In summer of 1988, 30000 political prisoners were sent to the gallows on the direct order of Khomeini.
The ‘Boards of Death’ immediately ordered the execution of those political prisoners who identified themselves as ‘Mojahed’; a PMOI member or supporter.
These kangaroo courts lasted only a few minutes.
The massacred political prisoners in Tehran were buried in collective graves in a land which was called later ‘Khavaran Golzar’ meaning ‘the land of flowers of the East’.
Each year at the anniversary of this massacre the families of the slain political prisoners and other freedom loving people gather in this Golzar commemorating those who fall for the freedom of Iran.
Students Committee in Iran- August 7, 2007
August 7, 2010
Massacre of 30000 political prisoner in 1988 in Iran by Iranian Regime
Brief on Massacre of Political Prisoners in Iran....
Massacre of political prisoners;
Genocide by the Velayat-e-Faghih establishment
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they cried for freedom.
One of the most dreadful crimes of Khomeini was the massacre of political prisoners in summer of 1988.
The grounds of this merciless massacre which was a dark conspiracy for an obvious génocide by the order of Khomeini were layed from years ago.
Since mid July a nationwide massacre of political prisoner started and continued from few months.
The main goal of this killing was to eradicate the political prisoners, especially the supporters and members of PMOI, who had resisted heroically during years against the medieaval tortures of Khomeini’s henchmen not repenting and not yielding to the mullahs’ regime.
In these dark days Khomeinie’s ‘boards of death’ consisted of the closest elements to Khomeini from Intelligence Ministry, Prosecutor Office and prison’s authorities concentrated on executing a plan that they had in mind since years ago and were preparing for it since a few months former to summer of 1988.
In Kangaroo courts lasting not more than a few minutes these boards ruled that imprisoned PMOI members and supporters must be hanged.
According to the testimoney of eyewitnesses who miraculously survived the massacre, the only touchstone of ‘the boards of death’ was how a prisoner expressed his or her organizational identity. ‘Mojahed’ or as they wanted it ‘Monafegh (Hypocrite)’.
Decree for hanging the political prisoners affiliated with PMOI was issued by such crulty that it didn’t comply with any known regulations of behavior towards prisoners.
The center of the massacre was in Tehran at Evin and Gohardasht Prisons but there was no prison in any city, township or village that was kept safe from the massacre.
The ‘board of death’ covered them all.
This atrocious and unprecedented killing was conducted based on a written decree and daily orders and supervision of Khomieni.
The employees, gaurds and Pasdars (IRGC members) at the prison were ordered to participate in the hangings. They were ordered to strike on the heads and chests of the hanged prisoners so that they would all be accompolices in this crime. In this manner they could not disclose the massacre.
The number of executions was so high that in transferring the bodies of the martyrs to collective graves around Qom’s Ali Abad the body of one of the female PMOI member fell down off the lorry that was carrying the bodies.
The Pasdars present arrested some of the eyewitnesses there and threatened that this should not be narrated anywhere.
It must be said that these hangings were so inhumane, horrible and cruel that even Montazeri, then successorof Khomeini protested the act saying: “PMOI represent an ideology. You cannot destroy them by physically terminating them...”
Khomeini and Khamenei were not able and will not be able to extinguish the flames of resistance.
The uprising of people of Iran showed that the fire of resistance still lies under the ashes.
The clerical dictatorship tries in vein to hush up the uprising and its cry for freedom by suppression, execution, torture and arbitrary arrests.
The irreversible breakage of the talisman of Velayat, the continuous waves of the uprising of people of Iran, regime’s continuous quest for achieving nuclear bomb and its noncompliance with the international laws well show that it is the beginning of the end of this anti human regime.
The international unity in regard with regime’s instability which shows itself in imposing hard sanctions against this regime also speaks of the downfall of this regime.
It is for sure that after the downfall the elements of regime participants in this massacre must be put on trial at international courts for all these dreadful crimes.
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August 6, 2010
UPDATE ON IRAN - August 6, 2010
The Beginning of the End of the Clerical Rule in Iran
No.681
War of political prisoners
Message of death row political prisoner Ali Saremi
Tehran, August 4, 2010
Ali Saremi, father of a PMOI member residing in Ashraf City, Iraq sent a message from inside the prison after he was informed of the approval of the death penalty for 6 political prisoners.
His message reads in part: “...we must ask the prosecutor what you have brought in these 31 years of your rule for us other than death, poverty, terror and suppression?
...our execution is nothing new or surprising this is the only thing that you can do...Be ware a day will come that the people will take their revenge. Don’t think that they are negligent. Don’t think that they will forget suppression, torture, Kahrizak...
Our nation will no longer comply with the oppressors...”
Three political prisoners on dry hunger strike
Tehran, August 4, 2010
Three of political prisoners at Evin Prison Bahman Ahmadi Amooie, Kayvan Samimi and Majid Tavakoli turned their hunger strike into dry hunger strike.
They are in critical condition.
5 other hunger strikers transferred to infirmary
Tehran, August 4, 2010
Five other prisoners from 17 hunger strikes of ward 350 were taken to Evin’s infirmary; Abdollah Momeni student activist, Bahaman Ahmadi Amooie journalist, Jafar Aghdami civil activist, Ibraim (Nader) Babaie civil activist and Kayvan Samimi journalist.
Families of political prisoners continue their protest though attacked by Especial Guards
Tehran, August 4, 2010
Especial Guards forces attacked the families of political prisoners on morning of August four in front of regime’s Revolution Court.
These suppressive forces especially beat viciously the female protesters even old mothers.
The families were forced to leave the place at 11 am but gathered in front of the entrance of 15 Khordad metro station but still were raided at by the suppressive forces.
The agents taped the faces of protesters and threatened them.
Plainclothes surrounded the region preventing other people to reach the protesters for helping them.
Visits stopped
Tehran, August 3, 2010
On August 3 a large group of families of political prisoners of ward 350 of Evin Prison went there to visit their beloveds but after a few hours they were told that they are all banned from having a visitor. The phones of the ward are still disconnected.
The political prisoners on hunger strike are transferred to solitary cells of ward 240 on the order of Bozorgnia the head of ward 350.
The families of political prisoners have announced that if this situation continues they will gather in protest in front of regime’s parliament.
Abbas Jafari Dolatabadi, Tehran’s prosecutor is responsible for carrying on Khamenei’s order about imposing inhumane limitations and pressure on political prisoners.
Hunger strikers under psychological pressure even at the infirmary
Tehran, August 4, 2010
The personnel of Evin’s infirmary put pressure on hunger strikers who have been brought there for their critical condition by shouting at them: “you are just a bunch of Monafeghs (the name regime calls PMOI members). You have caused disorder in the country and are now causing disorder at the prison”.
Female political prisoner praises the hunger strikers
Tehran, August 4, 2010
In a letter to 17 hunger strikers political prisoner Atefeh Nabavi praised their withstanding. She wrote in part: “...you are using whatever you have (to resist) and that is your own body; without thinking of yourselves...I know that since the day you started your resistance you knew that these days will come but still you were willing to pay such price ...”
Sanctions and their aftermaths
Ahmadinejad confronts Security Council’s resolution
Tehran, August 3, 2010
Amongst regime’s elements that are on mission abroad Ahmadinejad addressing the international community said: “issue resolution! How many had you issued so far, four; Issue 4000. You don’t know that with each resolution you condemn yourselves”.
Hollow claims of Oil Minister
Tehran, August 4, 2010
After the unilateral sanctions by EU and Canada, Massoud Mir Kazemi regime’s oil minister claimed on Wednesday: “by March 1914 we are capable of production of 170 million liters of gasoline and since we need 66 million liters for our domestic affairs we will be able to export gasoline in 4 years”.
This claim comes at the time when regime incapable of meeting daily need of gasoline is importing 40% of the consumption from abroad.
To be able to provided or the domestic consumption of gasoline regime needs to build 13 refineries costing 42 billion dollars.
The regime cannot afford such an amount of money because there is no foreign investment in Iran due to sanctions.
Gas and gasoline problems in Karaj
Karaj, August 3, 2010
Reports received from Karaj say that residents of this city are facing many problems these days for receiving fuel. People must spend lots of hours in lines and this has made them discontent, angry and has led to clashes.
Only a few gas stations exist in Karaj and they provide gasoline for personal cars only at nights. This has led to long and crowded queues till morning hours.
Australia’s new sanctions against clerical dictatorship
Tehran, August 4, 2010
The value of trade between Australia and the clerical regime has been 600,000,000 dollars per year; export 599,000,000 and imports from regime only 50,000,000.
Informed sources say that 300,000,000 dollars of the imported goods were confidential; whether military goods or goods with dual usage.
But during the last week Australia joined the unilateral sanctions against the clerical dictatorship in fields of oil, gas, banking, insurance and transportation. The sanctions ban any deals in weapons, nuclear equipments, missiles, chemical and biological elements.
Australia also banned financial exchanges and prohibited the entrance of 110 of regime’s personalities and enterprises.
Any kind of contract for extraction of uranium is banned.
Effects on Iran’s industry:
Petrochemical Company
Aghajari, August 4, 2010
More than 900 workers of Shakheh Petrochemical Company have not received their wages for two months. This comes at a time when the residents of this city have to buy even their water at a price of 500 tomans per 20 liters. These workers receive only 450000 tomans per month.
Iran Metal Industry Company
Tehran, August 4, 2010
Iran Metal Industry Company is an old company that manufactures different machinery and metal products. The company has been facing a great number of crises during last months. This has led to several protest gathering of its workers and the answer of company’s management to their protests is: “we have no money to pay you”.
Afzar Azma electronic factory
Tehran, August 4, 2010
This company is amongst the companies located in Hashtgerd Industrial Township. The companies of this industrial township are facing serious problems in regard with their production and the workers. The shortage in cash has caused inability for providing the raw material for this company leading to an excessive drop in its production.
As the result the company has fired 50 of its 350 workers so far and some other are at the verge of being fired.
Ahmadinejad’s government: we don’t have money to pay you back
Tehran, August 4, 2010
Most of the factories providing power and electronic parts and control systems for regime Ministry of Power have not received their due money from this ministry. The answer they receive from this governmental organ is: “we don’t have money to pay you back”. This nonpayment has led to shortage of cash in these companies leading in turn to decrease of their products.
Bazaar
Recession in Bazaar
Tehran, August 4, 2010
A shopkeeper in Bazaar said: “Bazaar is in recession. We sell a little. You cannot compare it with last year. About the taxes we are in bad situation. They should not increase the taxes because we don’t sell enough. People cannot afford to go shopping”.
No cash and bad checks
Tehran, August 4, 2010
One of Bazaaris said: “people cannot pay in cash and most of the checks are bad. This causes mistrust”.
Bazaar’s recession is serious
Tehran, August 4, 2010
One Bazaari said: “the recession is serious. This week I didn’t sell anything till Tuesday. Everybody is like this. Nobody comes to Bazaar it is only us. We are under pressure both financially and mentally. Only those who are smuggling work and it is clear who they are (regime’s elements in Bazaar) but others are in terrible condition”.
Ahmadinejad’s scandel in Hamadan
Death to Dictator
Hamadan, August 4, 2010
On Wednesday August 4 while Ahmadinejad was speaking inside Hamadan’s Qods Stadium some youths gathered in front of the stadium chanting ‘death to dictator’ for ten minutes before SSF reached there.
In fear of the spread of this protesting move SSF suppressive forces interfered and arrested some of the youths.
The eyewitnesses say that the crowd was less than 2000 brought in from villages of Nahavand and Malayer and more than 60% of them were pupils.
Ahmadinejad was attacked with hand- grenade
Tehran, August 4, 2010
One of the vehicles in Ahmadinejad’s caravan in Hamadan was attacked by a hand-grenade on its way from airport to Qods Stadium.
Ahmadinejad’s press office denied the attack and said that it was jus a firecracker.
But Fars News Agency affiliated with IRGC admitted: “a hand-made grenade exploded in the root determined for welcoming Ahmadinejad in Hamedan…”
Threatening students before Ahmadinejad’s trip
Tehran, August 4, 2010
On the eve of Ahmadinejad’s visit to Hamedan some active students of Boalisina University and those who had participated in the demonstrations from this university were warned both written and verbally that they should not have any activity during the coming days.
In the city any slightest protesting move was suppressed. On Monday police especial forces beat a youth around Boali Square.
Threatening parents
Tehran, August 4, 2010
At the course of Ahmadinejad’s trip to Hamedan regime called the parents of pupils saying that if they do not send their children for the speech they will not be enrolled for the new academic year.
Ahmadinejad taunts western countries
Tehran, August 4, 2010
In his speech in Hamedan Ahmadinejad addressed the western countries and said: “because you had not been polite and you were rude we will not negotiate with you for two months until you get your lesson and come to us for negotiation”.
The Downfall
Mehdi Khazali: we proved that Shah was better
Tehran, August 4, 2010
Mehdi Khazali (his father a member of regime’s Council of Guidance) a blogger wrote a note protesting the execution of political prisoner Jafar Kazemi.
He wrote: “I do not know Jafar Kazemi but I know the 5 million demonstrators on July 15, 2009. I was amongst the demonstrator with my wife and two children. I don’t know if Kazemi has to be executed on charge of ‘Moharebe’ then you must hang tens of millions. Don’t play with God’s law that is war against God. You have studied religious law. Even if somebody is carrying a sword is in its sheath he is not a ‘Mohareb’.
In his note addressing the heads of the regime he added: “we proved that Shah was better than us. If he too killed like us and accused everybody of Moharebe or being an infidel maybe he would have rule another half of a century”.
Many of IRGC commander are retired
Isfahan, August 4, 2010
A report from Isfahan says that about 2 to 3 weeks ago many of old IRGC commanders especially those who had participated in Iran-Iraq war are either made retired or sent to some bureaus such as Post & Telegraph or Agriculture; the reason is that they had criticized or opposed Ahmadinejad.
Head of regime worried about the uprising of people of Iran
Tehran, August 4, 2010
Ahmad Tavakoli the head of regime’s Majlis’s Research Commission wrote in a report about how he is worried about the uprising of people of Iran: “the second sedition might be greater than the first one. It is on its way. The road of revolution has reached one of its sharpest pass”.
He pointed to the aftermaths of last year’s debates and added: “TV & Radio must be aware not to repeat the deadly mistakes. That is not acceptable”.
Resistance
Statement distributed amongst Tehran’s bus drivers
Tehran, August 4, 2010
A group of workers and labor activists distributed statement amongst bus drivers in Tehran condemning the arrest of Reza Shahabi from Tehran’s Bus Driving Syndicate and calling upon them to continue the struggle for achieving their rights.
The statement was distributed during 6 hours in Azadi BTR line, Tehran Pars, Azadi to Khavaran BTR line, Stop Point and the bureau of Tehran Bus Driving Company and bus terminal at Azadi Square.
Writing anti regime slogans
Tehran, August 4, 2010
These days a great number of anti regime slogans are written in Narmak region of Tehran. Though the security agents erase these slogans but they are written again.
Suppression
Death penalty for a dentist
Tehran, August 4, 2010
Iran state-run daily wrote: “...after three courses of trial at Revolution Court headed by Judge Salavati the dentist was condemned to execution accused of being a corrupt on earth”.
Regime refused Brazil’s suggestion
Tehran, August 4, 2010
The anti-human regime of mullahs refused the suggestion of Brazil’s president for giving asylum to Sakineh Mohammadi under execution by stoning to death.
Mehmanparast said: “as we know Mr. Dasilva he has a very soft heart and probably did not have enough information about this file”.
Full scan machines at Evin Prison
Tehran, August 4, 2010
Recently the clerical dictatorship has imported full- scanning machines and scans people who intend to enter Evin Prison.
By this new machinery even inside the stomach can be seen. They say that they do this scanning to find narcotics but everybody knows that regime is the No. one importer of narcotics in the prisons and these machines are for controlling the visitors.
The plan for Islamizing universities executed from Fall
Tehran, August 4, 2010
According to this plan that will be implemented from the new academic year the professors are not permitted to let students with improper veil participate in their classes.
6 years term and 5 years deprivation from social activities
Tehran, August 4, 2010
Rasool Bodaghi a member of the Board of Directives of Iran Teachers’ Guild was condemned by the criminal judge Salavati to 6 year’s term and 5 years deprivation of social activities on charge of ‘propagating against the Establishment’ (one year imprisonment) and ‘participating in the gathering against national security (read regime’s security)’ (5 years).
His lawyer said that he will protest the ruling.
Workers of Iran
If you reveal news you will be arrested!
Shiraz, August 3, 2010
The Harasat of Fars Long Distance Communication Company in Shiraz has threatened its workers who had not received their wages for 18 months not to convey the news of this suppression to the media.
A laborer activist said that all their phone lines are under control.
It is to be mentioned that formerly three of these workers have committed suicide due to the pressures imposed on them.
Ignoring the protest of the workers
Kerman, August 4, 2010
On Wednesday August 4 about 40 workers of Bardsir Sugar Cane Factory in Kerman gathered in protest in front of the factory since 8 am. One of the workers said that they had gone to Kerman’s Governor Office, Kerman’s Friday Imam’s office, Kermans MP and even in front of Ahmadinejad’s office but no authority pays any attention to them.
Workers of Naz Nakh closed factory demand their rights
Qazvin, August 4, 2010
On Wednesday August 4, about 50 workers of the closed factory of Naz Nakh gathered in protest in front of the factory. They demand 7 months of wages that has not been paid to them. The gathering started from 8 am and lasted till 11 am.
A worker said: “we wanted to go to Tehran yesterday but to hush us up and divide us they paid about 40 of us half a month wages. All of us must be paid for 7 months and our lives are ruined”.
Workers of Alborz Chinaware Factory on strike
Qazvin, August 4, 2010
More than 180 workers of Alborz Chinaware Factory sat-in in front of the company in Qazvin’s industrial township. These workers with 19 to 24 years of history of work at this company have not received their wages for 10 months.
News on Iran’s economy
Explosion is phase two petrochemical complex of Asalooyeh
Asalooyeh, August 4, 2010
Since three days ago a gas leak was found in one of the pipes in Asalooyeh’s phase two petrochemical complex and even marked but regime took no action to solve the problem and on Wednesday afternoon the pipe blasted and fiver workers Morteza Jome Poor, Kazem Sharifi, Aziz Jahangiri, Soleiman Amirinarges and Arman Ghahreman lost their lives.
Entrance to the complex is banned since the explosion and regime is paying especial attention to stop the spread of the news and its details.
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August 5, 2010
Brief on Sanctions
Brief on Sanctions
No.2
Sanctions’ aftermaths on clerical regime’s establishment
Belongings of three regime banks namely Meli, Melat and Persian were confiscated by Britain.
These belongings worth 5.2 billion dollars and were related with two of regime’s shipping companies.
Though Ahmadinejad has claimed that these actions cause no problems for Iran’s shipping but the 27 countries, members of EU, will not accept regime’s ships in their harbors.
B.P. has directed its branches in Europe not to provide fuel for regime’s planes.
This was implemented on two of regime’s planes on July 4 & 8 in Hamburg’s airport.
The effects of sanctions are obvious now.
ILNA state-run news agency pointed to the saying of Royanian (from IRGC) and said: “our enemy can strike on us the best by the issue of gasoline. Right now providing gasoline for the country has turned into a crisis”.
A few days ago Ahmadinejad claimed: “if they impose sanctions on gasoline we will produce the amount needed in two days”.
But the authorities in Oil Company and the experts of the field say: “It is not possible to increase the amount of production of gasoline in such amount and in such time”.
Mir Kazemi, Ahmadinejad’s oil minister said: “the country will be independent on the issue of gasoline in 1392 (2013-2014) and that, only if the necessary investment is provided in the fields of oil and gas. But right now we are witnessing that the foreign countries that were supposed to invest in the development of country’s south oil fields have stopped the act due to sanctions”.
United Arab Imarets ordered blockage of 41 bank accounts belonging to Regime’s enterprises in that country. These accounts were related to the enterprises affiliated with IRGC who participated in regime’s nuclear activities.
Manager of London’s Lloyds Company limited giving insurance to any ship that carries Iran’s gasoline.
J.S. Company from South Korea cancelled its great gas contract for South Pars gas field. As the result the general manager of inspection and supervision of oil affairs in regime’s Inspection Organization admitted: “we have shortage in injection of gas into oil reservoirs and the Oil Ministry has not been successful at all in their usage”.
An authority in Natanz Nuclear Center reminded Ahmadinejad in a letter that after the recent sanctions they are having problem in providing the necessary equipments for building centrifuges. Before the sanctions these equipments were easily provided from England. The letter says: “currently Natanz’s storage of steal is finished and it is not easy to provide for it”.
Mali Times in Germany has seen into the issue of the effects of UN sanctions on regime’s oil market and has written that regime is not finding customer for its oil and huge rented oil-ships are wondering on the Persian Gulf’s waters.
The media continues: “as an important customer, China has cut its oil trade with Iran into half...”
A great number of observers believe that IRGC who has accepted the project of phases 14 and 15 of South Pars for 2 billion dollars has neither the knowledge nor the technology for it to substitute for foreign companies.
During the last 30 years regime’s income from oil has had tripled but the living condition of people has not only not changed for better but has worsened.
All the pressures imposed by sanctions are to pull down a regime that has lost its domestic legitimacy and is unstable.
We the Students Committee in Iran believe that for stopping regime’s terrorism and construction of nuclear bomb the sanctions must intensify until the main economic assets in the hands of IRGC and regime’s elements are cut and paralyzed.
By giving away the countries oil and assets this regime has survived so far and has been able to suppress its people. If these sanctions get tougher it will put more pressure on this regime for sure.
We at the Students Committee in Iran demand all human rights organs and human loving personalities as well as European countries and US to support people of Iran in their quest for peace, freedom and democracy and impose harder international sanctions that would paralyze the terrorist regime ruling Iran.
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August 4, 2010
Brief on Sanctions on Iran - Sanctions; why?
Brief on Sanctions on Iran
No.1
Sanctions; why?
The question is that if regime’s intention in uranium enrichment is peaceful why had it not built even one refinery of power site during these 30 years using this science?
Why is it that we are witnessing cut in electricity and shortage of drinking water in many of Iran’s cities and villages each day?
Even in Tehran, the capital long hours of cut in electricity and cut in water happen.
Shortage of drinkable water has made residents of Natanz where has become famous in the world because of its nuclear site, desperate.
One of the residents of Natanz said: “we don’t know to what issue the assets of this country are dedicated? But believe it that we don’t have water to drink”.
According to official statistics in Mashad and Hamedan the crisis of drinkable water has made the residents desperate. 90% of Naien villages, 100 villages in Boein Zahra of Qazvin and villages of Qeshm Island have no drinking water.
In Qeshm, villagers have to pay 800 tomans for each cubic meter of drinkable water.
Another question is that why in a country such as Iran that lies on a sea of oil not even one gasoline refinery with international standards has been built but in a country such as Turkey which enjoys no oil reservoir gasoline refinery works as such that it imports gasoline to Iran?
Yes there has been not even one instance that the dictatorship ruling Iran would have used its enriched uranium for peaceful issues for the welfare of its citizens.
Why does it not make it crystal clear for the world for what purpose is it enriching uranium up to 20%?
That is exactly the reason based on which US and EU have issued sanctions against the regime so that it would stop its eagerness for achieving atomic bomb, boasting its military power and to make it to comply with international laws.
Sanctions have targeted the heads of regime and IRGC, the organ which has the economy of Iran under its control and has caused the devastation of domestic productions, agriculture, ranching and other industries of Iran.
IRGC and its subordinates and the heads of the regime have taken control of all the industrial and production factories of the country and have ousted their workers or are exploiting them giving them very little wage.
According to the latest news published in the papers the import of the whole country is in hands of only four persons ‘that we cannot name them but they have caused destruction of the domestic productions’.
Are these four counted amongst ‘people’ so that one can say that the sanctions would harm them or should we call the officials and heads of the Velayat’s establishment and the suppressive IRGC members, great vultures of Iran’s public wealth and economy, as people?
Who are the people of Iran?
People of Iran are those 8 million deprived workers who are not paid by the private section (regime’s elements) and have always not received their wages for 5 to 10 months; people of Iran are one million teachers who have not received their wages and bonuses; people of Iran are those who are retired and have not received their pension and protest against that; people of Iran are the employees who are receiving good for nothing wages and that too not paid to them; people of Iran are widows who have to take care of three or five children and the only help that government gives them is 25000 tomans; and people of Iran are those who were forced to work as non-official taxi drivers to earn some money for their families and were faced with the price of 400 tomans per liter of gasoline in free market not after the sanctions but before it.
And now that the sanctions are putting pressure on the Supreme Leader, Khamenei and his IRGC those who still have their hands in the pockets of mullahs cry that people are under pressure by these sanctions.
But the pressure derived from sanction of gasoline or any other oil product on people is much better than the daily pressures imposed by IRGC and other suppressive organs and elements of regime on people in streets, factories, universities, schools and prisons.
People of Iran don’t want this regime. It is this regime that has imposed the sanctions on people of Iran by not answering to the international community.
The question is would any sanctions have existed if this religious tyranny did not ruled Iran?
So we must know that the root of all the limitations is the existence of this regime that must be uprooted. Then the people of Iran can breathe in peace and welfare.
Iranians say we don’t want this clerical dictatorship, we request for harder sanction on this clerical regime.
So let’s help each other to throw this regime to the trash can of the history.
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The Beginning of the End of the Clerical Rule in Iran
No. 680
Laying the grounds for another massacre of political prisoners
at the anniversary of the massacer in 1988
The clerical regime, desperate of the will of the people of Iran and their resistance for its downfall is laying the ground for another massacre of innocent and defenseless political prisoners in its mediaeval dungeons to revenge its inevitable destiny.
Khamenei who straightly directs these crimes thinks in vein that with the decrees of execution especially for the supporters of PMOI he can break their will for his downfall. He doesn’t know that each execution escalates this will until Iran’s freedom and democracy is prevailed.
The Students Committee in Iran calls on the international community to act immediately for saving the lives of these innocent prisoners. We demand that regime’s record of human rights be remanded to UN’s Security Council for taking decisive actions against this crime against humanity.
Remembering the massacred political prisonersTehran, August 3, 2010
Monireh Rajavi as she is famous is ‘the symbol of massacred political prisoners in 1988’. She was the sister of Massoud Rajavi the leader of the resistance of Iran and this was her only crime.
Monireh was first arrested along with her 3 and 5 years old children in 1982 and was supposed to be freed in 1984 but she never was instead she was hanged 4 years after her term was over by the direct order of Khomeini.
Mullah Nayeri the so-called religious judged of Evin who condemned the political prisoners of Evin in that massacre to be hanged was persistent in her execution and he insisted that it should be done immediately.
Monireh was 38 when hanged.
During all these years her two small children were tortured with her because they were taken to the torture chambers and made to sit behind the door of the room in which their mother was tortured.
Neither Monireh nor any other of these 30000 political prisoners were ever forgotten. They had always inspired the resistance of this brave nation and they will always inspire it.
40 other political prisoners joined the hunger strikers
Tehran, August 3, 2010
40 other political prisoners in wards 209 and 240 joined the hunger strikers of ward 350.
Jafar Kazemi’s lawyer: we can do nothing in legal procedure to save JafarTehran, August 2, 2010
Jafar Kazami a political prisoner and a political prisoner of decades of 1980s that has been jailed then also for supporting POMI is condemned to death because he had visited his son in Ashraf City, Iraq.
His lawyer Nasim Qanavi said that her request for revision is ruled out and the decree has been remanded for execution.
She said: “we can do nothing more in legal procedures to save Jafar Kazemi”.
Three political prisoners transferred to Gohardasht PrisonTehran, August 2, 2010
The clerical regime has transferred three political prisoners; Fatemeh Ziaee (fe), Shabnam Madadzadeh (fe) and Farzad Madadzadeh (Shabnam’s brother) from Evin Prison to Gohardasht Prison in Karaj.
Shabnam and Farzad Madadzadeh have been charged with Moharebe and acting against national security (read regime’s security) and were condemned to 5 years imprisonment and exile.
Their sisters are residents of Ashraf City Iraq. Fatemeh Ziaee was charged with working with PMOI and was condemned to two years imprisonment and exile to Gohardasht Prison.
It is to be mentioned that during the massacre of political prisoners, many of them who were supporters of PMOI were hanged though they had been condemned to only a few years term or even they term has been over.
Political prisoner Payman Akbari Azad was transferred to hospital, other hunger strikers to prison’s infirmary
Hunger striker refused receiving intravenous fluids
Tehran, August 2, 2010
In his seventh day of hunger strike political prisoner Payman Akbar Azad was transferred to a hospital outside Evin Prison for his critical condition.
Payman Akbar Azad is a detainee of the uprising and is suffering from diabetes. He needs two shots of insulin each day. He once fainted in his second day of hunger strike and was transferred to prison’s infirmary. Another time he went to a short coma after he fainted because he received no care.
Other prisoners transferred to prisons infirmary after several days of their hunger strike are: Zia Nabavi, Majid Dori, Ali Malihi and Qohlamhossein Arshi.
Majid Tavakoli other hunger striker has refused receiving intravenous fluids and is in critical condition.
Execution awaits nine
Kerman, August 3, 2010
Dadkhoda Salari the head of regime’s kangaroo court in Kerman announced that 9 prisoners have been sentenced to death.
Two hanged in Dezful
Dezful, August 2, 2010
A site belonging to Khozestan’s General Administration of Justice wrote on August 2 that in the morning of July 31 two prisoners have been hanged at Dezful’s prison.
Clerical dictatorship executes prisoner after 11 years of jail
Tehran- August 2, 2010
Reza Mohajer, a prisoner in Rajayi Shahr (Gohardasht) Prison was hanged on the morning of August 2.
According to reports, this prisoner was transferred to a solitary cell yesterday in cellblock 6 and was hanged on Monday morning.
He had been waiting for the death sentence for 11 years and had been taken to the gallows three times before this but his hanging was cancelled at the last minute.
Mullahs' regime sentences Bazaar merchant to deathTehran- August 2, 2010
Javad Lari, a 55 year old political prisoner was sentenced to death by the 15th branch of the Revolutionary Court on charges of waging war with God (Moharebeh) and being corrupt on earth.
This political prisoner’s trial was held on July 14. His initial charge was ‘acting against national security’ but he was charged with being a mohareb by Judge Salavati, the head of the 15th branch of the Revolutionary Court and sentenced to ‘death without the possibility of amnesty’.
Javad Lari was jailed for three years in the 80’s for links to a dissident organization and was arrested on September 16, 2009 in his office…
Notably, this death row political prisoner intended to go to Camp Ashraf in 2008 to visit his old friends but was barred from entering Ashraf by Iraqi police and went back to Iran.
Javad Lari is a well known Bazaar Tehran merchant.
Hunger striking political prisoners threatened to be sent to notorious prison
Tehran- August 2, 2010
Evin Prison officials visited political prisoners who went on a hunger strike last Monday asking them to end their hunger strikes else they be transferred to the Rajayi Shahr (Gohardasht) Prison in Karaj.
A number of prison officials along with a number of agents of the Ministry of Intelligence talked to 17 hunger striking prisoners who have been thrown in solitary for protesting unsuitable treatment by prison guards and told them that ‘if you continue your protest and not end your hunger strike, you will be transferred to Rajayi Shahr Prison’.
These prisoners said in answer to this threat that they are all ready to be transferred to Rajayi Shahr and will not end their strike until their demands are met.
Until now, five hunger strikers are taken to hospital and because others have been striking for a week, their physical health is quickly deteriorating.
The families of these political prisoners are extremely worried for their loved ones and have announced that if this process continues, they will also go on hunger strikes.
Prisoner in critical condition denied proper treatment
Tehran- August 2, 2010
According to reports, the physical state of prisoner Khaled Hardani was critical in the morning and he was taken to the Gohardasht Prison infirmary.
On Monday August 2 at about 4 am, his condition deteriorated in his solitary cell in cellblock 1 known as the ‘doghouse’ and he was kept in the cell in his condition until 9 am. He tried to call prison guards by knocking on his cell door to inform them about his critical condition but they paid no heed to his calls and requests.
At about 9 am when his condition became very critical he was taken to the infirmary. Despite his very poor physical health, he was once again taken back to his cell in the ‘doghouse’.
This prisoner suffers from heart palpitation, kidney hemorrhage, stomach problems and the extreme pain of these illnesses.
Hardani was attacked by a prison gang which takes orders from the head of cellblock 4 on July 22. He was then summoned by Mahmoud Moghnian, the head of cellblock 4, and was insulted and beaten before being transferred to a solitary cell in cellblock 1.
Prison transferred to solitary for execution
Tehran- August 2, 2010
According to reports, prisoner Hamid Moqadas was taken to a solitary cell in Varamin Prison to await execution.
On Sunday, August 1, 24-year-old Moqadas was taken from Hall 3 Cellblock 1 in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj to a solitary cell in Varamin Prison to await his execution sentence which is to be carried out in public in the town of Varamin.
He has been jailed for close to 5 years in this prison and was sentenced to death on charges of killing a state security force officer.
Gathering of the families of the political prisoners in front of regime’s Prosecutor Office
The wave of executions in Iran goes on non-stop and recently most executions have been carried out in secret.
Families of political prisoners protested
Tehran, August 3, 2010
On August 2 a group of families of political prisoners went to the Administraion of Justice and demanded that this organ solve the problem of their visits with their beloveds in prison.
One of the mothers said in that regard: “right now for example if you are three and you go to visit your beloved in prison only one gets the permission. Even when you can get into the visiting hall they humiliate you and search every where in your body. They make you naked and make you to sit and get up several times”.
Protest gathering of families of political prisoners of Ward 350, Evin Prison
Tehran, August 2, 2010
On Monday August 2 families of political prisoners of ward 350 of Evin prison gathered in protest inside and outside the visiting hall demanding news about the conditions of their beloveds.
The phones in the ward are still cut. Regime is separating political prisoners from other prisoners so that they won’t send out the news of political prisoners.
Regime’s prosecutor of Tehran Abbas Jafari Doolat Abadi threatened the families that if they protest all the prisoners on hunger strike will be transferred to the notorious Gohardahst Prison.
In continuation to their protest families went to Bazaar
Tehran, August 2, 2010
When on August 2 suppressive forces dispersed the protesting families of political prisoners from in front of Prosecutor Office and the notorious Revolution Court the families went to Bazaar.
They stood in front of Bazaar and in a loud voice shouted that: “you went on strike for taxes for a week, and now we invite you to strike for our beloveds”.
Shopkeepers came out of their shops and supported the families.
Mothers chanted Allah O Akbar there.
An eyewitness speaks about Kahrizak Death Camp
On July 9 (2009), at about 3 to 4 pm I reached Vali-e-Asr Intersection and I went towards the square. It was a bit crowded. As I went towards south the crowd got stronger. People chanted slogans and the suppressive agents dispersed them.
In different locations we were attacked from both front and back. SSF, Plainclothes and Especial Guards tried to surround us. They attacked us. I was beaten with batons several times but I was able to escape.
I was sitting in a corner to rest and was waiting for the crowd to gather again and to start the protest that a Plaincloth called me.
I was afraid that I might have been identified and I had no escape root. Suddenly somebody pulled my hands back and handcuffed me.
First they doubted if they caught me right or not because I was wearing black and I had beard. They showed me to each other but known of them knew me.
They threw me in a car, took my cell-phone and gave it to a female agent. I asked her to call my family and tell them about me but they grasped me, swore at me and pulled me into the car.
The car was crowded. They took us to police station No. 107.
Their behavior was offensive and they encouraged each other to beat us so that we would talk.
I gave my home address so that if my family looks for me they can find me.
We were about 300 detainees there.
When night came they told us that the food is only for the personnel. In the morning about 8.30 they gave us breakfast and we had to pay for it.
After the interrogation it was about 10.30 to 11 am that they transferred some to Evin Prison and the others to Kahrizak.
The cars were stopped behind Kahrizak’s entrance we heard them say that there is no more room. Anyway they took us inside. They offended us all the time.
When we entered there an inmate took a piece of bread from one of us and eat it eagerly, then we understood to what kind of a place we were taken.
They made us naked in front of each other and asked for our identification. When they called us we had to run fast towards the silo if we walked a little bit slowly we were beaten. They humiliated us and used very shameful words.
Any move, we had to make it fast but the doors were narrow and we had to hit each other to be able to mover fast otherwise we would all be beaten.
The silo was filthy. We sweated all the time and the silo’s floor was wet from our sweating.
Many ordinary prisoners, regime’s elements called them; hooligans, were kept there.
Sometimes they bothered us and we didn’t dare to go alone anywhere even to toilet. We moved in groups.
But amongst them there were those who were humane and threatened the others not to bother us.
It was terrible there. There wasn’t even room to sleep. The heat made us fatigue.
During the days that I was there I slept only 2 hours.
The agents started beating us on no excuse.
Though Amir* was in a very bad condition himself but he fanned us and Moshen* too; he always took care of us.
Mohsen used to say: “I came for July 9*” and he calmed the others and tried to keep our spirits high.
About 20 of us were put in ‘cages’ having the worst condition.
The food was rotten potato and sewage water and nothing else. First we didn’t know the water was collected from toilets but when we found out we still had no other choice than using it.
The silos had small windows and from there instead of air they pumped smoke in.
Most of us became seek and infected.
I was there from July 10 to 14. The condition there was unbearable.
They hanged the prisoners from their feet.
After a while they came and barbed us bold. Mohsen told them you remove our hairs but can you change our beliefs.
We all smelled like shit. The whether we breath was contaminated.
When a few died Khamenei’s elements asked a physician form army to swear as a witness that they had died from Meningitis but he refused. They asked the corner so but he refused too.
Then a low rank soldier accepted to do so. When he did, they poisoned him and killed him.
They took Amir twice for check but they told him that he was all right and sent him back. On July 14 they called us and transferred us to Evin with a bus. Amir died in the way.
When they took us to Evin they sent us to take showers and threw away all our clothing.
Even the guards approached us with mask. They were afraid that they might get sick.
Later we understood that when the news of the murder of Mohsen Rooholamini, Mohammad Kamrani and others was conveyed to the world and Khamenei found out that the world knows about Kahrizak, they were forced to transfer us.
*Amir: Amir Javadi far was severely tortured in Kahrizak and died while being transferred to Evin Prison.
*Mohsen: Mohsen Rooholamini was the son of a close element of Khameni but they didn’t even show him mercy because he had participated in the uprising. He was severely tortured and murdered in Kahrizak. They told his family that he has died from Menangitis.
* July 9: the anniversary of students uprising in 1999
The painful story of Ahmad Bob, a civil activist from MarivanMarivan- August 2, 2010
Ahmad Bob civil activist from Marivan has been under most severe physical and psychological tortures during the 165 days that he had been in the hands of Khamenei’s henchmen.
He was arrested on September 27, 2009 in a raid on his house. The agents broke the door and without representing any warrant they detained him blind folding his eyes. He went straightly under torture without even his charges being read to him.
The whole process of his detention is against even the laws of Islamic Republic’s constitution (article 32) and Judiciary (section 6).
At the fist hour of his detention he had to confess that he has been in connection with ‘anti-revolution groups’ and ‘had acted to disrupt the public order by gathering people against the Islamic Republic”.
Being just a civil activist he accept none so he went under the most sever tortures.
While being handcuffed, his legs tied and having eye-band on, three Khamenei agents viciously kicked him, beat him and lashed him with military belts.
Then they opened his hands, hold them and pulled out three of his front teeth with pincers until he became unconscious. They broke his rips, his skull was swelled due to baton strokes and his eyes were black; and this was only the first night.
“Principle 38 of Islamic Republic’s constitution forbids any torture for getting confession or acquiring information. Even if such a testimony is taken it has no legal value; the violator of this law will be punished”, just a joke in Islamic Republic.
Ahmad was usually tortured and interrogated from dusk to dawn to make him confess as they wanted him too. In 33 days he received no medical attention.
They made him to sit and rise a thousand times and when he made a mistake in the counting he had to do it from the beginning and then was beaten with military belts so hard that he wasn’t able to stand at all.
They made him to stand still up to 10 hours.
They threatened him with a piece and asked him which one of his fingers he wanted to choose to be cut first by shooting the piece at it.
They made him to stand up and then they dropped a large pincer from his forehead over his toes. With each stroke the toes started bleeding.
Under the torture they insisted that he should confess that he was spying for US.
They threatened him to rape saying that rape is allowed if the subject is an infidel.
They wanted to make him to sit on a cooker but he resisted all the time and for this ‘not executing the order’ he was severely beaten.
Ahmad was kept for 33 days in solitary cells in Marivan under the most severe tortures. He could use the toilet only three times a day and that was the only time that he reached water to drink.
During these 33 days he was deprived from having a shower and of using any cleansing agents. He was so fatigue that sometime he had to crawl towards the toilet.
After he was transferred to Sanandaj Prison because his skin was thoroughly infected with fungi and was suffering from internal bleeding he was kept in Quarantine section under treatment for 14 days and then was transferred again to Sanandaj Intelligence Prison and went again under interrogation and torture.
When they wanted him to have a TV confession and he refused, he was tied to a bed and while reading Koran they started to lash him on his soles.
He fainted times and again under the lashes, lost control of his urination and vomited times and again. He received 320 lashes.
They put a headphone on his head and played sounds that made him nervous and the sounds echoed in his ears for three days.
After 4 months and 20 days they told him to write his will because he was going to be executed.
At dusk of that day they took him in a room. The interrogators told him that was the execution room.
They made him to stand on a wheelchair beneath the hanging rope and put the rope himself around his neck.
They handcuffed him and tied his legs.
In that position they interrogated him again, wanting him to yield to confession.
In this condition all his body was sweating and he wasn’t able to stand up. He lay on the ground like a death.
One of the interrogators extinguished his cigarette on his elbow as his souvenir for him.
The intelligence interrogators grabbed his tongue with a pincer and made him walk around the room by pulling it. After that he wasn’t able to talk for four days.
They wanted to make him to crawl around the interrogation’s room and sound like animals when he resisted he was severely beaten.
Both of his soles were drilled. He was also hanged upside down.
During 5 months of his detention he was able to talk with his family only once by phone. They told him then to ask his family to come for a visit and when her pregnant wife came she went under interrogation for 5 hours.
After 155 days Ahmad was transferred to public prison of Marivan.
During all these time he could not have a lawyer.
After tolerating 165 days of torture he was freed on a 70 million tomans bail.
He cannot walk easily and the nerves of his soles are damaged along with other problems such as severe headaches and other signs and effects of torture that he is still suffering.
His file is still open in branch one of Marivan’s Revolution Court chaired by the so-called Judge, Lotfi.
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August 3, 2010
UPDATE ON IRAN - August 3, 2010
The Beginning of the End of the Clerical Rule in Iran
No.679
The head henchmen of Evin: we will turn here to another Kahrizak
The anti riot police viciously attacked political prisoners of Ward 350 of Evin Prison and beat them.
Bozorgnia the head of the ward threatened the political prisoners and told them: “we will turn here into another Kahrizak”.
Last Monday the day of the visit of political prisoners of Ward 350 the prisoners protested against the improper behavior of the guards and the limitations they imposed on their visits. The political prisoners started a sit-in at the visiting cabins.
Sedaghad Nejad the head henchmen of Evin told them that he will punish the guards but instead he took two of the protesters, Ahmad Amooie and Kayvan Samimi to solitary cells.
The head of Ward 350 told the prisoners: “our president will cut the hands of US, who are you to resists”.
Other political prisoners of the ward protested the transfer of two prisoners to solitary cells. Then on Monday afternoon the henchmen of notorious Intelligence Ministry read the name of 10 political prisoners of the ward and wanted to transfer them to solitary cells of Security Ward belonging to the ministry but they were confronted with prisoners’ protest.
They again threatened the prisoners that: “we will turn here into another Kahrizak”. Following the treat the anti-riot police raided the ward and eventually at midnight the agents of Especial Guards Units and anti-riot police raided the ward and took 15 of these prisoners to the solitary cells of Ward 240.
This act led to the hunger strike of all 17 prisoners.
The phones of the ward are cut and nobody knows now what is going on in there.
Students Committee in Iran calls on all international bodies especially the UN human rights organization to send a board to Iran to stop another massacre of political prisoners.
Families of hunger strikers in Evin trying to save their lives
Tehran, August 1, 2010
When the families of hunger strikers in Evin prison did not get any result from their few days of gathering in front of regime’s Prosecutor Office about 100 of them went at 1100 am to Evin Prison and gathered in front of it in protest demanding an answer for the situation but the SSF and guard were deployed there and beat the participants.
Sanctions and its aftermaths
Rafsanjani worried about the sanctions
Tehran, August 1, 2010
Once again expressing his concern about international sanctions Rasfanjani whose words were quoted by ILNA state-run news agency said on July 31: “we can overcome the current situation. The conditions today in Iran and the world is not worse than 1988”; a direct reference to the year of attack of National Liberation Army of Iran for the overthrow of clerical dictatorship which made Khomeini to drink ‘the poison glass’ of ceasefire with Iraq as he put it himself.
Rafsanjani said: “westerners will not reach their goals by bullying us and by insisting on their wrong positions because the world cannot bear any more crises...”
People discontent of gasoline situation
Mashad, August 1, 2010
Mashad residents complain about gasoline’s condition in the city. The lines are too long and people have to stay up to two hours in the line in hot whether.
Regime’s MPs insist on non-stop enrichment of uranium up to 20 %
Tehran, August 1, 2010
Kothari, deputy of Majlis Security Commission said: “Islamic Republic will not draw back from 20% enrichment of uranium until we are sure that the 20% fuel is provided for us. We will not draw back from this”.
Parviz Sarvari another member of this commission said: “the principle of enrichment is the red line of Iran’s political strategy and we will not retreat from 20% enrichment. We have gone a long way to reach here and if we wanted to retreat from that we wouldn’t have paid such a price for it”.
Fatemeh Alia another member of this commission said: “we will not back away from 20% enrichment anyhow even if US and other westerners issue harsher resolutions against Iran. We will not surrender to their bullying. We must continue the path for reaching maximum nuclear techniques”.
England confiscated two shipping enterprises belonging to the clerical regime
Tehran, August 1, 2010
A day after the resolution of sanctions was endorsed by EU, England confiscated two shipping companies working for Iran.
Khamenei being surprised from the act in one of his affiliated media, Raja News said that these two companies were signed in under British rules and had committed no illegal act.
Raja News also said that belongings of three regime banks namely Meli, Melat and Persian banks have been confiscated worth of 2.5 billion dollars...
To cover its concern about the confiscation of two shipping companies the media wrote: “if the ports of 27 European countries do not accept our ships there are 160 other countries that will welcome them”.
Deputy of IRGC threatened of terrorism
Tehran, August 1, 2010
Yadollah Javani, deputy of IRGC threatened of terrorism and claimed: “If Iran goes under US attack because of his nuclear projects it will make the strategic region of (Persian) Gulf insecure for everybody”.
Bazaar & Factories
Bazaar’s recession
Tehran, August 1, 2010
One of the fabric-sellers in Bazaar explained about Bazaar’s recession he said that the import of outfits and clothings from China in low prices is flooding into Bazaars including Tehran’s Bazaar and because most of the people are poverty stricken they buy cheep goods though the quality might not be good. This has led to great damages for their job.
He said that beside his shop there are 40 other fabric sellers who are closed and rarely open their shops and are looking for another job. Even in comparison with last year the situation has gone worse in Bazaar first because of imports from China and then because people cannot afford to buy goods.
Another fabric seller said: “one of the most serious problems that we have is that people come for shopping but they are poor. Most of them don’t have cash. Some of the draw checks and we have problems with those checks. We have asked the government to do something about these checks but they say don’t accept check then you won’t have problems. Nobody cares.
Everybody is discontent
Tehran, August 1, 2010
Tehran’s Bazaaris are deeply complaining about the situation in Bazaar and say that it gets worse everyday.
One of the Bazaaris said: “people too are not satisfied and complain. There are lots of problems but the main problem is that we cannot sell anything and if the situation continues as such we must all close our shops”.
Food whole-sellers speak
Tehran, August 1, 2010
Food whole-sellers in Bazaar say that Bazaar is terrible in the last two months and there is actually no demand. Their sale is 70% less than the last year and some days Bazaaris have really nothing to do.
Recession in one of the best factories of Iran
Tehran, August 1, 2010
Iran Pipe & Machinery factory located in Saveh Rd. is one of the oldest and best factories in production of cast iron pipes. It has been amongst one of the factories that exported its products abroad.
During recent months the factory is facing serious recession in its production and during last three weeks it has been closed because it has not been able to obtain the raw material needed. Its workers are at the state of limbo and are worried about the future of the factory.
Electricity crisis
Tehran, August 1, 2010
Cut of electricity at the industrial township of Hashtgerd in west of Tehran has damaged the factories a lot in their productions.
The electricity is cut one or two days a week for 3 hours. The damage is 300 to 400 thousands tomans per hour of cut in electricity and the workers cannot work.
The Downfall
Mullah Ibrahimi warned the deepening of disputes amongst regime’s bands
Tehran, August 1, 2010
Mullah Ibrahimi a member of Majlis Security and Foreign Affairs Committee expressed his concern about the deepening of schism amongst Khamenei’s band and said that the disputes must be solved so that they won’t lead to unrests.
Online News reported on July 31 that mullah Ibrahimi added while worried: “the one thing that can threaten the current of hardliners is dispute. If there are disputes unity will be damaged. The disputes must be managed so that they won’t lead to unrests”.
He asked for consolidation with the defeated fraction.
Resistance
Agitated about the court’s rule
Tehran, August 1, 2010
Rezaee the former head of IRGC showed reimges’ wrath and worry about the ruling of US Court of Appeal in regard with the labeling of PMOI as terrorists and said: “this ruling shows that America is not honest in its fight with terrorism”.
He wrote in his site: “while US counts herself at warfront with terrorism especially international terrorism she has issued a decree in her courts saying that Monafeghin (the name regime calls PMOI) are not terrorists...”
Tehran, August 1, 2010
Four of Evin Prison hunger strikers were transferred to the prison’s infirmary because of their critical condition. These four are Zia Nabavi, Majid Dori, Ali Malihi and Golamhossein Arshi.
Brazil ready to give asylum to Sakineh Mohammadi AshtianiTehran, August 1, 2010
Regime’s insisting on stoning to death of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtianin has aroused even its allies against this clerical dictatorship.
The president of Brazil has announced that his country is willing to give asylum to Mrs. Ashtiani to prevent her stoning to death.
Louis Inasio Dasilva said: “I want to ask my friend Ahmadinejad, the leader of Iran and its government to allow Brazil to give asylum to this woman”.
Writing anti regime’s slogans never stops
Karaj, August 1, 2010
Brave youths of Karaj constantly write anti regime slogans on the walls of the city.
Though these slogans are erased daily but the youths fill the walls again with anti-regime slogans.
These slogans were seen a lot in Jahanshahr region of Karaj.
Shahed University Interns on strike
Tehran, July 31, 2010
Interns of Medical Science Department of Shahed University went on strike because of their law wages. The strike started in the morning of July 31 and they did not go on their posts at the hospital.
Suppression
78 youths arrested
Tehran, August 1, 2010
The suppressive agents of SSF arrested 78 youths in Tehran calling them hooligans.
Hossein Ghasemloie a commander of Great Tehran’s SSF said that these detainees were between 19 to 30 years old.
Suppression dragged into residential areas
Tehran, August 1, 2010
It is for a few days that suppressive agents are stationed in the Sasan Blvd in Zaferanieh amongst the residential areas. They suppressive forces street-interrogate the residents.
Two white police vans along with 4 female agents, 4 police cars and tens of police motorcycles along with tens of SSF, Plainclothes and Bassijis rise fear in this residential region and people dare not leave their homes.
In another event on July 22 a girl was beaten and several people have been arrested in the region.
Oppressing women
Tehran, July 31, 2010
On daily bases SSF and security agents stop cars with lady passengers whom they count as having improper veil at Enghelab Square in front of Markazi Cinema. First they take their pictures and then they take their documents to introduce them to court. Improper veil consists of nail polish; having a glass over the head and ...On July 26 they dragged a lady out of her car and into police van and drove away.
Sunni Friday of Zahedan banned from going abroad
Zahedan, July 31, 2010
After Molana Abdolhamid, the Sunni Friday Imam of Zahedan traveled to Turkey and participated in the International Conference of Global Unions of Moslem Experts his pass was confiscated at the airport.
The decree handed over to him was issued from the Especial Court for Clerics.
Molana Abdolhamid is one of the think tanks of Islam and is a known personality both inside Iran and abroad.
Two students of Polytechnic University summoned
Tehran, July 31, 2010
Two students of Polytechnic University of Tehran were summoned to university’s Harasat because of their activity in Facebook. They were threatened that they will be deprived from education and will be summoned to the Intelligence Ministry’s Pursuit Office.
This was the first summoning of its kind.
Six death row political prisoners kept in state of limboTehran– August 1, 2010
After the Supreme Court denied a requested re-trial by the lawyer of death row political prisoner Jafar Kazemi, and after his case was referred to the Sentence Implementation Department, the Keyhan state-run daily said that six prisoners are awaiting execution. Their families and lawyers have said that the state of their cases is unclear.
Abdolreza Qanbari, Mohsen and Ahmad Daneshpour Moqadam, Ali Aqayari and Ali Saremi are some of these death row political prisoners.
Ali Aqayari’s lawyer, Mehdi Hojati, said, “The case of my client was referred to the Supreme Court with the case of Mr. Kazemi and I also requested a re-trial for my client but I have not received an answer and I still do not know if it has been refused or accepted”.
“My client’s case is in the 31st branch of the Supreme Court and I went to the branch today to see about the state of my client’s case and I hope that in light of the evidence and documents that we presented they will accept our request for re-trial”.
Meisam Daneshpour Moqadam, another son of Mohsen Daneshpour Moqadam said: “The sentence of my brother and father was confirmed by the court of review but unfortunately we have not seen the sentence and they have not given my father or brother or us a copy of the sentence so that we could send it to the Supreme Court and request a re-trial and we are still waiting to see about the result of the amnesty request”, he added.
“My mother’s lawyer is Mr. Sharif”, Meisam said. The death sentences for three of his other family members including his mother were lowered to prison terms.
“Despite all our efforts and the efforts of Dr. Sharif they have not allowed him to represent my father and brother. He sent his power of attorney inside the prison three times to be signed by my brother and father but unfortunately, the power of attorney never came out of prison”.
“Their cases are still in an undetermined state and they do not tell us anything. … We are extremely worried especially about my father who is 70 years old and is not even able to walk and others in the case testified in court that he was innocent. But it is very surprising that neither the initial court nor the court of review did not pay any heed to this matter and issued and upheld the sentence”, he added.
A person close to Abdolreza Qanbari him a teacher who has been sentenced to death said,
“His lawyer was appointed for him and we do not even have any news on his lawyer”, he added.
“Unfortunately, Mr. Qanbari’s appointed lawyer is not from the Justice Department Lawyer Center and is a lawyer who got his permit from the Judiciary according to article 187 of the Economical Development Program and not from the Center of Lawyers and we do not even have access to him to see about the measures that have been taken or will be taken or even if he has a copy of the sentence so that we could request a re-trial. On the other hand we do not know about the circumstances of the amnesty request and we have not received any answers and are extremely worried”, he added.
Prisoner on verge of execution
Tehran– August 1, 2010
On Sunday August 1, prisoner Reza Mohajer, 45, was taken from the Hall 18, cellblock 6 of Gohardasht Prison in Karaj to a solitary cell for execution.
He has been taken for execution three times before but his execution was stayed in the last minutes. This death row prisoner has been jailed for 11 years.
3-year ban on education for Kurd political prisoner
Tehran– August 1, 2010
A Kurd student was sentenced to three years of prison and a three year ban on education after more than 5 months of prison.
Hamed Omidi a student of educational technology at Alameh Tabatabayi University in Tehran who was arrested for political activities and cooperation with a Kurd Party was sentenced to three years of prison and a ban on continuing his education. He had been detained for a long time in solitary in Evin Prison.
According to Kurdish websites, he was arrested on February 10, 2009 in the Tukan terminal on his way to Tehran University after protests to the execution of Kurd political activist Ehsan Fatahian on and was then taken to cellblock 209 in Evin Prison.
Security forces kill 3 border tradesmen, injure 8 others
Kurdistan– August 1, 2010
Border tradesmen in the Kani Rash Village were targeted yesterday by Revolutionary Guards Forces.
According to Kurdish sources, two local merchants were killed while eight others were severely wounded. An eyewitness said that the bodies of the two dead merchants are still left out in a mine field and security forces do not let anyone remove the bodies from the area.
According to other reports, another border merchant identified as Shamsoddin Jalibaqu was shot and killed in the Salmas region on July 29.
Iran arrests Dervish in Lorestan
Lorestan– August 1, 2010
On Saturday July 31, Parviz Malekshahi who is a Neimatollahi Dervish in the town of Alshatr in Lorestan was arrested and taken to an unknown location.
On 11am on Saturday, the Alshatr Intelligence Agency summoned Malekshahi to the intelligence agency but he told them that because these kinds of summonses were illegal, he would not show up.
After an hour, security and intelligence agents entered his home without a warrant and after searching his home and confiscating his religious books; they arrested Malekshahi and took him to an unknown location. There is no information on his current location.
Parviz Malekshahi is an experienced teacher and academic in this town and the Dervishes’ religious ceremonies were held in his home.
In the past few months, Dervishes have been constantly summoned illegally and threatened by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence that they would be expelled from work.
Iran arrests student activist
Tehran– August 1, 2010
Hossein Sarshoumi, a student activist at Isfahan University was arrested a few days ago.
There is no news on his whereabouts or why he was arrested.
This member of the Students for Freedom and Equality Association had been arrested three times before this.
Workers of Iran
Henhouses on strike
Isfahan, August 2, 2010
Since Thursday July 29 the henhouses of Isfahan are on strike and the strike has continued so far. Isfahan is now facing shortage of poultry.
Workers of Doolub Dam on strike
Sanandaj, August 2, 2010
Workers of Doolub Dam, in kilometer 30 of Kamyaran- Sanandaj road went on strike on July 30 because they had not received their wages for 4 months.
Season workers
Tehran, August 2, 2010
The head of regime’s Cultural and Social Commission in Tehran’s City Council said: “unfortunately the lack of activity of small trading factories in industrial townships has led to the increase of the number of seasonal workers in the intersections”.
Protest gathering of Naznakh Factory workers
Qazvin, August 1, 2010
On Saturday July 31 more than 80 workers of Naznakh Factory in Qazvin gathered in protest in front of Qazvins’s Industry Ministry to gain 7 months of their wages not paid to them. They also protested against the policies taken by officials in that regard.
Long distance communication employees oppressed
Shiraz, August 1, 2010
It is for 18 months that workers and employees of Shiraz Long Distance Communication Company all of them with 14 to 19 years history of work that are on the eve of their retirements, have not received their wages.
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August 2, 2010
Important News on Iran - August 2 , 2010
August 1, 2010
At 1800 on Sunday August first as regime prevented the fans of two soccer teams enter Sahand Stadium in Tabriz making a curfew like scene the fans gathered in protest in Sa’at Square and in front of the Governor Office of the city.
Anti-riot forces took into the scene and clashes started; the crowd started shouting ‘you have no honor’ at the suppressive forces as they entered the scene.
The protesters chanted:
- Long live Azerbaijan whoever cannot tolerate it be blind
- We are ready to get killed we are soldiers of Babak (a hero from Azerbaijan who rose against the oppressor of his time)
- Whoever doesn’t take side he is with Pasdars (IRGC members) and does not have honor
- Death to fascist
Students Committee in Iran- August 2, 2010
In memory of 30000 political prisoners who were massacred by mullahs' regime in 1988
Stop another massacre of political prisoners
In memory of 30000 political prisoners
who were massacred by mullahs' regime in 1988
In 1988 30000 political prisoners majority of them supporters of PMOI were hanged after having two or three-minutes trials in kangaroo courts by a three member board known as ‘the Board of Death’.
In these kangaroo courts which were a room with a table and four sits political prisoners were faced with ‘the Board of Death”.
They were just asked whether they were still a Mojahed (PMOI supporter or member) or still dissidents of the regime or had they repent. One word "Mojahed" was enough for the board to condemn them to execution and in this manner more than 30000 political prisoners were hanged in August of 1988 just in few weeks and buried collectively in a land which was later named Khavaran Golzar (the place of flowers) by people.
Now at the last days of this religious tyranny the regime intends to execute another massacre and it is on the conscious of the world to stop it.
The hidden War of the Prisons
Laying the ground for the execution of PMOI supporters
Tehran, July 31, 2010
Baztab site belonging to Mohsen Rezaee the former head of IRGC and Kayhan daily belonging to Shariatmadari a henchman from Khamenei’s band announced the execution of 6 supporters of PMOI in near future.
On Wednesday July 28 regime’s media announced that the decree of execution for Mr. Jafar Kazemi is approved.
Mr. Kazemi’s allegation is that he had traveled to Ashraf City, Iraq (the place of resident of PMOI members) to see his son.
Baztab’s site: “6 members of Monafeghin (the name regime calls PMOI) are awaiting execution”.
Kayhan Daily, Khamenei’s organ wrote: “the decree of execution of one of the members of terrorist group of PMOI (this is how the labeling of PMOI as terrorists that still continues in US helps the clerical dictatorship in its suppression and massacre of political prisoners) who was active in the street riots of last year is finalized. Jafar K. who was arrested last year during the riots has been in prison for ten years during 1980 decade for being with PMOI and was freed on 1991. His son is now residing in the military base of Ashraf in Iraq and is working with terrorists. He too has gone there and came back to the country.
Jafar K. was tried during the last 11 months first at branch 28 of Revolution Court charged with Moharebe, gathering and planning for acting against the national security and propagating against the Establishment and was condemned to execution. After his lawyer protested the file was sent to revision court and the decree was endorsed...
It is said that 6 supporters of the terrorist group of Monafeghin who have been arrested during last year’s riots are waiting the execution of their death penalty”.
Jafari Dolatabadi endorsed the execution decree of Political prisoner Jafar KazemiTehran, July 31, 2010
Tehran’s prosecutor Jafari Dolatabadi told the family of Jafar Kazemi a PMOI supporter on Saturday July 31: “he will be hanged for sure”.
Alizadeh, Dolatabadi’s deputy told the family: “he will not see you but he told me to tell you that Mr. Jafar Kazemi will be executed”.
The family talked with Bakhtiari the Minister of Justice. The man told them that he can do nothing and they have to ask for Khamenei’s pardon.
This saying shows that the decree for execution issued for political prisoners is decided by Khamenei himself.
Alavi a henchman who had tried hard to make Jafar Kazemi to interview in TV and repent has told Mr. Kazemi: “to preserve the Establishment we need a few sacrifices and one of them is you”.
Mr. Kazemi’s wife calls for helpTehran, July 31, 2010
In a letter to the UN Secretary General, Roodabeh Akbari, Mr. Kazemi’s wife (Mr. Kazemi is a political prisoner, supporter of PMOI under execution) asked for help for saving Mr. Kazemi’s life.
During last year regime’s Revolution Court has condemned many of the detainees of the event after the election to execution.
Arash Rahmanipoor and MohammadReza Alizamani were two of these political prisoners who were hanged last winter.
The families of politcal prisoners have reported that the phones have been cut in ward 350 of Evin Prison during last few days. Usually on the eve of the execution of political prisoners regime cuts the phones at the prison.
During last months some Kurd political prisoners were also executed in Evin Prison.
In a part of her letter Roodabeh wrote: “...after three days of constant torture and three months in solitary cell they put pressure on him to have a TV interview and when he resisted they started beating and torturing him again breaking three of his teeth an he is now in critical physical and psychological contidion...When my husband’s lawyer protested the decree for his execution the judge of the file said that he was forced to issue such decree by high ranked authorities...The interrogators had threatened him that if he doesn’t agree with the interview they will cut me in peaces in front of his eyes but he still resisted so they announced that he will definately be executed...”
The decree is not legal
Tehran, July 31, 2010
Nasim Qanavi, Mr. Kazemi’s lawyer said that it was never proved that he was a Mohareb. This group is not armed at all since many years so how can he be a Mohareb even if it is proved, which is not, that Mr. Kazemi is affiliated with this group.
Families of political prisoners: we will go on hunger strike
Tehran, July 31, 2010
The families of political prisoners of ward 350 of Evin Prison announced that in protest to the pressures imposed on these political prisoners, cut of phones of the ward and their transfer to solitary cells they will go on hunger strike.
The families expressed their concern about the situation of these political prisoners especially 16 of them transferred to solitary confinements since last Monday who are on hunger strike now and warned that if the situation is not changed they too will go on hunger strike.
The families of hunger strikers in Evin protested in front of regime’s Prosecutor Office
Tehran, July 31, 2010
On the morning of July 31 families of hunger strikers of Evin Prison gathered in protest in front of regime’s Prosecutor Office in Tehran.
SSF started dispersing them.
The families of Hossein Noorani Nejad, Bahmand Ahmadi Amooie, Ali Tajernia, Ali Parviz, Massoud Bastani and 30 others were amongst the crowd.
Though the families were dispersed from in front of Prosecutor Office they gathered in front of the office of head of administration of justice.
Sixteen of the prisoners on hunger strike in solitary cells of Evin are:
1- Majid Dori
2- Majid Tavkoli
3- Abdollah Momeni
4- Ali Malihi
5- Ziaedin Nabavi
6- Kayvan Samimi
7- Nader (Ebrahim) Babaie
8- Hamidreza Mohammadi
9- Payman Karimi Azad
10- Bahman Ahmadi Amoie
11- Babak Bordbar
12- Jafar Aghdami
13- Ali Praviz
14- Qolamhossein Arshi
15- Hossein Nooraninejad
16- Kohyar Godarzi
Another supporter of PMOI under pressure in prison
Qazvin, July 31, 2010
Political prisoner Mohammad Rahimian was transferred to Boali Hospital of the city from Choobin Prison in Qazvin due to stomach bleeding and intestine infection after he went unconscious after a week of pain and suffering.
His wife asked for treatment leave after the event but it has not been accepted so far.
Mohammad had visited his son in Ashraf City, Iraq. Regime’s intelligence was aware of the fact and had opened a file for him. During the uprisings of last year he was arrested and without having a lawyer was condemned to a year imprisonment.
Prisoners of especial ward for clerics stopped taking prison’s food
Tehran, July 29, 2010
Clerics imprisoned in Evin Prison’s especial ward for clerics stopped eating prison’s food since Tuesday July 27 because they found a lizard in their food.
It has become a normal event to find insects and ...in prisons food.
This is another anti-human act of regime in its prisons to put more pressure on its dissidents.
Two Christians under pressure to sing obligations in prison
Mashad, July 31, 2010
Two Christians detained on July 8 in Mashad were taken under pressure by regime’s intelligence agents to sign a form of obligation.
These two ‘prisoners of belief’ who have been arrested along with 13 others of their fellow Christians are under severe pressure.
In these forms the signer will deny Christianity and gives his obligation not to participate in any Christian gathering.
Reza Istifan 48 is a server in Mashad’s church and has had no communication with his family since he was arrested on July 8.
Ehsan Behrooz 23, a student of Management in Mashad’s university is kept in detention at Mashad’s Intelligence Bureau located in Vakilabad Blvd. of Mashad.
The intelligence agents have told Ehsan’s mother that if he doesn’t deny Christianity he will be charged with blasphemy.
In Ehsan’s birth certificate it is written that he is a Seyed (successor of Imams) and thus his case is more sensitive.
It is to be mentioned that on December of 1990 a Christian priest, Hossein Soodmand, was hanged in Mashad’s prison because he was also a Seyed in his birth certificate and did not yield to regime’s pressure to leave Christianity.
He was hanged on the mullah-made crime of blasphemy.
The agents have told Ehsan’s mother that she has no right to hire a lawyer for his son.
Political prisoner Babak Bordbar on hunger strike
Tehran, July 31, 2010
Babak Bordbar the photographer of Iran’s News Photo Agency was transferred to Evin Prison because he protested against the behavior of prison’s officials; he went on hunger strike in protest.
Babak was arrested in Ashura while had official permission for taking photos from the event and was condemned to one day imprisonment.
Visits limited in ward 209
Tehran, July 31, 2010
To put more pressure on political prisoners the clerical regime has limited visits in ward 209. Only three members of No. one degree of the inmate’s family are allowed to visit the inmate.
The visits occur only if the interrogator of the political prisoner permits it.
The political prisoners of ward 350 are banned from any visit except the family acquires a letter from Tehran’s prosecutor.
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