Mahmoud Bakri, a member of the Executive Committee of the Iranian Teachers Association Iran, began serving a nine-and-a-half year sentence in Evin Prison. He was summoned to prison two months ago, but at the request of the school where he taught, his imprisonment was postponed until the end of the school year.
Source: Iran Daily Brief
IRGC Commander: IRGC’s missiles are ready to fire at enemy targets; enemies only know about part of IRGC military capabilities.
Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari said, “The Islamic Revolution has experienced tough times and successfully overcome them all. The Iranian nation under Khamenei’s wise leadership was able to overcome all the threats and challenges.” He added that Iran’s enemy’s pressure on peaceful nuclear energy and economic sanctions have only improved the Iranian nation’s perseverance and paved the way to success and progress.
Jafari said that chains of victories resulting from Islamic Awakening have changed the balance of power in favor of Muslims, and the Zionist regime and the US have lost their political, economic and security stands. Western countries failed to manage regional crises in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the balance of power between Islamic systems and enemies have changed dramatically in favor of Islam. He said, “IRGC forces on land, sea and air are very powerful and all are fully combat ready.” IRGC missiles are ready to fire on the enemies’ targets, as the IRGC missiles have frightened the enemies who know only part of the military deterrence capability and endless power of Basij forces…. Iran has always had intelligence nobility with regard to the enemies.” Ali Jafari said that “Iran’s deterrence, in which the IRGC plays a pivotal role, has not been formed only by tools, equipment, weapons and systems… The enemy is aware of Iran’s domination over the global economy and security of global energy and economy… The enemy knows that we are monitoring it all over the region and how vast and effective the supporters of the Islamic Revolution have spread in the world of Islam… The enemy will never forget the deep wounds of the blows it suffered at the hands of the (Lebanese) Hezbollah and Palestinian jihadist groups… The enemy has today felt Muslims’ political awakening and awareness.”
Source: Iran Daily Brief
Yadollah Javani, Advisor to the Supreme Leader’s Representative in the IRGC, spoke about IRGC operations in Iran’s economic sector, and said that the IRGC’s activities in this sector have neutralized the enemies’ conspiracies and that the IRGC has in effect replaced big foreign companies in large projects in Iran and is providing a solution to the country’s needs.
Source: Iran Daily Brief
In the past month there has been a new wave of arrests of young Iranians active on the Internet, and this wave has also reached the provinces and towns in Iran. According to the reports, at least twenty young people have been arrested to date in several different towns, including Tehran, Ilam, Mashhad and Rasht. Some have been held in local prisons for several days and then transferred to Evin Prison. They are being principally accused of Internet operations such as harming the sanctity of Islam in cyber space. Most of them are young, and some were arrested in student dorms. Others are high-profile students who were participants in the scientific Olympics.
Source: Iran Daily Brief
A Malaysian court on Monday approved the extradition of an Iranian to Thailand on suspicion of being involved in an alleged bomb plot against Israeli diplomats in the country.
Masoud Sedaghatzadeh, arrested at Kuala Lumpur’s international airport on February 15, is among three Iranians being held over incidents in Bangkok that saw Tehran accused of a terror campaign against Israel – which it denied.
The alleged plot emerged after an apparently unintended explosion at a house in the Thai capital. Two suspects are in custody in Thailand, including one who hurled a bomb at police while fleeing, blowing off his own legs.
At a criminal sessions court in Kuala Lumpur, Judge S. Komathy described Sedaghatzadeh, 31, as a “fugitive criminal” and said she disagreed with defence arguments that there was no evidence against him.
“In my view the conduct of the respondent is inconsistent with that of an innocent man,” she said.
“The prosecution has shown that the respondent is a fugitive criminal … as he is wanted by the Thai police for offences which come within the definition of extradition offences.
Iran Daily Brief: Keyvan Rahiman, a member of the Baha’i minority and lecturer at the Baha’i University, has been sentenced to five years in prison and has been fined.
Judge Salavati, who presides over the trials of most of the political prisoners in Iran, physically attacked a political prisoner brought before him. According to a report by a human rights activist, the judge kicked Ali Qashqaie, a prisoner confined to wing 350 in Evin Prison, in the stomach. The circumstances of the incident are as yet unclear.
Source: Iran Daily Brief
Iran Daily Brief: Two weeks after arrest of Amir Zargarnjad, a left-wing activist from Tabriz, there is still no information about his physical condition or the charges against him.
Jailed Iranian human rights activist Nargess Mohammadi is challenging her “illegal” transfer to Zanjan Prison and, in a letter to the Tehran prosecutor, she writes that this treatment is in effect a sentence of “gradual death.”
Nargess Mohmmadi has been sentenced to six years in jail for “propaganda against the regime.” She is one of many members of the Human Rights Defender Centre of Iran that have been targeted by severe government persecution after the election protests of 2009.
In her letter, Mohammadi reminds the prosecutor that she is a resident of Tehran, adding that due to her health complications she needs to visit her team of healthcare providers in Tehran on a regular basis.
Taghi Rahmani, Mohammadi’s husband, reports that his wife has been suffering from muscle paralysis and is no longer able to carry out her personal daily needs without assistance.
Rahmani, who is currently residing in France, told Persian BBC that Mohammadi was brought in in a wheelchair during her last visit with her family, and her physical condition in jail is critical.
Source: Radio Zamaneh
Fifteen people were arrested in Ahwaz last Thursday during protests against the execution of four political prisoners.
The Human Rights Activists News Agency reports that following the execution of four Arab political prisoners in Ahwaz, the city erupted in protests, during which at least 15 people were arrested.
Three brothers — Teh, Nasser, and Abbas Heydarian — together with Ali Sharifi Naami were transferred to an unknown location on June 9, and 10 days later their families were informed that the prisoners had been executed.
The four had been arrested in April of 2011 during protests in the Mollashieh neighbourhood of Ahwaz.
Reports from their cellmates indicate that they had been subjected to torture in prison. They were charged with murdering a security officer, but their families insist that the charges were false and any confessions extracted from them were coerced.
In recent years, Khuzestan Province has seen several mass protests, which have triggered a severe government crackdown.
Protesters claim the government treats the Arab community with widespread discrimination in housing and employment as well as social and political rights.
Source: Radio Zamaneh
