World Threats

These from our friends in Iran.

Tehran- Jan. 26, 2011. A great amount of oil is left unsold. It is about two months that the clerical regime has seven oil ships, at minimum, unsold. Each ship can store more than 2 million barrels of oil. The clerical dictatorship is even ready to sell oil cheaper and accept the transportation fare and the insurance payment.

Tehran- Jan. 27, 2011. Following the clash of 5000 workers of Iran Khodro on Jan. 26 with regimes suppressive forces because of the accident in which 10 workers were killed, more than 4000 workers of this factory formed a protest gathering this morning from 7 to 10 am attacking the manager of the factory for the cruelty and pressure that he imposes on them (the driver of the car who ran over the workers was sick and though he had told this manager that he is not able to continue the work the manager has forced him to do so). The manager tried to promise them change to clam them down to prevent another riot. More than 2000 workers of this factory participated in the funeral of the 10 in Beheshte Zahra Cemetery today. (This is a follow up from a previous post.)

Freedom of Religion in Iran.

Jan. 27, 2011. The health of Baha’i prison Siamak Iqayi is in a dangerous state. According to reports, he has been in Semnan Prison since November 6, 2011 to serve his 3 year prison term and has suffered four respiratory attacks during this time to the point that he was given oxygen and a pill to return to a somewhat normal state. According to a specialist lung doctor, he is very sensitive to cigarette smoke. Despite this, he is kept in cell block with more than 20 smokers and the door of the cell block is sometimes kept shut the whole day. Despite the fact that two doctors have stressed that Mr. Iqayi has to be hospitalized immediately for treatment, officials have done nothing to try to improve his condition. Notably, there is a cell block in Semnan Prison which imposes limitations for smokers. Despite Iqani’s request to be transferred there, the head of the cell block who introduces himself as a psychiatrist has said that he has to change his religion to be transferred.

Keeping track of prisoners. We learned during the Vietnam War that it was necessary for a POW to be seen in public. Once there was documentary evidence of your existence it was much more difficult for you to disappear. Hopefully this publicity will help keep these people alive.

Karaj- Jan. 25, 2011
On Tuesday Jan. 25 when some families of political prisoners went to Gohardasht Prison to meet their beloveds they were told that Intelligence Ministry is now responsible for the newly formed ward of political prisoners (saloon 12 of ward 4) and the prison has no control on it any more. These prisoners are not even allowed to call their families and are deprived from meeting them. ISC was informed that so far the following prisoners have been transferred to this ward:
1- Majid Tavakoli
2- Behrooz Javid Tehrani
3- Saleh Kohandel
4- Saeed Masouri
5- Hood Yazarlou
6- Misagh Yazdan Nejad
7- Afshin Baimani
8- Karim Maroug Aziz
9- Hassan Vafa
10- Hossein Shahriari
11- Shir Mohammad Rezaee
12- Mashaallah Haeri
13- Farzad Madadzadeh
14- Ali Mohebi
15- Reza Sharifi Bookani
16- Heshmatollah Tabarzadi
17- Mansour Radpoor
18- Mostafa Eskandari
19- Massoud Bastani
20- Ahmad Zeydabadi
21- Mehdi Mahmoudian
22- Reza Rafiee
23- Mansour Osanlou
24- Aliraza Karami Khairabadi
25- Arzhang Davoudi
26- Rasoul Boodaghi
27- Isa Saharkhiz
28- Davoud Soleymani
29- Reza Joshan
30- Shahram Poor Mansouri
31- Naseh Yousefi
32- Ismael Gharodouee Millah
33- Ismael Haghi
34- Nasser Jamil
35- Ibrahim Hosseinpoor
36- Mohammad Nazari
37- Mohammad Mehdi
38- Khalid Feraydouni
39- Omar Faghiehpoor
40- Zaher Mohammadi
41- Sadegh Alhusseini
42- Khalid Hardani
43- Mohammad Ali Mansouri
44- Zaniar Moradi
45- Loghman Moradi
46- Jamaledin Khanjani
47- Afif Naiemi
48- Saeed Rezaie
49- Behrooz Tavakoli
50- Vahi Tizfahm
51- Jafar Aghdami
52- Farhang Poor Mansouri (not transferred yet because he is in solitary cell)
53- Mohsen Dogmechi (has gone under a heavy operation recently due to cancer and cannot even take care of his personal needs. The physicians have prescribed chemotherapy for him but instead he is taken to this newly made ward lacking minimum necessities for a human being).
54- Ibrahim Hossein Poor
55- Afshin Yavari
56- Jamal Farimani
57- Jamshid Sadegh Alhusseini
58- Hasan Khodabandi
59- Hasan Tafah
60- Rasoul Mahmout
61- Saeed Tizfahm
62- Seyfollah Segani
63- Abbas Esfandiary
64- Abbas Radfar
65- Afif Tamimi
66- Ali Ajami
67- Qholamreza Qholam Husseini
68- Karim Poor Samadi
69- Karim Marof Aziz
70- Keyban Samimi
71- Allahverdi Rouhi
72- Mohammad Jokar
73- Mehdi Mostafavi
Many of these political prisoners are supporters of PMOI.
As recently we had witnessed the high number of executions in Iran, including the execution of political prisoners, and the first series of execution (Aghaee and Kazemi) of those arrested in the last years uprising, ISC calls on the world community to be aware of another potential massacre of political prisoners by the clerical dictatorship (30000 political prisoners were massacred in just a few weeks in summer of 1988).