He has gone . . . . . . , and made a nation happy

 Why are there so many unemployed and laid offs in Iran? Why workers do not get paid for months?

Why Iranian people get poorer and poorer while the prices in Iran get higher and higher?

Why women in Iran are suppressed and considered, by law, as second hand citizens?

Why parts of Iran are now suffering from draught?

Why kids, in Iran, have to work to make the living for the family? Why pregnant women sell their babies before birth?

Why Syrians, men, women, kids have to risk their lives to find shelter in Europe and elsewhere?

Why . . .  ?

Why . . . ?  Why . .   . ?

For one simple but sad reason: Mullahs and Ayatollahs, in Iran, have taken over the country.

“Vaez Tabassi” one of the most powerful Ayatollahs in Iran and one of the closest allies of Ali Khamenei, the supreme Leader has just made a lot of people happy. He died last week; He was one of the most criminal Ayatollahs of Iran and died after four decades of torturing and suppressing people and plundering their wealth.

 Thirty seven years ago Iranian people were happy for they managed to topple the despotic monarchy.  Joyous of the Shah’s departure they could not imagine how ruthless the new rulers could be. Ayatollah Khomeini and other mullahs embraced the trust of Iranian people as they claimed to represent the religion of Islam. Soon every Ayatollah became the sultan in a part of Iran. “Representative of the Supreme Leader” became the absolute power in their region,

Vaez Tabassi, who died last week, was one of Iran’s most powerful Mullahs. For forty years he was Khomeini and Khamenei’s representative in the north eastern province of Khorasan. His unrestrained plunder of the wealth of the country pushed many Iranian families to destitution. He made many habitants of Khorassan lose their homes and their jobs.  Many villagers have had to leave their farms to look for job elsewhere.

Tabassi was from Khorassan province. The city of Mashhad, the center of the province, houses the shrine of “Imam Reza”, the eighth descendant son of Islam‘s prophet Mohammed. Millions of Shi’ite Moslem pilgrims visit the shrine every year while many pay their levy or donations there. As self claimed interpreters of the teachings of Islam Mullahs took over the shrine on the very day they grasped power in Iran. All the assets and endowments earned in this shrine go to the hands of its “trustee”, who is appointed by the Supreme Leader. For almost four decades Tabassi was the trustee of Mashhad’s shrine.

In 2008 Iran’s parliament, under the influence of Khamenei passed a resolution that made all the books and records of assets belonging to the “Leadership” unavailable to the public. The resolution rules out any investigations or publicizing of Supreme Leader’s belongings that also includes what is accumulated around Mashhad’s shrine. Almost 500 employees, mostly of government secret agents, control and run the holdings of the shrine in Mashhad.

By appointing Vaez Tabassi, one of his close allies, as the trustee for the shrine in Mashhad, Khamenei got the opportunity of spending the assets as he wished which included allocation large amounts of fund for nuclear program, as well as, for support of terrorist organizations in the neighboring countries. The wealth of the trustee of the shrine is not known to anybody. There has not been any inventory since this government came to existence in 1978. The London newspaper, Al Sharq Al Osat, once described the Mashhad shrine as Iran’s second powerful financial institution after Iran’s National Oil Company.

The shrine in Mashhad owns one third of the land in Mashhad as well as some in other cities of Iran. Many factories that produce textile, sugar, buses, pharmacy, engineering goods, along with ranches and farms, mostly in Khorassan province belong to this financial emperor. According to some of Iran’s state newspapers the investment in Mashhad shrine is seven per cent of Iran’ gross product. This amount in the past fiscal year reached 188 milliard Dollars.

According to websites of these trustees the companies belonging to the shrine in Mashhad produce 73,000 tons of milk, 300 tons of meat, 1000 tons white meat, 100,000 tons of agricultural products, 10 million meters of textile, 6000 meters of handmade carpet. This “cartel” also controls more than 136 rural projects.

This one example illuminates why Khamenei, Rafsanjani, Rouhani and other Mullahs are holding tight to Iran’s power instruments.

The dead Ayatollah Vaez Tabassi not only plundered the wealth of Iranian people and pushed them to destitution, he also funded the terrorists in other countries, he also arrested and tortured many of Iran’s Mujahedin and other political and human rights activists. Many of the names appearing in the long list of Iran’s martyrs belong to those who were put to death by the order of Ayatollah Tabassi.