Update on Iran - May 7, 2010

The Beginning of the End of the Clerical Rule in Iran
No.592

           
The Downfall

The reactionary Supreme Leader tasked Judiciary to arrest members of defeated fraction
Tehran, May 5, 2010
Mullah Sajedinia a member of Security Commission of regime’s reactionary parliament and a member of Khamenei fraction in the parliament said that 140 MPs had written a letter to the head of Judiciary to arrest the ‘heads of sedition’.
He added that the MPs belonging to Khamenei’s fraction also had a session with him.
As mullah Sajedinia put it in the meeting the MPs have asked ‘many questions about society’s problems the System is confronting and Khamenei has advised them what to do’.
In the meeting they had discussed about how to confront improper veil in the society.

Infiltrator, Khatami, opposed the march on June 12
Tehran, May 5, 2010
Khatami the former president of the clerical regime opposed Karrobi’s suggestion for calling for a march on June 12 severely and once again showed that he is Khamenei’s infiltrator in the defeated band.
Resalat state-run daily wrote: “confirmed news is that Karrobi’s quest for holding a march on Junde 12 is opposed by Khatami one of the effective personalities of the so-called reform current”.
The daily added: “these days when Karrobi meets with the heads of illegal groups he advises them to ask permission for a march on June 12 but news received from within the reformists show that this bid has no buyer”.
Resalat daily quoting a reformist in regime’s reactionary parliament continued: “Khatami seriously opposes this suggestion because he believes that the march and gatherings will get out of Karrobi’s and Mosavi’s control and ill-fated elements will ruin what is left for the current of reform and they will be introduced as groups of rioters in the society”.

Regime’s Judiciary’s head henchmen threatened the defeated fraction
Tehran, May 6, 2010
As the schism deepens within the heads of the clerical regime, mullah Larijani the head of regime’s Judiciary intends to eliminate the defeated fraction by charging them as Moharebs.
Fars news agency affiliated with RGC quoted Mullah Sadegh Larijani in his trip to Hamedan and meeting with the mullahs of this province as: “during the recent sedition I witnessed words and acts that I didn’t anticipate at all. These people were with Imam (Khomeini) but they have turned to currents which acted worse than Hypocrites (the name regime calls PMOI)”.
Mullah Larijani also expressed his regime’s fear of the continuation of the uprising and called on regime’s elements to continue suppression.
Fars news agency said: “Larijani said that the sedition is not over and added that its time for awareness. ‘We must think about the grass roots and we must think about the goals of Islamic Republic. In this manner we can survive this problem’”.

Khamenei’s band invades all state-run media
Tehran, May 5, 2010
Parliament News belonging to the defeated fraction in regime’s parliament wrote on Wednesday: “in continuation of the pressure for changing the heads of media which are not aligned with the government. It is said that Merh’s executive manager will change soon”.
Mehr belongs to Islamic Propagation Organization.

Resistance

Female students on protest
Tehran, May 5, 2010
Since 10 am on May 5 female students of Tehran University gathered in protest against the new directive saying that all female students must were black Maghnae, they are not allowed to enter the university wearing a shawl or scarf any more.
This directive was written on paper and cloth and was posted all around the university.
According to this directive Harasat prevented students wearing shawl or scarf from entering the university.
Thus more than 2000 female students gathered in protest against this suppressive and reactionary act at the campus of Department of Art and chanted anti regime slogans.
Male students gradually joined them and protested too against this suppressive act.
The gathering and the march following it lasted 4 hours and the female students dragged all the posted placards down and trampled them.
Misogyny is one of the specifications of religious fascism that is used as the main tool of suppression by it in the society.

The protest gathering of families of political prisoners led to freedom of three
Tehran, May 5, 2010
Families of political prisoners gathered in protest for freedom of their beloveds last night in front of Evin Prison.
Hesam a 20 year old political prisoner who was just kept in the prison because he didn’t accept to participate in TV confession shows of the regime was freed at last.
Two other political prisoners freed were a 22 year old man who was imprisoned for 10 months just for carrying a few photos of the protests and a young girl.

Share Kurd Azad University in protest again
Shahre Kurd, May 5, 2010
As the clerical regime prevented Azadandishan Independent Organization of Shahre Kurd’s Azad University for having an election to elect the members of their central council, the members of this organization gathered in protest in front of the bureau of ‘leadership’s organ’ of the university to show their opposition to this decision.


Suppression

Suppression surges in Tehran
Suppression by SSF
Tehran, May 5, 2010
Two days after the national protest of Labor Day and in the curse of widespread suppression the head of Great Tehran’s SSF, Sajedinia, announced that 400 were arrested under the title of “plan for promotion of social security”.
The arrest of these 400 people in Tehran was announced as the first operational plan for confronting narcotic smugglers in 1389 (2010-2011). (it is to be mentioned that the clerical regime has hanged too many political prisoners under the name of smugglers of narcotics for years).
Sajedinia said: “last night 1500 agents attacked 350 places formerly identified”.

Mohammad Aghaee in critical condition
Tehran, May 5, 2010
ISC reports from Evin Prison that Mr. Mohammad Aghaee political prisoner of decades of 1980s who has been in prison for seven years and was arrested again during Ashura Uprising and then condemned to death is in critical physical condition.
Mr. Aghaee is suffering from acute infection and receives no treatment.

Destroying evidence of crime
Tehran, May 5, 2010
On Monday May 3, families of political prisoners gone for visiting their beloveds were informed by one of the prisoners that the clerical dictatorship is destroying the evidence of its crimes related to year 1360 (1981-1982).(more than 120000 political prisoners were murdered during seven years starting in mass numbers from 1360).
The act is committed because of regime’s fear of downfall. It fears that its crimes against the best children of Iran will be revealed.

Report from clerical regime’s medieval prisons

Savage torture in Gohardasht Prison- Karaj
Tehran, May 5, 2010
Three defenseless prisoners were under vicious torture for long at the prison. The tortures were so harsh that their hands were broken and their bodies were covered with blood and bruises.
At the end of saloon 2 in ward one famous as “dog house” at Gohardasht Prison there is a cell called Hosseinieh which is the house of some inmates.
On May 4 Pasdars of the ward attacke this cell with batons beating the political prisoner there most savagely. This act led to protest of the prisoners and they clashed with Pasdars.
One of the pasdars called Zainali who is a torturer of solitary cells was beaten by the inmates and transferred to the treatment section of the prison. The rest of the Pasdars locked the ward and ran away.
Following the event at 23.30 a great number of prison guards attacked ward one which is the torture chamber of Gohardasht Prison and was then at the hands of prisoners but they were faced with the resistance of the inmates.
To defend themselves the prisoners started burning their blankets.
The guards promised them that if they open the way their problems will be looked into. But when the prisoners did so the suppressive forces led by a man called Aghaee attacked them and grasped three of the prisoners Hassan Sharifi, Bahram Tasviri and Mohammad Mohammadi.
The agents tied their hands, feet and eyes and made them to pass through a tunnel made by guards' prison non-stop. During these passages they were hit by batons from both sides and if they fall they were viciously beaten.
This torture continued till 12.15 midnight.
The cry of these three from pain woke up the prisoners in other saloons and it was even heard in the adjacent ward. Their hands broke and their bodies were covered with blood and bruises. Then they were transferred in that condition to solitary cells.
This was the fourth time that this medieval torture house was in the hands of the political prisoners even if it was for a short time. In some cases they were able to reach to some of their demands.

Henchmen of clerical regime hanged one in Dezful
Dezful, May 5, 2010
Following the widespread suppression after the May Day, on Tuesday morning May 4 an inmate was hanged in Dezful.
The prisoner was called Rahman R.
Iranian regime holds the first stage in execution in the world with regard to its population.
338 have been executed in Iran during last year.

30 students summoned to Intelligence Ministry’s Bureau of Pursuit
Tehran, April 5, 2010
After the students gathered in protest against the unannounced presence of Ahmadinejad at Tehran University, in an illegal act, 30 of them were summoned to Intelligence Ministry’s Bureau of Pursuit.
ISC reported that some of these 30 students were summoned to the bureau on Monday and Tuesday and were interrogated for several hours and some have been summoned on Wednesday.
Formerly on last Saturday Maryam Abassinejad a former member of central council of Islamic Association of Students of Tehran University was summoned by this bureau, detained and transferred to Evin Prison.
Then the interrogators called Mrs. Abbassinejad’s husband and took him away for searching their home without any warrant.
Vast and collective summoning of students of Tehran University occurred once before at the beginning of Fall and before Students Day in last Dec.


Other News

The crashed airplane in Mashad Airport 300 at the wake of being fired
Tehran, May 5, 2010
As Russian made Topolof airplanes are banned from flying, 300 employees of an airline are at the wake of being fired.
A well informed source inside regime’s Airplane Organization said that as this organization has ordered Taban Airline to stop flights with Topolof this airline has to fire half of 700 personnel.
This airline has 10 airplanes five of them were rented Topoloves. By this directive a great number of the passengers were at the state of limbo in Iran’s airports and other airports abroad and eventually had to use other airlines and the airline has suffered great financial damage.
At mid January one of these Topoloves crashed while landing in Mashad Airport and 30 passengers were wounded.


Students Committee in Iran (Supporters of PMOI)