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Iran’s chief of police: New crackdown to start next week Fri. 2 Sep 2005



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Iran Focus


Tehran, Iran, Sep. 02 – Iran’s police chief on Friday announced that starting from September 6, State Security Forces would launch a joint campaign along with various other security apparatus to crack down on “troublemakers” in the country.

Revolutionary Guard Brigadier General Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam, in an interview with an state-run law enforcement website, said that to guard national security, it was decided in a meeting among senior officials in the SSF, the Tehran Prosecutor’s Office, the Bassij (Islamic vigilantes loyal to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei), and the Tehran branch of the Ministry of Intelligence and Security that “troublemakers” in the streets should be treated more severely.

Authorities routinely refer to anti-government activists as trouble-makers.

He said that the new crackdown would commence on September 6, adding, “The details of this plan will be announced in due time by the officials in command”.

The SSF chief warned people not to have wedding parties in the streets. “If a person wants to be joyful, he must not choose public areas and block them for such actions”, he said, adding that police would crack down on such activities.

Earlier on Tuesday, Iran’s State Security Forces announced in a statement that street-celebrations during weddings were banned and that the police would crack down on any “Joy Caravans” (celebrations in cars).

The SSF statement said that such celebrations in the streets caused public disorder. “The State Security Forces would prevent any forms of actions or attempts under the pretext of joy caravans, which disrupt social order and the citizens’ peace, so as to protect the rights of citizens and create peace for individuals and society.

Brigadier General Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam was until recently the number two in the paramilitary Bassij and commander of the force in Greater Tehran, and has been a long-time ally of President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The two worked together closely in the military crackdown on Iran’s autonomy-seeking Kurds in the 1980s, when they were both Revolutionary Guards commanders based in Hamzeh Garrison near the north-western city of Orumieh.
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[Oppenheimer]

200 security checkpoints set up across Iran capital Sat. 10 Sep 2005



Iran Focus

Tehran, Iran, Sep. 10 – Some 200 special units of the State Security Forces (SSF) moved into different locations across the Iranian capital on Saturday as part of the new wave of crackdown of “social corruption”, the head of security patrols of Greater Tehran’s police force told reporters as the units were being dispatched.

“The judiciary and the State Security Forces are carrying out a plan for 20 days to wipe away trouble-makers and those who disturb the peace and today active operations by special groups in Greater Tehran have commenced all over the city”, Colonel Hassan Gholam Heydari said.

Heydari said that there were five garrisons taking part in this operation in the Iranian capital.

The SSF colonel in charge of the units said that in particular individuals seeking to “corrupt the minds of youths” would be dealt with. He did not elaborate.

Tehran’s police chief separately confirmed the new procedures during a meeting of senior SSF officials in Tehran.

Revolutionary Guards Brigadier General Morteza Tala’ie, speaking to reporters on the sidelines of the meeting, confirmed that 200 units were being dispatched to checkpoints in the Iranian capital. He also said that a further 50 units were being dispatched to carry out the same drill at nights.

Tala’ie warned against the use of wedding carts in the streets of Tehran, which the police had declared to be banned.

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Iran says arrested trouble-makers will not be released Sat. 10 Sep 2005



Iran Focus

Tehran, Iran, Sep. 10 – Trouble-makers that are arrested in Iran will be held in prison indefinitely until their networks are rooted out by the State Security Forces (SSF), the state prosecutor’s office told a state-owned news agency on Saturday.

“All trouble-makers that are arrested as part of the social security plan will be detained until their files are seen to”, Ahmad Movahed, the head of the Prosecutor’s Office to Fight Trouble-makers told the Fars news agency, in response to a question on whether individuals arrested as part of the new crackdown would be released on bail.

Authorities routinely refer to anti-government activists or ordinary people deemed to act in un-Islamic ways as trouble-makers.

Movahed added that those arrested would remain locked up until their “networks” were discovered.

He said that the judiciary hoped to put an end to disruptions in society with the help of the security forces.

Movahed said that some 50 individual who were caught selling alcohol or pornographic CDs had already been arrested in Tehran under the new initiative.