Khomeini Deceiving Iranian men and women

Iranian women through times...

Iranian women under nationalistic Iranian governments (pre/post Islamic invasion) and anti-Iranian occupational Islamic regimes:





Previously:Watch the video of Iranian women demonstrating against compulsory veil and hejab in 1979:

More than 15,000 women are shouting in 1979: "we didn't have a revolution to go back in time or to regress"--where our freedom and rights are taken away. They are also saying that Khomeini promised us not to take our liberties from us and look what he has done to us...They are shouting we're not scared and "death or freedom". "Death to being enslaved". Our daughters have made a revolution to have a choice whether to wear Hijab or not...not to be forced to wear Hejab...." I don't feel safe anymore walking in the street without hejab". "We fought for liberty and freedom and equality for men and women and freedom of expression" not to be enchained in the name of Islam". "Without freedom and equality for women, no revolution is meaningful".

If the first link doesn't work use this link:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8842589185458786745&hl=de

Note : The Iranian women in the video are not wearing veil because prior to 1979, Iranian women had a choice to wear Islamic hejab or not. Khomeini took that choice away from them and implemented other horrendous medieval sharia laws on all Iranian women.

The bloody Iranian revolution, which plunged Iran and the Iranians into a Medieval age of shocking violence and brutality against women and men. Here are some old newspaper clippings where Ayatollah Khomeini lied and deceived the nation into accepting the Islamic form of government.

Note in the first newspaper clipping above that Khomeini only said that the Hejab in Iran will not be mandatory after millions of secular women took to the streets in 1980 (see video) and demonstrated against the new Islamic decree of Khomeini.

Khomeini in an attempt to calm the unrest, lied to women and announced a few days later that "Hejab will not be compulsory or Mandatory".

Then in the second newspaper clipping, Khomeini declares that he is not interested in "governing" and becoming a "political Leader".

In the last newspaper clipping, Khomeini says, "In Islam there is no dictatorship". Keep in mind that Khomeini and his Islamic party had not yet usurped the power. For all intents and purposes, Khomeini was lying to Iranians to exploit religious feeling and build more consensus among different groups in order to fool them into accepting Islamic form of government, which had nothing to do with what Iranians perceived to be as Islam for they have lived in a secular society.

The consequences of these bold lies were that even the secular/liberal political parties decided to make an alliance with Khomeini in the spirit of cooperation to move the country forward. But as we all know, the rest is history. The next two years immediately after ousting the Shah, the secular Iranians increasingly found themselves in a terrible pit the mullahs were digging for all the democratic movement of the masses. All those who wanted to keep, and extend, the democratic gains did not foresee the gathering dark clouds of intolerant Islam and the thugs of the Islamic Republic Party. By the middle of 1981 the left/liberal/progressives had all but been eliminated from the political scene. Tens of thousands of secular/left/liberal/progressive were executed and hundreds of thousands spent years behind bars.

Please learn the lessons of the Iranian revolution and don't fall for the lies of the Islamist parties. These lessons have implications in today's unfolding events in Turkey, Malyasia, Indonesia, Palestine, Egypt, Iraq, and others who think theocracy is their savior. Do not let the Islamists drown your country into the vile swamp of intolerance, macabre, hate and self-destruction.
Don't give up the fight against the Islamists.

In Death Smile Fortells

Denver Post
By Ana Sami

The world has seen nothing like it. When Majid Kavosifar was hanged in public in Tehran for killing criminal judge Hassan Moghadas, no one expected to see the expression they saw on his face the day of his execution.

As Kavosifar was jostled through the crowd by the regime's demonic henchmen in ski masks - and even as he was hoisted onto the platform that he was to be hanged from - he wore a triumphant, almost joyful smile on his face. If there were ever an image that qualified for "Is there something wrong with this picture?" it would be this one.

Hanging in public serves the purpose of quelling dissent and evoking fear for Iran's people. The recent wave of hangings in Iran has proven once again that many of those who are hanged under the pretext of social crimes are indeed people who are fed up with the unjust Iranian regime and are taking matters into their own hands.

Most of the public images of hangings in Iran that have taken place normally show a victim with a much different demeanor than that of Majid. Sullen eyes that speak of endless pain, faces blank with fear, and for the women, dark cloaks, chadors that enshroud their bodies and a blindfold to disguise their anguish.

This scene has become all too familiar, especially since the Iranian regime has stepped up its public executions to horrifying degrees. On July 22, the Iranian regime hanged 12 people simultaneously, and several other hangings took place in July all over the country, including another group hanging in Azerbaijan.

In a televised interview regarding the group hangings, Ahmad Reza Radan, the commander of Tehran's police force, stated that, "The response to those who stand firm against the Iranian regime and its practices is execution."

In Iran, legal procedures to execute the most outspoken against the regime are often expedited or simply ignored. Such was the case with Atefeh Rajabi, the 16-year-old girl who was hanged in Neka. Her case was expedited to lightening speeds. In Iran, the judiciary and the government are one and the same, thus leading to dangerous exploitations of the law simply for political purposes.

Majid Kavosifar and his uncle, Hossein Kavosifar, were both hanged for killing Moghadas. They had collaborated and confessed to committing the act. Moghadas was Tehran's assistant chief prosecutor, responsible for signing countless death sentences. Moghadas's role was that of a ruthless cleric who bypassed judicial procedures to ensure the swift death of the Iranian regime's opponents.

Tehran's public prosecutor, Saeed Mortazavi, did not allow the press to interview Majid Kavosifar, 22, and his uncle Hossein, 28, as is typical with public executions. However, after the execution, Mortazavi did state that he had spoken to both men, and that they refused to renounce their actions and expressed no regret for what they did. Majid is reported to have said, "I have reached a level of understanding to know who the corrupt and depraved are."

The price these victims pay for their bravery is the same, and all hangings are equally as disturbing and unjustified. However, the smile that gleamed over Majid's face as he strained to wave goodbye while handcuffed was indeed victorious, and the message was clear: "I defeated you, I am not frightened, and I am honored to die; hanging me will no longer repel resistance."

While Majid's courage is remarkable in the face of such torment and brutality, we can be sure that there will be other fearless Iranian youths ready to give their lives, until that proud smile gives way to the much awaited dawn of change.

Ana K. Sami (ansami@mines.edu) is a master's degree candidate at the Colorado School of Mines and a specialist on human rights and women's issues in Iran.

The Tree that remembers

In 1992 a young Iranian student hanged himself on the outskirts of a small Ontario town.

Having escaped the Ayatollah's regime and found a new home in Canada, he could not escape his past. News of the young stranger's death hit home with Masoud Raouf. He too was part of the generation who fought for democracy during the reign of the Shah.

With The Tree that Remembers, Raouf assembled a group of Iranians - all former political prisoners like himself, who were active in the democratic movement. Blending their testimony with historical footage and original artwork, he honours the memory of the dead and celebrates the resilience of the living.

Watch the Video by clicking here.

h/t to Potkin

Iranian students brutally beaten

Potkin:

And now here are film footages of Iranian students getting beaten up at Alameh and Amirkabir university:
Herasat Attack 1
Herasat Attack 2

Herasat is a repressive body in every Iranian university and government work place which spies and reports on students and government employees and carries out such repressive acts as shown in the film footages above.Meanwhile, the chief of these thugs, Ayatollah Messbah Yazdi is invited to the Waterloo university by the Mennonites:
http://www.thestar.com/article/214357

I just hope Iranian ex-pats will do more than just a petition:
http://www.harkat.net/

From now on the word Mennonite for me will be synonymous with FILTH!

Katayoun on Waterloo University and inviting the thug Ayatollah to lecture on interfaith dialogue:
Without the slightest hesitation: An open-dialogue with the Iranian "scholar-clerics"!!!

Instilling Fear in the public

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Yellow dog: "Iranian youth are being paraded and tortured publicly. The above photos was taken by Pars News photographer who was invited to the torture parade in order to photograph and disseminate the images all across Iran and the world. The images at the top show a young man with Marlon Brando looks and his free spirit shown by his Colombia football jersey and long hair, being pushed, thrown on the ground and his forehead getting bloodied in order to force him to put a device in his mouth which is used in toilets to wash excrement. The image below shows a clean cut man with western style shirt and trousers being subject to similar humiliations in front of photojournalists and the public."

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Abdulrahim Raeesi, ...these are just a few.

Omid, a memorial in defense of human rights in Iran

Omid Cyber Memorial

The men and women whose stories you can read on this page are now all citizens of a silent city named Omid ("hope" in Persian). There, victims of persecution have found a common life whose substance is memory.

Omid's citizens were of varying social origins, nationalities, and religions; they held diverse, and often opposing, opinions and ideologies. Despite the differences in their personality, spirit and moral fiber, they are all united in Omid by their natural rights and their humanity. What makes them fellow citizens is the fact that one day each of them was unfairly and arbitrarily deprived of his or her life. At that moment, while the world watched the unspeakable happen, an individual destiny was shattered, a family was destroyed, and an indescribable suffering was inflicted.
If you wander around this city, you will realize that, through their common ordeal, the citizens of Omid have created another Iran, an imaginary Iran: a democratic polity, pluralistic and diverse, where citizens posthumously enjoy their human rights.

Visit Omid, meet its citizens, and, by doing so, bring them back in memory. Let them challenge our conscience so that in the future we will prevent this kind of tragedy from happening again.

The list of the victims of mass execution of the political prisoners by the Islamic republic of Iran in 1988

http://asre-nou.net/1386/shahrivar/6/koshtar/m-liste-koshtar.html

http://asre-nou.net/1385/mehr/12/koshtar/list%20-%20k1.htm

http://asre-nou.net/1385/mehr/12/koshtar/list%20-%20k2.htm

Notes on the last, revised and completed edition according to new evidences


During the last year, we received a great number of e-mails from the families, friends and ex-inmates of the political prisoners executed in 1988. Their message, beyond the sympathies, provided us with much valuable information and evidences to up-to-date the list of the victims. We feel obliged to present you the following notes about these information and hour we proceeded to complete the list:


1- The Islamic regime has not so far recognized officially its mass execution of the political prisoners in 1988, and has not published the list of the victims. In these circumstances, it is the testimonies, evidences and information from various sources that would make the list more documented and reliable, and would add to its authenticity before the human rights organizations and international instances. This was our objective from the beginning of this work.

Since the publication of our latest report, the death of other 127 victims in the existing list has been attested by their families, friends or ex-inmates. We thank them for their help in this respect. We would like to remind you that our method of work includes printing, numbering, classification and filing of every letter, containing the new information, received during the year. At the end of the year, we complete the list and we add the letter "w", in the last column of the table, for each name of victim whose death has been attested by the witnesses. For example, the numbers "2" and "to" in front of the name of MOINI CHAGHERVANDI, Hebatollah (Homayoun), indicate that his execution has been testified by two friends or members of the family.



2- Of all the mails received, 53 were related to the correction and completion of the list. In one of these, for example, we read that: "In the list of executed prisoners in 1988, there is a family name of "OMRANI" whom I knew. His first name is Behzad. He was a sympathizer of the Fedaian (Minority) organization, but you have put him in your list as a member of the Moujahedin organization. He was born in Isphahan." Another one, whom we call witness "22", has written: "I am one of the relatives of Farideh RAZIAN. Her age has been registered 35 years in your list, but she was born on 22 March 1959. She was post-graduate student of foreign languages and was arrested in 1981. Send me an e-mail if you are interested in more information."



3- On the basis of information we received, the names of 17 prisoners were removed from the existing list. In some cases, we learned that the prisoners have fortunately escaped from the mass execution. In the other cases, we were informed that the person in question was killed under the torture or committed suicide under the pressures in prison, or that he (she) was among the political prisoners executed in 1981, and not in the year 1988. One friend, the witness "K", who has written to attest the execution of some of the victims, has added that: "I was in Evin prison from 1985 to 1989 and I studied thoroughly your list…Ashraf DANESHGAR, a sympathizer of the Fedaian (Majority) was not executed in the summer of 1988, after she learned that some of her relatives have been already executed…Soheila DARVISHKOHAN a sympathizer of the Fedaian (Majority) committed suicide because she was sentenced to be flogged each time that she refused to attend daily prayers…".



4- During the last year, according to evidences, 18 new names are added to the list. Thus, unfortunately, the list of mass execution of political prisoners in 1988 has increased to 4485 victims. One of the witnesses, witness "T", who has provided us with the details of a new victim, namely : "Seyed Mahmoud MOUSSAVIAN DEHKORDI, born on 1962, arrested on 1985, sentenced for 5 years of imprisonment, executed on 1988 in the prison of Shahrekord…" has added that :" I hope for the days when nobody in Iran would lose his (her) life for his (her) political beliefs and all of us would solve our differences of opinion in a civilized manner."



5- Some of the mails, apart from the information about the list, contained the observations and reminiscences of the authors, which could shed some light on this tragic event. For example, military hospital. I learned from the people who came there for treatment that during a few nights the corpses of the executed people were carried in cattle trucks to the office of forensic medicine…" We ask all the families and friends to send us their memories of those horrible days, as well as the letters, photographs and testaments of the executed political prisoners, which would help to complete all aspects of this case and to put it before the judgment of public opinion, history and independent juridical instances. In this way, we can expect finally the punishment of all the responsible of this mass execution, and hope that we would never again witness such a terrible crime.



6- The books written by former political prisoners, and especially by those who have escaped the execution in 1988, have also been used as the sources of information for the completion of this list.



We would like to thank you again for your help and cooperation, and remind you that our work on the list and on this case is not going to stop. So we are still expecting more information, more documents, and more help from you

Batoul AZADEH- Banafsheh AZARKOLAH

Iran_a500@yahoo.fr

Holy Crimes of Islamic Republic of Iran III

Potkin: Majid Kavousifar, seen in these pictures before being hanged, left Iran for Abu Dhabi two days after the assassination of one of the most corrupt and most repressive judges in the Islamic Republic. (the corrupt judge was considered to be a butcher among the student population and had also tried and sentenced Ganji...)

Judge Moghaddas who was assassinated by Kavousifar and his nephew, was responsible for handing out long sentences to many political activists. Moghaddas sometimes even boasted that he sentenced the accused without even reading their files!

Kavoussifar had introduced himself as the killer of Moghaddas to the American Embassy in Abu Dhabi, where he had applied for asylum. The embassy guards handed him over to the Interpol, which informed Islamic Republic's authorities of the incident.I thought it was just the Homeland Security at the US airports who were the thickest officials in the world!

Here, Majid Kavousifar is seen smiling and saying his last goodbye. Why are so many victims smiling in these latest round of public executions? Perhaps if there is any after life, it will be better than living under the mullahs.
The film footage of the execution."--End

Many in the West might argue that if he was in the U.S., he would probably be executed too. However, there is a huge difference between the sharia laws in a theocracy and the democratic laws in a democracy. According to our laws many of these corrupt mullahs (Khatami, Rafsanjani, Khamenie, Ahmadinjad, Mesbah-Yazdi, etc.) and judges should have been executed or put in jail. In fact, unless you have your hands bloodied in some ways, you won't be able to move up the ladder in the Islamic Republic's hierarchical klepotacracy.

The Islamic Republic in no fashion represents, enforces, or reinforces the true will of the people, who are the true source of all sovereignty, and the only rightful and legitimating base for any state or government. The Islamic Republic is an oligarchal theocracy run by a bunch of criminals and brutal thugs who will kill anyone who will stand on their way; hence the *public* executions. A public display of hatred has only one purpose, to signal to the citizens of the state that their government is willing to kill anyone to stay in power. End this practice and you take away that power.

Holy Crimes of Islamic Republic of Iran II

Although, I had heard of some of the atrocities that the regime has perpetrated on its political dissidents especially the virgin young girls who were raped before they were executed, I was still shocked and horrified by reading the details about this barbaric practice today.

Did you know that they hang little girls in Iran? And if you do, do you know too that according to Sharia they should be raped before they hang them so that they won't go to heaven, as virgins are supposed to do? Why is viriginity and purity so important for Islam even in heaven? Is heaven for the muslims a brothel (earthly pleasure) up in the sky? Something to ponder on. Read the harrowing details of rape before execution below: Excerpts from: Women and the death penalty in modern Iran

The 1979 Revolution and the 1980’s.Under the rule of the former Shah a small number of women were hanged, mostly for murder, using the British style long drop method. The Shah was deposed in 1979 and replaced by a fundamentalist Muslim regime led by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. He won a huge democratic majority for the formation of an Islamic Republic on April the 1st 1979. Under the new government women were required to wear the veil, Western music and alcohol were banned, and the punishments prescribed by Sharia law came into force.Male and female executions became frequent – often for refusing to convert/recognise Islam, or for being a member of an anti-regime political group.There are no accurate records of just how many men, women and girls were executed in the first years of the Revolution.There is a credible list of 14,028 names available and some sources claim figures of several tens of thousands, although these are not substantiated with names. According to a report published by the Organisation of Women Against Execution in Iran, at least two thousand women were executed between June 1981 and 1990. They have been able to prepare a list containing 1428 names. 187 of these women were under the age of 18, with 9 girls under the age of 13 and 14 between the ages of 45 to 70. The youngest girl executed was just 10 years old.* 32 of these women were reported to have been pregnant at the time of their execution. Many of those executed were high school and college students. Hanging was the most common method of execution for women although some were shot. (Large numbers of men were shot during this period). Men and women were hanged in large groups in Tehran prisons from cranes and fork-lift trucks. Each crane jib or fork-lift had a wooden or steel beam to which the noose were attached and when the preparations were complete the prisoners were simply hoisted into the air.Under Revolutionary law young girls who were sentenced to death could not be executed if they were still virgins. Thus they were "married off" to Revolutionary Guards and prison officials in temporary marriages and then raped before their execution, to prevent them going to heaven*. The Mullahs believed that these women were ungodly and did not deserve paradise in the next life, and that if they were deprived of their virginity it would ensure that they went to hell. Therefore on the night prior to execution, the condemned girl was injected with a tranquilliser and then raped by her guard(s).After the execution, the religious judge at the prison would write out a marriage certificate and send it to the victim's family along with a box of sweets.Generally details of executions from the early years of the Revolution are hard to find but the case of the ten women hanged in Shiraz in 1983 is well documented.The “crime” of these women was to believe in the Bahá'í religion instead of Islam, and to believe in the equality of men and women.These were considered to be very dangerous concepts by the Revolutionary regime who had them arrested and tortured in an effort to persuade them to convert into Islam. Several of them were subjected to the "bastinado" - beating on the soles of their feet. They were all given the opportunity to avoid execution by recanting their faith and converting to Islam but none of them chose to.On the night of June the 18th 1983 they were driven in a bus to a polo field on the outskirts of Shiraz where a gallows had been set up.The bus driver who took them there reported that they seemed to be in good spirits, singing on the way and prepared to meet their fate.The youngest prisoner was Mona Mahmudnizhad, who was just 17 years old. Her father had been hanged some months earlier for his beliefs. At the execution ground she asked to be hanged last so that she could pray for all the other women.Reportedly she kissed the noose and recited a prayer before she was suspended.The other nine members of the group were :23 year old Roya Ishraqi, a promising veterinary student, was executed with her 50 year old mother, Izzad Janami Ishraqi.20 year old Akhtar Sabit, a graduate nurse, who had taught children’s religious classes.28 year old Mahshid Nirumand was a physics graduate from the University of Shiraz. She is said to have remained resolute in prison and to have shared her food with the others and encouraged them to remain firm.Shirin Dalvand who was 25 years old and held a degree in sociology from the University of Shiraz. Shirin was an expert in the Baha'i faith. Under interrogation she was asked whether she would ever give up her religion - she told her questioner that she would hold to her faith " Until my death, I hope that the divine mercy will enable me to remain firm to the last breath of my life ".Tahirih Siyavushi was a 32 year old nurse, who had been a member of the Local Spiritual Assembly of Shiraz. Her husband, Jamshid, had been hanged two days earlier.As a nurse Tahirih helped to look after the other prisoners.20 year old Simin Sabiri, who had been a member of the Committee of Studies Baha' ies of Shiraz.Zarrin Muqimi was 28 years old and also very knowledgeable about her faith defending it vigorously under interrogation.The oldest of the ten was 54 year old Mrs Nosrat Yalda' I who had belonged to the Spiritual Local Assembly of Shiraz and whose house was regarded as the "nerve centre" of the Community life Baha' ie in Shiraz. She had been viciously whipped during her time in prison and her wounds were still visible after her hanging. Both her husband and her son, Bahram had also been executed.The town’s people of Shiraz groups brought flowers to the mortuary to honour the bravery of these women, despite the dangers of such a protest. The Bahá'í religion is still considered dangerous by the regime and is suppressed.Dina Parnabi was an Iranian high school student, accused of smuggling forbidden literature and criticising the regime in her talks with her classmates. She was hanged on the 10th of July 1984 in a Teheran prison. The hanging was done in private and after the execution was over, her body was stripped, washed and delivered for dissection at medical school. In Iran, female bodies delivered for medical studies often show the rope or cable burns around their necks, indicating that they were all executed by hanging.Modern day Iran.Through the 1900’s reported female executions were rare but in the 21st century they have begun to rise.In 2004 it is thought that four women have been hanged, 3 in public. Shooting is no longer used and short drop or suspension hanging in private or public is now the norm.At least 2 women are thought to be facing stoning at the time of writing in January 2005, although it is probable that their sentences will be commuted to hanging. It is notable that public execution is increasingly used for both sexes and most of the 95 executions that I recorded in Iran during 2004 were carried out in public. Flogging prior to execution is not unusual.Iran is a signatory both to the International Convention on Human Rights and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, both of which explicitly forbid the execution of minors, however, Iranian law allows the death penalty for boys from age 15 and for girls from age 9. Girls and women can be sentenced to hanging either in private, or now more commonly in public, or to stoning to death. Under external pressure, minors now tend to be kept in prison until they are 18 and then have their death sentence carried out. Iman Farrokhi, who was hanged on the 19th of January 2005, was 17 when he was convicted of murder.Several other juveniles are under sentence of death.Let us have a look at the individual cases of these women.Everyone of them died a painful and humiliating death, there being no effort made to minimise their suffering or make their execution in any way humane. Pictures of Fariba Tajiani-Emamqoli’s hanging and those of male prisoners show that an American style coiled noose made from modern nylon rope is used and that the prisoner is either stood on a box which is pulled from under them or hoisted into the air by a crane jib as happened with Fariba and 16 year old Atefeh Rajabi.The first execution took place on the 26th of January 2000 when Masoumeh Fathi was hanged in the north-western city of Tabriz for killing a prison warder during an escape attempt. On the same day Alieh Moradi and her male accomplice, Farhang Moradi, were hanged in Kermanshah in western Iran, for the murder of Alieh’s husband.Her children were present in the prison grounds to watch their mother die. Both executions took place within the prisons.The first public hanging took place at dawn on the 19th of March 2001 when 30 year old Fariba Tajiani-Emamqoli and four men were put to death for drug trafficking in Tehran. Fariba was attended by a woman prison officer and was blindfolded and had her hands tied behind her back. Like most public hangings nowadays the hydraulic crane of a small recovery vehicle was used to hoist her into the air. The whole process took 25 minutes, with the bodies being left hanging for 10 minutes before being taken down A crowd of about 200 gathered to witness the event and chanted "Allah akbar" - God is great and "death to the traffickers, death to the traffickers."

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