April week 17
Door: Ingezonden
Dit is de voortzetting van de nieuwsdraad, welke ooit op www.joostniemöller.com begon, over het verzet van de groene beweging in Iran. Tevens worden hier links, video's en nieuwsberichten gepost over ontwikkelingen rond de nucleaire ambities van dit land. De draad wordt per week vernieuwd. Een chronologisch overzicht van week tot week kunt u vinden in de categorie "Ondertussen in Iran".
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op 25 apr 2010. Gearchiveerd onder Ondertussen in Iran.
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Kayhan: Praises Civil Disobedience – As Long As It Happens Elsewhere
Less than a year since violent protests erupted in Tehran and other major cities of Iran, Kayhan, Iran’s largest state-owned newspaper with intimate ties to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, dedicated its main headline on April 25 to praising anti-government protestors in Cairo. Kayhan’s front-page read, “Cairo has become the city of protests against Mubarak,” implicitly praising the protestors in Egypt.
Kayhan called President Hosni Mubarak of Egypt “decrepit.” According to this ultra-conservative newspaper, Gamal Mubarak, President Mubarak’s son and his likely successor, led a group of pro-government parliamentarians asking the police to open fire on the protestors. Kayhan was appalled by Gamal Mubarak’s level of brutality in dealing with “pro-democracy protestors” and claimed that such an action could have caused things to spin out of control.
Kayhan cited reports by human rights organizations condemning the actions of Egyptian security forces in dealing with protestors and reports from major news sources, such as the BBC and CNN.
http://www.insideiran.org/media-analysis/kayhan-praises-civil-disobedience-%E2%8…
Is Iran Running Out of Uranium?
Western governments may be scrambling to push through tougher international sanctions against Iran, but the Islamic Republic's nuclear program may be facing a more immediate hurdle: How to replenish its dwindling uranium stocks.
Iran's need to find fresh supplies of raw uranium supplies is increasingly urgent, according to some reports. That may be one reason for the bear hug President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad gave Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe last Thursday, when the Iranian leader landed in Harare on the first leg of an African trip. An anonymous Zimbabwe government source told Britain's Telegraph newspaper last Friday that his country's Minister of Presidential Affairs, Didymus Mutasa, had made a secret deal with Iran last month during a visit to Tehran, under which the Iranians would provide the sanctions-battered southern African country with critically needed oil supplies, in exchange for what he called "the exclusive uranium rights" in Zimbabwe.
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1984657,00.html?xid=rss-world
Risk grows that Israel will go alone to take out Iranian nukes
The growing rift between the Obama administration and Israel, coupled with the administration’s failure to rein in Tehran’s nuclear program, has increased the chances that the Israelis will eventually launch an attack on Iran, experts said.
“U.S.-Israeli relations are at their lowest point since … the early ’80s,” said Ilan Berman, vice president of the American Foreign Policy Council. “It has a lot to do with the fact that Israel thinks this administration is not serious about preventing a nuclear Iran. What is Israel going to do? I’m not certain one way or another. But from the rhetoric, there will come a determining point.”
Berman said Israel “could wait and see if sanctions would work, [but] if Israel feels threatened it would strike first before allowing a nuclear Iran.”
“If I had to put down odds, I think I would [bet on] the latter,” he added.
A U.S. intelligence official who spoke to this reporter on condition of anonymity said, “Israel will not allow a nuclear Iran to rise. And the U.S. should not either.”
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has frequently promised to destroy Israel, something American officials tend to see as an empty boast aimed at his Islamic extremist power base, but which Israel takes much more seriously.
Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/world/Risk-grows-that-Israel-will-go-alone-to-…
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/world/Risk-grows-that-Israel-will-go-alone-to-…
Iran strikes secret nuclear mining deal with Zimbabwe's Mugabe regime
Iran has struck a secret deal with Zimbabwe to mine its untapped uranium reserves in a move to secure raw material for its steadily expanding nuclear programme. The agreement was sealed last month during a visit to Tehran by a close aide to Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwean president who last weekend celebrated 30 years in power, The Sunday Telegraph has learned.In return for supplying oil, which Zimbabwe desperately needs to keep its faltering economy moving, Iran has been promised access to potentially huge deposits of uranium ore – which can be converted into the basic fuel for nuclear power or enriched to make a nuclear bomb.
"Iran secured the exclusive uranium rights last month when minister of state for Presidential affairs, Didymus Mutasa visited Tehran," said a Zimbabwean government source. "That is when the formal signing of the deal was made, away from the glare of the media."
Mr Mutasa is the former lands minister in the Zanu-PF administration and one of Mr Mugabe's most senior aides.
The revelation came after Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, visited Zimbabwe last week to show his support for Mr Mugabe. At a lavish official dinner in his honour on Thursday evening, Mr Ahmadinejad blasted what he termed "expansionist countries" for exerting "satanic pressures on the people of Zimbabwe", adding: "We believe victory is ours, and humiliation and defeat is for our enemies."
http://www.iranvajahan.net/cgi-bin/news.pl?l=en&y=2010&m=04&d=26&a=1
Obama: Support Iran's Pro-Democracy Movement
Subsequent to the June 9 elections tarred by fraud, a poorly-known organization further increased its power in Iran. Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini created the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps ("Pasdaran" or "IRGC") following the 1979 Islamic Revolution to safeguard the foundations of the Islamic Republic of Iran, while countering influence of the regular military. Today, the IRGC, nominally still charged to enforce the strict moral codes of the nation, has delegated that responsibility to a volunteer paramilitary Islamic group, the "Basij", technically under the IRGC umbrella.
Although the IRGC numbers a mere 130,000, it has become the main socio-economic political powerhouse in Iran. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, himself a former IRGC member, has awarded the IRGC more than 750 significant government contracts, appointed more than 50 IRGC members to prominent government posts and afforded the IRGC a prominent role in Iranian politics. The IRGC falls under the direct command of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei — he has provided IRGC members key positions in intelligence and in oversight of the country's nuclear program.
http://www.intellectualconservative.com/2010/04/27/obama-support-irans-pro-democ…
De Nederlandse Zahra Bahrami zit al vier maanden opgesloten in de beruchte Evin gevangenis )sectie 209' in Teheran. Vlak voor de gewelddadige demonstraties op 27 december 2009 vloog ze naar Teheran om haar familie te ontmoeten. Op 27 december werd ze door de Iraanse veiligheidsdiensten gearresteerd en vervolgens in eenzame opsluiting geplaatst.
Zover bekend heeft de Nederlandse ambassade of haar vertegenwoordiging in Iran nog geen contact met Zahra Bahrami opgenomen.
Meer info: http://is.gd/bKqeR
Israël overweegt Iran aan te vallen
http://www.nieuwsdealers.nl/item/267/israel-overweegt-iran-aan-te-vallen
Ahmadinejad naar 'nucleaire' VN-conferentie
http://www.telegraaf.nl/buitenland/6625659/__Iran_bij__nucleaire__VN-conferentie__.html
Iran threatens to arrest 'unIslamic' suntanned women who look like
Het is natuurlijk een doodzonde als een vrouw een beetje gebruind is door de zon
London, Apr 28 (ANI): As part of a new drive to enforce Islamic dress code, Iran has warned that suntanned women who looked like "walking mannequins" would be arrested.
Buzz up!Brig Hossien Sajedinia, Tehran's police chief, said: "The public expects us to act firmly and swiftly if we see any social misbehaviour by women, and men, who defy our Islamic values.
"In some areas of north Tehran we can see many suntanned women and young girls who look like walking mannequins.
http://news.oneindia.in/2010/04/28/iranthreatens-to-arrest-unislamic-suntanned-w…
Attack on Iran seen as likely
As Iran works to develop nuclear weapons, Israel or even the United States might decide to attack as soon as next year, a national news correspondent said here last week.
Dan Raviv, of CBS Radio, is the author of “His Every Spy a Prince: The Complete History of Israel’s Intelligence Community” and of “Friends in Deed: Inside the U.S. –Israel Alliance.” He spoke on April 21 to a crowded room at Rocky Mountain College that included former U.S. Sen. Conrad Burns.
President Barack Obama’s personal popularity has boosted the U.S. image around the globe, Mr. Raviv said, but that may not matter in the long run.
“We’re better liked now, and that’s good,” he said. “But that only gets you so far.”
Mr. Obama has adopted a different tone toward the Middle East in hopes of working toward long-term democracy, he said.
http://www.billingsnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1387:at…
How Iran and al-Qaeda made a deal
ISLAMABAD – On March 30, Heshmatollah Attarzadeh, the commercial attache at the Iranian consulate in Peshawar, capital of Pakistan's North-West Frontier Province, was "recovered from outside Iran and returned to Iran" after being abducted by militants on November 13, 2008.
In a terse statement, the Iranian Intelligence Ministry announced that Attarzadeh had been freed after a "complicated intelligence operation" by Iranian intelligence forces, without giving further details, apart from a dig at Pakistan: "Following the failure of the Pakistani government to secure the release of Attarzadeh, my ministry took the initiative and managed to rescue the diplomat," Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi said.
Attarzadeh, 59, was more outspoken. In an interview with the
Iranian state-owned Press TV, he said Israel's Mossad and the Central Intelligence Agency of the United States, under orders from the US, were behind his abduction.
http://atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/LD30Df01.html
Shiva Nazar Ahari’s Mother: “My Daughter Has Denied the Charges Against Her”
Shiva Nazar Ahari, a human rights activist and member of the Committee of Human Rights Reporters (CHRR), has spent more than 120 days in prison. She was arrested for the second time in one year on 20 December 2009. Previously, she spent 102 days in prison, 33 in solitary confinement, and was released on $200,000 bail on 23 September 2009.
Shahrzad Kariman, Nazar Ahari’s mother, told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that she and her daughter’s lawyers’ endless search for locating case files in different branches of the Revolutionary Courts have been fruitless.
The Evin Court judge has received Nazar Ahari’s most recent defense, charging her with “propagation against the regime through cooperation with CHRR’s website,” and “actions against national security through participation in gatherings on 4 November 2009 and 7 December 2009.” Nazar Ahari has denied participation in the mentioned gatherings and stated she was working during both events.
http://persian2english.com/?p=9938
Q&A: Mohammad Reza Heidari on why diplomats like himself and other Iranian government officials are now opposed to the state
Een intervieuw met Mohamad Heidati de diplomaat die asiel aanvroeg in Noorwegen.
Mohammad Reza Heidari, a high-ranking Iranian diplomat in Norway, announced in December that he was quitting the foreign ministry and not returning to Tehran. He now lives in Norway, where he spoke with insideIRAN.org
Q: Why did you leave your post at the Iranian embassy in Norway and cut off ties with the Islamic Republic?
A: This did not happen over night. My friends and I followed the events of Iran as diplomats. My colleagues and I always talked about the progress other countries have made and compared that to the situation in Iran. Then we had the June 12 election. Everyone was shocked by the level of cheating. On election day, I was in charge of the ballot box at the embassy and I never thought this was going to happen. Large numbers of Iranian expats voted in the election and Moussavi won in our precinct. Then the government in Iran reacted violently to people inside the country who were asking that their votes to be counted. These horrific scenes and seeing for ourselves the government killing our youth on the streets made me resign my post in order to motivate the Iranian people to continue their fight.
http://www.insideiran.org/featured/qa-mohammad-reza-heidari-on-why-diplomats-lik…
Iranian labour organizations announce their demands including "immediate release of political prisoners"
Ten Iranian labour organizations issued a joint resolution stating their demands at the threshold of the International Workers' Day on May 1. The resolution, which was published in the Vahed Transportation Workers Union website, criticizes the harsh condition of workers in Iran and states 15 demands to improve the situation.
Photos: Iranian Workers
"The right to form independent organizations, wage increase, halting the government program to cut subsidies, ending capital punishment and child labour" are amongst the many labour resolutions demanded from the government.
The announcement maintains that workers are entitled to an adequate standard of life that matches with current human standards because they are "the main producers of wealth."
According to the statement, in the past 30 years, workers wages have been cut to "a quarter of the amount below the poverty line" in Iran and in many cases workers have been laid off, their permanent jobs have been replaced with temporary contracts and even their wages have been held back.
http://www.payvand.com/news/10/apr/1273.html
In Iran worden zelfs kinderen geexecuteerd, meer dan 100 kinderen wachten in Iran op hun terechtstelling.Dat deze jongen geexecuteerd 'moest' worden is ook zo'n ramp.
@ Max Waarschijnlijk heb je de link vergeten, mocht het zijn dat je hem nog hebt post hem dan even als je wilt dan post Ik hem verder naar andere sites.
In Iran zijn in 2007 acht minderjarigen terechtgesteld, voor dit jaar staat de teller al op zes. Meer dan 130 anderen zijn veroordeeld tot de doodstraf en wachten af.Er worden kinderen opgehangen.Volgens de Iraanse wet vinden er in dat land echter geen executies plaats op minderjarigen. Daar betekent ‘meerderjarig’ weliswaar ‘vanaf negen jaar’ voor meisjes en ‘vanaf vijftien jaar’ voor jongens. http://www.amnesty.nl/bibliotheek_vervolg/thema_doodstraf_iran#
Met dank Max hij word gepost.
Ook ik ben goed ziek van deze praktijken en met mij veel Iraniers.
En trouwens ook veel nederlanders.
Max voor U.
http://www.onlydemocracy4iran.com/cgi-bin/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1272576398/0#0
Max Ik nodig je persoonlijk uit ons het team van odfi te komen versterken je zou een waardevolle aanwinst zijn.
Klik op de laatste link en bepaal je positie AUB.
Senator Seeks to Ban Iranian President From U.S.
With diplomats in New York saying that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad could attend next week’s United Nations conference on a nuclear weapons treaty, Sen. John Cornyn, R-TX, a member of leadership, penned a letter Thursday to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton asking that the foreign leader be barred from entry into the U.S. The conference is set to review the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty at its headquarters in New York starting Monday.
“This is preposterous, and allowing it to happen will make a mockery of the effort to stop the spread of nuclear weapons to rogue states and terrorist groups. There is simply no compelling reason for Ahmadinejad to be allowed to enter the United States,” Cornyn says in the letter, obtained by Fox News and to be released on Friday, with the senator noting that Iran is still designated a state sponsor of terrorism.
http://congress.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/04/29/senator-seeks-to-ban-iranian-presid…
Khamenei ally says Iran will not accept fuel swap offer
TEHRAN, April 30 — Iran will never accept swapping its low-enriched uranium with nuclear fuel abroad, a senior adviser to the country’s top authority said today, making clear Tehran’s continued defiance in a row with global powers.
Some countries, such as Turkey, have offered to mediate with the West to defuse mounting tension with Iran over the Islamic state’s disputed nuclear activities, which the United States and its European allies fear is a cover for building bombs.
“We must be very naive to trust the West … Why do they insist on swapping nuclear fuel abroad? It shows they have satanic intentions,” Ali Akbar Velayati, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s top adviser on international affairs, told Iran’s state news agency Irna.
“Iran will never trust the West to send its Low-Enriched Uranium (LEU) abroad,” he said.
http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/index.php/world/61782-khamenei-ally-says-iran…
Saeed Soodmelli Arrested for Taping Heavy Traffic | Sentenced to One Year Imprisonment
Waarschijnlijk wegens het filmen van een militaire colonne.
Committee of Human Rights Reporters – Branch 28 of the Revolutionary Court with presiding judge Pir-Abassi has sentenced post-election detainee Saeed Soodmelli to one year in prison.
Saeed Soodmelli was arrested on December 31, 2009 by security forces and taken to Evin prison. At the time of his arrest, Soodmelli was filming the traffic on Felestin Street in Tehran.
According to reliable sources, Soodmelli, who hold a Bachelor of Arts in agriculture was at work, a pizza shop near Felestin Square, when he noticed the heavy traffic outside and exited the store. He was arrested as soon as he began to capture the scene with his cell phone.
http://persian2english.com/?p=9981
Iran: Journalists under siege
30 April 2010
"Around 70 journalists are now in the prisons of the Islamic Republic and many others, like me, are free on bail, lacking any security. We are afraid that anything that we write may be used as evidence of “propaganda against the system” or “conspiracy against national security”. My colleagues and I try to write as little as possible." (Open letter from journalist Zhila Bani Ya'qoub to the Head of Iranian Judiciary)
http://www.amnesty.org/en/news-and-updates/iran-journalists-under-siege-2010-04-…
Iedereen in Iran die niet de sjiitische staatsgodsdienst aanhangt maakt zich grote zorgen over een nieuwe wet, die de doodstraf stelt op geloofsafval. http://www.trouw.nl/religie-filosofie/nieuws/religie/article2742107.ece/Irans_goede_voornemen__vaker_de_doodstraf__.html
Neda’s Open Eyes Drove Me Mad
Engelse vertaling van het intervieuw met de moeder van Neda Aga Soltan, Met Roozonline.
Het moet een verschrikkelijke ervaring zijn geweest voor deze vrouw om die beelden te zien.
Hajar Rostami-Motlagh, Neda Agha-Soltan’s mother, told Rooz in an interview that her daughter’s open eyes have driven her mad.
According to the Time magazine, the moment of Neda Agha-Soltan’s death during the Iranian people’s protest against the election coup “turned into probably the most widely witnessed death in human history.” Speaking to Rooz, Hajar Rostami-Motlagh speaks for the first time about her reaction after the video of her daughter’s death.
http://www.roozonline.com/english/news/newsitem/article/2010/april/30//nedas-ope…
Zware beveiliging in Teheran
Ondanks dat het Regime zegt dat de groene beweging is uitgeschakeld en niks meer in te brengen heeft is er een zware beveiliging in Iran in de straten op de been gebracht.
Dat komt dus niet erg geloofwaardig over.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2nvC-hQeMQ
May Day in Iran
1 Mei in Iran
While May Day, the International Workers Day, has never been an officially-sanctioned holiday in Iran, workers have nevertheless celebrated it throughout the years, often against heavy police repression. This year, the authorities have banned all gatherings by the independent labor organizations and threatened them with severe punishment. However, the old government-affiliated labor groups have announced a “labor week”, the Green supporters of labor have called for rallies and marches in Tehran and other cities, and, in what promises to be a highly eventful day, more and more labor and pro-labor groups are coming forward with new statements and plans of action for the occasion.
http://persian2english.com/?p=10020
Slain workers remembered on Intentional Workers' Day
GVF — Following an initiative by The Centre to Defend Families of the Slain and Detained in Iran, people lay flowers at the grave of workers who lost their lives following the rigged presidential election of June 2009.
http://en.irangreenvoice.com/article/2010/may/01/1782
Moeilijk te controleren voor mij maar dit zou vandaag zijn in Azadi street in Teheran zijn
http://www.mojahedin.org/pages/detailsNews.aspx?newsid=57448
Een paar berichten die binnen komen via Twitter.
Workers/Students Protests in Isfehan, Rasht, Tabriz, Karaj, Qazvin, Arak, Ahvaz, some turned to Clashes.
Reports, Clashes in Topkhaneh SQ.
Report about violent clashes in Revolution and Navvab Ave. in Tehran http://bit.ly/baCzFw
Demonstration reported in Shiraz http://bit.ly/bh6SxV
Regime Forces Attack People to Disperse Them
Iran News Agency, Tehran: A number of police and special forces attacked people around the Ministry of Labour.
Regime forces attempted to disperse people who were around the Ministry of Labour from two hours ago, but they were unsuccessful in doing so. Regime forces acting under the order of a colonel who was the commander of a number of forces, arrested three people.
The presence of people and the probability of expansion of the gatherings led the regime forces to attack people. Dispersed clashes occurred around the Ministry of Labour.
http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=122543537758212&id=108514667270
D. G. Neree mei 1st, 2010 22:10
D.G. ; dat is hetgene dat Ik en velen met mij inclusief jij de mensen al lang proberen te vertellen.
Waarom willen mensen het niet weten.
De idioterie is dat de vele Iraniers die Ik tegen kom op verschillende sites mij precies hetzelfde zeggen om iedereen van dit gevaar op de hoogte te brengen.
" Death to Khamenei " chants in the streets of Tehran on Labor Day - Iran 1 May 2010
Anti-government protest rocks Tehran on May Day
Vergis je niet in deze mensen, die gaan de straat op in de wetenschap dat ze gearresteerd kunnen worden waarna ze aan vreselijkste martelingen bloot komen te staan.
Deze mensen doen dat bewust omdat ze genoeg hebben van 30 jaar Fascisme.
Tehran, May 01 – Thousands of Tehran residents Saturday afternoon chanted anti-government slogans as they marched towards the Labour Ministry on international Workers’ Day.
At least 4,000 people marched down Azadi Street in central Tehran toward the ministry, according to an Iran Focus correspondent at the scene.
There was a heavy police presence in the area. Some 600 anti-riot forces and policemen from the 2nd, 5th and 8th police precincts were guarding the ministry and its vicinity. Police helicopters hovered overhead.
Security forces have arrested at least 30 protestors. Four men and four women were seen being taken into the Labour Ministry by security forces.
In nearby Baharestan Square, protestors chanted “Death to the Dictator” and “Death to Khamenei” referring to Iran’s Supreme Leader.
Elsewhere, in the north-western city of Tabriz, hundreds of people rallied outside the local Labour Ministry building chanting anti-government slogans. At least 20 protestors were arrested.
http://www.iranfocus.com/en/special-wire/anti-government-protest-rocks-tehran-on…
Iran Eyewitness: “The Movement Is Still Strong and Vibrant”
The following was posted yesterday on the discussion board at Anonymous Iran by a regular contributor. I do not know the contributor personally, but an EA source who does assures us of his/her reliability:
Greeting Friends:
Its been a long 40 days since I posted on this great forum. You all know where I have been and I will try to give you all as much information as I can about my trip to IRAN after 25 years of absence.
First, I would like to thank you all for your heart warm prayers and compassion you posted here when I was detained in Iran. I read most of them and they made me cry and happy at the same time. Thanks from bottom of my heart.
http://enduringamerica.com/2010/05/02/iran-eyewitness-the-movement-is-still-stro…