Thursday, December 31, 2009

A Call on the UN Secretary General to Resign

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هموطن، لطفا ساکت نه نشسته و با امضا کردن این پتیشن اعتراض خود را در مورد سکوت سرسام آور این آقای بی‌ بخار (بان ک مون) مدیر کول سازمان ملل متحد به گوش جهانیان برسانیم و از ایرانیان دلیر  که هر روز دلیرانه با این رژیم جنایت کار مبارزه میکنند، حمایت نماییم.. این آقا حتا یک بار در مورد تجاوز، کشت کشتار، و خشونت جمهوری اسلامی اعتراض نکرده است. این مرد لیاقت چنین مقام مهم را ندارد. این مرد روی کوفی آنان دزد را هم سفید کرده. ما امضا کنندگان خواستار استعفای فوری این مرد بی‌ عرضه میباشیم.   با سپاس،   آرش ایراندوست.

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Dear Iranians and Friends of Iran, it is time to act and let your voices be heard and loudly ask for the resignation of this inept man.  Mr. Ban Ki-moon since June elections has not objected to Islamic republic unwarranted brutality and blatant human rights violations against peaceful Iranian demonstrators.  We strongly believe that he is not worthy of the office he hold, since he has shown to be capable of carrying of the duties associated with this important organization.  Please sign the petition and pass it on.   Sincerely, Arash Irandoost



To: The United Nations
Thursday, December 31st, 2009
His Excellency Ban Ki-moon
Secretary-General of United Nations
The United Nations
New York, N.Y 10017

Dear Mr. Secretary-General,
It is our understanding that the role of the United Nations is to "bring peace and prosperity to the people of the world." The UN, in this age of terror and horrendous human rights violations (i.e. such as Burma, China, Sudan and Iran,) has failed miserably, to meet its obligations and its purpose under your tutelage. Hence, we the undersigned, emphatically request, Mr. Secretary General, that you submit your resignation based on the following points:
  • Your loud silence, continuing to ignore the ongoing, blatant and insidious violations of human rights in Iran, is completely inexcusable. Where is the moral voice and authority of the Secretary-General?; missing in "inaction." During this critical period in history, you continue to exhibit counter-productive and pathetically weak leadership skills. The absence of wise leadership and fortitude during your tenure, allows terrorist groups and treacherous Mullahs to thrive. Your complete incompetence and lack of character, Mr. Secretary General, fuels the flames of terrorism, brutal dictatorships, and acts of genocide. Most importantly, your behavior betrays the Iranian people and places the rest of the world at risk.
  • Starting June 12, 2009, Iranians have signed and submitted numerous petitions, to the UN. Each time, our petitions fall on deaf ears. Our pleas need to be heard by a more socially responsible individual, one who speaks up for injustices and honors the code of this influential position.
  • Despite the Charter of the United Nations, the UN walks away from the men, women and children being beaten, brutalized, raped, run over and shot throughout Iran. Your "quiet diplomacy" and appeasement, is not working! Amnesty International proclaims that human rights violations in Iran, are as deplorable today, as at any time in the past 20 years
  • Discontent with your performance echoes throughout the civilized world. The Economist's scorecard, rates you an unacceptable, three out of ten, based on your handling of civil wars and "speaking truth to power". Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch, states "The main image people have of him is sitting down with the bad guys and getting nothing." Norway's U.N. ambassador, Mona Juul refers to you, in her memo to Norway's foreign minister, as a "spineless and charmless" leader, who fails to convey the U.N.'s "moral voice and authority." Your own civil servants and diplomats increasingly portray you as an ineffective administrator, whose reluctance to hold outlaw leaders to account for bad behavior, has undercut the United Nations' moral authority.
We do not feel you reflect the integrity and vision nor the resilience, requisite for the position of the Chief of the United Nations. On behalf the severely oppressed Iranians and in the best interest of the free world, we ask you to resign.
Sincerely,



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به : سازمان ملل متحد
پنجشنبه 31 دسامبر2009
عاليجناب بن کی مون ) Ban Ki moon )، دبير کل سازمان ملل متحد
سازمان ملل متحد 
نيويورک 10017

جناب دبير کل ،
در باور به اينکه يکی از قوانين آن سازمان ، ايجاد صلح و رفاه اجتماعی در جهان است . امروزه که نقض حقوق بشر و تروريست جهانی ( در برمه - چين - سودان و ايران ) بيداد می کند ، معتفديم : منظور اصلی و واقعی اين سازمان در موارد زير برآورده نشده است و با مفاد قوانين اين سازمان مطابقت نمی کند . لذا محترمانه تقاضا می کنيم بدلايل زير، از مقام  خود استعفا دهيد .

1 - سکوت - ناديده گرفتن و زير پا گذاشتن حقوق بشر درايران ، بکلی غير قابل قبول و تصور است . کجاست آن وظايف شرافتمندانه ی مقام دبير کلی سازمان ملل متحد ، و چگونه استکه در اين شرايط بحرابی تاريخ جهان ، شما به ادامه ی موارد بی فايده ای می پردازيد که فقط نشان دهنده ی ضعف رهبری و مديريت ناصحيح آن سازمان است ؟
 بی خردی و بی لياقتی شما باعث شده است تروريسم و ديکتاتوری های مختلف در جهان ، به ادامه ی جنايات دستجمعی خود بپردازد و از همه مهمتر: رفتار و عملکرد شما باعث صدمات فراوانی به ايرانيان شده است و نهايتا ، جهانيان را بمخاطره انداخته است .

2 - از تاريخ دوازدهم جون 2009 ، ايرانيان تقاضا نامه و همگام نامه های بسياری را امضا کرده اند که بنظر می رسد گوش شنوايی نداشته ، و کسی به آنها توجهی نکرده است ، و تقاضای عاجزانه ما در مورد رسيدگی به جناياتی از قبيل فحاشی - کتک - جرح - تجاوز جنسی و کشتار جمعی در ايران ، توسط کسانی که موظف به اجرای قوانين حقوق بشر هستند ، ترتيب اثر داده نشده است . کساني که از برقراری ی قوانين عدالت اجتماعی گفتگو می کنند و مانند شما ، وظايف شرافتمندانه ی بگردن گرفته اند و اصولا ، از اجرای آن دريغ می کنند .

3 - سازمان ملل متحد ، در اين زمان که مديريت آنرا بعهده داريد ، بر خلاف وظايف و منشور آن سازمان ، از قبول واقعيات و جناياتی که بمردم ستمديده ی ايران اعمال می گردد روی برگردان شده است و سياست شما در مورد برقراری وظايف اين سازمان ، بی نتيجه است و کارگر نيست . بصورتيکه تعلل در اجرای وظايف اين سازمان ، در بيست سال گذشته بی سابقه و همتا بوده است . 

4 - صدای عملکرد و روش غيرمنطقی و نا معقول شما در جهان پيچيده است و باعث اضطراب در اقتصاد جهانی گرديده وغير قابل قبول است و دليل عمده آن ، 30% به روش نا درست ، و مديريت شما بستگی دارد .

تا جاييکه  کنت روث ( Kenneth Roth ) ، مدير ارشد ناظرين حقوق بشر می گويد :
او ( شما ) تصوير کسی را برای جهانيان زنده می کنيد که با بدان نشسته است و از او ، چيزی حاصل نمی شود .
يا اينکه : مونا جوول (  Mona Juul ) ، سفير نروژ در سازمان ملل متحد ، در ياد داشتی به وزير امور خارجه ی کشور خود می نويسد: او ( شما ) آدم بی حس - استخوان و بی بنيادی هستيد که نمی تواند از شرافت اخلاقی و کاری را رعايت کند و حتا  کارمندان خادم آن سازمان ، از شما بعنوان يک مدير نالايق و بدون درايت در کارسازی ياد می کنند که از طريق ناديده گرفتن جناياتی که رهبران ضد قوانين بشری در جهان انجام می دهند ، ماهيت و کيفيت اصولی آن سازمان را در مخاطره قرار داده ايد .

لذا : امضا کنندگان اين درخواست ، معتقدند که شما از دانش و مديريت کل سازمان ملل ناتوان و عاجز هستيد و از طرف جمع کثير ايرانيان ستمديده ، از شما انتظار دارند ، بخاطر منافع جهانی آزاد ، از سمت خود کناره گيری کنيد .

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Pro-regime rally.Karaj 31 Dec حضور میلیونی جیره خواران



Despite what is reported by the Western media..here is a sampling of demonstrators in the city of Karaj with numbers barely reaching 1000.  Please also note that as usually women of Islamic Republic have taken their second class citizen role and walk behind men in the rallies....this is the best Islamic republic could put forth despite orders to shut factories, government offices, schools, banks ....

The Secret Life of Khamenei

 

Iran's Ayatollah Khamenei loves caviar and vulgar jokes, defector claims

A defector from the private guard of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's Supreme Leader, has given the first comprehensive account of the private life of the secretive figure who has led the country for 20 years.


A catalogue of the private opulence and eccentric tastes of 70-year-old Ayatollah Khamenei and his family has been compiled by Iran's opposition Green Movement from the accounts of the defector, who is said to be in hiding in France.
Among his claims are that Ayatollah Khamenei has a voracious appetite for trout and caviar; is an avid hoarder of collectables from bejewelled pipes to fine horses; and that he suffers regular bouts of depression which are treated in part by audiences with a mid-ranking mullah who tells vulgar jokes.
Claims from three intelligence officials, who have also fled Iran, have additionally documented the Khamenei family's wide-reaching business connections, including interests in European manufacturers, African mobile phone companies and international commodities markets.
But the glimpse at the imperial lifestyle of an otherwise austere theologan is groundbreaking. Ayatollah Khamenei is said to be a keen collector with a prized assembly of antique walking sticks said to number 170. The Supreme Leader was once a fanatical equestrian enthusiast and his extensive stables reportedly include more than 100 of the country's leading horses. His cloaks are said to be woven from hair of specially bred camels.
Ayatollah Khamenei is claimed to have accumulated a sprawling private court that stretches across six palaces, including Naviran, the former resident of the Shah in Tehran. Two of the palaces - Naviran and Valikabad - are equipped with deep, reinforced concrete nuclear bunkers said to be capable of withstanding nuclear attack. A fully functioning hospital is overseen by a former health minister.
The accounts provide new information that links Ayatollah Khamenei to the brutal assault on protestors following the presidential elections in June.
The man alleged to have carrying out interrogations of prisoners at the notorious Khazirak detention centre, where at least three people were tortured to death, is a key part of the inner circle. Hossain Taeb is said to have run an extensive surveillance operation for the personal use of Ayatollah Khamenei for almost 15 years. Each evening the leader is said to listen to recordings of senior officials and colleague talking about him in a compilation that normally lasts 20 minutes.
Mojtaba Khamenei, the leader's second son, has meanwhile emerged as an influential figure with extensive business interests who has played a prominent role in organising the Basij militia that has meted out violence against protesters.
Ayatollah Khamenei has since 1989 been the Islamic Republic's supreme guide under the Shia Muslim doctrine of Velāyat-e faqih, which dictates that a designated cleric has the final say in state matters. His position has been challenged by the protest movement, which sprung up after leading presidential challengers Mir-Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi decried the landslide re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in June's election as rigged.
The bodyguard was a member of a 200-strong permanent personal protection team who provide the Supreme Leader's primary security. He is currently staying at a safe house in France organised by the Green Movement's exiled leader, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, a film director. The credibility of his account is enhanced by his denial of widespread rumours in Iran the Ayatollah has used opium.
Mr Makmalbaf claimed the Green Movement had gathered information about the Khamenei family's investments abroad. "If the Western governments are serious enough in putting pressure on the regime by applying economic sanctions, then they should follow these leads and find these bank accounts and confiscate their deposits to be returned to the Iranian people at a later time," he said.
Iran's embassy in London refused to comment on the allegations. "I have no comment on those things," a spokesman said.

The Shameless UN's Deadly Silence on Iran

The Shameless UN's Deadly Silence on Iran Print E-mail
Written by Dr. Arash Irandoost   
Wednesday, 12 August 2009 17:49


Many of you have been busy circulating numerous petitions to the United Nations regarding the brutality of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Please do not waste your precious time any longer, hoping for a miracle to happen from this incompetent, corrupt, anti-Semitic and pro-Islamic organization. Since June 12, 2009, despite numerous petitions signed by Iranians and submitted to the UN, there has not been any strong condemnation from this pro-Islamist organization regarding the criminal conduct of this medieval regime against its own citizens.

Don't just take my word for it, please do your own research on this organization and how it functions. The UN is an organization rife with incompetence, corruption, and mismanagement.
The Iranian people are simply hopeless and helpless and the United Nations does not come to their rescue. Mass public hanging, as well as secret executions in prisons, are routine in the tyrannical Islamic Republic of Iran. From its past performance, rather its absence of performance, we know that the UN watchdog is a true disgrace to dogs, since all it does is eat, sleep and look the other way. Furthermore, the dog has no teeth. The vet had to pull all its teeth before the dog became acceptable to the crafty cats that constitute the UN itself.
The founding purpose of the UN was to "bring peace and prosperity to the people of the world," The UN in the age of terror and blatant human rights violations by many countries such as Burma, China and Iran, has failed miserably to meet its obligation and its purpose. The UN programs which was set up to help the Palestinians over the past half-century, have not only failed to produce decent lives, but have helped create a culture of hate and violence-fueled in large part by the UN's own anti-Israel agenda. It is not uncommon to hear anti-Israeli rhetoric in the hallways of the United Nations.
You have heard frequent complaining and condemnation from the UN that the self-admitted terrorist prisoners at Guantanamo are being denied their human rights, or defenseless Palestinians are killed by Israeli soldiers, yet the UN has no time to speak out against documented human rights violating thugs in Iran. The UN has ignored the alarming surge in assassinations, rapes, killings, torture and the massive crackdown that the Islamic Republic has launched against pro-democracy activists.
The U.N.'s never ending silence on the crimes committed by the agents of terror in Iran is abhorrent. The UN has conveniently ignored the men and women being beaten, brutalized, raped and shot in the streets of Tehran and other Iranian cities. The Security Council is silent; the Human Rights Council is silent, and no member state or any U.N. official has bothered to call for an emergency session to address these issues.
Why is the U.N. abandoning Iran's hundreds and thousands of brutalized victims? Would Neda, Sohrab and Taraneh and numerous other peaceful demonstrators have been arrested, tortured, raped and killed if the U.N. had put the Mullahs on notice, and expressed the world's outrage?
Pro democracy demonstrators are being killed daily by the paramilitary group, the Basijis and Hamas militias in Iran. Where is the U.N.? The U.N. was created and is committed in its charter to promote peace, freedom and "reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights."
The Islamic Republic also has started a nuclear program, not for peaceful purposes, as they claim, but only to prolong their unwanted existence long enough to get their hands on the bomb so that they can feel invincible and continue their control over the armless Iranian people and ultimately export their version of Shi'a Islam and terrorism around the globe.
Iran's regime is already in gross violation of a series of U.N. sanctions over a nuclear program the U.N. Security Council deems a threat to international peace. The same regime has now unleashed its security apparatus of trained thugs and snipers on Iranian youth who have been, in huge numbers, demanding their basic rights. Surely top U.N. officials such as Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon should be leading the charge for liberty and justice, with the strongest possible condemnation and other measures against the mullahs.
But that's not happening. While Iranian protesters have been risking their lives to try to rid their country of immoral Islamic dictators, Ban Ki Moon congratulates Ahmadinejad, invites him to UN assembly, and asks him to continue cooperating closely with the UN in addressing regional and global issues. Do not waste your time with your petitions. The UN is too cozy with Hamas terrorists and loathsome mullahs. Do not expect any help from the UN, they are in cahoots with extremists and have deviated from their original human rights charter of treating the world as one human family!

HIM Reza Pahlavi Letter to the Honorable Ban Ki-Moon




Letter to the Honorable Ban Ki-Moon

Reza Pahlavi

Thursday, December 31st, 2009
His Excellency Ban Ki-moon
Secretary-General of United Nations
The United Nations
New York, N.Y 10017

Dec. 31st, 2009

Your Excellency:

I am writing to share with you my profound concerns about the continuing, serious and flagrant human rights violations of my compatriots by the clerical regime in Iran, and respectfully request you adopt urgent and appropriate measures to put an immediate end to such violations.

The shameful record of the clerical government’s endless violations of all the principles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights - to which Iran has long been a signatory - needs no recounting. Since its inception thirty years ago, the clerical regime of Iran has been repeatedly cited for human rights violations by a host of international human rights agencies and organizations, including United Nations’ Social, Humanitarian and Cultural Committee, United Nations’ Commission on Human Rights, Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and The International Federation for the Defense of Human Rights.

Since the fraudulent presidential election in June, the leaders of the clerical regime of Iran have opted for the use of deadly force to prevent the Iranian citizens from exercising their freedoms of assembly and speech. I was deeply grateful for your prompt expression of concern and dismay on 22 June 2009, particularly “the use of force against civilians.” However, the clerical regime in Iran chose to ignore your call on them “to respect fundamental civil and political rights, especially the freedom of expression, freedom of assembly and freedom of information” of the Iranian citizens.

According to official reports the number of those killed, injured and arrested in Iran so far is over two thousand. Many of the unjustly arrested are held incommunicado and have been subjected to unspeakable acts of torture. Sadly, the clerical government has prevented many families of those killed from receiving and burying the bodies of their slain relatives in order to obscure the cause of death. More alarmingly, the clerical government is preparing to execute a number of the detainees who are suspected of either leading or merely participating in recent demonstrations.

Your Excellency,

I cannot overstate the urgency of the matter. Widespread and increasing violations of the human rights of millions of my compatriots in Iran have reached catastrophic proportions. The continuation of the current state of affairs in Iran is potentially a serious threat to the peace and security of the region if not the international community as a whole. The situation seems particularly urgent if one also considers the insistence of the clerical government to continue to pursue its nuclear ambitions in defiance of its binding international obligations and the repeated recommendations of the Security Council of the United Nations.

I consider it my solemn responsibility to respectfully urge Your Excellency to use your singular authority to take the necessary measures to bring to a halt the intolerable and increasingly dangerous march of events in Iran. To this end, I sincerely suggest the adoption of the following measures:

• Call upon the clerical regime of Iran to immediately release all those who have been arrested and kept in detention on the basis of their participation in, or mere expression of support for, the post-election demonstrations. Pending the release of the detainees, the authorities must allow the detainees to have access to legal counsel and normal visiting rights;
• Appoint a special rapporteur to travel to Iran in order to prepare a firsthand report on the nature and dimensions of the recent violations of human rights committed by security agents, judicial authorities, and members of the revolutionary guards and the armed militia of the clerical regime in Iran;
• Inform the Human Rights Commission and the General Assembly of the United Nations of the serious nature of ongoing violations of human rights in Iran; and
• Urge the member states of the United Nations to recall their respective ambassadors from Iran as a minimal but clear indication of their support for the rights and freedom of the Iranian citizens and their serious objections to widespread and flagrant violations of these rights by the clerical regime in Iran.

I, along with my aggrieved compatriots in Iran, and all free and freedom loving peoples of the world, would be most grateful if Your Excellency take up this matter with the urgency required.

Please accept the expression of my deep esteem and gratitude,

Reza Pahlavi

IRI police recording of running over demonstrators by a police truck

On Thursday 31st December 2009, @IranRiggedElect said:
From 2:44 to 3:17 there is talk of not having enough forces and being overpowered in some places. Someone says at 3:03 "Amir 2 needs to estimate, and THEN hit into the crowd. When he doesn't have enough forces he shouldn't do that!"






On Thursday 31st December 2009, @IranRiggedElect said:


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Highlights from the police communications recording* from December 27, 2009 (Ashura):

1>> One officer seems to be worried that there are not enough forces around the College crossing. Another officer tells him that there are a considerable amount of forces there, it should be enough.

2>> One or more officers seem worried that dispatching too many forces from a particular police station may leave that station unguarded and prone to takeover by people. The other, apparently more senior officer tells him that people do not want to take over the police stations. He says (starting at 1:36 on the Youtube video*) "I'm telling you, our police stations are in no danger, these people don't want anything from the police stations, we have a 1000 problems in other places. Since the beginning of this whole thing up to now, which police station has ever been attached? Nobody wants to do anything to the stations, leave the normal security there, it will suffice."

3>> One particular commanding officer (called Amir 2 in the video) seems to be either very talented or very well equipped (perhaps with a truck designed to plow through people). An officer who is calling for help in the Taleghani & Valiasr crossing can be heard asking for him (1:56):

Amir 2, is your direction Valiasr square?...Tell them to come to Taleghani & Valiasr for a strike through these people, Taleghani & Valiasr...No I'm watching Taleghani & Valiasr my self, and I'm telling you we have a problem...Talegani & Valiasr, It would help if you came, come yourself and leave your forces there, put someone in charge there and come here help the guys, strike and then go back.

A guess:
Amir 1 and Amir 2 may be code names for the two trucks we saw in this video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAaPnAQDHhU
Since Amir 2 seems like a "unit" name but the person is being talked to as if he were 1 individual. It fits with the possibility that he is the driver of a truck. Him and the truck could be the "Amir 2" unit.

4>> The lowest ranking officers on the streets seem to be looking for excuses to NOT clash with people, and they are especially unmotivated to hit people if their commanding officer is not there to push them. One officer complains about this (2:33):

HQ, announce for Davar** to personally position himself on location. The guy's given Tarasht*** to someone else, and has gone to another street himself, now his forces are in the location not acting, not attacking.

5>> From 2:44 to 3:17 there is talk of not having enough forces and being overpowered in some places. Someone says at 3:03 "Amir 2 needs to estimate, and THEN hit into the crowd. When he doesn't have enough forces he shouldn't do that!"

6>> Somewhere/something they refer to as "the mosque" located under College bridge was apparently in trouble (3:23): "Emad, Isar, just hit College bridge from over and under so the mosque can be freed...and if you could extinguish the two fires there, that would be great"

7>> Sign of distress (4:01): "Gentlemen, I ask you not to open your radios like that, we know what we're doing, stop pushing that...***on the radio..."

Other observations:
- The general tone of the officers is quite vulgar.
- Another sign of stress / frustration is that at 3:45 the speaking officer mixes up his east and west.


*Youtube file of the recorded communications:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BiE45y0u6o

**There are repeated references to Davar, Davar 5, etc. Davar means referee and seems to be a codename for the commanding officers on the ground.

***The above places marked with three stars are those words we could not make out for sure from the Audio. They may be guesses. Tarasht is an area near Azadi square in Tehran.

Europe's Trade with Iran's Butchers ..is NIAC listening?

The Wall Street Journal

The European Union could be the key to unlocking democracy in Tehran by cutting its significant economic ties with the Islamic Republic.

By GOLI AMERI

The Obama Administration and its European allies are currently looking at a menu of "focused sanctions" on Iran and its leadership. A month ago they were obsessing over China and Russia's cooperation on indubitably innocuous U.N. Security Council sanctions. In both cases, they have the wrong target in mind. Security Council resolutions and focused sanctions serve as public relations window-dressing. Europe is the key to any meaningful behavior-modifying sanctions on Iran. The continued focus on Russia and China's intransigence is allowing Europe to stay under the radar. more..

Iranian Mullah (Haeri Shirazi): Kill the Protesters

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q-bHTyHjlUA
 
 
 
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/135292


IsraelNN.com) In a television appearance shocking in its candidness, a leading Iranian ayatollah says that it would be far better for the Islamic Republic to simply murder those protesting against the regime, rather than arrest and beat them. Meanwhile, an unknown group claiming to represent Iranian soldiers threatens to take up arms against the regime.
Killing the opposition protesters, the ayatollah insists, 'is sanctioned by obedience to Allah.'

In a live interview broadcast on the Islamic Republic's national television station sometime within the last two weeks, Ayatollah Mehyaddin Haeri Shirazi described a Communist protest movement from the early years of the Islamic Republic, noting how it was effectively crushed by the authorities. The government targeted opposition activists, he said, "arrested them in the afternoon and the same night announced the names of 30 people killed or executed by the government forces."
In reaction to the arrests and killings, Shirazi continued, "nothing happened. Why? Because they killed them."
Expanding on what he sees as the lesson from those events, the ayatollah said,"The more of them [the opposition] are killed, the more beneficial [to the people]. If the armed forces kill some of them, it is to our benefit."
On the other hand, Shirazi continued, "When they are arrested, it is bad [for public opinion], when they are captured [it is bad for public opinion]. Do not make victims out of them."
Killing the opposition protesters, the ayatollah insists, "is sanctioned by obedience to Allah and the prophet and is handed down to the Supreme Leader [Ayatollah Khamenei]. When it is sanctioned by such a power, there is no need to go through the government powers."
Shirazi warned the opposition forces, "Do not look upon the Supreme Leader [simply] as a person with a soft turban on his head, and that you can beat him. His support comes from the Hidden Imam Mahdi, he [Khamenei] is made of iron. It will come back down to break your own heads."

http://irannegah.com/Video.aspx?id=1473

In fact, Iranian security forces have taken the violence against Iranian pro-democracy protesters up a notch in recent weeks. Over a dozen people were openly shot or beaten to death in the latest clashes, with police arresting hundreds of Iranian citizens involved in the opposition movements.
Armed Resistance by Iranian Military Units?
Perhaps in reaction to the increasing levels of violence by government forces, on December 26 a previously unknown anti-regime group calling itself the National Iranian Armed Resistance Forces (NIRU) "declare our readiness to rise to the armed defense of our nation against the forces of the criminal, illegitimate, transgressing and occupying current Government of Iran...." The group "accuses the current government and the leader of the Islamic Revolution, Mr. Sayyed Ali Khamenei of legal transgressions and high treason of nation and homeland."

NIRU claims to be made up of "a number of officers, soldiers and personnel of the armed forces", calling for "support" and "cover... in this moral and nationalist act" from "our brothers and sisters serving with the armed security forces of Iran...."
Iranian pro-democracy activists in contact with Israel National News said they are hesitant to believe in the authenticity of the organization until there is some external evidence of its activities beyond email and Web postings.
The first of two NIRU communiques, headed with praise for the Islamic god Allah, explained: "In accordance with the
'We are commissioned to protect the lives, properties and honor of our nation.'
regulations of the Army of the Islamic Republic of Iran, we are commissioned to protect the lives, properties and honor of our nation, and defend our sacred soil, as well as combat all occupying forces within the borders of the land. Any failure in carrying out this duty is considered a betrayal of nation and oath. According to the constitution, the defense of the rights of the nation of Iran, and avoidance of the collapse of the country takes precedence over protection of the ruling regime."
The group announced "the initiation of Operation Azadi ('Freedom')," which they said will end upon "unconditional surrender of the occupying government and leadership." The operation, the NIRU communique said, will involve taking control of military bases, taking over government buildings, arrest of "government-supporting agents within your units", "seizing... military and public communication facilities, as well as other news media", "combat mission[s] at the regional level, and expanding", and more.
The announcement emphasizes the group's desire to avoid the use of firearms as much as possible, even against the regime's forces, as well as to prevent any harm to civilians as a result of armed confrontations. 

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هفته گذشته در ارتباط با پستی تحت عنوان «چشم سازمان ملل روشن» ویدئویی از اظهارات ضدانسانی آیت الله حائری را بر روی یوتیوب قرار دادیم که بسیار مورد توجه قرار گرفت، بویژه از سوی فعالین حقوق بشر.
در این ویدئو که از تلویزیون رسمی جمهوری اسلامی ضبط شده بود، یک مقام جمهوری اسلامی از رسانه رسمی کشور، به اعدام بدون محاکمه 30 نفر از مخالفین نظام پس از دستگیری اعتراف نمود و گفت این 30 نفر را عصر بازداشت کردند و بدستور دادستان انقلاب، همان شب همگی اعدام شدند

همچنین در این خطابه تلویزیونی وی دو بار صریحاً به مردم و به نیروی انتظامی دستور داد تا جائیکه می توانند معترضین را بکشند و هر چه بیشتر بکشند بنفع نظام است. وی نسبت به دستگیری مخالفین هشدار داد و بازداشت افراد را باعث عزیز شدن آنها دانسته و گفت که نباید با دستگیری معترضین سبب عزیز شدن آنها شوید، فقط آنها را بکشید، که در این اظهارات روی صحبت وی بخصوص در مورد رهبران جنبش سبز بود که صراحتاً از بلندگوی رسمی کشور، دستور قتل آنان را صادر کرد
این سند در دیوان لاهه و سازمان ملل و سازمانهای حقوق بشری، در کنار دیگر اسناد موجود، برای محکومیت این حرامیان بسیار مؤثر است و بهمین دلیل مزدوران حکومت با تلاش فراوان توانستند سبب حذف این ویدئو از یوتیوب شوند و علت آنرا نقض کپی رایت گزارش کرده اند. معلوم نیست آیا این اظهارات وقیحانه و جنایتکارانه هم کپی رایت دارد؟ اگر از انتشار آن می ترسید به چه دلیل اجازه پخش آنرا از تلویزیون دولتی خودتان می دهید؟
لینکهای دانلود این ویدئو در زیر قرار داده شده تا با همت سبز شما در داخل میهنمان و در خارج از کشور منتشر گردد.

لینک دانلود ویدیو مربوطه :

http://dc150.4shared.com/download/186736937/b6fd7287/Haeri_Massacer.3gp
http://dc181.4shared.com/download/186716027/daf72b29/Massacer.flv

Wednesday, December 30, 2009

So much exitment at mullah forced rally: A picture is worth a 1000 words!


Regime Wages a Quiet War on 'Star Students' of Iran

Behind the drama unfolding in the streets of Iran, the regime is quietly clamping down on some of the nation's best students by derailing their academic and professional careers.On Wednesday, progovernment militia attacked and beat students at a school in northeastern Iran.  Since last Sunday's massive protests nationwide, dozens of university students have been arrested as part of an aggressive policy against what are known as Iran's "star students." more

Alavi Foundation Executive Linked to Iranian Probe Pleads Guilty

Farsi Translation  follows English
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/12/30/us/AP-US-Treasury-Iran.html
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: December 30, 2009
Filed at 7:28 p.m. ET
NEW YORK (AP) -- The former president of a foundation that prosecutors say has a history of legal entanglements over its alleged ties to Iran's government pleaded guilty Wednesday to obstruction.
Farshid Jahedi, the ex-president of the Alavi Foundation, said during his plea in U.S. District Court in Manhattan that he tore up and threw away documents that he knew would be subject to a subpoena issued in connection with a grand jury investigation.
In court papers, Assistant U.S. Attorney Harry A. Chernoff wrote that the government last year filed a forfeiture complaint alleging that the Alavi Foundation's sole partner in the ownership of a Fifth Avenue office tower was actually a shell company fronting for a secret interest held by Bank Melli, the state-owned bank of Iran.
The government at the time alleged that the monetary transfers by the shell company, Assa Co., to Bank Melli violated money-laundering statutes because the bank is owned by the Iranian government, which is designated by the U.S. as a sponsor of international terrorism.
Chernoff said the setup gave ''the government of Iran a secret interest in a major revenue stream in the United States, where Iran's financial activities have been heavily restricted since the 1979 Iranian revolution.''
The prosecutor said a surveillance team spotted Jahedi discarding ripped-up documents that were ''clearly responsive to the grand jury's demand'' the day after federal agents told Jahedi in his office that he was not permitted to destroy any documents requested by the subpoena.
Judge Shira Scheindlin said sentencing guidelines call for Jahedi to receive up to 1 1/2 years in prison and a fine of up to $30,000. Sentencing was set for April 2. Jahedi, 55, remains free on bail.
During his plea to obstructing justice and impairing a document's availability for an official proceeding, Jahedi said he had received master's degrees in architecture from the National University of Iran in 1978 and from the University of Pennsylvania in 1981.

رئیس سابق بنیاد علوی اتهام خود را پذیرفت

بانک علوی
بانک ملی و موسسات به آن مشمول تحریمهای یکجانبه آمریکا بوده اند
رئیس سابق بنیاد علوی، که پیش از این توسط دادستان های آمریکا به ارسال پول غیر قانونی به ایران متهم شده بود، اتهام خود را در تلاش برای انحراف در روند قضایی پذیرفته است.
فرشید جاهدی، ۵۵ ساله، روز چهارشنبه، ۳۰ دسامبر، در دادگاهی در منطقه منهتن در شهر نیویورک حاضر شد و اقرار کرد که اسنادی را که می دانسته در ارتباط با احضارش به دادگاه و تحقیقات قضایی مورد استفاده قرار خواهد گرفت، پاره کرده و دور ریخته است.
در کیفرخواست مربوط به این پرونده آمده است که شرکت آسا، شریک بنیاد علوی در مالکیت یک آسمانخراش در خیابان پنجم منهتن، در واقع یک شرکت صوری بوده که به عنوان پوششی برای حفظ منافع بانک ملی، بانک دولتی ایران فعالیت می کرده است.
وزارت خزانه داری آمریکا بانک ملی را متهم کرده است که خدمات مالی لازم برای مبادلات بین المللی را در اختیار نهادهای فعال در برنامه های هسته ای و موشکی ایران و تعدادی از موسسات مشمول تحریم های بین المللی، از جمله بانک سپه، سازمان صنایع نظامی و گروه صنعتی شهید همت، قرار می دهد.
دادستان ها می گویند که حدود یک سال پیش آقای جاهدی، رئیس وقت بنیاد علوی، به دادگاه احضار شده و از او خواسته شده که اسناد مالی مربوط به بنیاد علوی، شرکت آسا و یک شرکت مرتبط دیگر را ارائه کند. ماموران پلیس فدرال آمریکا، FBI، می گویند پس از آن آقای جاهدی را در حال دور ریختن اسناد پاره شده مورد نیاز دادگاه دیده اند.
قرار است دادگاه در تاریخ دوم آوریل سال ۲۰۱۰ ، حدود سه ماه دیگر، حکم فرشید جاهدی را صادر کند.

شرکت آسا و تحریم بانکی ایران

ساختمان شماره ۶۵۰ در خیابان پنجم نیویورک در دهه ۱۹۷۰ و توسط بنیاد پهلوی - از نهادهای خیریه در دوره پهلوی - خریداری شد و بخشی از منابع مالی لازم برای این معامله را بانک ملی ایران، که در آن زمان هم یک بانک متعلق به دولت بود، به صورت وام در اختیار این بنیاد قرار داد.
هدف بنیاد پهلوی از مالکیت این ساختمان تجاری، کسب عایدی از طریق اجاره به منطور فعالیت های خیریه بود.
پس از انقلاب سال ۱۹۷۹ در ایران، نام بنیاد پهلوی به بنیاد علوی تغییر یافت و این بنیاد، که در حال حاضر از زیرمجموعه های بنیاد مستضعفان است، در سال ۱۹۸۹ به تاسیس "شرکت سهامی ساختمان ۶۵۰" مبادرت کرد و ۴۰ درصد از سهام شرکت جدید را به منظور بازپرداخت وام اولیه بانک ملی، به شرکت آسا نیویورک منتقل کرد.
به گفته مقامات آمریکایی، صد در صد سهام شرکت مستقر در نیویورک به شرکت سهامی آسا تعلق دارد.
مقامات آمریکایی گفته اند که شرکت سهامی آسا یک شرکت فرا ساحلی (آفشور) است که در جزیره جرسی، از جزایر متعلق به بریتانیا در کانال مانش، به ثبت رسیده و سهام آن به طور کامل متعلق به شهروندان ایرانی، به نمایندگی از سوی بانک ملی است.
به گفته مقامات آمریکایی، تصمیم اخیر وزارت خزانه داری برای توقیف اموال شرکت آسا در نیویورک با هدف مصادره سهم این شرکت در مالکیت ساختمان شماره ۶۵۰ خیابان پنجم و همچنین مسدود کردن حساب های بانکی شرکت به اتهام "ارتباط با پولشویی و توطئه برای پولشویی" اتخاذ شده است.
اقدام ایالات متحده در اعمال محدودیت های تجاری و مالی علیه ایران بخشی از تحریم هایی است که آمریکا علیه جمهوری اسلامی به اجرا گذاشته است
 

Iran Government stages rallies as Mousavi’s nephew is quietly buried

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6972118.ece

Iran’s beleaguered regime sought to bolster its support with stage-managed rallies in several cities yesterday and said last night that the leaders of the opposition had fled Tehran because they were scared of the people’s anger. The claim was swiftly denied.
Another day of high drama began with the authorities returning Seyed Ali Mousavi’s body to his family on condition that the nephew of Mir Hossein Mousavi, the opposition leader, was buried quickly and quietly. The family complied.
The regime demanded a low-key funeral for the most prominent casualty of last Sunday’s massive anti-government demonstrations out of fear that the event could be transformed into another opposition protest — on the day that it had chosen to stage large rallies of its own.
State television showed tens of thousands of Iranians marching through Tehran, Shiraz, Qom and other cities. The similarities with the opposition’s demonstrations ended there.

These rallies were deemed legal. They were not attacked by riot police using bullets, batons and tear gas and there were no mass arrests.
The state-controlled media, which largely ignores opposition demonstrations, gave yesterday’s rallies extensive coverage. Opposition websites reported that the Government gave state employees the day off, bussed supporters and schoolchildren into the cities and waived subway fares. It even handed out free food.
The marchers chanted “Death to Mousavi” and “Mousavi is a murderer” and demanded that the leaders of the Green Movement should be executed for conspiring with Iran’s enemies.
They pledged undying allegiance to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader. They burned the flags of Britain and America, whom the regime blames for the worst unrest in the Islamic Republic’s 30-year history, and gathered in front of the British Embassy calling for it to be closed down.
Ahmad Alamolhoda, a hardline cleric, told the Tehran rally that the opposition leaders — “chiefs of sedition” — should repent or be charged as mohareb, enemies of God, for which the Sharia punishment is death.
A government statement described the opposition as “lackeys of global oppression” who were conspiring with Iran’s Western enemies.
General Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam, Iran’s police chief, warned opposition demonstrators that the “era of tolerance is over” and that in future they would be shown no mercy. After the rallies, the state news agency IRNA reported that Mr Mousavi and Mehdi Karoubi, the opposition’s other de facto leader, had left Tehran. “Two of the chiefs of the sedition left Tehran for the north of Iran after learning that the population was increasingly angry and demanding their punishment,” it said.
Opposition sources denied the report. “Some are trying to create a climate of fear and terror . . . by spreading information about the arrest or exile [of my father] to put pressure on him,” Mr Karoubi’s son, Hossein, said. “My father and Mr Mousavi are still in Tehran and IRNA’s report is baseless.”
Mr Mousavi’s nephew, Ali, 42, was one of at least eight protesters killed on the streets of Tehran last Sunday. Opposition activists suspect that he was targeted by the regime to send his uncle an unmistakable message. Their suspicions were reinforced when the authorities swiftly removed his body for “forensic investigations”.
As the younger Mr Mousavi was buried amid tight security in the huge Behesht-e Zahra cemetery, south of Tehran, the police declared that he had been assassinated: shot from a passing vehicle away from the demonstrations. They described his death as suspicious, implying that he may have been shot to embarrass the regime.
General Moghaddam also denied that police vehicles had deliberately run protesters over last Sunday, despite mobile phone footage that appeared online showing a police truck doing exactly that. “Don’t ask lies,” he replied when asked about the clip. “There are no pictures showing police cars running over people.” He said that the police arrested 500 “rioters” on Sunday, of which 300 were still in detention, but added that more were detained by other security agencies.
Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, added to the international condemnation of what she called “excessive acts of violence” by Iranian security forces. “I am shocked by the upsurge in deaths, injuries and arrests,” she said. “People have a right to express their feelings and to hold peaceful protests without being beaten, clubbed and thrown into jail.

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richard wiseman wrote:
The Iranian regime is on its last legs and I would give them 12- 18 months maximum before they are overthrown. Capital is fast flowing out of the country as many know this is going to get messy. There could be up to 25% premium on the current price of a barrel of oil compared to fundamentals because the market expects there will be regime change in Iran. Who knows what kind of government will replace the current one.

The youthful demographics in Iran are against the regime. Moreover, the youth of Iran are secular and not the religious fanatics some portray. Hopefully the overthrow can be completed without too much bloodshed. However, I suspect the regime will fight tenaciously to retain their power. Therefore, expect ever more paranoid rants and bloodshed.

roghani zanjani wrote:
why shocked?easy answer.before recent events there was no discussion about the nature of islamic republic.everybody in europe wanted to change the behavior of regime.from the very start it was a theocratic-theofascist regime,gradually theofascist tendency is getting upper hand
everbody wanted to be nice to islam .and
we democrats in iran felt so isolated.now everything has changed and after 30 years we have shown true and looming face of iran.
we have no hope in these un breucrats
in a week i am going back to tehran.we will bring down these theofascists of basij and revolutionary gaurd.shame on un.
 
John McAllan wrote:
Navi Pillay, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, added to the international condemnation of what she called “excessive acts of violence” by Iranian security forces. “I am shocked by the upsurge in deaths, injuries and arrests,” she said. “People have a right to express their feelings and to hold peaceful protests without being beaten, clubbed and thrown into jail.

Why should Ms Pillay be shocked by the actions of the Iranian government.
As a South African lawyer she practiced through the apartheid years and is well aware of the atrocities governments can inflict on it's own citizens.
Why doesn't she say something meaningful and call the regime what it is, a brutal, religious dictatorship whose desire for power is its overriding
compulsion. Of course being in a position where you have to be nice to everyone demands that she be politically correct.
 

Iran Hardliners Call for Killing Rivals at Rallies

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=9446010

Throngs of hard-liners take to streets across Iran, call for execution of opposition leaders

Tens of thousands of hard-liners poured into the streets in support of Iran's clerical rulers at state-sponsored rallies Wednesday, some chanting calls for the execution of opposition leaders as the country's internal strife turned more bitter.
Some wore white funeral shrouds to symbolize a willingness to die in defense of the ruling system. An ominous online threat in the name of a previously unknown group said suicide squads were ready to assassinate the opposition leaders should the judiciary fail to punish them within a week.
The display of popular support for the government and the stirring, violent rhetoric from the crowd appeared to be a genuine outpouring, though some supporters were bused in by the government. The rallies showed Iran's rulers could forcefully take back control of the streets after opposition demonstrations Sunday that triggered the worst bloodshed since the height of the unrest over the summer.

Iran's official news agency reported that the top two opposition leaders fled Tehran. But the son of one of the men, Mahdi Karroubi, disputed that report and told The Associated Press that Karroubi and the other leader, Mir Hossein Mousavi, were both at their homes in Tehran.
"The people who must escape are the ones whose hands are tainted with the blood of Iranian people," Taghi Karroubi said. "Unfortunately, the government news agency is spreading false news like the government itself."
Despite the pro-government outpouring, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei made a rare, candid acknowledgment that the country's Islamic rulers had lost some supporters since the disputed presidential election in June. Still, he put the blame squarely on the hands of the pro-reform opposition leaders.
"The reality in the society is that as some (supporters) dropped out, twice that number joined (us)," he said, according to the official IRNA news agency.
Wednesday's rallies drew tens of thousands of government supporters in Shiraz, Arak, Qom, Isfahan and Tehran, among other cities. Demonstrators in Tehran chanted "Death to Mousavi." Some shouted "Rioter hypocrites must be executed" and held up a banner that read: "We sacrifice our blood for the supreme leader."

Obama to Use 'Targeted' Dithering While Iran Builds Nuclear Bombs

http://www.hyscience.com/archives/2009/12/obama_to_use_ta.php

Topics: Political News and commentaries


Jennifer Rubin reacts to the good news/bad news from the WaPo today that the Obama administration is getting ready to impose sanctions on Iran. Of course that's the good news part; the bad news is that "they are doing so in a half-hearted fashion without giving up the pipe dream of re-engaging a barbaric regime murdering its own people. In other words, they don't want to topple the regime nor inflict much damage, "just target those bad "elements" they think are the "really bad guys":
It is unclear how, exactly, we are going to target only the Revolutionary Guard, for example. And heaven forbid we should appear to aid the protestors.("But officials insist that sanctions would not be linked to the protests. 'It is only coincidental that at the same time we reached the deadline, the Iranian government has a bloody crackdown,' said a third U.S. official. 'It has only served to highlight the nature of the regime.'") What is important is that we avoid being too harsh, too effective, or inflict too much damage because then the regime wouldn't want to come back to the bargaining table:
Administration officials have not given up hope that the deal can be revived -- they are encouraging Turkish efforts to bridge the gap -- but they say the apparent turmoil it generated within the Iranian leadership is a useful side benefit of engagement. The effort to engage "has had an unsettling effect on people in the regime," one official said. "It has made it more difficult to demonize the United States and say it has been the root of all evil."
(Notice the defensive fixation that we must justify our own actions to the Iranian people, who are risking life and limb against a regime they know all to well is evil.) And in defending the engagement strategy, unnamed officials claim they've been making progress with China. Well, not exactly progress. The Chinese just "understand the argument but don't have the sense of urgency that other countries have." All that bowing and scraping for nothing, it seems.
As Jennifer points out, if this seems ludicrous and full of the same "otherwordly thinking" that originally spurred the engagement gambit and "frittered away a year while the mullahs proceeded with their nuclear program," you're absolutely right. Whatever "mumbo-jumbo they are talking about," it is most definitely not "crippling sanctions.".The mullahs will rejoice over the fact that there are no serious consequences for their behavior and will simply proceed full speed ahead with their nuclear plans. So much for Obama's "smart policy." As to what end are we facing now that we are stuck with an liberal-progressive administration stuck on unicorns, rainbows, and daisies, keep the daises in mind because that's what will be growing on top of our graves.
Back in December 2006, Dr Andrew Campbell wrote an excellent article that took a look at Tehrans artful use of taqiyya (religiously-sanctioned deception, or "holy lying") and kitman (secrecy) in its negotiations with the West over nuclear weaponry. He concluded his piece by quoting former CIA operations officer and Iran specialist, Reuel Marc Gerecht (Edward Shirley), who warned: "Unless Langley gets lucky with an Iranian "walk-in" who volunteers detailed, critical information about Tehran's weapons program, the CIA will probably only know the mullahs have the Bomb after they detonate it."
Given that every President since the disastrous days of Jimmy Carter has allowed himself to fall victim to Iran's lies and deceit - giving Iran time to develop nuclear weapons, and now, Barack Obama not only has failed to learn from history that Iran has lied and deceived in its nuclear negotiations with the West - for the sole purpose of developing nuclear weapons, and is sufficiently naive and narcissistic enough to actually believe that he, as the world's messiah, will convince Iran to accept his "outreached hand" and give up its development of nuclear weapons - Reuel Marc Gerecht's prediction is all the more likely.
In other words, the U.S. and Israel are fast-becoming not only all the more likely to be the victims of a nuclear attack from Iran, we will know Iran has developed a nuclear bomb and that either Iran itself, via one of several types of missiles they've already developed, or via one or more of the thousands of terrorists in their large and growing terrorist network have delivered it, when we first see the flash of light just before millions of Americans pass into oblivion.

Iran: all government employee were ordered to attend the staged rally

Wednesday's pro regime rally in Tehran:

http://www.rahesabz.net/story/6679/

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اختصاصی جرس / تصویری از بخشنامه دولتی برای حضور کارمندان در راهپیمایی فردا
شبکه جنبش راه سبز (جرس): ادارات و سازمان های دولتی، با صدور بخش نامه حضور پرسنل خود در راهپیمایی فردا الزامی کردند.
به گزارش جرس، دعوت گروههای حامی دولت برای حضور در راهپیمایی فردا و تحصن در مقابل دفتر میرحسین موسوی در حالی صورت می گیرد که برخی از گروههای هوادار جنبش سبز در شبکه های اجتماعی از مردم خواسته اند تا در تحصن مقابل دفتر موسوی حضور یابند اما هیچ گونه شعاری سر ندهند و تنها حضوری آگاهانه داشته باشند و مراقب وضعیت باشند

Reza Pahlavi exclusive interview with France24 - 29

Wallstreet Journal: Iranians Want Regime Change

Six months ago, Iranians went to the streets, chanting "Where is my vote?" This is how the Green Revolution started. The protesters now no longer merely seek democratic elections but want regime change. Their new slogans are: "Khamenei is a murderer and his rule is unjust," "Neither Gaza nor Lebanon, I only give my life for Iran," and "Independence, Freedom and an Iranian Republic." In other words, they demand a stop to Iran's support for terrorists in Palestine, Lebanon and Iraq; the separation of state and religion; and consider Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as public enemy No. 1.
By answering this summer's peaceful calls for democratic elections with violence, the Supreme Leader may have sealed his own fate. In June and July alone, more than 5,000 protestors were arrested and an unknown number of them killed. The use of such extreme violence at a time in which mass communication is no longer the monopoly of the government has led to the steady decline of the regime's credibility. The lies no longer work. Nobody in Iran believes the state media's propaganda that blames Israel and the U.K. for the death of Neda Agha Soltan, the young woman murdered by security forces, whose death throes captured on a phone camera shocked the world.
The revelations of rape and torture in the Kahrizak detention center by security officials who invoked the name of Allah and the Shiite Imam as they tormented their young victims particularly outraged Iranians. This type of rape also occurred in the 1980's, but back then no one would believe those stories. But this time it is different. The victims are speaking out and, as importantly, they have found prominent support in Mehdi Karroubi, a clergyman and former president of the parliament. Many ayatollahs not linked to the regime have voiced their horror as well. The unity which was forced between the religious cast and the regime has been torn apart by these events. As a result, the rulers' moral standing has suffered a blow from which it may not recover, for it is the religious authority of the ayatollahs which gives the theocratic regime its legitimacy.
These dissident ayatollahs—such as the late Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, who in a famous fatwa last summer declared the regime neither Islamic nor a republic—are no longer alone in turning against Khamenei. Even religious scholars who until recently did not openly defy the regime, have now joined the calls of the opposition. There is the well-respected Ayatollah Yussuf Sanai, for example, who was a friend of Khomeini, who went so far as to state that Khamenei's continuing struggle for power is against Sharia law. There is Ayatollah Mousavi Ardebili, the former president of the judicial branch of Iran, who this summer openly declared his solidarity with the dissident Ayatollah Montazeri. And there are the ayatollahs Bayat Zanjani, Dastghaib, and Taheri who have aligned themselves with the protesting masses. Even Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in neighboring Iraq—who is held in great esteem by Shiites also in Iran—has declared that the oppression of the demonstrators is un-Islamic.
All this is significant because it broadens the protests to a truly popular movement. The students and educated class don't need fatwas to turn against the regime. But due to the criticism by prominent ayatollahs, the regime is losing its moral legitimacy even in the eyes of less educated and more pious Iranians.
The regime is not only losing the clergy but also the military. The communiqués from opposition groups and those that reach me personally all indicate that a large part of the Revolutionary Guard is no longer willing to be used as an instrument of oppression. Video images from nearly every demonstration show Revolutionary Guard members joining ranks with the protesters. A declaration signed by air force and army officers and published on the Internet warned radical Revolutionary Guard members to "Stop the violence against your own population."
This rift also explains why the much-anticipated "China Model" of ruthless and widespread use of force against the population, with thousands of deaths and executions in a matter of days, never happened. If Khamenei could have been sure about the loyalty of the military, he would have used it a long time ago to crush the rebellion for good. The only element of the Revolutionary Guard which still seems to be loyal to the regime is the Quds division, a hodge-podge of terrorists from Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine and other regions.

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This does not mean this regime will go out with a whimper. During these past six months, the Iranian regime has undergone a dramatic change of character. It has eliminated all pragmatic forces within its ranks. For religious support, they rely on a small but extremely radical group of ayatollahs such as Mesbah Yazde and Ahmad Janati. These are apocalyptic worshippers of the twelfth Imam, or Mahdi. Understanding this group is of the utmost importance for Western policymakers. The Mahdi is viewed as a Messiah-like figure whose return will bring peace on Earth. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad frequently refers to him in his speeches, including those held before the United Nations. While most twelver imam Shiites believe that the Mahdi will appear by his own accord, this radical group believes that his appearance can be triggered by creating the apocalyptic conditions necessary for his emergence. Iran's nuclear weapons program must be seen in this context. Ahmadinejad and the radical fringe group to which he belongs see themselves as the army of the Mahdi in his final jihad.
The regime's theological nature gives it a very different perception of reality. Despite the popular unrest and growing rift between the regime and the military and clergy, Ahmadinejad has no reason to see himself as weak or illegitimate. In his world view, bolstered by people such as Ayatollah Yazde, his regime does not rely on the consent of the people or dissident ayatollahs. Instead, it gains its legitimacy by its obedience to Allah. The regime surely fears the people, but controlling the masses serves the greater cause of obedience to Allah and therefore the interests of the people are of no real importance to this regime.
What's at stake here are not only the lives of the Iranian protesters and the future of the country, but global security. If the apocalyptic ayatollahs manage to survive this crisis, then the U.S, Israel and the region—judging by Iran's theological doctrines, nuclear aspirations, and existing conventional arsenal—will face a mortal danger. The emergence of a democratic Iran is therefore not only a moral imperative but should be the foreign policy priority of every cold-hearted realist as well as multicultural engager. That's why it is so incomprehensible that the Obama Administration still prefers dialogue with the apocalyptic ayatollahs over uncompromising support for the people crying out for freedom.
If the protesters shake off the yoke of theocracy and savagery, their success could herald the failure of political Islam way beyond Iran. At this turning point in history the West has no logical alternative but to unequivocally support the Green Revolution. The fate of this movement far outweighs the useless nuclear talks that will only buy the regime time and undeserved international legitimacy. The demonstrators in Iran on Dec. 7 rightfully exclaimed: "Obama, are you with them [the regime] or with us?" History will not judge him lightly if he chooses the wrong side.
Mr. Ellian, who was born in Tehran, teaches philosophy of law at Leiden University.

HIM Reza Pahlavi II's message to the Iranian Armed Forces

HIM Reza Pahlavi II's message to the Iranian Armed Forces

HIM Reza Pahlavi II calls on the Iranian Armed Forces to interfere in the Islamic Republic's brutal repression of freedom protestors - reminds them that it is their duty to defend their country and people from those that wish to inflict harm upon them.

 

Islamic Republic in Action: Armed man of God (Mullah) ready to kill....


Prominent Ayatollah calling on Armed Forced to show no mercy and sanctions mass murder of demonstrators



In this video which was broadcast by Islamic Republic national television live, Ayatollah Haaeri says that Khamenei (Supreme leader) is supported by Mahdi (the absent Imam) and provides an example of a time when Seyyed Hossein Mousavi Tabrizi was the judge who arrested and killed 30 opposition members to Islamic republic overnight and subsequently announced it on the radio..Haeeri asserts that the more demonstrators are killed, the better....he further asserts that the more demonstrators are killed by the Armed Forces of the Islamic republic, the better it is for the Islamic republic...he instructs government forces to show no mercy on those who are arrested and asks that they should be put to death immediately....he says that such orders to kill are sanctioned by God and the Prophet (Muhammad) and no need for trials or proof of guilt...... (very rough translation)

Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Ayatollah Khamenei's Jet Checked, Iran Supreme Leader May Flee To Russia If Necessary

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/29/ayatollah-khamenei-jet-ch_n_406496.html

Iran Supreme Leader Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei could flee to Russia should the situation in his country continue to spiral out of control, according to Radio Netherlands.
The media organization reports that the Supreme National Security Council ordered a check-up Sunday of the jet on standby to evacuate Khamenei and his family should the need arise.
If Khamenei does depart the country, it would be reminiscent of an historic event in Iranian history: Jan. 16, 1979, when the Iranian Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi fled Iran following an increase in violent protests. The anniversary of that event is coming up soon.
The plane check is already being viewed by some as an indication that Khamenei will in fact leave Iran, as protests continue.
This is a developing story.