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Teachers Against the IR

Kamangir | March 4, 2007 | Category Iran

Yesterday, teachers gathered in front of the parliament to protest against their low wages. Click on the picture to see the footage. More pictures here.

Pictures

Kamangir | March 4, 2007 | Category Iran

1- The IR announced the introduction of the new 50,000 Rial bank note, 2.5 times bigger than the largest available bank note in the market. The bank note carries Khomeini’s portrait on the front, “as mandated by the law“. The back of the bank note is decorated with a map of Iran on which the Prophet’s saying is written, “even if the science is in the sky, people from Iran will reach it”. A “nuclear energy” sign is also visible on the map, according to IRNA. Deputy of Rial transactions in the Central Bank of Iran implicitly denied that the new bank note might have been published to fakely boost the economy. Knowing that the Central Bank prints new bank notes every year, without removing the older ones, his claim has to be considered carefully.

2- A desperate family moved to a pavement, most probably because they were unable to pay the rent. The irony is that they “founded” they new home in Revolution Street, according to the sign mounted on the wall. More pictures here.

Police Violence in Iran against Activist Women (Updated)

Kamangir | March 4, 2007 | Category Iran

A calm protest in front of the Revolution’s Court was attacked violently by the Police. Here are a few news on the incident.

Farnaz writes,

This morning, Iran’s local time, a group of women activists gathered in front of the Revolution’s Court to protest against the unlawful trend of arrests, interrogations, and trials of activist women in the year which will end in a few weeks. According to the witnesses, half an hour after the protestants gathered in silence, two Police officers, one not wearing Police uniform [an icon of the intelligence forces] and a black-wearing woman approached the participants and tore apart their banners while swearing. Then, they confiscated one of the participants’ cell phone and told them to leave the place immediately, because “it is ordered from the above”. According to the latest news [at the time of writing], a Police officer is pushing, beating, and swearing to the protestants. He has been heard saying “we will arreast you all” and “we will hang you all from trees“.

Muslim Feminist reports that fifty arrests are made. As there is heavy planning for a protest in front of the parliament, on March 8th, these arrests can be seen as a preemptive action. The names of the detainees are mentioned in Zanestan, in Persian.

Kosoof gives the names of the detainees and has their pictures. He also reports on a violent act commited by the Police against one of the activists,

Shadi Sadr, Asieh Amini, Jila Bani Yaghoub, Mahboubeb Abbasgholizadeh, Mahboubeh Hosseinzadeh, Sara Loghmani, Zara Amjadian, Mariam Hossein Khah, Jelveh Javaheri, Niloofar Golkar, Parastoo Dokoohaki, Zeinab Peyghambarzadeh, Maryam Mirza, Saghar Laghayee, Rezvan Moghadam, Saghie Laghayee, Nahid Keshavarz, Mahnaz Mohammadi, Nasrin Afzali, Farideh Entesari,Sara Imanian, Elnaz Ansari, Fatemeh Govarayee, Azadeh Forghani, Sommayeh Farid, Minoo Mortezayee, Sara Imanian.Nooshin Amhadi Khorasani, Parvin Ardalan, Shahla Entesari and Susan Tahmasebi—five prominent members of the women’s rights movement—who had to attend their court hearing left the court session in support of their fellow activists. They, too, got arrested upon their departure from the court.

The police officers hit Nahid Jafari’s head to the police van and as a result of such violent actions, her teeth broke and the officers are currently refusing to take her to the emergency room.

Reportedly, the detainees have been transferred to the “Social Corruption Office”, the IR body which arrests girls and boys for “immodesty”.

Blogestan is following the news, in Balatarin, in Persian.

Zanestan reports that the detainees have been transferred to the infamous Evin Prison. A Dutch journalist present in the scene has been arrested, too.

More news to come.

The Greater Satan

Kamangir | March 4, 2007 | Category Iran

It seems almost inevitable that the Islamic Republic has to face with the Great Satan, a.k.a. the US. However, there is a Greater Satan, exclusively controlled by Allah, which is completely able to put an end to his Almighty’s regime.

Reportedly, a 2.3 Richter earthquake shook south of Tehran. The massively unorganized urban environment, for which no emergency rescue plan is on the table, is anticipated to undergo a devastating earthquake every a hundred years. The last one was more than a hundred ten years ago.