Regime bans activist from leaving Iran for medical treatment

Dr. Mohammad Malaki, first Tehran University dean after 1979 revolution

Tehran, February 25^th – Former Tehran University dean Dr. Mohammad Malaki has continued his efforts to gain a passport to exit Iran for medical treatment. However, he has been told he is banned from departing Iran.

After Dr. Malaki’s follow-ups he was finally told the Revolutionary Guards has banned him from leaving the country. According to Dr. Malaki’s friends no specific government body is providing any answers on why he has been banned from leaving the country. The Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS/VEVAK) is depriving this human rights activist from receiving any medical care.

Iran: executed all adult men in one village

Human rights groups condemned the executions

Important News

The entire adult male population of a village in southern Iran has been executed for drug offences, according to Iran’s vice-president for women and family affairs.
The matter came to light earlier this week after Shahindokht Molaverdi revealed it during an interview with the semi-official Mehr news agency in rare comments from a senior government official highlighting the country’s high rate of executions of drug traffickers.
“We have a village in Sistan and Baluchestan province where every single man has been executed,” she said, without naming the place or clarifying whether the executions took place at the same time or over a longer period. “Their children are potential drug traffickers as they would want to seek revenge and provide money for their families. There is no support for these people.”
According to Amnesty International, Iran remains a prolific executioner, second only to China. In 2014, at least 753 people were hanged in Iran, of whom more than half were drug offenders. In 2015, Amnesty said it had recorded “a staggering execution rate” in the Islamic republic, “with nearly 700 people put to death in the first half of the year alone”. 

Iran Election: Interview with Iranian worker

An Interview an brave Iranian worker in Islam Abad (Western Iran) about the sham Iran election.
In his interview he insists that he will not vote for this election and he seeks a regime change

Iran: Factional clashes on the eve of voting

Factional clashes in northern Iran before elections

On the morning of Wednesday, February 24^th a number of Khamenei loyalists attacked the Rouhani-Rafsanjani election headquarters in the city of Ramsar in northern Iran, tearing their posters at the site.

 Tehran: protesting people tearing apart elections posters

People were seen tearing apart many posters of election candidates in Tehran, according to reports obtained from Tehran on Wednesday, February 24^th. This has become a method for people to show their protests in these sham elections. Reports show the posters were set ablaze.

Iran: mullahs sent students from Qom to Tehran to vote for specific candidates

Supporters of Khamenei’s faction in Iran intend to send a large number of student mullahs from the city of Qom to Tehran to fill the voting polls in favor of Jannati, Yazdi and Mesbah Yazdi during the elections on Friday, February 26^th. These three individuals are three of the main Khamenei faction members in Tehran running in the elections for the Assembly of Experts, and Khamenei is terrified they may not get the necessary votes.

Iran: I want to vote, but to who and for what?

On the verge of the Iranian regime’s twin elections, a heartbreaking incident took place in the village of Siahkal, located in northern Iran. This text shows how the Iranian people actually view elections in Iran.

24 February 2016

A teacher, wounded back in the Iran-Iraq War of the 1980s and a loyal believer in the Islamic republic, told his students:

“Kids, the elections are near, write an essay about the elections,” he said. Every one of the students wrote an essay and read it before the class until it was A.K.’s turn. With very ragged clothing and a face revealing his inner pains, A.K. stood before the blackboard and began reading his essay:

“In the name of God…

I take my pen and write my essay as:

Why do we vote!?

Iran: Candidates misuse people’s poverty to gain votes

Slogan on the wall reads, ” My vote, Regime Change”.

In Ahwaz city a candidate, who is already a member of the present parliament, pays 100.000 tomans (= $30) a day for distributing his election publicity. This is when Iranian workers are paid around 450.000 Tomans a months. This is also when lots of Iranian workers are not paid their wages for up to five months…..

"My vote is regime overthrown"

Iran: protesting continues in university with the slogan of

 "our vote = regime change"

Protesting against election in Iran

Iran: people are crying “our vote is regime overthrown”

Iran: Two candidates brawl on the street

People in the central city of Farsan witnessed, on Sunday Feb 21, Motazavi and Azizi, two candidates of this city scuffling with each other in the city’s main square in Beheshti Street. The fight was so severe that the security forces had to disperse people. The brawl happened once at 9 am and once at 330 pm. The two sides

Isfahan – sale of spray paints is forbidden.

Thursday Feb. 18 – All the paint shops in Isfahan (Iran’s second largest city) have received written commands from the government that prohibits them from selling spray paints till after elections. This command is to impede people from writing snide slogans on the posters and banners.

All over the city of Isfahan is full of anti-government slogans especially written by youths. The slogans include, “Down with Khamenei, Our vote = regime change, my vote= Freedom”.

Iran – People show their disgust to the Feb. 26 sham elections

 

Candidates for the so called elections started their final champagne on Saturday Feb. 20 by posting their bills and pictures on the walls. Iranian People in different cities show their abhorrence for the regime by tearing off the election posters.

A gift from Ayatollahs

Civil rights taken away, unemployment, and poverty have produced increasing number of women begging in the streets with their children. 

Iran: Elections… a repeated demagogic theatrics

Dr. Mohammad Malaki is: a known figure of the mullahs’ opposition inside Iran and the first dean of Tehran University following the 1979 revolution who spent years in prison for the “crime” of opposing the mullahs’ dictatorship in Iran. Dr. Malaki has written an article entitled, “Elections… a repeated demagogic theatrics” regarding elections in Iran. This piece has been published in Al Arabiya website on Friday, February 19^th. We have translated this article to English for all readers.

To all those yearning for years, seeking freedom in free and popular elections

Mohammad Malaki

Demagogic theatrics is a type of show aimed at amusing its spectators. Above a stage-box sits the performer with a number of strings, each attached to a small doll, and with a specific tone of voice he reads out the screenplay, moving the dolls here and there on the stage. The audience hear the voice of the dolls, seeing them going from here to there, while everything is controlled by the performer. The Allame Dehkhoda dictionary defines the word demagogic theatrics as: “A type of play in which dolls are built in different shapes and brought on stage, and the dolls are attached to thin strings with which the dolls are moved around in different ways.”

Sloganeers Protesting respond to the upcoming election in Iran

My vote = overthrown of the regime

Down with Khamanaie

My vote is overthrown of the regime

Down with Khamanaie

My vote is overthrown of the regime (written on the withe board of university class room)

Iran: “no one welcoming regime elections” in Torbat-e Jom

A driver in the city of Torbat-e Jom in eastern Iran said in a short interview on Tuesday, February 16^th on the upcoming twin elections in Iran: “In Torbat-e Jom there is no place for the state elections and the people are not welcoming such a development. There are no jobs. All construction projects are suspended. Lesser companies are providing commuting services. A driver who earned 500,000 rials last year is now making 250,000 rials ($70).

Iran: Jail for using Facebook

Another political prisoner goes on hunger strike on central city Tehran

Political prisoner, Amir Golestani, was arrested in August 2013, by the suppressive IRGC guards on charges of doing social activities on Facebook. He has already spent 31 months in jail.

Golestani, who is in section 8 of Evin Prison, has been on hunger strike since Feb. 13th protesting being deprived of his legal right of unconditional release. He has emphasized that he would go on dry hunger strike if his situation is not changed within ten days.