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Justice under god
15-Dec-2007
Justice must correspond to the necessities of our time. The penal system of the Islamic Republic of Iran is not in compliance with our society’s expectations. Our Iranian norms of morality and Islamic jurisprudence can never be in harmony. To describe how this penal system was mechanically grafted on our society, we must go back to the first years after the revolution of 1979 in Iran to see how the IRI steadily developed ever greater repression, with an increase both in the number of executions and in violence in general throughout the country.
Immediately after the February 1979 revolution, Revolutionary Courts were set up to prosecute agents of the Pahlavi regime. People were tried retroactively for acts which did not constitute penal offences at the time they were committed. Since 1979, according to the statements of opposition groups, 3,350 persons have been executed, more than 2,000 of them since the dismissal of President Bani Sadr, i.e. from June to October 1981.
Accused persons have been put on trial with no previous warning of the charges and no opportunity to prepare a defence, to engage a lawyer or to bring witnesses in their defence. They were condemned to death without any rights of appeal, whether within the law or under clemency and summarily executed. Those not condemned to death were in peril of double jeopardy. An example was General Nazemi who was condemned to 15 years imprisonment, but a few months later was retried on the same charges, condemned to death and executed; this was in violation of all international norms, including the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights to which Iran is a party (1). Death sentences have been accompanied by flogging or carried out by stoning.
Having dealt with the former officials of the Shah’s regime, the courts began to concentrate on people accused of moral transgressions and of being “counter-revolutionaries” (i.e. anyone opposed to the Khomeini regime). The charges included “corruption on earth” and “waging war against God, his Prophet, his Imam and representatives of the Imam”. This policy followed the line of action which Ayatollah Khomeini emphasised in a speech in the Feyzieh Islamic Institute of Learning: “It is a day to day programme of identifying the opponents of Islam, our struggle against them shall become more intense” (2). And so it did.
The repression discarded rule of any law. Examples of this arbitrary rule were as follows:
--many prisoners under the Shah’s regime were released in February 1979, only to be re-imprisoned, if not executed. Such was the case of Reza Saadati, an MOK member (MOK or the People’s Mojahdin Organisation of Iran is an Islamic opposition group). Mr. Saadati was first sentenced to ten years imprisonment, and then shot after a second, secret trial;
--ethnic minorities (Kurds, Turks, Arabs, Turkamens, and Baluchis) have seen their demand for a greater degree of self-government met with repression. Cases of massacres, imprisonment and executions have been widely reported; religious groups banned by Islam have been increasingly harassed under the IRI. The Baha’is, who numbered about one half million in Iran before the revolution, faced charges such as promotion of prostitution, cooperation with Zionism, spying for imperialist powers, corruption on earth and warring against God. Thousands have lost their homes and possessions, thousands have been dismissed from their jobs and many of them have been executed by revolutionary firing squads;
-- the main opposition groups after the overthrow of the Shah (democratic groups, moderate Islamic groups, the MOK and left-wing opposition) were not only been denied the right to share power in post-revolutionary Iran, but were severely repressed. Not a week has passed without arrests and executions of many of their members;
-- writers, poets and artists are particularly harassed. The first Islamic Revolutionary Judge, Sheik Sadegh Khalkhali, an infamous psychopath, did not hesitate to demand the execution of intellectuals such as Chamlou, a famous Iranian author who was well-known for his non-adherence to any political party and his non-involvement in any political activities. Khalkhali was responsible for many arbitrary executions. According to Judge Abdolkarim Ardibili, President of the Supreme Court, many defence lawyers were arrested, imprisoned and in at least one case, executed;
--those who faced firing squads included women and youths. It was reported Time Magazine on September 20, 1981 that 150 youngsters were shot in a mass execution on September 4(3). In a statement, Tehran’s revolutionary prosecutor, Assadollah Lajevardi declared on June 1981: “Of course, even a 9-year old can be executed if it has been proved to the court that he or she is grown enough”(4). It was reported that 13-year-old children had been shot. Lajevardi continued, “Counter-revolutionary activities, included the distribution of leaflets, incitement of innocent youths to subversion, and participation in demonstrations (charges often leading to death sentences)”. Following this declaration, in a campaign to muzzle dissent in the schools, the IRI arrested teenagers. The number of students barred from school was estimated at over 70,000 in the first two years after the revolution; (5)
--cases of torture and ill-treatment have been regularly reported. The IRI sought to justify these measures as necessary to repress attacks made by terrorists. Undoubtedly, the attack against the Islamic Republic Party (IRP) on June 28, 1981 (killing 74 of the party’s officials and leading Ayatollah Beheshti) and the bombing on August 30, 1981 (killing President Mohammad Ali Radjai and Prime Minister Mohammad Bahonar) were turning points in the escalation of violence and the IRI’s increasing repression. The regime demanded that people help the Judicial Body in arresting counter- revolutionaries, even if they were their own relatives;
-- on August 12, 1981, IRI’s Foreign Ministry ordered Iranian embassies and missions to draw up a list of Baha’is, counter-revolutionaries and “so-called students” living in their jurisdiction. It also prohibited the renewal of their passports and ordered instead issuance of a “transit-paper”, valid only for a return journey to Iran (6);
--lawyers’ defending political prisoners was difficult, and after the two above-mentioned terror attacks on the IRI President and Prime Minister became impossible. Indeed, according to statements by higher judicial officials, the defence of offenders would be contrary to Islamic laws, in that the defender is an accessory to the accused person’s crimes. This was borne out by a report that a qualified lawyer, Mr. Mohsen Jahandar, had been accused of defending prisoners before Revolutionary Committees, condemned to death and shot before a firing squad at about the end of August, 1981;
--the Revolutionary Tribunals turned to trying cases which were not within their jurisdiction as defined in their penal system, including charges of homosexuality, prostitution, adultery, simple theft and drinking alcohol. Sentences of death by firing squad or by stoning were imposed for homosexuality, prostitution and adultery; the cutting off of a hand for simple theft.
The IRI not only misused its own jurisdiction, but justified violence in the streets on the highest authority. On September 19, 1981, in an address broadcast on radio and television, Ayatollah Moussavi, Revolutionary Procurator General, stated that “to kill the people who stand against this regime and its just Imam (Khomeini) is a prescribed duty according to Islamic laws. If they are captured, our men will not let them eat and sleep for a few months. The trial of these people is in the streets. I also order the city prosecutors to do the same; otherwise they themselves will be punished” (8).
On the same day, Ayatollah Mohammadi Gillani, the Ghazi Shara’ of Tehran (Tehran’s Islamic Judge), stated at a press conference in Evin Prison, “Islam permits people engaged in armed demonstrations in the streets to be captured, stood against the wall of the street and shot”.
The highlight of repression begins with the Bill of Retribution, a series of articles degrading the worth of a man's life to100 camels or 200 cows and that of a woman to half of the man's, 50 camels or 100 cows. It was the beginning of judicial violation of all standards of Human Rights.
In January, 1981, the Bill of Retribution was submitted to Parliament, mandating stoning, amputation of limbs and gouging out of eyes as punishments. This bill was developed by the Supreme Leader’s Judicial Council. In some cities, the clergy did not wait for legal sanction but had already begun to practice Islamic Justice on their own.
Public response was initially muted by disbelief, which gave way to a horrified outcry. Progressive analyses of the Bill were circulated. Organisations of religious minorities, women and other democratic people demonstrated at the Department of Justice and at Parliament but were met with silence. Then, in September 1981, the Bill was passed.
The Bill assumes that the human body and its parts are convertible into money. The idea of receiving blood money is based on this kind of assumption. Here the class nature of this bill is revealed; it serves only the rich. Only they can afford to pay fines for their crimes in lieu of physical punishment. The following descriptions show how this barbaric bill can return our society to the Dark Ages:
--the Bill ignores that the goal of punishment is the rehabilitation of the individual and society. It defines punishment as individual retaliation. The social aspect of crimes is completely neglected so that punishment becomes a right of the next of kin, or the private plaintiff. This symbolises a return to a tribal age when feuds were the custom (ARTICLE 7);
--in this bill, the value of a woman is assumed to be half that of a man. In a case of voluntary manslaughter, her testimony has no value. In the case of the murder of a woman by a man, the family of the woman must pay the murderer half of his blood money before retaliating. Otherwise there will be no punishment; he merely has to pay the blood money of the woman, which is half that of a man; (ARTICLE 5)
--murder committed in the line of duty still demands retaliation, thus, if a commander orders his soldier or police officer to kill someone, the one who was compelled to follow the orders of the commander can be sentenced to death, while the commander will be only sentenced to imprisonment; (ARTICLE 4)
--according to the Bill, it is permissible to kill one’s child. In other words, if the father or paternal grandfather murders his child, even if the child is fifty years old, he will be exempt from retaliation; (ARTICLE 6)
--according to the Bill, people can be killed for insulting the prophet or the saints and the murderer will be exempt from the punishment. (ARTICLE23)
--this Article is a tool for the suppression of all those who politically or ideologically oppose the IRI;
--according to the Bill, if a person is sentenced to several penalties, all the penalties will be carried out. For example, if the penalty includes whipping and stoning to death, the assailant will be whipped first and then stoned to death; (ARTICLE 110)
--the Bill, in many of its articles, discriminates against the non-Muslim citizens of Iran, relegating their rights to half or even less than those of Muslim citizens. (ARTICLES 100, 151)
--according to the Bill, a man can murder his wife and her companion in the case of adultery. He will not be punished;
--the code does not provide any punishment in case of murder of an individual who is mentally ill;
--the sentence for consuming alcohol for the first time is whipping. However, the third time that a person is accused of drinking alcohol; he will be sentenced to death;
The Bill of Retribution states that all the penalties should be implemented in public. The Islamic Judge should notify the public of the time of the event. It is necessary that at least three Muslims be present during the ceremonies;
--in all cases, guilt is proven through confession or the testimony of witnesses. It is enough for two Islamic Committee members or Revolutionary Guards to falsely testify against a person to endanger his life;
--by emphasising confession as a means of proving guilt, the Bill paves the way for torturing individuals in order to force them to confess;
--according to the Bill, married men and women will be stoned to death for adultery. The sentence will be implemented with full medieval ceremony. (ARTICLE 100)
The Bill describes the penalty as follows: “The man up to his waist and the woman up to her chest will be placed in a ditch and then stoned. The stones should neither be too big nor too small. ”Big stones kill too quickly.
It is important to note that the Bill, in many cases, is in conflict with the Constitution that was ratified by the same ruling organs! The Bill explicitly violates: Article 14 of the Constitution, which obliges the government and its Muslim citizens to deal fairly with non-Muslim citizens and to observe their Constitutional rights; Article 19, which states that Iranian people of any tribe or sect have equal rights, and that colour, race, language, gender, will not be reasons for withholding privileges; and Article 20 which guarantees all Iranian citizens, both men and women, equality under the Constitution.
References:
1) Human Rights Violations in the Republic of Iran, Chicago, 11, May 1980.
2) Imam Khomeini, „The revolutionary line”, Great Islamic Library.
3) Time Magazine, 20, September 1981.
4) International Herald Tribune, 30, September 1981
5) Giam Iran newspaper, Tehran, 28, June 1981.
6) ICJ Review No.26, p.23.
7) See ICJ Review No.25, at p.21.
8) Kayhan newspaper, Tehran, 20, September 1981.
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One more point
by Daryush on Mon Dec 17, 2007 07:24 AM PSTGet over the past. Don't forget it but realize the present also! After the French Revolution the government for about 50 years killed and tortured the opposition, are you going to criticise the current regime of France based on the revolutionary days? Get with it man.
Javid IRI
by Daryush on Mon Dec 17, 2007 07:18 AM PSTShow me an opposition that represents the true Iran and I show you a revolutionary Iran, otherwise IRI is the best government for the Iranian society at the current stage. Is it really that hard for some to get that?
Re: Incremental change (Re: JR)
by Anonym7 (not verified) on Mon Dec 17, 2007 06:56 AM PSTRashidian, although I basically agree with this poster "Incremental Change", I am not him or her.
I do differ with him/her in at least one point. I don't think your salesmanship has improved. If you were a good salesman you wouldn't say in one place "I have been for the past three decades in France and Germany" and then in another place "The IRI is the occupier of the our country".
Anyhow, as I mentioned before, many of your criticism of IRI are valid, additionally my conditional tolerance for this regime does not mean I believe all the seculars are traitors (I am a secular non Moslem myself). However unlike you I believe that IRI is not a "fascist" state and will learn from our criticisms, including yours.
R: Incremental change
by Jahanshah Rashidian on Mon Dec 17, 2007 04:49 AM PSTThis time you changed you name! and did not even directly address me!? In the case you implictly addressed me. Here is my reaction:
I do not really need to presuade you to buy my statements. What for? You have the righ to interpret them as you like, but you have no single proof for your allgations accusing me of a "warmonger". I stated twice my reolies to deny this accusation, that is all I can do. Now if you do not believe my replies, there is no reason to "improve my salesmanship for such an anonymous challenger". I think you do not even trust your allegations to argue, this time, with your real name.
You can continue supporting Ebadi and her like "incemental change". Good luch for your next, next,...generation!
Regards
JR
You are a Hypocrite -but your Salesmanship is improving
by Incremental Change (not verified) on Mon Dec 17, 2007 03:48 AM PSTYou are contradicting your earlier statements in which you had expletively stated support for military intervention …
In any even taking what you say at face value, I have problem with any
Foreign intervention in Iran what so ever…
You are standing on a platform that is raised by killing over one million Iraqis trying to do exactly what you propose … This same socioeconomic platform sends its most vulnerable young to kill childeran in search of a “Dental Plan”
You are no Shirinz Ebadi…or any of the millions of brave Iranians who fight for building a free and democratic Iran day by day …
I too would like a democratic Iran …. It will take time …
Iraqi Children
Incremental Change
Ignore message bellow
Any thoughts ?
by Anonymous1 (not verified) on Mon Dec 17, 2007 03:25 AM PSTAside from EU council, UN and Hague court, I would suggest US Department of State, especially in view of the recent sanctions and limitations on persons in IRGC. I would assume there will be interest in criminals in the Islamic Judiciary system. The IRI Judiciary is the leading source for all human rights violations in Iran.
Why not have some of the human rights organizations present IRI Judiciary crimes (past and present) to Hague court on the basis of violating human rights UN charters, that Iran is a signatory country ? Maybe then demand a special tribunal setup (Milosevic type) for extradition and trials of individuals involved in these crimes. If EU or US decide to back this initiative, it could be used as a leverage against the regime without any economic repercussion for the population. This is an opportunity to show solidarity with people inside Iran without hurting them.
R:Nazzokhbin / Jamshid
by Jahanshah Rashidian on Mon Dec 17, 2007 02:23 AM PSTThanks for your support and advice. Yes, the Islamist thugs have access on this site. They are orchestrated by their masters minds or their obscure mindset using any occasion, also, to ananymously launch their vulgar and thuggish attacks on IRI's opponents.
I have mostly ignored them before. This time I replied, but found out that they have nothing intellectually to discuss unless slandering authors by attemting to sow seeds of confusion, disorder and deviation among readers. We have to totally ignore them
Regards .
JR
Ananym 7
by Jahanshah Rashidian on Mon Dec 17, 2007 02:30 AM PSTWe all, at least Iranian democrats, reject a direct intervention of any foreign country in the direction of a regime change in Iran. However, I am not against a vast international solidarity with Iranians to confront the IRI. More concretely, I think of being supported by bodies like the UN, EU council and the international judicial authorities. They can condemn and isolate the regime in the favour of the repressed people of Iran.
A regime change is of course a national duty of Iranians, not from the inner process of the regime itself. The regime in its entirety violently resists any change. It does not bow to democracy and Human Rights because these latters contradict its whole entity. It is not to serve people’s cause, but, in priority, its ideology, political Islam. Therefore I call it "Parasite". It is non adaptive to reform and democracy, even, according to its deserters--see Ganji manifesto. I do not believe in any Islamic opposition including the MOK. This MOK is a Stalinist-Cult organisation, but their existence should not justify the IRI.
Hopefully your , conditional, tolerance for such a regime does not mean that all secular and democratic opposition groups are traitors!!!
Regards
JR
Excellent article... IRI exposed
by jamshid on Mon Dec 17, 2007 12:34 AM PSTWell said. IRI must be exposed at every opportunity for the crimes they had and still are committing against Iran.
Everyone can notice how the pro-IRI individuals, having no good answers to the points in this article, have decided to attack the "person" who wrote the article instead.
This happens when they are faced with irefutable information. It is a credit to the writer's thorough research.
Mullahs Agents!
by Naazokbin (not verified) on Sun Dec 16, 2007 06:21 PM PSTMr. Rashidian:
Sir, your expose of the merderous mullahs could not have at a better time.
Your research into the activities of the regime of the mullahs is commendable and gives members of the Iranian opposition forces courage to carry on their struggle until the mullhas' rule is uprooted and a democratic state is established.
It's not the first time that the agents and goons of the mullahs accuse someone of all kinds of links to this or that group. These agents of the mullahs are here to cause division and enmity among the opposition groups so the mullahs can stay in power.
They even sympathize with one group to attack another.
Anyone who says anything in support of the regime must be exposed and ostracized. They must be boycotted and their writings left unanswered.
Anytime we respond to their letters or articles we are in a way giving them legitimacy. They can't be reasoned with, so any time we respond to these agents, we are legitimizing them. Let's not waste our precious time on these parasites.
Remember the muulahs executed kids as youg as 14 without giving them a chance to defend themselves!
They know no language other than the language of intimidation and threat. Their vulgarity is rooted in their ignorance and ideology.
They accuse all opposition members of being foreign agents.
Even their former allies were accused of conspiracy and called traitors.
Remember Ghotbzadeh? Remember Bani Sadr? Remember Bazargan who referring to his life regretfully said: This degenerate and trecherous lif(In hayaateh khafif o khaaenaaneh). The mullahs had called him a traitor already.
You can see now that members of the Islamic Associations set up by the regime to defend its intersts are being labled traitors and foreign agents.
Remember the Bahais and the Jews and thousands of others you wrote about in your expose, who were accused of being traitors and infidels.
Beghowleh maa Irani haa: Daryaa be dahaneh sag najes nemeesheh.
Keep up the wonderful work va khasteh nabaashid!
I love and respect anyone who fights for freedom and democracy in Iran. And I despise all who support the regime.
Israel will free Iranians from the barbaric Mullahs
by Shalom Goldsmith (not verified) on Sun Dec 16, 2007 05:25 PM PSTDear Friends:
Israel will bomb the Islamic Republic even at the expense of being rebuked by the United States. It is good for the Jewish state, the whole world, and Iran for that matter.
Rashidian, who is the real parasite?
by Anonym7 (not verified) on Sun Dec 16, 2007 12:04 PM PSTJahanshah you say; "Too sad, but the IRI continues its parasitic life", ...
IRI has made many mistakes, some of which you have pointed out in this article. However let's be fair, even if IRI has been a parasite it has been much less of a parasite than many in Iranian opposition who live outside Iran and use their stolen money against Iran. A good example of it is MKO's Mr. Alireza Jafarzadeh who is incidentally mentioned in fox news today: //www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,316442,00.html...
This opposition that you are hoping to unite is full of Jafarzadehes. I don't have any doubt that IRI will change and needs to change but the change needs to come from Iran and Iranians, many of whom are part of what you call parasite.
Jahanshah, in another place you say "The IRI is the occupier of the our country".
How can you make such an statement when down below you say "I have been for the past three decades in France and Germany."
Jahanshah, perhaps after you and me Mr. Bush also should jump in and put big claims on Iran!
You and I and Mr. Bush are more Iranian than those IRI parasites that defended the country from the US orchestrated Iraq war against Iran. Do you remember that war?
To Ghasem Ebadi: What gives with me?
by Rosie T. on Sun Dec 16, 2007 11:10 AM PSTYou ask why I defend Rashidian. It is first necessary for me to identify myself ideologically. I am a secular moderate socialist parliamentarian (meaning I believe in mixed economies), a non-Zionist Eastern European Jewish American, spiritually a believer in a sentient cosmos but an adherent to no religious dogma, by education a secular humanist but also anti-colonialist. I am also a pacifist and I reject the Leninist/Trotskyist premise that "The means justifies the end." I believe the means IS the end and as such, subscribe to Gandhi's idea: Be the change that you want to be in the world. Thus, I never place ideology before humanitarian concerns. That is where I stand.
Therefore I defend people on this website when I feel they are being unjustly attacked, irrespective of ideology,. I do so because as a non-Iranian, lacking in familiarity with certain historical and cultural details, imy most useful role here is to mediate in discussions, rather than to provide answers about issues. And I am particularly sensitive to allegations that people are agents of organizations and governments which they deny affiliation with. Thus I have defended: JJ (civil libertarian), Jamshid (vehemently anti-IRI parliamentarist), Soraya (vocal anti-colonial secular leftist), Maleknasri (Khomeinist), Madadi (pro-globabilzation and Azeri rights advocate), Colonel Hemayat (ultra-Shahi), and more. I will continue to do so.
However in my view the defense of Rashidian is of utmost importance because it is my understanding that he, unlike the above-mentioned people, represents a viewpoint which is politically squarely in the center. I am a political pragmatist and after the hideous failures of the left ('my" camp) in the 20th century (USSR, China, etc.) I envison the role of the left as a counterbalance to the excesses of the right, in order to place us squarely in the center, which is where I understand the majority of people on the planet to gravitiate. It is the only possible solution.
And also Rashidian's's an intellectual, like me, so I have great admiration for the research and documentation and analysis that he does. And I find his writings to be mainly humanitarian, so in essence we share a common vision. He is anti-war and pro-International law, etc. To have such a person continually villified as being a membert of an organization (MKO) which he has publicly denounced, and which as an "atheist", would be a very "bad fit" for him, and as a Kurdish separatist, Zionist, and more, without substantiv evidence, is to me dangerous and frightening.
What normal person of conscience could possibly take issse with any of the information provided in the article above? Hurling accusations at him is tantamount to doing just this. So I've asked Rashidian to provide a statement (which he has) and I've asked his "denouncers" to provide evidence, if they wish to continue their claims in light of his statement. This is REASONABLE to me.
If they are willing to provide such evidence, then let the "controversy" surrounding Rashidian to be fully scrutinized in the light of day, in the light of REASON, If they are not, if they won't or CAN'T take the time and effort that Rashidian and I do, I ask, no, I DEMAND that they cease their accusations. So that the above article can be read for what it is, a humanitarian document, untainted by these "claims".
Finally, paranoia on a personal and political level has been the scourge of Iran as far as I can ascertain, since at least the days of the Mongols and Tatars. As I said in a post below on this thread: if EVERYONE is a secret agent of someone else, then NO ONE is a free agent. And that is a sad scenario.
It is MORE than sad, it is HOPELESS. It is hopeless for the future of Iran, HOPELESS for the future of the expat community's participation in that future, and hopeless for the future of the world, where PERSIA, with its great political, spiritual and cultural legacy to all of Eurasia and now the global village, should be SETTING THE EXAMPLE.
I hope I have satisfactorily explained to you "what gives" with me regarding Rashidian..
J. Rashidian (Re; German writing)
by Asghar Kosskesh (not verified) on Sun Dec 16, 2007 10:43 AM PSTRead this one:
aksl a'skaks d poqeqwu a;sdal; 'aoq[]oe asjdaj
a;sd asjd zyhoi
WHNE YOU HAVE THE ANSWER THEN CALL BACK!
R. Rosie
by J. Rashidian (not verified) on Sun Dec 16, 2007 10:39 AM PSTVielen Dank für Verteidigung meines Artikels und meiner Person. Unter seriöse und kooperativen Bedingungen–was bedeutet, dass die Identität beide Partner öffentlich klar ist- machen derartige Korrespondenzen kein Sinn. In diesem Fall, halte ich weiterer Korrespondenzen für sinnlos.
Rashidian (Re: Face)
by Ashraf Paneersaz (not verified) on Sun Dec 16, 2007 10:20 AM PSTMr Rashidian,
You are gradually unmasking your true affiliation. First denying your past work (and possibly present activities)with the MKO, and now saying well, they are not worse than IRI. You a pathetic person.
To: Rosie T (Re: Dear Ashraf)
by Ghasem Ebadi (not verified) on Sun Dec 16, 2007 10:02 AM PSTRosie,
You defending this character Rashidian, makes it even more suspecious. What gives?
G/E
R:Face
by J.Rashidian (not verified) on Sun Dec 16, 2007 09:44 AM PSTThough, most democarts distance themselves from the MOK-CUL, but let's be human when their, innocent, youths are slaughtered by the IRI's butchers.
The MOK worked for a foreign enemy, Saddam, to attack our country. The IRI is the occupier of the our country. They caused more damage to us than any other foreign enemy in the last decades. Let's be more rational to distinguish the more enmy.
Reguards
JR
Dear Ashraf:
by Rosie T. on Sun Dec 16, 2007 09:26 AM PSTHave we met before? Please clarify and elaborate on the contradictions and plagrisms you found in the above article. Also please document your claims about Mr. Rashidian's past and present. Please provide specific documentation from reliable sources in English, Persian, French, or German. Do not hesitate to refer to private e-mails and the names of those "others" with whom you claim to share this knowledge. If you cannot do so, please be quiet.
R. Ampheria
by R. Rashidian (not verified) on Sun Dec 16, 2007 09:23 AM PSTToo sad, but the IRI continues its parasitic life thankes to the lack an effective detergent. Iranian oppositions groups are not in harmony; to achieve that, ome of them like the MOK, Monarchists, RIR' Islamic relics must be dissolved and the rest unified. This is the way we fulfil our expectations of freedom and country's rehabilitation. Unfortnately for Iranian people and fortunately for the regime, this unity does not seem to be an immediate wonder.
Regards
JR
R.Seagull
by J.Rashidian (not verified) on Sun Dec 16, 2007 08:57 AM PSTYes, let's soar like seagulls into sky to see the pure truth and be proud of being in a free horizon!
Thanks for your proud words.
Regards
JH
R:David ET
by J.Rashidian (not verified) on Sun Dec 16, 2007 08:48 AM PSTThank you for your support. I also enjoy reading your rational writings on this site.
R:Ananym 7 / Warmonger
by J.Rashidian (not verified) on Sun Dec 16, 2007 08:42 AM PSTI do not know if Mr MasoudA or any on this site is a "warmonger". I thing attributing of such a term to anti IRI is a dishonest and exagerated excuse of IRI's propaganda to divert the repressed Iranians the main problems caused by the regime.
But to be clear, once more, I am against any US attack and sanctions on the basic needs of Iranian people. Instead, I am for harsh sanctions on IRI's seniors through the political and judicial intances.
The comment you mentioned was my view over Germany after the fall of Nazism by Allies which is by the way not regreted by most Germans. This case and the analogy between Nazism and Islamism does not forcibly support an idea of US attack on Iran.
Regars
JR
Mr Rashidian, you are not being thruthful ....
by Ashraf Paneersaz (not verified) on Sun Dec 16, 2007 07:55 AM PSTMr Rashidian
What you said in your below comment is plausible but in contradiction with your private emails statements to me (alias) and others whom have been conversing with you privately. It almost sounds like the position of MKO members and leaders vis-a-vis difficult issues. I feel bad for you.
Ashraf Khanoom
Mr. Ashraf Paneersaz I know
by J.Rashidian (not verified) on Sun Dec 16, 2007 07:38 AM PSTMr. Ashraf Paneersaz
I know that you attack me under different names because of my anti IRI ideas, but this time I was surprised to see a new point in your comment distancing yourself from the IRI!
Let me hope that you are not a pro IRI but you may have some doubts about my"tights" with the MOK , separatist Kurds, US / Israel or any non Iranian side.
To make it clear, I rewrite the following comment I addressed to Rosie to clarify the same slanders:
I have already condemned the Bush’s administration for its unchained liberalism, for its Iraqi invasion, for its world hegemony and the lack of respect for democracy and sovereignty of other nations.
I have also rejected any military attack or sanctions on basics of Iranian people—see my previous posts. What I proposed in many articles is a series of political and judicial sanctions towards IRI’ seniors, as the only perpetrators, by the highest international political and judicial bodies—The U.N / The Hague Court/ EU Council…
Although, in a philosophical realm, I have to confront atheism, I do not believe in a religious God. I think people can have their faith in privacy, but not imposed on the institutions. This is the reason I believe in a democratic and secular state in Iran. Such a state is also a guarantee for religion freedom.
I personally do not believe in the accuracy, morality, divinity, and necessity of any religion, especially those of Islam, but accept as democrat coexistence of all religious and ethnical groups as long as one of them does not call for intolerance.
I have been for the past three decades in France and Germany. I have never been in Kurdistan and am not Kurd at all. Now, I live as a German citizen a normal life.
As student in80th, I was close to the Iranian leftist groups in France, but had never any sympathy for the MOK or any religious group. I have always condemned the MOK cult—see my posts on the site.
Today, I am not a political activist and am not affiliated to any Iranian opposition groups and have no ambition for it, but, as a freelance writer, what is wrong if I share my ideas with others? I only defend democracy, secularism, and Human Rights.
You can continue anonymously attacking me or any opposition voice by labelling him or her “MOK / CIA / separatist / Kurd(!)…, but when you say “the IRI destroyed our nation”, I get so much respect for you to politely answer your current doubts or calumnies.
Mr Rashidian, you are a foreign Agent -- most likely Zionists
by Ashraf Paneersaz (not verified) on Sun Dec 16, 2007 05:35 AM PSTMr Rashidian,
Your past is too glamorous to forget. You collaborated with the MKO before outright slaughtering Iranians in Kurdestan. You are a zionist agent who now lives in Germany and wants to destory our nation the way mullahs did and worse. Go to your masters and forget about your story-telling. Your article is full of contradictions and plagerism. You are a CON-MAN.
Lanat bar Omar va Emam Khomeini
by Lanat bar Omar va Khomeini (not verified) on Sun Dec 16, 2007 04:14 AM PSTLanat bar Omar who planted the seeds of murder and deceit in Iran.
Lanat bar emam khomeini who implemented omar's ideas.
Lanat bar supporters, worshipers, and followers of khomeini and I.R. of any kind who have been seeking to complete shared mission and vision of Omar and Khomeini and destroy iran and iranian identity.
Javid iran, payandeh iranian.
Pirooz those who hate the I.R. regime and everything that it represents whole-heartedly.
The list of the victims of
by Anonymous22 (not verified) on Sun Dec 16, 2007 01:13 AM PSTThe list of the victims of mass execution of the political prisoners by the Islamic republic of Iran in 1988
Notes on the last, revised and completed edition according to new evidences
During the last year, we received a great number of e-mails from the families, friends and ex-inmates of the political prisoners executed in 1988. Their message, beyond the sympathies, provided us with much valuable information and evidences to up-to-date the list of the victims. We feel obliged to present you the following notes about these information and hour we proceeded to complete the list:
1- The Islamic regime has not so far recognized officially its mass execution of the political prisoners in 1988, and has not published the list of the victims. In these circumstances, it is the testimonies, evidences and information from various sources that would make the list more documented and reliable, and would add to its authenticity before the human rights organizations and international instances. This was our objective from the beginning of this work.
Since the publication of our latest report, the death of other 127 victims in the existing list has been attested by their families, friends or ex-inmates. We thank them for their help in this respect. We would like to remind you that our method of work includes printing, numbering, classification and filing of every letter, containing the new information, received during the year. At the end of the year, we complete the list and we add the letter "w", in the last column of the table, for each name of victim whose death has been attested by the witnesses. For example, the numbers "2" and "to" in front of the name of MOINI CHAGHERVANDI, Hebatollah (Homayoun), indicate that his execution has been testified by two friends or members of the family.
//www.asre-nou.net/1385/mehr/12/koshtar/m-mog...
۶۷ درسال گذشته
Anonymous22 (not verified)Sun Dec 16, 2007 01:12 AM PST
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درسال گذشته تعدادزیادی نامه الکترونکی از طرف دوستان وخانواده عزیزانی که درسال ۶۷ توسط رژیم جمهوری اسلامی در زندانهای مختلف به قتل رسیدند دریافت نمودیم ،در این نامه ها ضمن آنکه ما را مثل همیشه مورد لطف ومحبت خود قرار داده اند ، اطلاعاتی نیز در رابطه با تکمیل لیست قتل عام ۶۷ ارسال داشته اند. با تشکر فراوان از این عزیزان یادآورمی شویم که تکمیل این لیست بدون یاری وهمفکری شما امکان پذیر نیست و برای آنکه این جنایت هرگز ازیادها نرود ،امکان تکرارآن برای همیشه از کشور ما رخت بر بندد و مسببین آن در محکمه ای صالح به محاکمه کشیده شوند، بایستی تلاش نمود تا لیستی هرچه مستند تر، شامل تمامی اطلاعات مربوط به تک تک این عزیزان ازدست رفته تهیه گردد . این کار بدون حمایت،پشتیبانی ،کمک وهمفکری شما داغ دیدگان عزیز میسر نیست .
ما همچنان منتظر اطلاعات تکمیلی شما هستیم با ما به آدرس زیر مکاتبه کنید :
iran_a500@yahoo.fr
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In 1979 a revolution took
by Anonymous11 (not verified) on Sun Dec 16, 2007 01:09 AM PSTIn 1979 a revolution took place that changed
the fate of millions of Iranian citizens
Description of Omid
The men and women whose stories you can read on this page are now all citizens of a silent city named Omid ("hope" in Persian). There, victims of persecution have found a common life whose substance is memory.
Omid's citizens were of varying social origins, nationalities, and religions; they held diverse, and often opposing, opinions and ideologies. Despite the differences in their personality, spirit and moral fiber, they are all united in Omid by their natural rights and their humanity. What makes them fellow citizens is the fact that one day each of them was unfairly and arbitrarily deprived of his or her life. At that moment, while the world watched the unspeakable happen, an individual destiny was shattered, a family was destroyed, and an indescribable suffering was inflicted.
If you wander around this city, you will realize that, through their common ordeal, the citizens of Omid have created another Iran, an imaginary Iran: a democratic polity, pluralistic and diverse, where citizens posthumously enjoy their human rights.
Visit Omid, meet its citizens, and, by doing so, bring them back in memory. Let them challenge our conscience so that in the future we will prevent this kind of tragedy from happening again.
//www.abfiran.org/english/memorial.php
The IRI is responsible for killing at least more than 100,000 Iranains so far.