_Iranian foreign minister admits to involvement in Saudi ambassador assassination plot
An Iranian source told Al Arabiya that Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi confirmed the involvement of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard in the assassination plot against the Saudi ambassador to the United States, Adel al-Jubeir. According to the source, which is close to Gholam Hussein Elham, former spokesman of the Iranian government and dissident from Ahmadinejad’s regime, Salehi recently met with Mohammed Nahavandian, former assistant at the National Security Council and the current president of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
In the meeting, both discussed several political and economic issues in addition to the plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador. It was then that Salehi admitted to the Revolutionary Guard’s involvement in it.
“This is true. The plot was about to be carried out. It is not a figment of the American authorities’ imagination,” Salehi was quoted by the source as saying.
Salehi is known for his close ties with Ayatollah Mohammed-Ali Taskhiri, an Iraqi with Iranian origins.
Nahavandian, a fundamentalist, is close to the speaker of the Iranian parliament, Ali Larijani, and is not on good terms with Ahmadinejad.
The United States on Tuesday dismissed as “a rant” an Iranian letter to Washington over allegations of an Iranian plot to murder the Saudi ambassador in Washington.
“We did receive a lengthy diplomatic note from the Swiss protecting power on behalf of the Iranians,” U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said after Washington received the letter from Swiss intermediaries.
In the absence of U.S.-Iranian diplomatic relations for more than three decades, Switzerland acts on behalf of U.S. interests in Tehran.
“It was about seven pages. It was a rant. It was full of all kinds of denials. There was not a lot new in there from our perspective,” Nuland told reporters.
In Tehran, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said that Iran had sent a letter to the United States seeking an “official apology of the Americans in protest of this made-up scenario.”
“Instead of pursuing this scenario and the wrong path of foreign policy in which they are moving, Americans had better move to correct this path,” Mehmanparast told reporters, as quoted by IRNA, the country’s official news agency.
“A letter has been sent [to the United States] … It is our right to seek the official apology of the Americans in protest of this made-up scenario, as these allegations are not true at all,” he said.
Tehran has strongly denied any involvement in what the U.S. says was a plot by the Quds force to kill the Saudi envoy by hiring assassins from a Mexican drug cartel for $1.5 million.
An Iranian-American, Manssor Arbabsiar, who is 56, was accused of being the central figure in the alleged plot; he pleaded not guilty to the charges last week in a New York court.
Iranian officials said the accusations were an attempt by Washington to divert attention from its domestic economic woes and foreign policy failures in the Middle East.
In the meeting, both discussed several political and economic issues in addition to the plot to assassinate the Saudi ambassador. It was then that Salehi admitted to the Revolutionary Guard’s involvement in it.
“This is true. The plot was about to be carried out. It is not a figment of the American authorities’ imagination,” Salehi was quoted by the source as saying.
Salehi is known for his close ties with Ayatollah Mohammed-Ali Taskhiri, an Iraqi with Iranian origins.
Nahavandian, a fundamentalist, is close to the speaker of the Iranian parliament, Ali Larijani, and is not on good terms with Ahmadinejad.
The United States on Tuesday dismissed as “a rant” an Iranian letter to Washington over allegations of an Iranian plot to murder the Saudi ambassador in Washington.
“We did receive a lengthy diplomatic note from the Swiss protecting power on behalf of the Iranians,” U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said after Washington received the letter from Swiss intermediaries.
In the absence of U.S.-Iranian diplomatic relations for more than three decades, Switzerland acts on behalf of U.S. interests in Tehran.
“It was about seven pages. It was a rant. It was full of all kinds of denials. There was not a lot new in there from our perspective,” Nuland told reporters.
In Tehran, Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said that Iran had sent a letter to the United States seeking an “official apology of the Americans in protest of this made-up scenario.”
“Instead of pursuing this scenario and the wrong path of foreign policy in which they are moving, Americans had better move to correct this path,” Mehmanparast told reporters, as quoted by IRNA, the country’s official news agency.
“A letter has been sent [to the United States] … It is our right to seek the official apology of the Americans in protest of this made-up scenario, as these allegations are not true at all,” he said.
Tehran has strongly denied any involvement in what the U.S. says was a plot by the Quds force to kill the Saudi envoy by hiring assassins from a Mexican drug cartel for $1.5 million.
An Iranian-American, Manssor Arbabsiar, who is 56, was accused of being the central figure in the alleged plot; he pleaded not guilty to the charges last week in a New York court.
Iranian officials said the accusations were an attempt by Washington to divert attention from its domestic economic woes and foreign policy failures in the Middle East.
بازداشت پریسا بابایی شهروند بهایی ساکن قائمشهر
خانه حقوق بشر ایرانپریسا بابایی شهروند بهایی ساکن قائمشهر صبح امروز بازداشت و به اداره اطلاعات ساری منتقل شد.
پریسا بابایی شهروند بهایی ساکن قائمشهر که جهت ادای برخی توضیحات به
ادارهی اطلاعات این شهر احضار شده بود، ظهر امروز ۱۲ آبان بازداشت شد.
به گزارش «خانه حقوق بشر ایران»، روز گذشته مامورین امنیتی با حضور در منزل پریسا بابایی از او خواستند که ساعت ۸ صبح امروز ۱۲ آبان جهت پارهای توضیحات در ادارهی اطلاعات قائمشهر حاضر شود. زمانیکه وی به این اداره مراجعه میکند، در اقدامی خلاف قانون، او را بازداشت و به اداره اطلاعات ساری منتقل میکنند.
لازم به ذکر است که پیش از این منزل پریسا بابایی توسط مامورین وزرات اطلاعات مورد تفتیش قرار گرفته و علت احضار او به اداره اطلاعات قائمشهر نیز در ارتباط با همین موضوع بوده که در ادامه، وی را بازداشت و به ساری منتقل میکنند.
به گزارش «خانه حقوق بشر ایران»، روز گذشته مامورین امنیتی با حضور در منزل پریسا بابایی از او خواستند که ساعت ۸ صبح امروز ۱۲ آبان جهت پارهای توضیحات در ادارهی اطلاعات قائمشهر حاضر شود. زمانیکه وی به این اداره مراجعه میکند، در اقدامی خلاف قانون، او را بازداشت و به اداره اطلاعات ساری منتقل میکنند.
لازم به ذکر است که پیش از این منزل پریسا بابایی توسط مامورین وزرات اطلاعات مورد تفتیش قرار گرفته و علت احضار او به اداره اطلاعات قائمشهر نیز در ارتباط با همین موضوع بوده که در ادامه، وی را بازداشت و به ساری منتقل میکنند.
A military war of nerves against Iran: The US leads, Israel and UK go along
The sudden rush of military news Wednesday, Nov. 2, is part of an
orchestrated Western performance to convince Tehran that the US, Britain
and Israel are on the verge of a military operation against its nuclear
installations. Directed from Washington, it is meant to warn Iran that
the play could become a reality show if it refuses to give up the drive
for a nuclear weapon. President Barack Obama may then decide to strike
Revolutionary Guards Corps targets, the bulwark of the Islamic regime,
and its strategic infrastructure, thereby knocking over the key props
holding up the regime of the ayatollahs.
Contributing to the menacing climate hanging over Iran were four headline events involving Israel – all on the same Wednesday: Israel conducted a successful test launch of a new intercontinental ballistic missile, Jericho 3, which foreign sources report is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead 7,000 kilometers. After that, the IDF released photographs of Israeli Air Force squadron leaders reporting from Italian air base runways to the media on joint exercises they had conducted in long-range maneuvers with the Italian air force “and other NATO nations,” to familiarize the IAF with NATO military tactics.
The inference was clear: The Israeli Air Force was strengthening its cooperation with Western allies in preparation for a NATO assault on Iran. The IAF also got a chance to study the lessons Western alliance air force tacticians had drawn from the eight-month Libyan operation which ended on Oct. 31.
Next, the IDF’s Home Command announced a large-scale anti-missile exercise in central Israel starting Thursday morning, Nov. 3.
Finally, Defense Minister Ehud Barak left for an unscheduled trip to London shortly after a secret visit to Israel by the British chief of staff General Sir David Richards earlier this week as guest of Israel’s top soldier Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz.
If the British general was in Israel only this week, why was Barak is such a hurry to visit London?
The answer came from the British media, which reported as soon as he arrived that the Ministry of Defense in London had accelerated and upgraded its contingency planning for participation in a US-led assault on Iran. They carried an account of plans for deploying large naval units including submarines to the Persian Gulf.
The UK was reported to have asked Washington for permission to station its fighter-bombers on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia for launching bombing sorties against Iran.
This whirlwind of military activity was said to have been prompted by the approaching publication of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Iran report next Tuesday, Nov. 8 and the conclusion the nuclear watchdog had reached: Inside 12 months, Iran will have tucked all its nuclear and ballistic missile facilities away in deep underground tunnels where they will be invulnerable to attack.
A potential US-British strike to pre-empt this move would also be timed for the run-up to America’s next presidential election in November 2012.
DEBKAfile’s military sources report that if the US, Britain and other NATO nations, such as France, Italy and Germany, participate in the attack, Israel will not. Its army, air force and navy will defend the home front, be available to engage Iran’s allies to prevent them from striking the assault forces from the rear, and act as a strategic reserve. The danger would come from Syria, the Lebanese Hizballah, and the Palestinian Hamas and Jihad Islami in the Gaza Strip.
These contingency plans are subject to changes, especially if President Obama and other NATO allies decide after all against attacking Iran in the coming year. The hyperactivity will then subside and Israel will be thrown back on the dilemma of having to decide whether or not to conduct a lone military operation against Iran.
There is not much time for contemplation. Syria and Hizballah are reported by DEBKAfile’s military sources to be in the throes of separate preparations for attacking Israel if their respective grips on power are shaken. For now, those sources rate the chances of Israel facing a military clash with Syria and/or Hizballah much higher than a NATO-Israeli showdown being mounted against Iran.
Contributing to the menacing climate hanging over Iran were four headline events involving Israel – all on the same Wednesday: Israel conducted a successful test launch of a new intercontinental ballistic missile, Jericho 3, which foreign sources report is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead 7,000 kilometers. After that, the IDF released photographs of Israeli Air Force squadron leaders reporting from Italian air base runways to the media on joint exercises they had conducted in long-range maneuvers with the Italian air force “and other NATO nations,” to familiarize the IAF with NATO military tactics.
The inference was clear: The Israeli Air Force was strengthening its cooperation with Western allies in preparation for a NATO assault on Iran. The IAF also got a chance to study the lessons Western alliance air force tacticians had drawn from the eight-month Libyan operation which ended on Oct. 31.
Next, the IDF’s Home Command announced a large-scale anti-missile exercise in central Israel starting Thursday morning, Nov. 3.
Finally, Defense Minister Ehud Barak left for an unscheduled trip to London shortly after a secret visit to Israel by the British chief of staff General Sir David Richards earlier this week as guest of Israel’s top soldier Lt. Gen. Benny Gantz.
If the British general was in Israel only this week, why was Barak is such a hurry to visit London?
The answer came from the British media, which reported as soon as he arrived that the Ministry of Defense in London had accelerated and upgraded its contingency planning for participation in a US-led assault on Iran. They carried an account of plans for deploying large naval units including submarines to the Persian Gulf.
The UK was reported to have asked Washington for permission to station its fighter-bombers on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia for launching bombing sorties against Iran.
This whirlwind of military activity was said to have been prompted by the approaching publication of the International Atomic Energy Agency’s Iran report next Tuesday, Nov. 8 and the conclusion the nuclear watchdog had reached: Inside 12 months, Iran will have tucked all its nuclear and ballistic missile facilities away in deep underground tunnels where they will be invulnerable to attack.
A potential US-British strike to pre-empt this move would also be timed for the run-up to America’s next presidential election in November 2012.
DEBKAfile’s military sources report that if the US, Britain and other NATO nations, such as France, Italy and Germany, participate in the attack, Israel will not. Its army, air force and navy will defend the home front, be available to engage Iran’s allies to prevent them from striking the assault forces from the rear, and act as a strategic reserve. The danger would come from Syria, the Lebanese Hizballah, and the Palestinian Hamas and Jihad Islami in the Gaza Strip.
These contingency plans are subject to changes, especially if President Obama and other NATO allies decide after all against attacking Iran in the coming year. The hyperactivity will then subside and Israel will be thrown back on the dilemma of having to decide whether or not to conduct a lone military operation against Iran.
There is not much time for contemplation. Syria and Hizballah are reported by DEBKAfile’s military sources to be in the throes of separate preparations for attacking Israel if their respective grips on power are shaken. For now, those sources rate the chances of Israel facing a military clash with Syria and/or Hizballah much higher than a NATO-Israeli showdown being mounted against Iran.
محمد توسلی، رییس دفتر سیاسی نهضت آزادی بازداشت شد
جرس: رییس دفتر سیاسی نهضت آزادی ایران ساعتی پیش بازداشت شد. به گزارش جرس، بازداشت مهندس محمد توسلی توسط نیروهای امنیتی و در ارتباط با نامهٔ اخیر ۱۴۳ فعال سیاسی و اجتماعی است. در این نامه که خطاب به رییس جمهور پیشین ایران نگاشته شده بود این فعالان سیاسی و اجتماعی گوشزد کرده بودند؛ «کمترین چشمانداز روشنی برای صیانت از آرای مردم و برگزاری انتخابات آزاد، سالم و منصفانه وجود نخواهد داشت.»
گفتنی است محمد توسلی اولین شهردار تهران بعد از پیروزی انقلاب ۱۳۵۷ بوده و بعد از انقلاب بارها بازداشت شده و تحت شکنجه قرار گرفته است. آخرین بازداشت او مربوط به روزهای بعد از انتخابات ریاست جمهوری ۱۳۸۸ است که حدود دو ماه را در بند ۲۰۹ زندان اوین سپری کرد. طی حوادث بعد از انتخابات ریاست جمهوری نیز، سارا و لیلا توسلی، فرزندان مهندس توسلی و خواهرزادگان دکتر ابراهیم یزدی (دبیر کل نهضت آزادی) بازداشت شده بودند، که سارا به اتهام حضور در حوادث عاشورا و تسلیت به خانواده شهید علی موسوی به شش سال زندان و ۷۴ ضربه شلاق محکوم گردید. گفتنی است، سارا توسلی استاد دانشگاه و عضو هیات علمی و از محققین کشور می باشد.
همسر وی، مهندس فرید طاهری، از اعضای نهضت آزادی و داماد مهندس توسلی نیز در پی حوادث عاشورا بازداشت شده و همچنان در بند ۳۵۰ زندان اوین، سه سال حبس خود را می گذارند.
لیلا توسلی، دیگر فرزند مهندس محمد توسلی نیز، به اتهام حضور در راهپیمایی ۲۵ خرداد و روز عاشورای ۸۸ و همچنین مصاحبه با برخی رسانه ها به عنوان شاهد عینی کشته شدن یکی از شهروندان توسط خودرو نیروی انتظامی و عبور از روی جسد وی، به تحمل دو سال حبس تعزیری محکوم شد.
گفتنی است محمد توسلی اولین شهردار تهران بعد از پیروزی انقلاب ۱۳۵۷ بوده و بعد از انقلاب بارها بازداشت شده و تحت شکنجه قرار گرفته است. آخرین بازداشت او مربوط به روزهای بعد از انتخابات ریاست جمهوری ۱۳۸۸ است که حدود دو ماه را در بند ۲۰۹ زندان اوین سپری کرد. طی حوادث بعد از انتخابات ریاست جمهوری نیز، سارا و لیلا توسلی، فرزندان مهندس توسلی و خواهرزادگان دکتر ابراهیم یزدی (دبیر کل نهضت آزادی) بازداشت شده بودند، که سارا به اتهام حضور در حوادث عاشورا و تسلیت به خانواده شهید علی موسوی به شش سال زندان و ۷۴ ضربه شلاق محکوم گردید. گفتنی است، سارا توسلی استاد دانشگاه و عضو هیات علمی و از محققین کشور می باشد.
همسر وی، مهندس فرید طاهری، از اعضای نهضت آزادی و داماد مهندس توسلی نیز در پی حوادث عاشورا بازداشت شده و همچنان در بند ۳۵۰ زندان اوین، سه سال حبس خود را می گذارند.
لیلا توسلی، دیگر فرزند مهندس محمد توسلی نیز، به اتهام حضور در راهپیمایی ۲۵ خرداد و روز عاشورای ۸۸ و همچنین مصاحبه با برخی رسانه ها به عنوان شاهد عینی کشته شدن یکی از شهروندان توسط خودرو نیروی انتظامی و عبور از روی جسد وی، به تحمل دو سال حبس تعزیری محکوم شد.
Activists’ jail terms lengthened
An Iranian appeals court has approved new sentences for three
prominent student activists who are already serving out earlier
sentences.
Daneshjoo News reports that Bahraeh Hedayat, Majid Tavakoli and
Mehdieh Golrou will now be serving longer sentences, after the appellate
court confirmed their latest sentencing by Judge Maghiseh.
Bahreh Hedayat will now serve an extra six months, bringing her full sentence to 10 years in jail. Majid Tavakoli will serve eight and a half years, and Mehdieh Golrou, who was supposed to be released later this month, must now remain in jail until next May.
On this latest occasion, the three activists were summoned before court for having issued an announcement of solidarity and resistance on Iranian National Students Day last December. They were charged with “propaganda against the regime and collusion against national security.”
The three were admonished by Judge Maghiseh to recant their joint statement, which they refused to do.
The three activists were previously arrested in the crackdown on protesters following the controversial presidential elections of 2009.
Bahreh Hedayat will now serve an extra six months, bringing her full sentence to 10 years in jail. Majid Tavakoli will serve eight and a half years, and Mehdieh Golrou, who was supposed to be released later this month, must now remain in jail until next May.
On this latest occasion, the three activists were summoned before court for having issued an announcement of solidarity and resistance on Iranian National Students Day last December. They were charged with “propaganda against the regime and collusion against national security.”
The three were admonished by Judge Maghiseh to recant their joint statement, which they refused to do.
The three activists were previously arrested in the crackdown on protesters following the controversial presidential elections of 2009.
مجتبی خامنه ای در صدر لیست بلند اختلاس
روز گذشته در مجلس به راحتی قضیه
استیضاح وزیر اقتصاد ماست مالی شد و با دخالت مستقیم و آشکار لاریجانی رئیس
مجلس، یکی از عوامل اختلاس 3 میلیارد دلاری تبرئه شد!
گفته می شود که حرکت غیرمترقبه لاریجانی از حامی شدید استیضاح وزیر دولت احمدی نژاد به حمایت از اختلاس گران برای تقریبأ همه نمایندگان هم باور کردنی نبود!
بدون شک این حمایت از باند فاسد احمدی نژاد و بیرون آوردن آن از زیر ضرب مجلس نشینان و مردم ایران، بدون حمایت و فرمان مستقیم خامنه ای ، غیر ممکن بود.
آیا این اتفاق با تهدید چند روز گذشته احمدی نژاد دال بر در دست داشتن پرونده فساد کلیه مسئولان و پایوران جمهوری اسلامی و به میان آمدن نام فرزند فتنه گر خامنه ای – مجتبی- بی ارتباط است؟
در اینجا، در بالاترین محافل حکومتی گفته می شود که احمدی نژاد در جلسه دو روز پیش خود با کمیسیون اصل 90 مجلس، رسمأ نام مجتبی خامنه ای را به عنوان رکن اصلی اختلاس بزرگ 3 میلیارد دلاری مطرح کرده بود!
و روز گذشته او توانست میوه شیرین تهدید خود را از درخت قدرت بچیند. آنچه روز گذشته در مجلس اتفاق افتاد، در صورت استیضاح یا سئوال از احمدی نژاد نیز که علی مطهری چشم امید به آن دارد تکرار خواهد شد. زیر چتر هاله نوری که مصباح یزدی بالای سر احمدی نژاد نگهداشته، این روزها اتفاقات مهمی روی میدهد.
احمدی نژاد حالا دارای رسانه مستقل خود شده و با فعال شدن تلویزیون اینترنتی اش دیگر چندان هم نیازمند سردار ضرغامی صدا و سیما که خود را آماده رئیس جمهور شدن می کند و آقا مجتبی که تمرین رهبری می کند نیست!
آنچه روز گذشته در مجلس گذشت، نشان داد که سرنیزه رهبر پشت گردن هر سه قوه است!
سر نیزه رهبر پشت گردن ملتی نیز هست که بی کاری 50 درصدی ، تعطیلی روزافزون مراکز تولید و نابودی کشاورزی و محیط زیست و هزاران درد بی درمان دیگر را تجربه می کند. به قول “نوری زاد”، نویسنده و مستند ساز باشرف و شجاع زندانی کشیده «….. ما در مجاورت فروپاشی بزرگ و فاجعه ای بزرگ تر هستیم .»
گفته می شود که حرکت غیرمترقبه لاریجانی از حامی شدید استیضاح وزیر دولت احمدی نژاد به حمایت از اختلاس گران برای تقریبأ همه نمایندگان هم باور کردنی نبود!
بدون شک این حمایت از باند فاسد احمدی نژاد و بیرون آوردن آن از زیر ضرب مجلس نشینان و مردم ایران، بدون حمایت و فرمان مستقیم خامنه ای ، غیر ممکن بود.
آیا این اتفاق با تهدید چند روز گذشته احمدی نژاد دال بر در دست داشتن پرونده فساد کلیه مسئولان و پایوران جمهوری اسلامی و به میان آمدن نام فرزند فتنه گر خامنه ای – مجتبی- بی ارتباط است؟
در اینجا، در بالاترین محافل حکومتی گفته می شود که احمدی نژاد در جلسه دو روز پیش خود با کمیسیون اصل 90 مجلس، رسمأ نام مجتبی خامنه ای را به عنوان رکن اصلی اختلاس بزرگ 3 میلیارد دلاری مطرح کرده بود!
و روز گذشته او توانست میوه شیرین تهدید خود را از درخت قدرت بچیند. آنچه روز گذشته در مجلس اتفاق افتاد، در صورت استیضاح یا سئوال از احمدی نژاد نیز که علی مطهری چشم امید به آن دارد تکرار خواهد شد. زیر چتر هاله نوری که مصباح یزدی بالای سر احمدی نژاد نگهداشته، این روزها اتفاقات مهمی روی میدهد.
احمدی نژاد حالا دارای رسانه مستقل خود شده و با فعال شدن تلویزیون اینترنتی اش دیگر چندان هم نیازمند سردار ضرغامی صدا و سیما که خود را آماده رئیس جمهور شدن می کند و آقا مجتبی که تمرین رهبری می کند نیست!
آنچه روز گذشته در مجلس گذشت، نشان داد که سرنیزه رهبر پشت گردن هر سه قوه است!
سر نیزه رهبر پشت گردن ملتی نیز هست که بی کاری 50 درصدی ، تعطیلی روزافزون مراکز تولید و نابودی کشاورزی و محیط زیست و هزاران درد بی درمان دیگر را تجربه می کند. به قول “نوری زاد”، نویسنده و مستند ساز باشرف و شجاع زندانی کشیده «….. ما در مجاورت فروپاشی بزرگ و فاجعه ای بزرگ تر هستیم .»
Evin Court refused to accept the set bail for Peyman Aref
Even though Iran’s Revolutionary Court has issued a bail of 20 million tomans ($18,500) for Peyman Aref, the officials at Evin prison refused to accept the bail money and prevented his release. Per orders of Branch 6 of Evin’s Court, a few days after completing his second one-year prison term and being released, Peyman Aref was arrested again and transferred to ward 350 of Evin prison. When his wife went to the prison with the bail money after great efforts to secure the needed funds, she was denied entry into the prison court, and the officials refused to release Peyman.
According to Human Rights House of Iran, when Aref’s wife Samira Jamshidi went to the prison court, several prison officials attacked her resulting in a strong confrontation that subsided only after other officials and visitors intervened.
Peyman Aref had been released from Evin prison on October 9th after ending his one-year prison term and receiving 74 lashes for insulting the president.
Last Sunday he attended the funeral of Arash Sadeghi’s mother after which he and two of his activist friends went to the grave-site of Neda AghaSoltan and other martyrs of the post 2009 presidential elections. All three activist were detained and released the following day with orders to show up at the prison court on Tuesday to follow up on their court dossiers.
When Peyman and his friends showed up at the prison court on Tuesday, the other two were allowed to leave but Peyman was again arrested and transferred to Evin prison. He remains behind bars despite his wife’s efforts in delivering the bail money.
According to Human Rights House of Iran, when Aref’s wife Samira Jamshidi went to the prison court, several prison officials attacked her resulting in a strong confrontation that subsided only after other officials and visitors intervened.
Peyman Aref had been released from Evin prison on October 9th after ending his one-year prison term and receiving 74 lashes for insulting the president.
Last Sunday he attended the funeral of Arash Sadeghi’s mother after which he and two of his activist friends went to the grave-site of Neda AghaSoltan and other martyrs of the post 2009 presidential elections. All three activist were detained and released the following day with orders to show up at the prison court on Tuesday to follow up on their court dossiers.
When Peyman and his friends showed up at the prison court on Tuesday, the other two were allowed to leave but Peyman was again arrested and transferred to Evin prison. He remains behind bars despite his wife’s efforts in delivering the bail money.
بهروز فریدی، آرش و سیاوش محمدی بازداشت شدند
خبرگزاری هرانا – بهروز فریدی، آرش محمدی و سیاوش محمدی صبح امروز، ۱۲ آبان ۱۳۹۰ در منزل شخصی خود در تبریز توسط نیروهای امنیتی بازداشت شدند.
به گزارش کمیته گزارشگران حقوق بشر، گفته میشود ماموران امنیتی با در دستداشتن حکم بازداشت و تفتیش منزل، حدود ساعت شش صبح وارد منزل شده و پس از تفتیش منزل اقدام به بازداشت این سه تن کردهاند.
هنوز از علت بازداشت و محل نگهداری این سه فعال دانشجویی اطلاعی در دست نیست.
بهروز فریدی فارغ التحصیل رشتهی مهندسی مکانیک از داشگاه آزاد تبریز، آرش محمدی دانشجوی رشتهی مدیریت صنعتی دانشگاه پیام نور تبریز و سیاوش محمدی دانشجوی رشتهی هنر دانشگاه نبی اکرم تبریز است.
به گزارش کمیته گزارشگران حقوق بشر، گفته میشود ماموران امنیتی با در دستداشتن حکم بازداشت و تفتیش منزل، حدود ساعت شش صبح وارد منزل شده و پس از تفتیش منزل اقدام به بازداشت این سه تن کردهاند.
هنوز از علت بازداشت و محل نگهداری این سه فعال دانشجویی اطلاعی در دست نیست.
بهروز فریدی فارغ التحصیل رشتهی مهندسی مکانیک از داشگاه آزاد تبریز، آرش محمدی دانشجوی رشتهی مدیریت صنعتی دانشگاه پیام نور تبریز و سیاوش محمدی دانشجوی رشتهی هنر دانشگاه نبی اکرم تبریز است.
Political activist arrested over public statement
Iranian political activist Mohammad Tavassoli has been arrested and
charged with allegedly forging signatures on a public statement.
The Fars News Agency reported today: “So far 30 people whose names
and signatures were under this statement have denied it.” Fars claims
Tavassoli, a member of the reformist Freedom Movement party, has been
arrested for forging the signatures of prominent political figures on
the public statement that criticizes election policies.
Last month, 143 of Iran’s prominent reformist political figures issued a statement addressed to former president Mohammad Khatami, saying: “There are no positive prospects that the people’s votes will be protected and that the elections will be open, healthy and fair” in Iran’s upcoming parliamentary elections.
The letter has called into question the “unrelenting dominance and influence of military and security forces in all executive, judicial and legislative bodies, which has led to the people’s complete disappointment in making any change or improvement in their lives by participating in the elections.”
The letter was signed by Mohammad Tavasoli, Mostafa Tajzadeh, Abolfazl Bazargan, Alo Shakourirad, Azam Taleghani, Fakhrosadat Mohtashamipoor and Ebrahim Yazdi among many other prominent reform figures.
The letter reminds Khatami that the establishment has failed to heed his recommendations for the coming elections.
Khatami has called for the release of Iranian opposition leaders MirHosein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi and their wives as well as the release of all political prisoners, the freedom to participate in political and media activities, and open and healthy elections in order to secure reformist participation in the coming election.
Many reformists have expressed disappointment in the government’s reaction to Khatami’s conditions and have called for a complete boycott of the parliamentary election in March.
Last month, 143 of Iran’s prominent reformist political figures issued a statement addressed to former president Mohammad Khatami, saying: “There are no positive prospects that the people’s votes will be protected and that the elections will be open, healthy and fair” in Iran’s upcoming parliamentary elections.
The letter has called into question the “unrelenting dominance and influence of military and security forces in all executive, judicial and legislative bodies, which has led to the people’s complete disappointment in making any change or improvement in their lives by participating in the elections.”
The letter was signed by Mohammad Tavasoli, Mostafa Tajzadeh, Abolfazl Bazargan, Alo Shakourirad, Azam Taleghani, Fakhrosadat Mohtashamipoor and Ebrahim Yazdi among many other prominent reform figures.
The letter reminds Khatami that the establishment has failed to heed his recommendations for the coming elections.
Khatami has called for the release of Iranian opposition leaders MirHosein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi and their wives as well as the release of all political prisoners, the freedom to participate in political and media activities, and open and healthy elections in order to secure reformist participation in the coming election.
Many reformists have expressed disappointment in the government’s reaction to Khatami’s conditions and have called for a complete boycott of the parliamentary election in March.
دکتر علی رشیدی هم بازداشت شد
پیش از این در روز سه شنبه ,
آقايان دكتر هرميداس باوند، دكتر علي رشيدي و مهندس كورش زعيم توسط وزارت
اطلاعات براي پاسخگويي درباره بيانيه اخير جبهه ملي ايران در انتقاد از
اقتصاد و اوضاع اجتماعي و سياسي كشور، احضار شده بودند که بنا بر اخبار رسیده دکتر علی رشیدی پس از احضار بازداشت شد.
دکتر علی رشیدی اقتصاد دان و استاد دانشگاه که روز گذشته از سوی وزارت اطلاعات بخاطر بیانیه اخیر جبهه ملی ایران در تحلیل اوضاع اقتصادی کشور ٬ احضار شده بود ٬ به زندان اوین انتقال داده شد و هنوز در بازداشت بسر میبرد.دکتر رشیدی پس از پیمان عارف دومین عضو جبهه ملی ایران است که در چند روز اخیر بازداشت شده است
گفتنی است پیش از این در روز سه شنبه , آقايان دكتر هرميداس باوند، دكتر علي رشيدي و مهندس كورش زعيم توسط وزارت اطلاعات براي پاسخگويي درباره بيانيه اخير جبهه ملي ايران در انتقاد از اقتصاد و اوضاع اجتماعي و سياسي كشور، احضار شده بودند که بنا بر اخبار رسیده دکتر علی رشیدی پس از احضار بازداشت شد.
دکتر علی رشیدی اقتصاد دان و استاد دانشگاه که روز گذشته از سوی وزارت اطلاعات بخاطر بیانیه اخیر جبهه ملی ایران در تحلیل اوضاع اقتصادی کشور ٬ احضار شده بود ٬ به زندان اوین انتقال داده شد و هنوز در بازداشت بسر میبرد.دکتر رشیدی پس از پیمان عارف دومین عضو جبهه ملی ایران است که در چند روز اخیر بازداشت شده است
گفتنی است پیش از این در روز سه شنبه , آقايان دكتر هرميداس باوند، دكتر علي رشيدي و مهندس كورش زعيم توسط وزارت اطلاعات براي پاسخگويي درباره بيانيه اخير جبهه ملي ايران در انتقاد از اقتصاد و اوضاع اجتماعي و سياسي كشور، احضار شده بودند که بنا بر اخبار رسیده دکتر علی رشیدی پس از احضار بازداشت شد.