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18 of Iran’s 21 new ministers hail from Revolutionary Guards, secret police Sun. 14 Aug 2005
Iran Focus

http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/arti...hp?storyid=3315


Tehran, Iran, Aug. 14 - The following is the final list of ministerial nominations presented by Iran’s new President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to the Majlis (parliament) on Sunday.

The list includes 13 ministers-designate who have been officers and officials in the Revolutionary Guards and its affiliated paramilitary agencies.

At least five of the nominees have background in the notorious secret police, the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), and revolutionary prosecutor’s offices, including the new cabinet’s two Shiite clerics, Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ezhei and Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi. The latter was Deputy Minister in charge of MOIS for a decade, while the former was the chief representative of the judiciary in the MOIS for years.

The Majlis is scheduled to have a 40-hour debate on the nominations, beginning next Sunday. It will then proceed to vote on each nominee and is widely expected to approve all of them.




1. Minister of Foreign Affairs: Manouchehr Mottaki, 52, chairman of parliamentary foreign affairs committee, former Deputy Foreign Minister and ambassador to Turkey and Japan, former liaison officer between Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and Foreign Ministry, former Vice-president of Islamic Cultural and Communications Organisation, an agency created by the Supreme Leader for export of Islamic revolution to other parts of the Muslim world. Mottaki has been hawkishly critical of Iran’s nuclear negotiations with the West





2. Minister of Defence: Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar, 49, brigadier general in the Revolutionary Guards, joined IRGC when it was formed in 1979, took part in bloody campaign to suppress Kurds in 1979 and 1980, commander of IRGC operations in Lebanon, Palestinian territories and Persian Gulf states in 1980s, head of Military Industries Organisation






3. Minister of Intelligence and Security (MOIS): Hojjatol-Islam Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Ezhei, 49, Prosecutor and Judge of Special Tribunal for Clergy, formerly Special Prosecutor in the Ministry of Intelligence and Security, a founding official and member of staff selection board for MOIS






4. Minister of the Interior: Hojjatol-Islam Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi, 46, in charge of Special Department for Security and Intelligence in the office of the Supreme Leader, former Deputy Minister of Intelligence and Security, former Military Revolutionary Prosecutor






5. Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance: Mohammad-Hossein Saffar-Harandi, 52, former deputy editor in chief of ultra-conservative daily Kayhan, former brigadier general in IRGC, former IRGC commander of southern Iran, former director of Political Bureau of IRGC (for 10 years)






6. Minister of Oil: Ali Saeedlou, 41, long-time ally of Ahmadinejad in ultra-conservative Abadgaran faction, former deputy mayor of Tehran for finance and administration, replaced Ahmadinejad as interim mayor of Tehran after presidential elections, former deputy director of Defence Industries Organization affiliated to the Ministry of Defence, former chief representative of the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (secret police) in the Ministry of Commerce, former staff member of the Supreme National Security Council






7. Minister of Commerce: Masoud Mir-Kazemi, 45, chairman of IRGC’s Centre for Strategic Studies, chancellor of Shahed University (set up exclusively for relatives of “martyrs” of the Islamic revolution), former logistics commander in Revolutionary Guards







8. Minister of Agriculture: Mohammad-Reza Eskandari, 46, head of Wheat Self-sufficiency Programme, a founding member of Jihad Sazandegi, affiliated to the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps





9. Minister of Justice: Jamal Karimi-Rad, 49, spokesman of the Judiciary, former revolutionary prosecutor in Zanjan and Qazvin provinces, director of Taazirat Department (agency for implementation of corporal punishment, including flogging in public, etc) in Qazvin






10. Minister of Transportation: Mohammad Rahmati, 47, Minister of Roads and Transportation in Khatami’s cabinet (the only incumbent in the new cabinet), former head of Universities’ Jihad, a paramilitary organization affiliated to the Revolutionary Guards that recruited Islamists in universities, a former leadership member of Office for Strengthening of Unity (OSU), a key planner of the Islamic Cultural Revolution in 1980, when all universities were ransacked and shut down by Islamists in a bloody purge of dissident students and academics.






11. Minister of Welfare and Social Security: Mehdi Hashemi, 42, Deputy Mayor of Tehran for districts, former commander in Revolutionary Guards, commander in paramilitary Bassij of IRGC, former engineering commander of State Security Forces






12. Minister of Industries and Mines: Ali-Reza Tahmasbi, 44, member of Majlis Research Centre, former senior officer in Jihad Sazandegi, former head of Jihad Sazandegi Research Centre, expert in ballistic missile development, former Revolutionary Guards officer in Khatam-ol-Anbia garrison of IRGC





13. Minister of Science, Research and Technology: Mohammad-Mehdi Zahedi, 51, hard-line chairman of Kerman City Council, former professor of mathematics in the University of Shahid Bahonar in Kerman





14. Minister of Labour and Social Affairs: Mohammad Jahromi, 47, deputy chairman for executive affairs of the ultra-conservative Guardian Council, founding member of IRGC in Gilan and Mazandaran provinces in 1979, governor of Zanjan, Lorestan and Semnan provinces, former member of secretariat of the State Expediency Council





15. Minister of Energy: Parviz Fattah, 44, former Deputy Commander of Special Division of Revolutionary Guards, former board member of Revolutionary Guards’ Imam Hossein University





16: Minister of Housing and Urban Development: Mohammad Saeedi-Kia, 59, chairman of Urban Planning and Development Corporation, former senior officer of Jihad Sazandegi (branch of IRGC), former Minister of Transportation





17. Minister of Education: Ali Akbar Ash'ari, 52, editor of the daily Hamshahri, which belongs to Tehran City Council (he was appointed by Ahmadinejad when the latter was mayor of Tehran), former Deputy Minister of Islamic Guidance, former representative of Ministry of Intelligence and Security (secret police) in the Ministry of Education






18. Minister of Communications and Information Technology: Mohammad Soleymani, 51, former Deputy Minister of Science, former chancellor of University of Science and Technology of Tehran (UST), former head of Higher Electronic Research Centre, head of the IRGC-affiliated War Committee in the Ministry of Science and in UST in the 1980s (Ahmadinejad studied, taught, and founded the Islamic Association in UST)





19. Minister of Economy: Davoud Danesh-Jaafari, 51, chairman of Majlis committee on economy and finance, a leading member of hard-line Islamist faction, Abadgaran, in the Majlis, former member of Central Command of Jihad Sazandegi (a branch of Revolutionary Guards)





20. Minister of Health: Kamran Lankarani, youngest cabinet member at 40, radical Islamist head of Namazi Hospital in Shiraz, former prosecutor in the investigative committee into medical malpractice in Shiraz, chairman of Islamic Association of Physicians in Fars Province





21. Minister of Cooperatives: Ali-Reza Ali-Ahmadi, 46, Ahmadinejad’s presidential campaign manager, former leadership member of the Islamist student organization OSU, former fellow-activist with Ahmadinejad in the Islamic Student Association of University of Science and Technology, adviser to the Supreme Council for Islamic Cultural Revolution (which conducted a bloody purge of Iranian universities in the early 1980s), worked for some time in Imam Hossein University of the IRGC





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Last week, Ahmadinejad appointed hard-liner Ali Larijani as Secretary of Supreme National Security Council and put him in charge of nuclear policy. Larijani, an IRGC brigadier general and former Deputy Minister of the now-defunct Ministry of Revolutionary Guards, will attend cabinet meetings and is expected to play a key role in the new government. He is a former director of state-run radio and television.
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Revolutionary Guards and allies sweep Iran’s new cabinet Sun. 14 Aug 2005
Iran Focus

http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/arti...hp?storyid=3311



Tehran, Iran, August 14 – Iran's new President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad presented a cabinet to the country’s Majlis (parliament) on Sunday that was dominated by prominent hard-liners earmarked for the key portfolios of foreign affairs, interior and security. Former commanders and officials of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) and other radical Islamist institutions have swept the other ministries.

At least 13 of the 21 nominated ministers have been in the Revolutionary Guards and its affiliated revolutionary agencies at some stage during their careers. Five nominees have been Islamic revolutionary prosecutors or officials of the Ministry of Intelligence and Security, the notorious secret police.

Ahmadinejad’s cabinet, as expected, includes no women.

“There is not one minister in this cabinet who could be described as a moderate”, said Ali Tavassoli, an Iranian affairs analyst based in Dubai. “There are a few hard-liners and many more very radical hard-liners. Ahmadinejad must feel quite at home among this crowd”.

The new cabinet is a list of officials whose careers are strikingly similar to that of the new president. From young, ardent Islamic revolutionaries mostly in their early twenties at the outset of the 1979 revolution, they have risen to senior executive or managerial positions through loyal devotion to the Islamic revolution.

The roster of ministerial nominees largely tallies with the list that was leaked to Iran Focus on Saturday by informed sources in the Iranian capital, who warned that there could be last-minute changes as horse trading among powerful factions within the hard-line camp continued well into the night.

The most surprising name in the final list was perhaps that of the new defence minister, Mostafa Mohammad-Najjar, a brigadier general in the Revolutionary Guards who joined the IRGC when it was formed in 1979. He took part in a bloody campaign to suppress the Kurds in 1979 and 1980. Between 1981 and 1985, Mohammad-Najjar was a commander of IRGC units in Lebanon.

But the cabinet will be dominated by two powerful Shiite clerics, Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi as the new Minister of the Interior, and Gholam-Hossein Mohseni Ezhei, who will head the Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS). Both men have spent much of the past two decades at the top echelons of the MOIS. Both have been involved in the massacre of thousands of political prisoners in 1988. Both have been implicated in the serial murder of dozens of dissidents and intellectuals in the 1990s. Both are among the most trusted confidants of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.

Analysts see the composition of the new cabinet as a clear sign of increasing radicalisation of the Islamic Republic, as hard-liners continue to consolidate power. The predominance of extremists and hard-line figures in the new cabinet surprised some observers who thought the ultra-conservative faction might be willing to include some of the allies of former presidents Rafsanjani and Khatami in the new cabinet to achieve greater unity within the theocratic state and send a less threatening signal to the West in the midst of the continuing crisis over Iran’s nuclear programme.

“By Saturday night, as the new president’s proposed list of ministers became finalised, it appeared that Ahmadinejad had chosen the majority of his ministers from a single faction”, the website Hatef News, close to Ali Akbar Rafsanjani, wrote.

“The selection of [Mostafa] Pour-Mohammadi as Interior Minister, Mohseni Ezhei as Minister of Intelligence and Security, and Saffar Harandi as Minister of Islamic Guidance, and the absence of several figures who are known for having more moderate views, have convinced analysts that the country is going to be administered by only a single faction that will dominate political, security and cultural institutions”, the website added.

An official from the ultra-conservative camp in the secretariat of the Majlis told reporters on Sunday that the new list had the “blessing” of the Supreme Leader.

“It was hammered out by a committee made up of three officials from Mr. Ahmadinejad’s campaign team, three members of the [hard-line-dominated] Tehran City Council, and three representatives appointed by Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi”, he said.

Ayatollah Mohammad-Taghi Mesbah Yazdi is an extremist Shiite cleric who is seen as Ahmadinejad’s ideological mentor. After his victory in the presidential elections, Ahmadinejad travelled to Qom to personally thank the ayatollah for his support. Mesbah Yazdi regularly advocates the use of “martyrdom operations” to fight “the enemies of Islam”.

The hard-line-dominated Majlis will vote on each nominee in the coming days and is widely expected to approve them. According to the rules, the president must introduce his cabinet within two weeks after his swearing-in ceremony. If a nominee fails to win the vote of confidence, the president must introduce a new one within two weeks.
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Residents of Iran city claim new Interior Minister ordered massacre Fri. 19 Aug 2005
Iran Focus

http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/arti...hp?storyid=3385





Tehran, Iran, Aug. 19 – In a letter to the United Nations human rights office in Geneva, a copy of which was sent to Iran Focus, residents in the southern Iranian port city of Bandar Abbass accused the country’s new Minister of the Interior-designate of ordering the summary execution of dozens of young people in the city to put down an anti-government riot in 1981 and demanded an international inquiry into the incident.

The letter named 48 of the victims of executions.

The residents allege that Hojjatol-Islam Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi personally issued death sentences for dozens of dissidents, including several minors, when he was sent to Bandar Abbass in the early 1980s as the country’s Military Revolutionary Prosecutor to deal with growing unrest and anti-government protests in the port city. Bandar Abbas is strategically located on the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz and was the main Iranian port after the outbreak of the Iran-Iraq war in September 1980.

Bandar Abbas became a hotbed of opposition activities in 1980. The government’s decision to sack more than 600 dissident teachers in Bandar Abbass and neighbouring towns and cities inflamed the simmering tensions and led to public protests. The authorities sent in units of Revolutionary Guards to stamp out the protests and closed all schools and offices.

As unrest continued, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ordered Pour-Mohammadi, the feared Military Revolutionary Prosecutor, to restore order in the city. Under his supervision, Revolutionary Guards rounded up the dissidents throughout the province and shot them after summary trials.

Pour-Mohammadi, now 46 years old, has been in charge of the Special Department for Security and Intelligence in the office of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei since 1997. Prior to that, for 13 years he was Deputy Minister of Intelligence and Security.

The names of some of the victims of executions allegedly ordered by Pour-Mohammadi in Bandar-Abbas follows:

1. Mohammad Zazmat-Pisheh, 18-year-old student
2. Mehdi Eezdeshnas, 16-year-old student
3. Kamyar Esmaeil-Zadeh, 18-year-old student
4. Karim Abdollah-Pour, 23-year-old, docker
5. Mahsheed Motazed Keyvan, housewife, executed in prison several months after giving birth to a boy in prison
6. Mohammad Cheshm-Bara, docker
7. Ali-Reza Ghasemian, 17-year-old student
8. Mohammad Sarafraz, Navy officer, was married and had two children
9. Mohammad Azimi, 18-year-old student
10. Hamid Motaghedi, 18-year-old student
11. Karim Torabi, 20 years old
12. Ne’mat Bashkhour, 23-year-old teacher, was hanged from a lamp post in downtown Bandar-Abbas and his body was not taken down for two days
13. Mohammad Soleimani, 18-year-old student
14. Mohammad-Hossein Sahafi, teacher
15. Sharifian, student
16. Yaghoub Zadeh
17. Nader Roosta, 17-year-old student
18. Mahmoud Foolad-Khani, 19-year-old student
19. Mohammad Ramazan-Pour, 22-year-old graduate
20. Mohammad Amin-Torabi
21. Mohammad Moeeni, student
22. Hassan Bashiri
23. Mahmoud Khodadadzadeh
24. Parviz Shangi-Pour, student
25. Fatollah Farbod, 22-year-old graduate
26. Aref Bolouki, student
27. Hossein Rakani, student
28. Ahmad Eslami
29. Nasser Moradi
30. Mansour Ahmad-Shahi
31. Nasroolah Ahmad-Shahi
32. Raj Ahmad-Shahi
33. Moussa Pishdad
34. Jalali
35. Hossein Rowhani, 17-year-old student
36. Ahmad Cheshm-Barah
37. Behrooz Youssefi
38. Hamid Makrani
39. Pourtaragh
40. Eskandari
41. Sadeghi
42. Hassan Ravan
43. Aziz Pour-Ahmadi
44. Mohammad Firouzi, student
45. Mahmoud Youssefi
46. Qanbar Pishdast
47. Makkari
48. Yadollah Salari
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http://sarbazekuchak.blogspot.com/2005/08/...for-record.html


For the record

With Ali Larijani as the Islamic Republic of anti-Iran's new chief nuclear negotiator (http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=3224) , we could not have found a better person to defend "Iranian pride!" (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/hooman-majd/a-long-week-for-tehran_5242.html)




Ali Larijani's speech in "Sharif university", May 2003:

"Sadly, much lies are told today of Iranians before Islam, the extent of their culture and civilization, and the burning of their libraries during the Moslem invasion...Before Islam Iranians were an illiterate, uncivilized and basically barbaric people who desired to remain as such."
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[Spenta]

If this is not a group of Murderous, Mean, Nasty Thugz I don't know what is

[IIRF]

THank you for the post, I will update the site with the following info given.
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