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Heh. Yeah, the Interwebs are fraught with danger. Not exactly Idiot of the Day material, but a good candidate for Low-Grade Buffoon of the Week. Inquiring minds will wonder how flash managed to end up on this page.
As the Iranian authorities warned the opposition on Tuesday that they would tolerate no further protests over the disputed June 12 presidential elections, a report emerged of the hangings of six supporters of defeated candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi.
Speaking after Iran's top legislative body upheld the election victory of incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, sources in Iran told this reporter in a telephone interview that the hangings took place in the holy city of Mashhad on Monday. There was no independent confirmation of the report.
Underlining the climate of fear among direct and even indirect supporters of Mousavi's campaign for the election to be annulled, the sources also reported that a prominent cleric gave a speech to opposition protesters in Teheran earlier this week in which he publicly acknowledged that the very act of speaking at the gathering would likely cost him his life.
"Ayatollah Hadi Gafouri said that the Imam [Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini] never wanted [current supreme Leader] Ali Khamenei to succeed him. He even went to say that the Islamic republic died the day the Imam did," one source said.
Other criticisms from senior clerics over the regime's handling of the elections and subsequent protests included a report from a Persian news agency, which on Tuesday quoted a senior cleric from the city of Esfahan, Ayatollah Seyyed Jalaleddin Taheri-Esfahani, defending Mousavi against the regime's criticisms.
The ayatollah was quoted as saying: "Is it a case of justice to see that an honorable and modest Seyyed [a descendant of the household of the prophet Muhammad], who until the last moments of Khomeini's life was a dear and close companion of that grand leader, is now considered to be a rioter and an agent of arrogance who must be punished?"
On Monday, witnesses said thousands of policemen and Basij militiamen carrying batons were deployed in Teheran's main squares to prevent any recurrence of the opposition protests. Drivers who so much as shouted "Allahu Akbar" or beeped their horns had their windows smashed by the Basiji and riot police.
Women police, better known as the Sisters of Zeynab, are also now out in force, the witnesses said.
"Some people are still going out into the streets, but there is despair and sadness," said one source. "Now we are told that [pro-Mousavi] green bands are illegal, which is ironic because it symbolizes the color of Islam."
On Monday, the daughter of former president Hashemi Rafsanjani, spoke a gathering of opposition protesters in Teheran's Enqelab Square, sources said. "Mrs. Faezeh Hashemi arrived and tried to give the people some words of encouragement," said one, "but the police broke up the rally within minutes."
He added, "My nephew saw one of these Sisters of Zeynab beat down an elderly woman with no mercy. When he tried to intervene, saying to her, 'Miss, she is like your grandmother,' the woman turned around to get a Basiji to deal with him."
Mousavi's Facebook page is still carrying messages aimed at quashing the notion that he is caving in. "He did not give in to the Guardians Council," runs one new message. "Mir Hossein Mousavi is not under house arrest, he is not about to leave the country, he is under strong pressure to end this, but he always said he will stand up for the people's will to the end! He is from and with the people."
Amid the talk of despair and quashed protests, one defiant reformist supporter told this reporter: "The regime wants the world to think they have won. Don't believe it... Even if this regime is about to collapse, they would not let anybody know until their final hour."
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In further news President Obama spoke out in support of freedom and against these injustices by the tyrannical Iranian regime in comments to the press corps today, repeating his definitive stand by saying: "".
The US Mainstream Media reflected the president's concerns by headlining "who got what in Michael Jackson's will".
My take? Fuck Obama - I hope he drops dead this very minute, the evil bastard
Three of Iran's most prominent opposition leaders flagrantly courted arrest yesterday by denouncing President Ahmadinejad's Government as illegitimate, one day after the regime said that it would tolerate no more challenges to the election result.
Mir Hossein Mousavi, the former Prime Minister who lost the election said that he was forming a political group to defend citizens' rights and votes, which suggested that he is preparing a campaign of resistance against Mr Ahmadinejad and his patron, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader. He still has powerful supporters including two former presidents, Mr Khatami and Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, Ali Larijani, the parliamentary speaker. Ayatollah Mohammed Khatami, 65, a popular former President, accused the regime of mounting a "velvet revolution against the people and democracy" and called the security crackdown "poisonous". Mehdi Karroubi, 72, another defeated presidential candidate, said that "visible and invisible forces blocked any change in the executive power". He added: "I will continue the fight under any circumstances and using every means." The regime responded by shutting down his newspaper.
One Iranian analyst expressed astonishment at their audacity. "It looks like they're trying to become living martyrs," he said. "At the very least they will be put under house arrest. At worst they will be taken to jail and charged with threatening national security."
Forced from the streets by the security forces, Mr Mousavi's supporters are also preparing a campaign of civil disobedience. They are talking of strikes, boycotting goods advertised in the state-controlled media, moving money out of government-controlled banks and giving money directly to the needy instead of government-controlled charities.
That last would actually be felt by President Ahmadinejad and his supporters among the mullahs.
Analysts say that anger will grow and could erupt at football matches, prayer meetings or anywhere that large numbers gather. They say that opposition supporters will go underground and stage lightning demonstrations. They also expect some elements to start launching violent attacks on government targets.
In a possible sign of the regime's anxiety Mr Ahmadinejad abruptly cancelled a visit to Libya for an African Union summit yesterday.
That last bit may actually be meaningful information. After all, didn't Mr. Ahmadinejad run off to some meeting in Russia when things started getting interesting back home?
[Al Arabiya Latest] Iran's Foreign Ministry said on Monday that one of three local British embassy staff still in detention had had a "remarkable role" in last month's post-election unrest in the Islamic Republic, according to a semi-official news agency.
Five of the detained Iranian staff at the British embassy in Tehran were freed while four were still being held for questioning, according to British officials. Wednesday's Fars news agency report suggested that one more person had also been freed.
" Among the three detained British embassy staff there was one who ... had a remarkable role during the recent unrest in managing it behind the scenes "
Fars news agency
"Among the three detained British embassy staff there was one who ... had a remarkable role during the recent unrest in managing it behind the scenes," Fars said, without giving a source.
It said another embassy employee had been a "main element behind the riots" but that she had been freed because she enjoyed diplomatic immunity.
The same news agency first revealed the detentions of what it said was eight British embassy staff on Sunday, saying they were accused of stirring unrest after Iran's disputed June 12 election, which moderate opponents of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad say was rigged in his favor.
Iran has accused Western powers, but especially Britain, of inciting street protests and violence and the two countries have exchanged tit-for-tat diplomatic expulsions. Britain has rejected the accusations.
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I wonder if anybody revealed to the Mullahs the theory that Brits are descendants of the ten lost tribes?
Also on Wednesday, President Ahmadinejad's office announced his trip to an African Union summit in Libya has been cancelled without giving any reason. "The president's visit to the summit that was supposed to start on Wednesday has been cancelled," said a presidential office spokesman.
Ahmadinejad was scheduled to join the summit of African leaders, which is set to get underway in Libya, to investigate Agricultural investment in Africa.
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Defeated Iranian candidate Mehdi Karroubi refused to recognize the Ahmadinejad's re-election after an electoral watchdog confirmed the results despite allegations of fraud, a statement on his Etemad Melli party website said on Wednesday. The statement prompted authorities to halt the publication of the party newspaper.
"Last night, after Karroubi's statement was released, representatives of the Tehran prosecutor and the culture ministry prevented the publication of Etemad Melli newspaper," the party said on its website. "They wanted the statement censored and not published -- so the newspaper will not be published today."
The newspaper is one of the few reformist publications to have survived a crackdown under Ahmadinejad's rule.
However, it chief editor Mohammad Ghoochani is among scores of reformist leaders and journalists detained in a crackdown by the authorities on opposition activists and protesters in the wake of the disputed election.
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[ADN Kronos] Iran's Basij militia has called for an investigation into the role of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi in the violent street protests that followed last month's presidential election. The move came as a grenade attack was foiled against a religious shrine in the capital Tehran on Wednesday.
The semiofficial Fars news agency said the militia has sent Iran's chief prosecutor a letter accusing Mousavi of taking part in nine offences against the state, including "disturbing the nation's security."
That charge carries a maximum penalty of 10 years' imprisonment.
The militia said that Mousavi was attempting to undermine state security and reports have been circulating that he could soon face a judge to respond to nine criminal offences against the state.
At least 20 people were killed and more than 1,000 were arrested in the protests that followed Ahmadinejad's re-election, which Mousavi supporters say was rigged.
"Police arrested 1,032 people in the recent riots. Many have been released and the rest are being prosecuted in Tehran's public and revolutionary courts," Iranian police chief Ahmadi Moghaddam was quoted as saying by Fars on Wednesday.
The Basiji are known as the street enforcers of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Mousavi is continuing to insist that he won the presidential election. He did not immediately respond to Wednesday's allegations.
Staff at the Imam Zadeh Saleh mausoleum found a grenade that had been left in a garbage can in the women's bathroom.
The grenade's safety pin had been removed and a piece of tape had been put in its place, said the chief of the Tehran section of the Charity Organisation, Yadollah Shirmardi, quoted by semi-official news agency Fars on Wednesday.
Shirmardi said the explosive device was set to explode ahead of evening prayers when the area is crowded.
The mausoleum - a popular tourist destination - is located near Tajrish square, one of the busiest parts of Tehran.
Imam Zadeh Saleh is the son of the seventh Shia Saint Musa al-Kazim, and the brother of Ali ar-Rida, the seventh descendant of Islam's Prophet Mohammed.
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I have no more use for Mousavi than for Dinner Jacket. Like Hamas and Hezbollah. I do have sympathy for the people for whom these are the only choices, but for the true supporters of any of the above - let the Red on Red begin.
[Iran Press TV Latest] A senior member of the Jundullah terrorist group says that the group has been trained and financed by "the US and Zionists".
Abdolhamid Rigi, the brother of Jundullah leader Abdolmalek Rigi made the remarks in a court session held in the southeastern city of Zahedan on Wednesday.
Abdolhamid Rigi was among the thirteen members of the Jundullah who were accused of terrorist activities, Fars news agency reported.
Pakistani security forces arrested Abdolhamid last year and extradited him to Iran.
The defendants told the court that foreign spy agencies support Jundullah.
Citing the defendant's confessions, the court's judge said that after the extradition of Abdolhamid, foreign intelligence agencies had incited Jundullah members to step up their terrorist attacks in Iran including hostage takings to put pressure on Iran to release Abdolhamid.
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[Beirut Daily Star: Region] Iran's embattled opposition leader urged his supporters Wednesday to keep pressing for their rights, and he joined a reformist ex-president to denounce what both men called the regime's "coup" against those contesting the outcome of last month's presidential election.
Mir Hossein Mousavi said Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's government would be illegitimate, and demanded the release of all political prisoners and the institution of electoral reforms and press freedoms, while former President Mohammad Khatami lashed out at what he termed "a poisonous security situation" in the wake of violent street protests.
In separate but equally stinging statements posted on their Web sites, Khatami accused Iran's leadership of a "velvet coup against the people and democracy," and Mousavi said the government's crackdown on demonstrators was "tantamount to a coup."
"Given what has been done and declared unilaterally, we must say that a velvet revolution has taken place against the people and democratic roots of the system," Khatami said, alluding to the government's declaration of incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the winner of the June 12 election.
"People's protests were suppressed, those who were required to protect people's rights humiliated the people yet it [the government] speaks of national reconciliation and peace," Khatami said.
The two men's latest displays of defiance came as Iran's Basij militia accused Mousavi of undermining national security and asked a prosecutor to investigate his role in violent protests, and the European Union considered a pullout of all 27 of its ambassadors in protest.
Mousavi said he was troubled by "the bitter, widespread distrust of the people toward the declared election results and the government that caused it."
"It's not yet too late," said Mousavi, who has slipped from public view in recent days. "It's our historic responsibility to continue our complaint and make efforts not to give up the rights of the people." Mousavi also condemned alleged attacks by security forces on college dormitories where "blood was spilled and the youth were beaten," and he called for a return to a more "honest" political environment in the Islamic Republic.
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Yeah, I'll bet Five-O's on it too...
[Iran Press TV Latest] Iran's Police Chief, Brig. Gen. Esmail Ahmadi-Moqaddam, says Interpol is searching for a man who witnessed the death of Neda Agha-soltan.
Neda was shot dead in a central Tehran street on June 20, amid the post-election unrest in the capital city and her death has turned into a controversial issue.
Iranian authorities say that security forces have not fired at protesters, adding that the incident was "a premeditated scenario" to defame Iran.
Arash Hejazi, an Iranian physician, however, has told the BBC that he witnessed the incident and that a member of the Basij had shot at Neda, a claim strongly dismissed by the volunteer force. "Arash Hejazi is wanted by Interpol and Iran's Intelligence Ministry," Fars news agency quoted Ahmadi-Moqaddam as saying.
The police chief said that Hejazi is charged with helping the Western media to launch a psywar against Iran. "The murder of Neda Agha-Soltan was a scenario and is not related to the Tehran unrest in any way," he concluded.
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No one can defame Iran. It's not possible. Perhaps the police chief would feel better if he went out & shot another girl.How brave! Little girls are so tough.
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I presume any witnesses they find will be turned over to Dinner Jacket's police for interviews - probably involving colonic rupture (see story elsewhere on this page).
This is the account of an 18 year old male protestor.
His shoulder blades and arms were wounded. There were some slashes on the face. No bone fractures, but he was bruised all over the body. I wanted to take some photos but he did not let me. The doctor said only four of his teeth were intact, the rest were broken. You could hardly understand what he said.
Then the doctor told me what had happened. He had suffered rupture of the rectum and the doctor feared colonic bleeding. He suggested we take him to the hospital immediately.
They registered him under a false name and with somebody else's insurance. The nurses were crying. Two of them asked what sort of beast had beaten him up like that. He was a broken man. He told us not to waste our money on him, and that he would kill himself.
He was arrested in Shiraz on 15 June, the Monday after the election.
"I was kept in a van till evening that day and then transferred to a solitary cell where I was kept for two days," he said. "Then I was repeatedly interrogated, beaten and hung from a ceiling. They call it chicken kebab. They tie your hands and feet together and hang you from the ceiling, turning you around and beating you with cables.
I believed I was going to be sent from the detention centre to prison. But they sent me to where they called Roughnecks' Room. It was on Saturday or Sunday that they raped me for the first time. There were three or four huge guys we had not seen before. They came to me and tore my clothes. I tried to resist but two of them laid me on the floor and the third did it. It was done in front of four other detainees."
"My cell mates, especially the older one, tried to console me. They said nobody loses his dignity through such an act. They did it to two other cell mates in the next days. Then it became a routine."
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Nothing to see here... Just an internal concern of the 'democratically elected' government of Iran that our leadership in DC supports
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Yeah, vigorous debate and such.
Anyone for ice cream?
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I am curious. What is it with the Iranian government and their henchmen? Is this the only way they can achieve satisfaction is through raping men? This is disgusting but then of course if Iran were to change their name to Honduras, then BO would have a comment within the minute.
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Bambi's comment ... "but, but, but I told them I was appalled and disgusted." What a maroon.
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I am curious. What is it with the Iranian government and their henchmen? Is this the only way they can achieve satisfaction is through raping men? This is disgusting but then of course if Iran were to change their name to Honduras, then BO would have a comment within the minute.
IIUC, rape is a very common tactic in dictatorships - sorry to always bring that up, but don't forget that kaddafy had the bulgarian nurses raped by dogs to make them confess.
Here, we might have a special focus on homosexual rape because of of local psychosexual "habits"; while I don't doubt male prisoners have been raped by tortured all over the world and across the cultures (IIRC, sodomizing captured ennemies is a very common russian habit, that was and is a major sore point, no pun intended, even in now "pacified" chechnya), arabs seem to have "issues" here, this I gather from reading some israeli guys writing about how arab armies always try and feminize the adversary (notably by raping and/or emasculating prisoners or bodies, this was a notable SOP of the algerian FLN), or how arab secret polices use male-on-male rape to break political prisoners (read several bits about this, even way before getting online, heck, I read about a syrian - possible connection with the basiji's own FL - political prisoner being casually raped by his guards, back in a Reader's digest atleast 10-15 years ago).
The mysteries of the old and sophisticated east, I guess.
Reza was imprisoned in Tehran, and he said all sort of people were there. Some of them just unlucky people just walking in streets and captured for no reason.
Reza spent his first 48 hours of arrest at level -4 of ministry of interior building without food or water. According to Reza some of the injured people already passed out, and a taxi driver looked like dead by that time. Reza estimated around 200 people were in each room and there were not enough space to even sit on the ground. There was also an awful problem of only one toilet for all people in there and a impossible time limit of around 1 minute for each person. They randomly beat up people.
He said in the second day some pain cloth people came with papers forcing people to sign them. The papers were prewritten confessions all in different handwritings saying the signer violated national security and Islam. Reza said some people sign them and some other just faked their signatures and names. There were not enough confession papers for all people.
A man came and said the detainees would be released today, but an hour later another came and told them they would be in prison for 10 years.
So many people're put in Iran prison that prisoners only have standing space. They moved Reza and some of the selected people to Evin. Around 3am day 2 they started moving people in vans; Reza said a driver was talking to a Basiji about Evin prison is full.
They ran another confession show at Evin, this time with promise of instant freedom and new accusations.
But after they learned Reza is a student, they moved him to a harsher environment with some other prisoners. Guards prevented them from sleeping by keeping them standing all night long.
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Defeated Iranian candidate Mehdi Karroubi refused to recognize the Ahmadinejad's re-election after an electoral watchdog confirmed the results despite allegations of fraud, a statement on his Etemad Melli party website said on Wednesday. The statement prompted authorities to halt the publication of the party newspaper.
[Beirut Daily Star: Region] Iran's embattled opposition leader urged his supporters Wednesday to keep pressing for their rights, and he joined a reformist ex-president to denounce what both men called the regime's "coup" against those contesting the outcome of last month's presidential election.
