Rights groups: reformists seized in Iran crackdown

The slave revolt is still going strong and the Iranian guvment is pissed. The military will soon be forced to pick a side and this will end violently for the protestors or a bunch of mullahs will see their precious islamic empire crumble around them. This is more of an anti islam fight than a demand for a vote recount. No matter which side wins the rest of the ummah is scared. Actually to be fair most corrupt regimes are scared (to include ours). American politicians should be allover this issue but they are busy stealing the money from hard working citizens many of which are watching the situation in iran with envy.

By HADEEL AL-SHALCHI, 17 June 2009, (AP)
CAIRO — International human rights organizations said Wednesday that many prominent activists and politicians have been arrested in response to protests over the Iran’s disputed election.
-Muslims are masters and cracking down on dissenters but the numbers are against them this time around. Simple searches will show the people are fighting back and in some cases winning.

Hadi Ghaemi, director of the New York-based International Campaign for Human Rights, said he had spoken with family members and colleagues of people who have been arrested or disappeared and was told that there were at least 200 across the country.

The Associated Press could not independently confirm the rights groups’ reports due to government restrictions on reporting inside the country. The Iranian government has said that it has arrested a relatively small number of people responsible for violence and other crimes.
-In retaliation the people are filming the crack down and posting pictures of those involved in the violence and attempting to identify them, soon political, religious and police will start meeting mohammed in hell. The people tried islam, they are tired of it and want out.

Ghaemi said one of the latest to be arrested was Ebrahim Yazdi, who was foreign minister after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s 1979 revolution and is now leader of the banned but tolerated Freedom Movement of Iran. Ghaemi said Yazdi was arrested in the intensive care unit of Pars Hospital in Tehran.

Analyst Saeed Leilaz was arrested Wednesday by plainclothes security officers at his home, said his wife, Sepehrnaz Panahi. Ghaemi also said that Mohammad-Reza Jalaipour, another noted Iranian analyst, was detained.

The BBC’s Farsi-language news site said Jalaipour is a student at Oxford and was arrested at the airport upon trying to leave Iran with his wife, Fatemeh Shams. A plainclothes officer did not give a reason for the arrest, Shams told the BBC.

Amnesty International said that 17 political activists were detained and taken to “unspecified locations” Monday night after they staged a peaceful protest in a square in Tabriz, north-western Iran.
-You can stop reading now, as the rest is mostly a who’s who of radical Iranians, many that you have never heard of. What the author did not cover was hundreds of thousands of unknown Iranians that are in the streets and have been. More important than the people mentioned are the shopkeepers, blue-collar workers, homemakers etc. The common people, the everyday Joe, the impact to the economy and political/ religious establishment will be felt for years to come. They are making a stand with full realization it could bring them death or imprisonment. Since I consider anyone living under sharia I am sincerly hoping the people win and toss out the old corrupt political/ religious establishment. Power to the people! Viva la Revolution!

Amnesty said Ghaffari Farzadi, a leading member of the Iran Freedom Movement and a lecturer at Tabriz University, was also arrested, according to witnesses they spoke to at the university.

Amnesty said a crackdown on about 3,000 protesters in the north-western city of Oroumiye led to the deaths of two people and the detention of hundreds. In the southern city of Shiraz, tear gas was used in a university library where security forces beat students and detained about 100 people, the group said. And in the northern town of Babol, armed paramilitaries and plain-clothed officials surrounded Babol University and targeted students in dormitories, witnesses told Amnesty.

The International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran said other people who have disappeared or been arrested include:

- Prominent reformer Saeed Hajjarian, an advisor to former president Mohammad Khatami, paralyzed in an assassination attempt in 2000.

- Mohammad Tavasoli, the director of the political office of the Freedom Movement of Iran, arrested June 16.

- Human rights lawyer Abdolfattah Soltani, arrested in his office by security forces posing as clients.

- Human rights activist Shiva Nazarahari.

- Journalist Mahsa Amrabadi.

- Former spokesperson for Khatami Abdolah Ramezanzadeh.

- Politician Mostafa Tajzadeh.

- Political activists Mohsen Aminzadeh, Mohammad Atrianfar, and Mohammad Tavasoli.

- Freedom Movement members Ahmad Afjeiee, Emad Bahavar, Mojtaba Khandan,
Saieed Zeraatkar, Rouholah Shafiee, Ali Mehrdad, and Mohammad-Reza Ahmadinia.

- Members of the reformist Islamic Participation Front: Ali PourKhayeri, Shahin Nourbakhsh, Ali Taghipour Mohammad Shokuhi, Ashkan Mojaleli, Maysam Varahchehre, Mahdieh Minavi, and Farhad Nasrollahpour.

- Members of the Central Council of the University Alumni group ADVAR: general secretary Ahmad Zaydabadi, Hadi Kahal and Hamed Iranshahi.

- Activists Payam Haydar Ghazvini, Nasim Riahi, Mojtaba Rajabi, and Atar Rashidi in Ghazvin province.

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