Iran Inmates 'Tortured To Death': Karroubi

BBC NEWS :

One of Iran's defeated opposition presidential candidates has said some protesters held after July's disputed poll were tortured to death in prison.

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[factotem]

Look at where HP buries this story (!??), which was the inevitable outcome of not assisting the Iranians. Two months ago I was telling you your green solidarity t-shirts were doing nothing to change the outcome and that these ids will be captured, killed and tortured. Those with the guns will win.
But hey, put that green t-shirt on again and make happy-talk. You never had anything at risk in this conflict.

[sviolette]

I thought the USA was the only country that tortured to death. Guess I was wrong now we have company. Axis of evil=USA, Iran, North Korea.

[JerryLevy]

Indicative of many of the posters on the HP, Sviolette equates her great but imperfect democracy with the most draconian global terrorists. We are no better than the people who run the living hell in North Korea or the people who murder thousands of their own citizens without trial in Iran. How do you even have a conversation with an individual with this inability to even think critically. I wonder who we "tortured to death?"

[Academic]

My, my! What on earth is the world coming to? Nothing like this has ever happened or would ever happen under the tutelage of the United States and its allies, of course.

Professor Dr. Stanley Collymore.

[wereeverywhere]

Presumably your university has a library. Run, don't walk, to where the they keep the atlases. If you study real hard, maybe you'll be able to see beyond the US borders where all kinds of reality await. The printed word hasn't been able of inform you of the horrible conditions of IRI nor of the heroic struggle by Iranians to get free.

[JerryLevy]

Mr. Academic, if you actually need to know who the worst violators of human rights are (by any measure) you need look no farther than China, Russia, most Arab dictatorships, Venezuela and Africa. That's basic human knowledge and I would guess most high school seniors could answer your question. That is unless they have teachers like you are clueless as to the latest human rights reports put out by most NGOs and the U.S. State Department.

[anti-tazi]

Hashemi Rafsanjani's brother speaks:

""They want to eliminate Rafsanjani from their Path:

Younger brother of Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani, said these days that his older brother, Ayatollah Rafsanjani is gravely concerned about the fate of the country, He believes that the current political process taking place in Iran is not going to lead to a good outcome for the future for the country.

When asked how his brother doing these days , he paused for a long time and said " these days are very hard for his brother, Hashemi Rafsanjani, when he knows that a group of citizens are in prison and collectively are beaten brutally and even their family members are arrested and violently treated, of course, he is very unhappy.

He said, "the truth is after the death of Imam Khomeini, there has always been talk of whether we should have an Islamic Republic OR Just an Islamic Government? Imam Khomeini, he said, wanted the Islamic Republic.

He also said, "that there are those who later said if Imam Khomeini were still alive, he would not want the Republic. Khomeini only agreed to an "Islamic REPUBLIC"" for political expediencies.

He further said, "However, Ayatollah Rafsanajani (his brother) wants an Islamic REPBLIC as it was what Imam Khomeini wanted also. But there are some people who don't agree with my brother and they want to remove him from their path to have a Islamic Government without the REPUBLIC.
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http://www.iranpressnews.com/source/064079.htm

[Angie Cordeiro - Huffpost Blogger]

Fanned.

[anti-tazi]

Thank you so much.

[anti-tazi]

HuffPost's Pick

Please do not let them be forgotten
by Afshin_Afshar
12-Aug-2009

When the post election demonstrations in Iran started most Iranians leaving abroad took a very active and vocal stance in supporting their brothers and sisters in Iran. There was a misplaced sense of euphoria that the days of the Islamic Republic were numbered.

...
Weeks later there are over a hundred people dead, thousands arrested, and many more in hiding. Foreign leaders are sending their congratulations to Ahmadinejad for his “re-election”, and the foreign media has moved on to the next big news item.

...
We have an obligation to continue to speak out for those who are kept helplessly captive in Islamic Republic jails under cruelest of all conditions.

During 1980s when the Islamic Republic went on an aggressive and brutal campaign against all dissidents in Iran many of us, sadly, turned the other way because after all they were just after leftists and other political groups that we did not support. Many young and old Iranians were brutally tortured and then executed during those years.

The Islamic republic is at it all over again.



Don’t let that happen to thousands of others. Write to your representatives. Use every forum available to you to keep this issue alive. The only little hope these political prisoners have will be kept alive only if we do not forget them.

http://www.iranian.com/main/blog/afshin-afshar/please-do-not-let-them-be-forgotten

[anti-tazi]

I hereby request from all peace loving people of the world to continue to show your solidarity as you have magnificently done in the past few months with Iranians and their struggle to have some sembelence of humane government in place.

If you don't wish sanctions for the people of Iran or the bombing of Iran in the next few years either by Israel or the US, please help Iranians to topple the Khameini's Mafiacracy Inc. before the IRGC is even more entrenched in affairs of the government. You can do this by keeping them in your prayers or simply Do NOT forget they exist and are going through brutal repression.

We don't want to see Ahmadinejad and his military Junta in charge for the next fifty years in Iran a la Burma.

There are talks that Ahmadinejad has sent in advisors to Venezuela to study how he managed to change their Constitution in order to become a life-time president.

Khamenie is dying and Rafsanjani is practically powerless, according to his brother to do anything about Ahmadinejad and his plans for establishment of and Islamic Government without the REPUBLIC.

[wereeverywhere]

"There are talks that Ahmadinejad has sent in advisors to Venezuela to study how he managed...­"

Chavez early and enthusiastic support for Ahmadinejad is a betrayal and brings in to question (again) Hugo's commitment to democracy. The people of Venezuela took to the streets to save him from the aborted coup. Chavez's response to the Iranians who at great risk came out in droves to demand justice is a slap in their face.

[JerryLevy]

Will the "World Court" issue an arrest warrant for the Iranian leadership for the mass murder and torture of their own citizens over the last 30 years? After all, this so called objective UN body has investigated George Bush and Ariel Sharon.

[anti-tazi]

IRAN: Ahmadinejad aide says president only got '4 million' votes
Los Angeles Times / Borzou Daragahi
13-Aug-2009 (one comment)

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2009/08/iran-ahmadinejad-aide-says-president-only-got-4-million-votes.html

[anti-tazi]

Dear Mr Bin, heed the Iranian people
Guardian / Akbar Ganji
13-Aug-2009

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/aug/12/iran-ban-ki-moon-protest

[Moshe]

Torture is evil and absolutely unacceptable. It doesn't matter who is doing it or why.

And regardless of the pretextual accuse for torture, it's always about one central purpose: Terrorizing the masses into passive submission.

Torture is not just about the person on the torture table. It's about instilling fear into others that they could also end up on that same torture table.

Torture is terrorism plan and simple, and of the most vile form, degrading both the tortured and the torturers, and any government or culture that allows torture.

President Obama needs to do far more than just "look forward not backward" if the U.S. is ever going to get its own evil torture genie back in the bottle and regain the moral standing to stand against Iranian use of torture.

[anti-tazi]

""As every day a new and more horrific detail of what has, and probably still is, done to the many of the at least four thousand arrested demonstrators emerges, a frightening picture is taking shape. Perhaps by now nothing in the IRI can truly be described as frightening, and yet the type and extent of cruelties leave one not only flabbergasted but frightened.

The fright comes from the fact that there are so many in the vast and overlapping security apparatuses of IRI who are capable of doing what can safely be described as fiendish acts of cruelty.
[,,,]
The fright comes from an ideology that has such cadres who kill at random, rape and brutalize men and women in the most violent manner and when their shift is over go home and have a normal life with their wives and children

The fright comes form the realization that it will take generations to undo and heal the nationwide psychological damage the IRI has inflicted.


But the ultimate fright comes from the fact that the Islamist rapist republic’s actions are nurturing vengeful desires not only in their innumerable victims but general public. ....sugges­t there are many who are lulling pent-up anger and fury with the thoughts of their planned reciprocating violence against Islamist oppressors.


This slow seepage of Islamists’ mentality and ethics into the Iranian society at large is the nightmare scenario in the making. ""

http://www.iranian.com/main/blog/fred/reciprocation

[davidwayneosedach]

They are getting the kind of government they wanted when they threw out the Shaw.

[anti-tazi]

Do you realize that 60% of Iranians never lived under the Shah because they were born after the revolution??

[GeorgeMilquetoast]

Someday, if you try really, really hard, you will realize the blatant stooooopidity of your statement.

The Shah (note the correct spelling) ruled his people with torture and brutality. The Shah was installed by a CIA-supported coup, overthrowing a democratic­ally-elect­ed government.

[factotem]

"shah"

[anti-tazi]

IRAN: Activist issues preemptive retraction of future confession

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2009/08/iran-opposition-figure-issues-preemptive-renunciation-of-future-confession.html

[anti-tazi]

Azar Ale-Kanan
AKA Nina Aghdam, rape in Iran prison

Listen to her gut wrenching story (in Persian)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYtZqGd1gNo&feature=player_embedded

If you can't understand the video but read the speech she maid in 2000 at the Organization of Iranian Political Prisoners of the Islamic Republic in 2000:



http://www.kanoon-zendanian.org/english/Rape.htm

[anti-tazi]

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