Iran's Human Rights record over past 30 years

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13-Feb-2009
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Majid

J.Niavarani IV

by Majid on

I've been a registered member here for 1 year 25 weeks now.

I dare you "and anyone else for that matter" to find ONE, just "ONE" comment, blog, article by me that remotely relates me to be a monarchist or being a fan or supporter of.

There's not enough glue in the entire world to use for labeling me with that crap!

It was just entertaining to read and reply to your "tafseer"...LOL 

Go ahead, click on my name and check my track record.


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Majid, you have made a big mistake in calculations

by Jamshid Niavarani IV (not verified) on

In 1953 the Shah fled Iran.

Dr. Mohammad Mossadegh was Prime Minister.

It was not until the Shah was re-installed by the West that the Shah came back to power.

1941-1953 Mohammad Reza Pahlavi

Royalist opposition to Mossadegh's government mounted during the first half of 1953, and on August 15 Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi dismissed him. Defying the shah, Mosaddeq retained his post, while the shah fled the country.
Microsoft ® Encarta ® Encyclopedia 2005 © 1993-2004 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

On August 19, however, royalist forces, with the covert aid of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, gained the upper hand and arrested him. Mossadegh was tried by a military court and sentenced to three years of solitary confinement for treason. He took no further part in public life.
Microsoft ® Encarta ® Encyclopedia 2005 © 1993-2004 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

No one can dispute this fact.

The Shah ruled 1941-1953...
That is 12 years.

After that the West had to control every single step of the Shah.

August 19, 1953-January 16, 1979 is a little less than 26 years.

The Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the son of a Mazandarani illiterate Cosack Colonel named Reza Khan never ruled continuously as long as the "Islamic Republic of Iran".

Anyone who disputes this fact is either stupid or crazy.

May the Shia Muslim God, Allah help Iranian Monarchists with their mental illness.

And may Imam Reza, who that idiot Mohammad Reza Pahlavi used to visit yearly also help and aid the misguided Iranian monarchists who s*ck big time.

Oh by the way, "Marg bar Shah va hokomateh paadeshahi".

America got rid of King George III and that was great. All Iranian Monarchists are inherently stupid.

God Bless America. And why not?


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Saddle up you Pagan Persians and have some fun

by Pagan Persians (not verified) on

Sing along Persians
and
kick mollahs out
//www.youtube.com/watch?v=btwTqgaTC5E&NR=1


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LOL ex Savaki! thats agoo joke!

by Anonymous8 (not verified) on

your attempt to lend credibility against the eye witness accounts in the article is very FUNNY!

you must be right, all those body parts are just him cleaning the streets!!! he was just a good citizen trying to dissolve them all in acid!!!

you are obviously lying about being SAVAKi or knowing anybody in the article. but even if you are really x SAVAKI does that mean we should believe your words?

do you think SAVAK was known for its truthfulness and honor?

LOL! shame on you for your lies!


delldaar

There should be a rule....

by delldaar on

against posting the picture of this NASSNAAS, I mean the greate leader.


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misleading CANOE

by Anonymous8 (not verified) on

did I SAY Fisk said IRI was worse? No, I said it based on the Fisk article which you are closing your eyes to.

america trained SAVAK. it was as ruthless and as sadistic as it got in the cold war, it was the worst! you are welcome to live in ignorance as you have in the past 30 years.


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Anonymous8

by ex-savaki (not verified) on

Derek Ive was clearly deceived (assuming that he was reporting his observations truthfully). Long before Bakhtiar came to power, Savak had stopped its interrogative operations (almost about the time Carter arrived in Theran, New Year's Eve 1977). So even if we assume theat my former colleagues were involved in cutting people's arms and legs - a most vicious lie fabricated by the leftist groups and Muslim fanatics - any piece of human body or a corpse would have rotten beyond recognition if left in the open for more than a year and had disappeared totally if left in an acid tank for more than a few days. The arms, legs and corpses that Derek Ive had seen were taken from the corpses of the victims of the street fightings or from the body of those who were summarily executed by the guerillas of the left and islamic idealogies.

How many one-armed or armless or fingerless victims of the Savak came forward after the revoluton to reveal their mutulated bodies? None!! Don't you think the regime would have made a field day out of such a propaganda opportunity?

Having said this, I admit that torture was occasionally practiced by the Savak but, it was never at this level (of savagery cutting arms and limbs) and could not have been compared to the scale and brutality of the Islamic regime.


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Misleading anonym8

by canoe (not verified) on

Robert Fisk: I saw a mesmeric Islamic uprising turn to savagery

Robert Fisk does not say that Savak was worse than IRI or there is any improvement in IRI. stop the misinformation.

anonym8:

How many times have your propaganda been refuted?? google Emad Baghi and Question of numbers.

If SAVAK was as ruthless as you and your ilk try to paint it, the Shah would have still been there or his son and the Islamists would not be running a mock terrorizing the world.


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HR is bad, but an improvement over SAVAK

by Anonymous8 (not verified) on

still it is not acceptable. BUT SAVAK was much worse.

Darius Kadivar needs to refresh his memory. Read this from Robert Fisk //www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/...

...

And how could I argue with this when reporters such as Derek Ive of the AP had managed to look inside a Savak agent’s house just before the revolution was successful? “There was a fishpond outside,” he told me. “There were vases of flowers in the front hall. But downstairs there were cells. In each of them was a steel bed with straps and beneath it two domestic cookers. There were lowering devices on the bedframes so the people strapped to them could be brought down on the flames. In another cell, I found a machine with a contraption which held a human arm beneath a knife and next to it was a metal sheath into which a human hand could be fitted. At one end was a bacon slicer. They had been shaving off hands.”

Derek Ive found a pile of human arms in a corner and, in a further cell, he discovered pieces of a corpse floating in inches of what appeared to be acid. Amid such savagery was the Iranian revolution born.


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Picture: No ties to the Heaven

by Anonymous2 (not verified) on

Isamic republic in iran from the outset had no tie to the heaven. It was an illegitimate, illegal, immoral, unethical work of fools. All Iranians must unite to purge this moral cancer from the soul of their land immediately for self cleansing.

And here is the proof.

//iranian.com/Covers/2004/May/may10.jpg

cc. Gas and oil annual revenue department


Darius Kadivar

Eh Oui ...

by Darius Kadivar on

Que Voulez Vous ? ...

Gool Khordeed Deegeh ! Amnesty finally admits its errors ...


Majid

جناب یحیی نجار سوم ......(ج-ن)

Majid


 

عجب تجزیه و تحلیل عمیقی فرمودین قربان!

 

It is now 30 years after the revolution. The Iranian theocracy has lasted longer continuously than any Pahlavi.

طبق فرمایش شما ٣٠ سال طولانی تر از ٣٧ ساله! نه؟

it is safe to say that the theocracy in Iran will last another 2500 years and after that Imam Mahdi, the Shia Muslim Messiah will come back and take everyone to paradise.


میشه بالاغیرتاً یه چند سالی تخفیف بدین قربان؟ another 2500 years ؟  خوشا به سعادتتون ! طبقه دوم که اجاره رفته، چیزی باقی مونده برای فکر کردن؟


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Where is Carter and all the human rights noise???

by Anonymous! (not verified) on

This "revultion" was all a Western game. You can thank Carter, Tatcher and the rest of the gang! Now the West will have to deal with the backfire and payback for their actions for decades to come! ENJOY!


Kaveh Nouraee

Carpenter

by Kaveh Nouraee on

Go adjust your dosage


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The root of all evil were the Pahlavis

by Jamshid Niavarani IV (not verified) on

The Pahlavi dynasty as per stated in the Amnesty International clip started the violence. Many of the Shia Clergy that came to power on 11 February 1979 were in the Shah's prisons. Many of these clergy were SAVAK men inside and outside the prison system doing the Shah's work.

On 16 January 1979, after the Conference of Guadelupe, western powers decided to send the Shah for a ride.

The Shah was politely ordered to leave Iran.

On the 16th of January 1979, upon the orders of the West the Cancer ridden Shah left Iran.

The West then sent Ayat'Allah Ruh'Allah Moosavi Khomayni to Tehran via a Air France Air plane.

30 million people who protested against the Shah the day before overwhelmingly saluted the return of Imam Khomayni.

The majority of Iranians voted for an Islamic Republic in 1979.

It is now 30 years after the revolution. The Iranian theocracy has lasted longer continuously than any Pahlavi.

In 1982, the theocracy removed the leftists from any opposition. And the MKO ended up in Iraq at Camp Ashraf drinking cups of tea with Saddam Hussein during the Iran-Iraq war. The War that led to the murder of 1 million Iranian soldiers.

During the Persian Gulf War the MKO was disarmed by the American military. The MKO is now being politely ordered to leave Iraq by current government of Iraq.

Saddam was executed and the Taliban were overthrown. Both were the biggest enemy of the Iranian theocracy.

Today both President Obama and President Ahmadinejad are scheduled to sit down with Ayat'Allah Seyed Ali Khamenei in Qom or Tehran and have direct talks.

Iran will open up a consulate and Embassy in the U.S. and the US. will re-open an embassy in Tehran.

In the end, the past is the past.

Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and the United Nations will monitor and correct the Human Rights ills of the Iranian theocracy.

In Conclusion, it is safe to say that the theocracy in Iran will last another 2500 years and after that Imam Mahdi, the Shia Muslim Messiah will come back and take everyone to paradise.


Benyamin

Very well said Peymane Amiri

by Benyamin on

I agree with you Peymaneh, although the pain and sufferings of Bahai faith and all others are not said enough no one has ever mentioned Yaresan and most Iranians have not even heard about them.

But I like what you wrote there.

Life is cheap in IRI, if it is agaisnt the Elite rulers.

Because you can be muslim and a very devoute one but if you dare say anything against the Elite rulers of IRI your 5 times praying wont help you with them. Khomeini was NOT "Botshekan" he became a "bot" himself. Even greater than God(Allah) itself In IRI you may deny the existance of Allah but you may not decline Khomeini`s Idealogy!!!


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Religion must be separated from state for any hope for HR

by HR (not verified) on

One can hope that human rights will be respected in Iran if/when on day religion is separated from state.


mahmoudg

Iran will never have a functioning HR

by mahmoudg on

Under this Regime.  Islam and Human rights is an oxymoron.


Paymaneh Amiri

30 years of violence against people of Iran

by Paymaneh Amiri on

Violations of human rights are mostly seen as torture, execution, false imprisonment, forced confessions, and illegal and unjust judicial processes.

However, IRI has been violating human rights of Iranian people on many other levels, making life difficult for the nation under its rule. 

What about not issuing marriage certificates to Bahais, rendering their marriages non-existing and their children bastards without birth certificates?  What about not enrolling their youth in colleges and universities, forcing them to receive "covert" education among their own?

What about suspending university students' education for one, two, or more terms or permanently because they expressed an opinion?

What about sentencing a young blogger to 2.5 years of imprisonment plus flogging because he said what he thought?

What about having air pollution levels dangerous to human breathing, but insisting on keeping schools and offices open, giving way to a high number of deaths caused by strokes and heart attacks only a month ago?

What about having road and patrolling conditions which have put Iran at the top of the list of countries with most road fatalities in the world?

What about building nuclear plants in densely populated areas of Iran, putting millions of people in harm's way should there be a military attack on those facilities?

What about choosing language and approaches to international discourse which would put people of Iran in harm's way with economic sanctions and potential military attacks on Iran?

What about going around acting like they are benefactors and godfathers of every "disenfrancised" nation and rule in the Middle East, and having millions of Iranians now live under established poverty lines?

What about young Iranians who have to sell their kidneys to come up with money to take care of family emergencies?

What about drug trafficking which is sponsored and managed by Sepaah and now has at least 10 percent of Iranians addicted to drugs?

The list could go on.

Islamic Republic of Iran has no regard for human life.

History will tell the whole story of IRI's atrocities soon enough.


Kaveh Nouraee

IRI and Human Rights

by Kaveh Nouraee on

Two concepts that don't go together.


Benyamin

How about Yaresan?

by Benyamin on

I am so disappointed, even Amnesty International doesn`t know about Yaresan in Iran or not metioning them. Aurguably the biggest religious minority in Iran which includes all of Iranian nationalities except Arabs. Yaresan have NO RIGHTS in Iran. Yaresan have been subjected to persecution before and after Islamic revolution. Before revolution the Shah was afraid of the clergy uprising and after revolution Yaresan are just simply INFIDELS!!!

Yaresan are also known as: Ahl e haqq. Aliollahi, Nosairy, Gowran,and in other countries such as Turkey they go by Alavi and Bektashi and so on.


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islam and human rights!!!

by Iran Sarbaz (not verified) on

islam's holy book is a disrespect to human dignity...