Young Iranian hangs himself in Tehran

Horrific scene of young Iranian man hanging himself in Tehran

A young man in the Shahriar district of Tehran hanged himself, state-run media in Iran reported on Sunday, February 28^th.

According to this report this 28-year-old man hanged himself from a residential building’s balcony while his hand and feet were in chains.

Iran: state agents continue acid attacks against women

Acid attacks in Iran

According to reports wired by the state-run Fars news agency, affiliated to the Revolutionary Guards, on Saturday, February 27^th two young women in the city of Semnan, northern Iran, were acid attacked when exiting a women’s hair salon.

These two young women suffered serious injuries in their faces and other parts of their body and one was transferred to a hospital outside of Semnan Prison.

Acid attacks are an inhumane method used by Ali Khamenei’s plainclothes and Bassij agents against women and girls that have been carried out mainly in the cities of Isfahan and Tehran. The perpetrators of these crimes have never been identified or punished. In fact, they have been indirectly supported by officials of the Islamic state.

Did “elections” change anything?

Reports and pictures taken from last Friday’s elections in Iran negate that it was really an election day. Many polling stations were seen empty at different hours of the day. No long queues were formed.  It was just another Friday in Tehran and other cities. As it was expected these elections did not stir much in the Iranian people, leaving many polling stations close to empty. Ayatollahs’ threatening words did not work this time. Just a few days before the “elections”  Khamenei's religious decrees (fatwas) to say that participating in elections is a religious obligation, blank ballots violate Sharia law, meant that boycotting the elections could bring severe  consequences. Nevertheless the turnout was very low.

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: Story of “Elections for God, not for people”

Ridiculous method ballot of vote counting in present Iran

Iran, in which “elections” has no meanings, held twin elections, on Feb. 26^th, to decide members of the next parliament and the “assembly of experts”. “Well, what is wrong with that?” One might say. “Election is a democratic process used in every country”.

The mistake here is that Iran is not a democratic country. It rather has the most vicious dictatorship of our present time. “Elections” If it was used in its real meanings, would be illegal in Iran and anybody participating in voting would be charged with “conspiracy against the state “and “enmity against God”. Elections”, generally, means that people choose their government from multiple candidates. Iran’s government officials, of different fractions, have repeatedly said that the people are not eligible to choose who can be the “Supreme Leader”.

Thirty seven years ago, when the “Islamic Republic of Iran” was established by Ayatollah Roohollah Khomeini, people who had a perception of the word “fundamentalism” were rare. The events of the recent years, in France, England, Australia, United states, Nigeria, . . . ,  and, particularly, the Middle East region gave people opportunities to have a glimpse of that kind of “Islam” Iranian Ayatollahs are representing. During this period of time terrorist organizations have grown, ideologically, nurtured by the existence of the only fundamentalist state power, the “Islamic Republic of Iran”.  

The kind of Islam used by Mullahs in Iran is known as the “regime of the Supreme Leader”. Based on a one man rule, Iran’s “Supreme Leader” is one of the worst dictatorial systems man has ever seen. Exalt of this “one man” to a Saint that is representing God, on our filthy earth, makes his opponents eligible to the worst punishments, including death. This is how the “elections” loving Mullahs have maintained their power in the past 37 years. This reality makes the Feb, 26 elections, somehow, exceptional.

The position of this “one man”, “the main pillar of the state”, the “supreme leader” is at stake. Mullahs have frequently defined their system as,” if eighty million population of Iran say one thing and the supreme Leader says another, the word of the supreme leader is accepted as true.” This shows that “elections” which means decision made by the people is a sin and against God’s will. Khamenei controls Iran's judiciary, armed forces, the Guardian Council that vets laws and election candidates, public broadcasters and also enjoys the loyalty of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards, which suppressed mass protests that followed the 2009 presidential election.

While Ayatollahs consider the “Supreme Leader” as God’s representative on earth, the Islam and the holy book of Quran, however, give the position of God’s representative to every human being and call him God’s noble creature. So where did this election stand for this government that does not bear any sort of democracy at home?

What we are talking about, concerning Feb. 26, is in fact a stalemate, an unsuccessful program, or in fact a failed strategy. The augmented crises in this regime are acting like a typhoon shaking the seat of the “Supreme Leader”. With all the country’s Power and all the economic key points in the hands of Khamenei but he has not been able to eradicate the opposition to his rule. His opposition and those who they call them foes, are stronger than ever and infuriation among the people is more than ever. This is now a turning point for the entire regime, a big defeat for Khamenei, the Supreme Leader.

No matter what will come out of the February elections for both parliament and the “assembly of experts”, but it will be a step down for the whole system. Just in the heat of mass protests, the “one man” is now being shaken, from within.

Iranian people’s message in elections: Our vote = regime overthrow

The Iranian people did not welcome the February 26^th sham elections and according to live reports from many polling stations, voting came to an end on Friday in a cold and spiritless atmosphere of intense security measures. Despite all the advertisement and various camps pouring money and investing efforts to lure people to the polls, which of course has roots in an obvious and growing power struggle amongst the ruling brass, state officials were extremely nervous throughout the day of any possible protest.

This year’s elections in Iran, like those in the past, was the scene of a total religious dictatorship imposing its hegemony as if it were blessed with credibility from God, forever to come.

Iran: political prisoner Arzhang Davoudi in Tehran sends message on regime’s sham twin elections

Fellow countrymen

These days various types of trumpeters associated to the illegitimate mullahs’ regime, whom are most definitely linked to the Revolutionary Guards and Ministry of Intelligence (MOIS/VEVAK), have restarted their street theatrics under the pretext of election campaigns. They are calling on people to show up and vote, at a time when those truly struggling for the Iranian people, and the true political prisoners, are all behind bars. These thieves who are seeking to gain seats in two different assemblies of this regime, have no intention to serve the Iranian people. In fact they are seeking their own profits and protecting their rule, which they have wrongly stolen form the Iranian people.

Young man throws himself off bridge in northern Iran

Archive photo

A 26-year-old man in the city of Rasht, northern Iran, threw himself off a bridge and lost his life. He committed suicide due to poverty and social pressure imposed by the mullahs ruling Iran.

In Iran under the mullahs’ rule people are losing any hope in their living conditions improving, and they are left with no other choice but to commit suicide, to relieve themselves of the pressures imposed by the mullahs’ regime.

Iran: man sets himself ablaze outside presidency building in Tehran

In an act of protest a Tehran local fed up with the cruelty imposed by the mullahs’ regime set himself ablaze outside the presidency building on Tuesday, February 16. Bystanders said flames were bursting from his body when a number of people finally took action to put out the fire.

It is worth noting that the man said he had set himself ablaze protesting poverty, social pressures, and preventing him from seeing Hassan Rouhani to present his complaint. There is no information about this individual’s current conditions.

This is the voice of Iranian people on the verge of sham election

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.