Iranian protests - Page 23

Surprise Surprise! Look who is beating ppl in the streets: http://bit.ly/1pjoF #iranelection

On June 17 2009 09:11 MarklarMarklar wrote:
"CFI
1. I wonder if Admiral Shamkhani makes a move tomorrow, marines already prevent IRG from arresting him. he's also a war hero & ex-def minister.half a minute ago from web"

what kind of move, huh? this is a interesting post

One employee of the Interior Ministry, which carried out the vote count, said the government had been preparing its fraud for weeks, purging anyone of doubtful loyalty and importing pliable staff members from around the country.


"They didn't rig the vote," claimed the man, who showed his ministry identification card but pleaded not to be named. "They didn't even look at the vote. They just wrote the name and put the number in front of it."

As a smart Iranian-American reader pointed out, the best evidence of potential fraud is that the alleged results indicate that Mousavi did not even win his hometown. Now, Mousavi comes from a minority background in Iran, and in his hometown, virtually everyone is from the same minority. As the reader noted, "it's almost like having Obama getting only 20-30% of the African American vote." It's not direct evidence of fraud -- just highly improbable.

Ahmadinejad supporters setting up sites to claim we & other reliable sources r spammers: http://bit.ly/3DdvYA pls debunk #IranElection

Men in civilian clothes attacked Day hospital in Tehran http://bit.ly/aSe4s #iranelection

ABC Reports: Bay Area Iranian community starts marathon 24-hour protest against the election http://tiny.cc/7bgSg #iranelection

Iran protest videos shown on YouTube. http://bit.ly/1MZtg #iranelection

Students were taken to the underground of the interior ministry. Plainclothes attacked the university, insulting them and beating them up.
Once they were taken to the underground, guards continued to torture them. Some of them went to the Evin prison
A group of around 46 with a minibus were taken to the basement of the interior ministry blindfolded.
When in the bus, they were put in seats where above above them were metal cans. Basij would come by and hit the cans to torture them. This was awful mental torture.
They noticed at the point the bus turned that they were going underground. From Basij comments, they knew they were going to the basement of the interior ministry.
The place they were held appeared 100 m size (not sure if square or distance)
The floor was covered with black ash and steam was coming out of it. Students were forced to lie on the ground and roll across it. If they hit someone elses feet, they'd get hit with baton.
The guards kept asking, "are you going to make revolution?" and issued family insults
Around 50 students, 20 plainclothes/guards
Later, when sitting on the ground, they were continuously told to look down and then up. After a few minutes of staring at the ground, they would receive a kick to the face. "why aren't you looking at the ground?" they'd then say.
While doing this, there was the sound of breaking bricks. They were told it was from workers who were behind the building working, but it was obvious it was purposeful. This was awful mental torture.
The bathrooms were inhumane. They did not have doors or covers, and students only had 30 seconds to go to the bathroom. One student whose pants was down was kicked out to be revealed to others.
One student was injured in the eye earlier. He said his eyes were hurting badly, said losing eyesight. He then received a kick to his face.
Another student with a broken leg, and in the corner, they didn't treat well.
Almost no water offered. Students were lined up in 5s one behind another, and a little water was poured over them quickly.
One of the head officers asked jokingly if their thirsts were quenched. The officers responded saying yes. The head officer then asked "then why is one in corner dying?" Soldiers took a hose and shot boiling water at all of them.
Students were given old macaroni in their hands. They were fearful to eat the food because they were told that if it fell to the floor full of ash, they'd have to eat it or suffer kicking otherwise.
The morning after, they received a old, dry piece of bread with piece of cheese. They had to split the bread with the person next to him. Since the bread was so dry, many crumbs would fall, and they had to pick the pieces up from the ashes.

Another ugly and dirty torture was sexual torture. They are so embarrassed that they don't want to say what happened. Once transferred to police station, the sexual torture continued.

This one day stay was the worst of their lives. Sometimes, they felt like they'd be there forever, and that no one would help. after an hour in the place, while rolling in the ground, one student began to cry, which led to the rest breaking down as well.

One of the agents who went to the basement said to the students that their experience would be 1000x worse than guantanamo.

The students were taken later to security police. They were taken to a press conference with Chancellor Dr Rahbar and a member of Majlis. The students were given shirts to cover up their blood, and the government media showed up to report. The Chancellor said the students of Tehran University were fine, but that they would still look into the allegations that the Basij had treated students poorly. If he was caring for the students, he would have prevented the attacks to begin with.

How is it possible in a country claiming to be islamic that such crimes to humanity could happen? Who is responsible for these actions?
Why is the interior ministry that is supposed to protect the people a place of torture? It is the duty of all people from the universities to guard the truth and safeguard the integrity of the universities, and they swear to reveal these torture places in the country.

On June 18 2009 14:55 Xeris wrote:
my dad just told me that the protests are getting a lot more peaceful and controlled (from Moussavi's side).

In Parl: Some MPs wanted 2 reveal "real identity" of plain cloth police&Ahmadinejad supporters disagreed&fight broke.(etemaad) #iranelection

[Update] International calls TO iran still possible using calling cards. No words on fax yet. #iranelection

[Trusted] International calls from iran now only possible through the state-run land-line. #iranelection

In the parliament, discussion on illegal acts by plain cloth police turns into physical fights! (etemaad.ir) #iranelection

On June 18 2009 15:48 Xeris wrote:
I just wish they would stop using election rigging as a pretext for protesting. What they are really after are more freedoms and increased rights and a reduction of the power of the Supreme Leader. It's not about the election it's about freedoms, that is a cause I can more easily rally behind rather than people talking about election rigging.

On June 18 2009 16:03 Railz wrote:


Fair enough statement. Everyone knows either politician is bull crap. Still, sometimes the catalyst is there and you have to use it to start. For Americans, a small protest over a tea tax spilled over into what became the Revolution War - the election rigging (if true) is a prime example of a shadow government. Once you can band enough people you can make demands. Until then they need a specific cause to stand behind.

Today's protest is ONLY in Toopkhaneh Sq at 4pm according to Kalameh. Mousavi is going to be there.

There was a rumor that Khamenei is not going to the Friday prayer which turned out to be result of no update on of the government websites.

Mr Rezai has 650,000 vote, but today he has published a list of 900,000 people with their national code who vote for him

New threat for people informing others on internet about iran coup http://gerdab.ir/fa/pages/?...

[from Iran]: In Iran ppl are more scared of being arrested. Some ppl were arrested on charges of "Allaho akbar" at nights. #iranelection

On June 18 2009 16:13 Xeris wrote:


Yes I'm aware of that, however I think its just worse that they are protesting the election specifically when that's really not the issue at hand.