September 3, 2010
'QODS DAY' - Sept. 3, 2010
'QODS DAY'
Tehran- reports on Quds Day march
Sept. 3, 2010
The seven paths that the Iranian regime had determined for the Quds Day March was so empty that the government was forced to park public transportations automobiles in these paths and streets. From Azadi Square to Enqelab Square in all the paths, the crowds barely reached one thousand. Regime supporters were walking in groups of two or three towards Enqelab Square which was the main site of the gathering in despair because of the lack of public participation Millions of colorful posters, pictures and other writing were left unused in the hands of regime forces because there were no mass crowds to distribute the posters to. The crowds participating in the Quds state-run marches were those who usually participate in Friday Prayers. Even those who usually came just to get food and drinks did not participate in the march.
Tehran – Karim Khan Zand Street
Security forces were out on force on the streets. A young man was arrested after passing by a number of security forces. They would arrest anyone they deemed suspicious and a van full of arrested young people was seen in this street.
Valiasr Street
There were clashes between security forces and the people in this region. Special Guards Forces were also on the scene in the Square. Cell phones were also down at that time in this region.
In the Karimkhan and Farahani intersection which is actually Haft Tir Square about 100 people who came out of the metro were chanting ‘no to Lebanon, no to Gaza, I will only sacrifice for Iran’.
13:30 in Friday Prayers
Today instead of fruit juice which is usually distributed by the regime to gather crowds for a bigger turnout, they were giving out pens with six colors and key chains to participants because of the month of Ramadan.
Sept. 3, 2010
- Last night the sound of 'Allah O Akbar' which was being chanted by people could be heard in the following regions:
Dolatabad, Qetareyh,Tajresh, Shah Abdol Azim, and the street leading to Hamaran Street.
- Last night a number of youths were arrested while writing slogans in the public areas in Arak (West of Iran).
- In the Sadat Abad region in Tehran people chanted 'Allah O Akbar' last night.
The notorious Bassij forces have been stopping people from 2am to body search passersby. The police forces have announced that they will do anything in order to control the security atmosphere.
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The Beginning of the End of the Clerical Rule in Iran
No.696
Downfall
Majlis deputy lashes out at Ahmadinejad aide in midst of feuds31 August 2010
In another sign of persistently widening rifts in the Iranian regime, a member of the regime’s Majlis (Parliament) used an official session to lash out at an aide of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the mullahs’ President, the state-run Fars news agency reported on Sunday.
The mullahs’ Foreign Minister, Manouchehr Mottaki, was also present at the session. The Majlis deputy, Elias Naderan, criticized Rahim Mashai, who Ahmadinejad appointed recently as the chair of the “Supreme Council for Exiled Iranians,” using openly condescending language.
Naderan called the institution “illegal,” and told Mottaki, “If that notorious individual [Mashai] is supposed to run this council, then why not just appoint him as the foreign minister, too?”
Naderan also uncovered more information about the regime’s attempts to assemble its elements from abroad in Tehran in the context of a “conference” in July, which turned into a high profile fiasco and fueled more infighting among regime officials.
In view of the unrewarding so-called conference, Naderan complained, “Each guest [at the conference] had four people with them. We paid for their tickets, rented charter planes for them, and gave them a cross-country tour. We also picked up the tab for their stay in Tehran and paid their 31 years of unpaid salaries.”
Iran: Former IRGC Commander concerned about regime's future31 August 2010
The former commander of the Iranian regime’s Revolutionary Guards has voiced concern about the Iranian regime’s future and the devastating impact of international sanctions.
Rahim Safavi’s unusually frank comments were published on Sunday by the state-run Mehr news agency. “We are currently in extraordinarily complex political, cultural, economic, security and social circumstances. This is true with regards to regional, global and domestic spheres.”
“The future is uncertain and we cannot [proactively] manage what the future has in store for us.”
Rahim Safavi was the commander-in-chief of the Iranian regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) until September 2007. He was succeeded by Mohammad Ali Jafari. He is now described as the senior advisor to the mullahs’ Supreme Leader in military affairs.
Safavi also compared the regime’s current international isolation with the pre-Iran-Iraq war era and said, “The same coalition has taken shape now, too. They want to create trouble for us with economic sanctions, political pressures and domestic tensions in Iran.”
“We must prepare ourselves for every scenario and not allow sanctions to cause problems for us in the future,” he said.
He also made reference to the US troops withdrawal from Iraq, and said, “The Americans are currently in the process of withdrawing. It seems that 30-50 thousand forces and five bases will remain in Iraq. This will be like the South Korea model; they will remain in Iraq for years to come to be able to dominate it.”
Multi-billion dollar fraud conspiracy by Iranian regime’s Oil Ministry31 August 2010
The state-run website Jahan News revealed a multi-billion dollar fraud conspiracy by the Iranian regime’s Oil Ministry and wrote two companies that had an initial capital of just $100 are partnered in the giant $21 billion South Pars gas field contract.
“The Iranian Petro Paydar Company – Stock Limited that is involved in the $5 billion Phase 13 development stage consortia, was founded exactly on the date of this contract, 15 June 2010, with an initial capital of $100,” Jahan News wrote mentioning the contract. “This company was registered under license number 377800 and national certificate number 10320271640 in the Office of Company Registration.”
According to this report, the second company that signed to take part in this enormous investing contract is named The Petro Sina Aria Oil & Gas Company – Stock Limited that is involved in the $5 billion Phases 22-24 development consortia. This company was founded on 14 June 2010, one day before the signing of the contract, with an initial capital of just $100, registered under license number 377660 and national certificate number 10320271046 in the Office of Company Registration.
This state-run media added, “The main question facing the respected directors of the Oil Ministry and the Presidency is that how, why and with what legal basis is this multi-billion dollar contract – signed in their presence –with two $100 dollar companies with exact same directors and stockowners, on the date of their foundation? And how are they joined in profits made from 3 billion dollar euro debentures and 3 trillion Rial debentures?”
It should be noted that the so-called signing of this contract took place with the presence of Ahmadinejad on 15 June with deceiving propaganda.
Workers protest 16-month unpaid wages30 August 2010
Herana News Agency reported workers of the Long Distance Communications plant in Shiraz protested outside the factory, chanting “Life, Livelihood, are our basic rights” and “Workers’ wages must be paid.”
Wages of some workers hasn’t been paid for over 16 months, state-run ISNA News Agency reported. These workers are in very poor financial conditions and have no hope for insurance or retirement funds. They are not even able to pay their insurance bills.
Suppression
Silent executions continue in Vakil Abad Prison in Mashhad
Aug. 30, 2010
They bring those who are to be executed in groups of 70 to the visiting hall of Vakil Abad Prison in Mashhad and an hour before sunset; they are hanged in a mass execution with nooses sent from Tehran. Those who are to be executed do not know until moments before their execution why they have been summoned to the Prison Office and only when all the prison phones go dead an hour before sunset do other prisoners realize that it is time for the executions.
This is the horrific state of Vakil Abad Prison in Mashhad in the past few months. A human rights activist in Mashhad described what he had heard from soldiers in prison saying that in the past weeks at least 60 to 70 people were taken to the gallows every week without their own knowledge or that of their families; prisoners that did not have lawyers and did not receive fair trials.
It seems that the heads of Mashhad’s Revolutionary Court had the order, according to a directive issued by Mohsen Ejeyi, to send all drug related death row prisoners to the gallows in a speedy and ceaseless manner.
The deaths sentences are mostly issued by the four judges of Mashhad’s Revolutionary Court – Kavousi, Kaboli, Soltani and Yasayi and have been promptly carried out. The haste in carrying out the executions is to the extent that prisoners realize their fate moments before their execution. According to a prison guard, only a few moments after a prisoner met with his wife, the prison guard took him to the hall where sentences are carried out while the prisoner and his wife did not know anything about his execution.
The numbers of hangings in Vakil Abad Prison have reached 500 according to reports from cellmates and the few families who are willing to talk. The lack of communications, fear among the families and even prisoner employees has made the task of getting reports on the fate of prisoners very hard. But according to reports in the past 5 months, a number of prisoners have been executed every week in an alternate fashion and the families only realized that the number of executions are very high after collecting the corpses of their loved ones (from prison). Prison officials intimidate these families who are mostly from poor classes and prevent them from spreading the news. They also had to pay 7 thousand tomans for the noose (their loved ones were hanged with). Most of the prisoners did not have lawyers and because lawyers charge 'between 10 to 15' million tomans to appeal the death sentence, most families cannot afford lawyers.
The hangings of Vakil Abad was not limited to only Iranians and in a number of instances Afghan nationals and in one instance a Nigerian was also executed. They have all been charged with narcotics trafficking but according to the human rights activist in Mashhad, the death sentence was given to light crimes which prisoners usually receive prison terms for. There are reports that the Mashhad public prosecutor's office has said that Mohsen Ejeyi, the Prosecutor General of Iran, intends to commemorate Khalkhali by executing narcotics traffickers.
In the beginning of the 80’s, Ayatollah Sadeq Khalkhali sent many drug addicts and small time narcotics traffickers to the gallows in a speedy plan to eliminate narcotics in Iran. It is said that Khalkhali believed that if a death sentence was wrongly given to a prisoner, that prisoner would go to heaven after his execution.
Political prisoner in coma after 48 days of hunger strike; denied medical attention
Aug. 30, 2010
According to reports, political prisoner Arjang Davoudi went into a coma last night on his 48th day of hunger strike. The life of this political prisoner is in danger.
On Sunday night, august 29, at about 12 am, Davoudi was taken to the infirmary on a stretcher while he was close to a coma. Before being treated, the medical staff put a paper in front of him and asked him to sign it so that he would take full responsibility for anything that might happen to him. But this political prisoner refused to sign the paper. The medics then gave him an unidentified injection and after 45 minutes, left him in the hallway of cellblock 3 even as he was in very critical condition. They refused to keep him in the infirmary.
He has been on a stretcher from last night until now in the hallway. His health has deteriorated and he is unable to open his eyes or talk. The life of this political prisoner is in danger.
Aids and other illnesses spreading in Iranian prisons
30 August 2010
The chairman of the Iranian regime’s Prisons Organization admitted to a growing number of tuberculosis and Aids infections among Iranian prisoners as well as drug smuggling in the regime’s prisons.
The state-run media reported on Sunday that Gholam-Hossein Esmaili said 1.7 percent of the prisoners have been infected with the Aids virus and 265 inmates are suffering from tuberculosis.
He added, “Even after all the controls have been put in place, the Prisons Organization can never completely stop the smuggling of drugs into the prisons.”
It is worth mentioning that the main culprits of smuggling drugs into prisons are the regime’s own wardens and interrogators. On Thursday, a clerical regime official, Zaeri, said, “In our system, even healthy people who, for example, are imprisoned on charges of fraud become addicted to drugs while spending time in prison.”
Mother of slain prisoner dies after torching herself in protest
Aug. 30, 2010
The mother of a prisoner who set herself on fire in protest to the murder of her son in prison died in Orumieh hospital.
According to reports, the mother of Bahman Massoudi, an ordinary prisoner in the Central Orumieh Prison, self immolated on August 23 after hearing that her son was killed in prison.
This Azeri mother died after being taken to the hospital despite efforts by the doctors to keep her alive.
Bahman Massoudi was murdered by a prison agent named Khanzadeh after being hit with a baton in the head while in solitary.
01 September 2010
A physicist from the country of Azerbaijan specializing in laser technology, who spent a year and a half in Iranian prisons and was recently released and extradited to his native country, has revealed his experience at the Iranian regime’s prisons as well as the regime’s tactics to hold him captive.
In an interview on Tuesday, Dr. Rashid Aliev said he was surprised by “arbitrary trials and violations of prisoners’ rights in Iran.” He added that he was most inspired by the high morale, persistence and world outlook of political prisoners at Ward 209 of Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison.
“I am always worried about their future,” Dr. Aliev said in reference to the political prisoners. “Although they were sentenced to death, they had unbelievably high morale and continued to engage in political conversations. It was as if their determination to bring change to their society could not be erased from their minds.”
“One example was Farhad Vakili. Several days before he was hanged, we had an interesting political discussion. I later heard from his friend that at the time of his execution, this political prisoner gladly placed the noose around his own neck.”
Mr. Aliev said he worked at Baku University and the Sciences Academy as a physicist specializing in laser technology until 2006 when he was headhunted by an Sazan Electronics company in Iran.
“When I was first came across the Iranian legal system, I was shocked. After a year and four months in prison they issued a sentence in absentia without allowing the defendant to have an attorney. They also distorted and fabricated evidence. The interrogator told me to draw the equipment that I was working on. I told him the equipments are available in the laboratory. But he insisted that I have to draw them on paper and I did it.”
“Later, they had offered those drawings as evidence in court, pretending that I had stolen them with the intention of smuggling them out of the country. On top of the page they had written, ‘I confess that I wanted to smuggle these documents out of the country.’ On the bottom of the page there was my signature where they had told me previously to sign after drawing the schematics.”
Aliev added, “I was shocked by this fabrication and deception. I told them I built the laboratory myself with technology from 30 years ago, which I imported into Iran myself. Why would I possibly want to steal this?”
Recounting his prison experience, he said, “I was going crazy due to stress. I spent 50 days in solitary confinement and was on a hunger strike for five days. I wished for death every single day. I experienced my own grave in solitary confinement.”
“For a 57 year old like me, one year was equivalent to 20 years. There was both physical and psychological torture in wards 209 and 350 [in Evin], especially the latter. Prisoners did not receive any food or fruits and humidity pierced through your bones. Doctors did not carry out any serious treatments. Prisoners’ letters never made it to their destinations.”
“I want to tell Iranian [regime officials] that no force would be able to block the path of evolution. Force is not the answer and will not produce any results,” he added.
Former head of Dezfoul’s Jondi Shapour University arrested
30 August 2010
Reports from inside the country indicate Amir Hossein Shirouy, former head of Jondi Shapour University and member of the university’s science board was arrested in the early hours of Sunday, 22 August. He was arrested in his home in Dezfoul, SW Iran.
Dezfoul intelligence agents also confiscated this university professor’s laptop and other belongings.
Political prisoner dies from cancer; denied on-time treatment
Aug. 30, 2010
Kaveh Kordi Moqadam, a Kurd political prisoners from Ashnavieh who was serving his time in Orumieh Prison passed away yesterday on August 29 in Orumieh Hospital.
According to reports, this political prisoner who suffered from stomach and lung cancer was granted a medical leave one month ago to receive treatment, but passed away because of the delay in treatment.
Doctors had warned about his critical condition from a long time ago and had told officials that he had to be under the care of a hospital and treated by specialists but prison officials refused to grant him a medical leave until a month ago.
Kaveh Kordi Moqadam was arrested in 2008 on charges of ‘acting against national security’ and was sentenced to 3 years of prison by the first branch of the Orumieh Revolutionary Court.
Another innocent border tradesman fatally shot by security forces; more than 900 tradesmen murdered by security forces last year
Aug. 31, 2010
Security forces in the Hassan Salaran Base in Saqez shot and killed 20 year old Mohammad Khoda Rahmi and severely injured Anvar Khoda Rahmi after they opened fire on their automobile. Anvar Khoda Rahmi was taken to this town’s general hospital.
According to reports from the Saqez Information Center, security forces claimed that they opened fire on these two citizens because they were carrying smuggled goods in their automobile. This is while villagers from several villages have announced that they are willing to testify in court that these two men were not smugglers and were going to Saqez from their village for automobile maintenance.
Last year, more than 900 border tradesmen and carriers were shot and killed by security forces.
Iran tortures two Azeri activists in Tabriz
Aug. 1, 2010
Eunice Soleimani, the former editor of Ildrim student publication in the Bu-Ali Sina University in Hamedan and Ayat Mehr Ali Biglu were tortured in the Tabriz Intelligence Detention Center.
Yusef Soleimani, the brother of this student activist said, “In the visit I had with my brother on August 25 in Tabriz Prison I realized that he was given electric shocks and injected with mind altering drugs”.
According to Eunice’s brother, he suffered heart problems as a result of the torture and was hospitalized in the Sepah Hospital in Tabriz for three days.
A number of Azeri activists in the Tabriz Intelligence Detention Center told their families in visits that Ayat Mehr Ali Biglu was also tortured and that they could hear him crying out while being tortured by agents.
Biglu has not had any contact with his family in the past month and his family have requested from the fourth branch of the Tabriz Revolutionary and Public Court to visit him and see his face but Judge Hashem Zadeh who is seeing to his case has announced that due to the security nature of the case, he cannot allow his family to see him.
Eunice Soleiman was arrested on June 17, 2009 in Ardabil and Ayat Mehr Ali Biglu was arrested on May 10, 2010 in the town of Sufian. Judicial sources have not announced their charges.
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August 31, 2010
UPDATE ON IRAN - Aug. 31, 2010
The Beginning of the End of the Clerical Rule in Iran
No.695
Downfall
Sanction - Economy
Aug. 30, 2010
Tehran- Manager of an insurance company, who has been included by the sanctions of UN and other countries said: Sanctions are being implemented for many years to the country, but when Iran’s insurance was included, it got worse than before. Before Iran insurance used to be Aksa insurance which issued travel insurances but now Aksa in not recognized and we cannot issue any thing.
In the trade also because of Banks sanctions, credits and trading LC cannot be done and this is effected in importing and exporting goods and actually the path to import goods for some factories have been blocked and this have increased to fall down in production and increased unemployment
If we put away the nuclear matters they will bring forward the human right and then democracy in Iran
Aug. 30, 2010
Foreign ministry spokesman of religious dictator regime in facing with international society, said: if we put away the nuclear problem, they will put forward human rights and then democracy.
Ramin Mehmanparast claims which were published by state run news agent Mehr, attacked the recent world protest against mullah’s dictatorship and said like Ahmadinejad: if we obey all their measures, then again they find some thing else to say. It means that they will go against all our rights. He added that the west is not ready for discussion with Ahmadinejad.
Gerami a cleric in the regime confirmed the execution and torture in Kahrizak torture chamber
Aug. 30, 2010
Gerami a cleric in the regime confirmed the execution and torture in Kahrizak torture chamber and said: Rumors which were published about Kahrizak prison was made by poets and were distributed by mobile to all places. Today’s publicity is not only by the national TV but to goes every where by mobiles.
He mentioned shortly to 30 years of tragedies implemented by this regime and said: People’s problem is not only one or two, they give statistics but they are not the case. People keep saying about the unemployment and confusion among their problems. They are afraid of buying things because they say they might get cheaper. They are afraid by selling goods because they say they might get more expensive. Even some people who are our followers phone and say, pray for us.
Regime official: The Iranian people's distaste for regime's exploitation of religion on the rise
28 August 2010
An Iranian regime official suggested on Wednesday that people in Iran reject the regime and its exploitation of Islam, according to the state-run news agency Mehr.
The director of the Iranian regime’s so-called Islamic Propagation Organization in the province of Qazvin, Ali Akbar Azizkhani, said, “In the holy month of Ramadan this year, more than 500 clerics were sent to various parts of the province, offices and factories. … But, the presence of people in mosques has been reduced and there is a fear that the mosques’ doors will gradually have to be closed.”
In a recent letter to the mullahs’ Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, Mohammad Nourizad, who is close to Khamenei, also wrote, “We have to beg people to avoid counting as Islamic our misdeeds which have created a frightening image of religion. People are harmed by our religious behavior and have a right to turn away from religion. … We lied to people, insulted them, violated their rights and perpetrated injustices all in the name of prayer, fasting and the Prophet.”
Forced enrolment in anti-people Basij
30 August 2010
Kermanshah – SarpolZahab- Qasrshirin- according to the reports from Kermanshah, during last week in cities of SarpolZahab- Qasrshirin people had been forced to enroll in Basij.
Basij by going to poor living areas declares that if they enroll in basij they will receive monthly payment and grocery. People in respond had said that they will not sell their honor against money.
Expulsion of work has doubled comparing to last year29 August 2010
According to the confession of one of regime’s authorities, the number of those who have been expelled from work during the 4 months of the current year is doubled comparing to last year. All the basis and economical structures in this ruling regime has gone toward complete ruin. This clerical regime has even robbed the people of Iran’s minimum nourishment.
According to the report of state run website called Mehr, the rate of unemployment has risen to 14.6 percent and number of unemployed is more than 3.5 million and there is no sign and estimate of finding jobs.
Ali Dehghan kia member of Islamic councils of Tehran province, said in an interview with Mehr that the rate of 14.6% unemployment and the growing number of unemployed will be added to those who have been expelled from their occupation which the statistics shows that the number has been doubled. The number of unemployed has risen to 5 million.
He also added that the price of raw materials of factories and any change in the condition of production in the factories will do harm to those who are in there. This is a very important problem which has to be taken seriously by the authorities.
40% more layoffs, 90% bankruptcy among privatized factories, regime official says
29 August 2010
An official in the Iranian regime said on Saturday that there has been a 40 percent jump in the number of layoffs in Iran while 90 percent of privatized companies have gone bankrupt.
According to the state-run Mowj news agency, Ali Dehqan Kia, the director of Tehran province’s Labour Council Association, also said, “About 6 billion dollars worth of goods is smuggled into the country. For every one billion dollars of smuggled goods, 25,000 workers in Iran would be laid off.”
Resistance
Qods Day
30 August 2010
Tehran-In 'Qods Day' youths of Tehran zone 1 wrote on paper money and invited people to take part.
One of the residents said: since the Qods day is near we have to make our voice to reach to every one and invite them.
He added by writing the names of our friends who are in prison we have to keep their memory alive and invite the people to stand with us and this is the least we can do.
Punishment of a Basij Guard in Tehran
29 August 2010
On Thursday 26th of August, in Jalali Street in ValiAsr district a Basij agent when he was investigating a motor cyclist by asking for documents, the agent sat at the back of motor and ordered the driver to drive to a Basij base. At this time suddenly motor cyclist strikes to the chest of the agent and throws him away and runs away.
Gathering of Redemption Teachers in front of Mullah’s Parliament
29 August 2010
Since this morning a number of teachers from Semnan, Rasht, eastern Azarbaijan provinces who the representatives of 120000 redemption teachers all over the country held a protest gathering in front of the parliament.
They said: Education department after doing all the procedures and interviews, tried to recruit the teachers but now they have been told that they cannot continue to work.
This anti human decision to expel these teachers will make their lives very hard.
Protest Gathering in front of governor’s building of Rashm village in Damghan
29 August 2010
A number of residents of Rashm village of Damghan gathered in front of the governor’s building. They claimed that last year they took a loan of 1 million dollars from different banks in order to grow agriculture and now due to drought, they are not able to repay back. Villagers said that by the rise in interest banks has taken the files to judiciary authority and there fore some debtors have been arrested or they have been threatened for detaining their assets. Some of the debtors have runaway.
Suppression
Man and woman sentenced to death by stoning
Aug. 29, 2010
According to reports, the Supreme Court upheld the death by stoning sentence of two prisoners in an adultery case who are currently in Orumieh Prison.
Vali Janfeshan and Sarieh Ebadi were sentenced to death by stoning before this in the Public Orumieh Court and this sentence was confirmed by the 12th branch of the Western Azarbaijan Court of Review.
Both suspects have been jailed in Orumieh Prison since 2008. This sentence was confirmed even as both suspects were denied the right to have their chosen lawyers and did not have the chance to defend themselves.
Prisoners of PMOI supporters
30 August 2010
Mohammad Banazadeh Amirkhizi (PMOI political prisoner) court was again delayed for several times during 8 months.
The court was supposed to be held on Sathurday by Salavati the so called Judge but for unknown reasons the court was not held.
Transfer of Ali Saremi to an unknown area
29 August 2010
According to reports while Ali Saremi’s families (Ali Saremi, PMOI political prisoner) were waiting outside to visit him in Gohardasht Prison, they have been told that Ali sarami have been taken by intelligence office and he was not present in the meeting. Ali sarami is sentenced to death because of having relation with Ashraf.
Wife of political prisoner and mother of Ashraf resident tried for visiting son in Ashraf
Aug. 29, 2010
According to reports, Mahin Saremi, wife of (death row) political prisoner Ali Saremi was summoned and tried by the 15th branch of the Revolutionary Court headed by Judge Salavati.
On August 24, Mahin Saremi, 56, was tried by Judge Salavati. This trial started at 10:30 am and ended in less than 15 minutes.
She was charged with visiting her son in Camp Ashraf in Iraq, propagating against the government, and filming and participating in a ceremony to commemorate executed political prisoners on the 19th anniversary of the massacre of political prisoners.
She was sentenced to five years of suspended prison before this for visiting her son in Camp Ashraf and going to the gravesite of Dr. Mohammad Mosadeq (late national Iranian leader) but Salavati once again repeated the same charges to issue a sentence for her for the second time.
Mahin Saremi was a political prisoner in the 80’s and was jailed from 1982 to 1983. She was also attacked by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence in 2005 while at the gravesite of Dr. Mossadeq and was arrested along with her husband Ali Saremi. She was kept in a solitary cell in cellblock 209 in Evin Prison for close to a month. She was also detained for another 2 months in solitary in 2007 for participating in the anniversary of the massacre of political prisoners.
Political prisoner threatened and pressured on 46th day of hunger strike
Aug. 29, 2010
According to reports, on Saturday August 28, political prisoner Arjang Davoudi was taken to the Intelligence Unit of Gohardasht prison in Karaj in a wheelchair on his 46th day of hunger strike while in critical condition and was interrogated and threatened for a prolonged amount of time by prison officials to end his hunger strike. In the end Davoudi stressed that he would not end his hunger strike until all his demands were met.
Davoudi’s physical condition has deteriorated and his life is in danger. He is suffering from severely low blood pressure, severe weight loss and weakness, impaired vision. He lays down most of the time and does his personal tasks with the help of others in prison.
The wife of this political prisoner has continuously tried to visit her husband in prison. Mrs. Davoudi called the head of Tehran’s Prison Organization, Sohrab Soleimani, asking to visit her husband but was told that this issue had to be coordinated with the head of Gohardasht Prison Ali Haj Kazem and that he will subsequently answer. When she called Soleimani again he said that “Ali Haj Kazem says that Mr. Davoudi pretends to be on hunger strike”.
“Ali Haj Kazem says that he has broken the law in going on hunger strike and you cannot visit him in prison”, he told her.
Women’s rights activist sentenced to four years of prisonAug. 29, 2010
Human rights activist Mahboubeh Karami was sentenced to four years of prison by the 26th branch of the Tehran Revolutionary Court presided over by Judge Pir Abbasi.
According to reports she was charged with ‘membership in the Human Rights Activists in Iran, propagating against the government, assembling and conspiring with the intention of committing crimes against the security of the country and publishing lies”.
Karami is a well-known women’s rights activist and the former head of the Women’s Committee of the Human Rights Activists in Iran who was arrested on March 2, 2010. She was detained in Cellblock 2A in Evin Prison for 80 days in her six month prison term and suffered from mental and physical problems.
Kurd political prisoner denied treatment in prison
Aug. 29, 2010
Prison authorities refuse to give medical attention to Hamzeh Sobhani, a young Kurd political prisoner in Dizel Abad Prison in Kermanshah despite his urgent need of treatment.
According to reports, this young political activist was arrested about 2 months ago along with a number of other Kurds by intelligence agents in this town on charges of cooperating with Kurd parties.
He was transferred to the Intelligence Detention Center in Kermanshah after some time to ‘confess’ and was under the most severe mental and physical torture by intelligence interrogators. Two of his nails were pulled out and several of his fingers broke under torture.
After one month, he was transferred to Dizel Abad Prison in Kermanshah on a temporary detention order.
Higher Education Minister threatens crack down on liberal universities
Aug. 29, 2010
“If there is a university in which people of religion and the Bassij culture are ridiculed, if there is a university in which the sound of the noon prayer call is not heard (from loudspeakers) under the excuse that classes would be disturbed, if there is a university in which clerics cannot enter, if this university exists, the people of Iran, students, and university employees will tear that university down”, the Minister of Science (Minister of Higher Education) said on Sunday in the opening ceremony of the Architectural Plans of the Science and Industry University in Tehran.
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40% more layoffs, 90% bankruptcy among privatized factories, regime official says
29 August 2010
An official in the Iranian regime said on Saturday that there has been a 40 percent jump in the number of layoffs in Iran while 90 percent of privatized companies have gone bankrupt.
According to the state-run Mowj news agency, Ali Dehqan Kia, the director of Tehran province’s Labour Council Association, also said, “About 6 billion dollars worth of goods is smuggled into the country. For every one billion dollars of smuggled goods, 25,000 workers in Iran would be laid off.”
Regime official: The Iranian people's distaste for regime's exploitation of religion on the rise
28 August 2010
An Iranian regime official suggested on Wednesday that people in Iran reject the regime and its exploitation of Islam, according to the state-run news agency Mehr.
The director of the Iranian regime’s so-called Islamic Propagation Organization in the province of Qazvin, Ali Akbar Azizkhani, said, “In the holy month of Ramadan this year, more than 500 clerics were sent to various parts of the province, offices and factories. … But, the presence of people in mosques has been reduced and there is a fear that the mosques’ doors will gradually have to be closed.”
In a recent letter to the mullahs’ Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, Mohammad Nourizad, who is close to Khamenei, also wrote, “We have to beg people to avoid counting as Islamic our misdeeds which have created a frightening image of religion. People are harmed by our religious behavior and have a right to turn away from religion. … We lied to people, insulted them, violated their rights and perpetrated injustices all in the name of prayer, fasting and the Prophet.”
Political prisoner threatened and pressured on 46th day of hunger strike
Aug. 28, 2010
According to reports, on Saturday August 28, political prisoner Arjang Davoudi was taken to the Intelligence Unit of Gohardasht prison in Karaj in a wheelchair on his 46th day of hunger strike while in critical condition and was interrogated and threatened for a prolonged amount of time by prison officials to end his hunger strike. In the end Davoudi stressed that he would not end his hunger strike until all his demands were met.
Davoudi’s physical condition has deteriorated and his life is in danger. He is suffering from severely low blood pressure, severe weight loss and weakness, impaired vision. He lays down most of the time and does his personal tasks with the help of others in prison.
The wife of this political prisoner has continuously tried to visit her husband in prison. Mrs. Davoudi called the head of Tehran’s Prison Organization, Sohrab Soleimani, asking to visit her husband but was told that this issue had to be coordinated with the head of Gohardasht Prison Ali Haj Kazem and that he will subsequently answer. When she called Soleimani again he said that “Ali Haj Kazem says that Mr. Davoudi pretends to be on hunger strike”.
“Ali Haj Kazem says that he has broken the law in going on hunger strike and you cannot visit him in prison”, he told her.
Women’s rights activist sentenced to four years of prison
Aug. 28, 2010
Human rights activist Mahboubeh Karami was sentenced to four years of prison by the 26th branch of the Tehran Revolutionary Court presided over by Judge Pir Abbasi.
According to reports she was charged with ‘membership in the Human Rights Activists in Iran, propagating against the government, assembling and conspiring with the intention of committing crimes against the security of the country and publishing lies”.
Karami is a well-known women’s rights activist and the former head of the Women’s Committee of the Human Rights Activists in Iran who was arrested on March 2, 2010. She was detained in Cellblock 2A in Evin Prison for 80 days in her six month prison term and suffered from mental and physical problems.
29 August 2010
An official in the Iranian regime said on Saturday that there has been a 40 percent jump in the number of layoffs in Iran while 90 percent of privatized companies have gone bankrupt.
According to the state-run Mowj news agency, Ali Dehqan Kia, the director of Tehran province’s Labour Council Association, also said, “About 6 billion dollars worth of goods is smuggled into the country. For every one billion dollars of smuggled goods, 25,000 workers in Iran would be laid off.”
Regime official: The Iranian people's distaste for regime's exploitation of religion on the rise
28 August 2010
An Iranian regime official suggested on Wednesday that people in Iran reject the regime and its exploitation of Islam, according to the state-run news agency Mehr.
The director of the Iranian regime’s so-called Islamic Propagation Organization in the province of Qazvin, Ali Akbar Azizkhani, said, “In the holy month of Ramadan this year, more than 500 clerics were sent to various parts of the province, offices and factories. … But, the presence of people in mosques has been reduced and there is a fear that the mosques’ doors will gradually have to be closed.”
In a recent letter to the mullahs’ Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, Mohammad Nourizad, who is close to Khamenei, also wrote, “We have to beg people to avoid counting as Islamic our misdeeds which have created a frightening image of religion. People are harmed by our religious behavior and have a right to turn away from religion. … We lied to people, insulted them, violated their rights and perpetrated injustices all in the name of prayer, fasting and the Prophet.”
Political prisoner threatened and pressured on 46th day of hunger strikeAug. 28, 2010
According to reports, on Saturday August 28, political prisoner Arjang Davoudi was taken to the Intelligence Unit of Gohardasht prison in Karaj in a wheelchair on his 46th day of hunger strike while in critical condition and was interrogated and threatened for a prolonged amount of time by prison officials to end his hunger strike. In the end Davoudi stressed that he would not end his hunger strike until all his demands were met.
Davoudi’s physical condition has deteriorated and his life is in danger. He is suffering from severely low blood pressure, severe weight loss and weakness, impaired vision. He lays down most of the time and does his personal tasks with the help of others in prison.
The wife of this political prisoner has continuously tried to visit her husband in prison. Mrs. Davoudi called the head of Tehran’s Prison Organization, Sohrab Soleimani, asking to visit her husband but was told that this issue had to be coordinated with the head of Gohardasht Prison Ali Haj Kazem and that he will subsequently answer. When she called Soleimani again he said that “Ali Haj Kazem says that Mr. Davoudi pretends to be on hunger strike”.
“Ali Haj Kazem says that he has broken the law in going on hunger strike and you cannot visit him in prison”, he told her.
Women’s rights activist sentenced to four years of prison
Aug. 28, 2010
Human rights activist Mahboubeh Karami was sentenced to four years of prison by the 26th branch of the Tehran Revolutionary Court presided over by Judge Pir Abbasi.
According to reports she was charged with ‘membership in the Human Rights Activists in Iran, propagating against the government, assembling and conspiring with the intention of committing crimes against the security of the country and publishing lies”.
Karami is a well-known women’s rights activist and the former head of the Women’s Committee of the Human Rights Activists in Iran who was arrested on March 2, 2010. She was detained in Cellblock 2A in Evin Prison for 80 days in her six month prison term and suffered from mental and physical problems.
August 29, 2010
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Aug. 27, 2010
According to the report of a site belonging to the wing in regime which is not in power, Saied Haddadian who was one of the supporter of Khamenei’s gang and advocator of Ahamdinejad in the presidential election said: Ahmadinejad is headstrong and anti clergy, and these two are devil’s schema. Some say that his speech is affected by Mashaii, but I disagree and I believe that his words are his and he believes in them.
He added that he is not one of Hizbollahi’s. Not I nor Haj Mansour and others do not accept him. We and other Hizbollahs can not stand against Religious authority because of Ahmadinejad.
Schism has reached to the closest layers of Ahmadinejad’s gang.
Keyhan: Dastgheib’s house was completely smashed
Aug. 27, 2010
After the straight forward criticisms by Dastgheib against Khamenei and Heads of the religious rule in Iran, a number of attacks have taken place to his home and office. Keyhan said that Dastgheib’s house was completely smashed and his father’s death place was made as a rubbish bin.
As written by Keyhan, Shiraz governor made strong criticism.
Keyhan wrote: Hossein Qasemi said that authorities must explain on what sort of logical bases the house of this great martyr was ruined and why nobody says anything to stop these unpleasant acts.
Internal Schism in the ruling regime Iran
Aug. 28, 2010
Gathering of agents in front of Dastgheib mosque in Shiraz
By noon, some agents gathered in front of Dastgheib mosque and shouted slogans against him.
Gathered people who were about 20 to 30, were mostly teenagers and youths and in the gathering they shouted “Down with American Mullah”, “Down with rioter”, “Down with anti-clerical”, “Hypocrite shame on you go away from our city”.
At the same time that this illegal gathering took place after the Friday pray, anti-uprising police were in the seen and they blocked the avenue ending to the mosque.
Resistance
A large number of the families of massacred political prisoners in 1988, when they were going to Khavaran, the place were they are buried, to pay tribute for 22nd anniversary of their martyrdom for freedom, they were attached by Mullahs tugs and some of the youths were arrested.
According to the reports, repressive forces closed the entrance of Khavaran by cranes and sent some cars to the place and they forced any one to return. About 11 o’clock the repressive forces attacked some youths and arrested them brutally.
Despite all the repressive acts and a wide presence of them, a great number of families and the people of Tehran reached themselves to the graves of massacred political prisoners.
Protest Gathering of Physical Training Students of Isfahan; chanting “we did not give martyrs to assimilate and to praise the leadership”Aug. 27, 2010
Students of Physical Training University took a demonstration against the Basij grubs. They shouted, Victory is in the way, down with seducing government and “we did not gave martyrs to assimilate and to praise the leadership”.
Following the treats of grubs in preservation students took their protest outside the university to the Azadi Square.
Suppression
Boshehr’s Governor: Veil is not only for women, men must obey too
Aug. 27, 2010
Boshehr’s Governor said manikin wearing is not suitable for a government employee and the managers are responsible for this disobeys. According to the report by Fars Mohammad Hossein JahanBakhsh in Rajaii Ceremony in Boshehr province said: Veil is not only for women, but also men have to obey this law. He also added that this subject will be declared as a resolution signed by province council to all the administrative sections and if in the sudden investigations that we will do after Ramadan we see any signs, we will strike with offenders.
Iran arrests Kurd poet and writer
Aug. 26, 2010
Behzad Kurdistani, a renowned poet in Kurdistan was arrested yesterday by intelligence agents near his home in the town of Marivan.
There is no information on why he was arrested or his whereabouts.
This Kurd writer was summoned several times before this by the Marivan Intelligence Agency where he was interrogated.
Former political prisoner hospitalized with suspicious blood poisoning Aug. 28, 2010
According to reports, Hesam Tarmesi who was arrested in last year’s protests and was released some time ago is in critical condition in the hospital because of an unknown blood poisoning.
He was arrested by agents of the Ministry of Intelligence and sentenced to one year of prison. Tarmesi was released recently after serving his illegal sentence while suffering from nervous problems and constant nightmares.
A few weeks ago while going home from work at about 10:45 pm he was followed by two men on motorcycles. He was then attacked by the bikers in an alley close to his home without reason. One of his attackers lightly stabbed him with a knife from the back three times. After he was stabbed he came down with a high fever and small red spots appeared on his skin. His health eventually deteriorated and his family was forced to hospitalize him.
Doctors in the hospital realized that his spleen had become overgrown, his liver had been seriously damaged and his face, hands and feet swelled up.
After numerous blood tests, doctors realized that there is an unknown kind of poison in his blood.
It is likely that the poison in Tarmesi’s blood is from his time in detention which eventually deteriorated his health or that his assailants had poisoned the knife before stabbing him. Doctors have not been able to determine the kind of poison or how it entered the blood stream of this former political prisoner.
Jailed political activist kept with drug addicts in Evin PrisonAug. 28, 2010
Amir-Hossein Kazemi, a member of the Youth Branch of the Iran Freedom Movement, was transferred to Quarantine Section of Cellblock 1 in Evin Prison.
According to reports after six months of incarceration in cellblock 209 in Evin Prison, he was initially transferred to the Quarantine Section in cellblock 350 and subsequently to the Quarantine Section in cellblock 1. Cellblock 1 is where drug addicts and dangerous criminals are detained.
Kazemi whose 3 year prison term was recently confirmed expressed surprise in a telephone call severely objecting the current condition in prison.
Prison officials have also recently announced that an order that was issued one month ago granting him a leave from prison will not be carried out for unknown reasons.
Amir-Hossein Kazemi who was arrested on March 6, 2010 on charges of instigating public opinion and being on the streets on Ashura (December 27, 2009) was sentenced to 3 years of prison in a 10 minute trial. A court of review officially upheld this sentence without reviewing it last month.
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"Protests were a huge blow to the Iranian regime's image," official admits27 August 2010
A member of the faction close to the Iranian regime’s Supreme Leader has said that last year’s protests by the Iranian people were an “extremely heavy and serious blow to the image of the” clerical regime.
In an interview with the state-run Fars news agency, Mohammad-Reza Naeri said, “I think the sedition that was created and the subsequent incidents dealt an extremely heavy and serious blow to the image of the Islamic Republic. I don’t think it has been examined properly yet to see the sourness of it. It also harmed the domestic situation and the social fabric in our country. This incident opened other wounds and brought to the fore a series of issues that were hidden behind a social façade. It brought about the fire that was hidden under the ashes.”
He suggested that the Iranian regime has not been influential in the cultural and historical spheres leading “students and youngsters to come to streets and chant against the establishment.” In other words, he said, “people have lost trust and our image and links [with people] have been broken.”
In such circumstances, “the enemy attracts the people,” Naeri added. He specifically pointed to the main opposition People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK), which enjoys popular support in Iran and said, “Even if they print and smuggle in the text of Massoud Rajavi’s most recent statement in large numbers through the airport, no one could prevent it,” he said referring to the PMOI’s historical leader.
He also made reference to the diminishing power of the mullahs’ Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, and said, “Unfortunately, when the leader adopts a decision, many don’t listen
Armed clashes break out among Iranian regime forces27 August 2010
According to obtained reports, in the midst of rising conflicts and divisions within the Iranian regime and among its various factions, on Wednesday, agents from the regime’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS) engaged in a gun battle with members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC).
According to Jaras website, the clash took place after the IRGC’s intelligence agents installed hidden cameras and eavesdropping devices in a building in Tehran.
A physical altercation broke out in public among the regime’s forces which led to an armed conflict. The IRGC Sarollah compound, which operates under the orders of the mullahs’ Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, and his son, Mojtaba, is in charge of installing spying devices.
Picture: Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)-
IRGC officer Naqdi: 7,000 new Bassij bases will be built
27 August 2010
A special budget has been allocated to the Iranian regime’s Revolutionary Guards paramilitary forces, the Bassij, in fear of the rising protests against the clerical regime.
The head of the Bassij Organization for the Oppressed, Mohammad-Reza Naqdi, announced on Thursday that credit for Bassij bases have had a 100 percent increase.
In a speech addressing Bassij commanders, he said such a budget will allow the suppressive force to increase its bases by 7,000.
Naqdi explained that this year for this first time the regime’s Parliament (Majlis) has approved a bill allocating one percent of provincial infrastructure budgets to the building of new Bassij bases.
Naqdi also said, “We have to increase our members to 20 million.”
Universities continue to face all-embracing leadership changes26 August 2010
The trend of new changes among university deans and heads of other educational institutions, which was largely launched in the summer, is continuing at a faster pace by the Iranian regime, according to reports.
On Monday, the deputy of the regime’s Minister of Science, Gholamreza Khajeh Sarvi, denied reports that the removals and appointments are “rushed.” He described it as a “natural” transformation that is being carried out “on a completely technical basis.”
Khajeh Sarvi said “a number of university deans have handed their resignation letters due to old age.” But, the real reason behind the
increasing number of resignations is that the deans have become increasingly aware of the changes that the regime’s Ministry of Science seeks to institute in the country’s campuses.
The extensive removals began with the appointment of Kamran Daneshjou as Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Minister of Science.
Unwilling to reveal the real reasons behind the dismissals, the Iranian regime has offered contradictory accounts. For example, Daneshjou said his brother decided to resign as the dean of the University of Sharif “to take care of our elderly parents.”
But the state-run news agency ISNA reported in August 2009 that Farhad Daneshjou had handed his resignation letter “in order to facilitate the government’s attempts to freely elect university deans.” On Sunday, he told ISNA that there will be 10-20 other replacements among the country’s university deans.
Similarly, the dean of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Sharif University, Sohrabpour, was offered a post as a science and technology advisor to Ahmadinejad even though the government had said that he had resigned from his previous position due to “ailments.”
There are currently about 80 universities and educational facilities controlled by the Iranian regime’s Ministry of Science.
On August 11, the state-run Mehr news agency reported that the dean of Khajeh Nasir University in Tehran said that the decision to dismiss him was taken “by senior ranking officials” and such decisions will take place concerning many universities in the near future. According to Mehr, Mohammad Taqi Bothai said he was informed of this plan by a deputy Minister of Science who was aware of the Minister of Science’s intentions.
The regime’s Ministry of Science vehemently denied Bothai’s claims, saying that “There were no broad decisions taken to change university deans.”
In December 2009, the regime’s Minister of Science, Kamran Daneshjou, had said, “If I conclude at any time that in any place there is need for changes, then I will act on it, but I have not reached that conclusion yet.” Now, current trends indicate that the regime is acting on these plans.
The mullahs’ Supreme Leader said last year that there is an imperative for “fundamental changes” in the educational system. Some observers say the decision to change the leadership of Iran’s most important universities are an aftermath of those comments.
Nonetheless, the regime’s internal feuds are not immune from changes in the academic circles. According to the state-un Khabar Online, a member of the regime’s Parliament said the changes concerning Iran’s universities must follow certain rules, because otherwise “we would experience scientific corrosion.”
Six Sufi Muslim dervishes arrested in Sarvestan
27 August 2010
Six Sufi Muslims of the Nematollahi Gonabadi order have been arrested by the Iranian regime, according to the Majzouban-e Nour website. They were interrogated for about five hours and handed over to the Iranian regime’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS).
According to the website, on Wednesday morning, six dervishes residing in Sarvestan appeared in the regime’s judiciary office with their lawyers after receiving a summoning letter on Sunday. They were identified as Messrs Esmail (Hadi) Rahmanian, Farzad Darvish Sarvestani, Ali Akbar Ebrahimzadeh, Heydar Esparjani, Reza Sabet Peyman and Keramatollah Mohit.
They were charged with “insulting sanctities and disturbing public order through gathering in front of the governorate and destroying government property.” The regime official presiding over the proceedings was Alireza Asadi, who ordered that investigations should remain confidential. He also prevented the entry of the defendants’ lawyers. In protest, three of the dervishes refused to answer any questions and remained silent.
The six were then transferred to a prison after a five-hour interrogation session.
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Iran arrests Kurd poet and writer Aug. 26, 2010
Behzad Kurdistani, a renowned poet in Kurdistan was arrested yesterday by intelligence agents near his home in the town of Marivan.
There is no information on why he was arrested or his whereabouts.
This Kurd writer was summoned several times before this by the Marivan Intelligence Agency where he was interrogated.
Tehran Prosecutor says improper veiling is a crime
Aug. 25, 2010
The Tehran Prosecutor stressed that improper veiling is a crime and said, “Providing the security of the society should be the main and most important duty of all institutions and supervising organizations and countering crimes related to social security should not be limited to security and judicial apparatuses”…
The Prosecutor of Tehran believes that new technology and the cyber environment is actually more in line with promoting ‘corruption’ than leading to progress.
Jafari also cited seriously dealing with illegal CD sellers and parties which are called ‘immoral’.
“Despite the fact that these kinds of crimes are few in numbers, but even this low number can harm the society’s security”, he added.
Jailed human rights lawyer denied due processAug. 26, 2010
The sentence of Mohammad Oliayi Far has not been announced to him and therefore his case cannot be seen to in a court of review.
The wife of lawyer and prisoner of conscience Shohreh Taqati, said, “My husband has been jailed for close to five months for giving interviews to foreign media on charges of propagating against the government and currently the number of phone calls from prison are very few”.
“In our opinion this charge (propagating against the government) is wrong because there has not been propagation against the government. After my husband had a number of interviews on the execution of children under 18, especially in the case of Behnoud Shojayi, they filed a complaint against him and made a criminal record for him even as he had expressed his views about his profession”.
Mohammad Oliayi Far, lawyer and former head of the Research and Education Unit of the Human Rights Activists in Iran, was arrested on March 8, 2010 after he was summoned to the Tehran Revolutionary Court to serve his one year sentence on charges of propagating against the government by giving interviews to foreign media and insulting the judiciary. He was sentenced to one year of prison on February 7, 2010 by the Tehran Revolutionary Court on charges of propagating against the government after protesting the execution of minor offender Behnoud Shojayi.
Shohreh Taqati also expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that her husband’s sentence was not announced to him and said, “My husband’s sentence was not announced to him and therefore there is no way for his case to be reviewed in court”.
August 27, 2010
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No.692
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Aug. 25, 2010
Mosaalreza Servati, member of Programming and budget of Parliament, said: Interpellation of two ministers of power and agriculture with a lot of signatures of representatives was handed over to the parliament’s leadership.
He declared in an interview with Mehr press office: Interpellation of the interior minister is also in the way but because of not wanting to ruin the relation between the government and parliament this Interpellation was not performed.
Missile launch, named Fath 110, a false show of power by the regime
Aug. 24, 2010
Today the Mullah’s regime said that they have done a test launch by a ground to ground missile called Fath110.
These sort of false claims were used by this regime before, but they were only used for internal use and just to give motivation to his forces.
Resistance
Slogans writings on walls of east Tehran
Aug. 25, 2010
Tehran- according to reports from East of Tehran, yesterday some slogans have been recently seen in Vahidiyeh, Nezamabad, Majidiyeh, Narmak and Tehranno. Slogans of no to agreement, no to surrender, fight until freedom
Uprising will continue and Khamenei is a murderer and no way
Long live martyrs, down with the brutal enemies of People
Death to Khamenei
Khamenei we are fighting children, fight us, we fight you right to the end, uprising will continue.
Irrepressible youths, converted the football competition into anti-government protests
Aug. 25, 2010
In a football competition between Persploice and Shahin Boushehr teams, Irrepressible youths converted the game into anti-government protests and had outbreaks with Police forces. In these outbreaks some of youths were arrested.
Isna, the government press office, wrote: the game was between Persploice and Shahin Boushehr, but there was side activities that caused physical conflictions between envoys and supporters of teams which ended in arresting a number of youths.
Clash and protest gathering of the People of Orumiyeh with repression agents
Aug. 24, 2010
People of Vakilabad, IslamAbad, Hosseinabad, Aliabad and Hajipirlou village in the sideway of Khatamolanbia Highway had an outbreak with the police envoys and ten persons were arrested. Pasdar Pouralizadeh the head of police force in Orumiyeh in an interview with Isna press office said: Since 1600 o’clock some of the people of Vakilabad, IslamAbad, Hosseinabad, Aliabad and Hajipirlou village in reaction to authorities dismantle promises on building pavements, bridge and elevators to facilitate the transit of the highway, held a protest gathering but some unknown people tried to misuse this opportunity by burning tires and putting obstacles in order to block the roads. So police forces went to the place and arrested a few of them.
Suppression
Execution sentence of two brothers named Alborz and Hamid Qasemi were declared
Aug. 25, 2010
According to some reports, two brothers Alborz and Hamid Qasemi because of made crime of espionage and being in contact with PMOI, were sentenced to death by execution. Alborz Qasemi is a Captain and the commander of education unit of Rasht. He has not returned home since he was called by intelligence office of Army about two years ago. Alborz Qasemi in his written notes that has remained from him, states that due to tortures, he lost his ability to see and talk before he died in prison.
Alborz Qasemi, last month died because of his critical status due to cancer. Some human right activists criticize the medical section of prison for not doing their job.
When his brother Hamid Qasemi who has two nationality, Iranian and Candian, wanted to investigate about his brother status, he was too arrested for espionage crime and now he is going to be executed. A witness says that only an email is the only reason for his execution.
Political prisoner of Karoon Prison were banned from watching TV
Aug. 25, 2010
Accroding to Herana, since 23th of August, all the tv antennas have been collected from section 6 of Karoon Prison which is famous for its political section. This was down following the orders of prison authorities to stop prisoners listening news. As a matter of facts, Abolfazl Abedini, journalist and a human right activist is with a sentence of 11 years is one of the prisoner of Karoon prison in Ahwaz
Human rights activist in Mashhad says 300 people were secretly executed in prison
Aug. 25, 2010
A human rights activist said in an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that hundreds of prisoners have been hanged in secret mass executions in Vakil Abad Prison in Mashhad without the knowledge of their families or lawyers. According to this activist, there are 2,100 death row prisoners in this prison who are waiting to be executed in speedy, secret, mass executions.
After reports on the mass executions of prisoners in Vakil Abad Prison yesterday, a human rights activist said that in the past few weeks he has talked to the families of those who were executed and has obtained information on these executions in Vakil Abad Prison in Mashhad.
According to this human rights activist who asked not to be named for security reasons, in the past few months at least 300 prisoners who were mostly convicted of selling narcotics were executed in Vakil Abad prison and hundreds more are awaiting execution. According to this activist, most of those who were executed or are on death row have been charged in drug related cases and a small number have been sentenced to retribution (for murder).
“In Vakil Abad Prison in Mashhad, there are more than 2,100 convicts on death row and most of them are kept in various halls in cellblock 5 in this prison. Mass executions are carried out secretly in groups of 30 to 70 in cellblock 6.1 in this prison”, the activist said.
“These executions are reportedly carried out under the order and with the official announcement of Iran’s Attorney General Mohsen Ejeyi. In light of the pressure by human rights institutions, these executions are being carried out in secret in the prisons of towns (outside of Tehran)”, the source added.
This source also stressed that the prisoners and their families had absolutely no knowledge of the executions from before and said, “Even the prisoners did not know that their sentence was going to be carried out and only a few hours before the executions, they would be transferred from the cell under various excuses and would then be executed shortly after that without the knowledge of their families or lawyers… For example on April 8, 2010, 35 prisoners were secretly executed but official sources only announced the execution of 5 prisoners. In most cases, these mass secret executions are not reported in the official media”.
This human rights activist also said that at least 150 prisoners were secretly executed in the last 6 months of the Persian year of 1388 (from late September 2008 to late March 2010).
“In the last month, the numbers of executions have more than doubled and for example in the past couple of weeks between 60 to 70 people were secretly executed every Wednesday or Thursday”.
“Last Wednesday on August 18, 67 people were executed in cellblock 6.1 in Vakil Abad Prison and three weeks before that 70 others were executed in a mass execution”.
“The number of death row prisoners who are kept only in cellblock 5 in Vakil Abad are as follows:
Hall 101, Cellblock 5 – about 800 people
Hall 102, Cellblock 5 – more than 600 people
Hall 103, Cellblock 5 – more than 100 people
Hall 104, Cellblock 5 - more than 100 people”
He also said that this week and the weeks to come hundreds of prisoners are to be executed.
“These mass executions will be carried out regularly every Wednesday in the month of Ramadan in cellblock 6.1 which is run by the Intelligence Unit of the Vakil Abad Prison in Mashhad”, this activist said. (International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran)
Iran arrests former head of university
Aug. 25, 2010
Dr. Amir-Hossein Shiravi, the former head of the Jondi Shapour University in Dezful who is also a member of the Science Committee of this university was arrested early morning on August 22 in his home in Dezful in the province of Khuzestan.
According to reports, forces of the Intelligence Agency in Dezful confiscated his laptop computer and other personal documents after searching his home and then arrested him.
Shiravi was a political activist in Khuzestan Province. There is still no information on why he was arrested or his physical and mental state.
Family of slain student threatened not to talk to media
Aug. 24, 2010
According to reports, the intelligence agency has made threatening phone calls to the mother of Mohammad-Javad Porandakh, a slain student of Isfahan University, not to give any interviews with the media over his death.
“Despite the fact that we are nearing the anniversary of the death of this student, the circumstances of his death are still unclear one year after his death and his family’s pursuits to identify the killer (of their son) has not had any results in the judicial system”, a source said.
The Porandakh family has been threatened several times not to hold a ceremony for this slain student and not to follow up his obscure case.
Many political sources believe that the death of this student who was tortured and abused in detention is linked to the elimination of witnesses of torture and rape in prison.
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The Beginning of the End of the Clerical Rule in Iran
No.691
Sanctions & Downfall
Sanction and Crisis in Economic Situation of Iran
Plastic Factory of Kian tyre
Situated in Saveh –ChaharLang road with 1200 workers, this factory due to repression and pressures which was manipulated on workers is a critical factory, which in different occasions many protests took place. These facts were repeated in this factory over and over again. The latest protest gathering took place on 19th of August this year by 400 workers seeking for their unpaid salary of 5 months since the year 2009 and unpaid lawful premium since 2007. All of these are happening in the hot days of Ramadan and in the situation of living under poverty line. The manager of this factory called Sharafi who is one of the government’s relatives, has done nothing to consider or change the situation of this factory.
Industry Company of Azarbaijan
Based in Tabriz, in the past it used to produce agricultural machinery with combine is now faces crisis. The remained workers of this facture are about 70. They have not been paid since 5 months ago and they have not received their unpaid salaries of last year.
Neopan Company of Ahwaz
Based near cane complex in the old road of Ahwaz- Khoramshahr - Salary of 7 months of more than 800 workers of this company have not been paid. This company was built in 2001 and used to have about 1500 workers and it was same as other critical factories.
Tabriz car making Factory
Now this factory is divided into three departments of car making and Industry Company and one other. The industry company is facing problem due to not having any sale and is in crisis. One of the employee’s of this company said that car making department because of lack of نقدينگي and also problem of providing parts from foreign countries is facing downfall and crisis. For example they used to use electrical pipes made in America, now they have to get it from Turkey with less quality which high prices and by long time of preparation.
Chinandegan company of Marand
This Company produces incombustible bricks and their materials, and has 800 workers. These workers despite hard works have not received their salary for more that 4 months and they are facing with many living problems.
Varaghkaran Company
110 workers of this company have not received their salary for more than 3 months.
This company is in Eastern Azarbaijan in Tabriz city. The workers of this company are asking for their unpaid salaries but they don’t get any reply.
Pipe making workers of Khuzistan-
22nd of August 2010, more than 80 workers of this company gathered and asked from the representative of Ahwaz city in parliament, and other authorities for 17 months unpaid salary and raised they voice and protests against them.
Workers shouted "Ramadan month came but our salaries didn’t come Rights should be taken and we will do that".
Carpet and blanket factory of Tabriz-
This factory started in 1976 and in the year 2000 it had more than 475 workers. After privatizing it faced crisis and started to expel the workers and now it has 65 workers. This factory due to lack of materials is in the verge of closing down. The original materials and strings used to be imported from Turkey, which now is impossible because of sanctions.
Shoe factory and manufacturing workshops of Tabriz
Due to the sanctions and not entering foreign goods and high price of original materials, workshops and manufacturing units can not continue to produce shoe and these sections are facing with closing down such as Jaroobi and Azin shoe.
Mullahs' judiciary confirms suspension of three officials linked to infamous detention center
24 August 2010
The Iranian regime’s General Prosecutor on Monday confirmed reports that three judiciary officials linked to the heinous crimes committed at Kahrizak death camp have been suspended from work.
Gholamhossein Ejei added that the case of crimes committed by the regime’s agents at the University of Tehran’s dormitory is also being investigated separately.
During the unprecedented nationwide protests against the ruling theocracy, suppressive forces rounded up scores of demonstrators and placed many under cruel torture. Some of the detainees were transferred to the infamous Kahrizak detention center later dubbed as the Kahrizak death camp. A number of the detainees died under torture there, provoking public outrage which forced the regime to “launch investigations” as a way to deflate the growing protests.
The announcement of suspension of three judiciary officials comes as three of the fathers of victims killed by the regime at Kahrizak declared that they will not rest until justice has been served for their sons. The fathers are Abdolhossein Ruhol-Amini, Ali Kamrani, and Ali Javadifar.
The three officials have not been identified yet, but a well-informed source who requested anonymity said they are Saeed Mortazavi, Hassan Haddad and Ali Akbar Heydarifar.
There were complaints already filed against Saeed Mortazavi, Tehran’s former prosecutor, who had rejected all allegations related to Kahrizak against him. The case was reopened several weeks ago at the regime’s courts.
On June 30, following a closed hearing in February regarding the allegations against 12 suspects in the Kahrizak case, Tehran’s military tribunal announced that 11 have been convicted and one has been freed due to lack of evidence.
Four young men are known to have lost their lives under cruel tortures by the regime’s agents in 2009 in Kahrizak detention center. They were Mohsen Ruhol-Amini, Mohammad Kamrani, Amir Javadifar, and Ramin Aqazadeh Qahremani.
According to the state-run Fars news agency, Ejei also made reference to the violent attack by regime agents against the University of Tehran’s dormitory, saying, “This case is being investigated at Tehran’s military prosecution office. It is also monitored by the head of the judiciary and a 3-member panel. The investigations are going very well.”
Suppression
Iran hangs three drug traffickers: report
Aug 23, 2010
Iranian regime has hanged three men, including an Afghan, in the central city of Isfahan.
The Iranian men, identified as Akbar Z., 33, and Hamid Reza H., 28, and the Afghan Shah S., 38, were hanged on Sunday in a prison in Isfahan (state run Kayhan Newspaper).
Female student activist sentenced to another year of prisonAug. 23, 2010
Another year of prison was added to the prison term of student political prisoner Mahdieh Golroh.
“What we were afraid of finally happened and the suspended one year prison term for Mahdieh was carried out”, her husband Vahid Lalipour said.
According to the Evin Prison Court, Mahdieh Golroh was sentenced to three years of prison which consists of two years of prison and a one year of suspended prison.
This is while only one day after the one year suspended prison term was announced, Mahdieh was arrested and in this short time, she did not commit any crimes and also the sentence was not effective when she was arrested. Therefore, the sentence is illegal in practice.
Reliable Source Reports Of Group Executions Inside Mashad’s Vakil Abad Prison
Aug. 24, 2010
An informed source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that over the past few months, the Iranian judicial authorities have ordered the hanging of over one hundred individuals inside Mashad’s Vakil Abad Prison. According to this source, most of those executed were sentenced based on drug-related charges and the executions continue. “Last Wednesday 68, people were hung and over the coming weeks the executions will continue,” said the source.
The source stated that the number of individuals on death row inside Vakil Abad Prison’s Wards 101, 102, 103, and 104 as well as the Quarantine Ward is “in the hundreds.” The Campaign refrains from publishing the reported statistics pending confirmation from other sources. The Campaign asks the Iranian judicial authorities to be accountable regarding news about the weekly group executions of drug-related convicts and to provide exact statistics about events taking place inside Mashad’s Vakil Abad Prison.
Sadegh Larijani recently wrote a letter to Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei, asking him for directions about what to do with the convicts, the source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran.
In order to verify the accuracy of the reports about the executions of drug-related criminals in Mashad, we asked Ahmad Ghabel, a theological researcher and a student of the late Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri. Ghabel was arrested immediately after Mr. Montazeri’s death on 20 December 2009, and served 170 days in prison before he was released on bail. The Campaign asked Mr. Ghabel whether he was aware of similar executions during his imprisonment at Vakil Abad Prison. “I never saw any of these prisoners up close. I never tried to see outside my cell through the door or the window, but I heard the news. Soldiers are people just like you and me and they transfer news. I learned through news I received during fresh air breaks that 50 people were executed during the 170 days I was there,” said Ahmad Ghabel. He told the Campaign that though he doesn’t have direct information about the executions of individuals under the age of 18, he does remember hearing the prison guards talking about two youths under 18 among those executed.
“Inside our ward, Ward 6/1, in addition to cells where prisoners would serve their long prison terms, there were also suites where those on the death row would be brought a few hours before the execution. The situation would change so drastically, everyone would know a death-row inmate was inside the ward. All doors would close and if this was during the times when prisoners could make telephone calls, the lines would be disconnected. Even other prison authorities could not move about at this time, because Ward 6/1 was directly managed by the prison Intelligence Unit,” added the theological researcher.
“I have not conducted my own research on this, and I have been following the media news about it. Unfortunately, I have no access to my ex-cellmates, either. All I know is that the families of those executed read the number [of those executed] on the forms when they came to take the bodies. I think it is fair to say that these facts are undeniable. Prison guards and other prisoners are also members of the society and people like to talk about events like this, spreading the news. Especially as events like this are not unprecedented in our country,” said Ahmad Ghabel about news of 70 executions over the past few days.
The Campaign asked Ahmad Ghabel whether it is conceivable for such a large number of prisoners to have death sentences. “It is quite customary to have people with death sentences remain in prison for a long time,” Ghabel replied.
“People convicted of murder get the death penalty, but their families are given time to seek the forgiveness of the victims’ families and to attempt swapping the death penalty with diya [blood money]. Also, there are people who are sentenced to death because of carrying illegal arms, but they also have a prison sentence which they must serve prior to the execution. As we speak, there are hundreds of people inside prisons who received their death sentences several years ago. Even inside Ward 1/6 where I was serving, there was an individual who had been in prison for 13 years for illegally carrying. He had a death sentence, too. Another case is another suspect I was handcuffed to one time when returning from the court. His charge was possession of 70 kilograms of crystal meth and while serving a long prison term, he had also received a death sentence,” he added.
The source who provided the Campaign with detailed information about the group executions of Vakil Abad Prison said that the death row convicts are held inside Ward 6 of the prison which is under the oversight of the prison’s Intelligence Unit. Each month there are two sets of executions and in each set between 30 to 40 individuals are hung at once. “For example, between September 2009 and May 2010, almost 150 people were executed, but there was only one public announcement about the executions of five people on 3 April 2010. But on that date 35 people were executed, eight of whom were women,” said the source.
Other information received by the Campaign indicates that the frequency of mass executions has increased from twice per month to four during the recent month. Sources say total number of people executed is between 60 and 70. “There are hundreds of people on the death row inside Mashad’s Vakil Abad Prison,” another source said.
According to the said source, on the days when group executions are to take place, Vakil Abad Prison’s telephone lines are cut off. Ward 6/1 does not have public telephones and prisoners are only allowed short telephone calls once or twice per week.
The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran expresses its deep concern about the ambiguous conditions and statistics of executions offered by various sources and their discrepancies with the numbers announced by officials. The Campaign demands accountability and clear information about the group executions inside Vakil Abad Prison and other prisons in the country. (International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran)
Two abducted Kurd citizens announce their arrest by security forces after 20 days
Aug. 24, 2010
Dalir Rouzgerd from Saqez who is a geology graduate from Tabriz University and Ghias Naderzadeh from Paveh who is a Tabriz University graduate were arrested by intelligence agents in Kurdistan.
According to reports, 20 days after their disappearance, a recent phone call indicated that they were detained. Afterwards, security forces went to the home of Dalir Rouzgerd and confiscated some of his books and personal belongings.
Notably, these two men were the founders of the Zagros Center in Tabriz University.
There are no reports on their charges and condition and security forces refuse to give information on their condition.
Iran kills prisoner in Orumieh prison; grieving mother self immolates outside of prison
Aug. 24, 2010
On Sunday August 22, an ordinary prisoner in the Central Orumieh Prison was killed under torture in a solitary cell.
According to reports, Bahman Massoudi died after a prison guard identified as Khanzadeh struck him on the head with a baton.
After his family heard of his death, the mother of this prison doused herself in gas and set herself on fire yesterday outside the main door of this prison.
There is no information on how severely she was injured or her health.
Zanjan University dean sacked by Ahmadinejad ally24 August 2010
The mullahs’ Minister of Science has dismissed a prominent university professor who chaired the Post-doctorate Physical Sciences University in the city of Zanjan.
Professor Yousef Sobouti was the founder of the current educational accreditation system in Iran and the architect of a famous observatory in the city of Shiraz. The Abu Reyhan Birouni Observatory, which was built in 1978, is the largest active observatory in Iran.
In the past 19 years, Dr. Sobouti has prevented his university from becoming a haven of the Iranian regime’s paramilitary Bassij Force and the intelligence service.
He was dismissed by Kamran Daneshjou, the Iranian regime’s Minister of Science. Daneshjou was the head of Ahmadinejad’s campaign office during the June 2009 sham presidential elections. He famously announced Ahmadinejad’s victory in televised remarks before the votes were counted.
Some media outlets in Iran have repeatedly questioned Daneshjou’s credentials saying that Ahmadinejad appointed him as Minister of Science as a reward for his services during the presidential campaign.
Daneshjou appointed Rasoul Khodabakhsh as the new dean of the Zanjan university, asking him to endeavour to educate “law-abiding students using an outlook respecting values and spirituality.”
According to the state-run Fars news agency on Monday, during Professor Sobouti’s farewell ceremony last night, students demanded that he be allowed to return to the post.
Picture: Professor Yousef Sobouti
Political activist on hunger striker put on trial
24 August 2010
The Iranian regime on Sunday tried a political prisoner on the fortieth day of his hunger strike, according to Human Rights and Democracy Activists in Iran.
Political prisoner Houshang Davoudi was summoned to a court chaired by Salavati.
Mr. Davoudi reportedly had trouble walking on his own but had very high morale and condemned the regime’s rights violations and injustices, saying that Iran is a country that has no laws or proper due process.
Mr. Davoudi’s family had no prior knowledge of the trial. The regime sought to exploit the deteriorating health of Mr. Davoudi on his fortieth day of hunger strike to put him on trial.
Picture: Iranian regime's notorious judge Salavati
Two political prisoners banned from calling family in Evin PrisonAug. 24, 2010
Political prisoners Hengameh Shahidi and Hossein Marashi have been banned from using the telephone in prison.
According to reports, Hossein Marashi has only received one prison leave since March even as according to the law, a prisoner who is serving his/her time can go on a leave five days a months after serving one month of prison and has to be able to see his family in person once a week for at least 20 minutes.
This former Vice President only has visits from behind a glass partition which barely last 15 minutes and is banned from using the telephone to call his family.
According to other reports, Hengameh Shahidi has been banned from using the telephone from 11 days ago.
This jailed journalist was arrested after election events and sentenced to six years and three moths of prison. Political prisoners in cellblock 350 are also still barred from using the telephone.
Brother of slain student says he did not commit suicide
Aug. 24, 2010
The brother of Mohamamd-Javad Porandakh broke his silence after one year on the eve of the anniversary of his brother’s death and announced that Mohammad-Javad did not commit suicide and that his family suit against agents of the Ministry of Intelligence and the judge presiding over his case has so far been without result.
Mohammad-Javad Porandakh was a chemical engineering student at the Isfahan Industrial University who was summoned to the Isfahan Intelligence Agency after students in this university protested election results. His body was found two days after he went to the Intelligence Agency.
Iran arrests two student activistsAug. 23, 2010
Hassan Asadi Zeid Abadi and Ali Jamali, two members of the Central Council of the Office for Consolidating Unity were arrested on August 22 in Tehran.
Security forces arrested Zeid Abadi, the head of the Human Rights Committee in this organization in his home and Ali Jamali, the head of the Political Committee was arrested in his place of work.
Currently a number of the top members of this organization including Ahmad Zied Abadi (Secretary General), Abdollah Momeni (spokesman), and Ali Malihi (head of Public Relations) are in prison.
Hassan Asadi Zeid Abadi was arrested before this on November 3, 2009 and released about 40 days later on December 13.
He was trialed on August 3 in the 28th branch of the Tehran Revolutionary Court by Judge Moqiseh on charges of ‘assembling and conspiring against national security, propagating against the government, disrupting public order and insulting the president’. This court has yet to issue a verdict.
Iran arrests another Christian in Rasht
Aug. 21, 2010
Hamed Pishkar, a Christian living in the town of Rasht, was arrested on August 16 n his home for holding a session to answer questions (on Christianity) and carrying out religious rites.
Security forces initially conducted a search in his home and then took this Christian citizen to an unknown location.
In the past few months, there has been increased pressure on Christians in Rasht. Davoud Nejat Sabet and Shahin Taqi Zadeh who were both caretakers of the Church of Iran in Rasht were sentenced to one year of suspended sentence which can be carried out within five years.
Yusef Nodrkhani, another Christian has been jailed in the Lakan Prison in Rasht since last September waiting for his sentence to be issued.
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