Iran Students Committee: January 30

February 5, 2011

Mullah Mesbah Yazdi emphasizes on decrease in sentences of execution, exile and amputation

Tehran- Feb.4, 2011
The criminal Mullah Yazdi said: “inspection and surveillance organs must have the divine rule in mind in their assessments. They should not lay the ground so that these rules will be seen less in the society. If somebody steals they must cut his hand. We cannot just let him be, we have to conduct a cultural work!
About a ‘Mohareb’, one of the sentences of execution, exile of amputation of a hand and a leg must be conducted. Here democracy and human rights has no meaning”.

Saremi, Kazemi and Aghaee three executed PMOI supporters praised

Tehran- Feb.4, 2011
Youths of Tehran in Bazaar region distributed the posters of these three executed PMOI supporters in Molavi, Bab Homayoun, Naser Khosro, Khayam, Ferdosi and Bozarjomehri streets to commemorate them and to show that their path for freedom and democracy of Iran will be continued.

Allah O Akbar in Ekbatan

Tehran- Feb.3, 2011
On the night of Feb.3 residents of Ekbatan Residential Complexes chanted Allah O Akbar on their roof tops from 21pm to 22 pm.

Cry of Bahman in Tehran

Tehran- Feb.3, 2011
On Thursday Feb. 3 a group of brave youths of Tehran gathered in protest in Ghaitarieh Region in Tehran and chanted ‘death to Khamenei’ and ‘death to the principle of Velayat-e-Faghieh’.

10 year old daughter of death row political prisoner lives in fear of father’s execution

Feb. 3, 2011
The waves of executions continue in Iran…
Many dissidents and the heads of the movement believe that the increase of the number of executions in Iran and the Islamic Republic’s haste in carrying out these sentences is to create an atmosphere of fear among dissidents.
Abdolreza Qanbari is another one of the protesters who was arrested during (the protests) on December 27, 2009 and was sentenced to death by the 15th branch of the Revolutionary Court headed by Judge Salavati on charges of enmity with God by having email communications with dissident groups and having links to a TV station outside of the country. The three member family of this death row teacher is living in constant fear these days…
Qanbari has been a literature teacher for 17 years in the impoverished areas in Iran. Some of his students say that he was the kind of person ‘who cried when he saw poverty-stricken children’.
Abdolreza Qanbari sings poems in his visits with his wife and children and sings a new poem in each visit. His ten year old daughter Sahel also sings poems for his father in her visits with him from behind a glass partition…
“My daughter does not understand the meaning of execution but his father has tried to explain about the death sentence in one of our visits to our two children so that if God forbid the death sentence is carried out, our children would not be shocked”, his wife said…
Currently, teachers who showed solidarity with this teacher or with his family are in Evin Prison and Abdolreza Qanbari’s children are not in a good spirits…
His daughter, is unable to visit him these days because she has school and her young brother Ehsan goes along with his mother to visit his dad in prison.
“Today is one of those days that you are not by my side”, Sahel begins in one of her letters to her father.
“Whenever I miss you, I write a letter or look at the blue watch you bought me for my birthday to see how fast time goes by and you are not by my side and I grow older and taller day by day… There were TV programs on for Father’s Day but I could not watch because it showed kids that were giving flowers to their fathers or were congratulating them and they were all so happy. They were not thinking about kids like us without their father’s by their sides and so I grew very sad and turned off the TV… I only have one wish and that is for you to come and be with me forever…”
On one of the visiting days, the families of political prisoners became very sad when they saw that Sahel, who was wearing her pretty clothes, had come to visit her father after some time and was trying very hard to bring her feet up so that she could show him her new shoes. She then sang a new song for him.

War of walls

Feb.4, 2011

War of walls between brave youths of Iran and regime’s suppressive forces has stepped up.
People attack regime in their written slogans on the walls and regime desperately erases them with paint. But people again write anti regime slogans on the paint:

Tehran- Khaje Nasir Toshi Street by the corner of Moghadam St:
Death to dictator/ death to Khamenei/ political prisoners must be freed.

Tehran- Khayam St:
Death to dictator/ political prisoner must be freed/ death to Ahmadinejad a puppet of Khamenei without will.

Tehran- Qhafari St. behind South Terminal:
Execution of political prisoners is condemned/ Feb. 11 the day of the nation’s salvation/.

Tehran- Shoosh St. opposite to metro station:
Khamenei the dictator will be gone, Iranian nation is victorious.

Tehran- Molavi St. Before Ramezani:
We will die but we will not compromise; Iranian nation rise, rise.

Tehran- Tehran University, entrance and corridors:
Execution of political prisoners is condemned/ death to dictator whether in Iran or in Tunisia/ Iran has turned to Karbala, zealous Iranian rise, rise.

Tehran- east of Jomhoori intersection:
Death to dictator/ freedom, independence, Iranian Republic/execution of political prisoner is condemned.

Tehran- Sajad Residential Complexes in benches of Vali-e-Asr Park:
Death to the principle of Velayat-e-Faghieh/ execution of Bahrami, Haj Aghaee, Kazemi; revenge, revenge.

Tehran- Tehranno, Bassir St. near Piroozi Park:
Death to dictator/ execution of political prisoners is condemned

Tehran- Sari St. behind Kashani Hospital in Khazaneh:
22 of Bahman is the day of freedom of political prisoners/ Nation of Tunisia, Nation of Egypt, it is now Iran’s turn, rise, rise

Tehran- Khomieni St. by Salehy Alley:
The execution of Bahrami, Haj Aghaee and Kazemi is condemned, is condemned/ death to dictator.

Tehran- Charsad Dastgah, Amiri St. Eghdami:
Death to the henchman Khamenei/ Hail to political prisoner

Tehran- entrance of Sabalan Metro Station, at the beginning of Amini and Asadian:
The path of those who fall for freedom will continue even if it rains bullet on us/ death to Velayat-e-Faghieh, hail to whom is anti Velayat-e-Faghieh.

Tehran- Tehranpars, Shahed Blvd, Jashnvareh:
22 of Bahman is the day of uprising of the nation, the day of the death of Velayat/ criminal Khamenei must know, the uprising continues.

Tehran- Valfajr Township, Laleh Blvd:
Death to Khamenei/ Hail to the fallen political prisoner

Tehran- Khazaneh- Abozar St: be praised the memory of those who fall for freedom in Dec. 2010 and Jan. 2011.

Tehran- Imam Hussein, Davari St:
Death to the criminal Khamenei/ it is condemned; the execution of political prisoners is condemned.

Tehran- Niro Havaie, Alvafi and Alipoor Streets:
22 of Bahman the day of freedom of the nation/ Bahman is the month of blood, Khamenei is overthrown/ neither Qaza, nor Damascus nor Lebanon; we will fight; we will die for Iran/ death to Khamenei.

Tehran- Tehranno, Sefid Kooh St:
You desperate Khamenei, 22 of Bahman is on its way.

Tehran- Saadat Abad, Arqavan St:
We pledge to the blood of those who fall for freedom; either death, or freedom.

Sentence of execution for two youths

Tehran- Feb.2, 2011
The clerical dictatorship issued the sentence of execution for two youths in Tehran; Hamid, and Javad B. 22 years old.
The sentences have been approved by regime’s Supreme Court.

Suppressive maneuver of ‘Ashura 89’ in fear of uprisings in Bahman

Kerman- Feb.3, 2011
In fear of uprisings in month of Bahman the clerical regime conducted a suppressive maneuver called ‘Ashura 89’ in south of Kerman and arrested 1800 people.
Radan the deputy of regime’s SSF said: “at the end of the maneuver of ‘Ashura 89’ in south of kerman we have had achievements; we arrested 1800 people and found confiscated more than 300 weapons”.

Satellite dishes collected

Mashhad- Feb.3, 2011
It is about a week that regime is collecting satellite dishes from the roofs. The suppressive forces raid a neighborhood and using the lifters of Power Bureau they go to the roofs and collect the dishes.

February 3, 2011

Protest Gathering in Iran

Tehran- Feb. 3, at 16:45
A crowd of 150 strong while singing the unity song of students ‘Yare Dabestani’ and the anthem of resistance ‘Iran the land with high values and assets’ started their march from Tajrish Square to Vanak Square.

Writing Anti Slogans on bills against mullahs' regime in Iran

Tehran- Feb. 3
Brave revolutionary youths and supporters of PMOI have written anti-regime slogans on bills and distributed them around. Some of these slogans are: death to the principle of Velayat-e-Faghieh/ death to Khamenei/ political prisoners must be freed.

Plainclothes patrol Tehran on motorbikes

Tehran-Feb. 3
Suppressive security forces have started their presence in streets of Tehran since Wednesday morning to provoke atmosphere of fear and horror to stop any potential protest gathering today as people have called for it.
Since last night too a great number of SSF along with Plainclothes equipped with motorbikes are patrolling the city, stopping the cars and searching them.
During last night the sound of the maneuver of suppressive forces broke the silent of the night.
The atmosphere in the city is completely tight with security.
In root of Enghelab Sqare to Keshavarz Blvd. and Enghelab Square to Amirabad the number of suppressive forces is more than other places.

Decrease in speed of internet

Tehran- Feb. 3, 2011
Internet users throughout the country are facing serious disruptions and decrease in speed of Internet in cities such as Tehran, Kurdistan, Tabriz and northern areas of the country.

Tight Security in fear of Uprising on Feb.3

Tehran-Feb. 3
Since last night the city has turned to a military base.
The streets are under deep control of regime’s suppressive agents.
Cars and pedestrians are searched.
People say that the calls for gathering today and the uprisings in Egypt have horrified the regime.

Teachers’ Committee calls for demonstrations in Bahman

Feb.1, 2011
The call reads in part: “Our people have cried for freedom at any chance they got but these despotic rulers have stepped up their suppression...The ruling Establishment well knows that the situation is the fire under ashes and it will flame by the slightest wind; the reason they are so horrified.
Our people are drowning in poverty and unemployment after subsidy cuts, people’s discontent of this regime is at its pick. To silence the protest this anti-human regime has executed 90 people in less than a month...The Committee of Free Teachers of Iran cals on all compatriots to gather on Feb.3 in protest in all main streets and Squares of the cities. We will unit and we will cry ‘death to dictator’.

Society for Supporting the Guilds calls for protest gathering

Feb.1, 2011
The call reads in part: “...while the freedom loving consciences of Tunisia, Egypt and other Arab countries are awakened, uprisings and popular protests are shaking the dictatorships.
The world heard the voice of freedom seeking Iranians last year. It is now time to once more cry against despotism and tyranny...
We call on all guilds to rise and along with brave youths and other sectors of the society demonstrate against the dictatorship in Iran on Thursday Feb. 4 at 3 pm in the main streets and squares.

Teachers’ Committee calls for demonstrations in Bahman

Announcement of sentences of execution and lashing to provoke horror on the threshold of Feb.11 demonstrations

Tehran- Feb.1, 2011
Mullah Mohsen Eje’ee the spokesman of regime’s Judiciary announced that the revision court has declared the sentence of 15 prisoners, participants in last year’s demonstrations. They are sentenced to six to four years of incarceration, deprivations and also corporal punishment.
In another event the anti-human regime of mullahs issued the execution sentence of 7 including two directors of internet sites and started the due process of execution of four others in Zahedan.
The wife of one of the prisoners said: offending Khamenei and Ahmadinejad, having connection with dissident groups are amongst my husbands charges”.
Five other sentences of execution have been issued in Tehran under the title of ‘nemesis’.
Issuing these sentences is a part of Khamenei’s policy for provoking horror in the society to confront uprisings and nationwide protest in month of Bahman (Jan.21- Feb.19)

Society for Supporting the Guilds calls for protest gathering

Price rise of food and clothing before the New Year another pain in the neck for people

Tehran- Feb.1, 2011
The price of clothing including Lee pants and T-shirts has risen. People are shocked of the prices at a time so near to the New Year. Many people cannot pay for such prices and they are so disappointed and ashamed in front of their families.

People cannot buy even bread

Kankavar- Feb.1, 2011
Reports received say that bread consumption has drastically decreased after subsidy cuts. A baker said: “before subsidy cuts we used 1200 tons of flour in a month, now we use 700 tons and our income has decreased a lot. In this situation we are forced to decrease the wage of our workers and to decrease our expenditure we have to bake bread with poor quality. Several bakeries are closing”.

Regime’s suppressive forces stationed in center of Tehran

Tehran- Feb.2, 2011
An eyewitness: Tehran 12 noon
From the morning all the streets ending to Ehghelab Sq. and Tehran University are closed. Regime has deployed all its forces from all organs to the streets. About 200 SSF vans are stationed in all by streets and main streets from Keshavarz Blvd. to Enghelab.
Especial guard forces are maneuvering in the streets and Bassijies and Plainclothes are patrolling in groups of 50 t0 100 in the sidewalks.
Bassiji women holding flags are marching and SSF is to marching from Enghelab to Azadi. Regime’s wants to boast his power confronting the calls for uprising for Feb. 3

Surveillance cameras for controlling people throughout the city

Kerman- Feb.1, 2011
In Azadi Square in Kerman and at the intersections around the Bahonar University surveillance cameras are installed.

Blocking internet sites

Tehran- Feb.1, 2011
In the days close to the anniversary of anti-monarchy revolution the clerical dictatorship in Iran having the experience of last year’s uprising is blocking internet site including Yahoo News and Reuters.

Agents of Intelligence Ministry threatened Majid Dori’s father

Karaj- Feb.1, 2011
The agents of Intelligence Ministry summoned father of political prisoner Majid Dori to Karaj’s Intelligence Bureau and told him that if he tries to spread information about Majid’s conditions, Majid will be exiled to Ahwaz Prison.

Human rights activist condemned to serve 12 years along with corporal punishment

Tehran- Feb.1, 2011
Navid Khanjani, human rights activist was condemned by the so-called judge Pir Abbasi from branch 26 of the so-called Islamic Revolutionary Court; he must also pay fine.
The decree was sent to Shima Ghosheh his lawyer on Sunday Jan. 30.
This activist was charged with ‘acting against national security’, ‘propagation against the Establishment’ and ‘membership in illegal human rights societies’.
Navid was arrested on March 2, 2010 in Isfahan and after spending 65 days of temporary detention in ward 2A belonging to IRGC in Evin Prison (the first 25 days of it in solitary cell) he was freed on a 100,000,000 tomans bail on May 3, 2010.
During his detention time he was under heavy interrogations to make a compulsory video interview.

The henchmen of Gohardahst Prison transferred Mohsen Dogmechi to an unknown location

Karaj- Feb.2, 2011
Following the widespread protest of political prisoner at ward 4 of Gohardasht Prison (Rajaee Shahr Prison) in regard with the physical condition of Mr. Mohsen Dogmechi and the prevention of the henchmen to transfer him to a hospital, the henchmen have taken him out of the ward and transferred him to an unknown location.
Mr. Dogmechi has a very progressive cancer and his health is in jeopardy.
Mr. Dogmechi was arrested end of summer of 2009 charged with ‘visiting his child in Ashraf City (the place of resident of PMOI members)’ and ‘helping families of political prisoners’.

Loghman and Zaniar Moradi death row Kurd political prisoners transferred to unknown location

Karaj- Feb.1, 2011
Loghman and Zaniar Moradi are charged with ‘Moharebeh’ and ‘corrupt on earth’ and are sentenced to execution in public.
The family of these two political prisoners confirmed the news of their transportation from Rajaee Shahr Prison to an unknown location.
Loghman is accused of killing the son of Friday Imam of Marivan and spying for UK. But these two political prisoners who were banned from being visited by their lawyer, Hussein Puydar, published a letter saying that they confessed to the crimes because they were under severe tortures and they were threatened that they would be raped by the interrogators at the prison.

Loghman and Zaniar Moradi death row Kurd political prisoners transferred to unknown location

Nasrin Sotoodeh tried again

Tehran- Feb.1, 2011
Nasrin Sotoodeh, lawyer and human rights activist who is already condemned to 11 years imprisonment based on hollow accusations is tried again on Feb. 2 charge with ‘not having proper veil’; she didn’t have veil in a taped video!
The branch involved is branch 26 of the so-called Revolutionary Court and the judge is Pir Abbasi.
She is in solitary cell since the end of summer of 2010 and has spent a long time of her term in hunger strike.

New slogans: death to dictator whether in Tunisia or Iran

Feb.1, 2011
Getting closer to the anniversary of anti-monarchy revolution on Feb. 11 new slogans are written in some regions of Tehran.
- Zarabkhaneh, Negarestan Zomorodian St: death to dictator/ death to Khamenei/ freedom loving students of Iran be ready for overthrowing the dictator.
- Shoosh, around Razi Park, Maleki St: Bahman is the month of fight, Khamenei will shake/ remembering those who recently fall for freedom, rise, rise.
- Aghdasieh, behind Chamran Hospital, Golnar St: death to dictator/ Bahman= Freedom/ Bahman= death to Khamenei.

City of Zanjan:
- Khomeini St. before Enghelab Square, Taleghani St: death to the principle of Velayat-e-Faghieh.
- Boulevard St: Hail to freedom, hail to those who fall for freedom.
- Rasol Square: executions in the recent week are condemned/ political prisoners must be freed.
- Zanjan University, Paeen Kooh St. at the corridors: a student will die but will not surrender to oppression/ Iran’s Students Movement condemns the executions in the recent week/ political prisoner must be freed.

First trip of regime’s new Foreign Minister cancelled because of sanctions

Feb.1, 2011
Due to international sanctions the clerical regime had to cancel the first trip of its new Foreign Minister.
On Saturday Jan. 29, regime’s official sources announced that only a few hours after Salehi was endorsed by the parliament he left Tehran towards Ethiopia. Bur only a few hours later regime’s media announced that his trip is cancelled and claimed that the reason was that his schedule was too full.
On Sunday Foreign Ministry’s spokesman, Mihmanparast without pointing to this defeat protested Salehi’s name being in the list of EU’s sanction and said: “having in mind the new responsibility of Salehi as the Foreign Minister even that illegal endorsement of Security Council must be counted as not valid.

Ahmadinejad’s Minister of Road & Transportation ousted; Schism within Khamenei’s band

Tehran- Feb.1, 2011
In the morning of Feb. 1 regime’s parliament voted negative to Hamid Behbahani the Minister of Road & Transportation of Ahmadinejad’s cabinet and ousted him. In this session, neither the minister nor Ahmadinejad, were present.

February 2, 2011

Call for million strong demonstration against the clerical dictatorship on Feb.11

Tehran- Jan. 31, 2011
Organizations and key points are waiting to be freed by the freedom loving people of Iran.
We have only 10 days to inform each other and to coordinate. We are the media.

Regime’s Intelligence Ministry doesn’t permit deliverance of Zahra Bahrami’s body to her family

Tehran- Feb.1, 2011
On Monday Jan. 31 when Banafsheh, Zahra Bahrami’s daughter, went to receive her mother’s body the agents of Intelligence Ministry didn’t permit it.
In addition they threatened her of having any interview about her mother’s execution and told her that she must give all her mother’s belongings to the regime or she must deposit the equivalent amount of money to the account number that they appoint for that purpose.

Loghman Moradi, death row political prisoner transferred to unknown location

Karaj- Jan. 31, 2011
Clerical dictatorship has transferred Loghman Moradi, death row political prisoner from ward 4 of Gohardasht Prison (Rajaee Shahr Prison) to an unknown location.
He is sentenced to execution on charge of ‘Moharebeh’ because he killed the son of Marivan’s Friday Imam.

Beware, you protest, we arrest!

Terhan- Jan. 25, 2011
In a nightly raid on Tuesday Jan.25 at a house in Nazi Abad region in Tehran, Boostan 22 Bahman, Niakan St. the agents of Intelligence Ministry arrested two.
The two were a 55 years old lady and a 35 years old gentleman.
The agents have told the neighbors that they have been arrested because they had participated in last year’s demonstrations.

Writing anti- regime slogans at Polytechnic University and other regions in Tehran

Tehran- Fab.1, 2011
By getting closer to the anniversary of anti-monarchy revolution, writing anti-regime slogans is increasing in corridors, dining halls, classes and on benches of Polytechnic University and at the dormitory of female students at Tehran University.
Some of the slogans are:
- Khamenei, Fall, Fall
- You zealous Iranian, rise, rise
- Khamenei you are Shemr and Yazid (Imam Hussein’s enemy and oppressor of the time), We will all cry death to the criminal Khamenei on Feb.11
- I will kill who kills my brother
- Azad University Shargh Unit: execution and torture have no effect anymore. Khamenei has no scapegoat, death to clerical dictatorship
Slogans written in Azadi Street and Tehran Pars:
- Azadi St. near maintenance garage No. 1 of Iran Khoodro: we will all cry together on Feb. 11 death to criminal Khamanei
- Tehranpars, second circle: Death to dictator, death to criminal Khamenei
- Sabze Maydan, Behebahani Alley: political and belief prisoner are executed, you zealous Iranian strike, strike (this slogan was covered after 5 hours with white paint
- Tehran beginning of Dampezeshki St: death to Khamenei/ death to dictator/ political prisoner must be freed/ execution of political prisoner is condemned/ I will kill the one who kills my brother

Female laborers beaten

Tehran- Jan. 31, 2011
Ayandeh site affiliated with Rafsanjani- January 30: in a radio broadcasting a female worker of Ghaemshahr’s textile factory while crying called the network and while announcing that they had not received 9 months of their wages …criticized the deputy of Industry Minister.
She said: “we went to pursue the case and we even went to the parliament to see Ghaemshahr’s MP but he too paid no attention to our demands and he even send some people to beat us”.

4 death penalty decrees in Zahedan

Zahedan- Jan. 31, 2011
Regime’s criminal prosecutor in Zahedan issued sentence of execution of four. He claimed that these four had hands in the Chabahar’s explosion.

Intelligence Agency prevents proper treatment for jailed blogger

Feb. 1, 2011
Hossein Ronaqi Maleki, a political prisoner in cellblock 350 in Evin Prison who is suffering from kidney infection and is in critical condition has been denied medical attention and is in danger of death.
According to reports, the Intelligence Agency has refused to grant him a medical leave and has instead ordered that one of his kidneys be removed…
This is while prison doctors believe that he will be treated with laser surgery and does not need to remove his kidney…
Blogger and human rights activists Hossein Ronaqi Maleki is the head of the Iran Proxy Committee and was arrested on December 13, 2009 by the Revolutionary Guards Forces in Malekan and was immediately transferred to cellblock 2A in Evin Prison which is run by the Revolutionary Guards Forces.
After one year of solitary where he was mentally and physically tortured to make televised confessions, he was finally sentenced to 15 years of prison on December 19, 2010 in an illegal court headed by Judge Pir Abbasi the head of the 26th branch of the Revolutionary Court.

Life of 3 jailed PMOI supporters in danger

Feb. 1, 2011
The life of three political prisoners who have been charged with supporting and having links to a political organization is in serious danger.
According to reports, Mr. Mohsen Dokmeh Chi who is suffering from cancer, Shir-Mohammad Rezayi, who is suffering from a severe digestive condition and Mashallah Haeri who is suffering from a heart condition are the three political prisoners in cellblock 4 in Rajayi Shahr (Gohardasht) Prison in Karaj whose lives are in danger.
Mr. Mohsen Dokmeh Chi is a Bazaar merchant who was jailed on charges of giving financial aid to the families of political prisoners linked to the PMOI and has to be treated in an equipped hospital for his pancreas cancer.
He was a former political prisoner in the 80’s and reportedly got cancer because of prolonged hunger strikes while jailed in the 80’s. He has been sentenced to 10 years of prison by the Revolutionary Court.
Shir-Mohammad Rezayi who was also a political prisoner in the 70’s and 80’s is suffering from a digestive problem and is unable to tolerate prison condition. He is in need of an urgent operation. Rezayi has had two surgeries so far for his condition before his detention but his treatment was ceased after his arrest.
Mashallah Haeri, another prisoner jailed in this cellblock, is suffering from a serious heart problem and has to receive an open heart surgery which has been prevented by prison officials and the Ministry of Intelligence.
Intelligence agents broke his leg upon his arrest and he now uses crutches to walk.
Political prisoners in Rajayi Shahr Prison are held in quarantine like conditions in cellblock 4.

Pars Metal on protest

Tehran- Jan. 30, 2011
1400 workers of Pars Metal factory gathered in protest in front of regime’s parliament on Sunday Jan. 30. Ten workers were to speak with Mahjob the head of Labor Fraction of regime’s parliament and a representative of the industry and some MPs about their demands.
The workers said that if they don’t accept their demands they will gather in protest again in front of regime’s parliament.

Plan for summoning Ahmadinejad to parliament

Tehran- Jan. 31, 2011
50 members of regime’s reactionary parliament presented a plan for summoning Ahmadinejad to parliament.
Ahmadreza Dastqaib, regime’s MP counted ‘Ahmadinejad’s continuous negligence in regard with approved laws by the parliament and his irrational letters’ as the main reason for this act.

February 1, 2011

Prisoners of ward one clashed hard with prison guards and took a saloon under control

Karaj- Jan. 30, 2011
On January 27 when Majid Mirsadeghi 26, asked to be sent to infirmary of the prison while suffering a great pain he was instead beaten severely by electric baton by Mirza Aghaee an officer of the prison and a Pasdar (member of IRGC). The youth started defending himself and then other Pasdars attacked him too with batons.
Prisoners of ward one protested the act but being attacked too they started resisting and made the Pasdars leave the ward. The prisoners closed the door. After a while the Pasdar officer came for negotiation and promised that he will take Majid to infirmary but they took him instead to the solitary cells of ward one famous as ‘dog house’. The other prisoners could hear him being tortured for a long time.
Mirza Aghaee is the famous torturer of solitary cells of ward one who has tortured, raped, broke the hands and legs of many prisoners such as Bahram Tasviri and Mohsen Baikdeli and tens other prisoners.

Regime warns the shopkeepers

Tehran- Jan. 31, 2011
In the days close to the anniversary of anti-monarchy revolution on Feb.11 the clerical dictatorship is warning shopkeepers in Azadi Street that they should not open their shops on that day.

It has threatened them that if they open their shops first their glasses will be broken and then they will be sent to court.

Schism deepens within Khamenei’s band; warning Ahmadinejad

Tehran- Jan. 29, 2011
By deepening of schism within Khamenei’s band, Mohammad Hassan Abu Torabi Fard regime’s deputy of parliament, Mohammad Dehghani a member of the directorate of the parliament, Ahmad Tavakoli the head of research center of the parliament and Mohammad Reza Bahoonar warned Ahmadinejad in a letter addressing him.
The letter says: “we read your letter about violations committed by most of MPs, the heads of Parliament, Judiciary and the Expediency Council in regard with the procedure of approval of the law for ‘the Fifth Progress Plan’. In the current critical situation the necessity of keeping the unity of powers and not saying words which the enemies would take advantage of is not deniable.
In such a condition we didn’t expect that a key organ of the Establishment and the honorable heads of Parliament, Judiciary and Expediency Council who are under the supervision of the Leadership and their decisions are well supervised by him would be accused of conspiracy against the government and taking advantage of their powers”.

Netherlands’ ambassador summoned by regime’s Foreign Ministry

Tehran- Jan. 30, 2011
In reaction to suspension of relations between Netherland and Iran from the Dutch side, the clerical regime summoned the country’s ambassador in Tehran.
The suspension is in protest to the criminal execution of Zahra Bahrami Iranian- Dutch citizen.
Regime’s TV said: “the Foreign Ministry warned Netherland’s government in regard with its support of criminals and meddling in Iran’s internal affairs”.

Schism deepens even more

Tehran- Jan. 28, 2011
Band disputes within the clerical dictatorship surged even more during the last week.
As an example Rafsanjani attacked Ahmadinejad which actually aimed at Khamenei and said: “the one who says Imam Zaman and at the same time speaks of Korush (king Korush of ancient Iran) is lying about both”.
Mullahs affiliated with Khamenei reacted and attacked Rafsanjani severely. Mullah Haydar Moslehi regime’s Intelligence Minister said: “while the honorable Leadership warns about the continuation of ‘sedition’ in all his speeches but it seems that some of the elites are still keeping silence about the last year’s sedition”.
Mullah Alamolhoda hardly attacked Rafsanjani and said: “when the attacks against the Leadership started. Rafsanjani, the head of the Assembly of Experts who is second to the Leadership and must be a shield for him to keep him away from political plagues that might lead to his downfall should have acted… This is our complaint from Rafsanjani and until he compensates for that this complaint will exist…”

Behrooz Javid Tehrani writes about the execution of Aghaee and Kazemi

Karaj- Jan. 29, 2011
Political prisoner, Behrooz Javid Tehrani, a student that has been arrested during Students Uprising in 1999 wrote a letter from Gohardahst Prison (Rajaee Shahr Prison) which reads in part: “I write this letter to you from another world, a world deprived from any connection with others. If I was out of the prison I could choose between writing and acting but here I have no choice other than writing…You henchmen, whatever you thing you are wrong. You too will follow thousand other overthrown dictators of the history…If you execute to the last number of freedom loving enchained men and women… you will face Iran in uprising. Your downfall will come and we will witness that.”

Reuters is filtered in Iran

Tehran- Jan. 30, 2011
One of the most famous news sources in the world, Reuters that also covered Iran very well is filtered.
Due to the words of officials more than 5 million internet sites are filtered.
This filtering has noticeably surged after the last years popular uprisings.

A father and daughter under execution

Tehran- Jan. 30, 2011
Regime’s Judiciary issued the sentence of execution of a father and his daughter. They are called Jabar and Anahita.

Manager of Iran Khodro retreated in fear of continuation of protests

Tehran- Karaj Rd. Jan. 30, 2011
Formation of Labor Council has been one of the demands of Iran Kodro workers in the past years and it was never accepted. After the current protests, the manager of the factory in Tehran accepted the demand in fear of the continuation of protests.
As a reminder, few days ago 10 workers were killed in this factory and since then the factory has witnessed protest gatherings of the laborers.

Two protest gathering in Orumieh

Orumieh- Jan. 28, 2011
On Tuesday and Wednesday mornings Jan. 25, 26 two protest gathering were held in front of regime’s Prosecutor Office and Orumieh Prison.
On Tuesday morning more than 300 of families of prisoners in death row carrying Koran’s in their hands gathered in front of regime’s prosecutor’s office and demanded cancellation of the executions.
On Wednesday morning following the execution of a prisoner called Farhud Taram his family and other relatives gathered in front of Orumieh Prison breaking the glasses of the outer walls of the prison. SSF meddled and at least ten were arrested.
The statistics obtained from within the Orumieh prison say that more than 300 prisoners are in death row at this prison.

Pressure on political prisoners increases

Karaj- Jan. 30, 2011
By the formation of the new security ward at Rajaee Shahr Prison and cut in all communications of this ward, pressure and limitations on political prisoners increases.
All in person visits are stopped and the prisoners can only have visits on Thursdays in cabins. The prisoners are also deprived from referring to prison’s infirmary.
Mehdi Mohammadian, Alireza Karami Khairabadi and Mansour Radpoor are three of these prisoners who are in critical physical conditions but they are not transferred to the infirmary.
The prisoners were banging on the doors to make the guards take these three to the infirmary but the guards answered back: “we are ordered not to”.
On Saturday afternoon Ali Mohammadi deputy of the prison answered the protest of the prisoners as: “we have no control over this ward. The orders come from the higher ranks”.
With more than 60 prisoners in this ward, the ward has only one bathroom.

Repent or go to the gallows

Tehran- Jan. 30, 2011
The agents of Intelligence Ministry of the clerical dictatorship are hardly torturing political prisoners. They put a paper in front of them and tell them “either write and repent and sign or we will make a case for your execution and we will execute you all”.

Private taxis on strike in Tabriz

Tabriz- Jan. 30, 2011
Reports received from Tabriz say that on Saturday Jan. 29 private taxis went on strike in protest against the subsidy cuts and rise in price of fuel.

Calling for protest on Thursday February 3

Tehran- Jan. 31, 2011
In different sites and blogs people inform each other of the protest gatherings on Thursday Feb. 3.
Here is one of these calls:

Thursday Feb. 3, the day of Iranian nation’s wrath
We are a group of youths of this land…our motto is ‘Iran is for Iranians’ with any race, language, ethnicity and religion; whether they are Kurd, Turk or Ballooch.
Here is our suggestion for getting rid of a dictator government:…if there is no Iran, I better not be.
Compatriots! For how much longer should we sit and just watch the executions?
As a freedom loving Iranian in all over Iran, we will gather on Thursday, Feb. 3, at 3 pm in the streets and squares and we will cry our protest.
To any political and intellectual spectrum that we belong, we will join and we will cry one voice: ‘death to dictator’.

Zahra Bahrami’s daughter: didn’t I have the right to see my mother before execution?

Tehran- Jan. 31, 2011
Banafsje Naebpoor, Zahra Bahrami’s daughter was informed of her mother’s execution at 4 pm of Saturday Jan. 29. She says: we had asked for her pardon and we haven’t received the answer yet. Her other file was still open. Is it possible that she is executed? I called my mother’s lawyer, the lawyer didn’t know anything too and because the bureaus were closed at that hour nobody answered us.
I don’t believe that when I was asleep in the morning my mother has been executed.

The head of regime’s Calculation Office admitted that country’s financial establishment is a chaos

Isfahan- Jan. 29, 2011
Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli the head of this office said: “country’s financial establishment is sick in its structure. This is a chronic historical disease and this financial chaos is a serious damage to the country”.
Speaking in Isfahan’s Province’s Administrative Council he added: “no body knows who much the income of the country is because we only appoint our budget based on (income) of oil and taxes. There are organs having a 17000 billion tomans of budget per year but they are not counted in, in the parliament and the country’s budget”.

Workers of Sazmayeh Factory sell their kidneys

Packdasht- Jan. 29, 2011
Three workers of Sazmayeh Factory in Packdasht who had not received their wages for 28 months are trying to sell their kidneys to be able to provide a living.
The workers of this factory gathered in protest two weeks ago in front of regime’s Justice Department but received only hollow promises.

Poverty line in Iran; 1,350,000 tomans

Tehran- Jan. 30, 2011
ISNA January 30: Tehran Province’s Waging Committee that is studying the minimum wage for a worker in the next year has reached the conclusion that the minimum wage for each laborer in Tehran must be 1,359,435 tomans.
Ali Akbar Aiwazi the head of the committee interviewed by ISNA said: “we studied the case and having in mind the 5 primary goods (criteria); hygiene and treatment, food, transportation and energy, a wage under 1,359,435 tomans will be counted under poverty line”.

Clerical dictatorship madness in executing prisoners

Jan. 30, 2011
The clerical dictatorship hanged three prisoners at Orumieh’s Prison on Jan. 29 and another prisoner at Ahwaz’s Karoon Prison being accused of apostasy.