The first clashes Saturday were reported at about 6 p.m. as uniformed riot police and plain-clothes security forces chased away growing crowds along the sidewalks of Tehran’s Vali Asr Square, witnesses said.
Witnesses told CNN they saw several people struck by batons as they were running away. They said that at least three men were arrested, blindfolded, handcuffed and swept away by security officers on motorcycles
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Es ist viel geredet und spekuliert worden über Iraner, Iran, die politische Lage. Während Iran an der Spitze steht mit traurigen Fakten über seine tagtäglichen harten und physischen Misshandlungen gegenüber seinem Volk, sollten wir nicht vergessen, dass Mord, Vergewaltigung und Folter „NUR“ die Spitze des Eisberges sind.
Die geradezu untergehenden „kleineren“ alltäglichen Erniedrigungen, über die spricht man kaum noch – entweder weil man mit den härtesten Brutalitäten so beschäftigt ist, dass dafür kaum noch Zeit bleibt, oder diese kleinen und gängigen Unterdrückungsmaschinerien kaum bekannt sind. Es ist wohl von beidem ein wenig dabei.
Enduring America verfolgt in einem Live Blog die Erignisse im Iran zum Jahrestag der Wahlfaelschung und warnt:
Anyone who predicts what will occur today is either a bigger fool or a far smarter analyst than I. The official rationale for a march has been withdrawn by the foot-dragging of the Ministry of the Interior (which never, as far as I know, ever denied more than two of 10 requests by reformist groups for permits, but merely stalled and stalled) and the announcement of Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi. Not just the heavy security presence today, but months of suppression and intimidation have disrupted the opposition and put fear into anyone who might dare show dissent openly.
Still some activists — inside and outside Iran — are talking of an appearance of protest, despite the risks. Whether that manifests itself and on what scale is beyond my most speculative guess at this point.
Der neueste Bericht von Human Rights Watch ueber die Lage im Iran.
Reports received by Human Rights Watch from human rights campaigners and others inside Iran suggest that the current atmosphere inside the country is markedly different than the images of mass protest beamed across airwaves and cyberspace a year ago. Public protest demonstrations have all but disappeared and dissent has largely gone underground as security forces have bolstered their presence in major cities throughout the country.
“While the international community has focused on Iran’s nuclear ambitions, Tehran has been methodically crushing all forms of dissent inside the country,” said Joe Stork, deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. “Journalists, lawyers, and civil society activists who used to speak to foreign media and human rights groups are increasingly reluctant, fearing phone and internet surveillance.”
Dies berichtet die Times aus London:
Saudi Arabia has conducted tests to stand down its air defences to enable Israeli jets to make a bombing raid on Iran’s nuclear facilities, The Times can reveal.
In the week that the UN Security Council imposed a new round of sanctions on Tehran, defence sources in the Gulf say that Riyadh has agreed to allow Israel to use a narrow corridor of its airspace in the north of the country to shorten the distance for a bombing run on Iran. To ensure the Israeli bombers pass unmolested, Riyadh has carried out tests to make certain its own jets are not scrambled and missile defence systems not activated. Once the Israelis are through, the kingdom’s air defences will return to full alert.
“The Saudis have given their permission for the Israelis to pass over and they will look the other way,” said a US defence source in the area. “They have already done tests to make sure their own jets aren’t scrambled and no one gets shot down. This has all been done with the agreement of the [US] State Department.” [Weiterlesen...]
Hat tip: Sendungsbewusstsein.
Moskau stoppt Waffenlieferung an Teheran
Der Kreml rudert zurück: Russland liefert doch keine Raketen an Iran. Der geplante Verkauf der Luftabwehrsysteme verstoße gegen die neuen Sanktionen, hieß es aus Moskau. Zuvor hatte man noch trotzig an dem Geschäft festgehalten.
Zum ersten Jahrestag der umstrittenen Präsidentenwahl im Iran hat US-Präsident Barack Obama die Welt aufgerufen, die Iraner in ihrem Kampf für Freiheit zu unterstützen. «Es liegt in der Verantwortung aller freien Menschen und freien Nationen, klar zu machen, dass wir auf der Seite derjenigen sind, die Freiheit, Gerechtigkeit und Würde wollen», erklärte Obama am Donnerstag in Washington. Der Wahlgang vom 12. Juni 2009 werde als ein Ereignis in Erinnerung bleiben, das für «brutale Unterdrückung» und die «Ermordung Unschuldiger» stehe, sagte Obama..
Die Wiederwahl von Präsident Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wird von der Opposition angezweifelt; nach dem Urnengang kam es zu den grössten Protesten seit der Islamischen Revolution vor mehr als 30 Jahren. Die Proteste wurden niedergeschlagen, dutzende Menschen getötet und mehrere hundert inhaftiert
Am Freitag, den 12 Juni 2009 haben knapp 40 Millionen iranische BürgerInnen ihre Stimme bei der Präsidentschaftswahl abgegeben. Unmittelbar nach Schliessung der Wahllokale wurde vom Innenministerium Ahmadinejad als Wahlsieger mit über 60 Prozent der Stimmen bekanntgegeben – Erdrutschsieg
für Ahmadinejad???
Für die anderen Kandidaten, allen voran Mussawi, und für die Mehrheit der Wähler ist die Antwort auf diese Frage ganz klar: Nein, Manipulation im großen Stil !!!
Nach Veröffentlichung des Wahlergebnisses hat eine Welle von Demonstrationen mit Rufen wie “Where is my vote?” das Land durchzogen, auf die mit Gewalt, Verschleppung, Folter, Massenverhaftungen, Schauprozessen, Hinrichtungen, Vergewaltigungen und Drohungen reagiert worden sind.
Nun nach einem Jahr möchten wir gemeinsam mit Ihnen an diesem Jahrestag die Ereignisse und allen voran die mutigen Demonstranten, den Verhafteten und die Getöteten ehren, indem wir nicht in Vergessenheit geraten und durch das gemeinsame Erinnern an die regierende Elite im Iran eine Nachricht zukommen
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As June 12 arrives, there has been a growing sense of hopefulness among activists and sympathizers that the Green Movement in Iran might hold a protest to commemorate last year’s elections. At the same time, however, there’s a sense of fear and anxiety that this might not happen — and the odds are this might be the case. There are many reasons for this, but mainly, there is no overwhelming campaign being led by the Green Movement to put millions or even thousands in Tehran’s streets.
If this is indeed the case and there is no protest, many will take this as a sign that the Green Movement has dissipated. It will also dishearten activists abroad — one recently went as far as to tell me that this might be the end. This is mostly because out here in the West, the only indication to most observers that Iran is struggling is people on the streets, chanting slogans.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf, a distinguished Iranian film director who serves as a sort of spokesman for the green movement, neatly captured the urgent need to increase global economic pressure on Iran. “The revolutionary guards are terrorists. They are in Iraq, Afghanistan and Lebanon. They tortured people in Iran. They rape people in prisons. If you explain to the Iranian people that you are sanctioning their enemies, they will support you,” he told the Guardian.
http://www.slate.com/id/2256455/
Charles Krauthammer über denvon Obama höchstselbst verbreiteten Irrglauben, die „Islamische Republik“ sei international „isoliert“:
Really? On Tuesday, one day before the president touted passage of a surpassingly weak U.N. resolution and declared Iran yet more isolated, the leaders of Russia, Turkey and Iran gathered at a security summit in Istanbul „in a display of regional power that appeared to be calculated to test the United States,“ as the New York Times put it. I would add: And calculated to demonstrate the hollowness of U.S. claims of Iranian isolation, to flaunt Iran’s growing ties with Russia and quasi-alliance with Turkey, a NATO member no less.
Apart from the fact that isolation is hardly an end in itself and is pointless if, regardless, Iran rushes headlong to become a nuclear power, the very claim of Iran’s increasing isolation is increasingly implausible. Just last month, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad hosted an ostentatious love fest in Tehran with the leaders of Turkey and Brazil. The three raised hands together and announced a uranium transfer deal that was designed to torpedo U.S. attempts to impose U.N. sanctions.
Six weeks ago, Iran was elected to the U.N. Commission on the Status of Women, a grotesque choice that mocked Obama’s attempt to isolate and de-legitimize Iran in the very international institutions he treasures.
Increasing isolation? In the past year alone, Ahmadinejad has been welcomed in Kabul, Istanbul, Copenhagen, Caracas, Brasilia, La Paz, Senegal, Gambia and Uganda. Today, he is in China. [Weiterlesen...]
Schade, dieser Mann hätte anstelle des Nachwuchschamberlains Präsident sein können:
I believe that when we consider the many threats and crimes of Iran’s government, we are led to one inescapable conclusion: It is the character of this Iranian regime – not just its behavior – that is the deeper threat to peace and freedom in our world, and in Iran. Furthermore, I believe that it will only be a change in the Iranian regime itself – a peaceful change, chosen by and led by the people of Iran – that could finally produce the changes we seek in Iran’s policies.
The question we must answer is, what side of Iranian history are we on? [es folgt die ebenso berechtigte wie bekannte Kritik am Nachwuchschamberlain, Mr. Moe]
[I] would suggest a different goal: to mobilize our friends and allies in like-minded countries, both in the public sphere and the private sector, to challenge the legitimacy of this Iranian regime, and to support Iran’s people in changing the character of their government – peacefully, politically, on their own terms, and in their own ways. Of course, the United States should never provide its support where it is unrequested and unwanted. But when young Iranian demonstrators write their banners of protest in English – when they chant ‘Obama, Obama, are you with us, or are you with them?’ – that is a pretty good indication that we can do more, and should do more, to support their just cause.We need to stand up for the Iranian people. We need to make their goals our goals, their interests our interests, their work our work. We need a grand national undertaking to broadcast information freely into Iran, and to help Iranians access the tools to evade their government’s censorship of the Internet. We need to let the political prisoners in Iran’s gruesome prisons know that they are not alone, that their names and their cases are known to us, and that we will hold their torturers and tormentors accountable for their crimes. We need to publicize the names of Iran’s human rights abusers, and we need to make them famous. Then we need to impose crippling sanctions on them for their human rights abuses – to go after their assets, their ability to travel, and their access to the international financial system, which is exactly the goal of legislation that I and others have proposed.
hat tip: The Spirit of Man.
Seit Tagen bombardieren iranische Truppen Irakisch-Kurdistan. Das kommt hier nicht gut an – wie so vieles fuer das das Nachbarland steht. Wie etwa diese wunderbare Karikatur aus dem Magazin Halbun zeigt. (Auf den Raketen steht Allah Akbar, rechts auf dem Schild Iran, links Irakisch-Kurdistan)
FIN hatte über seine Inhaftierung mehrmals berichtet.
Maziar Bahari, der während der Proteste nach den letzten Wahlen im Iran (Juni 2009) inhaftiert worden war, beschuldigt Press TV (regimetreuer Sender [bd]) der Komplizenschaft bei seiner Festnahme. Und Ofcom, der britische Watchdog für Beschwerden in Medienangelegenheiten, beginnt mit Nachforschungen. Roy Greenslade berichtet:
Der Chef der Revolutionsgarden kratzt sich am Kopf und sagt:
„Last year’s (post-election) sedition lasted for around eight months only, but it was much more dangerous than the (eight-year Iraqi) imposed war“, said Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari.
He said the seditious moves were aimed at diverting the Islamic Revolution from its right path and slowing the momentum that the Islamic Republic had gained.
Jaja, auch „the nature of threats against the Islamic Revolution of Iran has changed“. Wenn die „Massen“ halt nicht mehr so wollen wie die Revolutionsbosse. Aber was für ein Eingeständis, der Herr General spricht hier schließlich zum Vergleich von einem Krieg, in dem vermutlich rund eine Million Menschen getötet wurden, einem der verlustreichsten Kriege des 20. Jahrhunderts.
Nur, wie kommt er auf die Idee, seit vier Monaten herrsche wieder Freiden, Freude, Eierkuchen?
Am Samstag ist der Jahrstag der Wahlen!
Die Jerusalem Post kritisiert treffend die gestern verhaengten UN-Sanktionen gegen den Iran:
The sanctions voted through on Wednesday lack the bite of the package that was initially proposed. They were watered down, over protracted negotiations, to enlist the support of reluctant powers like Russia and China, with the goal of thereby creating the semblance of an international consensus. But what Moscow and Beijing proved willing to swallow is so diluted a package that Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad must be chuckling to himself, despite his outward show of sound and fury..
Primarily lacking from the sanctions concoction is anything that will impact Iran’s energy industry, when what was most critically needed was a ban on the export to Iran of refined petroleum products. Although Iran is one of the world’s prime sources of crude oil, it has never developed the adequate capacity to process its abundant black gold. Hence Iran is heavily dependent on foreign supplies. The prohibition of such supplies could dramatically weaken the ayatollahs’ regime, since it would directly impact the citizenry and would likely trigger a popular backlash. Three years ago, gas stations throughout Iran were set alight by angry protesters rioting against price hikes at the pump.
In großer Sorge um Leib und Leben der sieben inhaftierten Führungsmitglieder der iranischen Bahá’í-Gemeinde wenden wir uns an alle Menschen, denen Menschenrechte nicht nur ein Wort und Solidarität nicht nur Pose ist. Wir rufen Sie auf, sich an einer friedvollen, kreativen Aktion für die Menschenrechte im Iran zu beteiligen
am kommenden Samstag, 12. Juni 2010, ab 14.00 Uhr
vor dem Brandenburger Tor in Berlin.
Darum geht es!
Ein interessanter Bericht des Handelsblatts ueber die wirtschaftliche Lage im Iran:
Irans radikaler Präsident überrascht immer wieder: Diesmal mit weit reichenden Wirtschaftsreformen. Das Volk muss dazu schweigen. Auf Basaren zieht die Angst ein. Aber auch das Regime hat Angst – allein auf dem Weg zum Freitagsgebet werde ich dreimal festgenommen.
Schiffe, die plötzlich den Namen wechseln, Briefkastenfirmen in Europa: Eine Recherche der «New York Times» zeigt, wie sich Teheran trotz Sanktionen mit Kriegsmaterial aus den USA und Grossbritannien versorgt.
The U.N. Security Council imposed a fourth round of sanctions on a defiant Iran on Wednesday over a nuclear program the West suspects is aimed at developing the means to build atom bombs. The 15-nation council passed a resolution that was the product of five months of talks between the United States, Britain, France, Germany, China and Russia. With 12 votes in favor, it received the least support of the four Iran sanctions resolutions adopted since 2006. The four Western powers had wanted much tougher measures — some targeting Iran’s energy sector — but Beijing and Moscow succeeded in diluting the steps outlined in the 10-page resolution. „This council has risen to its responsibilities. Now Iran should choose a wiser course,“ U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice told the council after the vote.
Amir Taheri berichtet in der Times über die iranische Strategie im Kampf gegen Israel, die dieser Tage leider aufzugehen scheint:
As Iran’s leadership prepares to dispatch a Red Crescent flotilla to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza, its propaganda organs are spreading one message throughout the Muslim world: the Jewish state, branded by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as “the Zionist stain of shame”, is heading for its inevitable destruction.
An Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman said of these aid ships that “if this symbolic campaign continues, it will result in the surrender of the Zionist regime, which will certainly be one of its biggest defeats”.
Over the past three years, Iran’s Khomeinist regime has succeeded in changing the traditional perception of Israel. Instead of Israel being the almost invincible enemy that crushed the Arabs in the Yom Kippur War and the Six Day War, it is now portrayed as a waning power, a small and vulnerable enclave that, having lost the support of its powerful protector, the United States, is facing the might of a resurgent Muslim world under Tehran’s leadership. [Weiterlesen...]
Wenn innenpolitisch gar nichts mehr geht, den großen Revolutionsführer fragen:
„There should be no motive in the government to disobey the Majlis [das "Parlament" der Islamischen Republik Iran]. Majlis, too, should have no motive to keep the government waiting,“ Ayatollah Khamenei said.
„While the government should abide by law, Majlis should also help the government in doing so.“
via Press TV
Da es Ahmedinejad momentan an „enthusiastic crowds“ in Iran gerade etwas mangelt, gibt er jetzt seine Reden in der Türkei zum Besten:
The Israeli attack on the Gaza-bound flotilla sounded the death knell of the “Zionist regime,” Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told an enthusiastic crowd at Istanbul’s Abou Ayyoub Ansari Mosque on Tuesday.
He accused Israel of “unmatched crimes in the course of sixty some years of its history, that have been unprecedented in the history of mankind, the last of which has been invading the Gaza Peace Flotilla,” IRNA reported, saying the crowd responded with „Allahu akbar
Ahmadinejad was in Turkey for the summit of a 20-member group of Asian countries – CICA – at which Turkey intended to propose a resolution condemning Israel’s flotilla raid.
The Iranian president said the two nations were the “standard bearers of humanity and moralities” emphasizing, “everyone should know that the relations between the two countries are friendly, brotherly and deep rooted today and that the two countries would stand side by side till the end of the line,” IRNA reported.
Der Iran und die Türkei die „standard bearers of humanity and moralities„! Das ist ein echt Guter!
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