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Mohsen Safaei Farahani Returns to Evin Prison

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Mohsen Safaei Farahani Returns to Evin Prison

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12 , August , 2010

Mohsen Safaei Farahani was asked to return to Evin prison on Wednesday afternoon, August 12, after his interview regarding the complaint of 7 reformist features against an official of IRGC was published.

RAHANA- Mohsen Safaei Farahani emphasized that he will not withdraw his complaint and will return to prison.According to the Parliament news, Mohsen Safaei Farahani was arrested on June 20, 2009. He has been sentenced to 5 years in prison and is currently on prison leave.

On February 15, 2010,  his lawyer announced that he has submitted an appeal for the verdict issued by branch 15 of revolutionary court which had sentenced Mohsen Safaei Farahani to 6 years in prison. The appeals court later reduced this verdict to 5 years in prison on April 11, 2010.

Iran: Proof of Revolutionary Guard Interference in the 2009 Election?

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Iran: Proof of Revolutionary Guard Interference in the 2009 Election?

Tuesday, August 10, 2010 at 10:27AM

A senior Iranian intelligence official, presumably from the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ intelligence wing, was heard in an audio file outlining the IRGC’s involvement in dealing with the opposition before and after the June 12 election last year.

This audio file dates back to a private speech given by the general to a number of high-ranking clerics and state officials in the northeastern city of Mashhad, sometime after the June 12 election.

General Moshfegh, the intelligence official presumably heard on the audio file, accused high-ranking members of the opposition, including former President Mohammad Khatami, Assembly of Experts Chairman Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, and opposition leader Mir Hossein Moussavi of having direct ties to the United States and Great Britain. He said that these individuals and their families are connected to the West and “we [the IRGC] have made an effort in recent months to make this public.”

During this private speech, Moshfegh accused leading Iranian opposition figures of having held private meetings in the home of Mehdi Hashemi, Rafsanjani’s son currently on the run from the Islamic Republic, in order to find a way to “get back in the system” implying that these forces were looking for a way to infiltrate the government.

This high-ranking intelligence official accuses Iran’s reformists of seeking to weaken Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei during President Khatami’s tenure. Moshfegh claims that key reformists figures, who held sensitive government positions at the time in places such as the Interior and the Intelligence Ministries, sought to create a crisis and therefore weaken the Supreme Leader.

In this speech, which has become an internet sensation in Iranian political circles, General Moshfegh brags about IRGC’s ability to influence matters of the most sensitive nature such as presidential and parliamentary elections. Moshfegh admitted that the IRGC shut down all SMS services in Iran on election day last year in order to prevent supporters of Moussavi and Mehdi Karroubi from communicating with each other.

Moshfegh, who has interrogated a number of political prisoners incarcerated after the June 12 election, said that the opposition wants to instigate instability in the Islamic Republic and went as far as to accuse Ayatollah Mohammad Mosusavi-Khoiniha, a senior cleric close to the Green Movement, of being an American sleep cell.

What General Moshfegh considered to be the IRGC’s successes are at the core of the opposition movement’s complaints against the IRGC. According to Iranian law, it is illegal for Iran’s armed forces to take sides in political disputes. Following the release of General Moshfegh’s audio file, two leading opposition parties, the Participation Front and Mojahedin of Islamic Revolution, filed a lawsuit against high-ranking IRGC generals, most of whom are commanders of the Sarallah Base in Tehran.

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Iranian reformists press charges against Revolutionary Guards

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Iranian reformists press charges against Revolutionary Guards

http://www.payvand.com/news/10/aug/1074.html

08/08/10

Source: Radio Zamaneh

Seven members of Iranian reformist parties Islamic Iran Participation Front and Mujahedin of Islamic Revolution issued a letter to the head of judiciary, Ayatollah Larijani and head of judicial branch of the armed forces, Mohammad Kazem Bahrami to press charges against a group of military and intelligence officers.

Basij militial, which is under the command of IRGC, had a key role in suppressing opposition protests after
the June 2009 presidential elections. (Photos: Basij attacking protesters in Tehran on December 27, 2009

The letter which was published in opposition websites today and signed by reformist leaders Mohsen Aminzadeh, Mostafa Tajzadeh, Abdollah Ramzanzadeh, Feizollah Arabsorkhi, Mohsen Safai-Farahani, Mohsen Mirdamadi and Behzad Nabavi, names an individual called “Commander Moshfeq”, who is apparently the senior intelligence officer at Sarallah Base.

On July 22, an audio file surfaced revealing the voice of the individual that the letter identifies as “Commander Moshfeq” talking in a security meeting and explaining methods of identifying and dealing with opposition forces in the aftermath of the controversial presidential elections of 2009.

However, in June, Javan newspaper, which is a Revolutionary Guards daily, had already published some of the statements uttered by “Commander Moshfeq” in the audio file which surfaced later.

Signatories of the letter to the head of judiciary and head of the judicial branch of the military maintain that Commander Moshfeq’s statements are “proof of illegal actions of a despotic group in the course of elections and the coup d’etat through election.”

Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei with IRGC and military commanders in May 2010.
Military & IRGC commanders are appointed by Khamenei

The Sarallah Base is an Iran Revolutionary Guards Corps’ base for handling security issues of the capital and other cities of Tehran Province.

The opposition contends that the 2009 presidential election was rigged in order to secure Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s victory.

Disputing presidential candidates, Mehdi Karroubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi have repeatedly accused the IRGC of interfering in the 2009 elections.

Iranian establishment denies the charges and accuses the opposition of fomenting sedition.

The seven members of Iran’s reformist parties claim that a military and intelligence group planned the “omission or defeat” of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s opponents as soon as their presence in the presidential race was approved.

Pointing to the presence of the said audio file, they add: “According to this document, the speech reveals that this group has taken its illegal actions, which are also against the late Ayatollah Khomeini’s ideals, in the name of the current leadership. The speaker in the file repeatedly attributes his statements to the Supreme Leader and justifies his statement by referring to approval of the leader.”

The letter goes on to bring nine charges of various forms of interference in the 2009 presidential elections against the commanders of Sarallah Base.

… Payvand News – 08/08/10 … —

Rahim Reshi’s Son: My Father Will Continue His Hunger Strike if They Don’t Release Him

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Rahim Reshi’s Son: My Father Will Continue His Hunger Strike if They Don’t Release Him

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6 , August , 2010

Rahim Reshi, a Kurdish activist, was arrested by security guards on July 19, in a village named “Albalagh” in the district of Mahabad city.

RAHANA- According to reports, Rahim Reshi was arrested by security agents on Monday July 19 at his house in a village near Mahabad. He was taken to Mahabad Intelligence office, where he went on hunger strike one day after his arrest.The continuity of His hunger strike at the age of 57 severely concerns his family This is while during the recent days, media has not paid enough attention to the hunger strike of this citizen at IRGC’s Intelligence Detention in Oroumieh (Urmia).

Radio Zamaneh had a short interview in this regard with his son, Souran Reshi .

How and when was Mr Reshi arrested?

On July 19,  at 11 PM, security forces  arrested my father after inspecting the house. They took several books of him with themselves without giving any explanation. We have no information on his condition after that night.

You mean you even don’t know about his detention place?

We do. On the first days he was in intelligence office of Mahabad, but they transferred him to the detention of IRGC in Oroumieh without informing his family.

According to the reports, he went on hunger strike on the first day after his arrest. Is he still continuing his hunger strike?

Yes, He went on hunger strike on the morning of July 20 and as far as we know he is still on hunger strike.

Have you visited the intelligence office? What was their response? Did they explain why your father was arrested?

Before transferring him to Oroumieh, My mother and sister used to go to the intelligence office of Mahabad and sit in front of the office everyday from 9  to 14 but didn’t get any response, and even they didn’t tell us the reason of his arrest.

Has your family attempted to visit him in prison?

Our family went to Oroumieh on Thursday, but they didn’t allow us to meet him. And as I just said he is in detention now.

Was Mr Reshi  imprisoned or arrested before?

Yes, My father has been arrested by security guards several times and has been in 6, 15 and 22-day hunger strikes before. In all cases he was acquitted by court.

According to my knowledge about my father if they don’t release him he will continue his hunger strike and this is severely concerning us.

Considering the current situation what is your request from human rights advocates and international organizations?

Our family is in an inappropriate situation, my mother is sick and in a bad mental condition. My father is 75  years old and has been in hunger strike for 11 days. We ask all human rights organizations to make their effort for releasing my father. We also ask media and media activists to do not forget my father and don’t let his hunger strike remain in ignorance.

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Human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran

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Human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran

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The state of human rights in Iran has been criticized both by Iranians and international human right activists, writers, and NGOs. The United Nations General Assembly and the Human Rights Commission have condemned prior and ongoing abuses in Iran in published critiques and several resolutions.

The government of Iran is criticized both for restrictions and punishments that follow the Islamic Republic’s constitution and law, and for actions that do not, such as the torture, rape, and killing of political prisoners, and the beatings and killings of dissidents and other civilians.[1]

Alleged restrictions and punishments lawful in the Islamic Republic which violate international human rights norms include: harsh penalties for crimes; punishment of “victimless crimes” such as fornication, homosexuality; execution of offenders under 18 years of age; restrictions on freedom of speech, and the press, including the imprisonment of journalists; unequal treatment according to religion and gender in the Islamic Republic’s constitution – especially attacks on members of the Bahá’í religion.

Reported abuses falling outside of the laws of the Islamic Republic that have been condemned include the execution of thousands of political prisoners in 1988, and the widespread use of torture to extract repudiations by prisoners of their cause and comrades on video for propaganda purposes.[2] Also condemned has been firebombings of newspaper offices and attacks on political protesters by “quasi-official organs of repression,” particularly “Hezbollahi,” and the murder of dozens of government opponents in the 1990s, allegedly by “rogue elements” of the government.

Under the administration of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Iran’s human rights record “has deteriorated markedly” according to the group Human Rights Watch,[3] and following the 2009 election protests there were reports of killing of demonstrators, the torture, rape and killing of detained protesters,[4][5] and the arrest and publicized mass trials of dozens of prominent opposition figures in which defendants “read confessions that bore every sign of being coerced.” [6][7][8]

Officials of the Islamic Republic have responded to criticism by stating the IRI is not obliged to follow “the West’s interpretation” of human rights,”[9] and that the Islamic Republic is a victim of “biased propaganda of enemies” which is “part of a greater plan against the world of Islam.”[10] According to Iranian officials, those who human rights activists say are peaceful political activists being denied due process rights are actually guilty of offenses against the national security of the country,[11] and those protesters claiming Ahmadinejad stole the 2009 election are actually part of a foreign-backed plot to topple Iran’s leaders.[12]

US: Iran ‘most active state sponsor of terrorism’

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US: Iran ‘most active state sponsor of terrorism’

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Thursday, 05 August 2010
Iran Focus

Washington, Aug. 05 – The United States on Thursday renewed its charge that Iran is the “most active state sponsor of terrorism”.The US State Department’s annual “Country Reports on Terrorism” 2009 charged that Iran’s financial, material, and logistic support for terrorist and militant groups throughout the Middle East and Central Asia had a “direct impact on international efforts to promote peace, threatened economic stability in the Gulf and undermined the growth of democracy”.

“Iran remained the principal supporter of groups that are implacably opposed to the Middle East Peace Process. The Qods Force, the external operations branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), is the regime’s primary mechanism for cultivating and supporting terrorists abroad”, the report said, adding that Iran was providing weapons, training, and funding to HAMAS and Palestine Islamic Jihad.

“Iran has provided hundreds of millions of dollars in support to Lebanese Hizballah and has trained thousands of Hizballah fighters at camps in Iran. Since the end of the 2006 Israeli-Hizballah conflict, Iran has assisted Hizballah in rearming, in violation of UN Security Council Resolution 1701”, it said.

The report accused Iran’s Qods Force of provided training to the Taliban in Afghanistan on small unit tactics, small arms, explosives, and indirect fire weapons. “Since at least 2006, Iran has arranged arms shipments to select Taliban members, including small arms and associated ammunition, rocket propelled grenades, mortar rounds, 107mm rockets, and plastic explosives”.

“The Qods Force continued to supply Iraqi militants with Iranian-produced advanced rockets, sniper rifles, automatic weapons, and mortars that have killed Iraqi and Coalition Forces, as well as civilians. Iran was responsible for the increased lethality of some attacks on U.S. forces by providing militants with the capability to assemble explosively formed penetrators that were designed to defeat armored vehicles”, the State Department said. “The Qods Force, in concert with Lebanese Hizballah, provided training outside of Iraq and advisors inside Iraq for Shia militants in the construction and use of sophisticated improvised explosive device technology and other advanced weaponry”.

The report pointed out that Iran’s Defence Minister Ahmad Vahidi is wanted by INTERPOL for his role in the 1994 bombing of the Argentine-Jewish Mutual Association (AMIA) in Buenos Aires.

Journalist and Human Rights Activist Nasvar Naghipour Fired from His Workplace

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Journalist and Human Rights Activist Nasvar Naghipour Fired from His Workplace

 

Iran_Human-Rights(Jaras) Journalist and human rights activist Nasvar Naghipour has been fired from his workplace.

According to a Horana report, Naghipour worked two shifts at the Alborz Tile and Ceramics Factory in Qazvin. After being arrested and enduring more than 110 days in prison due to human rights activity, he has been fired from his job by the people in charge of the factory.

The people in charge of the Alborz Tile and Ceramics Factory did not state any specific reason for their action.

Following the widespread attacks against human rights activists, especially former associates and members of the Human Rights Activists Organization in Iran, Nasvar Naghipour on 2nd of March, 2010 was arrested at his father’s home in Qazvin and was immediately transferred to Row 2A of the Revolutionary Guards.

In waiting for his case to develop and for trial, Naghipour recently has been temporarily released on a bail of 100,000, 000 tomans (approx. $100,000 US).

http://www.rahesabz.net/story/20795/

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