One of the dead was Ali Moussavi, the 43-year-old nephew of the opposition leader Mir Hussein Moussavi.
Unlike the other protesters, Moussavi appeared to have been killed by assassins in a gesture aimed at his uncle, according to Mohsen Makhmalbaf, an opposition figure based in Paris with close ties to the Moussavi family.
Moussavi was first run over by a sport utility vehicle outside his home, Makhmalbaf wrote on his website. Five men then emerged from the car, and one of them shot Moussavi. Government officials took the body late Sunday and warned the family not to hold a funeral, Makhmalbaf wrote.
IRNA (coup government’s propaganda machine), revealed some interesting information regarding the whereabouts of the body of Seyyed Ali Habibi-Mousavi. Body ...of Seyyed Ali Habibi-Mousavi, who was Mir Hossein Mousavi’s nephew and was shot and martyred in the “Bloody Aashura” by security forces, has been missing from the hospital since last night and his family have no information about this issue. IRNA claimed that the body is being kept with the other bodies of those who were killed yesterday for further investigations and autopsy to give clues to police to solve the case!!! In this report IRNA by acknowledging that the death of Mir Hossein Mousavi’s nephew was “suspicious” gives a different location on where he was shot than what Keyhan and JahanNews (the other two propaganda machines of the coup government) had announced earlier. Also IRNA goes on with coup government’s scenario to cover up this crime (as they did in case of Neda Agha-Soltan) and concludes that based on the family ties of the victim to Mir Hossein Mousavi and the made of the gun and bullet (!) and other evidences (!), this crime was committed by terrorist groups!!!!
The body of Seyyed Ali Habibi-Mousavi, nephew of Mir Hossein Mousavi who was shot and martyred by coup government’s agents in ...the events of “Bloody Aashura” yesterday, is missing!!! Seyyed Reza Habibi-Mousavi, brother of martyred Seyyed Ali, in an interview with ParlemanNews said that sadly the body of his brother was taken from the hospital and they cannot find it!!! He added that no one accepts the responsibility on where the body is and no one responds to them! He added that they cannot hold any funeral as long as the body is missing and as soon as the body is found they will announce the details of the funeral ceremony to the public.
ماه خون گواه آمد جوش اشک و آه آمد
رایت سیاه آمد کربلا مجسم شد
پای خون دل واکن دست موج پیدا کن
رو به سوی دریا کن ساحلی فراهم شد
IRANIAN OPPOSITION WEBSITE SAYS AT LEAST FOUR PROTESTERS KILLED I/C MIR Hussien Mousavi Nephew IN CLASHES AT NORTHWEST CITY OF TABRIZ, MANY WOUNDED
خانواده شهید بهشتی در پیامی به شهادت رسیدن خواهرزاده مهندس میرحسین موسوی در مراسم ظهر عاشورا را تسلیت گفتند
خانواده شهید بهشتی در پیامی به شهادت رسیدن خواهرزاده مهندس میرحسین موسوی در مراسم ظهر عاشورا را تسلیت گفتند.
به گزارش کلمه متن این پیام به شرح زیر است:
حضور محترم جناب آقای مهندس میر حسین موسوی
شهادت خواهرزاده حضرت عالی شادروان سید علی حبیبی موسوی خامنه را به شما و بازماندگان تبریک و تسلیت عرض نموده و از خداوند متعال برای ایشان علو درجات و برای خانواده صبر و بردباری مسئلت داریم.
خانواده شهید آیت الله دکتر بهشتی
Clashes in Iran capital spreading-oppositon website
26 Dec 2009 09:30:07 GMT
Source: Reuters
TEHRAN, Dec 26 (Reuters) - An Iranian opposition website said violent clashes between security forces and opposition supporters were spreading in the country's capital on Saturday.
"Well-equipped security forces are clashing violently with the backers of opposition in many parts of downtown Tehran," the Jaras website reported.
Iranian website says police attack news agency
26 Dec 2009 11:25:35 GMT
Source: Reuters
TEHRAN, Dec 26 (Reuters) - An Iranian opposition website said riot police attacked a news agency where opposition supporters have sought shelter during clashes in Tehran.
"The opposition supporters sought shelter inside the building of students' news agency ISNA to protect themselves from riot police who were using batons to disperse the crowd. Police attacked ISNA's building," the Jaras website said.
(Writing by Parisa Hafezi)
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Iran hardliners disrupt leading reformer's speech-website
26 Dec 2009 17:01:42 GMT
Source: Reuters
TEHRAN, Dec 26 (Reuters) - A group of Iranian hardliners disrupted a scheduled speech by moderate former president Mohammad Khatami on Saturday in a mosque in northern Tehran, a reformist website said.
"A few minutes ago over 50 hardliners used chains, batons and pepper spray to attack a venue ... where Khatami was giving a speech," parlemannews said. "The house of Iran's late leader Ruhollah Khomeini is located in the area." (Writing by Parisa Hafezi)
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IRANIAN OPPOSITION WEBSITE SAYS ANTI-GOVERNMENT PROTESTS WILL CONTINUE ON SUNDAY NIGHT IN VARIOUS TEHRAN SQUARES
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Iran website says four killed in Tehran protests
27 Dec 2009 12:01:01 GMT
Source: Reuters
* Opposition website says 4 people killed, no confirmation
* Says clashes erupt for second day during Shi'ite ritual
* Tension has mounted in Iran since dissident cleric's death
* Iranian news agency calls protesters "deceived hooligans"
(Adds Fars report, clashes elsewhere, photographer incident)
By Parisa Hafezi and Fredrik Dahl
TEHRAN, Dec 27 (Reuters) - Four people were killed in clashes between pro-reform protesters and security forces in Tehran on Sunday in a second day of violence during a Shi'ite Muslim religious mourning ritual, an opposition website said.
The casualties were the first reported killings in protests since the immediate aftermath of a disputed election in June in which the opposition says more than 70 people died.
The authorities have estimated the post-vote death toll at about half that number, including pro-government militiamen.
Sunday's violence underlined escalating tension in the Islamic Republic six months after the presidential poll plunged the oil producer into turmoil and exposed widening splits within the clerical and political establishment.
The Jaras website, in reports that could not immediately be independently verified, said police shot dead three pro-reform protesters in downtown Tehran. It later said another demonstrator was killed in clashes between opposition supporters and security forces in the capital, without giving details on how he died.
"Three people were killed and two others were wounded when police opened fire at protesters," it said.
The website later reported that police forces refused orders to shoot at protesters.
"Police forces are refusing their commanders' orders to shoot at demonstrators in central Tehran ... some of them try to shoot into air when pressured by their commanders,"Jaras said.
Shooting was also heard elsewhere in the city centre and security forces had fired tear gas to disperse opposition supporters, it said.
Tens of thousands of demonstrators had packed the streets of Tehran and clashes also erupted in Shiraz, Isfahan, Najafabad and Babol cities,Jaras said.
The semi-official Fars News Agency said supporters of opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi and pro-reform cleric Mehdi Karoubi "followed the call of the foreign media" and took to the streets -- reference to the government position that the unrest is being stoked by foreign governments opposed to the Islamic Republic.
It said the group of "deceived hooligans" damaged public and private property and "disrespected" the holy Shi'ite day of Ashura, without elaborating.
Foreign media have been banned from reporting directly from opposition demonstrations after the election.
Jaras said protesters set one police motorbike on fire. A plume of black smoke could be seen above the city centre as police blocked streets and clashes intensified.
A witness told Reuters there was a heavy presence of both security forces and opposition backers in central Tehran, a city of around 12 million people.
"Police prevented groups of protesters from joining each other," she said.
Other witnesses said thousands of pro-government Iranians were also gathering in central Tehran.
MOURNING FOR DISSIDENT CLERIC
Despite scores of arrests and security crackdowns, opposition protests have repeatedly flared since the June poll, which the opposition says was rigged to secure hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election.
Reformist websites reported clashes in Tehran also on Saturday, saying baton-wielding riot police fired tear gas and warning shots to disperse Mousavi supporters in various areas.
The authorities had warned the opposition against using the two-day Shi'ite Muslim Tasoua and Ashura festival on Dec. 26-27 to revive protests against the clerical establishment.
This year's Ashura on Sunday coincided with the traditional seventh day of mourning for leading dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, who died a week ago at the age of 87 in the holy Shi'ite city of Qom.
A spiritual patron of the movement for opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi, he was a fierce critic of the hardline clerical establishment.
Unrest that erupted after the June vote is the biggest in the Islamic state's 30-year history. Authorities deny opposition charges that voting was rigged.
It has complicated a long-running international dispute over its nuclear programme, which the West believes may have military ends, not just civilian purposes. World powers have set an end-of-year deadline for Iran to agree a U.N.-drafted deal to ship most of its low-enriched uranium abroad in exchange for fuel for a Tehran research reactor.
The turmoil has also set back tentative efforts towards a rapprochement between Iran and its longtime foe the United States instigated by U.S. President Barack Obama when he took office in January.
Ashura is one of the main Shi'ite holy days, when the faithful commemorate the slaying of the Prophet Mohammad's grandson Hussein in Kerbala in present-day Iraq in 680 AD.
State television showed live footage of big crowds taking part in the nationwide rituals but did not mention any clashes.
A Reuters photographer said police took his press accreditation on Sunday for taking pictures of Ashura mourning rituals outside Tehran.
"Police deleted all the pictures I had with any sign of green,"the photographer said, referring to the symbolic colour of the opposition movement. (Editing by Angus MacSwan)
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اعضای گروهک فشار در شب عاشورای حسینی با فریادهای حیدر حیدر , ابوالفضل علمدار خامنه ای نگهدار با منتس...ب کردن خود به ولایت فقیه از یک سو به بیت امام خمینی حمله کردند و تلاش کردند این حرکات ساختار شکنانه و اهانت امیز را به پیروان رهبر انقلاب منتسب کنند.درجریان حمله گروه فشار و لباس شخصی ها در شب عاشورا و در ماه محرم الحرام مردم بی گناه مورد ضرب و شتم قرار گرفته و با گاز اشک آور و شوک الکتریکی به مردم حمله شده است.برخی از شاهدان عینی گزارش دادند که سر چند نفر از عزاداران با مهر نمازخانه شکسته شد
لینک خبر
http://www.kaleme.org/1388/10/05/klm-6848
شنبه, ۵م دی, ۱۳۸۸
اموی ها مراسم عزاداری ابا عبدالله را بر هم زدند
اعضای گروهک فشار در شب عاشورای حسینی با فریادهای حیدر حیدر , ابوالفضل علمدار خامنه ای نگهدار با منتسب کردن خود به ولایت فقیه از یک سو به بیت امام خمینی حمله کردند و تلاش کردند این حرکات ساختار شکنانه و اهانت امیز را به پیروان رهبر انقلاب منتسب کنند.درجریان حمله گروه فشار و لباس شخصی ها در شب عاشورا و در ماه محرم الحرام مردم بی گناه مورد ضرب و شتم قرار گرفته و با گاز اشک آور و شوک الکتریکی به مردم حمله شده است.برخی از شاهدان عینی گزارش دادند که سر چند نفر از عزاداران با مهر نمازخانه شکسته شد.
کلمه: در شب عاشورای حسینی بیش از پنجاه نفر از اعضای گروهک یزیدی فشار به عزاداران حسینی که در جماران و در جوار بیت امام راحل مشغول به عزاداری بودند حمله کردند.
عصر امروز با هجوم شماری از نیروهای تندرو به مراسم عزاداری شب عاشورای حسینی در حسینیه جماران، سخنرانی خاتمی ناتمام ماند و مراسم دچار تشنج شد.
یک منبع نزدیک به خاتمی به آینده گفت: مراسم با اقامه نماز جماعت به امامت سید یاسر خمینی نوه امام (ره) آغاز شد و با قرائت زیارت عاشورا و شعرخوانی و مرثیه سرایی ادامه یافت و در ادامه خاتمی سخنانش را آغاز کرد.اما در میانه سخنرانی خاتمی شماری از نیروهای لباس شخصی مجهز به چوب و چماق که تعداد آنان به حدود ۵۰ تن می رسید، با سردادن شعارهایی به مراسم عزاداری اباعبدالله الحسین (ع) حمله کرده و آن را بر هم زدند و باعث ایجاد رعب و وحشت به ویژه در میان زنان و کودکان شدند.
به گفته این منبع، این افراد بخش اعظم شیشه های حسینیه را شکستند. محافظان خاتمی نیز وی را به خارج از محل منتقل کردند و اکثر حاضران دیگر نیز متاثر از فضای به وجود آمده جماران را ترک کردند.
بنا براین گزارش، شماری از این فراد از ساعت ۱۶ در صفوف جلوی حسینیه مستقر شده بودند و قبل از آغاز سخنرانی هم درگیریهای لفظی میان این گروه با حاضران رخ داده بود که نهایتا دقایقی پس از آغاز سخنان خاتمی فضا به تشنج کشیده شد و بلندگوی خاتمی هم قطع شد.
البته سامانه اطلاع‌رسانی پیامک خبرگزاری باصداقت! ایرنا، مدعی شد مراسم حسینیه جماران به درگیری کشیده شد و خاتمی از حضور در آن خودداری نمود!
بنابر این گزارش، پس از این درگیریها شماری از مردم که نتوانسته بودند داخل حسینیه شوند و جمعیت آنها به هزاران تن می رسید، از جماران به سمت خیابان شهید باهنر (نیاوران) حرکت کرده و شعارهایی سردادند که برخی از آنها تند بوده است.
با نزدیک شدن معترضین به خیابان یاسر، پلیس ضدشورش وارد عمل شد و با شلیک گاز اشک آور جمعیت را متفرق کرد.
«پارلمان‌نیوز» هم گزارش داد در حالیکه سید محمد خاتمی در حسینیه جماران , بیت امام خمینی (ره)در حال سخنرانی بود و جمعیت زیادی در این حسینیه حاضر بودند اعضای گروهک فشار در شب عاشورای حسینی با فریادهای حیدر حیدر , ابوالفضل علمدار خامنه ای نگهدار با منتسب کردن خود به ولایت فقیه از یک سو به بیت امام خمینی حمله کردند و دیگر سو تلاش کردند این حرکات ساختار شکنانه و اهانت امیز را به پیروان رهبر انقلاب منتسب کنند.
انها با ایجاد رعب و وحشت در میان مردم موجب نیمه تمام ماندن سخنرانی رئیس جمهورسابق کشورمان شدند .
گفتنی است این حرکت گروهک فشار در شب عاشورا حسینی شباهت کاملی با اخلاق و منش یزیدیان داشت که با ادعای دفاع از اسلام و ولایت به مردم بی سلاح , عزادار و با تقوا حمله کردند.
همچنین سایت های خبری دیگر به نقل از شاهدان عینی حاضر در این مراسم گزارش دادند که تعدادی از مخالفان آقای خاتمی پیش از آغاز مراسم در حسینیه جماران، حضور پیدا کرده بودند و به ویژه در بخش ویژه آقایان حسینیه، حضور داشتند.
به گفته این شاهدان عینی، با شروع سخنرانی آقای خاتمی، حامیان دولت که در حسینیه جماران حاضر بودند، با شعارهای “مرگ بر ضد ولایت فقیه” سعی در اخلال در سخنرانی آقای خاتمی داشتند.
همزمان حامیان آقای خاتمی حاضر در حسینیه، با شعارهای “صل علی محمد، یار خمینی آمد” از آقای خاتمی استقبال کردند.
به گفته این شاهدان عینی با شروع سخنرانی آقای خاتمی، جو حسینیه مدام متنشج تر شد تا آنجا که حدود پانزده دقیقه بعد از آغاز سخنرانی، محافظان آقای خاتمی در میانه حرف هایش او را از سالن خارج کردند.
به گزارش کلمه شنیده شد درجریان حمله گروه فشار و لباس شخصی ها در شب عاشورا و در ماه محرم الحرام مردم بی گناه مورد ضرب و شتم قرار گرفته و با گاز اشک آور و شوک الکتریکی به مردم حمله شده است.برخی از شاهدان عینی گزارش دادند که سر چند نفر از عزاداران با مهر نمازخانه شکسته شد.
گفته می شود آخرین جمله خاتمی پیش از قطع سخنرانی این بود که «قیام امام حسین(ع) به این خاطر بود که جانش را در راه آزادی بدهد و با کسانی مقابله کرد که می خواستند به اسم دین بر جامعه حکومت کنند و آزادی مردم را بگیرند»
خبرنگار کلمه گرارش داد سید محمد خاتمی در شب عاشورا و در جماران در جوار بیت امام (ره) گفت:تا روزی که زورمندان کم خرد، که دارای غرور و توهم هستند، و قدرت خود را در محرومیت و تحقیر انسان میدانند، و از سیاست جز سرکوب ، دخالت ،تحمیل ، تحقیر و تطمیع چیزی نمیدانند، باید جشن پیروزی کلمه بر شمشیر را به تأخیر انداخت اما حرکت خرامان و شکوهمند تاریخ بشری به سوی آزادی و آزادگی است.
خاتمی تاکید کرد:طبق بینش اسلامی، قهرمان اصلی صحنه تاریخ خود انسان است، پیامبران خدا هم آمده اند تا فقط به انسان آگاهی بدهند و اراده او را تقویت کنند تا در سایه آگاهی و اراده راه آزادی و راه آزادگی را بپیماید.
وی ادامه داد: پیامبران نیامده اند مردم را مجبور کنند که مسیر عدالت و آزادی را طی بکنند. فاعل قیام خود مردم هستند.
کلمه فایل سخنرانی سید محمد خاتمی در شب عاشورا را تا ساعتی دیگر در اختیار مخاطبین خود قرار می دهد.
با قطع سخنرانی خاتمی، درگیری در خیابان های اطراف حسینیه جماران از جمله خیابان های باهنر (نیاوران)، یاسر و جماران گسترده تر شده و به گفته شاهدان عینی، پلیس و نیروهای نظامی برای متفرق کردن معترضان از گاز اشک آور و باتوم استفاده کرده اند. معترضان نیز با سر دادن شعار و زدن بوق های ممتد، اعتراض خود را نشان داده اند.
همچنین مراسم شب عاشورا در دارالزهرای تهران نیز با محاصره این محل توسط بیش از دوهزار نیروی لباس شخصی که با اتوبوس به محل آورده شده بودند، برگزار شد.
به گزارش نوروز، لباس شخصی ها با هجوم به اتومبیل حجت الاسلام هادی غفاری که به همراه همسرش قصد شرکت در مراسم عزاداری امام حسین(ع) را داشت شیشه های آن را شکستند و ضمن ضرب و جرح وی، با آجر به سر همسر او کوبیدند و او را مجروح ساختند.
این عده که به قصد درگیری آمده بودند برای متفرق کردن زنانی که مشغول خواندن زیارت عاشورا بودند، گاز اشک آور پرتاب کردند.
لباس شخصی های مهاجم که تعدادی از آنها در بوستان نزدیک محل و نیز دانشگاه شهید بهشتی مستقر شده بودند، تا ساعت ده شب به محاصرۀ محل و جلوگیری از ورود مردم به دارالزهرا ادامه دادند و پس از آن بطور سازمان یافته محل را ترک کردند.
عده ای از لباس شخصی ها چندین بار قصد بالا رفتن از دیوار و ورود به محل دارالزهرا را داشتند که با ممانعت عده ای دیگر از خودشان که این اقدام را مغایر دستورالعمل! می دانستند از این کار صرف نظر کردند.
حجت الاسلام محتشمی پور که بنیانگذار و متولی دارالزهراست نیز هدف تهاجم نیروهای لباس شخصی بود که با هشیاری مانع از عملی شدن نقشه لباس شخصی ها شد.
دارالزهرا پس از انتخابات اخیر ریاست جمهوری محل برگزاری دعای کمیل اعضاء جنبش سبز بود که با دستگیری حسین نورانی نژاد، هماهنگ کنندۀ این برنامه ها و نیز مهدی اقبال که خواننده دعای کمیل بود، مدتی از فعالیتش کاسته شد تا آمادۀ اجرای برنامه های عزاداری در ماه محرم شود.
Baghdad - Four people were killed Sunday morning by a bomb blast targeting a Shiite procession marking the Ashura day of mourning, police sources said. The bomb went off in the town of Tuz Khurmatu, some 175 kilometres north of Baghdad. At least 18 people were injured in the blast.
Sunday marks the climax of Ashura, marking a 7th century battle and the death of Hussein ibn Ali, the grandson of Muhammed, Islam's prophet. The day is observed by Shiite Muslims around the world.
There were also other, smaller explosions in tense areas of Iraq, but no fatalities.
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Iran website says Mousavi nephew killed in clashes
27 Dec 2009 14:52:42 GMT
Source: Reuters
* Opposition website says 4 killed, police deny
* Clashes erupt for second day during Shi'ite ritual
* Tension has mounted in Iran since dissident cleric's death
* Iranian news agency calls protesters "deceived hooligans"
(Adds report Mousavi nephew killed, Khamenei aide comment)
By Parisa Hafezi and Fredrik Dahl
TEHRAN, Dec 27 (Reuters) - A reformist website said a nephew of Iranian opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi was killed in clashes between protesters and security forces in Tehran on Sunday.
Earlier, the opposition Jaras website said four people had been killed in a second day of violence in Tehran during a Shi'ite Muslim religious festival. Tehran's police chief denied that report.
The Parlemannews website said Ali Mousavi, 20, was killed in clashes on Sunday and his body had been taken to a hospital.
Jaras said unrest also spread to other parts of Iran, including the holy city of Qom, in reports that could not be independently verified.
The events underlined escalating tension in the Islamic Republic six months after a disputed presidential poll plunged the oil producer into turmoil and exposed widening splits within the clerical and political establishment.
Jaras said police shot dead three protesters in central Tehran. It later said a fourth demonstrator was also killed in clashes in the capital, without giving details.
"Three people were killed and two others were wounded when police opened fire at protesters," the website said.
Any such violent incidents could provoke further opposition protests.
"We will kill those who killed our brothers," Jaras quoted demonstrators as chanting.
These were the first reported killings in street protests since widespread unrest and violence in the immediate aftermath of the June poll in which the opposition says more than 70 people died.
The authorities have estimated the post-vote death toll at about half that number, including pro-government militiamen.
Tehran police chief Azizollah Rajabzadeh, speaking about Sunday's protests, said: "So far there have been no reports of killings and no one has been killed up to now," according to the ISNA news agency. He said some arrests had been made.
Tens of thousands of demonstrators had packed the streets of Tehran and clashes also erupted in the cities of Shiraz, Isfahan, Najafabad, Mashhad and Babol, Jaras said.
It said 20 people were detained in Qom and Mashhad and that protests would continue in Tehran on Sunday evening. Shots were heard in northern Tehran after nightfall.
English-language state television reported sporadic clashes in Tehran and said a bank and bus stop were set ablaze, showing pictures of protesters and fires with thick smoke. It said police had fired into the air to disperse demonstrators.
"DECEIVED HOOLIGANS"
The official IRNA news agency said two women and a child were hurt when rioters threw stones at people marking Ashura. It is one of the main Shi'ite holy days when the faithful commemorate the slaying of the Prophet Mohammad's grandson Hussein in Kerbala in present-day Iraq in 680 AD.
The semi-official Fars News Agency said supporters of opposition leader Mousavi "followed the call of the foreign media" and took to the streets -- a reference to the government position that the unrest is being stoked by foreign enemies of the Islamic Republic.
It said the group of "deceived hooligans" damaged public and private property and "disrespected" the holy Shi'ite day of Ashura, without elaborating.
Foreign media have been banned from reporting directly from opposition demonstrations since the June election.
Despite scores of arrests and security crackdowns, opposition protests have flared repeatedly since the June poll, which the opposition says was rigged to secure hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election.
Reformist websites said there had also been clashes in Tehran on Saturday, with baton-wielding riot police firing tear gas and warning shots to disperse Mousavi supporters.
The authorities had warned the opposition against using the two-day Shi'ite Muslim Tasoua and Ashura festival on Dec. 26-27 to revive protests against the clerical establishment.
"The Iranian nation has shown tolerance so far but they should know that the ... system's patience has a limit," Mojtaba Zolnour, a representative of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the Revolutionary Guards, said, Fars reported.
This year's Ashura on Sunday coincided with the traditional seventh day of mourning for leading dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, who died a week ago at the age of 87 in the holy Shi'ite city of Qom.
A spiritual patron of the movement of opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi, he was a fierce critic of the hardline clerical establishment.
The unrest that erupted after the June vote is the biggest in the Islamic state's 30-year history. Authorities deny opposition charges that voting was rigged.
The turmoil has complicated the international dispute over Iran's nuclear programme, which the West believes may have military ends, not just civilian purposes. World powers have set an end-of-year deadline for Iran to agree a U.N.-drafted deal to ship most of its low-enriched uranium abroad in exchange for fuel for a Tehran research reactor.
It has also set back tentative U.S. moves towards a rapprochement with Iran initiated by U.S. President Barack Obama when he took office in January. (Editing by Angus MacSwan)
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Following the events of “Bloody Aashura” yesterday, new wave of arrests started: According to Javan Farda news website; Mohammad Taheri, son of Ayatollah Taheri former Imam of Isfahan and former representative of supreme leader in Isfahan who resigned from his post in protest, was also arrested. He is the spouse of one... of Imam Khomeini`s granddaughters. This happens while few days ago when Ayatollah Taheri was going to hold a memorial ceremony for the late Grand Ayatollah Montazeri, security forces prohibited the ceremony and shut down the mosque where it was going to be held and dispersed people by intimidation.
Following the events of “Bloody Aashura” yesterday, new wave of arrests started: According to ParlemanNews, some of Mir Hossein Mousavi’s senior and close advisors were among those who were arrested. Forouzandeh (Mousavi’s office manager), Bagheriyan (Mousavi’s senior advisor), Behzadiyan-Nejad (Mousavi’s campaign mana...ger) and Alireza Beheshti-Shirazi (Mousavi’s top advisor, former chief editor of Kaleme newspaper which was Mousavi’s official newspaper but was shut down by the coup government and the son of martyred Ayatollah Beheshti) were among those who were reported that were arrested.
Following the events of “Bloody Aashura” yesterday, new wave of arrests started: According to ParlemanNews, another member of the Mojahedin of Islamic Revolution Organisation (reformist) was arrested last night. Coup agents also attempted to arrest Mohsen Armin, the spokesperson of the Mojahedin of Islamic Revolution O...rganisation, but since he was not home at the time they could not arrest him last night.
Following the events of “Bloody Aashura” yesterday, new wave of arrests started...: According to Jaras news website, Haleh Sahabi, political activist and daughter of Ezatollah Sahabi a senior member of Freedom Movement (reformist), was also arrested this morning. Since Monday morning nearly 10 political activists have been arrested so far.
Mehdi Arab-Shahi, Secretary General of the Council of the Unity Consolidation Bureau (Tahkim-Vahdat, the main Reformist Student Alumni Organisation), was arrested during the “Bloody Aashura” events yesterday. The security forces identified him and then arrested him in central Tehran.
Following the events of “Bloody Aashura” yesterday, new wave of arrests started: According to Jaras, quoting from a news agency affiliated with the coup government; Seyyed Hossein Mousavi-Tabrizi, head of the Assembly of Scholars and Teachers of Qom Seminary School, along with some other members of this reformist assembly were arrested.
Mohammad Moein, son of Mostafa Moein the Science Minister of Khatami’s administration, was arrested during the events yesterday. According to ParlemanNews he was beaten hard and taken to an unknown location.
Following the events of “Bloddy Aashura” yesterday, new wave of arrests started: According to ParlemanNews, the general manager and the deputy manager of “Baaran” organization were arrested last night and the documents were confiscated. Seyyed Mohammad Khatami, along with some of his ministers and advisors, founded the “Baaran” Organization after his presidency.
New wave of arrests of journalists and political figures started:According to ParlemanNews Emad-edin Baghi, journalist and human rights activist, as well as Ibrahim Yazdi, Secretary General of the Freedom Movement of Iran (reformist party) were arrested early this morning.
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Iran opposition leaders face execution-Khamenei aide
29 Dec 2009 18:30:57 GMT
Source: Reuters
* Opposition leaders are "enemies of God" - cleric
* Tens of thousands of pro-government supporters rally
* At least 20 opposition figures arrested since Sunday
* Nobel laureate Ebadi says sister's arrest "illegal"
(Recasts with Khamenei representative, Ebadi)
By Parisa Hafezi and Reza Derakhshi
TEHRAN, Dec 29 (Reuters) - A representative of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Tuesday opposition leaders were "enemies of God" who should be executed under the country's sharia law.
The statement by cleric Abbas Vaez-Tabasi coincided with rallies by tens of thousands of government supporters calling for opposition leaders to be punished for fomenting unrest after June's disputed presidential election, state media said.
, said on state television.
"Those who are behind the current sedition in the country ... are mohareb (enemies of God) and the law is very clear about punishment of a mohareb," the representative of Khamenei, who possesses ultimate authority in Iran
Under Iran's Islamic sharia law the sentence for "mohareb" is execution.
Vaez-Tabasi's remarks came two days after eight people were killed in anti-government protests sparked by the June poll which was won by hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Political turmoil has entered a new phase in Iran marked by bloody face-offs and arrests, with security forces calling on authorities to deal "firmly" with opposition leaders.
The establishment intensified a crackdown on the reform movement on Sunday by rounding up leading moderates to try to end street protests after the deadly weekend clashes erupted during the Shi'ite Muslim religious ritual of Ashura.
At least 20 opposition figures have been arrested since Sunday, including three senior advisers to opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi, his brother-in-law and a sister of Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi, opposition websites said.
Ebadi said on French radio France Info that Iranian authorities were trying to silence her by arresting her sister.
"This arrest is illegal because my sister is a dentist, she is not in any way active in human rights or politics ... and she didn't participate in any protests," Ebadi said.
She said intelligence officials entered her sister's house on Monday night to arrest her without a warrant, rifled through her belongings and confiscated computers.
PRO-GOVERNMENT RALLIES ON STATE TV
On Tuesday, state TV showed footage of huge pro-government rallies in various cities, with demonstrators carrying pictures of the late founder of the Islamic Revolution, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
The crowed chanted:
"The blood in our veins is a gift to our leader Khamenei" and "Death to hypocrites".
The elite Revolutionary Guards accused the foreign media of joining hands with the opposition to harm the Islamic state. The British ambassador to Tehran was summoned by the Iranian government to be accused of "interference" in state matters.
"If Britain does not stop talking nonsense it will get a slap in the mouth," Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said. The British government said their envoy would respond "robustly" to any criticism.
"Trying to overthrow the system will reach nowhere ... designers of the unrest will soon pay the cost of their insolence," the Revolutionary Guards said in a statement. "The opposition, which has joined hands with the foreign media, is backed by foreign enemies."
The wife of another opposition leader, Mehdi Karoubi, who was fourth in the June vote, said the establishment "was responsible for the safety of her family", the opposition Jaras website said. "My family and I do not enjoy any security against the rogue forces' nightly attacks," said Fatemeh Karoubi.
WAR OF WORDS
Jaras reported that hardliners attacked offices of moderate cleric Grand Ayatollah Yusef Sanei in various cities.
In a heated war of words, the reformist Islamic Iran's Participation Front said in a statement:
"The only way out of the current crisis is for the authorities to respect the law and apologise to the nation."
Jaras said fresh clashes took place at a Tehran university and also in the central city of Shiraz between students and security forces. The reports could not be independently verified because of restrictions on foreign media covering protests.
Iranian authorities say eight people were killed in clashes on Sunday when supporters of Mousavi used the Ashura religious festival to stage fresh anti-government rallies.
Authorities blame what they call foreign-backed "terrorist groups" for the killings, including the death of Mousavi's nephew Ali Habibi Mousavi Khamene.
Parliament speaker Ali Larijani urged the judiciary to arrest those behind the anti-government rally on Sunday.
"Identify them, arrest them and firmly punish those who insulted religion," Larijani said, according to state television, calling on opposition leaders to refrain from igniting tension.
When the June 12 presidential election returned Ahmadinejad to power by a wide margin, thousands of Iranians took to the streets in the biggest anti-government demonstrations in the 30-year history of the Islamic Republic. Authorities reject opposition accusations of vote fraud. (Editing by Charles Dick)
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Hossein Shariatmadari, representative of supreme leader in Keyhan newspaper (coup government propaganda machine), in an article attacked the Green leaders in an unprecedented way (even compared to his standards) and compared them to some of the most notorious figures of Shia history and called them an alley of “Zionist...s”. In an appalling act, Shariatmadari also accused Mir Hossein Mousavi of planning the assassination of his own nephew (Seyyed Ali Mousavi, Mir Hossein Mousavi’s nephew, was shot and martyred on Aashura by coup government’s thugs). He also goes on by saying that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the supreme leader is not alone (!) and the “faithful people” wont rest until they destroy what he called “the infidels” (pointing to the Green leaders).
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“Worse than infidels”
After Khomeini’s June 25 speech in which he said the Mojahedin was
“worse than infidels,” he set the stage for outright suppression of the
PMOI. His decree gave a green light not only to the Revolutionary
Guards and club-wielders, but also to the judiciary and the religious
judges across Iran.
Responding to a letter of complaint by Mojahedin supporters in August
1980, when the organization still engaged in public activities, Mullah
Allameh, head of the revolutionary court in Bam, in southern Iran,
wrote:
“According to the decree of Imam Khomeini, the Mojahedin of Iran
are infidels and worse than blasphemers... They have no right to life.”
This type of “punishment en masse” for the followers of a party or a
political organization with mass following across the nation can only
be described as genocidal. A decade later, Mohammad Yazdi, then-head of
the regime’s judiciary, referred to Khomeini’s order to massacre the
Mojahedin and their supporters, issued months before it became public,
as follows;
The Imam’s hand-written judicial order condemned the [Mojahedin] - the
totality of the organization and its infrastructure, and not
individuals - so that there would be no hesitation in terming the
activities by these individuals as waging war on God and corruption on
Earth [and carrying out their execution orders}
In summer 1988, Khomeini issued a fatwa to physically annihilate the
Mojahedin. Some 30,000 political prisoners were massacred in a spate of
several months. The full text of the fatwa was made public years later
by his deposed successor Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri. This fatwa
did not attract as much attention as the one issued a few months later
against British author Salman Rushdie. It is, nonetheless, an important
historical document, for it shows, before all else, that, Islamic
fundamentalism in power has ultimately no recourse other than to
physically eliminate its opponents. This is one of the many
characteristics which transforms Islamic fundamentalism to fascism
under the cloak of religion (compare with the Nazis’ “final solution”
and the concentration camps). The text of Khomeini’s fatwa was as
follows:
As the treacherous Monafeqin [Mojahedin] do not believe in Islam and
what they say is out of deception and hypocrisy, and as their leaders
have confessed that they have become renegades, and as they are waging
war on God….. and as they are tied to the World Arrogance [the United
States], it is decreed that those who are in prison throughout the
country and who remain steadfast in their support for the Monafeqin,
are waging war on God and are condemned to execution. It is naïve to
show mercy to those who wage war on God. The decisive ways in which
Islam treats the enemies of God is among the unquestionable tenets of
the Islamic regime… Those who are making decisions must not hesitate
nor should they show any doubt or be concerned with details. They must
try to be most ferocious against infidels… To have doubts about the
judicial matters of revolutionary Islam is to ignore the pure blood of
martyrs
Following the fatwa, then-Chief Justice Abdolkarim Moussavi Ardebili
asked Khomeini, through his son, Ahmad, whether the decree also applied
to those who had already been tried who had received limited jail terms.
Khomeini’s response was chilling:
If the person at any stage or at any time maintains his [or her]
support for the Monafeqin, the sentence is execution. Annihilate the
enemies of Islam immediately. Use whichever criterion that speeds up
the implementation of the [execution] verdict.
In an article in February 2001, entitled, “Khomeini fatwa 'led to killing of 30,000 in Iran'” the Sunday Telegraph wrote:
Children as young as 13 were hanged from cranes, six at a time, in a
barbaric two-month purge of Iran's prisons on the direct orders of
Ayatollah Khomeini, according to a new book by his former deputy. More
than 30,000 political prisoners were executed in the 1988 massacre.
Gruesome details are contained in the memoirs of Grand Ayatollah
Hossein-Ali Montazeri, one of the founders of the Islamic regime. The
most damning of the letters and documents published in the book is
Khomeini's fatwa decree calling for all Mojahedin (as opponents of the
Iranian regime are known) to be killed.
The article added:
Mr. Kamal Afkhami Ardakani, a former official at Evin Prison, said in
testimonies to human rights rapporteurs of the United Nations:
“They
would line up prisoners in a 14-by-five-metre hall in the central
office building and then ask simply one question, 'What is your
political affiliation?' Those who said the Mojahedin would be hanged
from cranes in position in the car park behind the building.”He went on
to describe how, every half an hour from 7.30am to 5pm, 33 people were
lifted on three forklift trucks to six cranes, each of which had five
or six ropes. He said: "The process went on and on without
interruption." In two weeks, 8,000 people were hanged. Similar carnage
took place across the country.Many of those in the ruling council at
the time of the 1988 massacre are still in power, including President
Mohammed Khatami, who was the Director of Ideological and Cultural
Affairs.
The clerical regime’s campaign of physical annihilation of dissidents
has led, in the past two decades, to the execution of more than 120,000
members and supporters of the PMOI. The names and particulars of some
20,000 of them have been published
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According to Jaras news website, last night Basij thugs with the support of security forces attacked the house of Grand Ayatollah Saanei in Mashhad (north-east of Iran) and beat the mourning people who were gathered there to commemorate the anniversary of martyrdom of Imam Hossein. The thugs entered the house while yel...ling and screaming and broke the windows. They severely beat the people and arrested some. This is while people were only mourning for Imam Hossein and there were no political slogans chanted by mourners.
Plain clothes militia have surrounded the hall for Grand Ayatollah Dastgheb’s speech in Shiraz (central Iran) According to the report by Jaras: Following the message of Grand Ayatollah Dastgheyb and his warning against illegal actions and beating and bashing of people by the coup government’s agents in the recent days,... today Tuesday several plain clothes militia and basij forces surrounded and put on blockade Ghoba Mosque where Grand Ayatollah Dastgheyb is giving a speech. Based on this report, the opposition supporters and the supporters of Grand Ayatollah Dastgheyb are not permitted to get close to Ghoba Mosque and yesterday and today many people of Shiraz have been arrested by oppressive basij forces. Meanwhile since yesterday, every so often several bikers manoeuvre around Shiraz University and the streets around the university are clearly occupied by plain clothes militia and basij. These events are happening as a consequence of Grand Ayatollah Dastgheyb’s bold and humane positions against the recent actions of the government in beating and bashing the mourners of Imam Hossein and killing many on the holy day of Ashura commemoration. Currently Ghoba Mosque and the alleys around it are in the blockade of the plain clothes militia and Basij.
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Opposition denies Iran media reports leaders had fled
30 Dec 2009 18:51:20 GMT
Source: Reuters
(Adds opposition denial)
TEHRAN, Dec 30 (Reuters) - Iran's state news agency IRNA said on Wednesday that two leaders of "sedition" in the country have fled to a northern Iranian province, but the opposition said its leaders were still in the capital.
"Two of those who played a major role in igniting tension in Iran following the (June presidential) vote, fled Tehran and went to a northern province because they were scared of people, who demanded their punishment," IRNA reported.
IRNA did not name the two leaders.
Hossein Karoubi, the son of moderate defeated presidential candidate Mehdi Karoubi, said his father and opposition leader Mirhossein Mousavi were still in Tehran.
"My father and Mr. Mousavi are in Tehran and IRNA's report is baseless. They are still pursuing the people's demands," Hossein Karoubi told moderate Parlemannews.
(Tehran newsroom, +98 21 8820 8770)
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