The Beginning of the End of the Clerical Rule in Iran
No. 726
Downfall
Iran gets ready to counter social impact of sanctions
Nov. 14, 2010
Despite constant propaganda by Ahmadinejad who calls the Security Council’s resolutions ‘pieces of paper’, the intelligence and security apparatus of the Iranian regime is getting ready to counter the social impacts of the sanctions. According to the state-run Javan Online website, the head of the Ministry of Intelligence cited the sanctions and said that ‘economical issues’ were the main front of the enemies of the Iranian regime against this regime. He called economical sanctions ‘disruptive programs’ of the enemies.
The head of the Intelligence Ministry used terms popular among regime officials and admitted to the impacts of the sanctions on social protests and its spread and accused the ‘heads of the seditions’ of ‘taking advantage of economical issues’ in the country.
IRNA (Islamic Republic News Agency): Alavi cited the economical sanctions of the enemies against the Islamic Iran and said, “Today the main front of the enemies in fighting against Iran is the issue of economics to the point where they have carried out many disruptive programs in this sector”.
According to the head of the Intelligence Ministry, the heads of the seditions are trying to take advantage of economical issues in the country.
“Intelligence and security systems will deal severely with any kind of disruption or those who want to take advantage of this issue economically including in the implementation of the Smart Subsidy Plan”.
“Today we deal harshly with those who take advantage of ethnic, social and cultural issues against the system and the country is stable in terms of security and it is powerful”, he added.
Government cleric worried over popular demos in Iran
Nov. 14, 2010
Janati, the temporary head of Friday Prayers in Tehran said, “It has to be noted that the enemy and seditionists are not sitting idly and they are like fire under the ashes and we have to wake up and counter them with caution and foresight”.
The head of the Guardian Council admitted to the fact that Khamenei had lost his credibility and said, “A number of people tried to instigate doubts between the people… and said that the seminaries have distanced themselves from the Islamic government and have taken a stance… a number of people sat at home and made irrelevant remarks and created doubts in this manner and of course foreigners took advantage of this”.
Janati also tried to bring up excuses for Khamenei’s trip to Qom and said, “Foreigners thought that the revolution had lost its backing, meaning the seminaries, but the trip by the Supreme Leader to Qom and the great and unprecedented welcoming he received by the people, religious authorities, clerics and seminary students, ruined the plans of the enemy”.
Janat openly demanded the arrest of Rafsanjani’s son demonstrating the deep rifts in the government and said, “Dealing with those who have still not been arrested has to be taken seriously and if such people returned to the county, they have to be arrested immediately.
There have been those who were involved in various kinds of corruption and unfortunately intelligence agencies could not carry out measures against them in the past but now these kinds of people do not have any security and can be dealt with”.
Crack within the Regime
Top cleric speaks out against Rafsanjani’s son; growing internal rifts in government
Nov. 14, 2010
Simultaneous with the growing rifts in the factions of the Iranian regime, the Attorney General of Iran, Mohseni Ejeyi, threatened once again that Rafsanjani’s son would be arrested upon arrival in Iran.
“Upon the arrival of the suspect, he will be dealt with like other suspects and his case will be looked into by the judicial system”, He said in remarks which were carried by the IRNA state-run News Agency.
“His charges are not only related to post-election events. His charges are both related and unrelated to financial issues”, he added.
Grabbing at Metros
Nov. 14, 2010
On Monday, article 64 of fifth program was surveyed in the parliament.
This article is for giving management and controlling institutes rights to the government. One of the debating phrases of this article is institute. Some of them parliament members say that even though there is no article about metro, but government is trying to load this article, he wants to control and manage the metro. It means that he wants to take this out of Ghalibaf’s grab, the Tehran’s mayor, and Mohsen Hashemi, the Rafsanjani’s son.
Alias Naderan, the member of the parliament from Tehran said: please correct the name institute in this article so that the government doesn’t have the right to manage the institutes.
Mohsen Nariman another member said: article 64 is in contrast with the fifth program of constitutional law.
Jamshid Ansari also said: institution word which has been added in two places to this article has caused a misguide that the government wants to regain some of the institutes.
Before investigating this article, Ahmadinejad claimed: for building Tehran's metro, 5600000milion dollars had been expended and is one of most expensive metros in the world.
Economic Situation in Iran
Iran has a 44 billion dollar debt
Nov. 14, 2010
The Central Bank of Iran shed light on the fact that the sum of all the Iranian regime’s debt to foreign countries until the end of 1388 (the Persian year equivalent to March 2010) is more than 44.4 billion dollars.
State media said that the finalized debts of the Iranian regime until the end of last year has been put at 21 billion 426 million dollars. This report goes on to say that the regime’s debts have increased by 24 million dollars compared to the year before that.
From this amount, 8 billion 787 million dollars are short term debts while 12 billion 739 million are long term debts.
Head of Iran’s central bank says Iran’s messy currency market is one of a kind
Nov. 14, 2010
Seyed Hamid Pourmohammadi, the head of the Iran Central Bank said, “There is a messy market in the country which we have a respectable name for, “disorganized currency market” which does not exist anywhere else in the world.
According to the state run Peimaneh Website, Pourmohammadi cited the fact that there are various currency institutions in this market and said, “Currently there are about 1,800 discount shops (shops for poor classes) in the disorganized currency market and each one of them have between 600 to 1,200 branches. There are about 10,000 interest-free loan, 1,000 currency exchange centers and 1,000 leasing centers”.
According to Pourmohammadi, 27 thousand million tomans of the people’s wealth has been collected only in 9 of these institutions.
“There are close to 17,000 bank branches in the country which is equal to the active branches in the disorganized currency market”.
He said that most of these institutions negotiate in religious terms with the Central Bank.
“The names of many of the institutions who do not have licenses are religious names and they are connected to political and supervisory systems”.
“It is impossible to talk to them. There is no common grounds when dealing with them”, Pourmohammadi said.
“Currently, banks which have recently been established are looking for national names for themselves while institutions who work without licenses use religious names”.
“If we want to go towards a kind of discretionary supervision over the bank network, this cannot be done with the current conditions”.
He also said that institutions which do not have licenses are like time bombs scattered in the country and stressed that “currently the rules of the Central Bank is being imposed on banks and it is not imposed on those who do not have licenses”.
Pourmohammadi said that if the Central Bank wants to keep its reputations, these cancer tumors have to be uprooted and that the Central Bank is seriously taking measures to uproot them.
“Therefore if we plan to deal with them we have to clean house but we are vulnerable from the inside on the grounds of supervision and we have to strengthen the pillar of supervision in the Central Bank”.
The head of the Central Bank said that in the past when the Mohammad Rasoul Allah discount shops (shops for poor classes) faced a crisis, it had a negative effect and some of these effects continued for a long time afterwards.
News on Universities
Nov. 14, 2010
Trial of students is a military court
In the coming of 7th of December, the 'Student Day', regime has increased it pressures on students including the arrest of student activists or setting up inhuman provisions which includes investigation and trial of students in military court. Their justification for such an excuse is that because the culprits of university were from police forces, therefore the students' trials have to be in these courts.
Varamin – Pishvaye Varamin in Free University - Varamin- Agents of the Protection Department in the Pishvay Free University in Varamin harass students they deem ‘improperly veiled’ and prevent them from entering this university.
One of the students of this university said in this regard: security employers who most of them are illiterate and native, with a nasty act stopped boys and girls entering the university. This became a subject of a physical clash between the security guards and the students.
Tehran- Free University of east Tehran - one of the students of Free University of east Tehran after he had a call with one of his friends, took the mobile number of one of his friends and while he was speaking with him suddenly, a person who was sitting beside him shouted and said: only get the number, cut the line, is was obvious that he was under investigation.
Contacts in next day with the friends of this student didn’t give any results and his families who are not Tehran’s resident have no news from him. He was one of the east Tehran university activists and had said to his friends that he had calls from intelligence agents.
Pressure on Students in Semnan University
Semnan - Semnan University - According to one of the students of Semnan University, for putting pressure on students to prevent them from gathering. In this university seats have been taken away from university enclosure. Students have to sit on the ground. To stop student from sitting, university security have poured oil on the ground, monitoring cameras have been installed also.
Resistance
Lorestan villagers clash with security forces
Nov. 13, 2010
Villagers in the Gondabeh Shiravand in the province of Lorestan clashed with security forces in protest to the seizure of their land. These forces shot bullets in the air and used tear gas and violently attacked the protesters. In this attack which continued for four hours, at least two women were injured.
Suppression
Café nets in Hamedan, 17 of them are being managed by Basijees
Hamedan- from 30 café nets in Hamedan, 17 of them are being managed by Basijees, that unfortunately because of the low quality of internet services in other centers, so they are forced to use these controlled centers and if anybody uses these center permanently faces with serious problems because he becomes suspicious by guards.
Body search in Isfahan
Isfahan- on 12th of November in Khajo bridge, security forces and guards corps, were scattered all around in large numbers and they made a lot of disturbance for travelers, they even did body search which caused a lot of inconvenience for the people.
Iran arrests 3 female lawyers upon their arrival from Turkey
Nov. 13, 2010
Three lawyers were arrested in the morning in the Khomeini Airport in Tehran.
According to reports, Sara Sabaghian, Maryam Kian Ersi and Maryam Karbasi were arrested by security forces upon their arrival from Turkey in the Khomeini Airport at about 4am.
There are still no reports on where they are being kept or why these three lawyers were arrested.
Sara Sabaghian who is a member of the Support Committee for Women’s and Children’s Rights in the Lawyers’ Center, was arrested along with lawyer Mohammad-Ali Dadkhah and a number of other lawyers on July 8, 2010. Sabaghian is one of the lawyers of jailed blogger Hossein Ronaqi.
Maryam Kian Ersi is the lawyer of Kobra Najar, a woman who has been sentenced to death by stoning.
Iran sentences lawyer to six years of prison
Nov. 11, 2010
Mohammad Mostafayi, a lawyer and human rights activist who represented many death row minor offenders and Sakineh Mohammadi (sentenced to death by stoning for adultery) was sentenced to six years of prison by the 28th branch of the Revolutionary Court headed by Judge Moqiseh.
According to reports, this lawyer was sentenced in absentia after his case was sent to the 28th branch of the Revolutionary Court without his presence and without the time of the trial being announced to him. He was sentenced to five years of prison to be served in the town of Izeh on charges of acting against national security by giving interview to Farsi media stationed outside of Iran and talking about the case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani and one year of prison on charges of propagating against the government.
Transferring Borojerdi to an unknown place
Nov. 13, 2010
On Saturday 13th of November, Mr. Borojerdi, from the special section of religious men was transferred to an unknown place. It seems a new wave of pressures and disturbance against him has started. He had been under so much pressure and disturbance of guards due to his crucial positions against the ruling dictatorship, especially the misuse of supreme leader from the name of Islam. Akram Validost, Mr.Borojerdi’s wife, following the pressures by security guards, have had a hearth attacked ans was hospitalized in Rajaii hospital in Tehran.
Mr. Borojerdi due to his position against the supreme leader Khamenei, in separating religion from the government, had suffered a lot of expenses like the murder of his parents, arrests of his followers, confiscation of his house and assets, being under control and pressures on his family and children.
Iran lashes political prisoner in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj
Nov. 10, 2010
According to reports, on November 10 at about 10 am, political prisoner Behrouz Javid Tehrani was suddenly summoned to the sentence implementation unit of Gohardasht Prison after 8 years of prison under torture and was lashed by Hassan Akharian who is the head of the sentence implementation unit and is known for torture, murder, and the rape of prisoners. Tehrani was lashed 74 times…
While being flogged, Behrouz Javid Tehrani did not even cry out to give his torturer satisfaction and despite the severe pain and a bloody and bruised back, smiled at his torturer and treated him with contempt.
Iran expels Baha’i student from high school
Nov. 11, 2010
According to reports, a Baha’i student identified as Sahar Sabetian (f) who was studying at the al-Zahra High School in Sari was expelled from this university on Saturday October 31 and was denied the right to education. She was expelled for answering the insults of her religious teacher regarding her religious beliefs.
Prejudice against Kurd students in Beheshti University
Nov. 11, 2010
In an unprecedented measure, the head of the Beheshti (Meli) University in Tehran have carried out ethnic prejudices against Kurd students in this university.
Kurd students were given less dormitory rooms than last year. According to this report, the heads of the dormitory do not allow Kurds to room together. Kurds students are not allowed to live in one block, one floor, or room in a building.
They also face limitations in leaving and entering the dorms.
Sunnis under increased pressure in Kurdish areas
Nov. 11, 2010
According to reports, last Friday, when Sunnis in the town of Kamyaran intended to hold their Friday Prayers in the Jame Mosque in this town, security forces surrounded the mosque. These forces body searched all the participants, even the women, which led to protests from the Sunni prayers.
Prisoner goes blind due to lack of on time treatment
Nov. 13, 2010
According to reports, a prisoner was blinded in his right eye after an attack by a gang which works under the command of the head of Gohardasht Prison, Ali Haj Kazem.
Prisoner Zare Javadzadeh, 29, is detained in Hall 3, Cellblock 1 in Gohardasht Prison. Some time ago, a prison gang which has been organized under orders of the head of this prison to suppress dissident prisoners and sell narcotics attacked this prisoner with knives and clubs. He was stabbed in the eye and sustained a serious injury.
He was told in the prison infirmary that he had to pay a large sum of money to have an eye surgery and that the prison would not pay for his surgery. He was told that they could only take his eye out; otherwise, the prisoner would have to pay for the expenses of surgery. Javadzadeh accepted to pay the expenses for fear of going blind but said that he needed about two weeks to come up with the money. The heads of the infirmary said that they would postpone the surgery for two weeks and would wait for his payment.
After two weeks, he was able to come up with the money for surgery but a specialist doctor told him that because he waited too long for the treatment, his eye is untreatable and that he would be blinded and he did lose his eyesight in his right eye.
Zare Javadzadeh was arrested in 2007 and was detained for a long period of time in the Shahpour Detention Center, Intelligence Agency detention center and the notorious Kahrizak ‘death’ camp. He was under severe inhumane torture for 48 days in the Kahrizak Camp. Javadzadeh was tortured along with other prisoners by Ahmad-Reza Radan and Yahaqi, two State Security Forces commanders, for two weeks in this death camp.
Other News
Classes without teachers more than a month after new academic year
Nov. 14, 2010
Ali Abbaspour Tehran Far, the head of the Educational Commission in the parliament said, “More than a month and a half after the start of the new academic year, some classes still do not have a teacher. In some junior high schools in Tehran, they do not have any teachers or teachers have not showed up on their classes for weeks”.
This is while the Education Minister claimed in the beginning of the academic year that no classes would be without a teacher this year. Last year, because the early retirement plan was carried out, some classes did not have teachers.
“Some schools have mixed classes because of a teacher shortage and all these problems exist in the country’s schools. Using rhetoric does not benefit the Education Ministry. The Education Ministry is a sick ministry and bringing up issues to cover up this matter does not help the Ministry of Education and infrastructure issues have to be solved first”.
Students Committee in Iran (Supporters of PMOI)
No news on condition of political prisoner after he was thrown in solitary
Still no news on student activist after 60 days
Jailed female journalist banned from visits
