UPDATE ON IRAN - Nov. 27, 2010

Security forces shoot and kill two border tradesmen, injure two others
Nov. 24, 2010
On the night of November 22, security forces in the Kileh Shin border region opened fire on a group of border tradesmen killing two tradesmen and injuring two others.    
Loqman Tehpour, 20, from the Sofian Village in Ashnavieh and Nader Shahbazi from Miraveh Village in Ashnavieh were killed while Mosa Tehpour, 25, Loqman Tehpour’s brother was severely wounded.
According to this report, the identity of the fourth victim has still not been identified. It is notable that Mosa Tehpour has been injured in both legs and the bodies of the slain tradesmen have still not been handed to their families for burial. (Kurdistan Media) 

Iran bans Kurdish language in Saqez schools
Nov. 25, 2010
Mozafar Rostami, the head of the Saqez Education Department, announced in a circular which was sent to all schools in this town that talking in Kurdish is forbidden in all Saqez schools and students and teachers are not allowed to talk in this tongue.


Another student activist expelled from university
Nov. 24, 2010
Siamak Amin, who is a member of the Students for Freedom and Equality and is an economics major at the Orumieh University, was expelled from this university after being summoned to the Disciplinary Committee. The Special Issues Commission expelled him from university.
This student activist was summoned to the Disciplinary Committee on October 27 and was charged with ‘distributing the statements of the Students for Freedom and Equality, publishing university news in his website the Freedom and Equality Newsletter and causing sedition on Student’s Day 2008” and he was asked to work on his defense. On November 15, his university expulsion sentence was issued without any other explanations.

Political activist sentenced to 18 months of prison
Nov. 25, 2010
Mehdi Yar Mohammadi, a Moussavi activist in the town of Mahalat, was sentenced to one year and six months of prison by the court of review. Yar Mohammadi was charged with ‘acting against national security by propagating against the government, graffiti writing, and sending SMS’.
His first political case against him was opened in December 2009 when he was arrested in December 31. In his court session, the judge told him that in his opinion he did not even deserve to be prison for one hour and that his sentence was given to him on the request of others. This judge sentenced him to one year and six months of prison on March 6, 2010. After he appealed the sentence, while he was in the custody of the Intelligence Agency and was under interrogation, the court of review in the province of Markazi sentenced him to one year of prison on charges of spreading propaganda against the government and insulting the leader. This sentence was also announced to his family.
When news of his sentence was published in websites and foreign media, another case was opened for this political activist in April and Mehdi Yar Mohammadi was persecuted once again which led to his arrest along with his wife on April 9 in the city of Von in Turkey by unidentified security forces. He was brought back to Iran without the knowledge of Turkish police while being threatened at gun point and was transferred to the Intelligence Agency in Orumieh and then to Arak. His case was referred to the Tehran Court in July and he was transferred to cellblock 209 in Evin Prison.
His father was in a very bad mental condition when his son was detained and persecuted and the Mahalat Intelligence Agency had accused him of making money illegitimately for his children. He eventually suffered a brain stroke and passed away (because of the pressure).
This political activist is currently awaiting his sentence for his second case in which he was charged with cooperating with foreign media, propagating against the government and cooperating with foreign groups.

Iran arrests families of Ashraf residents on charges of having relatives in Ashraf
Nov. 25, 2010
On Monday, November 15, at about 11 am, agents of the Ministry of Intelligence raided the store of Hamid Miboudi, 37, and arrested him in his store. These security forces introduced themselves tax department agents and told the crowds that had gathered on the scene that Miboudi was being arrested because he had not paid his taxes. These agents then took Miboudi to his home to conduct a search. They searched his home so violently that his 3 year old child developed a stutter from shock. His wife, who was also home, is 9 month pregnant and will give birth in a few more days.
When Miboudi’s wife told the agents that she was in her last days of pregnancy and demanded to know why they were arresting her husband, these agents said that ‘several pregnant women were dying in Iraq every day and you are no different from them’.
These agents then seized some of this family’s personal items such as family videos, computer, and laptop, identification documents including their passports, phone books and their satellite receiver.
On the same day at about 5 pm, agents raided the home of Allah Verdi Rouhi, 62, who is Miboudi’s father in law and arrested him. These agents then violently conducted a search. This family’s phonebook, computer, cellphone, identification documents, framed pictures of his children and his satellite receiver were seized by these agents. They then destroyed and broke his satellite dish.
Rouhi is suffering from critical physical ailments such as prostate and heart problems and was receiving treatment. He also nursed his sick wife who is confined to bed.
The families of these two men have not been informed of the charges of their loved ones. They were reportedly only arrested because Mr. Rouhi’s children are in Camp Ashraf in Iraq.
There has been no information on their whereabouts and condition since their arrest.
The Rouhi family has gone to the Karaj Prosecutor, Revolutionary Court and Intelligence Agency several times but they have not been given any specific answers regarding their loved ones. This family is extremely concerned for the condition of its loved ones.
Four intelligence agents were involved in these raids.

Female political prisoner taken to infirmary after hunger strike
Nov. 25, 2010
Jailed journalist Hengameh Shahidi was hospitalized in the Evin Prison infirmary after going on a hunger strike.
A source close to this political prisoner said she was hospitalized in the infirmary because of her poor physical health. Shahidi went on a medical leave from prison on October 28 to receive medical attention. She was returned to Evin Prison on November 15, because officials refused to extend her medical leave and went on a hunger strike on arrival in prison in protest to the fact that she was not informed why she was returned to prison and her leave was not extended.

Iran hangs man in Kashan Prison
Nov. 25, 2010
A 24 year old prisoner was hanged in Kashan Prison.
This 24 year old man was Mahmoud M. and was hanged in the yard of the Kashan Central Prison.

No news on jailed mourning mothers 
Nov. 25, 2010
According to reports, Akram Neqabi (Mother Zinali) and Jila Mahdavian (Mother Tarmasi) are jailed in cellblock 209 in Evin Prison and there is no news on the state of their legal cases and their charges. Their families have not been allowed to visit them in prison as yet. They were both arrested with their daughters on October 9. Their daughters were released after some time. They have been charged with acting against national security and having contacts with dissident groups. They are only allowed to call their families once every week and inform them of their health so that their families do not worry. But they are not allowed to talk about their charges. Relevant judicial officials have not allowed these mothers to see their families in prison.


Students Committee in Iran (Supporters of PMOI )

UPDATE ON IRAN - Nov. 25, 2010

The Beginning of the End of the Clerical Rule in Iran

No. 731

Effect of Sanction in Iran

Nov. 23, 2010

Long lines in gas stations
The state run Mardom Salari daily said that gas stations were getting ready to announce new rates.
“The long lines in front of gas stations in the last day of Aban (Persian month equal to November 21) was a sight worth seeing. At least 60 cars were waiting for fuel outside of gas stations on Sunday night… Experts reason that the government stresses on the sudden announcement of prices to prevent swarming of cars for fuel outside of gas stations and to prevent a repeat of the bitter experience of 2007 when gas stations were burned to the ground after it was announced that fuel would be rationed”.

Regime fears attack against gas stations
The Iranian regime has put gas stations on night alert mode in fear that people will attack gas stations after a fuel price raise. The head of the Gas Station Association in Iran has said that gas station managers have been told to be present at night in their place of work because one of these nights, the fuel price raise will be announced.

Iranian officials fear popular protests after subsidy cuts
Iranian officials held a joint session in fear of popular protests after the subsidy cuts. The Iranian state-run TV said, “In this session, the traffic police announced its readiness to monitor the correct implementation of the Smart Subsidy Plan in the areas of traffic and order”.


Crack within the regime


Nov. 23, 2010

Plan to boost Ahmadinejad’s power leads to rifts among regime factions 
Based on an order by Khamenei, a group made up of the Guardian Council, the government and the parliament have presented a plan to increase the powers of Ahmadinejad as compared to the parliament.
This committee has recently ratified a 14 point plan which would enable Ahmadinejad to give notices to other bodies including the Guardian Council, Expediency Council and Parliament and to question them.
Some of these points were announced on Saturday by the spokesman of the Guardian Council, Kadkhodayi. But Larijani and a number of other MPs said that the Guardian Council Spokesman was announcing issues not ratified by the majority of the parliament.
A MP shed light on the fact that Ahmadinejad wants the power of lawmakers and is not willing to send bills ratified in his cabinet to the parliament and has changed the name of these bills to resolutions. Efforts by Ahamdinejad to increase his powers are a part of Khamenei’s policy to eliminate bothersome institutions in the current critical conditions of the government.
Reports from state run media say this Guardian Council committee wants to solve the differences between the government and the parliament because Ahmadinejad’s cabinet is not willing to implement some of the bills ratified by the parliament.
The head of the parliament, Larijani complained in a letter yesterday to the Guardian Council that even while Khomeini said that the parliament is on top of managing all issues, the executive power has recently brought up arguments regarding the competence of the parliament and has asked for authority of it and has said that the monitoring and supervision capabilities of the parliament interferes in executive issues.
Notably, the main issue the parliament and Ahmadinejad’s cabinet are fighting over is supervision over financial issues. On orders from Khamenei, Ahmadinejad wants to use a large part of the budget and enormous income from cutting subsidies without the disturbances of other factions in the government. Larijani also disclosed that the government had illegal imported about 10 million dollars worth of oil products to the country in the past three years and has arbitrarily swapped 76 million barrels of oil.
The head of the parliament also said that the government has thought otherwise of impeaching Ahmadinejad in light of the fact that according to him ‘the enemies are ready to target the system”.

Deepening rifts in government 
One of the heads of the pro-Ahmadinejad fraction of the Iranian regime stressed in parliament that the fundamental faction (Khamenei’s faction) has been divided into various branches and segments.
Abtahi, the head of the fraction called the Islamic Revolution, said in an interview with a state-run media that infiltration groups are the source of these differences and tumbling down of Khamenei’s factions. He asked that infiltration groups be cleaned of infiltrators and disclosed that a committee in the parliament has been tasked with this clean up.
Another pro-Ahmadinejad MP, Ismail Kosari said, “Today a number disagree with Ahmadinejad in any way they can and express disagreement over anything and try to tie up his hands in any way possible”.

Khamenei controlled newspaper attacks Rafsanjani
The Khamenei controlled Kayhan state-run daily wrote on behalf of its readers against Rafsanjani.
“For the Iranian people who thirst for justice it will be very beautiful when they witness the trial of Mehdi Hashemi (Rafsanjani’s son) and that the divine sentence is carried out against this person who was the main igniter of the seditions after the elections”.

RGC official attacks Rafsanjani and minor regime faction
Mojtaba Zolnour, an official in the Revolutionary Guards Force said, “Sanei left the Imam (Khomeini) in 1985 because he felt that he would become the leader after the Imam but he did not get what he wanted and his stances changed after the leader (Khamenei) came to power and in 1995, (his stances) reached the red line”.
He attacked Rafsanjani and said, “Rafsanjani is sly and good at timing and looked into the formation of the Committee to Protect the Votes in the government and when Ahamdinejad said some things about his children in the presidential debates, Rafsanjani threw the ball in another court and instead of going to the judiciary, he wrote an open letter to the leader. Are Rafsanjani’s children different from other people that Rafsanjani writes a letter to the leader instead of going to the judiciary?”
“If Rafsanjani wants to be the pillar of anti-revolutionaries he has to worry about himself and for those who intend to be the pillars of the anti-revolutionaries, the people will know what to do with them”.
Zolnour cited the minor faction of the Iranian regime and said, “The heads of the seditions are currently in jail and their jailors are considered to be the people. Of course the government has (intentionally) planned not arresting them and has let them die politically. These people are in a dead end and their arrest would only cause them to come out of their dead end”.

Rafsanjani warns about the monopoly of the free university
In reaction to attempts by Khamenei to take over the property of the free university, Rafsanjani said, “The Free Islamic University was never without problems and some people are trying to take over it”.
“Imam (Khomeini) welcomed the proposition of establishing the free university and did not refuse to help out to this end”, he added.


Suppression

Ahwaz Pipe Factory workers denied wages for 7 months; injured laborer denied right to treatment
Nov. 23, 2010 
Workers of the Ahwaz Pipe Factory have held protests several times in the past years to the point that not holding protest gatherings has turned into an unusual issue for these workers.
Not receiving their wages and being injured with hot lead poured on their bodies in accidents has also turned into a regular phenomenon for them. Kamal Na’ami is one of the workers in this factory. His friends pull up his shirt to show how the hot lead burned his body.
He has large blisters all over his back, hands, stomach and feet but what you do not see in the picture is the fact that not only has he not received his wages for seven months, they have also not paid for his medical expenses and his birth certificate has been confiscated by the hospital he was treated in because he is not able to pay his 400,000 toman (about 400 dollars) hospital bill. He is the father of six children and has very hard financial conditions.



Students Committee in Iran (Supporters of PMOI)

Ahwaz Pipe Factory workers denied wages for 7 months; injured laborer denied right to treatment

Nov. 23, 2010
Workers of the Ahwaz Pipe Factory have held protests several times in the past years to the point that not holding protest gatherings has turned into an unusual issue for these workers.
Not receiving their wages and being injured with hot lead poured on their bodies in accidents has also turned into a regular phenomenon for them. Kamal Na’ami is one of the workers in this factory. His friends pull up his shirt to show how the hot lead burned his body.
He has large blisters all over his back, hands, stomach and feet but what you do not see in the picture is the fact that not only has he not received his wages for seven months, they have also not paid for his medical expenses and his birth certificate has been confiscated by the hospital he was treated in because he is not able to pay his 400,000 toman (about 400 dollars) hospital bill. He is the father of six children and has very hard financial conditions.

UPDATE ON IRAN - Nov. 24, 2010

The Beginning of the End of the Clerical Rule in Iran

No. 730

Latest News on Iran

Nov. 23, 2010

Tehran – more than 60 people who were the families of political prisoners gathered outside Evin Prison to follow up the cases of their jailed loved ones yesterday.

Nov. 23, 2010
Tehran- the price of some goods has sharply risen in the last two weeks for example:
A 10 kilo bag of rice which was 25,000 tomans two weeks in a discount store was 30,000 tomans this week. The price of a house in Khoramshahr Street was 10 million tomans (about 10,000 dollars) in 2007 but the same house was sold at 40 million tomans (about 40,000 dollars) in 2009.

Nov. 22, 2010
Zanjan – the Iranian regime tried to mobilize the residents of Zanjan to welcome Ahmadinejad to this town and closed universities to this end. According to reports, the regime tried to mobilize villagers to welcome Ahmadinejad and increase the crowds but even they did not participate because they knew that Ahmadinejad would not live up to his promises.

Nov. 22, 2010
Tehran – The internet in the dormitories of Iran Medical Science University is filtered and users cannot use Yahoo Messengers. Users cannot even have access to website such as Mibo with proxies. Also, the student’s accounts are disconnected once every 30 minutes making it impossible to download anything from the internet.

Nov. 22, 2010
Law and psychology students in Tehran protest
Students of the Law and Psychology College located in the central building of the Olympic Township gathered in protest to a plan to separate the entrances and exits of boys and girls and the lack of security for female student in this college.

Nov. 22, 2010
Two agents die in armed clash
Two state security force agents died in an armed clash in Firouz Abad in the Fars Province. The state run Siasate Rouz daily wrote, “Agents of the Mouk Base in Firouz Abad ordered a car to stop but the driver of the car started speeding instead and this led to an armed clash between the car passengers and the police agents and in the end, two agents were killed and the car fled the scene”.

Nov. 22, 2010
Storeowners who do not ban ‘improperly veiled women’ from entering stores will be punished
Store owners who do not put up signs which say ‘improperly veiled women are banned from entering’ their stores will be fined.
According to reports, the Tehran Trade Room is looking to implement a plan which would make it possible to fine store owners who do not put up a sign banning improperly veiled women from entering.
Some time ago, Friday Prayer heads simultaneously complained about the state of improper veiling in the country and the Clerical Fraction in the parliament asked the commander of the State Security Forces to give an explanation about improper veiling in the society.

Nov. 22, 2010
Political prisoner violently interrogated and threatened in Gohardasht Prison in Karaj
According to reports, political prisoner Arjang Davoudi was transferred to the Sepah Cellblock in Gohardasht (Rajayi Shahr) Prison and was interrogated and threatened for several hours by agents of the Intelligence Agency.
On Monday, November 22 political prisoner Arjang Davoudi was interrogated from 10:30 am to 2:30 pm in the Sepah Cellblock where he was threatened by intelligence interrogators. This political prisoner was abused and mistreated.
Davoudi has been jailed for years under inhumane conditions. Some time ago, his house which was his family’s only shelter was sealed off under the orders of Khamenei’s office in a letter which is in the Revolutionary Court and his family does not have a home.


Students Committee in Iran (Supporters of PMOI)

UPDATE ON IRAN - Nov. 23, 2010

The Beginning of the End of the Clerical Rule in Iran

No. 729

Student’s Day (December 7)

Call for widespread strikes on Student’s Day (Dec. 7)
Nov. 21, 2010
On the verge of Student’s Day in Iran, a group of students in Tehran University issued a statement and called on all students to join the strikes across Iran on December 6, 7 and 8.
Student activists stressed that ‘in the past year, we witnessed the blatant actions by the government including the murder of our compatriots in street demonstrations; scandal in Kahrizak Prison; violent attack against Tehran University dormitory; forced confessions from jailed activists; the arrest and detention of thousands of people; executions and hundreds of other illegitimate actions”.
They asked all student associations and activists to participate in their widespread strikes and cry out for freedom so that both tyrants and freedom lovers in the world would hear their cry.
“We ask all those who read this statement to publish it in their websites, weblogs and social networks and in distribute them in universities and dormitories and aid us in spreading this important message”.


Downfall

Head cleric admits that Iranians hate clerical rule
Nov. 21, 2010
Ahmad Khatami, a member of the Assembly of Experts, cited the fact that the people hate the clerical rule of the mullahs and said, “Creating rifts among clerics is one of the actions of the enemy which leads to the people separating themselves from the government which provides the grounds for separating oneself from religion”.
“Today, some people are looking to carry out this theory and advocate an Islam without politics which is in line with the separation of religion from state, and the departure of clerics from politics which means that efforts of religious clerics in the past centuries would be wasted”.
“Today enemies approach religious authorities and lie to them to the point that the religious authority becomes neutral and after some time by being presented false information, he feels that he is in the middle of the anti-revolutionary field.”
“They bring this issue up to lie about clerics to the people and say that in Iran, only one sector of the society rules over all the other sectors”.


Crack within the Regime

MP undermines Rafsanjani in increasing rifts in government
Nov. 21, 2010
Rasayi, a member of the parliament from Ahmadinejad’s faction cited remarks made by another parliament member that ‘the united front of the fundamental (pro-Khamenei) movement stretches from Ahmadinejad to Hashemi Rafsanjani’ and said, “In light of the actions of these two personalities, this issue is like us believing that two parallel lines meet, because we believe that unfortunately Mr. Hashemi Rafsanjani failed in last years seditions and is still not even willing to announce his separation from the sedition and the sedition movement still depends on him and has not lost hope in him. Therefore, with his actions in the past years, especially last years seditions, Mr. Hashemi cannot be a unifying side in the fundamental (pro-Khamenei) movement”.

Iranian regime changed 6 heads of universities in Tehran
Nov. 21, 2010
Ahmadinejad's government has changed 6 heads of universities in Tehran. These universities are:
Tarbiat Modares, Sharif Industrial University, Khajeh Nasir TosiUniversity, Arts University, Teacher's Training University, and the Industrial University (Electricity and water).


Economic Situation in Iran

Regime deprives families of political prisoners of cash subsidies 
Nov. 21, 2010
The Ahmadinejad government has refused to transfer cash subsidies to the bank accounts of political prisoners and their families.
The family of a political prisoner said, “When families of political prisoners or recently released political prisoners go to register in the Smart Subsidy Plan to receive the cash subsidies, they are banned from registering”.
“We had registered from before but when we went to the bank we realized that the money had not been transferred to our accounts. The amount which was announced would be transferred to the bank account of the guardian of a family was not transferred for the families of political prisoners”.
The Iranian regime wants to put more pressure on political prisoners and their families in this way. This is while the transferred cash subsidies are not usable.


Resistance

People in Isfahan torch Bassiji motorcycle
Nov. 20, 2010
On Saturday, November 20, a motorcycle which belonged to the Bassij Offices in the Amir Almomenin Mosque in Zarin Shahr was stolen.
According to eye witnesses, in the past week, a number of new motorcycles were given to Bassijis in this mosque and they showed off the new motorcycles by constantly riding them trying to create an atmosphere of fear. People in this area stole one of these motorcycles and burned it a few streets away from the mosque.

Angry Khuzestan Pipe Factory: death to despots 
Nov. 20, 2010
On Saturday morning (November 20), more than 250 workers of the Khuzestan Pipe Factory gathered outside the Khuzestan Governor General offices in Ahwaz in protest to not receiving their wages for 18 months and promises that were not kept by officials regarding the reactivation of the factory. According to reports, they were not given any answers until 9:30 am. The angry workers chanted “Governor General support us, support us” and “death to despots”. This gathering was still ongoing when this report was given.


Suppression

Minister of Higher Education threatens university heads with expulsion to tighten control over universities 
Nov. 21, 2010
The Minister of Higher Education said, “The heads of universities have always been told that anyone who does not implement the regulations of the Ministry of Science (Higher Education) has to go”.
“I believe that not implementing the regulations of the Ministry of Science is an excuse for universities to leave the (controlling) area of the government but it has to be noted that we believe that universities are independent but are not separate islands from the government”, Kamran Daneshju said. (Fars state-run News Agency)

Iran takes 15 year old boy hostage as ransom for brother
Nov. 20, 2010
The eldest brother of Mohammad Saber Malek Reiesi, a 15 year old Baluch boy who was taken hostage 14 months ago by the Ministry of Intelligence asked human rights activists in a letter to do their best to save his brother’s life.
Mohammad Saber was arrested along with two of his other brothers because his eldest bother Abdolrahman was not willing to cooperate with the Ministry of Intelligence. Intelligence agents went to their parent’s house and told them that if they did not hand in their eldest son, they would execute their three sons in prison.
This letter given to Human rights in Iran reads in part:
I am the eldest brother of Mohammad Saber Malek who was arrested on September 24 while he was with his smaller brother in the Ali Ebn Abi Taleb Hospital in Chabahar. He has been kept in a state of limbo for 14 months in the detention centers of the Intelligence Agency in Zahedan.
Ministry of Intelligence agents have constantly called my family and demanded that they turn me in as the condition for releasing my smaller brother and my family in under psychological pressure. Because of these threatening phone calls by the Ministry of Intelligence, my elderly father is in a dangerous physical condition.
All these threats and mental pressure on my family is because I was not willing to cooperate with the Ministry of Intelligence who wanted me to be spy for them in sessions of the Sunni clerics and the people of Baluchistan. I left the country for security reasons…
After my family and the headmen (in their region) pursued this issue, my two brothers were released after four months on a 70 million toman (about 70,000 dollar) bail but my smaller brother was not released. The Ministry of Intelligence is harassing my family to put me under pressure to turn myself in.

Iran expels female student from university because of religion
Nov. 20, 2010
Arezu Samimi, a Baha’i student at the Science and Industrial University in Behshahr was expelled from this university for ‘following the Baha’i faith’.
This student’s religion has been registered as Islam in the official website of this university but after she followed up and protested this issue to correct her student information form, heads of the university expelled her.
The expulsion of Baha’i students from university is ongoing while the heads of the Ministry of Higher Education have denied the existence of ‘students who have been expelled because of their religious beliefs’ and those ‘who have been banned from education’.


Students Committee in Iran (Supporters of PMOI)

UPDATE ON IRAN - Nov. 22, 2010

The Beginning of the End of the Clerical Rule in Iran

No. 728

Downfall

Does Ahmadinejad want to manage the world like this? Letter of political prisoner on notorious Karaj prison conditions 
Nov. 19, 2010
Segments of a letter by political prisoner Ali Saremi from Gohardasht Prison in Karaj about prison conditions:
It is not difficult to evaluate the state of non political prisoners. When a prisoner comes into prison, he has nothing more than some money in his pocket and the clothes on his back. In the quarantine section of prison, where a prisoner is usually kept for up to 3 days, they receive one pair of underwear and a disposable plate and cup. But when they are admitted into the cellblock, they neither receive clothes, plates, cups nor toothbrushes or toothpaste and they have to provide all these themselves.
This is while many prisoners do not have homes, have been shunned by their families or cannot afford to provide these things. A number of them are mentally disturbed or have problems in controlling their urine.
The life of these needy prisoners is appallingly miserable. They eat their food in a piece of plastic or cuttings from a carton of milk that others have drunk or they use a piece of tin from a the container of a disinfectant used to clean the restroom.
In addition to this problem is the problem of the daily increase of prisoners which is a result of the mismanagement of prisons by the government.
In 2009 when I was transferred to Gohardasht Prison, there were about 500 prisoners in our cellblock (cellblock 4). This year, in November there are about 1,300 prisoners in our cellblock which means that in the course of a year it has increased five fold and every month, more than 60 people are jailed.
Gohardasht Prison has eight cellblocks which mean that in the past year more than 450 people have been jailed in each of the eight cellblocks. In light of the fact that there are more than 10 prisons in Tehran, more than 4,500 prisoners are jailed every month in Tehran and because there are more than 10 large cities in the country, more than 45,000 people are imprisoned every month in the country.
One wonders what the people will do if this government continues its rule for a few more year, god forbid. All of the (above mentioned) issues are in addition to the problems of addiction, and the lack of warm water among other things in prison.

The fear of regime’s officials from people’s protest against the cancellation of taxes
Nov. 20, 2010
The secretary general of Ershad office in Alborz province said with anxiety: Enemies are trying to stand against the taxes law in many different ways by hearsays of possible inflations, outbreaks of poverty and high expenses and making the insecurity in the society and increase in sanctions.


Crack within the Regime

Deleting the picture of Rafsanjani from the pictures of political prisoners of Shah’s time
Nov. 20, 2010
Following the deepening of internal hew of regime, Rafsanjani’s picture have been deleted from the pictures of Shah’s time Political prisoners in the museum called Ebrat. Regime’s newspaper wrote: these days visitors of the Ebrat Museum have been witnessed to the changes made in the museum like taking the made pictures of torture signs of some of Islamic Revolution leader’s pictures, including Rafsanjani and has been replaced with the pictures of some people who have nothing to do with the anti-shah struggles.


Economic Situation in Iran

The capacity of the import is about 200% of the export
Nov. 21, 2010
This is the Ahmadinejad’s statistics in economic field. According to official statistics, in the seven months of the current year, the value of imports is twice the exports.
As the deputy minister of economy said, at this time the value of import goods is 34000 million dollars. The capacity of imports comparing to last year has increased in value about 23% and in weight 61%. But this scale is not included in the goods that have been imported by Guards Corps and robber gangs. The main part of the imports, are disposable goods and among them there is everything. From tomb stone to knifes.


Suppression

Spiritual leaders of Sunny in Iran have been forbidden to travel abroad
Nov. 20, 2010
According to the received news, security forces, have held the passports of some of sunny leaders in Tehran Airport and prevented them to travel abroad. Sunny Online wrote: On Thursday when some of sunny leaders who were travelling to Turkey to take part in an Islamic international conference, there passports were held by security forces. Molana Abdolqani Badri, the head of education department of Zahedan zone, Dr. Obeidollah the master of this department and Molana Osman Qalandarzehi, the head of Madineh School in Khash were among them.

Political prisoner denied treatment in notorious Karaj prison
Nov. 19, 2010
Political prisoner Mashallah (Hamid) Haeri, who is detained in Rajayi Shahr (Gohardasht) Prison in Karaj, is in poor physical health and prison officials ignore his condition.
According to reports, this 53 year old political prisoner is in need of a specialist doctor and special medicine because he is suffering from hemorrhage and a critical heart problem. Prison officials prevent him from getting the special medicine his family brings for him.
He is detained for being a member of a dissident group and has been sentenced to 15 years of prison by the Revolutionary Court

The violent attack of agents to an emergency hospital
Nov. 21, 2010
The guards attacked the emergency hospital called Imam in Tehran and hit one of masters of the university, Dr. Salimi while police officers were present.

Iran fatally shoots Kurd border tradesman
Nov. 19, 2010
In the persistence of the killing of tradesmen in Kurdistan, at least four tradesmen were killed after being shot by security forces of the Islamic Republic.
On the night of November 16, a number of Kurd tradesmen in the Vazin area in Sardasht were targeted by the forces of the Islamic Republic and as a result a tradesman identified as Ribaz, son of Mostafa Babekr was killed.
Another tradesman identified as Savat Haji Ahmad, son of Rasoul was shot and injured.

Implementation of sex division plans in the specialty classes of Science and Industry University
Nov. 20, 2010 
According the news from Science and Industry University, university management have implemented the sex division plans in the classes of mathematics. Students are strongly against these acts.


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