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PostPosted: Thu Aug 16, 2007 2:45 pm    Post subject: Was Islamist Judge Hassan Moghaddas involved in torture of Z Reply with quote

What was the Secretary Rice's logic for her actions regarding Mr. Majid Kavousifar who was detained at the US Embassy, turned over to UAE Police who in turn handed him over to Mullah's agents (2005) for Torture and finally Execution? (News source: VOA on Thursday, August 2, 2007 ) Condi Rice action does not match president Bush statement on June 16, 2005 “And to the Iranian people, I say: As you stand for your own liberty, the people of America stand with you." Experience has shown that the silence might not be a correct choice or solution to resolve possible bad mistakes or bad leadership judgments or bad policy decision ..... Condi Rice should explain why?

Statement by the President on Iranian Elections


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From BBC Related to Kavousifar Case:
BBC wrote:

Mr Moghaddas - also referred to in Iranian media as Massoud Moghaddas - has been involved in a number of high-profile cases involving human rights or freedom of speech.

Hassan Moghaddas was recently asked by lawyers of the family of Iranian-Canadian journalist Zahra Kazemi - who died in Iranian custody two years ago - to give evidence in court as a witness to her death. The judiciary rejected the request.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4738951.stm

According to the above information from BBC. Was the Islamist Judge Hassan Moghaddas and Mortazavi both involved in torture of Zahra Kazemi and killing her under torture ... ?

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Kazemi Petition 2: Expel Islamic Clerical Regime of Iran from The UN For Killing a Canadian Photojournalist, and Call For Free Referendum In Iran!

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Prime Minister Of Canada
Thursday July 24, 2003

The Right Honorable Jean Chretien:

As you are aware, Ms. Zahra Kazemi, a Canadian-Iranian photojournalist, was arrested on June 23, 2003 and was savagely and barbarically beaten to death by Islamic regime officials. News agencies reported that Ms. Kazemi's body was buried on July 23, 2003, in Shiraz, Iran, contrary to the wishes of her family, and repeated formal requests from the Canadian government. "Don't send me your condolences when your government killed my mother, tortured her and still doesn't respond to my demands" - words that spoken by her son (for other detailed facts regarding the case please click on http://www.activistchat.com/reporter/index.html ).


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PostPosted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 12:02 am    Post subject: Execution of Hero Hossein and Majid Kavousifar (Disturbing) Reply with quote

Video Execution of Hero Hossein and Majid Kavousifar (Disturbing)


The Unarmed defenseless Iranian people are not forgetting these kind of savagery executions, and images by Revolutionary Guards of Mafia Mullahs …. The Iranian people will not cry for these Mad Revolutionary Guards in the above video clip …. When the American bombs are dropping on them and they are looking for holes to hide and asking for forgiveness from Iranian people….. The Mad Revolutionary Guards in the above video clip have broken all the bridges behind them, even their own family might go after them …. The history will be the judge….
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PostPosted: Fri Aug 17, 2007 11:55 pm    Post subject: Open Letter To President Regarding Kavousifar's Execution Reply with quote

Open Letter To President Bush Regarding Kavousifar's Execution

Amir Hakim wrote:


IRANIAN MONARCHIST MOVEMENT


August 17, 2007


Dear President Bush:


Last week the Islamic Republic of Iran hung another young Iranian. This act is now a routine for this terrorist regime who hangs our youth in public by the dozen. However, this case was different and it has bothered many Iranians inside and out.

Majid Kavousifar a young Iranian fled Iran after assassinating one of the most corrupt and repressive judges in Iran. Moghaddas was the judge in many political activist’s cases, and handed out harsh judgments against them even before reading their files. After Kavousifar and his nephew assassinated this man they fled to Abu Dhabi , UAE and went to the U.S. embassy to seek refuge. Instead of understanding where these young men come from and why they did what they did the U.S. embassy is said to have turned these young men to the Interpol who then turned them to officials of the UAE who returned them to the Islamic Republic of Iran. The IRI hung these kids publicly as seen in the attached photos without even giving them a fair trial. This is expected from a terrorist regime but what has angered Iranians throughout the world is that Kh atami who has the blood of thousands of Iranians on his hands is invited to the U.S. and given red carpet treatment. Former President Carter who spoke of nothing but Human Rights violations during the Shah’s reign without truly knowing the situation inside our homeland back then, helped these terrorists come into power and hosted Kh atami during his trip to the U.S. How come no one is concerned with Human Rights in Iran during the past 29 years?

Dear President Bush you have stated that you will be standing with the people of Iran. The people of Iran are fed up with this regime and its thugs. This is not the first time some one has assassinated one of their cronies and it won’t be the last time. These young men and women see no future ahead of themselves. This regime has brought nothing but addiction, prostitution, poverty and terror for our compatriots. Even if these young men and women are able to get into colleges (which is very difficult) when they graduate they have nothing to look forward to. These kinds of killings are due to frustration and we are not promoting violence but we have to understand where these people are coming from.

Dear President Bush, was there not a better way for the U.S. embassy to have handled this case? Could Majid’s life not have been spared? This action by the U.S. embassy in Abu Dhabi has really concerned us and we would like to request an investigation of this decision by the embassy.

As seen in these pictures Majid was ready to give his life so maybe the attention given to his case would help show the true nature of this regime better to the world.

How long is the world going to watch while our youth are being called thugs and assassinated by the likes of hanging judges like Moghaddas?

We hope to hear the results of the investigation of the U.S. embassie’s decision regarding this case soon.


Sincerely,



Amir Hakim

Secretary General

KHASHM USA


"I have reached a level of understanding to know who the corrupt and depraved are."
(Majid Kavousifar, shortly before his execution, August 1st, 2007)


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PostPosted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 12:34 pm    Post subject: Iran Hangs 30 Over 'US Plots' Reply with quote

The Observer wrote:
Islamist Mafia and Taazi Occupiers Of Iran Hangs 30 Over 'US Plots'
August 19, 2007
The Observer
Robert Tait in Tehran

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2151798,00.html


Islamist Mafia officials at an execution in Tehran. Photograph: Morteza Nikoubazl/Reuters

Iran has hanged up to 30 people in the past month amid a clampdown prompted by alleged US-backed plots to topple the regime, The Observer can reveal. Many executions have been carried out in public in an apparent bid to create a climate of intimidation while sending out uncompromising signals to the West. Opposition sources say at least three of the dead were political activists, contradicting government insistence that it is targeting 'thugs' and dangerous criminals. The executions have coincided with a crackdown on student activists and academics accused of trying to foment a 'soft revolution' with US support.

The most high-profile recent executions involved Majid Kavousifar, 28, and his nephew, Hossein Kavousifar, 24, hanged for the murder of a hardline judge, Hassan Moghaddas, a man notorious for jailing political dissidents. They were hanged from cranes and hoisted high above one of Tehran's busiest thoroughfares.

The spectacle, the first public executions in Tehran for five years, took place outside the judiciary department headquarters where Moghaddas was murdered. But the location, near many office blocks and the Australian and Japanese embassies, meant they were seen by many middle-class Iranians who would not normally witness such events.


The previous day seven men were publicly executed in the north-eastern city of Masshad, including five said to be guilty of 'rape, kidnapping, theft and committing indecent acts'. Another two were hanged separately for raping and robbing a young woman. The executions were also shown live on state television.

Public hangings are normally carried out sparingly in Iran and reserved for cases that have provoked public outrage, such as serial murders or child killings. Human rights organisations say the rising death toll has brought the number of prisoners executed this year to about 150, compared to 177 in 2006, a dramatic increase in capital punishment since the country's radical President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, took office two years ago.

The executions come after the government launched a campaign targeting murderers, sex offenders, drug traffickers and others cast as a threat to 'social security'. It resulted in a wave of arrests after police raided working-class neighbourhoods in Tehran and other cities. Those arrested were paraded in public, often in humiliating poses.

The government has also sought to publicise executions conducted behind closed doors. Last month state television broadcast footage of 12 condemned men as they were about to be hanged in Tehran's Evin prison. The authorities said they had been guilty of 'rape, sodomy and assault and battery'. Opposition sources say at least three were political activists, though they have not disclosed their identities. Asiran, a government website, dismissed the claims as 'lies'.

International gay rights campaigners have also said that homosexual men were among the executed. Homosexuality is a capital offence in Iran, along with adultery, espionage, armed robbery, drug trafficking and apostasy.

Iran has long been one of the world's most prolific exponents of the death penalty and ranks second only to China in the number of executions. Human rights groups say it has the world's worst record for executions for crimes committed when the defendant was under 18.

However, there have been signs of official disquiet over the recent trend. Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi, the relatively moderate judiciary chief, has made an apparent protest by openly criticising Ahmadinejad's government on a range of issues. He also signalled displeasure with the repressive climate by ordering officials to investigate claims that student activists were tortured during a recent detention in Evin prison.

Shahroudi is believed to have been unhappy over the stoning to death last month of a man convicted of adultery after he had ordered a stay of execution.

However, the spate of executions seems likely to continue. Tehran's hardline chief prosecutor, Saeed Mortazavi, has announced that he is seeking the death penalty against 17 'hooligans'.
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PostPosted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 9:30 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ba dorood:

I may have posted this before but....

His picture specially the one that he is smiling shall be hung in the future museum for Islamic Rip-off's atrocities.

Guess where this museum is going to be?

Yeap, where Mullah KhomAnni is buried is the best place to be converted to such museum.
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PostPosted: Tue Aug 21, 2007 11:58 pm    Post subject: Iran Opens Court, but Judges Block Reform Reply with quote

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Molly Moore wrote:
Washington Post
November 18, 2000

Iran Opens Court, but Judges Block Reform

By Molly Moore

TEHRAN, Nov. 17 ?? In the austere courtroom of Branch Three of the Tehran Islamic Revolutionary Court, Hassan Moghadas acted as judge, prosecutor, investigator and jury. He displayed little sympathy for the defendant, a reformist politician on trial for violating national security and insulting Islam in a speech at an international conference in Germany in April.

"You charged in a speech that there was censorship and a smothering
atmosphere in Iran before President [Mohammad] Khatami's election," said Moghadas, stabbing the air for emphasis and scowling from the bench.
"What you were saying was an absolute lie. This was not a fact, this was your opinion. Defend that!"

The tone of Moghadas's declarations from the bench, made during a session Tuesday, apparently is not unusual in the Revolutionary Court, which hears all national security cases. What is extraordinary is that for the first time, the courtroom exchanges are taking place before national and international television cameras in open court, providing a rare window onto how one of Iran's most powerful conservative institutions is waging war against the reforms ushered in with Khatami's election three years ago.

In recent months, Iran's judiciary--controlled by hard-line Islamic
clerics--has repeatedly hobbled the moderate cleric's reform efforts,
putting journalists on trial in its press courts and lodging a range of
stifling charges against reformers in its Revolutionary Court.

"They have tried to use the judiciary to torpedo the process of change
and reform in Iran," said Davood Bavand, a Tehran law professor and
political analyst who supports the reform effort. "The instrument of
power has been in their hands."

But in the last two weeks, even the hard-line judiciary has indicated
that its leadership may not be completely impervious to change.

"We need to undertake serious, prudent reforms in the judiciary,"
judiciary chief Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi said in a public meeting last
week. "The judiciary is suffering from an old justice system dating back
to the despotic regime of the shah, which made it difficult for
independent and committed judges to function."

Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi was overthrown by Islamic revolutionaries 21
years ago. In the last two decades, international human rights
organizations have consistently criticized Iran's judiciary for holding
unfair, secret trials; jailing and executing prisoners without due
process and violating international standards for granting defendants
access to attorneys and basic information about charges against them.

This month, under unusually harsh pressure from reformist politicians,
international human rights organizations and even the government-financed Iranian press, the Revolutionary Court announced it would open the trial of 17 reformist writers, politicians, intellectuals and others who attended a conference in Berlin dedicated to transformation inside the Islamic republic.

Just 4 1/2 months ago, the court's decision to publicly announce its
verdicts in the closed trial of 10 Jews and two Muslims on espionage
charges was considered ground-breaking. The court said its decision to go a step further and open the trials was based on "multiple demands."

One of Iran's best known investigative journalists, Akbar Ganji, appeared in court last week alleging that he had been put in solitary confinement and was beaten for refusing to wear a prison uniform. Referring to his case, the daily Iran News editorialized, "The judiciary should sit up and take notice. It should be concerned about what goes on in our prisons," adding, "Public opinion . . . is exasperated and edgy."

Ganji last year wrote exposes that linked government officials to murders
of secularist intellectuals. He is on trial for acting against national
security and spreading propaganda against the Islamic system at the
Berlin conference.

During his hearing last week, he told Judge Moghadas, "The political will exists to put me behind bars and you are just sitting there to carry this out."

While reformers decry the judicial system, they concede some advances
have been made.

Alireza Nouri, a vascular surgeon who was elected to parliament on the
reformist slate, largely because of an outpouring of public support for
his brother--another jailed journalist--noted that reporters and others
who defied the government in the past often were killed.

"Now they're just put in jail," said Nouri. "We can say we have taken one step forward."

In the euphoria of elections that gave reformers control of the Iranian
parliament in February, the offers to participate in the conference
seemed fairly innocuous to the 17 people invited. The invitation list
included some of Iran's most outspoken reformers: a popular new
legislator, an independent-minded cleric, a folklore novelist, a
well-known women's rights advocate and more than a dozen others.

But during the conference, in a protest against Iran, a man in the
audience stripped off his shirt and then mooned the crowd while a woman
stood in a short-sleeve blouse and began dancing--both actions considered insulting to Islamic sensibilities. Fariborz Raisdana, an economist who supports the reform effort, said he had heard rumblings of possible demonstrations before the conference, but said, "I didn't expect them to do a strip tease and dance."

Iranian government television ran clips of the incident repeatedly on
news programs, cutting to shots of participants, some of whom reportedly were not in the room at the time. Within hours of returning to Tehran from the convention, Raisdana and 16 others were arrested on charges ranging from waging war on God--punishable by death--to violating national security.

In the opening session of the trials two weeks ago, acting prosecutor
Ahmad Sharifi alleged, "The conference was held with the aim of changing Iran's system of religious government, insulting the sanctities and rejecting Islamic judgments."

In Tuesday's session, the judge--playing the role of lead
prosecutor--spent much of the day berating defendant Ezzatollah Sahabi, a veteran independent politician who was jailed upon his return from Berlin and eventually released on bail. Although the Revolutionary Court recently created the position of prosecutors in trials, the judge rarely permitted the prosecutor to speak. In one of those few instances, the prosecutor snapped at Sahabi, "You think you can say anything and trample Islamic values under your feet."

"The things I was saying were true," replied Sahabi at the end of the day beneath the television cameras in the sweltering courtroom. "We went to cities to give speeches and security forces tried to beat us up."

In a reply that disappointed some of Sahabi's fellow defendants, he
added, "What I said was too straightforward. I'm ready to pay the price."




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PostPosted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 12:58 am    Post subject: Petition 49: Stay the Hands of the Murdering Mullahs Reply with quote



Petition 49: Stay the Hands of the Murdering Mullahs
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To: Individuals, Human Rights Organizations, and Governments

The life that God gives, no man should extinguish. The blood-thirsty mullahs presently ruling Iran blatantly violate this sacred covenant by executing large numbers of people ranging from petty criminals to political opponents. The mullahs and their mercenaries are wasting precious human life to maintain themselves in power through terrorizing the population.

Mass public hangings, as well as secret executions in prisons, are routine in the tyrannical Islamic Republic of Iran. Recently Majid Kavousifar, 28, and his nephew, Hossein Kavousifar, 24, were hanged for the alleged murder of a hard-line judge, Hassan Moghaddas, a mullah-judge notorious for jailing and condemning to death political dissidents. The victims were hanged from cranes and hoisted high above one of Tehran’s busiest thoroughfares. This “judge” had repeatedly bragged publicly that he often issued a death verdict without even examining the charges against the individual. The Islamic Republic of Iran has the dubious distinction of executing more children, those under the age of 18, than any other country in the world. Such is the plight of the Iranian people.

Robert Tait of The Observer reported on August 19, 2007 from Tehran that “Iran Hangs 30 Over ‘US Plots.’” Accusing political dissidents as being agents of the U.S. and hanging them without even a semblance of due process is a heinous crime that every descent human being should do all he/she can to end.

“Injustice anywhere is threat to justice everywhere,” Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. warned us. Silence, complacency and indifference invariably play into the hands and schemes of tyrants. History is replete with cases of tyranny gathering momentum in the face of inaction by others, spreading far and wide and visiting great catastrophes on people.

We are also reminded by Albert Einstein, “The world is a dangerous place not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.”

It is imperative that we do all we can, as individuals, organizations, and governments to stay the hands of the murdering mullahs in Iran, before their thirst for blood leads their campaign of oppression and death to the four corners of the globe.

We the petitioners demand:

* Immediate disbanding of capital punishment in the Islamic Republic of Iran and wherever else in the world this inhuman act is practiced.

* No summary judgments to be made about any accused without thorough and open trials with the fundamental assumption of innocence until proven otherwise.

* The authorities who issue death warrants of others must be held accountable for their actions.


Sincerely,
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PostPosted: Wed Aug 22, 2007 10:30 am    Post subject: Why? Reply with quote

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1- What was the Secretary Rice's logic for her actions regarding Mr. Majid Kavousifar who was detained at the US Embassy, turned over to UAE Police who in turn handed him over to Mullah's agents (2005) for Torture and finally Execution? (News source: VOA on Thursday, August 2, 2007 ) Condi Rice action does not match president Bush statement on June 16, 2005 “And to the Iranian people, I say: As you stand for your own liberty, the people of America stand with you." Experience has shown that the silence might not be a correct choice or solution to resolve possible bad mistakes or bad leadership judgments or bad policy decision ..... Condi Rice should explain why?

Statement by the President on Iranian Elections
http://www.activistchat.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=6151

He said Iranians "deserve a genuinely democratic system in which elections are honest -- and in which their leaders answer to them instead of the other way around." He called for a free press, freedom of assembly, a "free economy" independent of the state, an independent judiciary and religious freedom.

"Today, the Iranian regime denies all these rights," Bush said. "It shuts down independent newspapers and Web sites and jails those who dare to challenge the corrupt system. It brutalizes its people and denies them their liberty."

Bush concluded: "America believes in the independence and territorial integrity of Iran. America believes in the right of the Iranian people to make their own decisions and determine their own future. America believes that freedom is the birthright and deep desire of every human soul. And to the Iranian people, I say: As you stand for your own liberty, the people of America stand with you."


Amil Imani wrote:
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Kazemi Case wrote:
Why International Law has not been applied on 2004 Kazemi case. Kazemi Petition: Expel Islamic Clerical Regime of Iran from The UN For Killing a Canadian Photojournalist, and Call For Free Referendum In Iran! [ActivistChat]

From BBC:
BBC wrote:

Mr Moghaddas - also referred to in Iranian media as Massoud Moghaddas - has been involved in a number of high-profile cases involving human rights or freedom of speech.

Hassan Moghaddas was recently asked by lawyers of the family of Iranian-Canadian journalist Zahra Kazemi - who died in Iranian custody two years ago - to give evidence in court as a witness to her death. The judiciary rejected the request.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4738951.stm

According to the above information from BBC. Was the Islamist Judge Hassan Moghaddas and Mortazavi both involved in torture of Zahra Kazemi and killing her under torture ... ?


Ahmadinejad Case wrote:
What Shameful "UNJUST LAWS" and "DOUBLE STANDARDS" Allowed Ahmadinejad to travel outside Iran? INTERPOL HAS THE BIG FILE on Ahmadinejad for Crimes Against Humanity and International Terrorism:
8-a- Ahmadinejad plotted many dissident's murder and was directly involved in the 1989 assassination of Iranian exile Kurdish opposition leader Abdul Rahman Ghassemlou and two other Kurdish politicians in Vienna, Austria. A murderer and Terrorist is not a representative of freedom-loving Iranian Nation. 8-b- According to Ahmadinejad himself, he has executed over 1000 freedom-loving Iranian people in the prison and he was known as “Tir Khalas Zan”, literally meaning “he who fires coup de grace”. Female political prisoners raped by Ahmadinejad…. 8-c- Ahmadinejad is responsible for “Lovers of Martyrdom Garrison” in Iran that would recruit individuals willing to carry out suicide operations against Western targets. Do not allow this Terrorist to put his foot on US soil and enter UN. 8-d- Ahmadinejad played a central role in the seizure of the United States embassy in Tehran in November 1979 and he was key American hostage-taker for the 444-day.
By What UNJUST LAWS US State Dept. and UN allowed this Brutal Man, Thug, Terror and Torture Master, International Criminal to put his feet on US soil and attended the UN General Assembly in New York twice?
How come they did it with MAJID KAVOUSSIFAR in UAE. Why the INTERPOL has not arrested Ahmadinejad outside Iran yet? Where is the justice and fairness?


Hero Hossein and Majid Kavousifar wrote:
Video Execution of Hero Hossein and Majid Kavousifar (Disturbing)

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The Unarmed defenseless Iranian people are not forgetting these kind of savagery executions, and images by Revolutionary Guards of Mafia Mullahs …. The Iranian people will not cry for these Mad Revolutionary Guards in the above video clip …. When the American bombs are dropping on them and they are looking for holes to hide and asking for forgiveness from Iranian people….. The Mad Revolutionary Guards in the above video clip have broken all the bridges behind them, even their own family might go after them …. The history will be the judge….




cyrus wrote:
Why US State Dept. has not informed public and News Media regarding Mr. Majid Kavousifar case and his arrest in past 2 years?
Potkin Azarmehr wrote:
US Embassy Ignorance

http://azarmehr.blogspot.com/

Majid Kavousifar, seen in these pictures before being hanged, left Iran for Abu Dhabi two days after the assassination of one of the corruptest and most repressive judges in the Islamic Republic. Judge Moghaddas who was assassinated by Kavousifar and his nephew, was responsible for handing out long sentences to many political activists. Moghaddas sometimes even boasted that he sentenced the accused without even reading their files!

Kavoussifar had introduced himself as the killer of Moghaddas to the American Embassy in Abu Dhabi, where he had applied for asylum. The embassy guards handed him over to the Interpol, which informed Islamic Republic's authorities of the incident.
I thought it was just the Homeland Security at the US airports who were the thickest officials in the world!

Here, Majid Kavousifar is seen smiling and saying his last goodbye. Why are so many victims smiling in these latest round of public executions? Perhaps if there is any after life, it will be better than living under the mullahs.




On Tuesday, August 02, 2005 Motorcycle gunman assassinated Islamist Taazi Judge Hassan Moghaddas in Tehran who was involved in several high-profile political cases:
http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2005/08/motorcycle-gunman-kills-prominent.php
and according to Mr. Potkin Azarmehr post above Mr. Majid Kavousifar left Iran for Abu Dhabi two days after the assassination of one of the corruptest and most repressive judges in the Islamic Republic. then on Friday, August 05, 2005 or August 06, 2005 Mr. Majid Kavousifar was detained by US Embassy in Abu Dhabi. and according to this information Mr. Majid Kavousifar was in Iran prison for past 2 years and under Torture.


1- If the above dates correct then why US State Dept. has not informed public and News Media regarding Mr. Majid Kavousifar case and his arrest in past 2 years?

2- Has US State Dept. violated “ The Freedom of Information Act or other USA Open Government Laws” regarding Mr. Majid Kavousifar case ?

3- What was the Secretary Rice's logic for her actions regarding Mr. Majid Kavousifar who was detained at the US Embassy, turned over to UAE Police who in turn handed him over to Mullah's agents for Torture and Execution?

4- What is Condi Rice answer to the mother of one of the victim men (Mr. Hussein Kavoussi-Far) cried out: "God, please give me back my son."?

5- When US State Dept. is not providing information regarding Mr. Majid Kavousifar means that 300 million American people and 70 million Iranian people who great majority are freedom-loving and Pro American are not trusted but the Islamist Terrorist Mafia occupiers of Iran and Terror Masters who have killed 1000s of American people in past 28 years by Terror Act are considered by Condi Rice as trust worthy..... This is against the spirit of freedom and American Founding Fathers ....

The Freedom of Information Act wrote:

The Freedom of Information Act
For more information on Current Legislation, click here

http://www.sunshineingovernment.org/foia.html

(Sep. 21, 2006) The House of Representatives passed FOIA reform legislation (H.R. 1309) earlier in 2007. The Senate Judiciary committee approved a similar bill, but the legislation (S. 849) is stalled before a full Senate vote. This act is the most comprehensive legislation to reform the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in a decade. Check our mainpage for updates and here for more information about the legislation.

Brief history of the Freedom of Information Act
The Freedom of Information Act of 1966 formally established the public's inherent right to access government information. Since that time, the following significant amendments have been made to FOIA:

The Privacy Act of 1974 - Before this time, if only one word within a document was considered too sensitive for release, the entire record would be withheld. The Privacy Act required a FOIA officer to black out sensitive words or pages and release the rest.


Since its inception, the FOIA has been responsible for the public release of vital information. More importantly, once information is made public, people have the power to put a stop to undesirable government activity.


sunshineingovernment.org wrote:

http://www.sunshineingovernment.org/who_we_are.html
Our Mission
The Sunshine in Government Initiative is a coalition of media groups committed to promoting policies that ensure the government is accessible, accountable and open. Public oversight is the ultimate safeguard of democracy. This is not an issue just for the media. It is the inalienable right of citizens to examine and judge their government; and that right is served when news media act on behalf of the public to gain access to information.

Sunshine in Government Initiative Principles

An informed public is the cornerstone of our democracy. Open government instills public trust. Policies preserving access to information are essential to our national well-being.
Americans depend on news media to inform them about governmental activities and to exercise the right of access to appropriate government information on the public's behalf.
In a democracy, government must function under a presumption of openness, balancing this as necessary with legitimate national security needs and the confidentiality concerns of individual privacy.
The Freedom of Information Act should be preserved and strengthened. Over-classification, unconstrained nondisclosure agreements, and indiscriminate use of "sensitive" designations to withhold information ill serve our nation's security interests and thwart the public's right to know.


ActivistChat wrote:

ActivistChat 2007 Guideline Framework And Vision Of Future
http://activistchat.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=8384
13. We are Free Iran Activists and Watch Group monitoring high government officials, Journalists , writers and scholars words and their actions based on the following direction from James Madison:
"If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men! over men, the great difficulty lies in this: you must first enable the government to control the governed; and in the next place oblige it to control itself. A dependence on the people is, no doubt, the primary control on the government; but experience has taught mankind the necessity of auxiliary precautions. "
The Federalist No. 51 (James Madison).


We thank all compatriots and organizations who contributed for defining part of above Guideline Framework for Human Rights, Regime Change in Iran, Free Iran, Free Society and Secular Democracy .




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To: All Freedom-Loving Compatriots (Right, Left and Center)


This is an ActivistChat invitation to join call from our compatriots in Iranians For Democracy, Human Rights and Opposing Islamic Republic In Iran http://tazahorat.com as a NEW Demonstrations Project coordinator for different Political Parties, Organizations, Groups and individuals in a worldwide demonstration against Executions By the Mafia Mullahs, Terrorists, Islamofascists, and Fanatics who intend to stop and kill the spread of FREEDOM, SECULARISM & DEMOCRACY around the World! Our unified presence in a worldwide demonstration will be the biggest blow to the Mafia Mullahs and Terror Network.
If you or your organization has ability to operate completely independent without any support please act and inform us regarding your organization actions then we might be able to join your organization .

If you are against GENOCIDE,

If you are against TERRORISM,

If you are against FANATICS,

If you are against the MAFIA MULLAHS,

If you are against Terror,

If you are against ALL HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS,

If your group or organization has ability to get permission for demonstration against Mullahs in your Town or Cities please organize it.

If your group or organization has financial ability to put Advertisement on Paper or TV against Mullahs in Iran then please act independently and don’t wait what others tell you.


If Mr. Majid Kavousifar, 28, and his nephew, Mr. Hossein Kavousifar who Embraced Death with Joy and Glory on August 2, 2007 are your heroes then please bring their picture posters to the demonstration.

If you wish to condemn or ask for investigation on Secretary Rice's logic for her actions regarding Mr. Majid Kavousifar who was detained at the US Embassy, turned over to UAE Police who in turn handed him over to Mullah's agents (2005) for Torture and finally Execution by Illegitimate Islamist Occupiers Of Iran? (News source: VOA on Thursday, August 2, 2007 ) Condi Rice action does not match President Bush statement on June 16, 2005 “And to the Iranian people, I say: As you stand for your own liberty, the people of America stand with you." Experience has shown that the silence by officials might not be a correct choice or solution to resolve possible bad mistakes or bad leadership judgments or bad policy decision ..... Condi Rice should explain why? For more information please visit:
http://activistchat.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=31554#31554


If your family has been victimized by any act of terrorism (Sept 11th Terror Attacks, Terrorism in Europe, Middle East, Asia and throughout the world), please bring a picture of your loved one/s to the demonstration.

If your family has been victimized by the Islamist Mafia Regime in Iran or is a family member of one of the over 100,000 freedom-loving political prisoners, torture victims, or Iranians who have been executed in the past 28 years, please bring a picture of your loved one/s to the demonstration.

If you oppose all terrorism and acts of violence against those who wish to live in freedom, then your support and unity with the Iranian people should not be based on whether you are a democrat, republican, libertarian, conservative, independent, green, left, right, or center, but should be based only on your belief that the destiny of the human race is freedom and the unending pursuit of our wishes and our dreams.

Freedom-loving Iranians and people of the world invite you to participate in one of the above scheduled demonstrations by http://tazahorat.com , or organize it one near you which are part of an overall offensive that is being launched against the Islamic Mafia Master's of Terror, who currently hold the Iranian people and much of the world hostage. Together we will destroy this fanatical virus that threatens to destroy all we have fought, suffered, and lived for, for so long! Our destiny is nothing less than absolute freedom, an end to political imprisonment, and the death of theocratic regimes everywhere!


We cannot sit around and wait for the bureaucracies of the world to bring freedom to WE THE PEOPLE, so we must join forces and unite with all who believe in freedom. When freedom is in danger, it matters little what political leanings or perspectives we hold. We are all human beings and so together we must show our strength through unity and defeat the Islamofascist Terrorists and the regimes who sponsor them as they work hard to divide us.

For updated information and schedules regarding the worldwide FREEDOM-MOVEMENT visit http://tazahorat.com or ActivistChat.com ! Also, if you or your group is organizing a pro-freedom demonstrations please contact http://tazahorat.com.


"Human beings are all members of one body.
They are created from the same essence.
When one member is in pain,
The others cannot rest.
If you do not care about the pain of others,
You do not deserve to be called a human being."
A Quote from Famous Persian Poet Saadi Shirazi
( 13th century Persian poet from Shiraz / Iran )

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The blood-thirsty mullahs presently ruling Iran blatantly violate this sacred covenant by executing large numbers of people ranging from petty criminals to political opponents. The mullahs and their mercenaries are wasting precious human life to maintain themselves in power through terrorizing the population.

Mass public hangings, as well as secret executions in prisons, are routine in the tyrannical Islamic Republic of Iran. Recently Majid Kavousifar, 28, and his nephew, Hossein Kavousifar, 24, were hanged for the alleged murder of a hard-line judge, Hassan Moghaddas, a mullah-judge notorious for jailing and condemning to death political dissidents. The victims were hanged from cranes and hoisted high above one of Tehran’s busiest thoroughfares. This “judge” had repeatedly bragged publicly that he often issued a death verdict without even examining the charges against the individual. The Islamic Republic of Iran has the dubious distinction of executing more children, those under the age of 18, than any other country in the world. Such is the plight of the Iranian people.




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The Unarmed defenseless Iranian people are not forgetting these kind of savagery executions, and images by Revolutionary Guards of Mafia Mullahs …. The Iranian people will not cry for these Mad Revolutionary Guards in the above video clip …. When the American bombs are dropping on them and they are looking for holes to hide and asking for forgiveness from Iranian people….. The Mad Revolutionary Guards in the above video clip have broken all the bridges behind them, even their own family might go after them …. The history will be the judge….


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PostPosted: Fri Aug 24, 2007 10:25 am    Post subject: Iran's Hangmen Work Overtime to Silence Opposition Reply with quote

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Mullah's Hangmen Work Overtime to Silence Opposition in Iran

August 24, 2007
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Con Coughlin

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Stonings, hangings, floggings, purges. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad might claim that United Nations sanctions can't hurt his country, but that is not how it feels for Iran 's long-suffering population which now finds itself on the receiving end of one of the most brutal purges witnessed since the 1979 Islamic revolution.

The most visible manifestation of the new oppression sweeping Iran has been the wave of public executions and floggings carried out in Teheran and provincial capitals over recent weeks in a blatant attempt by the regime to intimidate political opponents. The official government line is that the punishments are part of its "Plan to Enforce Moral Behaviour".


It's the same kind of argument that was used immediately after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini took control to purge the country of its prosperous, secular middle class and secure his hold on power. Now Mr Ahmadinejad is adopting similar tactics in a desperate attempt to keep his embattled regime in power.

advertisementAlthough Iran has one of the world's highest execution rates, until recently most of the sentences were carried out within the confines of prisons such a Teheran's notorious Evin complex. But this month diplomats at the Japanese and Australian embassies in the capital were alarmed to find the bodies of two convicted criminals hanging from cranes stationed directly outside their office windows.

The location of the cranes, at a busy thoroughfare surrounded by office blocks, was chosen as much to remind the diplomatic community that Mr Ahmadinejad's hardline regime was still very much in charge as to send a message to ordinary citizens.

For these public executions, together with the estimated 30 others that have taken place in other parts of the country, are nothing more than a brutal exercise in political, as opposed to religious, persecution. There have also been several public floggings carried out on men and women accused of flouting the strict morality laws. Many of the executions were shown live on Iranian television. The message the government wants to get across is clear: mess with us and this is what will happen to you.

However much the authorities insist the sentences relate only to their campaign to improve public morals, Western diplomats in Teheran believe many of the victims have been singled out for their participation in the anti-government fuel riots that erupted in late June.

Those disturbances, in which an estimated third of the country's petrol stations were destroyed by protesters angry at the introduction of fuel rationing (Iran, remember, boasts the world's second largest oil reserves), can be seen as a direct consequence of the sanctions imposed by the United Nations over Iran's controversial nuclear programme.

It was the first serious challenge the regime encountered since setting itself on a collision course with the West following Mr Ahmadinejad's surprise election as president two years ago. So it is no coincidence that the past two months have seen a dramatic increase in the execution rate.

Far from being pressured into changing tack on Iran 's nuclear programme, Mr Ahmadinejad's regime remains determined to pursue the holy grail of uranium enrichment. It is even prepared to take extreme measures to silence domestic opposition, while at the same time placing loyal supporters of the regime under intense pressure to ensure the country's nuclear programme is not unduly affected by the UN sanctions.

In this respect, the deal agreed this week between Teheran and the United Nations-sponsored International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the Vienna-based organisation responsible for monitoring Iran 's "peaceful" nuclear programme, should be taken with a pinch of salt.

The official line from Teheran is that it is now prepared to readmit teams of UN nuclear experts to its top secret nuclear facilities and help clear up a number of issues relating to the development programme. This includes determining what small traces of weapons-grade uranium were doing at a facility that the Iranians insist is part of their nuclear power programme, which does not require uranium to be enriched to such a high level. But many diplomats suspect this is just another Iranian ploy to string out the UN while pressing ahead with its nuclear ambitions.

Certainly there appears to have been no let-up in Iran 's quest to acquire sophisticated uranium enrichment technology irrespective of the effects of sanctions. According to reports recently received by Western security sources, Iran has been concentrating its efforts on acquiring tens of thousands of highly specialised magnets that are an important component in the successful operation of the gas centrifuges that are used for uranium enrichment.

Until the imposition of the UN sanctions this year Teheran had been able to buy industrial magnets from European Union countries. Now they are having to buy them on the black market, and are making intensive efforts to acquire the equipment illegally from former Soviet republics and the Far East . It's all crucial if the Iranians want to enrich uranium to a level that can be used for nuclear warheads.

The Iranians' determination to get the magnets and other sophisticated industrial equipment has led Reza Tahmasebi , Iran 's minister of industries and mines who was given responsibility for acquiring the magnets, to tender his resignation. When it comes to Iran 's nuclear programme, Mr Ahmadinejad clearly wants results, not excuses.

Mr Tahmasebi is just one of several prominent officials who have found themselves out of a job because of their failure to help Mr Ahmadinejad escape the more punitive affects of the UN economic sanctions.

The governor of Iran 's Central Bank, Ibrahim Shibani, is reported to have been relieved of his duties for failing to supervise adequately the return of Iranian overseas assets before they could be frozen, and dozens of other senior officials have lost their jobs as the regime seeks to tighten its grip over the entire apparatus of government.

None of which is good news for those who still cling to the notion that the international dispute over Iran's nuclear programme can still be resolved by peaceful means
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Call for Help against chain executions in Iran

For nearly three decades, the Mullahs have been doing all they could to arrest, imprison, torture and kill with impunity the home grown opposition in the most inhuman and savage fashion, and want the rest of the world to keep its nose out of their “family” business. In recent weeks the executions in Iran have skyrocketed again. The Mullahs are proven once again to be vicious mass killers.

To remain in power, the Mullahs and their apparatus rely on “preventive” measures. They don’t bother with due process of law or the value of human life. Their “revolutionary guards” dispense with the “due” and gets right to the “process.” On the slightest suspicion, they arrest, convict and execute. They expect ‘Allah’ in the next world to take the time to determine the person’s guilt or innocence.

We are told, by a reliable source within Iran that the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has given a confidential and tacit decree to execute publicly Iranian youth in all the towns and villages with a population that exceeds 1000 people. We believe the cause of these massive and rabid executions by the Islamic Republic is the immense fear of the regime for a sudden uprising of the Iranian people who oppose the regime and its barbaric treatment of the innocent Iranian people. The feeling of hatred is simmering for the despotic rulers in Iran among the population.

They have summarily executed tens of thousands of Iranian dissidents. Their record speaks for itself. They had no qualms at sending thousands of children to clear the minefields ahead of their tanks during the 1980-88 war with Iraq; and they have thousands of “martyrs” brainwashed and prepared to serve as bomb mules to be dispatched to any place in the world.

While we recognize the right of legitimate governments to bring to justice those suspected of serious crimes, we condemn with the strongest terms the death penalty imposed on Iranian dissidents in Iran.

We are organizing series of demonstrations to protest the recent executions by the Islamic Republic of Iran and call for the freedom and the prisoners of conscience who are being held and tortured by the Islamic Republic in Iran. We are asking the free people of the civilized world to join us in this noble act.

We think it is little more than an exercise in denial to believe that nothing bad will happen, and that the corrupt inept Mullahs will likely shoot themselves in the foot instead of wreaking havoc on the world. We keep pleading that we should forthwith help the Iranian democratic opposition and send the death-bearer Mullahs back to their mosques. It is the free world’s best and urgent option.



Stockholm - Sweden

Date: Saturday, September 1, 2007
Time: 17 to 19
Location: Plats: Sergels torg


Los Angeles - USA

Date: Monday, September 10, 2007
Time: 19 to 21
Location: In Front of CNN - Sunset Blvd.


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ActivistChat United We Stand For Secularism, Free Society, Liberty, and Human Rights … Invites You To Anti Mullah Demonstrations By tazahorat.com

A Plea For Support & Demonstration Attendance from all Freedom-Loving Activists around the world in our united fight against Executions in Iran by Mullahs, Human Rights Violations In Iran, Terrorism, and Fanaticism! Please support http://tazahorat.com


_____________________________________________________________

To: All Freedom-Loving Compatriots (Right, Left and Center)


This is an ActivistChat invitation to join call from our compatriots in Iranians For Democracy, Human Rights and Opposing Islamic Republic In Iran http://tazahorat.com as a NEW Demonstrations Project coordinator for different Political Parties, Organizations, Groups and individuals in a worldwide demonstration against Executions By the Mafia Mullahs, Terrorists, Islamofascists, and Fanatics who intend to stop and kill the spread of FREEDOM, SECULARISM & DEMOCRACY around the World! Our unified presence in a worldwide demonstration will be the biggest blow to the Mafia Mullahs and Terror Network.
If you or your organization has ability to operate completely independent without any support please act and inform us regarding your organization actions then we might be able to join your organization .

If you are against GENOCIDE,

If you are against TERRORISM,

If you are against FANATICS,

If you are against the MAFIA MULLAHS,

If you are against Terror,

If you are against ALL HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS,

If your group or organization has ability to get permission for demonstration against Mullahs in your Town or Cities please organize it.

If your group or organization has financial ability to put Advertisement on Paper or TV against Mullahs in Iran then please act independently and don’t wait what others tell you.


If Mr. Majid Kavousifar, 28, and his nephew, Mr. Hossein Kavousifar who Embraced Death with Joy and Glory on August 2, 2007 are your heroes then please bring their picture posters to the demonstration.

If you wish to condemn or ask for investigation on Secretary Rice's logic for her actions regarding Mr. Majid Kavousifar who was detained at the US Embassy, turned over to UAE Police who in turn handed him over to Mullah's agents (2005) for Torture and finally Execution by Illegitimate Islamist Occupiers Of Iran? (News source: VOA on Thursday, August 2, 2007 ) Condi Rice action does not match President Bush statement on June 16, 2005 “And to the Iranian people, I say: As you stand for your own liberty, the people of America stand with you." Experience has shown that the silence by officials might not be a correct choice or solution to resolve possible bad mistakes or bad leadership judgments or bad policy decision ..... Condi Rice should explain why? For more information please visit:
http://activistchat.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=31554#31554


If your family has been victimized by any act of terrorism (Sept 11th Terror Attacks, Terrorism in Europe, Middle East, Asia and throughout the world), please bring a picture of your loved one/s to the demonstration.

If your family has been victimized by the Islamist Mafia Regime in Iran or is a family member of one of the over 100,000 freedom-loving political prisoners, torture victims, or Iranians who have been executed in the past 28 years, please bring a picture of your loved one/s to the demonstration.

If you oppose all terrorism and acts of violence against those who wish to live in freedom, then your support and unity with the Iranian people should not be based on whether you are a democrat, republican, libertarian, conservative, independent, green, left, right, or center, but should be based only on your belief that the destiny of the human race is freedom and the unending pursuit of our wishes and our dreams.

Freedom-loving Iranians and people of the world invite you to participate in one of the above scheduled demonstrations by http://tazahorat.com , or organize it one near you which are part of an overall offensive that is being launched against the Islamic Mafia Master's of Terror, who currently hold the Iranian people and much of the world hostage. Together we will destroy this fanatical virus that threatens to destroy all we have fought, suffered, and lived for, for so long! Our destiny is nothing less than absolute freedom, an end to political imprisonment, and the death of theocratic regimes everywhere!


We cannot sit around and wait for the bureaucracies of the world to bring freedom to WE THE PEOPLE, so we must join forces and unite with all who believe in freedom. When freedom is in danger, it matters little what political leanings or perspectives we hold. We are all human beings and so together we must show our strength through unity and defeat the Islamofascist Terrorists and the regimes who sponsor them as they work hard to divide us.

For updated information and schedules regarding the worldwide FREEDOM-MOVEMENT visit http://tazahorat.com or ActivistChat.com ! Also, if you or your group is organizing a pro-freedom demonstrations please contact http://tazahorat.com.


"Human beings are all members of one body.
They are created from the same essence.
When one member is in pain,
The others cannot rest.
If you do not care about the pain of others,
You do not deserve to be called a human being."
A Quote from Famous Persian Poet Saadi Shirazi
( 13th century Persian poet from Shiraz / Iran )

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ActivistChat Community Archive of 16 Video Clips Related To Executions and Stoning By Mad Mullahs

ActivistChat Community Archive of 33 Photos Of Public Executions and Stoning By Mad Mullahs


Must See ActivistChat Community Archive of 22 Executions, Stoning, Torture In Iran Oil Paintings, Computer Graphics by Mr. Farhad Nabipour "Amir"

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Human Rights Activist Ms. Ghazal OMID wrote:

Behind the Curtain! Open Letter To U.S. Senators
By Human Rights Activist Ghazal OMID

This week, on August 21, 2007 Mr. Lee H. Hamilton achieved the goal of diplomacy for which he worked so hard for nearly four months, the release of Ms. Haleh Esfandari from an Iranian prison. As an Iranian and human rights activist, I am both relieved and saddened. Trite as it may be, sometimes the end does not justify the means. On one hand, I am delighted to see an innocent woman, an Iranian American scholar from Woodrow Wilson Center, freed without further delay. I was asked to help her and would have gladly done so had I been needed. On the other hand, the price Mr. Hamilton bargained for this release seems very high to me. He went on the MSNBC Nightly News program, hosted by Brian Williams, stating that after he wrote a letter to Ayatollah Khamani, appealing on religious grounds, he received a reply within three and half months and that this was the first time the Ayatollah has responded to such an appeal.

This sentence was, to say the least, a green light for the Iranian regime and the self-anointed Ayatollah, who Iranians are trying so hard to remove from tyrannical control over their lives, to continue the state’s oppression of Iranians under the aura of patently false Islamic righteousness.
MSNBC http://video.msn.com/v/us/msnbc.htm?g=f4c5c5e5-de7c-4074-b749-0c76921129e0&f=00&fg=email

I may be young and naïve in political matters compared to Mr. Hamilton but I was an Iranian child. I know the mentality and culture. Like many other dissidents born and raised in Iran, we grew up watching politics instead of playing with toys; particularly during the revolution and the eight year war that we saw the Ayatollahs prolong in order to stay in power. We, as Iranians, fear that Mr. Hamilton may have given the Iranian regime more than he knows or intended. He practically did back flips to get them to blink and release on bail a scholar. That may allow him to sleep at night—but it does nothing to prevent the deaths of many more innocent Iranians.

In a conversation on August 21st morning with one of the directors of the Wilson Center, she broke the news of Ms. Esfandari’s release to me before I could offer to help, saying, “She was released on bail. What does that mean?” I replied that means temporary freedom under surveillance, with the $320,000 bail guaranteed by the deed to her mother’s house. I was trying to explain what the Iranian regime will do next but she cut me off swiftly saying, “I don’t need to hear this.” I was not surprised by her reaction. I understood she didn’t want to debate someone who knows firsthand what the government of Iran is capable of. I apologized; saying I was only trying to tell her the truth and sincerely meant to help an Iranian. Her reaction saddens me in that she did not want to accept that the government of Iran is using Ms. Esfandari as bait to further their agenda and gain diplomatic recognition but that is the truth.

The best, brightest and bravest people of Iran will pay for the eye blink that US politicians assume was a DIPLOMATIC victory, and it is one where even the ultimate outcome for its immediate victim has yet to be determined.

The destiny of many political prisoners in Iran is defined not by days but by hours. It is understandable that Mr. Hamilton would go to almost any length to save an American, but I fear that in the process we have accorded the Iranian regime undeserved legitimacy in conveying on it a false impression of moral equivalency and human empathy. While outsiders relax in the afterglow of “well, maybe we can deal with them, maybe they have a heart after all,” the mullahs will continue to harass, imprison and execute anyone who defies them. Is securing one person’s provisional freedom while ignoring the fate of thousands worth the trade off?

I speak for nineteen political prisoners, many of them on death row, who endure physical pain daily and are kept in rat infested holes in worse conditions than most Americans have ever seen or heard of. The regime does not allow the UN or Amnesty International to visit the prisons to see if they meet even the lowest international standards of incarceration. For example, I speak for one prisoner who could die any day from untreated tooth infections, the result of a jaw broken when he was arrested six years go. The government of Iran has refused to accept his mother’s only deed and instead is demanding two deeds to release him for six days to obtain badly needed orthodontic surgery
http://www.omedia.org/Show_Article.asp?DynamicContentID=2513&MenuID=722&ThreadID=1014010

Ironically, the situation with Ms. Esfandari reminds the Iranian American population not of how much, but of how little Iranian lives seem to matter to some politicians. Although we are grateful for the effort that has saved, for now, this particular scholar, we are wondering, what will happen to those who are not scholars but just common Iranians who stand up to the brutal Iranian regime? As much as America approves what has happened for Ms. Esfandari, the average American doesn’t know how wrong a path politicians sometimes choose.

Iranians are wondering; is anyone among US politicians even curious about the death of two of our country’s bravest young men on August 03, 2007? What price dealing with terror regimes was the US willing to pay in this case?
http://activistchat.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=8657

Majid Kavousifar and Hossein Kavousifar “executed” Hassan Moghadas, a notorious Iranian hanging judge, whom Ms. Molly Moore described in her July 17, 2007 article in the Washington Post as “Judge, Jury and Prosecutor” responsible for the brutal killing of hundreds of political enemies of the Islamic Republic. After killing the judge in an act of revolutionary insurgency, the Kavousifars fled Iran for UAE where they told their story to the US Consulate in Dubai. The US Consulate referred them to the US Embassy in Abu Dhabi. The US Embassy, instead of any consideration of political asylum for the dissidents, turned them over to Interpol which through transferred custody to the UAE Police promptly handed them back over to the Iranian regime, to certain death at the end of a crane. We are wondering; when there is censorship of everything in UAE, where the undercover police matrix is so strong nothing goes unchecked, where even books such as mine cannot be published for fear of making women aware of their rights, how could the UAE police not know what they were doing—condemning young Iranian freedom fighters to certain torment and death?
http://hrw.org/advocacy/internet/mena/uae.htm

The inserted link of graphic photographs shows these two young men being hanged from cranes; a tragic injustice that shouldn’t have happened if we really want to help Iranians who are now mourning these two patriot heroes. This was such a painful event that VOA journalists dedicated an entire hour on August 9, 2007 to these brave men; a round table directed at Iranians inside Iran and aired courtesy of US taxpayers. http://www.activistchat.com/community/heroes.html

The executions took place outside the judiciary headquarters before a large crowd including Iran's Chief of Police, Brig. Gen. Ismaeil Ahmadi-Moqqaddam, and Tehran's Chief Prosecutor, Saeed Mortazavi. Iranians are wondering; who really is responsible for the betrayal of these patriots’ revolutionary courage? Is it the USA Embassy? Is it Interpol? Is it the Dubai Chief of Police, Lt. Gen. Dahi, a 26 years police veteran who must have known the fate to which he was consigning these two young men? http://archive.gulfnews.com/indepth/fncelections/candidates/10084618.html

While in Dubai in 2006, I photographed Gen.Dali’s house because the size of his multi-million dollar mansion and compound, in one of the priciest areas of Dubai, does not match police income in a country where the average income is about 50 thousand Durham, (US$20,000). After photographing his house from afar, I was placed under surveillance for the entire time I was in Dubai and was moved from room to room in my hotel. I was required to do any interviews from my hotel under observation in the hotel manager’s office. My calls were monitored and interrupted by authorities’ eavesdropping. This was at the time the US President was trying to give UAE the right to manage US ports. www.livinginhell.com/ Dubai

Iranians are wondering; was this fatal hand-off of the Kavousifars due to carelessness, incompetence, avariciousness or simply because US Embassy personal didn’t want to rock the diplomacy boat? Was this another blink? How could Interpol and the sophisticated governments of the US and UAE make such a naïve mistake as to not investigate the identity and reputation of the victim, before delivering these men into the hands of a government infamous for killing Canadian Journalist Zahra Kazemi? A capital crime, of course, for which Chief Prosecutor Saeed Mortazavi is wanted by the Canadian government.

Driving around Dubai, you see many major buildings that insiders confirm are owned by Rafsanjani and other Iranian officials. Was this betrayal a cop-out by the staff of the US Embassy who didn’t want to get caught between the “business-as-usual” of the two countries? Iranians are wondering, is an investigation into the death of Majid Kavousifar and Hossein Kavousifar in order? Will it be pursued? Is it not as important for US career diplomats and politicians to try to save freedom-loving Iranians as it is to save their own political prisoners? Will the lives of Iranian children, women and men be forfeited as we play the games of diplomacy with a rogue, gangster regime?

http://www.petitiononline.com/achat49/petition.html


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Restoring the revolution, taking away civil liberties

The head of Iran's judiciary is a confident man. Despite foreign attempts at slander, Ayatollah Mahmud Hashemi Shahrudi recently declared, his country has presented a fine image to the world of Islamic law at work.

If news were limited to such mercies as the recent release, on bail, of Haleh Esfandiari, a 67-year-old Iranian-American academic, after six months in jail on charges of espionage, or the amnesty granted to 4,000 other prisoners on the occasion of the birthday on August 20th of Imam Hussein, a revered Shia martyr, Mr Shahrudi's confidence might be justified. But these welcome developments come against a darkening backdrop, as the administration of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad intensifies a campaign to reimpose the moral fervour, and xenophobic zeal, of the 1979 Islamic revolution's early years.

The rest of the world may be more concerned about Iran's nuclear ambitions. But for many Iranians, the issue that has begun to outweigh other troubles, such as poverty, unemployment and the danger of war with America, is human rights.

This is not surprising. Recent months have seen the largest crackdown on civil liberties since the 1980s. Purges of suspected liberals have decimated university faculties, and repeated closures have all but silenced the once-vociferous opposition press. Ms Esfandiari was the best-known of four Iranian-American scholars incarcerated earlier this year for alleged ties to American intelligence. Her colleagues remain in prison. But since the spring a wave of arrests has targeted everyone from women's-rights advocates to student leaders, trade unionists and critical journalists, packing the country's prisons so tight that police are commandeering other buildings as makeshift lock-ups.

Political activists are not the only ones at risk. Security officials boast that their campaign against “bad hijab”, which includes the warning, booking or detaining of women deemed insufficiently clad, but extends also to youths sporting “Western-style” haircuts, rock-music fans, shopkeepers selling indecent garments, and unmarried couples, has alone netted more than 500,000 offenders since April. And unlike previous dress-code enforcements, which tended to relax after a few weeks, this one appears to be growing stricter. Signs have appeared outside public hospitals declaring that only women wearing the head-to-floor chador, and not merely the headscarf, will be helped.

As much as the scale of the crackdown, its severity is raising eyebrows. Much of the police action has been accompanied by complaints of brutality, and in many cases by documentary evidence such as graphic footage of beatings, posted on dissident websites. Despite prison crowding, punitive use of solitary confinement appears to have grown more common. The number of executions nearly doubled last year, to 177, bringing Iran the unsavoury distinction of being the world's heaviest user of capital punishment per head of population. This year has seen not only a further jump in the number of judicial killings but a return of mass public hangings, which are sometimes broadcast on state television.

Such harsher treatment, say rights activists, is partly a product of the paranoid atmosphere generated by a government that has deliberately associated any form of civil disobedience with alleged foreign plots. Recent remarks by the country's chief of police made this link explicit. Once they had dealt with “propagators of moral decay”, he said, his forces would turn their attention to those who “theorise on corruption”, such as critics whom he tied to foreign conspiracies aimed at a “soft overthrow” of the Islamic Republic.

The dissent within

But foreign spies and decadent liberals are not the regime's only critics. Mr Shahrudi, the chief judge, has himself voiced dismay over the government's policies. In July he condemned the stoning to death of a man accused of adultery, and sponsored this month's mass amnesty in what was seen as a sign of discomfort with police excess. He has also joined a broad range of former officials, economists, oil executives and businessmen in attacking Mr Ahmadinejad's erratically autocratic economic policies, which have included forcing banks to slash interest rates, splurging on costly infrastructure projects and replacing respected technocrats with cronies.

Many establishment figures agree that, rather than American bluster, it is these policies that endanger the country. To paraphrase Mr Shahrudi in a recent interview, if Iran wishes its revolution to be a model, a good start would be to get its economy in order. Another way might be to treat its people better.


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