As Iran’s Guardians Council is processing the qualifications of the presidential candidates, the country’s media has reported that 7,456 jurisprudents have written a letter to it requesting that it disqualify those individuals who “in the past and in the course of the 2009 sedition had deviated from the path of the revolution.” A number […]
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New Wave of Summons, Return of Prisoners to Prison and Executions
With less than 4 weeks left till election day, Iran is witnessing a new round of summons of civil and political activists to Iran’s ministry of intelligence, non-extension of prison leaves and mass summons of prisoners on leave. In addition, two women political prisoners, whom Tehran’s prosecutor’s office called Mossad and CIA spies, were […]
Cleric warns Supreme Leader against barring candidate
A senior Iranian cleric has warned Iran’s Supreme Leader not to let prominent presidential candidates be disqualified. In a letter to Ayatollah Khamenei, Ayatollah Mohammad Sadegh Haeri Shirazi, a member of Iran’s Assembly of Experts, says the Supreme Leader’s motto of “Political legend and maximum participation in the elections” will not be realized if […]
Security forces in place for announcement of candidates
An Iranian opposition website reports that Tehran “has put on a military face” as the Guardian Council is set to announce today the presidential candidates that have been approved to run in the election. The Kaleme website writes that the possible disqualification of Esfandiar Rahim Mashai, the preferred candidate of the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad camp, […]
Big names missing from early reports of approved candidates
Following a report by the Tasnim News Agency, the Mehr News Agency has also reported that the Guardian Council has approved eight applicants for the presidential race. The report lists the names as Gholamali Haddad Adel, Saeed Jalili, Mohsen Rezai, Hassan Rohani, Mohammadreza Aref, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, Mohammad Gharazi and Ali Akbar Velayati. Consequently, […]
Reformist candidate inspires end of hunger strike
Mehdi Khazali, a prominent Iranian political prisoner, has ended his hunger strike after 140 days following the announcement of Ayatollah Hashemi Rafsanjani’s decision to run for president. Kaleme reports that Khazali’s son quoted his father saying that he was convinced to end his hunger strike as soon as he was informed that Ayatollah Hashemi […]
Karroubi’s Letter to Mr. Khamenei Denounces Security Forces
Mohammad Hossein Karroubi, the son of political dissident under house arrest since February 2011 Mehdi Karroubi, has written a letter to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei decrying the continued confiscation of personal items security forces took in February 2013. “On February 11, 2013, security forces accompanying a representative from the Prosecutor’s Office, who had […]
Election gatekeepers balk at aged candidates
Iran’s Guardian Council has expressed concern about the “physical capabilities” of election candidates and the ability of senior candidates to handle the workload of presidential duties. Abbasali Kadkhodayi, the spokesman for the Guardian Council, said: “One who wants to assume a chief executive post and is only able to put in just a few […]
Iranian firefighter saves lives, even after his death
According to Jalal Maleki, the spokesman of Iran’s Firefighters Organization, body parts of firefighter Omid Abbasi will be offered to patients in need of transplants. Abbasi died during a mission in north Tehran after saving a girl from a fire in a residential complex.Jalal Maleki told Mehr News that “firefighters received a call informing […]
Weekly report on Human Right Violation in Iran (19/05/2013)
The Sentences: Execution Flogging, amputation, imprisonment and custody1. On Thursday the 9th of March Jahan-bakhsh Soltan-zadeh and Behnam Bagheri, two Civil Rights Activists were arrested by security agents in Maku.2. On Saturday the 11th of May Mojtaba Maleki, the prosecutor of Public and Revolutionary Court of Kermanshah announced the execution by hanging of a […]