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Khatem al-Anbiya Air Force Commander: Diversion of Ms. Merkel’s Plane Not Planned

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Khatem al-Anbiya Air Force Commander: Diversion of Ms. Merkel’s Plane Not Planned

June 15th, 2011

Commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Khatem al-Anbiya Air Force, Farzad Ismaili, stated, regarding the ban on German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s plane from entering Iranian airspace, “The pilot of that plane made a mistake and we have no issue whatsoever. If this plane, like hundreds of other flights which cross our airspace, had shared its flight plan with us, it would have been permitted to cross. This airplane got permission and crossed our airspace after the pilot eventually made contact.”

In an interview with Fars News Agency, Ismaili responded to the German Foreign Ministry’s denial of Iran’s version of the story and claimed that the pilot had submitted its flight plan to Iran correctly: “If this was the only flight from Germany which was crossing, then that would be the case, but each day we deal with up to 60 East Asia-bound flights from Europe, and they all coordinate with us hence there’s no problem.” Commander Ismaili further specified that, “Any airplane intending to enter the Islamic Republic of Iran’s borders must coordinate with my department which is at the disposal of the Khatem-al-Anbiya Brigade.” Ismaili emphasized at the end of his speech that, “If Ms. Merkel again wishes to cross Iranian airspace, an authorization will be issued, of course, provided that she respects our national and international rules and customs.”

 

 

 

Release for Medical Treatment Urgently Needed for Hossein Ronaghi

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Release for Medical Treatment Urgently Needed for Hossein Ronaghi

June 15, 2011

(HRANA News): According to physician diagnosis, Hossein Ronaghi Maleki must undergo a second kidney operation, is not able to endure imprisonment, and must continue to receive treatment during his medical release.

Based on HRANA reports, despite physicians’ calls for his treatment and his family’s petition to the public prosecutor, prison authorities and the coroner have not provided a clear response. According to physicians’ diagnosis, his treatment must last three months under special circumstances. Otherwise, his kidney will again be infected. The Judiciary’s Commission for Islamic Human Rights also requested that Ronaghi be granted medical leave. Hossein Ronaghi has been sentenced to 15 years in prison and suffers from other medical problems, including gallstones. He urgently needs medical treatment.

 

Court Verdict Calls for Lake Urumiye Protestors to be Lashed

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Court Verdict Calls for Lake Urumiye Protestors to be Lashed

June 15, 2011

On June 15, the Tabriz Court issued a verdict calling the lashing of two activists who were convicted of “conspiring and rallying” during the April 2011 Lake Urumiye environmental protest.

On April 2, 2011, Iranian Internal Security Forces arrested 70 protestors during a rally organized to protest the environmental damage to Lake Urumiye. They opened a legal case against five of the protestors—Habib Pourvali, Jalil Alamdar Milani, Hojjat Mokhtarzadeh, Ali Salimi, and Saeed Sayami—accused of “conspiring and rallying to perpetrate crimes against national security” and “disturbing public order.” Musa Barzin Khalifeloo, the lawyer of these five civil activists stated in an interview with Radio Farda that “With the approval of this verdict calling for the lashing and bail payment three months after their arrest and then their subsequent release, Pourvali and Mokhtarzadeh are still in detention.”

 

According to Mr. Barzin, in the Tabriz Revolutionary Court’s first branch, all five activists accused of ”conspiring and rallying” had originally been sentenced to six months in prison. Mr. Bazi recounted, “We then wrote a petition to the appeals court. The appeals court acquitted Misters Sayami, Salimi, and Milani, but the six month sentences for Pourvali and Mokhtarzadeh have been approved and still retain their power.”

 

Mr. Barzin continued that the two of his clients convicted at the Tabriz Public Penalties Court Section 116 have been sentenced to 20 lashes and $300 bail for the charge of “disturbing public order”. The other three clients, acquitted by the Revolutionary Court of the conspiracy and rallying charges, have been excused from enduring the 20 lashes and paying the bail. Mr Barzi stated, “Pourvali and Mokhtarzadeh are still at the Tabriz prison, and of course they object to the verdict calling for them to pay the bail and be lashed. We are waiting for the appeals court to make a decision.”

 

Mr. Barzin added that, “Until now they have not been permitted to exercise their prisoners’ rights. Since the first day of arrest, they have been in prison and not granted temporary leave… There are benefits spelled out in the charter regarding prison and prisoners: temporary release, conditioned freedom, open vote, etc… Benefits have not been applied to prisoners with security charges against them. For example, a prisoner whose crime is kidnapping or drug trafficking exercises such benefits, but many times we requested these benefits for Rasoul Badali, Hossein Nasiri, Mohammad Reza Hadi (Azerbaijani political and civil activists) and have been turned down.”

 

Authorities deny journalist was on hunger strike before death

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Authorities deny journalist was on hunger strike before death

Tue, 06/14/2011

Islamic Republic authorities gave their first response today to the death of Reza Hoda Saber, denying that the jailed journalist and political activist had been on a hunger strike during his final days.

Their statement appears in a report published by Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA). It quotes an unnamed source, “the head of the Evin Prison infirmary and Hoda Saber’s doctor,” saying the jailed journalist died from a “massive heart attack.” The IRNA report adds that Hoda Saber received all necessary medical care, as would be expected, in the last hours of his life.

According to IRNA, the head of infirmary has reported that Hoda Saber was brought to the medical facility at about 5AM on Friday. He was given an electrocardiogram which showed nothing out of the ordinary. According to IRNA, the unidentified prison official says Hoda Saber was then given medication, which he said alleviated his pain, and he was returned to his cell. An hour later, says the source, he was in pain once more and was taken to hospital after a second ECG.

The report indicates that Hoda Saber’s vital signs were fine when he was sent to hospital. The unnamed official says the patient even wanted to walk into the hospital himself but was forbidden by hospital personnel, who took him in a wheelchair.

IRNA says the infirmary chief refutes reports that Hoda Saber was on a hunger strike, because all such prisoners are visited by infirmary personnel, who compile a daily record of their medical condition, even if they don’t require immediate medical care.

“There was no such file on Hoda Saber, and he has no history of a hunger strike,” Evin Prison authorities contend. They add that, according to the hospital report, Hoda Saber died from “a massive heart attack.”

Contradicting the IRNA report is the June 2 announcement of a hunger strike by Hoda Saber and his fellow Nationalist-Religious prisoner, Amir-Khosro Delirsani. They said their strike was to protest the “murder of Haleh Sahabi,” a political activist who died when her father’s funeral was overrun by security forces on June 1, triggering widespread outrage.

The Islamic Republic authorities have been accused of bringing about Hoda Saber’s death, first by his arbitrary arrest and then by failing to provide him with adequate medical care.

Today, 64 inmates at the same prison issued their own statement, declaring that Hoda Saber was beaten at the infirmary on Friday June 10.

Hoda Saber’s family has announced that it has filed a legal complaint to protest the prison’s delay in transferring him to hospital and its failure to inform the family about his death.

 

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Iranian journalist held in undetermined state

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Iranian journalist held in undetermined state

TUESDAY, 14 JUNE 2011

Radio Zamaneh – Iranian journalist Sam Mahmoodi Sarabi continues to be held in legal limbo at Evin Prison, even as his arrest warrant is renewed after two months.

“While they had told us that they would process his file this month, he remains in an undetermined state in Ward 350 of Evin Prison,” his family told the Jaras website. “The security forces also prevent his lawyers from visiting him or even contacting the investigator in his case.”

According to his mother, Alieh Jangi, Mahmoodi was arrested for writing poetry and an open letter to opposition leader MirHosein Mousavi, which the investigator has deemed to be “propaganda against the regime, activity against national security and insulting the leadership.”

Mahmoodi, a staff member of Shargh newspaper, was arrested last March.

The Kaleme website also reports the arrest of Farid Salavati, a journalist in the city of Esfahan, on Sunday June 12.

RAHANA Human Rights House of Iran indicates that the one-year sentence handed to Mahsa Amrabadi, another journalist accused of “activities against the regime through interviews and journalistic reports,” has been confirmed by the appellate court. Amrabadi was arrested two days after the June 2009 presidential elections and released two month later on bail of $200,000.

In the past two years, scores of journalist have been arrested and many handed prison sentences in the crackdown on popular protests that challenged the re-election of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

 

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Clinton accuses Iran of role in Syrian crackdown

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Clinton accuses Iran of role in Syrian crackdown

TUESDAY, 14 JUNE 2011

AP – Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is accusing Iran of supporting its ally Syria in a brutal military crackdown on political opponents.

Clinton said Tuesday in a statement issued in Washington that Iran’s complicity in abuses is coinciding with the two-year anniversary of its crackdown on citizens who protested after the contested election that handed another term to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

The statement didn’t go into details on the type of assistance Iran was providing Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime. Activists say more than 1,400 Syrians have died and some 10,000 detained since a popular uprising began in mid-March.

Clinton said Iranians and Syrians yearn to be free.

 

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Another Student Arrested in Tabriz

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Another Student Arrested in Tabriz

TUESDAY, 14 JUNE 2011

HRANA News Agency – Sassan Vahibivash, a student activist at Tabriz Azad University, was arrested on Friday, June 10, 2011.

According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Sassan Vahibivash has contacted his family by phone and confirmed his arrest. Sassan Vahibivash is a medical student at Tabriz Azad University and is currently locked up together with another student, Nimapur Yaqoob, at a detention center in Tabriz.

Nimapur Yaqoob was arrested by Iran’s intelligence agents on June 9, 2011.

 

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A Gorgani Citizen Dies During Satellite Dish Confiscation Project

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A Gorgani Citizen Dies During Satellite Dish Confiscation Project

TUESDAY, 14 JUNE 2011

HRANA News Agency – When government agents were confiscating satellite dishes in the city of Gorgan in Golestan Province, a citizen fell from his roof and died.

According to a report by Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA), Ali Karimi, 42, confronted the police officers who had gone to the roof of his apartment building to seize his satellite dish. During a verbal scuffle between him and the police, Ali Karimi lost his balance and fell from the fourth floor of the apartment building.

The medical report issued by Panj Azar Hosiptal indicates that before hitting the ground, Ali Karimi died of a heart attack triggered by fear.

 

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Open letter from The International Organisation to Preserve Human Rights in Iran ( IOPHRI) to Grand

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Open letter from The International Organisation to Preserve Human Rights in Iran ( IOPHRI) to Grand

TUESDAY, 14 JUNE 2011

 

Inside of Iran – Repeating the same mistakes is a sign of insanity

Take for example a mathematician trying to solve a very complicated algebra formula, the more complex the formula is, the more chance of intellectual mistakes.

On the other hand,  if a person is persevering that 1 + 1=17, you may raise questions to the mental state of this person.

Although it is natural for human beings to make rational mistakes, as in the first example, to continue repeating the same mistake may indicate a lack of sanity.

In the Iranian Constitutional Law, the Supreme Leader must possess two attributes; one is to have a right mental state and the other is to understand and implement justice. It is known that reason and justice have a visible reflection on the physical world. Therefore if a person’s actions and judgment are observed over a period of time, it can easily be understood whether the person has a rational state of mind and follows justice or not.

Discussion about governmental order, by order of Vali-e Faqhi.

In Iran when the absolute power by Vali-e faqhi is used it is called ‘governmental order of the regime’.

In reference to the Constitutional Law, terms and condition of Vali-e faqhi are, he must possess reason, rationality, fairness, degree of religious law domination and authority. Consequently if a person has the given criteria mentioned above, once he becomes a supreme leader, according to the constitutional law, nobody can limit him to the frame of the law, therefore he has absolute power.

The question that has been raised here about the absolute power given to the Supreme Leader over any laws, which is called the ‘governmental order’ is “does this apply to any person without having the right state of mind, or would they need to have a rational state of mind?”

A few examples:

  1. Can the Supreme Leader announce, Saturday is Thursday, Monday is Wednesday, with his absolute governmental order?
  2. Can the Supreme Leader order for the 30 days in the lunar month to be changed to 29 days with his absolute governmental order?
  3. Can the Supreme Leader call the 29 days of lunar month to be 30 days, with his absolute governmental order?
  4. Can the Supreme Leader call the last day of the month of Ramadan to be the first day of Sha-eban month and order for Eid prayer, and for Muslims to break their fast, with his absolute governmental order?
  5. Can the Supreme Leader with his absolute governmental order, remove the academic subjects from the universities, such as philosophy and logic? Order people to stop thinking, instead spreading superstition and encourage water well worshiping, 1400 years after the emergence of Islam, and go back to the period of ignorance?

It is obvious the answers to all the questions mentioned above are ‘No’.

Therefore, if the absolute governmental order is not based on reasoning, logic and Sharia Law, not only will it discredit itself, but also if repeated, it proves that the Supreme Leader is not mentally in a right state of mind to be in power. One of the terms and conditions of a Supreme Leader is reasoning, which comes from a right state of mind. Thus the supreme leader’s position of power becomes automatically invalid, and does not even require the majority votes from members of ‘Assembly Experts’ to nominate him out.

It is comprehensible that if the Supreme Leader does not have the right state of mind to rule the terms of justice, he needs to be removed, because a human being without the right mental state, cannot rule a whole society.

Therefore it is clear that the absolute governmental power of the Supreme Leader will be taken from him, if his state of mind and judgment for justice fails and he will automatically be dismissed from position of leadership. Nevertheless if the Supreme Leader insists on staying in power, without the right state of mind and judgment, he  is a despot in the same way as the Pharaohs and Namroud. For the reasons given, it is every persons’ personal duty to rise up against the Supreme Leader in order to bring him down, this is with reference to the Islamic and rational Law.

Effect of spells on body and mind

 

There is so much evidence pointing towards the ‘lack of a sane state of mind’ in the decision making of the “Supreme Leader of Iran”, but some of his followers and fans have blamed this incompetency on black magic done to him, and stated: “ this has only effected his body and not his mind”.

 

The effect of spells and the evil eye on people and prophets has been acknowledged in the Quran (the verse of Vanyakat). As a result, it is not valid for one to say, “the effect of the evil eye/black magic on the body does not effect the mind”, since the intellect works by the cells of the brain and the cells of the brain are part of the body, therefore we cannot seperate mind from the body.

 

It is clear that the Supreme Leader is not in a right mental state, as he only sees and encourages war and violence, and continuously makes mistakes in his decisions. This is something he even admitted himself in his latest speech.

 

In addition, experts have argued that the causes of his continuous mistakes are related to black magic, which is affecting the Supreme Leader’s body and mind.

 

To conclude, the Supreme Leader has admitted his mistakes. His followers, fans and experts have highlighted the danger of repeating the same errors due to the possible effect of black magic or any other influences on his body and mind.  Is this not reason and evidence enough for him to step down?

 

With all the killing, destruction and injustice that is currently occurring in Iran, and the continuous evidence of corrupt decision making, is this not proof enough to say that the Supreme Leader of Iran has lost his sanity and judgment?

 

9th June 2011

by The International Organisation to Preserve Human Rights in Iran

Berlin, Toronto, Washington

Branch from New York-Oslo

 

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Britain calls on Iran to release arrested protesters

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Britain calls on Iran to release arrested protesters

June 14, 2011

LONDON — Britain urged Iran Monday to release protesters arrested in Tehran on the second anniversary of the disputed re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, saying the crackdown was “deeply worrying”.

“Yesterday, large gatherings of Iranians marked the second anniversary of the disputed 2009 elections with silent and peaceful protest, and were again met with repression by the Iranian authorities,” said Alistair Burt, a junior foreign minister with special responsibility for the Middle East.

“There are deeply worrying, credible reports of arrests and violence against protesters.”

In a statement, he added: “I call on the Iranian authorities to release immediately all those detained yesterday and in the past two years for simply exercising what should be legitimate freedoms.”

Burt also called for an “urgent and transparent investigation” into the deaths of opposition journalist Reza Hoda Saber and activist Haleh Sahabi.

Hoda Saber died of a heart attack over the weekend after going on hunger strike on June 2, an Iranian opposition website reported on Sunday.

He stopped eating in protest at the death of Sahabi, who died of cardiac arrest on June 1 when she was confronted by security forces during the funeral of her father, a veteran opposition figure.

“I am struck by the courage of those ordinary Iranians who continue to stand firm against attempts to beat them into silence, exemplified by journalists such as Hoda Saber, whose death yesterday following a hunger strike in prison shocked Iran,” Burt said.

“As the foreign secretary (William Hague) said yesterday, the Iranian regime’s feigned support for those demanding their rights elsewhere in the region is belied by its brutal crackdown on freedoms at home.”

 

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