Show Trials Get Under Way
tehran bureau / muhammad sahimi
02-Aug-2009 (3 comments)

The prosecutor followed the line closely associated with IRGC commanders such as Major General Mohammad Ali (Aziz) Jafari and Brigadier General Yadollah Javani, head of the IRGC’s political directorate. As propagated by Kayhan and Shariatmadari, the IRGC top command would like people to believe protests against the rigged election were part of an attempt by reformist leaders to overthrow the regime. There was, however, a minor, but significant difference: Instead of referring to it as a “velvet revolution,” the language of choice used in the past by Jafari, Javani and Shariatmadari, the prosecutor borrowed a phrase from reformist leader Mohammad Khatami, who said two weeks ago, “If anything [has happened to the election], it is a velvet coup against the people.” The prosecutor shifted his language too, also referring to it as a “velvet coup.”Quoting Ayatollah Khamenei, the prosecutor mocked the “foreigners” and the “enemy.” “They thought Iran is like Georgia,” he said...The prosecutor then listed the foreign entities that supposedly helped the reformist leaders and the majority of Iranian people in their attempts to stage a “velvet coup”: The Open Society of George Soros; the Rockefeller, Ford and George Marshal Foundations; the Council on Foreign Relations; the German Society for Foreign Affairs; Center for Democratic Governance of Britain; and U.S.-funded Radio Farda, which r >>>


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rosie is roxy is roshan

David, Fred

by rosie is roxy is roshan on

David, not exaaactly from TIO to bottom YET. Obviously the thing that makes this show trial MOST of a circus of all is that everyone is being tried EXCEPT M, K, and K (don't want to name them because don't want to jinx anyone), while ALL the charges are about what THEY did and what what people did FOR them and WITH them....

Yes, you could say that the 'groundwork' is being laid. But it also makes the proceedings surrealistically ridiculous. I think they are hoping that this will scare the three at the REAL top into submission so they won't have to go that far. They know that if they indicted any one of MKK there would be worse riots in the streets than in their worst nightmares, they are trying to avoid that. They so grossly miscalculate.

Rather than scaring anyone into submission, it has only brought people out of the woodwork who normally would've shut up, like Khamenei's brother, into declaring allegiance publicly to the movement in very strong terms. Previous to this (and the last two kids coming out of prison in body bags), if someone like him had come out at all, he would've been far more 'diplomatic' about it. He was not.

They have shown themselves over and over again not to be very bright, and this is no exception.

Fred, I would like to make a comment to you here later, so please check back.


David ET

We all are spies in their eyes.

by David ET on

Prosecutor even named Ganji, Ebadi, Shadi Sadr and NGO's in his comments.

That explains why Ganji and Ebadi have been out of country and Sadr and Mostafaei were arrested earlier.

Major crackdown is in process from TOP to bottom.

 


Fred

No more Islamist nuke?

by Fred on

The astonishing thing is some of the outrageous chargers enumerated by the Islamist “prosecutor” are almost carbon copy of those a certain nuke lover used to make against his detractors. BTW, how is the Islamist nuke pushing going these days? Still believe in Islamists are trustworthy enough to have dual purpose nuke?