UPDATE ON IRAN - Oct. 14, 2010

The Beginning of the End of the Clerical Rule in Iran

No. 716

Downfall

Khamenei’s trip to Qom

Oil Company pays for Khamenei’s trip to Qom
Oct. 13, 2010
Based on their informed sources media controlled by the minor faction of the Iranian regime disclosed that Iran’s oil company was tasked from Khamenei’s Household to provide the expenses for Khamenei’s trip to Qom in complete cooperation with Qom’s governor and the Revolutionary Guards Corps Imam Sadeq Brigade.

Reporters banned from being present in Khamenei’s visit with Qom’s clerics 
Oct. 13, 2010
Khamenei banned reporters from being present in his visit with Qom clerics.
Nabavi, the head of the Khamenei’s publicity staff for his trip to Qom announced Khamenei’s plans and said, “The Leader will also have friendly visits with clerics and religious sources but without the presence of reporters”.
“The Leader of the revolution naturally makes trips to other provinces and therefore the analyses and speculations regarding this trip show the foreign media’s imprecision. In the time of the sedition they lied and claimed that clerics and religious sources had distanced themselves from the Islamic government”, he said trying to hide the rifts in the government and Khamenei’s lack of credibility among religious circles.
Nabavi called the lack of credibility of the head of the Islamic Republic and the fact that the people were not afraid of him ‘the differences of opinion between religious sources and the leader’ and said, “Some groups misused the events of last year and spread rumors and busied their supporters with them… In these groups and movements, inside and outside of Iran, supporters of the hypocrites united and caused sedition”.


Effect of Sanction

Oil minister of Ahmadinejad cabinet confessed the reduction of gas importation
Oct. 12, 2010
Masoud Mirkazemi oil minister confessed: due to the international sanctions, gas importation has been reduced from 23 million liter in the last few months to 800,000 liter.





Iranians rush to pull out money from banks and buy foreign currency
Oct. 13, 2010 
According to reports from Tehran, from October 9, Iranians started pulling out their money from banks in Iran to exchange them to foreign currency especially the US dollar and rushed to foreign exchanges which led to a state much like that of last February.
People wait in long lines to get 2,000 dollars. Every dollar costs 1,060 tomans. In one of the foreign exchange shops in a north western street in Tehran, lines start from 9 am. At about 10 am they distribute forms, take a copy of the national card and money form their customers and give the dollars to customers from 2 pm. They tell their customers that they cannot promise that they will give them dollars and will only give the dollars in the order that the forms were handed in.
This condition shows the fear of the people that their money might get blocked which is a result of the decaying state of the Iranian regime and the probability of its demise in the near future.

Progressive rise in the price of plain tickets in Mullah’s regime
Oct. 11, 2010 
Airways manager announced: Plane tickets will become even more expensive! Farhad Parvaresh said: increase of 30% in Plane tickets price have no relation with the law of tax, the increase in the price of oil, have risen the price of tickets.

Increase in repression of bazaar owners with security police of guilds 
Oct. 13, 2010
According to received reports, mullah’s regime for repressing bazaar strikers, has established a new force called 'security police of guilds'.

Rahimi threatened bazaar strikers for serious clash with them
Oct. 12, 2010
ATI News wrote on behalf of Mohammad Reza Rahimi, they will take serious actions against those who want to make trespasses and disorders in Bazaar.


Crack within Regime

Some of heads of universities have been expelled from work because of their disbelief in veil law
Oct. 12, 2010
Supreme leader of the regime has put commission of literature in charge of implementing the so called law of veil.
Minister of Science in reply to the questions of the commission, has declared that the reason for the defeat of veil plan, was slender activity of some the university headers. He also mentioned the reason of expel and the change of some university headers was because of this matter that they didn’t believe in these orders.


Resistance

Protest gathering of water and electricity industry university students 
Oct. 11, 2010
On Monday, 11th of October at 1130 in front of the university café, students of Water and Electricity University, held a gathering to reach their demands.
This gathering was for the invitation of administrative council of the university. This council will try to investigate the following problems:
-Closing down of one of university publishing place and reduction of publications
-Unsettled situation of education and bad behaviors of university employees.
-Unknown situation of university, to which ministry it belongs
-Unclassified situation of courses
-Bad status of food and health

Suppression


Prisoner to be hanged on Wednesday morning in Shiraz
Oct. 12, 2010
Judiciary officials have scheduled the execution of a man in Shiraz Prison on Wednesday morning.
According to reports, this man is from Dehdasht in Kohkiluyeh & Boyer Ahmad and his brother was also hanged on Saturday along with two other prisoners in Shiraz. Their bodies were transferred to Dehdasht for burial.
They were all charged with participating in the murder of two security agents.

Iran: 9 Executions including a woman during 2 days in Isfahan and Zanjan
Oct. 12, 2010
In a criminal act, 5 prisoners were hanged in central prison of Isfahan. According to the report of judiciary of Isfahan, one of the executed was a 32 years old Afghan man called Yaghoub. D. A day before, on the universal day struggle against execution, Judiciary system of Mullah’s regime executed 4 including a woman in the central prison of Zanjan. Mass execution of 7 prisoners in central prison of Kerman, a woman prisoner in Shirvan and two in Orumiyeh prison, have been other facts of this criminal and violated acts during 28of September till 7th of October.
Therefore the number of executed has reached to 20 in less than 2 weeks.
Regime is using increasing repression as the only way to stand against the growing crisis which is facing.

Issuing the anti-human sentence of cutting the hand of one prisoner in Mashad
Oct. 12, 2010
Iranian regime has cut off a hand of a man in the northeastern holy city of Mashhad, the ISNA news agency reported on Tuesday.
ISNA said the hand was cut off in front of other prisoners.
Last July, Iran amputated the hands of five other people charged with theft in the northwestern city of Hamedan.
Also, Khorasan newpaper wrote on Tuesday 12th of October, this sentence was issued and done in central prison of Mashad today. (Source of news Fars state-run news agency and Khorasan newspaper)

It is worth to mention that because of increase of poverty inside Iran in recent years, robberies have been increased. Regime of Iran instead of solving the root of poverty and arrest the main robbers who are the members of this regime itself instead has started inhuman action against the poor people by cutting their hands. 


Prison guards brutally attack Rajayi Shahr prisoners
Oct. 12, 2010
On Monday October 11 at about 9:30 am prison guards raided cellblock 5 in Gohardasht (Rajayi Shahr) Prison in Karaj and beat the defenseless prisoners. As a result of this attack a number of prisoners were injured. One of the prisoners who was violently beaten was Farhangpour Mansouri. He sustained injuries in his hand and feet. Head guard Naser Zaiem threatened this prisoner to death. The attack continued until 12 pm.
These guards also broke and seized the personal belongings of these prisoners. Close to 30 guards participated in this raid. This attack was carried out on orders of Kermani and Faraji, the head and assistant head of the Intelligence Unit of prison.

Iran bans student activist from education
Oct. 12, 2010
The Selection Committee of the Evaluation Organization announced that Saied Moradi Naqdeh, a law student at Gilan University who is also a student activist and the former head of the student publication, ‘Qupouz’, was banned from continuing his education.
According to reports, Moradi Naqdeh was active in the reformer’s campaign in the 2009 elections. He is also a member of the Editorial Council of the Chagheri publication and the Secretary of the Shahriar Association.

No news on detained high school student and blogger 25 days after arrest  
Oct. 12, 2010
Twenty five days after the arrest of Navid Mohebi, a senior high school student in Mazandaran, his condition and health is unknown.
Sources close to his family say that his family is concerned for this student activist in light of the state of the Intelligence Agency Detention Center in Sari and the way this blogger has been treated.
Navid Mohebi was arrested by security forces on the morning of September 18 in his home in Amol and was then transferred to the Intelligence Agency Detention Center in Sari.
It is not clear why this blogger was arrested by security forces. He was reportedly brutally beaten upon arrest by security and intelligence agents in Mazandaran.
Mohebi is a student activist and a member of the One-Million Signature Campaign (advocating change in the constitution) who was summoned and beaten in the Amol Intelligence Agency after participating in a women’s day ceremony in 2009…
Mohebi is a senior high school student and was underage and unable to vote in the 2009 presidential elections.

Gifted student banned from continuing education to get master’s degree
Oct. 11, 2010
The Intelligence Agency has decided that Farzaneh Jalali, who scored sixth place in the nationwide master’s degree exams in Iran, does not have the right to continue her education to get her master’s degree.
Farzaneh Jalali, anthropology major in Tehran University’s Social Sciences School was a student activist in this university and a member of the student’s Islamic Association. She was also in charge of the Sobh (Morning) student publication in this university for one year.
Jalali was summoned to the Revolutionary Court and Intelligence Agency after security forces attacked the university dormitory during post election events.
This student activist was banned from continuing her education even as the head of the Evaluation Organization announced last month that they did not deprive anyone of education because of their political activities.

Political prisoners in cellblock 350 in Evin Prison are forced to use polluted water 
Oct. 11, 2010
According to reports, the water that political prisoners in cellblock 350 in Evin Prison use has been cut off in the past few days and when there is water, it is muddy and undrinkable.
To put more pressure and subject political prisoners to more limitations, they have almost been completely deprived of water in the past few days. The water shortage has also led to serious unsanitary problems for prisoners.
It is notable that the water political prisoners use in Evin Prison is provided from polluted water wells. This has also led to serious digestive and nephrogenic problems for prisoners.
Political prisoners are also deprived of warm water for bathing and are forced to shower with cold water. This is an ongoing limitation used to put pressure on political prisoners.

2 university students suspended for 2 semesters for political activities
Oct. 11, 2010
After several large gatherings were held in Tehran’s Science and Industry University following the 2009 presidential elections in Iran, the Disciplinary Committee in this university sentenced Hamid Bidar, a fifth year computer engineering student and Navid Atayi, a fifth year constructional engineer student to two semesters of suspension from university. Their sentences were upheld by the Appeals Council of the Science Ministry’s Central Committee.

Iran’s public prosecutor warns political prisoners against publishing statements from prison
Oct. 11, 2010
‘If someone commits the same crime after receiving a sentence for the previous crime and is serving his/her sentence or has finished serving his/her sentence, he/she will be prosecuted and punished and this punishment will definitely be more severe’.  Public Prosecutor Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Ejeie said regarding a letter by political prisoners sent outside of prison and a number of statements by political prisoners (published in websites).  (Mehr state-runNews Agency)

61 post election protesters sentenced to prison terms
Oct. 11, 2010
Sixty Four people charged in the events of 2008 received their sentences in the last month. (Public Prosecutor) Golam-Hossein Mohseni Ejeie, said in a news conference, “From these (64) three were cleared of the charges and 61 people received prison terms from 6 years to 19.5 years”.
“These sentences are initial and the court of review procedures has still not ended”, he added.
“From those who were convicted, one person was sentenced o 19.5 years of prison, another person was sentenced to 15 years of prison and the rest were sentenced to less than 15 years of prison”.
“Some of them were also sentenced to social limitations and flogging”, Iran’s Public Prosecutor added. (IRNA state-run news agency)


Other News

Iran jams internet from mosques 
Oct. 13, 2010
In the West Townships in Tehran, a few streets from the Milad Tower, the Abolfazl Mosque is used by Iranian regime to send noise and jam internet signals.
This mosque is one of the many mosques that have noise senders installed on them. Regime forces constantly change the direction of the noise.
Companies that provide internet services were not aware that the regime was sending this noise on the internet and were confused and thought that the problem was with their own systems.
It is worth noting that this mosque is also a Bassij base.


Students Committee in Iran (Supporters of PMOI)