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January 24 2012
Iran: Sanctions Bite, and the Iranian Currency Falls
Iranians are facing a financial tsunami as the national currency (Rial) loses value day by day as sanctions against Iranian oil and the banking system get tougher. The Rial was trading at nearly 20,000 to the U.S. dollar on Saturday on the black market, compared to 18,000 Rials a day earlier.
Some bloggers blame Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for failing to keep his economic promises. Fasl tazeh says [fa]:
One dollar is currently traded at about 2,200 tomans (22,000 Rials) and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took a trip to Mashhad to talk about Taziyeh [religious art].
Nikahang Kowsar, Roozonline
The Iranian regime [Velyate Faghieh] took Iran and its people hostage for its useless nuclear energy…. The economy is collapsing… dark days are ahead of us… with prayer nothing will get changed… This regime and its nuclear energy only gave th Iranian people poverty and misery.
The blogger Sight writes [fa] ironically, that is it a bad thing that “most of our people became millionaires. You need to have one gold coin to have one million tomans”.
Hamdel writes [fa]:
… People consider the Islamic Republic's political and economic situation unstable and they exchange their Rials to Dollars, Euros and gold. The Islamic Republic moves into the direction that there is no hope for economic and political improvements. Concerning the economic situation, we can compare Iran to a bankrupt company. In regards to foreign policy, Iran is in the worst situation of the last 30 years and is led by Iran's Leader Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei. More and more workers become jobless and people's purchasing power is declining.
Dara2011 predicted fall of the Rial a couple of weeks ago. The blogger says [fa]:
… since the Islamic Revolution, Iran's leaders do not care about the economy and just want to remain in power. During Ahmadinejad's presidency the economic situation has deteriorated more. A Dollar was around 70 Rials in 1979 and now we buy at 14,000 rials because the Dollar is on its way to becoming 2,000 rials. Does Iran become Middle East's Zimbabwe, with a national currency without value?
02mydafsoup-01January 22 2012
Iran:Press TV loses UK licence
Press TV, the Iranian state-run English-language TV, lost the license in UK due to what Ofcom says “breaching the Communications Act”. Maziar Nazemi, a presenter at Iran state-run TV believes [fa]: “It is obvious that every media is fulfilling the goals of its sponsors. So Ofcom's decision is a political one”. On the other hand, Mizan Ghalam supports UK decisions and considers[fa] “justice is done”.
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02mydafsoup-01January 19 2012
Iran:”Facebook prisoner” celebrates birthday in prison
Hanieh (Sharareh) Farshi Shotorban, an Iranian young woman who was arrested last year, reportedly, for her Facebook activities, celebrates birthday in Evin prison in prison. Hanieh is sentenced [fa] to seven years of imprisonment.
02mydafsoup-01January 18 2012
Iran: Women activist shot dead in Texas
A Texas Medical Center student and Iranian women activist was shot dead on Monday in Houston. Gelareh Bagherzadeh was driving her car when she was shot. Authorities said it is unknown what prompted the shooting. Iranians users are showing concerns over this murder in Balatarin, an Iranian link-sharing website.
02mydafsoup-01Iran: More web activists got arrested
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says [fa] Iran has arrested two web activists last week; Mohammad SoleimaniNia, who “hosts and manages websites of many Iranian civil society communities and intellectuals and manager of Persian literature website sokhan.com”, and Simin Nematollahi “Majzooban.org, the website of Iranian Gonabadi dervishes”.
02mydafsoup-01Iran: Second blogger arrested in Tehran
Iranian authorities arrested Marzieh Rasouli, journalist and blogger, last night in Tehran. She writes stories and narrations of her daily life in ‘3 Rouz Pish’ [fa]. This is the second arrest of a blogger in a couple of days in Tehran. Parastoo Dokouhaki, blogger and journalist, was arrested on Sunday.
02mydafsoup-01Iran: Iranian site is striking against censorship in U.S.A
Amsterdam based Iranian Arseh Sevom site is striking against SOPA and PIPA which seek to deploy online censorship and surveillance in the name of enforcing copyright, employing the same tools used by authoritarian regimes. Arseh Sevom promotes civil society in Iran.
02mydafsoup-01Iran:Another blogger in jail
Hadi Nili says according to confirmed reports from Tehran, Parastoo Dokouhaki, Iranian blogger and journalist, is arrested by authorities. Parastoo is a women activist as well. She writes in her blog “Zan-Nevesht“and in its English version “The Remains of the Day“.
02mydafsoup-01January 17 2012
Iran: Gender based books for schools
Iranian authorities announced that school books to be changed and written based on gender. Azar Todnar says gender discrimination becomes institutionalized in Iran.
02mydafsoup-01Iran: Another Blogger in Jail
According to confirmed reports from Tehran, Parastoo Dojouhaki, Iranian blogger and journalist, is arrested by authorities. Parastoo is a women activist as well. She writes in her blog ‘Zan-Nevesht‘ and in its English version ‘The Remains of the Day“.
02mydafsoup-01Iran: Celebrating The 1st Golden Globe For Iran
Iranian users in Twitter, Facebook, Friendfeed and other social media are celebrating that Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi's drama ‘A Separation‘ won the award for best foreign language film at the 69th Golden Globes. Aysan posted in her Facebook: This is about 3 years that our Facebook profiles have been full of pain and suffer but now we are all happy and proud because of this award.
02mydafsoup-01Iran: Jailed Islamic Cleric and Blogger on Hunger Strike
In the last 33 years since the Islamic Revolution, Iran has been a kind of paradise for Islamic clerics who gained power and rule over the country. But not for all of them. Mohammad Sadegh (Arash) Honarvar Shojayi, a cleric and a blogger is one who is currently sharing the pain of imprisonment for his ideas and writings along with many other prisoners. Has the Islamic Republic democratized repression? In October 2011, after one year of jail, the blogger was sentenced to four years in prison and lashes.
Arash Honarvar Shojayi had online profiles on Facebook, Twitter, and a blog. He is a critic of the concept of Guardianship of the Jurists (Vlayat Faqih), which means leadership under one cleric, the position currently held by Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He was accused of propaganda activities and activities against national security, as well as defaming the regime and the clergy. He was released recently due to health problems, but arrested again after an interview. He has been on hunger strike since last Monday.
Youth for Human Rights blog says [fa]:
Arash Honarvar Shojayi had been among political prisoners in section 350 in Evin Prison but he was transfered to section 325, among jailed clerics who do not share his critical ideas. The authroities warned if he continues his hunger strike, nobody in that section has right to receive any phone calls. Such warnings are made to provoke other prisoners to raise pressure on Mohammad Sadegh Honarvar Shojayi.
In 2010, Mohamad Sadegh Honarvar Shojayi published several posts regarding human rights violations in Iran against Shi'a religious leaders. The blogger quoted Amnesty International's 1998 report on Iran:
Since the establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran in 1979 serious human rights violations have continued. Victims have included a broad range of political opposition from members of left-wing groups to monarchists, as well as ethnic and religious minorities. There has also been a pattern of restrictions placed on Shi’a religious leaders opposed to fundamental tenets of the Iranian political system such as velayat-e faqih.
In the Islamic Republic, even some clerics, do not favor of the regime.
02mydafsoup-01January 16 2012
Iran: Blogger May Face Death Penalty for Insulting Islam
A 50-year old Iranian blogger, Mohammad Reza Pour Shajari (aka Siamak Mehr), has been charged with “insulting the Prophet of Islam” and “enmity with God” or “waging war against God”, charges that could carry the death penalty in Iran. His trial on December 21, 2011 lasted only 15 minutes.
His daughter, Mitra Pour Sharjari, told Deutsche Welle's Farsi service that her father told the judge he would not defend himself, because neither his lawyer, nor jury members, nor the media were there. He said, “One day, like Gaddafi, you will hide in a hole.” The judge replied that it makes no difference since, “Now we are here, and you, and people like you, will pay the price.”
Siamak Mehr was arrested in September 2010. In his blog, Iran Land's Report, he would criticize the Islamic Republic and Islam with strong words.
In his last post on September 8, 2010 he said he considered Shi'ite clerics a mafia group who had wasted away Iran's national resources since [the Islamic Revolution in] 1979.
Here is a video showing Siamak Mehr in chains, apparently on his way to court:
Iranian blogger Azarmehr writes about this video, saying:
Who would you expect to be chain bound, hands and feet, and surrounded by revolutionary guards special units as he is taken to appear before the revolutionary court? A dangerous criminal? In fact, the person you see hands and feet bound in the footage below is a gentle and polished man, who has lost a kidney as a result of tortures he has suffered in prison.
Mehdi Roud writes [fa]:
This blogger was charged with Medieval laws for publishing his ideas in his blog. His family did not have the right to be present in court… and a political prisoner like him can face the death penalty.
In February 2011, Bazaferinieazad published a letter by Siamak Mehr where he says he is accused of acting against national security and insulting the regime's leaders.
It also says his file mentions that he insulted [Islamic] sanctity like Salman Rushdie (a British Indian writer who Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini famously issued a fatwa against).
In a letter to his daughter, Siamak Mehr writes:
Dear Mitra,
Remember I am not just a person, but I am also a notion. A notion which is deep rooted amongst Iranians, and I am extremely hopeful that finally we shall overcome this evil, this anti-human anti-freedom and anti-life source. Therefore never regard my physical destruction as the destruction of this flourishing notion”
The Iranian regime has jailed several bloggers in recent years. As the tragic death of imprisoned blogger Omid Reza Mirsayafi in 2010 showed, the more a blogger is isolated and deprived of a network, the more he is in danger.
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02mydafsoup-01Iran: A cleric blogger on hunger strike
Mohammad Sadegh Honarvar Shojayi, a blogger and cleric started his hunger strike on Monday. He was arrested by the Prosecutor General on charges of conducting an interview with the reformist Kalameh website.
02mydafsoup-01Iran:Bread price soars
Harfayi az Tahe Del writes bread price [fa] soars in country and a Sangak cost about 1000 tomans.The blogger reminds [fa] us before revolution, 33 years ago, a Sangak was just one toman. The blogger asks if our parents had known one day Sangak becomes so expensive, would they have chanted down with Shah?
02mydafsoup-01January 12 2012
Someone Has been Killing Off Iranian Scientists For Five Years And It Isn't Likely To Stop
The assassination of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, chemistry expert and director of the Natanz uranium enrichment facility in central Iran, is just one of many Iranian scientist assassinations.
The bomb explosion, which was set off by magnetic bombs attached to the car by two assailants on a motorcycle, killed Roshan and wounded two others, reported the Associated Press.
Iranian officials noted that the assassination method was similar to that used in killing of two other scientist and an attempted assassination of another in the past two years. Iran suspects that Israel's Mossad Intelligence service is behind these assassinations.
The Associated Press reported this morning that a column in the Kayhan newspaper by chief editor Hossein Shariatmadari called for revenge. "Assassinations of Israeli military and officials are easily possible," Shariatmadari wrote.
“I think there is reason to doubt the idea that all the hits have been carried out by Israel,” Karim Sadjadpour, an Iran expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace told The New York Times. “It’s very puzzling that Iranian nuclear scientists, whose movements are likely carefully monitored by the state, can be executed in broad daylight, sometimes in rush-hour traffic, and their culprits never found.” He suspects that the Iranian government could be responsible for some of the scientists' deaths.
Regardless of who has been killing them, it's been going on for years.
July 2011
Darioush Rezaeinejad, who Iran's Mehr news agency reported had ties to Iran's nuclear program, was shot dead by gunmen in eastern Tehran. Iran's intelligence minister Heydar Moslehi denied Rezaeinejad connection to the nuclear program, reported Reuters.
Associated Press reported that Rezaeinejad was an electronics student, who "allegedly participated in developing high-voltage switches, a key component in setting off the explosions needed to trigger a nuclear warhead."
November 2010
Majid Shahriari, a member of the nuclear engineering faculty at Shahid Beheshti University in Tehran, was killed after riders on motorcycles attached magnetized bombs to his car, reported the Associated Press. His wife, who was in the car with him, was wounded. According to Ali Akbar Salehi, Iran's vice president in charge of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, Shahriari "was involved in one of the big AEOI projects, which is a source of pride for the Iranian nation."
On the same day, there was a similar attempt at assasination of Fereidoun Abbasi-Davani. Abbasi, now Iran's Vice President and Head of Atomic Energy Organization. Abbasi was on a 2007 UN sanctions list for suspected links to secret nuclear activity, reported the Associated Press.
January 2010
Masoud Ali Mohammadi, a senior physics professor, was killed when a motorcycle with a bomb exploded near his car as he was leaving for work, reported the Associated Press. A spokesman for the atomic agency, claimed that Ali Mohammadi "was not involved in the country's nuclear program."
January 2007
Ardeshir Hassanpour, an Iranian nuclear scientist working at a nuclear plant in Isfahan, was reported by private US intelligence firm Stratfor to have been killed by Mossad. Iranian state media reported the cause of his death as accidental "gas poisoning" and Iranian government stated that he was not involved in nuclear research, according to ABC News.
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