qazvin talk against Ahmadinejad in public places and in taxis and are very angry.
They talk about torching gas stations and about strike in Bazaar.
They have rushed to withdraw their money from bands.
A factory is closed at Kohkiloye Boirahmad Province
Dec. 23, 2010
Alireza Janati the executive manager of Laborer House of this province said that the motorbike production factory of the province in Yassoj is once more closed.
In his interview with ILNA state-run agency he said: “this factory has been closed once more last year but it was reopened in the current year. It is once more closed”.
He added that the manager says that it is closed because it has no customer and it is short of cash.
Janati said that the issue of this factory in Yasooj has been discussed at Labor Commission of the province several times but without any result.
The price of Iran Khodro productions fall
Dec. 23, 2010 - Tehran
Asre- Iran State-run daily wrote: “after the announcement of 2 to 5 percent degree decrease in the production of Iran Khodro Industrial Group by its manager the group announced a reduction of price in all its productions.”
Downfall
Mullahs fear delisting of PMOI
Dec. 22, 2010 - Terhan
On-line state-run media belonging to Larijani discussed the Symposium for Confronting Iran’s Atomic Threats and Terrorism and wrote: “during last few days a number of officials of US former administration including John Bolton the former representative of US at UN, suggested that Barak Obama should put aside his current course of confronting Iran and should adopt the strategy of ‘regime change’ in regard with this country. They said that he should delist PMOI in that regard as a group that is ‘pursuing freedom in Iran’”.
While worried about the effect of these sayings the media called it as violating the international treaties and added: “such a position aside its fundamental political repugnancies and impasses is in contradiction with the framework of international society…”.
Regime’s MP fear questioning Ahmadinejad
Dec. 22, 2010 - Tehran
Ali Motahari a member of regime’s parliament said: “during the course of collecting signatures for questioning the president, MPs say that we are pro this act and support you but we will not sign because they will ruin our lives”.
Minister of Economy summoned
Dec. 23, 2010- Tehran
Two days after the execution of ‘Subsidy Overhaul’ plan and in fear of its aftermaths, regime’s parliament is discussing these aftermaths which they call ‘worriment’ in a non-public session summoning the Minister of Economy.
As state-run media report MPs are worried about the consequences of the raise in gasoline price up to 700 tomans per liter and are demanding its decrease to 400 tomans.
20 regime’s MP demanded studying Mottaki’s case
Dec. 23, 2010- Tehran
20 of regime’s MPs asked Larijani the head of regime’s parliament in a letter to study humiliating dismissal of Mottaki. They asked him for a report after the study.
They called this method of work as damaging ‘the establishment’s prestige’: “this unprecedented phenomenon has raised questions and ambiguities, especially because the subject of Foreign Minister’s dialogue in Senegal regarded national security”.
The names of some of regime’s MPs signing this letter are: Ahmad Tavakoli, Elyas Naderan, Mohammad Dehghan and Ali Motahari.
Mullah Mesbah Yazdi another MP said that this dismissal was ‘politically wrong’ and added that this act would ‘internationally damage us and ruin our country’s international credibility’.
Suppression
Families of Martyrs of uprising threatened
Dec. 23, 2010 - Tehran
ISC reported that the Intelligence Ministry constantly calls and threatens the families of those who fall for freedom during last year’s uprising to hush them. It tells them that they should not have any interviews, if they do so another member of their family will be arrested and killed.
The ministry also wants them to go to Evin Prison and get money (Dieh) for their killed loved ones and refrain from complaining.
One family is told that they will be paid 15 to 20 million Tomans but the family had not accepted that.
One of the mothers said that if a family accepts such thing they have wasted the blood of their beloveds.
Jailed father of Ashraf resident in critical condition
Dec. 22, 2010
According to reports, political prisoner Mohsen Dokmeh Chi is in critical condition in the Taleqani Hospital.
On Saturday December 18, after the condition of this jailed Tehran Bazaar merchant became critical, he was transferred to the Taleqani Hospital from prison and was hospitalized in the surgical unit. Despite his poor condition, three prison guards are stationed in his room at all times and his hands have been handcuffed to his bed. His family is banned from visiting him under normal conditions and especially in the past four days, they have had no information about his condition and are only allowed to visit him with the permission of Tehran Prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dolat Abadi.
Dokmeh Chi came down with an illness about 3 months ago in prison but did not receive serious treatment. He had constant pain day and night and was not able to rest or eat and lost 16 kilos. But agents of the Intelligence Agency and the Tehran Prosecutor prevented his hospitalization.
On Saturday, they were forced to take him to the hospital because of his critical condition. The hospital has still not been able to give a final diagnosis of his illness. He is suffering from severe pancreas and gallbladder problems.
Political prisoner Mohsen Dokmeh Chi, 52, is a well-known Tehran Bazaar merchant who was arrested on September 6, 2008 after agents of the Intelligence Agency attacked his place of work. He was transferred to cellblock 209 in Evin Prison. Dokmeh Chi was charged with giving financial assistance to the families of political prisoners and the presence of his daughter in Camp Ashraf in Iraq. Salavati, the head of the 15th branch of the Revolutionary Court has sentenced him to 10 years of prison to be spent in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj. He was also a political prisoner in the 80’s and was jailed for 7 years.
Iran continues its harassment of dissident university professors
Dec. 22, 2010
The pressures and threats against dissident professors in the Law and Political Science Department of Tehran University have increased.
According to reports, these pressures which come in the shape of summonses, threats and harassment of professors reached their climax after election events last year.
According to this report, in light of the political price of expelling or forcing dissident professors into retirement, the government’s security system has in the past years implemented a new method of using its elements to harass professors to force them to resign or retire. One of these professors in Dr. Seyed Hossein Seif Zadeh, a professor of international relations at Tehran University’s Law and Political Science Department…
Notably, Dr. Seif Zadeh was summoned to the University’s Protection Department on October 23, 2010 and was interrogated for three and a half hours by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence about the discussions and subjects he had presented in class. There were also reports that he was insulted and physically harassed while being interrogated…
Dr. Seif Zadeh has a Ph.D. of political science from the University of Santa Barbara in California and Harvard University.
Other News
Meddling in Iraq
Dec. 23, 2010 - Tehran
In its ‘political analysis of the week’, Jomhoori state-run daily showing regime’s meddling attitude towards Iraq wrote about the formation of Iraqi government: “Maleki is facing two challenges in his second term at the head of executive power in Iraq; first the presence of American occupiers and then the existence of political rivals with great difference in opinion inside and outside the cabinet”.
This source added: “Maleki is sharing the new government with some who have complete controversial positions and perspectives, at top of them is Al-Iraqieh and Ayad Alavi.
Alavi has …joined Maleki government on this condition that the council under his leadership would have the same power as the cabinet and this can be a great potential problem for Maleki in future”.
Students Committee in Iran (Supporters of PMOI)
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