April 23, 2010

UPDATE ON IRAN - April 23, 2010

The Downfall

Khamenei is counted for nothing even in his own parliament
Tehran, April 21, 2010
Borna news agency on April 20 wrote: “only one day after the parliament was criticized by the honorable leader that a great number of MPs cause disorder in the parliament… this morning too some MPs left the parliament which led the number of MPs drop from the number essential for taking votes and red lights turned on…following the event parliaments loud speakers demanded the presence of MPs in the parliament several times announcing that the parliament lacks a majority…The question is one day after being criticized by the Leader what does this absence mean”?

Khamenei attacked US new nuclear policy
Tehran, April 22, 2010

Regime’s Supreme Leader expressed his regime’s fear of global unity against its nuclear plans and attacked US new nuclear policy. Some part of his speech showing the defeat of regime’s nuclear deceives and its surging isolation is as follow:
Khamenei: “Last week US president actually made a nuclear threat but this won’t work in regard of Iranian nation. These threats are only a shame for US political history. This turned to a black point in the record of US government. It is now clear what is behind the curtain of all these shows of peace, friendship, love for humans and insisting of nuclear treaties. A foxy literature gave its place to a wolf-like literature. The bloodthirsty and dominance seeking nature was revealed. They want nuclear power to rule over the world…”.
“But they must know in regard with the nation these threats are useless. We will proceed in all aspects with the help of God. They must know that our youths will continue their quests. By God’s will, our youths increasing faith and our nation’s awareness will overcome these threats and will overcome the conspiracies for provoking disorder in our internal affairs as what we witnessed in 88 (last Iranian year)”.

Mullah Raishahri fears the spread of schism within the regime
Tehran, April 21, 2010
Mullah Mohammadi Raishahri the former criminal Intelligence Minister of the clerical regime in his meeting with some of the commanders of SSF and in fear of the spread of schism within the regime said: “the most dangerous security threats are political and social disputes and clashes, trespassing people’s rights and not thanking God for his blessings”.
In his other meeting with the police chief and commanders of SSF of Ray Township he called on them to suppress people even more and said: “SSF’s task in providing the security of the society (read the regime and its elements) is very important and this issue is also underlined in Islamic Hadith”.

Gas problem surges, queues get longer
Tehran, April 22, 2010

Though regime denies that is has any gas problem but lack of enough gas stations throughout Tehran has led to long queues. People usually have to stay one or two hours in line to receive the fuel. It seems that as the price of gas rises (reaching 600 tomans per liter in just a few days) the condition will become even more critical.



Resistance

Three Pasdars killed in North West of the country
Tehran, April 21, 2010
Fars news agency affiliated with RGC reported that three of its forces were killed and North West of the country. It named them as Mohsen Ghoraishi, Mehdi Joodaki and Hamid Asenjerani.

On strike
Tehran, April 22, 2010
Following the murder of one of their classmate students of Iranshahr University went on strike and boycotted the classes.
Body of Kayvan Godarzi was found by a communication post while his face was severely damaged and he was thrown off the height.
University officials first tried to disguise his identity to prevent any protest and said that he was a worker who was shocked by electricity and died.
Kayvan an active student in students’ protests was formerly threatened to death.
The night before Kayvan had called one of his relatives while been very worried and had told him that he is threatened to death and may be he won’t see him again.
Mohammadi Khamanei’s element in Iranshahr University tried to show that this murder was a suicide and he wanted to prevent other students to have a ceremony in Kayhan’s commemoration but on Tuesday night female students gathered in the place of his murder despite of all the warnings and commemorated his memory by lighting candles.


Inmates fight back; supplementary report

April 21, 2010

On Sunday April 18 especial guard of Orumieh Prison attacked the protesting inmates to silence them. In this savage attack headed by a henchman called Akbar Pishehvar one of the inmates called Sayfollah Yahizadeh was murdered due to baton strokes on his head. The protest was because another prisoner Iraj Qhamangiz has been killed in the prison.
Simultaneously the torturers in Karaj’s Gohardasht Prison too attacked ward one of the prison and destroyed personal belongings of the prisoners or stole them.
Prisoners fought back and chastised the person in charge of the ward and made them retreat. This Khamenei mercenary begged the prisoners for his life and ran away. It is the second time that prisoners of this ward chastise this henchman.

Suppression

ISC reports:
Tehran, April 21, 2010 – Following the ousting of Professor Morteza Mardiha from Alameh Tabatabaee University on April 5 two other professors of Science and Industry University were fired. The reason of these firings is because these professors have backed up the students in their protests. The last two professors were fired after the speech of Minister of Science, Research and Technology saying that the professors must ideologically comply to regime.

Sanandaj, April 21, 2010 – Following the suspension decrees issued for students of Kurdistan University four other students Hoshang Shanvazloo, Garzad Alisoltani, Kazem Kazeminasab and Shervin Asadi were suspended.

Tehran, April 5, 2010 – Abolfazl Ghasemi a student of Alameh Tabatabaee University 29 and the child of one of regime’s own elements (his father became handicapped during Iran-Iraq war) who was arrested at Ashura evening far from the scenes of clashes near his house is still under detention. After three months his file’s status is still not determined.


You protest then you are doomed 
Tehran, April 21, 2010

Hassan Bastaninejad 25, Mehrdad Varshooie 55 and Faramarz Abdollahnejad 60 received three years imprisonment along with being lashed during their term.
These political prisoners have been kept in ward 350 since months ago one of them since June 20, 2009.
Mehrdad Vashooie is charged with beating a Bassiji, acting against national security by disrupting public order, arousing this thought that the presidential election was fraudulent, provoking the public to distrust the state, disrupting public order by participating in unrests and participating in destroying public belongings.
At court Hossein Bastaninejad said: “I was there when they hit the Bassiji, right, but I didn’t beat him”.
In the indictment regarding Faramarz Abdollahnejad a student of Master of Science in Law it reads: “Mr. Faramarz Abdollahnejad son of Rahim has participated as one of the elements of riot in attacking Bassij agents in Azadi Street. His photo is published in the media”.
These three were arrested after some footage was shown in regime’s TV. In this video a security agent was beaten.

7 human rights lawyers banned from leaving Iran
April 21, 2010 - With the barring of Hadi Ismailzadeh, a member of the Center for Human Rights Defenders, the number of lawyers and their colleagues in this human rights institution who have been banned from leaving the country has reached seven. Some of the members of this center who have been banned from leaving the country are Abdolfateh Soltani, Mohammad-Ali Dadkhah, Nasrin Sutodeh, Mohammad Seifzadeh, and Narges Mohammadi.

Student arrested for protesting in university
April 22, 2010 - According to reports from Bou-Ali Sina University in Hamedan, when a film was being shown in the university about those killed in the Iran-Iraq war, a student stood up and cried out, 'our martyr is Neda'. Bassij forces and agents of the Protection Department arrested the student and took him away. 

4 other students suspended from Kurdistan University

April 22, 2010 - The Disciplinary Committee in Kurdistan University suspended four other students by the names of Houshang Shanvazlou, Farzad Ali Soltani, Kazem Kazemi Nasab and Sharvin Asadi.

Tehran University student sentenced to one year of prison

April 22, 2010 - Foad Shams, a student activist at Tehran University who was arrested on December 2, 2009 by the intelligence agency outside Tehran University and has been jailed for 97 days in cellblock 209 in Evin Prison was sentenced to 6 months of prison and 6 months of suspended prison by the 26th branch of the Revolutionary Court. He has been charged with spreading propaganda against the government. 

Jailed teacher denied medical leave despite critical condition

April 22, 2010 - The Revolutionary Court in Mashhad has refused to give Hashem Khastar, a retired teacher and head of the Mashhad Teacher Center, a leave from prison. This is while he has served nine months of his two year prison term.
Khastar is currently detained in cellblock 6/1 in Vakil Abad Prison. He is suffering from a heart problem and his family is very concerned for his health.
(According to the law) prisoners are allowed a leave after serving two months of their sentence if they have no criminal history.

Peaceful protester sentenced to four years of prison

April 21, 2010 - Kiarash Kamrani, who was arrested on Ashura (December 27, 2009) has been sentenced to four years of prison.
This student was sentenced to 4 years of prison by the 15th branch of the Revolutionary Court on charges of participating in gatherings. His sentence is currently being reviewed.
Kamrani is detained in cellblock 350 in Evin Prison. His family has said that they are extremely concerned for his physical and mental condition.
According to his family, this student only participated in peaceful protests and has not done anything illegal.

Iran arrests brother of death row prisoner
April 21, 2010 - According to reports, Mohammad Abdollahi, the brother of Mohammad-Amin Abdollahi a political prisoner sentenced to death was arrested a while ago in the city of Bukan and taken to an unknown location.
He was arrested for pursuing his older brother's case. His brother, Mohammad-Amin Abdollahi was sentenced to moharebeh (enmity with God) along with Qader Mohammadzadeh in a court in Orumieh on charges of acting against national security. They were both sentenced to death.

Political prisoner discloses systematic torture and humiliation of prisoners in Gohardasht Prison
April 18, 2010 - Letter of political prisoner Behrouz Javid Tehrani to the Secretary General of the United Nations:
I am political prisoner Behrouz Javid Tehrani and I have spend more than 10 years in Gohardasht Prison, one of the most notorious prisoners under this regime. I am jailed though I have committed no crime. In this time, aside from all the human rights violations that occurred when I was arrested, interrogated and tried, I have witnessed thousands of other human rights violations only in this prison.
I am a witness of 10 years of crime, torture, injustice, execution, bureaucratic corruption, the death of ill prisoners because of receiving late treatment, suicide in prison and other incidents…
In solitary cells in cellblock 2, being allowed to take a shower is considered a privilege and sometimes prisoners are not allowed to bathe for months. If the prisoner is not submissive, he will even be barred from using the restroom. There is no such thing as fresh air time in this block. Radio, TV, newspaper, telephone, visits, fresh air time and books are banned in these solitary cells.
Prisoner guards address prisoners with insulting remarks and use profane language. Being checked by a doctor is also considered a privilege and not everyone gets this chance.
I know of an aids patient in the solitary cells in cellblock 2 in this prison by the name of Daryoush Arjmand who has been detained in solitary for 2 and a half years. He has aids and it has been some time that the infirmary has cut off his antibiotics so that he would die sooner. He is not even given the ointment and rubbing alcohol that aids patients need for their wounds. Prisoner guards are even afraid to open his cell door to let him out to use the toilet and shower and no one even changes the light bulb in his cell which has not been working for a long time now. 
Our cellblock is under the management of Hassan Akharian. He is a drug addict and treats prisoners with violence most of the time. Any sort of protest to his erratic behavior is met with solitary in cellblock 2. He has recently taken out the security cameras in one of the rooms in prison turning it into a torture chamber.


Women the voice of oppressed in Iran


Offending Iran’s women to increase suppression on society

Tehran, April 20, 2010

Mohammad Taghi Rahbar MP of Isfahan from Khamenei’s fraction joined other reactionary mullahs in offending the women of Iran laying the ground for more suppression. He welcomed the ratification of Country’s Social Council about surging social security in punishing women who “trespass society’s norms in regard with veil and chastity”. He called the level of veil and chastity in the society as “disgusting and painful” and said: “unfortunately those in charge of the country don’t think that they are responsible in that regard”.
He criticized the fact that Guidance Patrols were stopped at the wake of regime’s presidential election and said: “when these patrols worked those with improper veil had to comply…”.
This reactionary mullah following his Leader whose talisman is broken babbled offending the brave Iranian women who have been present effectively during last years uprisings and who broke the illegitimate norms of Supreme Leadership; they will do the same again in Labor Day.

The terrible scene of a woman’s suicide turned to an anti regime move

Karaj, April 20, 2010
The shocking suicide of a woman in Karaj’s metro turned into an anti regime protest gathering. The protest started when a woman threw herself under the metro train in protest to the unbearable condition of her life.
The other passengers witnessing the scene shouted and cried. A great number of people gathered in an instant turning the scene to a protest against the clerical dictatorship which is the cause of all poverty, unemployment and misogynous laws.

Intense poverty in Iran under the rule of mullahs

Kermanshah April 21, 2010- In a terrible event a villager residing in one of the villages around Kankavar city in Kermanshah Province killed his own children and committed suicide because of unbearable poverty.
The man shot his 10 years old daughter and his younger son and then shot himself but he stayed alive. He said that he couldn’t provide his family with the least necessities of life and no choice was left for him.

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