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December 16, 2010
A group of people commemorate Kianoosh Asa memory in Kermanshah
A group of people commemorate
Kianoosh Asa memory in Kermanshah
Iran Students Committee (Supporters of PMOI)
Reports from Iran - ASHURA IN IRAN - December 16, 2010
Reports from Iran
ASHURA IN IRAN
December 16, 2010
Rasht Golsar Region Mourning groups chanted ‘Ya Hossein’ and ‘we will never surrender’. Security forces are trying to disperse the mourners.
Tehran Enqelab Street 1:30 pm Two young men were arrested in Enqelab Street. They were handcuffed and taken to a police car. There are only security forces in Enqelab Street. From Azadi Street to Imam Hossein Square, security forces have been stationed in very high numbers and strict security measures have been enforced.
Tehran A group of about 200 to 300 people are moving towards Enqelab Square chanting ‘death to dictator’ and ‘Abbas (brother of Imam hossein who was killed by Yazid) remove the dictator’.
Tehran 11:30 to 12:30 pm People in Janat Abad and Tehransar are chanting death to dictator. There have been clashes in this area and a number of people have been arrested. People chant louder when people are arrested.
Tehran 12:10 pm People have clashed with security forces in Firdosi Square. These clashes are still ongoing. Security forces arrested two people. The people are chanting death to dictator in their support.
The head of the State Security Forces in Tehran, Sajedi Nia, is charged with controlling Tehran today and four RGC bases are tasked with controlling the scene and protests.
Tehran 12:30 pm A large number of mourning groups have gathered near the Khayam intersection. Security forces tried to block their path to prevent them from passing, but these groups paid no heed to the security forces and continued their procession.
Helicopters are being used to patrol Tehran from the air.
Tehran Enqelab Square 1:30 pm Security forces are filming the mourners from helicopters for later identification and to control the people. Intelligence agents have confiscated all the cameras and warrants of those who were allowed to take pictures and only government cameramen are allowed to take pictures and films of the scenes.
The people are very radical in their chants against the government.
Enqelab Square 12:30 pm Mourning groups in the Taleqani Intersection are literally surrounded by security forces.
Tehran At about 10:20 am in Navab Street, about 50 government forces on motorcycles chanted Allah O Akbar, death to Monafeq and Monafeq get lost (Monafeq is used by the regime to refer to the PMOI) and charged at an Azeri mourning group in Tehran. The people in the group chanted ‘Iran has turned into Palestine’, ‘death to this deceitful government’ and ‘death to dictator’, and continued their procession.
Students Committee in Iran (Supporters of PMOI)
UPDATE ON IRAN - Dec. 16, 2010
The Beginning of the End of the Clerical Rule in Iran
No. 744
Ashura in Iran
Regime’s fear from street protest during Ashura
Dec.14, 2010
In fear of street protests during Ashura regime has ordered the mourning groups not to leave the mosques. They are not permitted to take the mourning into the streets.
SSF on state of alert for Ashura
Dec.14, 2010 - Tehran
On the eve of Ashura and in fear of the uprising on that day Ismael Ahmadi Moghadam the head of SSF said: “SSF is always on alert and monitors the situation. This year all forces are completely mobilized so that during days of Moharam (the month in which Ashura took place) the country will be in peace”.
Moghadam absurdly claimed that there is no such potential for uprising such as last year’s but added: “cyber- crimes are dangerous now and are very capable. If we don’t act as soon as possible the country will be damaged”.
Suppressive forces on state of alert
Dec.13, 2010 - Tehran
Since December 11, Bassij and security forces have been stationed in the crowded regions of Tehran and have put up checkpoints with the aim of creating an atmosphere of fear and terror to prevent anti-government protests on the Ashura mourning ceremonies (Dec. 16). The government has learned from past experience that since Ashura is the anniversary of the deaths of a number of slain protesters, there are bound to be protests. The government is terrified of protests and has carried out precautionary measures from one month ago. They have announced a framework for mourning ceremonies to keep the ceremonies under control. Filming this religious ceremony is also a new method to control and identify would be protesters and to create an atmosphere of fear.
Teacher’s Guild of Ardebil Province: Ashura is the day for the oppressed to assert for Justice
Dec.14, 2010 - Ardebil
The statement issued by the guild to call for protest demonstration on Ashura reads: “Ashura is always a day for oppressed to claim justice so we support all justice-seeking moves at this day by chanting ‘death to dictator’”.
Teachers of Abhar call for participation in Ashura Uprising
Dec.14, 2010 - Abhar
A group of teachers in Abhar issued a statement calling on people to participate in Ashura Uprising:
“Dear compatriots; for us and any freedom-loving human being Hossein’s Ashura has the message of fighting against oppression imposed by despotic rulers who use religion as a cover. In our era the rulers are using religion to oppress us and put pressure on us so far that any kind of protest is severely suppressed and one faces imprisonment. So we teachers following the path of Imam Hossein will join the protest marches and will chant ‘we will not surrender to oppression’ on Ashura”.
Downfall
An IRGC commander talks of the broken talisman of Khamenei
Dec.14, 2010 - Tehran
An IRGC commander admitted that attacks against Khamenei during last year equals to the amount of attacks against him during last21 years.
Ramezan Sharif, responsible for public relation of IRGC admitted to the fact in a gathering of IRGC in Tehran: “attacks against the establishment are imposed on two courses; the Supreme Leader and IRGC along with Bassij”.
He tried to brief the IRGC and Bassij members about the danger of uprisings and popular resistance.
Ousted; Manouchehr Motaki
Dec.14, 2010 - Tehran
The state-run daily Jomhori under the title: 'Motaki is gone' pointed to the appointment of special representatives of Ahmadinejad (the main dispute between Ahmadinejad and Motaki) and added that two key posts in Middle East and Asia have been appointed to two person close to Ahmadinejad namely Isfandiar Rahim Mashaee and Mohammad Baghaee none of them has any experience at Foreign Ministry”.
The daily continues: “the observers talk of this act as Ahmadinejad not trusting the Foreign Ministry and the Foreign Minister”.
Jomhori while protesting says: “weakening the diplomatic apparatus of the country especially at the current situation by some people from the government is as sitting on a tree branch and cutting its trunk”.
Deployment of 30,000 pupils to war regions
Dec.14, 2010 - Tehran
22 years after the ceasefire between Iran and Iraq the clerical dictatorship is still receiving its energy from war wasting the young force of the country in that course.
ILNA an official news agency wrote that 30,000 pupils are being deployed to the regions of former Iran-Iraq war to be trained the “Sacred Defense”.
This deployment is done by Bassij having the approval of the Ministry of Education. These pupils are all from the 10th grade.
Suppression
No news on detained father of slain protester
Dec. 14, 2010
Seven days after the arrest of the father of slain protester Ramin Ramezani, his family and relatives still do not have any information about his whereabouts.
According to reports, Ramin Ramezani’s father was arrested seven days ago in the gravesite of his 22 year old son in the Tehran Behesht Zahra Cemetery…
Ramin Ramezani was shot and killed on June 15, 2009 in a peaceful march in Tehran.
In the one and a half years after his son’s death, his father who has not been without sorrow even for a day has now been arrested and jailed. This is the first time that the father of a slain protester is arrested and jailed.
Iran suspends labor unionist from work
Dec. 14, 2010
According to reports, labor unionist Homayoun Jaberi was suspended from work and summoned to the first branch of the Karaj Revolutionary Court.
On Saturday December 11, Jaberi was suspended from work by the Protection Department of the Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company under the excuse of an unjustifiable absence (he was absent for 13 days when he was detained by the Intelligence Agency for the crime of accompanying his colleague’s wife). Jaberi went back to work when he was released on a 10 million toman (about 10,000 dollar) bail…
In another illegal measure, the Protection Department of the Tehran and Suburbs Bus Company has announced that his arrest last year on May Day will also be counted as an unjustifiable absence and a new case will be made against him for this reason.
On the other hand, he was told over the phone to go to the first branch of the Karaj Revolutionary Court to be tried without being given a written summons.
Iran fatally shoots two Kurd citizens in border region
Dec. 14, 2010
In the past few days, two Kurd citizens were killed in the border region of Piranshahr after being shot by security forces.
Security forces opened direct fire on Osman Mohammadi and Mahmoud Minehzadeh killing them.
The bodies of these two border merchants were buried after one day in Mahabad.
Some news sources in Kurdistan have reported that 18 Kurd citizens were killed in the past two months in Kurdistan’s borders.
Students Committee in Iran (Supporters of PMOI)
December 15, 2010
UPDATE ON IRAN - Dec. 15, 2010
The Beginning of the End of the Clerical Rule in Iran
No. 743
Ashura in Iran
Dec.13, 2010
Following the successful anti-regime demonstration on Students Day a group of activists call for demonstration on Ashura; the call says in part: “On this Ashura we will take into streets ... for better life, freedom and welfare. It is about just vs. unjust. It is about truth vs. lie. It is about the rule of people vs. rule of a regime who claims it gets its legitimacy from God! ...A freedom loving nation is going to gain its goals.
Tehran, 12 noon: from Imam Hussein Sq. to Enghlab Sq.”.
We fight back Khamenei the oppressor of our time on Ashura
Dec.13, 2010
Bus drivers in Bandar Abbas (south of Iran) called on uprising on Ashura. In their statement they called on all drivers, laborers, fishermen and other sectors of the society in Bandar Abbas to vastly be present during Tasua and Ashura demonstrations to fight the tyrant and the oppressor ruling Iran. They wrote: “...Our nation is in a condition in which it needs to follow Imam Hussein's path because of the oppression and despotism imposed on all people especially workers, drivers, nurses and fishermen. The victory is God’s and the victory is ours. Death to this deceptive government.'
On Ashura we will all rise
Dec.14, 2010
A group of laborers of Khozestan Pipe-making factories, Rajaee Dock of Bandar Abbas, Alborz Chinaware factory of Qazvin, Iran Radiator Factory, Sarcam Filter Production Factory in Tehran and the Activists of Guilds for Justice have issued statements calling on Iranians to participate in Ashura’s protest demonstrations. In these statements it’s written:
On Ashura we will all rise and cry loud as ‘the victory is God’s and the victory is close; death to this deceptive government’, ‘death to dictator’ and ‘we will never surrender to oppression’.
Commemorating martyrs of 2009 Ashura in Behesht-e-Zahra CemeteryDec.13, 2010
The Society for Defending Families of Martyrs and Detained issued a statement calling for the commemoration gathering of 2009 Ashura in Behesht-e-Zahra. The statement reads in part: “People took into the streets last year on Ashura to protest vastly against the social and political conditions and against the Ahmadinejad’s government.
The government suppressed them full force with its SSF, Bassij and Intelligence Ministry...They shot at people and killed and injured tens of them even drove with their cars over people and killed them like Shahram Farjzadeh...
During last year they put sever pressure on the families of these victims and threatened them not to hold any ceremony in their commemoration...
This society is calling on all compatriots to participate in the ceremony for commemoration of these martyrs to soothe their families and not to let their voice of seeking justice to be hushed.
Date of gathering: Thursday Dec.16 at 3 pm in Behesht-e-Zahra Cemetery.
Lets raise our voices once more; viva freedom, viva freedom”.
In the statement the name of some of those fallen for freedom during last Ashura Uprising is mentioned as:
1- Jahanbakhs Pazooki
2- Shahram Farajzadeh
3- Mehrdad Karimpoor
4- Shabnam Sohrabi (fe)
5- Amir Arshad Tajmir
6- Mehdi Farhadi
7- Mohmmad Ali Rasekhnia, father of two
8- Mostafa Baik Iraqi
9- Seyyed Ali Mosavi Habibi, father of two
Note: A link of film regarding these nine martyrs fallen for freedom on Ashura 2009 is as following:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR3K0e5IA-g
Slongans challenging the clerical regime during Ashura
Dec.14, 2010 - Tehran
As Ashura comes, written slogans throughout Tehran call for another uprising. These slogans reading: we will come on Ashura/ Ashura another epoch...are seen in regions such as Aryashahr (Sadeghieh) metro station and Navab.
Distribution of leaflets and readiness of Tehran’s youths for Ashura protests
Dec.13, 2010 - Tehran
Coming closer to the time of Ashura, readiness of youths for protest acts against the regime have increased. For this occasion, youths in Tehranpars and Behjatabad in Tehran, have distributed thousands of small leaflets on streets and avenues in this zone from top of the tall buildings. Signature of these leaflets is “Tehran’s Youths”. What is written on them is that: in the memory of last year’s Ashura / down with principle of supreme leader / our promise in the main ways of Tehran youths uprise.
According to news by the witnesses on 11th of December, hundreds of leaflets about youths protest have been distributed in the street of Satarkhan and many have been left on the street and pavement. An hour after this event a group of intelligence agents and a mayor car tried to collect the leaflets from allover.
On one of these leaflets, was written, "We call on all people of Iran to take part in Ashura."
This leaflet was written by students' supporters of Ashraf (place located in Iraq which is the place of all members of PMOI). In these days there has been an increase of conflicts among the youths and police forces which the reason is fear of regime from youths gatherings, and it is like that they have become suspicious to all the people and they become aggressive to people.
Regime’s fear of protests during Tasua and Ashura
Dec.13, 2010 - Tehran
The suppressive agents of SSF are stationed in Tehranpars’ First and Second Circle and at the beginning of Damavand Street while fully equipped. They try to provoke an atmosphere of horror amongst people by searching the cars passing by in fear of the protests during Ashura.
The organs that traditionally hold the ceremonies of that day are informed that each group holding the ceremony must be controlled by at least 10 to 12 SSF agents and plainclothes.
Situating repressive forces in Tehran’s streets
Dec. 13, 2010
According to receiving reports, repressive police forces with all kinds of equipment are situated widespread in different region of Tehren, such as, Tehranpars and Damavand streets and by investigating and searching all cars intend to create a fearful atmosphere among the people. These repressive acts are in fear of anti-governmental protests in days of Tasoua and Ashura.
Downfall
Motaki ousted; another sign of clerical regime’s downfall
Dec.13, 2010 - Tehran
Regime’s foreign minister being hurriedly ousted by Ahmadinejad while he was visiting African countries is the result of the breakage of Khamenei’s hegemony and talisman. It shows the deepening of schism within the regime and is a sign that regime’s era is over.
International sanctions, atomic crisis, economic crisis, unemployment, poverty and thousand other crises within Iran’s society are all bringing this regime under tremendous pressure dragging it even closer to its end.
We will witness crisis-stricken clerical regime receiving other blows in near future for sure.
Suppression
Call on 25 students of Khajehnasir university in Tehran
Dec. 13, 2010
The suppressive forces of the KhajehNasir University, called on 25 students on Saturday 11th of December, and threatened them. This calls followed by students protest on student day.
Political prisoner threatened by prison judicial officialDec. 13, 2010
Ali Mohammadi, the Judicial Assistant of the Rajayi Shahr (Gohardasht) Prison in Karaj who has a long history in abusing and harassing political prisoners, summoned political prisoner Saleh Kohandel to his office this morning and insulted and threatened him.
According to reports, Ali Mohammadi demanded that he deny his membership in a political organization and not to leak news from inside prison to the outside.
Ali Mohammadi has harassed and abused many political prisoners in recent years. He was a member of the Revolutionary Guards Forces in the 80’s but after participating in the suppression of political prisoners he was appointed as the Judicial Assistant and assistant head of prison.
Notably, another political prisoner, Farzad Madadzadeh was transferred to cellblock 8 in this prison and was beaten.
Political prisoner goes on hunger strike after being tortured for writing Student Day statement from prisonDec. 13, 2010
Arash Sadeqi went on a hunger strike in protest to being beaten after being subjected to pressure by interrogators for writing a letter in prison which was published (in the media).
According to his family, after his statement for Student Day was published, he was severely beaten by interrogators in cellblock 209 in Evin Prison and suffered a serious fracture in this ribcage. Interrogators refused to take him to the infirmary.
Therefore Arash Sadeqi went on a hunger strike on December 10. Notably, this prisoner had also suffered a broken shoulder in his past detentions.
Iran chops off hand of two men in Shiraz
Dec. 13, 2010
The amputation sentence for two men was carried out in the Central Shiraz Prison. This sentence was upheld by judicial institutions and the hand of these robbers was amputated according to religious law. (Kayhan state-run daily)
15 percent of workers in Neishabour have not received wages for last 4 months
Dec. 13, 2010
The Executive Secretary of the Labor House in the town of Neishabour said that 15 percent of workers in this town have not received their wages for about 4 months.
“About 15 percent of laborers in the town of Neishabour have not received their wages for 4 months and despite constant inquiries by the Labor Home, the relevant institutions have not answered in this regard”, Mohammad Omarlou said. (ILNA state-run News Agency)
Students Committee in Iran (Supporters of PMOI)
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