September 3, 2010
'QODS DAY' - Sept. 3, 2010
'QODS DAY'
Tehran- reports on Quds Day march
Sept. 3, 2010
The seven paths that the Iranian regime had determined for the Quds Day March was so empty that the government was forced to park public transportations automobiles in these paths and streets. From Azadi Square to Enqelab Square in all the paths, the crowds barely reached one thousand. Regime supporters were walking in groups of two or three towards Enqelab Square which was the main site of the gathering in despair because of the lack of public participation Millions of colorful posters, pictures and other writing were left unused in the hands of regime forces because there were no mass crowds to distribute the posters to. The crowds participating in the Quds state-run marches were those who usually participate in Friday Prayers. Even those who usually came just to get food and drinks did not participate in the march.
Tehran – Karim Khan Zand Street
Security forces were out on force on the streets. A young man was arrested after passing by a number of security forces. They would arrest anyone they deemed suspicious and a van full of arrested young people was seen in this street.
Valiasr Street
There were clashes between security forces and the people in this region. Special Guards Forces were also on the scene in the Square. Cell phones were also down at that time in this region.
In the Karimkhan and Farahani intersection which is actually Haft Tir Square about 100 people who came out of the metro were chanting ‘no to Lebanon, no to Gaza, I will only sacrifice for Iran’.
13:30 in Friday Prayers
Today instead of fruit juice which is usually distributed by the regime to gather crowds for a bigger turnout, they were giving out pens with six colors and key chains to participants because of the month of Ramadan.
Sept. 3, 2010
- Last night the sound of 'Allah O Akbar' which was being chanted by people could be heard in the following regions:
Dolatabad, Qetareyh,Tajresh, Shah Abdol Azim, and the street leading to Hamaran Street.
- Last night a number of youths were arrested while writing slogans in the public areas in Arak (West of Iran).
- In the Sadat Abad region in Tehran people chanted 'Allah O Akbar' last night.
The notorious Bassij forces have been stopping people from 2am to body search passersby. The police forces have announced that they will do anything in order to control the security atmosphere.
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The Beginning of the End of the Clerical Rule in Iran
No.696
Downfall
Majlis deputy lashes out at Ahmadinejad aide in midst of feuds31 August 2010
In another sign of persistently widening rifts in the Iranian regime, a member of the regime’s Majlis (Parliament) used an official session to lash out at an aide of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the mullahs’ President, the state-run Fars news agency reported on Sunday.
The mullahs’ Foreign Minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, was also present at the session. The Majlis deputy, Elias Naderan, criticized Rahim Mashai, who Ahmadinejad appointed recently as the chair of the “Supreme Council for Exiled Iranians,” using openly condescending language.
Naderan called the institution “illegal,” and told Mottaki, “If that notorious individual [Mashai] is supposed to run this council, then why not just appoint him as the foreign minister, too?”
Naderan also uncovered more information about the regime’s attempts to assemble its elements from abroad in Tehran in the context of a “conference” in July, which turned into a high profile fiasco and fueled more infighting among regime officials.
In view of the unrewarding so-called conference, Naderan complained, “Each guest [at the conference] had four people with them. We paid for their tickets, rented charter planes for them, and gave them a cross-country tour. We also picked up the tab for their stay in Tehran and paid their 31 years of unpaid salaries.”
Iran: Former IRGC Commander concerned about regime's future31 August 2010
The former commander of the Iranian regime’s Revolutionary Guards has voiced concern about the Iranian regime’s future and the devastating impact of international sanctions.
Rahim Safavi’s unusually frank comments were published on Sunday by the state-run Mehr news agency. “We are currently in extraordinarily complex political, cultural, economic, security and social circumstances. This is true with regards to regional, global and domestic spheres.”
“The future is uncertain and we cannot [proactively] manage what the future has in store for us.”
Rahim Safavi was the commander-in-chief of the Iranian regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) until September 2007. He was succeeded by Mohammad Ali Jafari. He is now described as the senior advisor to the mullahs’ Supreme Leader in military affairs.
Safavi also compared the regime’s current international isolation with the pre-Iran-Iraq war era and said, “The same coalition has taken shape now, too. They want to create trouble for us with economic sanctions, political pressures and domestic tensions in Iran.”
“We must prepare ourselves for every scenario and not allow sanctions to cause problems for us in the future,” he said.
He also made reference to the US troops withdrawal from Iraq, and said, “The Americans are currently in the process of withdrawing. It seems that 30-50 thousand forces and five bases will remain in Iraq. This will be like the South Korea model; they will remain in Iraq for years to come to be able to dominate it.”
Multi-billion dollar fraud conspiracy by Iranian regime’s Oil Ministry31 August 2010
The state-run website Jahan News revealed a multi-billion dollar fraud conspiracy by the Iranian regime’s Oil Ministry and wrote two companies that had an initial capital of just $100 are partnered in the giant $21 billion South Pars gas field contract.
“The Iranian Petro Paydar Company – Stock Limited that is involved in the $5 billion Phase 13 development stage consortia, was founded exactly on the date of this contract, 15 June 2010, with an initial capital of $100,” Jahan News wrote mentioning the contract. “This company was registered under license number 377800 and national certificate number 10320271640 in the Office of Company Registration.”
According to this report, the second company that signed to take part in this enormous investing contract is named The Petro Sina Aria Oil & Gas Company – Stock Limited that is involved in the $5 billion Phases 22-24 development consortia. This company was founded on 14 June 2010, one day before the signing of the contract, with an initial capital of just $100, registered under license number 377660 and national certificate number 10320271046 in the Office of Company Registration.
This state-run media added, “The main question facing the respected directors of the Oil Ministry and the Presidency is that how, why and with what legal basis is this multi-billion dollar contract – signed in their presence –with two $100 dollar companies with exact same directors and stockowners, on the date of their foundation? And how are they joined in profits made from 3 billion dollar euro debentures and 3 trillion Rial debentures?”
It should be noted that the so-called signing of this contract took place with the presence of Ahmadinejad on 15 June with deceiving propaganda.
Workers protest 16-month unpaid wages30 August 2010
Herana News Agency reported workers of the Long Distance Communications plant in Shiraz protested outside the factory, chanting “Life, Livelihood, are our basic rights” and “Workers’ wages must be paid.”
Wages of some workers hasn’t been paid for over 16 months, state-run ISNA News Agency reported. These workers are in very poor financial conditions and have no hope for insurance or retirement funds. They are not even able to pay their insurance bills.
Suppression
Silent executions continue in Vakil Abad Prison in Mashhad
Aug. 30, 2010
They bring those who are to be executed in groups of 70 to the visiting hall of Vakil Abad Prison in Mashhad and an hour before sunset; they are hanged in a mass execution with nooses sent from Tehran. Those who are to be executed do not know until moments before their execution why they have been summoned to the Prison Office and only when all the prison phones go dead an hour before sunset do other prisoners realize that it is time for the executions.
This is the horrific state of Vakil Abad Prison in Mashhad in the past few months. A human rights activist in Mashhad described what he had heard from soldiers in prison saying that in the past weeks at least 60 to 70 people were taken to the gallows every week without their own knowledge or that of their families; prisoners that did not have lawyers and did not receive fair trials.
It seems that the heads of Mashhad’s Revolutionary Court had the order, according to a directive issued by Mohsen Ejeyi, to send all drug related death row prisoners to the gallows in a speedy and ceaseless manner.
The deaths sentences are mostly issued by the four judges of Mashhad’s Revolutionary Court – Kavousi, Kaboli, Soltani and Yasayi and have been promptly carried out. The haste in carrying out the executions is to the extent that prisoners realize their fate moments before their execution. According to a prison guard, only a few moments after a prisoner met with his wife, the prison guard took him to the hall where sentences are carried out while the prisoner and his wife did not know anything about his execution.
The numbers of hangings in Vakil Abad Prison have reached 500 according to reports from cellmates and the few families who are willing to talk. The lack of communications, fear among the families and even prisoner employees has made the task of getting reports on the fate of prisoners very hard. But according to reports in the past 5 months, a number of prisoners have been executed every week in an alternate fashion and the families only realized that the number of executions are very high after collecting the corpses of their loved ones (from prison). Prison officials intimidate these families who are mostly from poor classes and prevent them from spreading the news. They also had to pay 7 thousand tomans for the noose (their loved ones were hanged with). Most of the prisoners did not have lawyers and because lawyers charge 'between 10 to 15' million tomans to appeal the death sentence, most families cannot afford lawyers.
The hangings of Vakil Abad was not limited to only Iranians and in a number of instances Afghan nationals and in one instance a Nigerian was also executed. They have all been charged with narcotics trafficking but according to the human rights activist in Mashhad, the death sentence was given to light crimes which prisoners usually receive prison terms for. There are reports that the Mashhad public prosecutor's office has said that Mohsen Ejeyi, the Prosecutor General of Iran, intends to commemorate Khalkhali by executing narcotics traffickers.
In the beginning of the 80’s, Ayatollah Sadeq Khalkhali sent many drug addicts and small time narcotics traffickers to the gallows in a speedy plan to eliminate narcotics in Iran. It is said that Khalkhali believed that if a death sentence was wrongly given to a prisoner, that prisoner would go to heaven after his execution.
Political prisoner in coma after 48 days of hunger strike; denied medical attention
Aug. 30, 2010
According to reports, political prisoner Arjang Davoudi went into a coma last night on his 48th day of hunger strike. The life of this political prisoner is in danger.
On Sunday night, august 29, at about 12 am, Davoudi was taken to the infirmary on a stretcher while he was close to a coma. Before being treated, the medical staff put a paper in front of him and asked him to sign it so that he would take full responsibility for anything that might happen to him. But this political prisoner refused to sign the paper. The medics then gave him an unidentified injection and after 45 minutes, left him in the hallway of cellblock 3 even as he was in very critical condition. They refused to keep him in the infirmary.
He has been on a stretcher from last night until now in the hallway. His health has deteriorated and he is unable to open his eyes or talk. The life of this political prisoner is in danger.
Aids and other illnesses spreading in Iranian prisons
30 August 2010
The chairman of the Iranian regime’s Prisons Organization admitted to a growing number of tuberculosis and Aids infections among Iranian prisoners as well as drug smuggling in the regime’s prisons.
The state-run media reported on Sunday that Gholam-Hossein Esmaili said 1.7 percent of the prisoners have been infected with the Aids virus and 265 inmates are suffering from tuberculosis.
He added, “Even after all the controls have been put in place, the Prisons Organization can never completely stop the smuggling of drugs into the prisons.”
It is worth mentioning that the main culprits of smuggling drugs into prisons are the regime’s own wardens and interrogators. On Thursday, a clerical regime official, Zaeri, said, “In our system, even healthy people who, for example, are imprisoned on charges of fraud become addicted to drugs while spending time in prison.”
Mother of slain prisoner dies after torching herself in protest
Aug. 30, 2010
The mother of a prisoner who set herself on fire in protest to the murder of her son in prison died in Orumieh hospital.
According to reports, the mother of Bahman Massoudi, an ordinary prisoner in the Central Orumieh Prison, self immolated on August 23 after hearing that her son was killed in prison.
This Azeri mother died after being taken to the hospital despite efforts by the doctors to keep her alive.
Bahman Massoudi was murdered by a prison agent named Khanzadeh after being hit with a baton in the head while in solitary.
01 September 2010
A physicist from the country of Azerbaijan specializing in laser technology, who spent a year and a half in Iranian prisons and was recently released and extradited to his native country, has revealed his experience at the Iranian regime’s prisons as well as the regime’s tactics to hold him captive.
In an interview on Tuesday, Dr. Rashid Aliev said he was surprised by “arbitrary trials and violations of prisoners’ rights in Iran.” He added that he was most inspired by the high morale, persistence and world outlook of political prisoners at Ward 209 of Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison.
“I am always worried about their future,” Dr. Aliev said in reference to the political prisoners. “Although they were sentenced to death, they had unbelievably high morale and continued to engage in political conversations. It was as if their determination to bring change to their society could not be erased from their minds.”
“One example was Farhad Vakili. Several days before he was hanged, we had an interesting political discussion. I later heard from his friend that at the time of his execution, this political prisoner gladly placed the noose around his own neck.”
Mr. Aliev said he worked at Baku University and the Sciences Academy as a physicist specializing in laser technology until 2006 when he was headhunted by an Sazan Electronics company in Iran.
“When I was first came across the Iranian legal system, I was shocked. After a year and four months in prison they issued a sentence in absentia without allowing the defendant to have an attorney. They also distorted and fabricated evidence. The interrogator told me to draw the equipment that I was working on. I told him the equipments are available in the laboratory. But he insisted that I have to draw them on paper and I did it.”
“Later, they had offered those drawings as evidence in court, pretending that I had stolen them with the intention of smuggling them out of the country. On top of the page they had written, ‘I confess that I wanted to smuggle these documents out of the country.’ On the bottom of the page there was my signature where they had told me previously to sign after drawing the schematics.”
Aliev added, “I was shocked by this fabrication and deception. I told them I built the laboratory myself with technology from 30 years ago, which I imported into Iran myself. Why would I possibly want to steal this?”
Recounting his prison experience, he said, “I was going crazy due to stress. I spent 50 days in solitary confinement and was on a hunger strike for five days. I wished for death every single day. I experienced my own grave in solitary confinement.”
“For a 57 year old like me, one year was equivalent to 20 years. There was both physical and psychological torture in wards 209 and 350 [in Evin], especially the latter. Prisoners did not receive any food or fruits and humidity pierced through your bones. Doctors did not carry out any serious treatments. Prisoners’ letters never made it to their destinations.”
“I want to tell Iranian [regime officials] that no force would be able to block the path of evolution. Force is not the answer and will not produce any results,” he added.
Former head of Dezfoul’s Jondi Shapour University arrested
30 August 2010
Reports from inside the country indicate Amir Hossein Shirouy, former head of Jondi Shapour University and member of the university’s science board was arrested in the early hours of Sunday, 22 August. He was arrested in his home in Dezfoul, SW Iran.
Dezfoul intelligence agents also confiscated this university professor’s laptop and other belongings.
Political prisoner dies from cancer; denied on-time treatment
Aug. 30, 2010
Kaveh Kordi Moqadam, a Kurd political prisoners from Ashnavieh who was serving his time in Orumieh Prison passed away yesterday on August 29 in Orumieh Hospital.
According to reports, this political prisoner who suffered from stomach and lung cancer was granted a medical leave one month ago to receive treatment, but passed away because of the delay in treatment.
Doctors had warned about his critical condition from a long time ago and had told officials that he had to be under the care of a hospital and treated by specialists but prison officials refused to grant him a medical leave until a month ago.
Kaveh Kordi Moqadam was arrested in 2008 on charges of ‘acting against national security’ and was sentenced to 3 years of prison by the first branch of the Orumieh Revolutionary Court.
Another innocent border tradesman fatally shot by security forces; more than 900 tradesmen murdered by security forces last year
Aug. 31, 2010
Security forces in the Hassan Salaran Base in Saqez shot and killed 20 year old Mohammad Khoda Rahmi and severely injured Anvar Khoda Rahmi after they opened fire on their automobile. Anvar Khoda Rahmi was taken to this town’s general hospital.
According to reports from the Saqez Information Center, security forces claimed that they opened fire on these two citizens because they were carrying smuggled goods in their automobile. This is while villagers from several villages have announced that they are willing to testify in court that these two men were not smugglers and were going to Saqez from their village for automobile maintenance.
Last year, more than 900 border tradesmen and carriers were shot and killed by security forces.
Iran tortures two Azeri activists in Tabriz
Aug. 1, 2010
Eunice Soleimani, the former editor of Ildrim student publication in the Bu-Ali Sina University in Hamedan and Ayat Mehr Ali Biglu were tortured in the Tabriz Intelligence Detention Center.
Yusef Soleimani, the brother of this student activist said, “In the visit I had with my brother on August 25 in Tabriz Prison I realized that he was given electric shocks and injected with mind altering drugs”.
According to Eunice’s brother, he suffered heart problems as a result of the torture and was hospitalized in the Sepah Hospital in Tabriz for three days.
A number of Azeri activists in the Tabriz Intelligence Detention Center told their families in visits that Ayat Mehr Ali Biglu was also tortured and that they could hear him crying out while being tortured by agents.
Biglu has not had any contact with his family in the past month and his family have requested from the fourth branch of the Tabriz Revolutionary and Public Court to visit him and see his face but Judge Hashem Zadeh who is seeing to his case has announced that due to the security nature of the case, he cannot allow his family to see him.
Eunice Soleiman was arrested on June 17, 2009 in Ardabil and Ayat Mehr Ali Biglu was arrested on May 10, 2010 in the town of Sufian. Judicial sources have not announced their charges.
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August 31, 2010
UPDATE ON IRAN - Aug. 31, 2010
The Beginning of the End of the Clerical Rule in Iran
No.695
Downfall
Sanction - Economy
Aug. 30, 2010
Tehran- Manager of an insurance company, who has been included by the sanctions of UN and other countries said: Sanctions are being implemented for many years to the country, but when Iran’s insurance was included, it got worse than before. Before Iran insurance used to be Aksa insurance which issued travel insurances but now Aksa in not recognized and we cannot issue any thing.
In the trade also because of Banks sanctions, credits and trading LC cannot be done and this is effected in importing and exporting goods and actually the path to import goods for some factories have been blocked and this have increased to fall down in production and increased unemployment
If we put away the nuclear matters they will bring forward the human right and then democracy in Iran
Aug. 30, 2010
Foreign ministry spokesman of religious dictator regime in facing with international society, said: if we put away the nuclear problem, they will put forward human rights and then democracy.
Ramin Mehmanparast claims which were published by state run news agent Mehr, attacked the recent world protest against mullah’s dictatorship and said like Ahmadinejad: if we obey all their measures, then again they find some thing else to say. It means that they will go against all our rights. He added that the west is not ready for discussion with Ahmadinejad.
Gerami a cleric in the regime confirmed the execution and torture in Kahrizak torture chamber
Aug. 30, 2010
Gerami a cleric in the regime confirmed the execution and torture in Kahrizak torture chamber and said: Rumors which were published about Kahrizak prison was made by poets and were distributed by mobile to all places. Today’s publicity is not only by the national TV but to goes every where by mobiles.
He mentioned shortly to 30 years of tragedies implemented by this regime and said: People’s problem is not only one or two, they give statistics but they are not the case. People keep saying about the unemployment and confusion among their problems. They are afraid of buying things because they say they might get cheaper. They are afraid by selling goods because they say they might get more expensive. Even some people who are our followers phone and say, pray for us.
Regime official: The Iranian people's distaste for regime's exploitation of religion on the rise
28 August 2010
An Iranian regime official suggested on Wednesday that people in Iran reject the regime and its exploitation of Islam, according to the state-run news agency Mehr.
The director of the Iranian regime’s so-called Islamic Propagation Organization in the province of Qazvin, Ali Akbar Azizkhani, said, “In the holy month of Ramadan this year, more than 500 clerics were sent to various parts of the province, offices and factories. … But, the presence of people in mosques has been reduced and there is a fear that the mosques’ doors will gradually have to be closed.”
In a recent letter to the mullahs’ Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, Mohammad Nourizad, who is close to Khamenei, also wrote, “We have to beg people to avoid counting as Islamic our misdeeds which have created a frightening image of religion. People are harmed by our religious behavior and have a right to turn away from religion. … We lied to people, insulted them, violated their rights and perpetrated injustices all in the name of prayer, fasting and the Prophet.”
Forced enrolment in anti-people Basij
30 August 2010
Kermanshah – SarpolZahab- Qasrshirin- according to the reports from Kermanshah, during last week in cities of SarpolZahab- Qasrshirin people had been forced to enroll in Basij.
Basij by going to poor living areas declares that if they enroll in basij they will receive monthly payment and grocery. People in respond had said that they will not sell their honor against money.
Expulsion of work has doubled comparing to last year29 August 2010
According to the confession of one of regime’s authorities, the number of those who have been expelled from work during the 4 months of the current year is doubled comparing to last year. All the basis and economical structures in this ruling regime has gone toward complete ruin. This clerical regime has even robbed the people of Iran’s minimum nourishment.
According to the report of state run website called Mehr, the rate of unemployment has risen to 14.6 percent and number of unemployed is more than 3.5 million and there is no sign and estimate of finding jobs.
Ali Dehghan kia member of Islamic councils of Tehran province, said in an interview with Mehr that the rate of 14.6% unemployment and the growing number of unemployed will be added to those who have been expelled from their occupation which the statistics shows that the number has been doubled. The number of unemployed has risen to 5 million.
He also added that the price of raw materials of factories and any change in the condition of production in the factories will do harm to those who are in there. This is a very important problem which has to be taken seriously by the authorities.
40% more layoffs, 90% bankruptcy among privatized factories, regime official says
29 August 2010
An official in the Iranian regime said on Saturday that there has been a 40 percent jump in the number of layoffs in Iran while 90 percent of privatized companies have gone bankrupt.
According to the state-run Mowj news agency, Ali Dehqan Kia, the director of Tehran province’s Labour Council Association, also said, “About 6 billion dollars worth of goods is smuggled into the country. For every one billion dollars of smuggled goods, 25,000 workers in Iran would be laid off.”
Resistance
Qods Day
30 August 2010
Tehran-In 'Qods Day' youths of Tehran zone 1 wrote on paper money and invited people to take part.
One of the residents said: since the Qods day is near we have to make our voice to reach to every one and invite them.
He added by writing the names of our friends who are in prison we have to keep their memory alive and invite the people to stand with us and this is the least we can do.
Punishment of a Basij Guard in Tehran
29 August 2010
On Thursday 26th of August, in Jalali Street in ValiAsr district a Basij agent when he was investigating a motor cyclist by asking for documents, the agent sat at the back of motor and ordered the driver to drive to a Basij base. At this time suddenly motor cyclist strikes to the chest of the agent and throws him away and runs away.
Gathering of Redemption Teachers in front of Mullah’s Parliament
29 August 2010
Since this morning a number of teachers from Semnan, Rasht, eastern Azarbaijan provinces who the representatives of 120000 redemption teachers all over the country held a protest gathering in front of the parliament.
They said: Education department after doing all the procedures and interviews, tried to recruit the teachers but now they have been told that they cannot continue to work.
This anti human decision to expel these teachers will make their lives very hard.
Protest Gathering in front of governor’s building of Rashm village in Damghan
29 August 2010
A number of residents of Rashm village of Damghan gathered in front of the governor’s building. They claimed that last year they took a loan of 1 million dollars from different banks in order to grow agriculture and now due to drought, they are not able to repay back. Villagers said that by the rise in interest banks has taken the files to judiciary authority and there fore some debtors have been arrested or they have been threatened for detaining their assets. Some of the debtors have runaway.
Suppression
Man and woman sentenced to death by stoning
Aug. 29, 2010
According to reports, the Supreme Court upheld the death by stoning sentence of two prisoners in an adultery case who are currently in Orumieh Prison.
Vali Janfeshan and Sarieh Ebadi were sentenced to death by stoning before this in the Public Orumieh Court and this sentence was confirmed by the 12th branch of the Western Azarbaijan Court of Review.
Both suspects have been jailed in Orumieh Prison since 2008. This sentence was confirmed even as both suspects were denied the right to have their chosen lawyers and did not have the chance to defend themselves.
Prisoners of PMOI supporters
30 August 2010
Mohammad Banazadeh Amirkhizi (PMOI political prisoner) court was again delayed for several times during 8 months.
The court was supposed to be held on Sathurday by Salavati the so called Judge but for unknown reasons the court was not held.
Transfer of Ali Saremi to an unknown area
29 August 2010
According to reports while Ali Saremi’s families (Ali Saremi, PMOI political prisoner) were waiting outside to visit him in Gohardasht Prison, they have been told that Ali sarami have been taken by intelligence office and he was not present in the meeting. Ali sarami is sentenced to death because of having relation with Ashraf.
Wife of political prisoner and mother of Ashraf resident tried for visiting son in Ashraf
Aug. 29, 2010
According to reports, Mahin Saremi, wife of (death row) political prisoner Ali Saremi was summoned and tried by the 15th branch of the Revolutionary Court headed by Judge Salavati.
On August 24, Mahin Saremi, 56, was tried by Judge Salavati. This trial started at 10:30 am and ended in less than 15 minutes.
She was charged with visiting her son in Camp Ashraf in Iraq, propagating against the government, and filming and participating in a ceremony to commemorate executed political prisoners on the 19th anniversary of the massacre of political prisoners.
She was sentenced to five years of suspended prison before this for visiting her son in Camp Ashraf and going to the gravesite of Dr. Mohammad Mosadeq (late national Iranian leader) but Salavati once again repeated the same charges to issue a sentence for her for the second time.
Mahin Saremi was a political prisoner in the 80’s and was jailed from 1982 to 1983. She was also attacked by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence in 2005 while at the gravesite of Dr. Mossadeq and was arrested along with her husband Ali Saremi. She was kept in a solitary cell in cellblock 209 in Evin Prison for close to a month. She was also detained for another 2 months in solitary in 2007 for participating in the anniversary of the massacre of political prisoners.
Political prisoner threatened and pressured on 46th day of hunger strike
Aug. 29, 2010
According to reports, on Saturday August 28, political prisoner Arjang Davoudi was taken to the Intelligence Unit of Gohardasht prison in Karaj in a wheelchair on his 46th day of hunger strike while in critical condition and was interrogated and threatened for a prolonged amount of time by prison officials to end his hunger strike. In the end Davoudi stressed that he would not end his hunger strike until all his demands were met.
Davoudi’s physical condition has deteriorated and his life is in danger. He is suffering from severely low blood pressure, severe weight loss and weakness, impaired vision. He lays down most of the time and does his personal tasks with the help of others in prison.
The wife of this political prisoner has continuously tried to visit her husband in prison. Mrs. Davoudi called the head of Tehran’s Prison Organization, Sohrab Soleimani, asking to visit her husband but was told that this issue had to be coordinated with the head of Gohardasht Prison Ali Haj Kazem and that he will subsequently answer. When she called Soleimani again he said that “Ali Haj Kazem says that Mr. Davoudi pretends to be on hunger strike”.
“Ali Haj Kazem says that he has broken the law in going on hunger strike and you cannot visit him in prison”, he told her.
Women’s rights activist sentenced to four years of prisonAug. 29, 2010
Human rights activist Mahboubeh Karami was sentenced to four years of prison by the 26th branch of the Tehran Revolutionary Court presided over by Judge Pir Abbasi.
According to reports she was charged with ‘membership in the Human Rights Activists in Iran, propagating against the government, assembling and conspiring with the intention of committing crimes against the security of the country and publishing lies”.
Karami is a well-known women’s rights activist and the former head of the Women’s Committee of the Human Rights Activists in Iran who was arrested on March 2, 2010. She was detained in Cellblock 2A in Evin Prison for 80 days in her six month prison term and suffered from mental and physical problems.
Kurd political prisoner denied treatment in prison
Aug. 29, 2010
Prison authorities refuse to give medical attention to Hamzeh Sobhani, a young Kurd political prisoner in Dizel Abad Prison in Kermanshah despite his urgent need of treatment.
According to reports, this young political activist was arrested about 2 months ago along with a number of other Kurds by intelligence agents in this town on charges of cooperating with Kurd parties.
He was transferred to the Intelligence Detention Center in Kermanshah after some time to ‘confess’ and was under the most severe mental and physical torture by intelligence interrogators. Two of his nails were pulled out and several of his fingers broke under torture.
After one month, he was transferred to Dizel Abad Prison in Kermanshah on a temporary detention order.
Higher Education Minister threatens crack down on liberal universities
Aug. 29, 2010
“If there is a university in which people of religion and the Bassij culture are ridiculed, if there is a university in which the sound of the noon prayer call is not heard (from loudspeakers) under the excuse that classes would be disturbed, if there is a university in which clerics cannot enter, if this university exists, the people of Iran, students, and university employees will tear that university down”, the Minister of Science (Minister of Higher Education) said on Sunday in the opening ceremony of the Architectural Plans of the Science and Industry University in Tehran.
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40% more layoffs, 90% bankruptcy among privatized factories, regime official says
29 August 2010
An official in the Iranian regime said on Saturday that there has been a 40 percent jump in the number of layoffs in Iran while 90 percent of privatized companies have gone bankrupt.
According to the state-run Mowj news agency, Ali Dehqan Kia, the director of Tehran province’s Labour Council Association, also said, “About 6 billion dollars worth of goods is smuggled into the country. For every one billion dollars of smuggled goods, 25,000 workers in Iran would be laid off.”
Regime official: The Iranian people's distaste for regime's exploitation of religion on the rise
28 August 2010
An Iranian regime official suggested on Wednesday that people in Iran reject the regime and its exploitation of Islam, according to the state-run news agency Mehr.
The director of the Iranian regime’s so-called Islamic Propagation Organization in the province of Qazvin, Ali Akbar Azizkhani, said, “In the holy month of Ramadan this year, more than 500 clerics were sent to various parts of the province, offices and factories. … But, the presence of people in mosques has been reduced and there is a fear that the mosques’ doors will gradually have to be closed.”
In a recent letter to the mullahs’ Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, Mohammad Nourizad, who is close to Khamenei, also wrote, “We have to beg people to avoid counting as Islamic our misdeeds which have created a frightening image of religion. People are harmed by our religious behavior and have a right to turn away from religion. … We lied to people, insulted them, violated their rights and perpetrated injustices all in the name of prayer, fasting and the Prophet.”
Political prisoner threatened and pressured on 46th day of hunger strike
Aug. 28, 2010
According to reports, on Saturday August 28, political prisoner Arjang Davoudi was taken to the Intelligence Unit of Gohardasht prison in Karaj in a wheelchair on his 46th day of hunger strike while in critical condition and was interrogated and threatened for a prolonged amount of time by prison officials to end his hunger strike. In the end Davoudi stressed that he would not end his hunger strike until all his demands were met.
Davoudi’s physical condition has deteriorated and his life is in danger. He is suffering from severely low blood pressure, severe weight loss and weakness, impaired vision. He lays down most of the time and does his personal tasks with the help of others in prison.
The wife of this political prisoner has continuously tried to visit her husband in prison. Mrs. Davoudi called the head of Tehran’s Prison Organization, Sohrab Soleimani, asking to visit her husband but was told that this issue had to be coordinated with the head of Gohardasht Prison Ali Haj Kazem and that he will subsequently answer. When she called Soleimani again he said that “Ali Haj Kazem says that Mr. Davoudi pretends to be on hunger strike”.
“Ali Haj Kazem says that he has broken the law in going on hunger strike and you cannot visit him in prison”, he told her.
Women’s rights activist sentenced to four years of prison
Aug. 28, 2010
Human rights activist Mahboubeh Karami was sentenced to four years of prison by the 26th branch of the Tehran Revolutionary Court presided over by Judge Pir Abbasi.
According to reports she was charged with ‘membership in the Human Rights Activists in Iran, propagating against the government, assembling and conspiring with the intention of committing crimes against the security of the country and publishing lies”.
Karami is a well-known women’s rights activist and the former head of the Women’s Committee of the Human Rights Activists in Iran who was arrested on March 2, 2010. She was detained in Cellblock 2A in Evin Prison for 80 days in her six month prison term and suffered from mental and physical problems.
29 August 2010
An official in the Iranian regime said on Saturday that there has been a 40 percent jump in the number of layoffs in Iran while 90 percent of privatized companies have gone bankrupt.
According to the state-run Mowj news agency, Ali Dehqan Kia, the director of Tehran province’s Labour Council Association, also said, “About 6 billion dollars worth of goods is smuggled into the country. For every one billion dollars of smuggled goods, 25,000 workers in Iran would be laid off.”
Regime official: The Iranian people's distaste for regime's exploitation of religion on the rise
28 August 2010
An Iranian regime official suggested on Wednesday that people in Iran reject the regime and its exploitation of Islam, according to the state-run news agency Mehr.
The director of the Iranian regime’s so-called Islamic Propagation Organization in the province of Qazvin, Ali Akbar Azizkhani, said, “In the holy month of Ramadan this year, more than 500 clerics were sent to various parts of the province, offices and factories. … But, the presence of people in mosques has been reduced and there is a fear that the mosques’ doors will gradually have to be closed.”
In a recent letter to the mullahs’ Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, Mohammad Nourizad, who is close to Khamenei, also wrote, “We have to beg people to avoid counting as Islamic our misdeeds which have created a frightening image of religion. People are harmed by our religious behavior and have a right to turn away from religion. … We lied to people, insulted them, violated their rights and perpetrated injustices all in the name of prayer, fasting and the Prophet.”
Political prisoner threatened and pressured on 46th day of hunger strikeAug. 28, 2010
According to reports, on Saturday August 28, political prisoner Arjang Davoudi was taken to the Intelligence Unit of Gohardasht prison in Karaj in a wheelchair on his 46th day of hunger strike while in critical condition and was interrogated and threatened for a prolonged amount of time by prison officials to end his hunger strike. In the end Davoudi stressed that he would not end his hunger strike until all his demands were met.
Davoudi’s physical condition has deteriorated and his life is in danger. He is suffering from severely low blood pressure, severe weight loss and weakness, impaired vision. He lays down most of the time and does his personal tasks with the help of others in prison.
The wife of this political prisoner has continuously tried to visit her husband in prison. Mrs. Davoudi called the head of Tehran’s Prison Organization, Sohrab Soleimani, asking to visit her husband but was told that this issue had to be coordinated with the head of Gohardasht Prison Ali Haj Kazem and that he will subsequently answer. When she called Soleimani again he said that “Ali Haj Kazem says that Mr. Davoudi pretends to be on hunger strike”.
“Ali Haj Kazem says that he has broken the law in going on hunger strike and you cannot visit him in prison”, he told her.
Women’s rights activist sentenced to four years of prison
Aug. 28, 2010
Human rights activist Mahboubeh Karami was sentenced to four years of prison by the 26th branch of the Tehran Revolutionary Court presided over by Judge Pir Abbasi.
According to reports she was charged with ‘membership in the Human Rights Activists in Iran, propagating against the government, assembling and conspiring with the intention of committing crimes against the security of the country and publishing lies”.
Karami is a well-known women’s rights activist and the former head of the Women’s Committee of the Human Rights Activists in Iran who was arrested on March 2, 2010. She was detained in Cellblock 2A in Evin Prison for 80 days in her six month prison term and suffered from mental and physical problems.
August 29, 2010
UPDATE ON IRAN - Aug. 29, 2010
The Beginning of the End of the Clerical Rule in Iran
No.694
Downfall
Aug. 27, 2010
According to the report of a site belonging to the wing in regime which is not in power, Saied Haddadian who was one of the supporter of Khamenei’s gang and advocator of Ahamdinejad in the presidential election said: Ahmadinejad is headstrong and anti clergy, and these two are devil’s schema. Some say that his speech is affected by Mashaii, but I disagree and I believe that his words are his and he believes in them.
He added that he is not one of Hizbollahi’s. Not I nor Haj Mansour and others do not accept him. We and other Hizbollahs can not stand against Religious authority because of Ahmadinejad.
Schism has reached to the closest layers of Ahmadinejad’s gang.
Keyhan: Dastgheib’s house was completely smashed
Aug. 27, 2010
After the straight forward criticisms by Dastgheib against Khamenei and Heads of the religious rule in Iran, a number of attacks have taken place to his home and office. Keyhan said that Dastgheib’s house was completely smashed and his father’s death place was made as a rubbish bin.
As written by Keyhan, Shiraz governor made strong criticism.
Keyhan wrote: Hossein Qasemi said that authorities must explain on what sort of logical bases the house of this great martyr was ruined and why nobody says anything to stop these unpleasant acts.
Internal Schism in the ruling regime Iran
Aug. 28, 2010
Gathering of agents in front of Dastgheib mosque in Shiraz
By noon, some agents gathered in front of Dastgheib mosque and shouted slogans against him.
Gathered people who were about 20 to 30, were mostly teenagers and youths and in the gathering they shouted “Down with American Mullah”, “Down with rioter”, “Down with anti-clerical”, “Hypocrite shame on you go away from our city”.
At the same time that this illegal gathering took place after the Friday pray, anti-uprising police were in the seen and they blocked the avenue ending to the mosque.
Resistance
A large number of the families of massacred political prisoners in 1988, when they were going to Khavaran, the place were they are buried, to pay tribute for 22nd anniversary of their martyrdom for freedom, they were attached by Mullahs tugs and some of the youths were arrested.
According to the reports, repressive forces closed the entrance of Khavaran by cranes and sent some cars to the place and they forced any one to return. About 11 o’clock the repressive forces attacked some youths and arrested them brutally.
Despite all the repressive acts and a wide presence of them, a great number of families and the people of Tehran reached themselves to the graves of massacred political prisoners.
Protest Gathering of Physical Training Students of Isfahan; chanting “we did not give martyrs to assimilate and to praise the leadership”Aug. 27, 2010
Students of Physical Training University took a demonstration against the Basij grubs. They shouted, Victory is in the way, down with seducing government and “we did not gave martyrs to assimilate and to praise the leadership”.
Following the treats of grubs in preservation students took their protest outside the university to the Azadi Square.
Suppression
Boshehr’s Governor: Veil is not only for women, men must obey too
Aug. 27, 2010
Boshehr’s Governor said manikin wearing is not suitable for a government employee and the managers are responsible for this disobeys. According to the report by Fars Mohammad Hossein JahanBakhsh in Rajaii Ceremony in Boshehr province said: Veil is not only for women, but also men have to obey this law. He also added that this subject will be declared as a resolution signed by province council to all the administrative sections and if in the sudden investigations that we will do after Ramadan we see any signs, we will strike with offenders.
Iran arrests Kurd poet and writer
Aug. 26, 2010
Behzad Kurdistani, a renowned poet in Kurdistan was arrested yesterday by intelligence agents near his home in the town of Marivan.
There is no information on why he was arrested or his whereabouts.
This Kurd writer was summoned several times before this by the Marivan Intelligence Agency where he was interrogated.
Former political prisoner hospitalized with suspicious blood poisoning Aug. 28, 2010
According to reports, Hesam Tarmesi who was arrested in last year’s protests and was released some time ago is in critical condition in the hospital because of an unknown blood poisoning.
He was arrested by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence and sentenced to one year of prison. Tarmesi was released recently after serving his illegal sentence while suffering from nervous problems and constant nightmares.
A few weeks ago while going home from work at about 10:45 pm he was followed by two men on motorcycles. He was then attacked by the bikers in an alley close to his home without reason. One of his attackers lightly stabbed him with a knife from the back three times. After he was stabbed he came down with a high fever and small red spots appeared on his skin. His health eventually deteriorated and his family was forced to hospitalize him.
Doctors in the hospital realized that his spleen had become overgrown, his liver had been seriously damaged and his face, hands and feet swelled up.
After numerous blood tests, doctors realized that there is an unknown kind of poison in his blood.
It is likely that the poison in Tarmesi’s blood is from his time in detention which eventually deteriorated his health or that his assailants had poisoned the knife before stabbing him. Doctors have not been able to determine the kind of poison or how it entered the blood stream of this former political prisoner.
Jailed political activist kept with drug addicts in Evin PrisonAug. 28, 2010
Amir-Hossein Kazemi, a member of the Youth Branch of the Iran Freedom Movement, was transferred to Quarantine Section of Cellblock 1 in Evin Prison.
According to reports after six months of incarceration in cellblock 209 in Evin Prison, he was initially transferred to the Quarantine Section in cellblock 350 and subsequently to the Quarantine Section in cellblock 1. Cellblock 1 is where drug addicts and dangerous criminals are detained.
Kazemi whose 3 year prison term was recently confirmed expressed surprise in a telephone call severely objecting the current condition in prison.
Prison officials have also recently announced that an order that was issued one month ago granting him a leave from prison will not be carried out for unknown reasons.
Amir-Hossein Kazemi who was arrested on March 6, 2010 on charges of instigating public opinion and being on the streets on Ashura (December 27, 2009) was sentenced to 3 years of prison in a 10 minute trial. A court of review officially upheld this sentence without reviewing it last month.
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