Juni week 22 / 23
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 2 weken vernieuwd. Een chronologisch overzicht kunt u vinden in de categorie "Ondertussen in Iran".
Geplaatst door: Ingezonden
op 31 mei 2010. Gearchiveerd onder Ondertussen in Iran.
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Israelische onderzeeërs voor Iraanse kust
Door de halfbakken houding van de VS en Europa, met als gevolg dat zowel Iran, Turkije en Brazilië gillend van de pret over straat rollen, is Israël weer eens genoodzaakt haar eigen plan te trekken. De nucleaire dreiging van Iran is een reële. De illegale Iraanse president Ahmadinejad heeft meerdere keren aangegeven de Joodse staat te willen vernietigen. Deze dreiging in combinatie met een nucleair programma dat geen vreedzame doeleinden biedt voelt Israël zich genoodzaakt haar vloot van onderzeeërs richting Perzische golf te sturen. Op permanente basis wel te verstaan.
Lees verder via Israned:
http://www.israned.com/2010/05/israelische-onderzeeers-voor-iraanse.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
We leven in spannende tijden en de spanning stijgt.
Terrorism Redefined: Interpol at Islamic Republic’s Service
http://www.faithfreedom.org/11796
sorry voor het bolde gedoe
Deze site zal wel bekend zijn, maar ik post hem toch maar even voor de zekerheid:
http://hakemiat-e-mardom.blogspot.com/
Iran verrijkt meer uranium
http://www.telegraaf.nl/buitenland/6830928/__Iran_verrijkt_meer_uranium__.html?sn=binnenland,buitenland
Gekregen vrijheid heeft geen waarde!
Iran bars music in private schools as part of code of ‘moral conduct’
LONDON — Iran has barred private schools from teaching music, saying it clashes with the establishment’s Islamic values, following a push to enforce moral standards that may lead to a national dress code for university students.
“The use of musical instruments is against the principles of our value system,’’ Ali Bagherzadeh, head of the private-schools office in the Education Ministry, said in a phone interview from Tehran yesterday. Iran’s 16,000 private schools have 1.1 million students, the Islamic Republic News Agency said.
http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2010/06/02/iran_bars_music_in_pri…
Het is duidelijk dat de back up voor Ahmadinejad sterk aan het afzwakken is.
zijn volgelingen komen niet meer zo massaal opdagen als een jaar terug.
http://enduringamerica.com/2010/06/02/latest-iran-video-ahmadinejad-in-ilam-wheres-my-crowd/
Will Kurds be used as a weapon against Iran?
News.Az reprints a commentary from Russian newspaper Pravda reviewing the Kurdish question in Iran.
The Kurdish problem is becoming more pressing for Iran. It has posed a serious threat to Iran since the early 20th century. And the issue remains unresolved – the Iranian Kurds still do not have any autonomous rights and more and more Kurds see the solution in the creation of their own state.
The Iranian Kurds' first major attempts to create their own state in 1912 and in 1917-22 failed. At that time, Tehran managed to suppress the uprisings. The main reasons were the disunity of the Kurds themselves and the lack of stable support from outside.
Another opportunity to create an independent Kurdish state arose after World War II. And a Kurdish state even existed for about a year, from January to December 1946. This was the republic of Mahabad, created after the invasion of northern Iran by Soviet troops in 1941 (when it was Moscow's policy to seize the Iranian north and include it in the Azerbaijan SSR).
http://www.news.az/articles/16662
The Velayat Faghih Pipeline Network
A friend of mine was telling me the other day that velayat faghih (i.e. the rule of the clerics) has become a pipeline network in Iran. He explained that Mr. Khamenei, the absolute ruler, is the primary feed of the pipeline. He has absolute authority. This absolute right first came about when ayatollah Khomeini set the standard of “people are the criterion.” But today, the current rulers call the very same people “trash.”
The velayat faghih is not accountable to anyone and can do anything he pleases. The source of his authority stems from the heavens and therefore those on the earth have no right to question anything that comes from him. This attitude prevails in the Islamic republic of Iran from top to bottom and at every stop in its organization, some person has set up his own mini-empire where he enjoys a state of no accountability.
Following the lead of the primary source, the authority of the other individuals is limitless and the level of their accountability is null. One such authority walks through the office of Mr. Khamenei himself while another one rules Evin prison; then there are some in Kahrizak prison, and one even in Kayhan newspaper; there is one in the Majlis assembly and another one in the judiciary. Under the protection of the absolute ruler, these Islamic “black shirts” have created their own empire which is not accountable to anyone.
http://www.roozonline.com/english/opinion/opinion-article/article/2010/june/01//…
vreemde maatschappij is het hoor. Het vergt heel wat inlevingsvermogen en informatie om te doorgronden hoe het daar werkt.
Nou D.G. eigenlijk niet als je het systeem van velayat faghih ziet als een criminele organisatie.
Stel dat een criminele organisatie als de Maffia de macht krijgt in een willekeurig land en en ze richten een gelijkaardige wet op in dat land, dan wil dat gewoon zeggen dat de Maffia in dat land onaantastbaar is geworden met het gevolg dat ze elke criticus dus gewoon kunnen vermoorden zonder daar aansprakelijk voor gesteld te worden.
Lijkt mij voor de Maffia het ideale milieu om hun activiteiten uit te voeren.
Ik heb al meerdere keren gesteld op verschillende Fora dat de top van de Iraanse macht een criminele organisatie is en van met name Iraniers daar groot gelijk in heb gekregen.
The Crackdown Before the Crackdown
In anticipation of protests to mark the one-year anniversary of the contested election, Iran is cracking down on liberal-minded people and women in particular.
They’re back. In recent weeks, Tehran residents have seen an increase in the numbers of a familiar, but not entirely welcome, sight: gashte ershad, or morals-police patrols. In the past, these patrols have tried to keep women’s Islamic dress, or hijab, in check. (No-nos include showing too much hair or bare toes, for instance.) Amorous couples often get a slap on the wrist, too (holding hands not allowed; kissing in public? forget it). But the current clampdown seems harsher than in the past: Tehran residents who spoke to Newsweek say many young women are being detained on the spot without a warning. Several improperly dressed women were even suspended recently from the Allameh Tabatabai University in Tehran, according to the Mehr News Web site. “It’s getting ridiculous,” says Bita, a young woman in Tehran who asked that her real name not be used. “They’re even arresting women who appear to be too tan. I mostly stay off the streets.”
http://www.newsweek.com/2010/06/02/the-crackdown-before-the-crackdown.html
Iran Navy detects US nuke sub in PG
Even niet vergeten dat dit een Pro regime nieuwssite is.
Iranian naval forces have detected a US nuclear submarine in the Persian Gulf waters, amid growing concerns over the safety of one of the most important energy routes in the world.
An Iranian patrol spotted the nuclear-armed and -powered submarine in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, which allows the passage of 90 percent of the oil produced by Persian Gulf states to Asia, the US and Western Europe.
There are currently 48 logistic and 18 combat US vessels in the Persian Gulf waters, among them the USS-Eisenhower aircraft carrier.
Experts say aside from the risk of ecologically disastrous accidents, the presence of a nuclear submarine in a narrow waterway also poses a threat of nuclear pollution.
In 2009, a US Navy Los Angeles-class nuclear-powered submarine collided with a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock in the strait. The incident caused a spillage of nearly 25-thousand gallons of diesel fuel.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=127984§ionid=351020101
Iran's supreme leader pardons jailed opposition supporters before election anniversary
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's supreme leader pardoned 81 jailed opposition supporters who had been found guilty of having a role in the unrest triggered by last June's disputed presidential election.
Wednesday's pardons were seen as a gesture of goodwill by Iran's leaders just days before the anniversary of the June 12 election, when the opposition says it will attempt to mount the first street protests in months. Authorities have warned they will confront any unauthorized gatherings.
Opposition activists took to the streets after last year's vote, claiming President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won re-election through fraud. Over the weeks, activists broadened their protests to challenge Iran's clerical establishment and were met with a heavy crackdown. More than 100 people were brought before a mass trial and 80 of them were sentenced to death or given prison terms ranging from six months to 15 years.
On Wednesday, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, acting on a request by the judiciary, granted the pardons. A statement on his website did not identify the prisoners. It said the pardons were made on the occasion of the birthday of the Prophet Muhammad's daughter.
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/06/02/irans-supreme-leader-pardons-jailed-oppo…
Iran's supreme leader pardons jailed opposition supporters before election anniversary
Leader’s Pardon of 81 Political Prisoners Show Arbitrary Nature of Prosecutions
(3 June 2010) The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran welcomed today’s pardon of 81 political prisoners by Iran’s Leader Ayatollah Khamanei as a positive sign, but said the gesture amounted to an explicit admission that the prisoners had been wrongfully prosecuted, and called for the immediate release of approximately 450 other prisoners convicted or sentenced on the basis of their political beliefs.
Khamenei’s mass pardon is announced even as new arrests of political activists and journalists in Iran continue. The identities of “pardoned” prisoners have not been announced.
“If the Leader can pardon these 81 individuals, in effect confirming they have committed no crimes, he can and should release all those remaining in Iranian prisons who have likewise been wrongfully prosecuted,” said Aaron Rhodes, a spokesperson for the Campaign.
“Otherwise it must be concluded that the pardons are a political ploy aimed at blunting domestic and international criticism of extreme political repression that continues in Iran,” he said.
The Campaign has received many reports of prisoners being coerced into asking for “pardons” from the Leader. In the latest instance, Mohammad Nourizad, a director and film-maker was severely beaten inside Evin prison on 18 May after refusing to seek a “pardon.”
http://www.iranhumanrights.org/2010/06/leader%E2%80%99s-pardon-of-81-political-p…
Eight reformist factions request authorisation for rally
Heeft natuurlijk geen schijn van kans maar naar Ik aan neem is het om zich juridisch in te dekken.
GVF — In a formal letter to the Governor of Tehran province, eight reformist parties have made a formal request to hold rallies on the first anniversary of last June’s fraudulent presidential election.
According to the reformist Parliament News website, the joint request comes just days after Green Movement leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mahdi Karroubi also signed a joint letter requesting authorisation to hold a demonstration on 12 June.
http://en.irangreenvoice.com/article/2010/jun/03/1994
Atoomenergie is over een periode van decennia gebleken een zeer betrouwbare energiebron te zijn.
Die vuile slonzige Russische prutsers hebben altijd problemen met alle energie gehad. De mentaliteit van die slaven deugt niet. Zeker in combinatie met communisme is Rusland een gegarandeerd fiasco.
Ik wacht met feestelijke spanning op een keiharde Israelische klap. Was het niet de kleinzoon van Khomeini die om interventie van de USA vroeg?
http://www.freedomgloryproject.com/
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De Iraanse Revolutionaire garde verklaart zich bereid "hulpgoederen" naar Gaza met de marine te escorteren. Ze wachten op een woord van De Grote Leider
http://in.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-49083320100606
Dat wordt mooi: Turkije en Iran samen ten strijde tegen Israël. Als Amerika nu geen duidelijk standpunt inneemt en zich niet voor 100% achter Israël staat, dan gaat Israël een bijzonder zware tijd tegemoet. Het zou zelfs desastreus kunnen uitpakken voor Israël en daarmee voor Europa en op den duur Amerika zelf.
Hoelang zullen ze nog doorgaan met oorlogsretoriek voor men elkaar zo klem heeft gepraat dat men wel tot daden moet overgaan?
Amerika is wijs om in de Perzische Golf paraat te zijn. Dat geklets over de vervuiling hebben ze van de milieumaffia? Eens nam de Islam de methoden van AH (niet Albert Heijn) over, nu gebruiken ze de milieuterroristen en liefdadigheidsorganisaties als dekmantels en instrumenten.
@Neree
"Hoelang zullen ze nog doorgaan met oorlogsretoriek voor men elkaar zo klem heeft gepraat dat men wel tot daden moet overgaan?
Tot het moment dat ze beiden overtuigd zijn dat het onvermijdelijk is. Achmadinejad is al om. Die ziet zichzelf al als wegbereider van de Mahdi (Messias).
Het is alleen nog een kwestie van even een oorzaak forceren voor de totale apocalyps waarbij de schuld door de algemene opinie bij de Joden ligt. En dat gaat voortvarend goed. Lees de kranten wereldwijd maar over die "Flotzilla" axie.
Daar ziet het wel naar uit ja. De VN is al verloren, daar hoeft Israël niet van te verwachten, of er moet een wonder van moed en resolutie gebeuren en landen die oproepen tot oorlog en haat moeten eruit geknikkerd worden. In het strafbankje en mond houden. Inplaats daarvan is de hele organisatie vergiftigd. Dat er nog zoveel regeringsleiders bleven zitten bij de speech van Ah Madhi Ne Jihad is een grote schande. De resoluties tegen Israël net zo, althans, zolang de andere kanten niet even kritisch beoordeeld worden. Ook de beperkingen aan de vrijheid van meningsuitingm, waarbij kritiek op de Islam is uitgesloten is onaanvardbaar en een teken dat het instituut gecorrumpeerd is. Saneren of opdoeken. Terug naar de roots, de grondslag ervan: alleen democratische landen worden volwaardig lid.
Iraanse Rode Halve Maan stuurt hulpkonvooi naar Gaza
Het ziet ernaar uit dat Iran de zaak op de spits wil drijven en tegelijkertijd de aandacht af wil gaan leiden van de aankomende rellen op 12 Juni de verjaardag van de gestolen verkiezingen van vorig jaar
De Iraanse Rode Halve Maan wil eind deze week twee boten met humanitaire hulp naar Gaza sturen, meldt een verantwoordelijke bij de hulporganisatie.
http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/1281/Israel-Palestina/article/detail/1115064/2010/06/07…
Stelletje schoften. Liefdadigheidsorganisaties misbruiken om een mondiaal conflict te genereren.
Halve maan alle krediet kwijt.
Henk, dit bericht:
Iran's supreme leader pardons jailed opposition supporters before election anniversary
ik denk dat ze behoorlijk gehersenspoeld/onder druk gezet/gehersenspoeld zijn en met positieve verhalen over hun gevangenneming komen.
Video over Neda op Het Vrije Volk
http://hetvrijevolk.com/index.php?pagina=11439
Zeer aangrijpende video, Neree.
Ik zet 'm hier ook neer voor het nageslacht:
The Iranian Women’s Quest for Equality: History, Strategies, & Demands
History of Iranian Women’s Movement
The women’s rights movement in Iran started over 100 years ago. The first voices for women’s rights in Iran were heard in 1900’s, during the constitutional revolution, when women engaged in underground political participation during the revolution in an effort to advocate women’s rights to share the social space. At first, they had basic demands, such as right to education, because they believed that through education the conditions would improve for women. Soon the formation of NGOs (such as the Association for Freedom and the Women’s Secret Union) followed and the women actually became strong enough to establish the first primary schools for girls in 1907. After these primary steps, there was a big wave of publications and periodicals written by women for women. Many of these pieces expressed the dissatisfaction women felt regarding their social, cultural, and political limitations, leading them to call for change. Since then, the Iranian Women’s Rights Movement has experienced many ups and downs.
http://www.signforchange.info/english/spip.php?article713
Russia cautions against 'excessive' Iran sanctions Ahmadinejad warns Russia not to 'side with Iran's enemies' as U.S. diplomacy moves into 'high gear' over UN vote.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said Tuesday that United Nations sanctions against Iran over its nuclear program should not be "excessive", amid growing Western pressure ahead of a Security Council vote due later in the week.
"This resolution should not be excessive, should not put Iran's leadership, the Iranian people in a tricky situation that creates barriers on the way of development of Iran's peaceful nuclear energy," Putin told reports on the sidelines of a conference in Istanbul, also attended by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Earlier on Tuesday, Ahmadinejad warned Russia not to side with Tehran's foes in the UN vote.
"[The Russians] must be careful not to be beside the enemies of the Iranian people," Ahmadinejad said at a press conference in Istanbul, where was attending a summit alongside regional leaders including Putin.
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/russia-cautions-against-excessive-…
Web of shell companies veils trade by Iran’s ships
On Jan. 24, 2009, a rusting freighter flying a Hong Kong flag dropped anchor in the South African port of Durban. The stop was not on the ship’s customary route, and it stayed only an hour, just long enough to pick up its clandestine cargo: a Bladerunner 51 speedboat that could be armed with torpedoes and used as a fast-attack craft in the Persian Gulf.
The name painted on the ship’s side as it left Durban and made for the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas was the Diplomat, and its papers showed that it was owned by a company called Starry Shine Ltd. Both the name and provenance were of recent vintage. Six months earlier, the Diplomat had been the Iran Mufateh, part of a fleet owned by the state-owned Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines, known as Irisl.
Within months of the Durban episode, the United States government put out word that Irisl had renamed the ship and set up Starry Shine to evade American export controls aimed at preventing Iran from obtaining military-use technology like the Bladerunner 51.
By that time, though, the freighter had yet another name: the Amplify. Last spotted by an electronic tracking system this April in Karachi, Pakistan, the Amplify was under new management and had a mysterious new owner.
http://www.iranfocus.com/en/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=20632:w…
What if Mousavi had won in Iran? A year after Iran's rigged presidential election, the Islamic Republic is in greater disarray than ever
At the beginning of June last year, a thaw in Iranian-American relations looked increasingly likely. President Obama had been inaugurated less than five months earlier, promising the leaders of the Islamic Republic that America would "extend" its hand if the Iranians were willing to "unclench" their fists. Having been vilified as part of an "axis of evil" by the Bush administration, the Iranian leadership suddenly faced a harder time painting the United States, with its charismatic new president and his middle name of Hussein, as "the Great Satan". Obama even recognised Iran's right to enrich uranium, something the previous administration had refused to do.
In Iran, a similar political realignment was under way. The country not only faced staggering inflation and unemployment, but had had three sets of UN security council sanctions imposed on it since Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took office. With two-thirds of its population under the age of 30 and pressing for more social freedoms, the incumbent president was by no means a popular candidate heading into the 2009 election.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jun/06/iran-election-opposition
"the enemies of the Iranian people"
Hoe durft die man nog namen het Iraanse volk te spreken? Ze hebben zelf de oorlog verklaard aan "the Iranian People". Maar Rusland kan daar ook een woordje van meepraten.
Ahmanutjob Calls for “New World Order”…
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday called for cooperation among world states to forge a new world order.
“The conditions we are experiencing today need planning for new orders in the world and (our) cooperation and co-thinking for organizing the conditions,”Ahmadinejad told reporters before departing for Istanbul, Turkey to take part in the Conference on Interaction and Confidence-Building Measures in Asia (CICA).
http://weaselzippers.us/2010/06/07/ahmanutjob-calls-for-new-world-order/
Voor mij blijft de vraag wanneer zijn de moslims niet woedend
Exclusive: Osama Bin Laden Is Living In Iran
Het lijkt erop dat de terroristen een pact gesloten hebben.
Osama bin Laden is alive and well and living in Savzevar, Iran, with his al Qaeda compatriots.
His hiding place has been pinned down for the first time by the Kuwaiti daily newspaper Al-Siyassa as the mountain town of Savzevar in the northeastern Iranian province of Khorasan.
Bin Laden, according to the report, remains in Savzevar under the protection of SAVAMA, the Iranian intelligence service.
Other al-Qaeda dignitaries reportedly are sheltered in Iranian safe-houses, including Dr. Ayman al-Zawahari, who has been spotted in the guise of an Iranian cleric with a black turban and a dyed red beard, along with Saad bin Laden, Osama’s eldest son; Yaaz bin Sifat, a top ranking planner of terror operations; and Mohammed Islam Haani, who served as the mayor of Kabul under the Taliban.
More news concerning bin Laden has been earthed by Israeli intelligence officers, who disclosed that Recep Erdogan, Turkey’s Prime Minister, remains aware that the al Qaeda officials were safely housed in Iran.
http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.6422/pub_detail.asp
'Murderer Not Found, Accept Blood Money'
A year after the June 12 election coup, and with only few days remaining for the anniversary of the first death related to election protesters in Iran, rather than conducting investigations to identify those who ordered and carried out the murder of protesters, the Iranian government has been pressuring the families of murdered protesters to forego holding memorials for their loved ones. One family member was told that “because the murderer was not identified, the case has been sent to the implementation division for payment of blood money from the public budget.”
According to Rooz, throughout the past few days security agents have summoned the families of several murdered protesters in recent days to inform them that they should not hold memorials for their killed children on June 15th and 20th. No accurate data for the actual number of killed protestors have been given by authorities. Some families have refused to disclose even the names of their martyred children because of national security pressures, and some others have confined themselves only to releasing the name of their martyred children.
http://en.irangreenvoice.com/article/2010/jun/09/2021
[...] Ingezonden пишет: Door de halfbakken houding van de VS en Europa, met als gevolg dat zowel Iran, Turkije en Brazilië gillend van de pret over straat rollen, is Israël weer eens genoodzaakt haar eigen plan te trekken. De nucleaire dreiging van Iran is een … This was the republic of Mahabad, created after the invasion of northern Iran by Soviet troops in 1941 (when it was Moscow’s policy to seize the Iranian north and include it in the Azerbaijan SSR). http://www.news.az/articles/16662 … [...]
Iran: Using skilfully devised strategy, regime's repressive policies succeed
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was reelected with 63 per cent of the vote on 12 June 2009. Everything was planned in advance except for a wave of demonstrations that was without precedent since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. The streets of the main cities were filled with people chanting "What happened to my vote?" and "Liar."
The authorities responded with a vast operation to silence the political protests, using a skilfully devised repressive strategy, the stages of which Reporters Without Borders will now try to describe.
By disrupting the means of communication and relentlessly controlling the dissemination of photos and video footage, the authorities sought to undermine the demonstrations and prevent the opposition from reinforcing its cohesion and popular legitimacy.
http://www.payvand.com/news/10/jun/1082.html
U.S. Shifts Toward Support for Iran's Dissidents
Administration Seeks to Help Counter Tehran's Jamming of Websites and Western Broadcasting; Some Rights, Democracy Groups Lose Bush-Era Backing
Het werd langzamerhand eens tijd.
WASHINGTON—The U.S. has accelerated its effort to provide dissidents in Iran with computer hardware and software to evade government censors. But it's a shift that many activists say is insufficient to bring political change in Tehran.
During much of the Obama administration's first year—reversing the approach of the George W. Bush administration—the White House withheld action on unilateral economic sanctions and other measures seen as challenging Iran's regime. Its hope was to engage Iran diplomatically instead.
But this week, the U.S. pushed through new United Nations Security Council sanctions against Iran, days before the first anniversary of the Iranian "Green Movement" uprising against President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election on June 12.
In announcing the sanctions, President Barack Obama said the measures were as much designed to aid the country's political opposition as to end Tehran's nuclear program.
The Obama administration also says it is seeking to aid the Green Movement by facilitating its ability to communicate inside Iran and by punishing government entities responsible for the political crackdown.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704875604575280962154439430.html?m…
Nobel Laureate Shirin Ebadi’s Message on Eve of Anniversary of 2009 Iran Presidential Election
United4Iran has posted the following video of Iranian Nobel Laureate, Shirin Ebadi, giving a message on the eve of the anniversary of the 2009 Iran (heavily disputed and likely rigged) election:
Video:
http://www.irannewsnow.com/2010/06/nobel-laureate-shirin-ebadis-message-on-eve-o…
Iran's Revolutionary Guards point to fresh dissent within oppressive regime
Six months ago Muhammed Hussein Torkaman was a young Revolutionary Guard in Iran, working in the security team attached to the supreme leader Ayatollah Khamenei and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
As part of this inner security force, the Sar-Allah, or Avengers of God, he was also responsible, he says, for the leaders' personal safety during the protests after the presidential elections, which were widely viewed as having been stolen by Ahmadinejad.
He witnessed increasing dissent within the guards. "We have Revolutionary Guards who defied orders, though they were severely punished, expelled from the force and taken to prison," he says.
Torkaman, 24, is in hiding in a small, nondescript flat in a backwater in central Turkey, where he is seeking asylum with his wife and two-year-old son. His extraordinary account of the depravities of the Iranian government and its crushing of dissent forms the backbone of a film by Guardian Films and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/11/iran-election-revolutionary-guard
Moral crisis threatens Iran's Revolutionary Guards
The Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) was founded with the principal aim of protecting the achievements of the Islamic revolution in a military and ideological sense. Forged in the heat of revolution and defined by the Iran-Iraq war, the elite corps was intended to be a breeding ground for the new Islamic man who would take the revolution forward and maintain its purity.
Originally it eschewed the standard hierarchical ranks of the traditional military, instead promoting an austere, egalitarian ethos. But the IRGC soon fell short of the lofty ideals it had set for itself as it grew to become one of Iran's most powerful – and wealthy – institutions. After all, the acquisition of power and money does tend to corrupt. That, plus the post-election crisis of the past year, and the ethical and ideological dilemmas that has created, combine to present the most serious challenge the organisation has ever faced.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jun/11/moral-crisis-iran-revolutionary-guar…
Iran gaat het verkopen van "inappropriate" kleding verbieden.
http://www.arabianbusiness.com/590249-iran-to-intensify-curbs-on-clothing-citing-islamic-values
Het ziet er in ieder geval naar uit dat Turkije en Iran een pact hebben gesloten. Dat, of er is een PR-strijd gaande over wie de meeste invloed heeft in de Islamitische wereld.
Ik denk het eerste D.G. ervan uitgaande dat Ahmadinejad enkele maanden geleden in Turkije was en sindsdien trekt Erdogan een steeds grotere mond open en heeft hij ook in het sprookje van de Uraniumwissel in Turkye verzeild geraakt, waar hij naar mijn mening genoeg weet heeft dat Iran nog volop bezig is met het delven naar Uranium.
van youtube geplukt via HVV. Geen idee wat er gezongen wordt.
In Teheran en andere Iraanse steden is een grote politiemacht op de been om onlusten te voorkomen. Het is vandaag een jaar geleden dat de Iraanse president Ahmadinejad werd herkozen.
http://nos.nl/artikel/163862-veel-politie-op-straat-in-teheran.html
Enkele honderden Iraniërs hebben zaterdag in Amsterdam geprotesteerd tegen de regering in Iran. De Iraanse jongerenorganisatie IPY organiseerde een fietstocht die op het Museumplein eindigde.
http://www.telegraaf.nl/binnenland/6935359/__Fietsend_protest_tegen_Iran__.html?sn=binnenland,buitenland
Liveblog, verslag van de gebeurtenissen die vandaag een jaar geleden begonnen.
http://www.dailyniteowl.com/wordpress/index.php/2010/06/12/liveblog-anniversary-of-irans-2009-election-june-12/
Harry van Bommel en Gretta Duijsenberg waren er zeker niet bij?
Wat is dit voor rare barbaarse gewoonte? Is dat ook islamitisch? Of meer een plaatselijk geintje?
http://eye-on-the-world.blogspot.com/2010/06/and-this-is-how-iran-treats-refugees.html
Afshin Ellian in Elsevier:
http://www.elsevier.nl/web/Opinie/Afshin-Ellian/268074/Het-islamitisch-regime-is-doodsbang-voor-het-volk.htm?forum=203407&showall=true#1092829
Zeker 91 mensen zijn zaterdag aangehouden in Iran, op de dag waarop tegenstanders van het bewind de naar hun mening frauduleus verlopen presidentsverkiezingen van een jaar geleden herdachten.
http://www.telegraaf.nl/buitenland/6939812/__Politie_arresteert_91_Iraniers__.html?sn=binnenland,buitenland
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