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With international condemnation at their brutal crackdown on protesters during the nationwide uprising that has now continued for seven months, it might have been imagined that Iran’s mullahs would have learned some lessons in moderation. The killing last September, of the young Kurdish girl, Mahsa Amini, by the morality police, for not wearing her hijab properly, was an outrage that has led to a denunciation by Amnesty International and other human rights organizations. The shoot-to-kill strategy that has killed more than 750 protesters, and the arrest of over 30,000, has triggered an unprecedented outcry from the civilized world. But, deaf to all demonstrations, the theocratic regime has continued on its repressive path.
Now, during the Nowruz (Persian New Year) holidays and the holy month of Ramadan, the police are demanding even greater powers to crush dissent. Hassan Karami, the commander of the regime’s Law Enforcement Forces (LEF) Special Units, has called for the number of security police to be doubled to confront the ongoing nationwide insurrection. Karami was sanctioned by the EU in April 2021 for his role in the savage response to mass protests that took place in November 2019, when more than 1,500, mostly young protesters, were killed. He has coordinated the use of lethal force for crowd control and the suppression of protests during the current uprising. His LEF Special Units have also been responsible for serious human rights abuse against prisoners detained during the disturbances. Karamihas boasted that confronting the protests would be part of the agenda of his LEF Special Units during the Nowruz holidays and Ramadan. He described the uprising as “extreme sedition” and told the state-run Mehr news agency that his units were covering the unrest and possible movement of enemies in at least 400 cities and regions and that this required a doubling of police numbers.
Meanwhile, to further the theocratic regime’s oppressive tyranny, the police and security services have shut down dozens of businesses and issued warnings to many others for disrespecting Ramadan fasting rules.A police official in Khuzestan Province said that 55 businesses, were shut down in Ahvaz, the capital of the province, for breaking the rules of fasting. Colonel Mohammad-Hossein Mohammadv and said 229 businesses were inspected, 55 were shut down and 14 others received warnings that they faced closure if they failed to abide by the rules. Inspections will continue until the end of Ramadan, he said. Similar inspections are being carried out in other cities across the country. The rules require restaurants, cafes, coffee shops, tea houses, ice-cream and juice bars to remain closed until fasting ends around sunset. In the capital Tehran, sunset falls at around 18:35 at this time of year.
The same rules are enforced in all public places including gyms, schools, universities and factories, where cafeterias and canteens are closed throughout the month of Ramadan. Even eating inside cars is forbidden.With echoes of Stalinist repression, the hard-line crackdown has seen authorities urging members of the public who witness anyone violating the fasting or hijab rules to send a text message to a special designated number online. Large government-sponsored billboards advise similar tell-tale action. Only restaurants situated inside hotels or in airports or stations, can apply for special licences to cater for tourists or travellers, provided their windows are screened so that anyone eating inside cannot be seen from outside. Even then, the police keep a careful control on the number of licences issued.
The mullahs ludicrously claim that those who eat, drink, or smoke in public during Ramadan, are exhibitionists who refuse to follow the fasting rules. Such behaviour is punishable by a sentence of 10 to 60 days in prison or up to 74 lashes, according to article 638 of Iran’s Islamic Penal Code. During the holy month of Ramadan, when Muslims celebrate the fundamental messages of Islam – freedom, justice, mercy,and emancipation, 85 million beleaguered citizens of Iran have seen their rights and civil liberties crushed by the fascist theocratic dictatorship.
The Islamic Republic’s elderly Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has sought to position himself as the representative of God and Islam on earth.He regularly brands his opponents as enemies of God. Protesters can be accused of the spurious offence of moharebeh or ‘waging war against God’, which carries the mandatory death sentence. Since the 1979 revolution which ousted the hated Shah, but was hi-jacked by the mullahs, the main democratic opposition movement, the Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK), has been the key voice calling for freedom, justice and democracy. They have paid a high price for their dissent. More than 30,000 mostly MEK political prisoners were executed in 1988 in a massacre ordered by a fatwa from the then Supreme Leader Ruhollah Khomeini. Courageous Resistance Units of the MEK have directed the current uprising across Iran.
Mrs. Maryam Rajavi, the charismatic president-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), of which the MEK is a key component, said in her Nowruz address that the MEK have always made it clear that Islam is a religion of compassion and emancipation, not what the fascist mullahs claim it to be. She emphasized that “Islam is not misogynistic but founded on freedom, equality and free choice for all individuals, regardless of their gender or religion”. She pointed out that the MEK has rigorously opposed religious compulsion, underlining that it runs counter to the teachings of Islam. Mrs Rajavi said: “The MEK’s selflessness in the face of the regime’s religious dictatorship has exposed Khomeini and his successors as demagogues who exploit Islam for their own interests, and as criminals who have imprisoned and oppressed the Iranian people, while spreading death, terrorism and fundamentalism throughout the region.”
As the uprising in Iran continues to gain momentum and the chants of “down with the dictator” and “down with Khamenei” can be heard in the streets, it is time for the US, the EU and the UK to take concrete steps to show their support for the Iranian people and their determined and courageous demands for regime change.
Where is the UN to condemn them? Way too busy demanding we give up our guns and open our Private Property to the so called Refugees to settle and build their Villages on
“Islam is not misogynistic but founded on freedom, equality and free choice for all individuals, regardless of their gender or religion” a fantastically false statement. The Mullahs do know their Islam very well and the Resistance will be much better off leaving Islam, while they are junking the murderous, tyrannical Islamic Republic. Islam means slavery, literally submission; hate and enmity for disbelievers and apostates, their subjugation and a declaration of war against them. The idea Islam is not misogynistic but liberating for women requires transcendent levels of cognitive dissonance, missing the forest for the trees. That a Muslim may believe in freedom, equality, and free choice is laudable; but they do not believe it for reasons of Islam.
Is ” thighing ” still a favourite past time of Iranian men ie getting a young girl naked at least from the waist down and placing an erect penis on her legs etc up to her vagina but not actually entering it. What mental emotional and sexual sickness . The original Ayatollah engaged in it, according to a close friend of his who witnessed him. And he supposedly a man of Allah, so ……………? On that occasion the girl was 4 .
DemoRAT party and its woke ideology in lockstep with mullahs.
THROW THE BUMS OUT!
Crackpot b.s. 9/11 was true Islam. Not to hold the murderers responsible is a betrayal of everyone killed by them, for reasons of Islam. Iran was directly involved in 9/11 and in facilitating al Qaeda, they have not been paid back. Soleimani was hated inside and outside Iran and responsible for the deaths of many Americans. The IRGC is a designated terrorist entity by the United States. The Islamic Republic of Iran has considered itself at war with us since 1979. They are also at war with their own children (hence the “war against God” charges for protesters and against “apostates” refusing to accept their slavery status as women under shari’ah).
This death-cult regime is headed for the dustbin of history.
With or with the excuse of Ramadan the tyrants of the Islamic regime of Iran have said that they will “act decisively” against the Iranian people who are protesting, It actually means those tyrants in power in that Islamic tyranny will use the mayhem in the protests as an excuse to come down with vicious malicious brutal deadly violence against people who only want their basic human rights by being free of horrendous tyrannical oppression. In other words, the heads of that used the chaos as an excuse to inflict pain, misery and death on people who only want to be free from tyranny. As its been wisely said that “Evil is always looking for an excuse.”
Those people who engaged protest against that Islamic tyranny of Iran are right and righteous.
For that tyrannical Islamic regime is cruelly oppressive in many very brutal hostile and murderous ways.
The Iranian people do have every right to rise up and overthrow that horrendous Islamic tyranny which terribly abuses them and denies then their basic human rights and reasonable personal freedoms and establish a real genuine government.
This is their nature right by, common sense and even explained that very intelligent man, who many Iranians in their quest for freedom might not even know about, he is the British philosopher, John Locke.