Deputy Guidance Minsiter Booed and Jeered

The footage shows Iman Khoshkhoo, Iran's deputy Guidance Minister in charge of artistic affairs, trying to make a speech during the funeral of Iranian musician, Parviz Meshkatian, who passed away a few days ago. Every time the minister tries to utter a word, the crowd either fast clap their hands or jeer him. Even the personal pleas by the man in charge of the ceremony who is asking the crowd to be silent and listen to the minister is not having an effect.

For the people of Iran anyone who is associated with the coup administration is an enemy of the nation.

The Importance of Confidence in Bringing Change

I was at a conference last Thursday, it was organised by Henry Jackson Society and Legatum Institute but with so much to do in the last few days, I just haven't had time to write about it. There were lots of speakers and many panels. Larry Haas, former communications director and advisor to vice president Al Gore impressed me. When I heard he was an advisor to Al Gore, I thought he would have a wishy washy view of what the policy options regarding Ahmadienjad should be, he didn't offer a policy option as such, but Haas got my approval when he mentioned that every US administration has been under the impression that they know more about the regime in Iran than the previous administration and they will manage to create some kind of dialogue and understanding with them. Bit like how Roosevelt thought he could 'handle' Stalin and develop a personal relationship with him, I thought, a huge mistake which resulted in people of East Europe pay a heavy price for decades after.

The rest of the conference was just half baked policy options, with lots of ifs and buts coming from such speakers like Malcolm Rifkind. 'We will never get the Chinese and the Russians come along on this', 'This will hurt the people of Iran' , 'We will lose investment opportunities' and basically panel after panel showed why they can not decide on a concrete policy option towards the Iranian regime, even though the conference was summed up by saying 'the clock is ticking and something must be done before its too late'.

There was one nice suggestion from Dr. Emanuele Ottolenghi though, to name every street in European cities where there is an embassy of the Islamic Republic, after Neda.

I left the conference thinking, forget deciding a policy option, Western governments will discuss and discuss and have endless conferences and seminars and still not do anything. Every policy carries some risks and from what I have seen of these statesmen, they will carry on sitting on the fence forever.

So I came to the conclusion that we should stop wasting time discussing policy options. What matters more than anything to the people in a struggle against tyranny is confidence. If they feel confident that they can make a change nothing will stop them, and so every Iran related move the Western governments make should be tested against this bench mark, does it give the people of Iran confidence or does it take it away from them? What diplomatic rank from the embassy delegation you send to Ahmadinejad's endorsement ceremony may not seem that important to the UK government for example but to the Iranian people it is enormously symbolic and important.

If you re-name every street where IR embassies are to Neda Street, it won't need the Russian and Chinese to come on board and it won't hurt the Iranian people but it would be an enormous boost to the confidence of the Iranian people. In fact the regime in Iran does not hesitate to rename such streets after Bobby Sands and Khalid Islamboli.

Similarly today if they all leave when Ahmadinejad makes a speech at the UN, it will make the people of Iran confident that the world is with them.

Confidence that you can bring about change is the most important factor in a revolution or a democratic transition, it must not be underestimated.

The Start of the Sacred Defence Week

Today is the anniversary of the Iraqi invasion of Iran. The depletion of the mighty Iranian army and the purges and executions of some of Iran's finest officers after the 1979 revolution had led the brutal Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein to believe that Iran will finally be a soft target for him.
I remember the horror with which we received the news, the air attacks on the airport and the onslaught on Khorramshahr. What will happen if they strike at the refineries in Abadan? I thought with despair and anxiety. Yet the invasion consolidated the unity of Iranian people and epic after epic of courage and sacrifice ensured that Saddam's ambitions remained only a dream.

People of Khorramshahr fought and resisted the Ba'athist troops with tooth and nail for 34 days, day and night, non stop and in Abadan as the Iraqi troops came over their makeshift bridges they repelled them by fighting with everything they had and inflicted the first shock defeat against the Iraqi troops.
The war was unnecessarily prolonged however, Iran missed the opportunity of the best deal there was on the table by a broken Saddam Hussein, but the clerics were eager to establish an Islamic Republic in Iraq and many more lives were lost and the war ended without any compensation for Iran.

All Iran's future generations will be in debt for the valour and patriotism of those who fell in this sacred defence and this week and we will rightly remember them alongside Iran's latest martyrs for freedom of Iran.

Watching Saddam's stooge, George Galloway on Islamic Republic funded Press TV this week however will be like putting salt on our wounds. To think this lackey of Saddam is earning his wages with Iranian people's money is beyond belief.

Ardeshir Ommani and Comprador Bourgeoisie

First time I ever heard the term 'Comprador Bourgeoisie' was thirty years ago during the 1979 revolution and since I left Iran for the last time, I have never come across it again until I read this piece of trash in Alarabiya.net by one of the Islamic regime's arch apologists, Ardeshir Ommani.

It took me a while to understand what Comprador Bourgeoisie meant back in 1979. It was finally explained to me by a Marxist class mate to mean the bourgeoisie class that was dependant on the imperialists as opposed to the national bourgeoisie which could be regarded as patriotic and nationalist. He also reiterated that National Bourgeoisie in Iran was dead because of the policies of the Pahlavi dynasty. That was the official Marxist line by most of Iran's Marxists except the Chinese backed Ranjbaran (Toilers) Party for some reason.

Comprador bourgeoisie was the worst enemy of the Marxists, worse than the evil bourgeoisie. A true Marxist couldn't utter the phrase without spitting on the floor after saying it. Within seconds I came up with a Persian equivalent for comprador bourgeoisie and asked my Marxist class mate again if that was a correct translation? To which he nodded uneasily and condescendingly giving the impression that it was somehow classier to say the original term which the plebs did not understand.

This was a marked distinction between the way Khomeini spoke and the way the Iranian Left spoke. Ayatollah Khomeini spoke bad Persian with bad grammar and overused the word 'nonetheless' in his badly constructed sentences but he spoke in a way ordinary Iranians understood.

'We say to you, Mr. General, we want you to be a master and not a servant, not the servant of the Americans, why do you want to be a servant?' is how Ayatollah Khomeini addressed the Iranian military officers when he made his first public speech after his return from exile. It was simple language but the message was understood by all. Yet the Left spoke in a condescending way with lots of borrowed and imported Marxist terminology which left the ordinary Iranians not having a clue what they were talking about and even irritated them by their intellectual snobbery. The Iranian Left was so immersed in reading Marx and Lenin, they had forgotten to read books about Iran or better still find out about the Iranian society itself and its limitations. It was mandatory for the Iranian Left to read the voluminous history of USSR's Communist Party which left them no time to read History of Iran's Constitutional Revolution. Had they done so they would have been better informed about the treacheries of the Iranian clergy and Russia and how they had kept Iran's society back from progress and modernity.

So when I saw the title of Ardeshir Ommani's crap article, 'Iran's Comprador Bourgeoisie: Down with Russia! Down with China!' it reminded me of those turbulent days and how the Iranian Marxists thought they knew better.

So what is it that has troubled this so called anti-imperialist activist? He is having sleepless nights because people in Iran are chanting 'Down with Russia' and 'Down with China', Islamic Republic's super power backers.

How dare do they? asks Ardeshir Ommani, for Russia and China have been the friends of the oppressed forever in Ommani's warped world. Those shouting such slogans must be the wretched Comprador Bourgeoisie! :)))

Although true to his nature, Ommani closes his eyes to the realities and tries to calm himself by referring to such 'comprador bourgeoisie' chants as a 'brief episode', but in fact this is not a brief episode at all, the ordinary plebs that Ommani despises so much, have understood and felt with their flesh and bones that Russia has been and is our historic enemy.

Ever since Peter the Great made a wish about Russia reaching the warm waters of the Persian Gulf and the Tsars backed the corrupt and incompetent Qajar dynasty and took away vast chunks of Iran to the time the Russians stood in the way of Iran's Constitutional revolution and bombed the new parliament building, to the time when they invaded North Iran, to the time when they tried to annex Iran's Azerbijan through their puppet Pishewari, to the time when they ordered their puppet Tudeh Party to demand Iran's oil in the north to belong to the Soviets and right until today when the Kremlin masters are backing Ahamdinejad and denying Iran's rightful share of the Caspian Sea, Russia has been the backer of despots and puppets in Iran as it has been all over the world.

Ommani should know better, had he not buried his head in the sand, that the chants of 'Down with Russia' is not a 'brief episode' it is chanted across Iran by all the people constantly these days. Of course the 'anti-war' activist hero never marches in the streets when Russia destroys Chechnya and its people, or when Russia invaded Hungary, Czechoslovakia and Afghanistan, this 'anti-war' activist has been very selective for the last 40 years when it comes to war and which war he should be anti.

Finally where does this anti-imperialist and 'anti-war' activist live? Does he live in Iran? No, there is no danger of him going back to Iran, in fact he travels there frequently but he decided to leave Iran in 1980. Does he live in his beloved Russia? No. China? Still No, our anti-imperialist stooge of the Iranian regime lives in New York, America :)))

Compilation of Qods Day Protests that Became Iran Day

Look at the sea of Green protesters holding pictures of Iran's post 'election' martyrs.
The green placards they are holding say 'Today is Iran Day' and 'Down with Russia' for Kremlin's backing of Ahmadinejad.

At 1:13 on the video people have surrounded an official float which is chanting official government slogans but the response from the people is entirely different and no one is chanting back the official slogans.

As the Baseej speakers chant 'Death to America' and 'Death to Israel' the people chant 'Down with Russia' . The Baseej then shouts 'Death to anti-Supreme Leader' and the crowds chant 'Death to the Dictator'.

At 2:16 the placard held by the Green movement supporter says 'The Oil Money is Missing, It has been spent on Palestine'. Then there are constant chants in support of the courageous Karroubi.

More chants of 'Down with Russia' at 3:09. At 4:26 as many people as possible hold the long green ribbon to say where their allegiance lies and chant 'Not Gaza, Not Lebanon - I Die Only for Iran' followed by chants in support of Moussavi.

4:43 with the courageous Karroubi in the middle of the crowd, people chant 'If Karroubi is Arrested, there will be mayhem in Iran'.

5:00 people chant in support of the Grand Ayatollahs Montazeri and Saneii who have stood up to the illegitimate coup administration.

5:13 Outside the state broadcasting, people chant 'State Broadcasting is a Disgrace'

5:48 More chants of 'Not Gaza, Not Lebanon - I Die Only for Iran' followed by more chants of 'Down with Russia'.

7:20 People show their disdain for the riot guards that can be seen by calling them 'Without Honour'.

7:37 'Coup Administration - Resign Resign'

7:58 More booing at the riot guards on motor bikes and chants of 'Honourless'. There is more here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/millionoillim#play/all/uploads-all/2/cu2nPK5m7pc

Ben Hur at O2

Just came back from watching a magnificent performance of Ben Hur at O2 with a breath taking live chariot race at the end. Wish I could spend more quality time like this with the family but I hope when my boys grow up, they will realise why I had to give up so much of my time with them. My biggest fear has always been that one day they would read about the dark days in Iran and ask me 'Dad in those terrible days that Iran was going through, what did you do?' and for me to say 'Nothing'. So hopefully they would then appreciate if I said I did what I could and they will be proud of their heritage and their roots.

The Day the Greens Encircled the Riot Guards

18th September, 2009, official Islamic Republic day for liberation of Jerusalem, the day the liberation of Jerusalem became the liberation of Iran. Look at the riot guards encircled by the people, they don't look so tough now do they?

Chants of Moussavi, Moussavi in the Metro

Message of Solidarity to the People of Iran by Mubarak Awad

My Dear People of Iran,

For the past thirty years, the Iranian regime has used the cause of the Palestinian people as a way to distract from its own oppressive rule. I thank the people of Iran for showing their support over the years with the people of Palestine, especially because on this day of Qods, the people of Iran suffer under the kind of unelected oppression that is comparable in some ways to that suffered by Palestinians.

As a Palestinian, life-long fighter for the freedom and independence of Palestine and a leader of the first Palestinian intifada, I strongly condemn the Iranian regime’s violations of human rights and repeated use of violence against the nonviolent Iranian protesters, activists and prisoners. I stand in complete solidarity with and support for the Iranian people and am confident that with their resilience, they will achieve a free and democratic Iran to raise their children in and have a good life.

In unity,
Mubarak Awad

Sohrab's Mother in Today's Protests

Sohrab's mother, holding a picture of her murderd son, chanting Down with the Dictator, in today's protests:

Mothers of Iran, soon you will have your day and the murderers of your children will be on trial.

Iran Protests Today

Today, for the first time in the last three decades, the official Al-Qods day turned into protests against the regime.

The Courageous Karroubi amongst the protesters today who are chanting in his support:

Tehran:

chants in support of Moussavi and Karroubi

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbDUo9JdJVk&feature=player_embedded

chants in support of Montazeri and Saneii, dissident Grand Ayatollahs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDg5rkWTtC0&feature=player_embedded

Hafez Street: Tanks Rape and Baseej Have no Effect Any more

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pns9OEFycCA&feature=player_embedded

Dictator Dictator, This is our last warning, Iran's Green Movement is Ready for an Uprising

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XycnnxNku8&feature=player_embedded

what Alireza Rownaghi of Aljazeera called a small crowd

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v37X2TOUpYs&feature=player_embedded

Stop Killing the People in Gaza or Iran

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oua5Y_49FVs&feature=player_embedded

Ahmadinejad supporters surrounded by Greens in Karimkhan, they chant Death to Israel and Greens reply 'Death to Russia'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H3MUD6Y-6E&feature=player_embedded

Isfahan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3eFi_sCKfLk&feature=player_embedded

Liar Liar Where is Your 63%?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUT_n6LYIXM&feature=player_embedded

A common theme amongst most of the protests today:

'Not Gaza, Not Lebanon - I Die Only for Iran'

For Our Bravehearts Tomorrow

Another decisive day tomorrow for the freedom of Iran. The clip below is for all the bravehearts who will once again defy the coup administration and risk their lives to bring about freedom for Iran

Hail the Brave Karroubi

Two brave Iranian youths writing 'Hail the Brave Karroubi' on the wall in broad day light.

War Veteran Father of a Martyr Gets Slapped by Revolutionary Guard Commander

The civilian man who is taking on the Revolutionary Guard commander is a war veteran. He is categorised as 40% sufferer of injuries he received in defending Iran against Saddam's invading troops. The war veteran's son has been killed and he blames the Guard commander in uniform, General Araghi, head of the Rasool-Allah brigade,who was also recently made the Revolutionary Guards commander in charge of the Greater Tehran.

'Why should I stay silent? if your child was killed, would you remain silent?' the war veteran asks General Araghi, sitting next to the cleric, possibly ayatollah Movahedi Kermani(?),in the mosque. To which General Araghi replies condescendingly 'Go and complain to whoever you like, see if it gets you any where'
and the war veteran tells him 'At the end of the day there is a God and there is a prophet' and this too much for the guard commander to take, so he leaps towards the war veteran. Watch to the end to see the type of people who get promoted and are running the show in Iran today

Protest in Support of Moussavi in Qom Last Night

This footage is from last night in Qom, one of the holiest nights in the Shiite calendar in the holiest city in Iran and amidst intense security measures. People have gathered in front of dissident Grand Ayatollah Sanei's office after his strong speech against the coup junta and are chanting in support of Mir Hussein Moussavi:

The Alqods March This Year

The annual Al-qods march is a publicity stunt by the Islamic Republic to rally support and credibility for the regime by exploiting the Palestine issue. It takes place across European cities on the last Sunday of Ramadan. In the last few years, Iranian expat supporters of the pro-democracy movement in Iran have staged counter demos with a clear message, 'A regime which represses its own people will not bring liberation for any other people including the Palestinians'.

The Alqods march however provokes other groups to stage their own counter protests too for their own reasons. Until last week's clashes at Birmingham and Harrow, I had not heard of the English Defence League. This year they too staged their counter demo to the Alqods march along with March for England and United British Alliance members amongst very heavy police presence which made sure the march went without incident and with no arrests. Much to the disappointment of the massive press presence I have to say, who were only interested in giving coverage to the EDL. Some even told me without any hesitation that they were hoping for violence to kick off, 'You have to bleed to lead', one of the reporters who said he was working freelance told me and another one told me 'if there is no juicy violence today, I won't get paid'.

Number of people who took part in the Alqods march this year was about a third of those who took part last year. Police estimated them to be between 350-500 people. Most of the marchers were non-Iranians who were probably not even aware of the coup government's hand and agenda in organising the annual march.

The English Lefties and the likes of Yvonne Ridley who always try hard to endear themselves to the Islamic extremists were calling the EDL and March for England members Fascists which made me laugh. Here they were taking part in a march organised by an illegitimate Fascist junta which is backed by the military revolutionary guards that controls 70% of Iran's economy, a Fascist junta which kills, tortures and rapes detainees who are arrested after taking part in peaceful protests in Iran, discriminates against Iran's citizens based on gender and religion, a Fascist junta which is even openly backed by the German Nazi NPD and DVU and they have the audacity to call others Fascists!! Case of the pot calling the kettle black or 'African American' as the politically correct trendies would prefer to say.

Amongst the UK Leftist speakers this year were Socialist Workers Party's John Rees, presumably eager to get yet another donation from unsavoury sources for his services.

Press TV Forum on Torture

I just got home and while channel hopping tuned into Press TV. It was Andrew Gilligan's Forum, which tonight debated torture. The guests included the London Director of Human Rights Watch, Tom Porteous and the executive director of Repreive, Clare Algar.

How absurd, actually how disgusting! It is the anniversary of the massacre of Iranian political prisoners in 1988 and the Television station where the program is aired from, is funded by a junta which is holding show trials and forced confessions on its state TV. Gilligan is presenting a program debating torture on a TV which is funded by a regime that gang rapes male and female detainees who have taken part in peaceful protests and the likes of Andrew Gilligan, Tom Porteous and Clare Algar not once mention any human rights abuse in the country where their paymasters are ruling with an iron fist.

Contact details for HRW London Office:

Address: 2nd Floor, 2-12 Pentonville Road
London N1 9HF, UK
Tel: +44-20-7713-1995 dial 1 and then 206 Mobile: 07983984982
Fax: +44-20-7713-1800
E-mail: hrwuk@hrw.org

Contact details for Clare Algar : clare.algar@reprieve.org.uk

Sermon of Death

"Confronting the system, confronting the tenets of the system, standing up to and drawing a sword against the system will get a harsh response."

To those who are familiar with the Supreme Leader's words, there is only one interpretation of the above statements. If you dare to use next Friday's annual pro-Palestinian protests in Tehran to oppose the coup, he will let loose his army of thugs and hoodlums once again to commit more murders and more rapes and more suffering on the people of Iran.

The Iranian government backed AlQods march is always on the last Friday of Ramadan in Iran but throughout Europe it is held on the last Sunday of Ramadan, which according to this lunar calendar will be this Sunday:
http://www.ihrc.org.uk/events/9048-the-annual-al-quds-day-demonstration-2009-in-support-of-palestine

Very few Iranians take part in this annual event throughout European cities and those who do usually have ties with the Islamic Republic. Most of the participants are non-Iranians who wrongly perceive the despot Supreme Leader as a champion of Palestine as well as a few self hating rich Socialist Workers Party members who want to endear themselves to the Islamists.

The guest speakers at Trafalgar Square are also usually the likes of Ridley and Galloway and few other suspect characters who want to trumpet up their own fame and fortune.

Anyone who takes part in the above march this Sunday in London, should know they will not be helping the cause of the Palestinian people but taking part in a propaganda stunt by the Supreme Leader. When the despot Supreme Leader treats his own people with such savagery, he will not bring liberation for any other people either.

Eternal Shame on Supporters of Ahmadinejad and the Supreme Leader

Another disturbing account of a raped detainee in Iran:

Raped and beaten for daring to question President Ahmadinejad’s election

The Spiritual Awakening of Chavez in Mashad

For some reason Hugo Chavez was taken to Mashad to sign the latest agreements between the Islamic Republic and Venezuela and as part of his 'grab what you can from Iran' tour, he was taken into Shiite Islam's eighth Imam's holy shrine. To justify Chavez's presence inside the holy shrine, Ahmad Sobhani, the Director of the Latin America department in Iran's Foreign Ministry made the following statements:
'Mr. Chavez has time and time again declared he is a Christian monotheist [I thought Christians believed in the trinity] - he has always declared he is a believer and of the opinion that Jesus Christ along with Imam Mahdi will one day come to save the world, fill the earth with justice and both lead the world.'

Sobhani added 'When Mr. Chavez entered the shrine, he was overcome by a great holy experience' :))))

Perhaps Lindsey German of the Socialist Workers Party should be taken to the holy shrine next, I am sure the 'Monotheist Trotskist' will also be overcome with a spiritual experience when she receives her next pay check.

The Islamist Stalinists

They say history repeats itself and we come across this time and time again. Each repeat is similar but it has its own flavour to it. I am amazed at all the similarities between the 1979 revolution in Iran and the Bolshevik coup in Russia in 1917. In both cases power was hijacked by an idealist group of people who viewed their ideology as so great, so righteous and so above all else that any atrocity was justifiable for the sake of the 'ideology'. The ideologies between the 1979 revolution in Iran and the Bolshevik coup in 1917 are not the same of course, yet the patterns of behaviour are cast from the same die.

In the same way that it happened in the Soviet Union, the thirst for power turned the original founders against each other, criminal characters who had not even been part of the revolution, squeezed themselves to the top and in the name of the ideology started eliminating the very people who had formulated and fought for these ideals. Trotsky, Rykov, Bukharin, Kamenev, Zinoviev were the equivalents of today's Montazeri, Nabavi, Nouri, Hajjarian and now with the news of yesterday's arrests at Karroubi's office, even Ayatollah Beheshti's son. Some may say why are you so surprised with the arrest of Beheshti's son, they even killed Ayatollah Khomeini's son, Ahmad and none of Ayatollah Khomeini's children are siding with the new elite, but despite the hearsay nothing is proven for certain that Ahmad was murdered and none of Khomeini's children are incarcerated, even Hossein Khomeini was under house arrest and not officially in prison.

Ayatollah Beheshti was a pillar of the revolution, there is a university named after him, streets are named after him, he is mentioned all the time as the martyr of the revolution by the terror of the counter-revolutionaries, I seriously thought they would never dare arrest Baheshti's son, Alireza but they did yesterday.

The similarities with Stalin's takeover of power and reign of terror does not stop with just the show trials and assault on the founders of the revolution and former comrades however. The role of 'useful idiots' outside the country and the state propaganda against the opposition exiles is also bizarrely similar.

When the Polish government in exile called for investigations into the Katyn massacre of Polish officers, Stalin's propaganda machine accused the Polish government in exile of colluding with the Fascists against the Soviet government and workers and peasants. In the same way, Ahmadinejad's propaganda machine has accused the opposition of acting in the 'foreign led scenario' when they have called for an investigation into the terrible abuses against the post-election detainees.

For the useful idiots in the West, the 'interests' of the workers and peasants in the heroic Soviet Union was so above all else that any atrocity was justifiable and calls for such investigations was tantamount to siding with the capitalists and imperialists. Iran's useful idiots in the West also dare not push for such investigations against Human Rights abuses. As an SWP member in a meeting in SOAS told me 'For us what is paramount is not human rights abuses in Iran, its the anti-imperialist struggle'.

In the 1940s, Joseph Davies, a wealthy lawyer from Wisconsin, and a personal friend of President Roosevelt, was the equivalent of today's wealthy Flynt Leverett, Haleh Afshar and Soraya Sepahpour-Ulrich type characters. Davies wrote a book about his experiences as ambassador, Mission to Moscow, which was later made into a Hollywood film in 1943. In the film, Stalin was portrayed as the father-figure for the Soviet Union and Stalin's human rights abuses were glossed over as necessary for the security of the state [how familiar does that sound?]. It took a decade for people in the West to see it as a crass pro-Soviet propaganda but it was sadly hugely influential at the time it was shown in the cinemas and Joseph Davies was a hero of the Western Communists who had told the 'truth' about what was really going on in the Soviet Union.

Another similarity is the appeasement of dictators by Western leaders. Aware of the terrible human tragedies, Western leaders usually see only their short term interests and decide to appease the likes of Stalin. In 1943, the British government swiftly tried to stifle the protests of the Polish government. Churchil even wrote to Stalin and promised to 'silence' the Polish papers about the Katyn massacres.

When the Iranian political prisoners were massacred in August/September 1988, Western leaders either remained silent or like the Tory Douglas Hague called it a 'necessity'.

There are tons of similarities but there is one major difference. The soviet propaganda machine at the time of Stalin was no way near as huge and sophisticated as Ahmadinejad's propaganda machine is now, nor was it so well funded.

In Sympathy with Bereaved Mothers in Iran

What a busy week it was last week for UK based supporters of the pro-democracy movement in Iran. Apart from the regular protests on Thursdays and Sundays outside the Islamic Republic Embassy in Kensington, there were also protests on Thursday eve outside the Islamic Centre of England - Supreme Leader's representative office in Maida Vale, protest outside the Syrian embassy on Friday, solidarity performances in Trafalgar Square and also letting up of hundreds of green balloons in Parliament Square in sympathy with the bereaved mothers of Iran who have either lost their children in the post election protests or their children are suffering intolerable tortures right now in Iran's many official and unofficial prisons.

See:

Dictators in Middle East, Let Our People Live in Peace

Supporters of the pro-democracy movement in Iran staged a two hour demo on Friday, outside the Syrian Embassy in Belgrave Square, London. They were protesting against Bashar Assad's recent visit to Iran, where he was warmly received by Ahamdienjad's junta. Bashar Assad however went further to endear himself to his Iranian backers by stating that the recent protests in Iran were directed by 'foreign powers'.

Protesters held placards written in Arabic and in English and placed pictures of the martyrs around the barricades.

Some of the slogans that were chanted on the day:

Dictators in Middle East - Let Our People Live in Peace

Down with Dictators - In Syria and Iran

Freedom and Peace - for the Middle East

Syrian People, We Love You

Syrian Regime, We Hate You

Bashar Assad, Shame on You

Murder No, Torture No, Bashar Assad Time You Go

Just before the protest started, a nervous Syrian Embassy official approached the police and said 'we were not expecting them today!' No one from the Syrian embassy opened the door at the end of the protest either when protesters asked an embassy official to receive their protest letter which explained why they were protesting.

Although Arab media gave coverage to the protest, See: [http://www.aaramnews.com/website/64783NewsArticle.html] once again I was dismayed by our Persian language media. VOA Persian reporter who was supposed to cover the protest rang and said she couldn't find the place and asked if one of the protesters could take her to Belgrave Square. When she did finally arrive, there was no cameraman with her. 'My camera man couldn't get a permit' she said. She ended up standing at a distance and just watching!

What on Earth is He on About?

The speaker is Rahim Mashaei, whose daughter is married to Ahmadinejad's son. He also occupies a series of important official posts from Ahmadienjad's Chief of Staff to various positions in important decision making bodies. May be its because I am not into esoteric mystic stuff, can someone please tell me what the hell this man is on about?



Below is the translation of his speech.The contradictions and incompatible assertions should not be blamed on the translation:

‘Humanity is reaching a high plateau but everything is becoming condensed. What does this mean? It means it is not possible for this trend to continue, it means a revolution is needed; it means an explosion is required, it wants an explosion. A huge and deep crack has to take place. This is not negative, this is positive, it is like sending arrows where you yourself will move faster than the arrows, if I am faster than my bullets then firing bullets doesn’t make sense, I am faster than the bullet myself, you yourself will be faster than your messages. It sounds strange; the language on the surface seems satire, no? But its real. I am not joking with you, it is very important. We are moving towards a huge explosion. In this explosion there is no bomb or such thing, I am not talking about politics, the human race is moving towards a massive explosion. To summarise, we are shelling our skins. I did not tell you any Hadith or read any Koran verses to say that I am performing an ideological sermon. No, the human race is shelling its skin, a huge change is taking shape, I cannot say that I know one day a huge change is about to come and say that he hidden Imam will come, the Human race has passed two units in science and 27 units are left, what is this occurrence? But that is merely the necessity of the bright life, it is the requirement of vastness, the post emergence world of the Hidden Imam is a very, very huge world, but what is interesting is that this very huge world, at the same time as being so vast and enormous, has also a very fast speed, in other words with two units of science, which is not certain at the moment that it is two units by the way, its two units to the emergence, with just two units we have gathered up this velocity, your velocity is increasing however, and if 27 further units is added, then just imagine what your velocity would become then’

another part of his weird speech, in the same meeting, while the chairperson himself looks uneasy and bemused:



‘the era of Islamism has come to an end. We did a revolution in 1979 to export the Islamic revolution. But I tell you here, the era of Islamism is finished. It does not mean that Islamism does not exist, no its era has ended, like the era of horse riding has ended but horses do still exist, the era of driving automobiles is ending too but there are still cars, what the era of Islamism is ending means, don’t misinterpret this, it means the trend of development in the world is heading towards, the end is Islam there is no doubt in it, but the trend of events is not that the human race has to become Muslim to reach the truth, this era is towards its end, it is not finished it is reaching its end, the human race’s understanding has heightened, its speed has increased, and it finds truths that it no longer requires him to reach it through the process of Islam, it is reaching a fundamental essence, and in that fundamental essence it understands, that in that vast structure, you remember the new world order? The new global world order? How often did you hear it? How often do you hear it now? Does anyone even talk about the new world order? No seriously, do you hear about it? what happened? It was talking about the next future years about the new world order. Now all have forgotten the new world order. Why? Because the change is happening so fast that it cannot even be understood what is happening. I was reading an article, in Information Technology, the prediction of the vanguards of IT in their analysis of the future is that the future world is an extremely religious world, where as they were saying hundreds of other things before. The world, we are not meant to go through this path any longer, that Christian, Jewish, Zoroastrian, Hinduism, Buddhism, I don’t know Brahmanism, have to first become Muslims and then go. Question was asked when the Hidden Imam emerges, what will he do with all these people, there aren’t that many Shiites, no one even refers to the Hidden Imam, he thought this chain of process has to be followed, but it is not like that, the Human race is getting to this point, that order itself is now changing, the very meaning of order is no longer describable’

Iranians in London will Never Abandon You

We Deserve Better than This

Islamic Republic 'representative' to the parliament doing what he is probably best at doing. Watch the member of Islamic Consultative Assembly (parliament)sitting behind the speaker having a good dig up his hooter and then after a careful examination coupled with sheer admiration rubbing it all over his face, beard and eyebrows. George Galloway and the self hating rich kids at Socialist Workers Party may watch this and conclude that this is truly a working class assembly :)



On a serious note however, who can doubt that we Iranians deserve better than this lot?

This is What They Do with a War Veteran's Only Daughter

Saeedeh Pour Aghayee, was the only daughter of war veteran hero, Abbas Pour Aghayee. She was dragged down by the Baseej thugs from her roof top while she was chanting 'God is Great' and 'Down with the Dictator'.

After twenty days of not knowing where Saeedeh was taken to, her mother was called to identify Saeedeh's body amongst many that were kept in the make shift freezers used in South Tehran. But the authorities refused to hand over her body and so she is now buried in section 302 of Tehran's main cemetery amongst other unknown victims of the post election fraud protests.

Just like Taraneh Moussavi, it seems Saeedeh was also viciously gang raped by her captors. Her body was burned from knees up to her chest to cover up the hideous crimes that were committed against her.

A meagre mourning ceremony was held for Saeedeh by her bereaved mother and close family members, but it was also attended by Mir Hussein Moussavi.

Saeedeh's father, Abbas, was a victim of the chemical attacks on Iran by Saddam's forces. His injuries prevented him from running around and playing with his only daughter. All he could do was watch and admire her growing up and tell her about his memories of the courage and the sacrifices of those who protected Iran from falling into Saddam's henchmen. He died two years ago from his debilitating injuries that had made him a shadow of his former self. Perhaps it is best that he did not live to see what these murderers did with his only beloved daughter.

The tragic news of this war veteran's daughter was also reported on Iran's Parliament News site. The title said, 'Tonight Everyone Wept'.

A war veteran's daughter is murderered in this way, yet Saddam's former stooge, George Galloway gets his wages paid by these criminals.

40th Day Commemoration of Kianoosh Assa

People in Kermanshah commemorate the 40th day martyrdom of Iranian student Kianoosh Assa, gunned down in the post election fraud protests.



For everyone of us you gun down, thousands more will rise, you can chop down the trees but don't you realise you can not kill the Forrest.

Protests Today Outside Mosques in Tehran

Footage of today's protests

The chants:

'Unity Will Win, Coup d'etat will be defeated'
'coup government, Resign, Resign'
'The blood that is in our veins is a gift for our nation' as opposed to the official chant of 'The blood that is in our veins is a gift for our leader'

and chants in support of Moussavi.

Football Crowds Chant for Moussavi

This footage was taken yesterday during a football match between Persepolis and Saba at Azadi stadium. The regime has deployed what it calls Baseej Leaders on the terraces to control the crowds. Interestingly they are identified by labels on their back which read 'Lider'. Yet this footage shows crowds chanting for Moussavi as they go towards the terraces through the tunnels.

Beaten Nabavi Before his Show Trial

The picture below was taken by a photographer sometime during Behzad Nabavi's 60 days captivity before he appeared in the mass show trial, see picture on the left.

As far as I know the picture below is not published anywhere yet. It was passed on to me by a friend.

It is clear from the picture below that Nabavi has suffered a physical beating, the cut above his forehead and his left black eye show a glimpse of what he has had to endure.

No marks or bruises are visible on Nabavi's face in the official published pictures of the show trial. Whether the photographs are touched up before they are published or Nabavi's wounds have healed up, I can not tell. The picture below however is yet another damning evidence of how the defendants are forced to make the confessions for the court. It is also reported to me that in the middle of the show trial, Nabavi stood up and shouted 'Enough of this farce, end this show here and now' and he was quickly forced to sit down by the security agents in the court.

The Audacity of this Little Dictator

Mahmood Ahmadinejad, the head of the coup government in Iran, spoke at the Friday Prayers sermon today before the main Friday Prayer Leader, the newly appointed Ayatollah Kazem Sedighi began his sermon.

After weeks of denial that any human rights abuses had taken place in the post-presidential elections fraud, Mahmood Ahmadienjad blamed the atrocities of the attack on Terhan university and the horrors of the Kahrizak detention centre on the pre-written scenario of the 'enemies'!

'...during these incidents a group of people were hurt and the events turned very bitter, some attacked the university dormitory and did some ugly things. In the detention centres some immoral things took place. I want to say here and now that what happened in the detentions and in the university was the enactment of the enemy's scenario. These things happened by those who want to overthrow the regime. We have clear evidence and documents that prove the esteem of our revolutionary, security and law enforcement forces is unblemished from these shameful actions. Our beloved Baseej members sacrificed themselves to be beaten up but they were still careful people's rights and properties were not harmed. Our Baseej were beaten up but they did not raise a sound. Be certain all these crimes were carried out by the enemy's infiltrators'

Look at the way the cleric sitting next to Ahmadinejad is looking at him; even he can't believe the audacity of this little dictator.

Popular Iranian Singer Morteza Joined Protesters

Popular Iranian singer, Morteza, joined the protesters outside the Iranian embassy in London yesterday:

Zahra Bani-Yaghoub's Mother Urges Victims to Speak Out

Zahra Bani-Yaghoub was not a victim of the post election fraud protests. She died in suspicious circumstances while in custody shortly after she had graduated. Yet she too is a victim of Baseej's savagery, lawlessness and unaccountability. See: http://azarmehr.blogspot.com/2009/02/your-daughter-is-not-fit-to-be-doctor.html

Parvin Nabi, Zahra Bani-Yaghoub's mother met with a group of Mourning Mothers and told them 'Her throat was cut and her legs and thighs were black and blue. I think she died while resisting them. May God never forgive her killers. I will see the day when my daughter's killers are punished. If my daughter's murder was properly investigated then and her killers were brought to justice then, all these officials would not have dared to torture and kill Iran's children today'.

Parvin Nabi has been wearing black every single day since her daughter's murder, she advised the families of post election fraud protests 'Families, especially fathers be supportive of your children, mothers be patient listeners for them, the support of mothers and fathers will hearten the children who have suffered these atrocities, it will bring them out of their depression. Keep praying, it always calms me'

Parvin Nabi continued about her daughter's case, 'The Baseej official told my husband, your daughter was walking with one of the hoodlums in the park. I say so where is the hoodlum? why did you release him and arrest my daughter? they said your daughter was not fit to be a doctor, who is the Baseej to decide who is fit to be a doctor or otherwise? They were so illiterate that if you read their report you would laugh at their spelling mistakes. Imagine if a top graduate medical doctor like my daughter got in the hands of these illiterate thugs and resisted them, what they would do? of course they can not tolerate the likes of her'

'Our youth are dear to us whatever has happened to them. They should hold their heads high and say whatever they have suffered. If my Zahra was alive she would have disgraced a lot of them. The youth should speak out and not fear, they can save those who are in prison now from being tortured and those who will be arrested and tortured in the future.' Parvin Nabi urged the victims.

Massoud Bastani in Yesterday's Show Trial

I wrote about the young Iranian journalist, Massoud Bastani, three years ago. At the time he was sentenced to 74 lashes and imprisonment. Bastani then refused to ask for a pardon and was imprisoned amongst ordinary criminals in Arak.

"Even though living in prison is difficult, but I am not willing to ask for a pardon, for a sin that I have not committed. Freedom is sweet, but its price is more important" was Bastani's reply to the offer of a pardon.

When the mass arrests in the post election fraud in Iran began, security agents went looking for Bastani in his house. He was not in and instead the intelligence ministry agents took his pregnant wife, Mahsa Amirabadi. Bastani contacted the prisons and asked about the whereabouts of his pregnant wife. He was told she was in Evin prison but if he gave himself up, his wife would be released. Bastani immediately obliged but his pregnant wife Mahsa was kept in prison and not released as promised. Until a few days ago Mahsa Amirabadi was still in prison. God only knows what pressures they put this couple under during their incarceration.

Yesterday amongst those shown on the show trial, a gaunt and scared looking Bastani appeared in his prison pyjamas. Amongst his confessions was that he had received $400 from an Iranian website in Canada to make a documentary about Iran's imprisoned bus drivers union leader, Mansour Ossanlou. At the end of his confession statement, Bastani asked for forgiveness.

Yet no amount of evidence of human rights abuse, rape and intimidation in Iran seems to be enough for Press TV's Roshan Muhammed Salih who made this statement about Ahmadinejad's government in the Guardian:
' I believe it is a fundamentally decent government run by a fundamentally decent man' - Roshan Muhammed Salih, Guardian -Comment is Free 14th July, 2009

Press TV's Roshan Salih should thank his good fortunes that he lives in a country where no one would arrest his pregnant wife for his 'journalism' and force him to ask for forgiveness in a show trial.

Courageous Karroubi Talking to the Victims

Courageous Karroubi talking to the victims and their accounts of Baseej savagery. The woman tells Karroubi, how the Baseej attacked people's houses and cars at night and prevented a young man from being taken to hospital. 'You are our only hope' She tells Karroubi

Pictures from the Fourth Session of Stalinist Trials in Iran

The evil looking Judge presiding over the show trials:














No one can believe the absurdity of the show, even the young policeman




















Ahmad Zeidabadi looks on. His wife claimed they had tortured him to the point of Zeidabadi losing his sanity














Look at Behzad Nabavi, former speaker of the parliament and Industry Minister in Moussavi's cabinet during the war with Iraq. It was hard to recognise him at first from this picture. In 1972, as a guerrilla fighter against the Shah, he was arrested and tried to commit suicide by taking a cyanide tablet. Could he even imagine at the time what laid ahead?

I Did not Want to Die in Bed

Dr. Mohammad Maleki has been a revolutionary for over sixty years. He started his revolutionary career in the final years of his high school working with the National Movement of Iranian Resistance in the oil nationalisation struggle during the fifties. He was first arrested by SAVAK in 1960 when he was a university student and one of the organisers of the protests against Richard Nixon's visit to Iran. During the 1979 revolution, he was the conduit between the revolutionaries inside Iran and outside Iran.

After the 1979 revolution, Maleki became the Dean of the Tehran university. A position which did not last long because of his opposition to the 'Cultural Revolution' . He was arrested in 1981 and spent 5 years in prison during some of the harshest post revolutionary years in Iran's prisons. He has been banned from leaving the country since his release in 1986 and not even been allowed to attend academic seminars and lectures related to his field. Dr. Maleki has been in and out of prison several times despite his age and bad health. I spoke to him once on the phone about 9 years ago, despite all his health problems, the old man sounded like a young lionheart, never tired of carrying on with the struggle for Iran's freedom. He finished our conversation by saying 'tell the world what is happening here, don't let us down'.

Now at the age of 76, suffering from prostate cancer, diabetes and heart problems, he was once again dragged out of his house, two days ago, in front of his family. His computer, books and writings were all confiscated. As they came to arrest him, Maleki still roaring like a lion said 'I am glad you came for me, I did not want to die in my bed'.

Head Full of Pellets

The intrepid seventy two year old Karroubi continues to spill the beans on the post election crimes that have taken place in Iran. Not only has he revealed the systematic rape in Iran's many secret detention centres, he has visited the families of victims and revealed many other human rights abuses by the messianic junta's thugs.

Here, Karroubi is visiting this young injured man in hospital. As the X-ray shows in the bottom picture, the young man's head is littered with pellets and fragments. Doctors have had to remove one eye from its socket already to get rid of the pellet fragments. They only have 10 percent chance of saving his other eye.

Iran's hardliners are calling for Karroubi's head, but the seventy two year old Iranian Lor is not backing down.

Anti Kremlin Posters on Russian Airlines and Consulate

Staff and visitors to Russian Consulate, Aeroflot and Rossyan airlines may be surprised tomorrow when they see various posters condemning Kremlin's support for Ahmadinejad's rapist thugs in Iran stuck on their office doors, windows and consulate notice board.

There will be another demo outside the Russian embassy in London on Fri 28th August, between 6-8 pm

Times: Iranian boy who defied Tehran hardliners

The heart wrenching testimony of a 15 year old boy in Iran. His only crime was he wore a green wrist band and joined the peaceful protesters. Eternal shame on the apologists and friends of this evil messianic junta.

Iranian boy who defied Tehran hardliners tells of prison rape ordeal

Lanky Henchman Greets Minikin Henchmen

Regional dictators greet each other enthusiastically with one goal in common, how to remain in power and control the masses through whatever means necessary.

Bashar knows when people in Iran are freed, his reign of terror will crumble and collapse next.

Outside the Supreme Leader's Office in London

Why is a man who is ordering the rape and murder of innocent citizens in Iran allowed to have an office in Maidavale, London?

Ahmadinejad's Proposed Cabinet

Having appointed his most inner circle of loyal cronies as his deputies and advisers, Ahmadienjad needed to quickly form a cabinet that would be approved by the Majles so he could get on with governing Iran. Yet as soon as he went on state TV last night, the capital erupted with defiant cries of "Death to the dictator!" and "God is Great!" from rooftops and windows. It was the same defiant chants in other major cities, Isfahan, Shiraz, Ahwaz, Abadan, and Kermanshah.

Parliament is not required to approve deputies and advisers but already one of his appointed advisers, his brother-in-law and chief of staff, Rahim Mashaei, has been convicted on charges of financial impropriety by the Supreme Audit Court and has been suspended from his government post for two months. Ahmadinejad's administration is trying to reverse the ruling, although the deadline for appealing against the conviction has passed.

Ahmadinejad's proposed defence minister is former Quds Force chief of the Revolutionary Guards, Ahmad Vahidi. He is wanted by the interpol. See: http://tinyurl.com/nn2hqo

Interestingly Ahmadienjad's police chief accused Arash Hejazi, the doctor who went to help Neda after she was shot, of being on Interpol's wanted list! A charge that was immediately denied by Interpol but was repeatedly broadcast on Press TV and is under OFCOM investigation for improper news broadcasting. Interesting to see if Press TV now mentions the fact that Ahmadinejad's proposed defence minister is actually on Interpol's wanted list or chooses to ignore this fact.

Perhaps the most amusing part of this cabinet proposal process however was when Ahmadinejad tried to introduce one of his female cabinet nominees on air. The screen showed the nominated female minister's veiled picture and details but instead of talking about her, Ahmadinejad remarked on his former health minister, Dr. Lankarani, in his own way. Ahmadinejad recalled while laughing and sounded like he was getting sexually excited that on one occasion Dr. Lankarani was described as a 'peach', 'he is so lovely one wants to eat this youngster', Ahmadienjad remarked on his former Health Minister!!
How much more 'presidential' can you get than this? :))




I just can't help being reminded of one of Hadi Khorsandi's stand up comedy lines 'We are a nation that started with Cyrus the Great and have ended up with Ahmadienjad' .
tofoo bar tow ey chakhe gardoon, tofoo!

Either Freedom or Death

Iranians chanting Either Freedom or Death in the sporadic protests on 17th August.
Also amongst the chants 'Independence, Freedom, an IRANIAN REPUBLIC'

Stalinist Show Trials in Iran Continue

Just one look at his face, the black rings under his eyes and his trembling voice tell of what he has had to go through before making these forced confessions. Half way through, he talks about how he was instructed by someone in London to take Cocktail Molotovs to the protests, except that he calls it Cocktail Molophone!



These medieval inquisition shows however, reveal the ugly brutal face of the regime more than anything else.

Protest Outside Russian Embassy in London

People in Iran are chanting 'Down with Russia' and 'Russia, the blood of our martyrs is dripping from your claws' throughout the protests.

In tune with the intense resentment towards Kremlin backers of Ahmadinejad by the people of Iran and rumours that Russian advisers in putting down velvet revolutions are helping Ahmadienjad's rapist junta, Iranian expats staged a demo outside the Russain embassy in London to protest against Russian backing for Ahamdinejad.

The following flyer was handed out to passers by, who mostly shared and approved the animosity towards Russia's consistent support for dictators all over the world.

'Russia Supports Ahamdienjad

Boycott Russian Goods

Hundreds have been killed in Iran; thousands have been imprisoned and injured. More prisoners are dying in Iran’s official and secret detention centres as a result of torture and ill treatment. Iranian people have been made to suffer all this repression so that a savage messianic junta can continue its despotic rule and crush the aspirations of the Iranian people for democracy and basic human rights.

Western democratic countries have condemned the ferocious violence, but Russia was the first to congratulate Ahmadienjad and recognise its illegitimate administration. Ahmadinejad’s first and only foreign trip, so far, after his coup d'état was to Russia to thank his Russian masters, Putin and Medvedev.

Russian advisers in how to put down velvet revolutions are said to be in Iran working closely and guiding the repressive forces of Ahmadinejad. Many of Iran’s interrogators have been trained by the Russians in the art of extracting false confessions from prisoners.

If the Russian support for Ahmadinejad’s messianic junta was not enough, hundreds more Iranians have been killed as a result of unsafe and below the standard Tupolev passenger planes that have been sold to the religious dictatorship in Iran by Russia.

People of Iran have continuously chanted against Russian support for Ahmadinejad in their post coup d'état protests. Today we stand in solidarity with our compatriots and condemn Putin and Medvedev’s support for Ahmadinejad and his cronies. We ask you to boycott Russian goods.

Russia has always supported despotic states.

Its time the world stands up to this despotic state. '

And lets not forget how Kremlin bosses treat their own people. How can any man inflict such unnecessary pain on a fellow human being? and look what cowards they are, covering their faces, because they are scared of being recognised.

Fath-ol-mobin, Codename for Rape Operations in Iran's Prisons

Following the courageous letter by Mehdi Karroubi, exposing the horrors of systematic rape of post-election detainees in Iran, there have been several calls by the 'representatives of God on earth' to put Karrubi on trial.

Babak Daad, is an Iranian journalist and blogger who is now on the run and in hiding. Here is what he says in his shocking interview about what is going on in Iran's prisons and how the lackeys of the coup d'etat are ordered to break down the youth of Iran.

'Its one thing hearing about a news and another thing when you see it first hand for yourself and
realise the full horror of what has taken place. You can hear about an accident on the news but unless you witness the accident close by you do not appreciate the reality of blood. The case of rapes in Iran's prisons for those who read or hear about is a news item, but I saw an 18 year old boy, whose father described him as a piece of flesh with no soul, his name is Mehdi and I hope soon the perpetrators who inflicted this crime on this young boy will be tried in an international court and of course those who ordered these crimes to be carried out should be tried too, those who gave the orders to uproot the spirit and the hopes of Iran's justice seeking young generation.

Mr Karroubi courageously investigated these reports and 15 days ago he wrote a letter about what was taking place and handed it to Hashemi Rafsanjani. He waited 10 days for Hashemi Rafsanjani to show some reaction, and as he had said if within 10 days there was no reply from Rafsanjani he would make it public. So both Mr. Karroubi and Rafsanjani have known about what was taking place for a while now.
.....
These reports are not few now and yet there are still more that are not coming out because of fear and the cultural stigma that these people face, yet the young people who have suffered these abuses, these victims should hold their heads up high and proudly consider themselves as the victims of the path of freedom for this country and those who have suffered this tragedy bear the same honour as the martyrs of this epic green movement.

What they were doing at Kahrizak, was they would choose the spirited detainees who were resisting them and by raping them they wanted to break them from pursuing justice and freedom, they wanted to break them so bad that these youngsters would become depressed and even hate themselves.

The code name for these rapes was Fath-ol-Mobin [Illuminating Conquest - also code name for an offensive against Iraq in 1982], look how far they are prepared go with staining the faith and the sanctities of our people and how they use religion as a tool for the repression of people in order to maintain their illegitimate hold on power... A young 18 year old boy purely because he took part in the peaceful silent march on 15th June and wore a green wrist band is attacked, arrested and suffers two weeks of ongoing sexual rape in Kahrizak and is then taken to another prison where he is allowed to slightly recover before he is handed back to his father, I am sorry I have to mention these things but its no longer appropriate to remain silent, he suffers severe rectal and colon laceration, his infection was so bad that they couldn't keep him any longer, this 18 year old was also forced to witness other detainees being raped, he could hear a law enforcement officer, [whom we can identify and hopefully one day bring him to trial] shout 'take these lot and make them pregnant, so they know whats what'

Tens of detainees have reported many Arab prison guards with Lebanese accents were amongst the rapists. And I am sorry to have to say this but I want the families to hear this so their resolve and not their fear increases, Mehdi in the first instance could not believe a stocky foul mouthed guard is getting ready to rape him, when they beat him and forced him naked, he pleaded with them 'for the sake of Imam Mehdi, I am the same name sake as our hidden Imam, please don't do this with me', the interrogator even insults Imam Mehdi as he holds down the trembling 18 year old Mehdi and tells the stocky guard, 'He had come to take back his vote, now give him his vote back so that he never forgets'

In two weeks, this teenager is raped 20 times, he suffers rectal and colon infection and after taking him to another prison for a week, what they give back to his father is a live corpse with a soul less look, he is released only under the condition that he must say he was treated well while he was detained and he has no right to complain. Now they say the allegations have to be proven. The very same people who completely rigged the election and ignored all the evidence presented to them expect people who have been raped to present their evidence to them, but I have picture and film evidence of one case and I am sure even this one case is enough to prove what has been going on with these detainees.



So there you have it, Ahmadinejad's lackeys rape Iran's detainees, boys and girls, to break their spirit. The evidence is now piling up from all directions. How will the European democracies ever justify recognising a regime that systematically rapes boys and girls arrested during peaceful demonstrations? Why are the European useful idiots not marching in the streets in the same way they did for Gunatanamo and Abu Ghoreib?

And what are the Galloways, Yvone Ridleys and the SWP oinks going to say now? That the rapists were justified becasue they were working class kids who were raping 'rich North Tehran kids'?

And I remember how Channel 4 gave air time to Ahmadinejad for an alternative Christmas message and how Channel 4 news presenter, Krishna, with a smile on his face told me 'but they are being quite restrained on people, I mean they are not firing on people.....' while Baroness Haleh Afshar approvingly nodded her head and smiled in their York studio and kept faith in the 'proper legal process' that she believed existed in Iran.

More Protests by Iranians in UK

Iranian ex-pats in UK show more initiative in staging protests. Here was a clever way of protesting at BBC Persian which has toned down considerably its Iran coverage.

Right when there was a live broadcast, green helium filled balloons with 'Where is My Vote?" written on them, were let up outside the studio window, in full view of the cameras. The presenter had to announce six times that the balloons and the flag seen suspended outside the window were nothing to do with the BBC.

It is rumoured that Ali Kordan, Ahmadinejad's former interior minister who had faked his Oxford PHD, was in UK in the beginning of July to negotiate the release of UK embassy staff in Tehran. Apparently what Kordan wanted in return was for the BBC Persian to tone down its coverage of protests in Iran.








And here are Iranian ex-pats outside the Supreme Leader's representative office in Maida Vale, lighting candles for post election protest martyrs, while a religious festival was being held inside the Islamic Centre of England.














Meanwhile nightly street protests in Iran continue:

Darius Guppy Another Aristocrat Fraudster Supporter for Ahmadinejad

Just got back to UK with a lot to tell and apparently with a lot to catch up with. While catching up with what has been happening in UK, first thing that made me laugh was the most ridiculous article I have yet read in support of Ahamdienjad and the 'fair elections' in Iran printed in the Independent by the Eton/Oxford educated aristocrat turned fraudster, Darius Guppy.

I have to say it does not surprise me when someone like Darius Guppy defends Ahmadinejad and the thuggish elite in Iran. There seems to be a fascination and obsession by the over privileged and aristocratic ilk like Baroness Afshar, Babak Emamian and Darius Guppy in defending the 'anti-imperialist' Islamic regime or the 'working class' Ahmadinejad cabinet. I have come across too many of these la-de-da bourgeois oinks who pretend to be some pro-proletariat revolutionaries concerned about the poor just in the SWP and Stop the War meetings alone, not to be surprised by coming across more of them any more, but normally they are sophisticated article writers who know how to talk the Leftist talk and bamboozle the useful idiots with the sort of things they like to read or hear. Guppy on the other hand is a halfwitted fool who despite all his inherited privileges and high level contacts and chums that he has got, still couldn't avoid prison for fraud.

Guppy's close friendship with Boris Johnson makes me wonder if that is the reason why the London mayor himself writes such ridiculous articles on Iran. His other close chums and what they write about Iran should be closely monitored now.

Guppy and his privileged chums can all be good material for a comedy play of course, except that the horrors that the victims of the ruling despots in Iran, these silver spoon fed hooray henrys try to defend and promote, is not funny at all.

Below is just a glimpse of what the prisoners of conscience in Iran have suffered, while the Hooray Henrys and the 'useful idiots' have cheered on their criminal oppressors. Guppy may be bitter about Britain and how his high position friends didn't manage to save him from prison but he should throw his hat up in the air that he was not jailed in Iran. May be one day he will be though, despots quickly turn on their cronies too when their sell by date passes.