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Iran’s unfinished crisis, Islam and Politics, NewAgeIslam.com

Islam and Politics
Iran’s unfinished crisis
By Nazenin Ansari
16-09-2009

The regime is well aware of what is at stake. The supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei issued a cold warning on 11 September 2009 that "resisting the system and taking out the sword against it will meet a harsh response. If somebody stands against the basis of the [Islamic] system and violates people's security, the system is forced to stand against it."

Such intransigent rhetoric at the highest level is a justification of ferocious and consistent repression by the regime's militias, organised thugs, and judiciary. Khamenei's declaration came a day after security forces raided, pillaged and sealed the offices of Mir-Hossein Moussavi and his fellow opposition leader and presidential candidate Ayatollah Mehdi Karroubi.

The office of the Association for the Defence of Prisoners' Rights was also ransacked, and evidence of the torture, rape and killing of detainees confiscated. An Amnesty International statement points out that "the seized records contain information which would enable the judicial authorities to identify the former detainees who were prepared to speak out on a confidential basis due to their fear of reprisals and the shocking nature of their ordeal."

A number of top advisers to the opposition are among the thousands of people arrested in the post-election crackdown. The highest-profile of the later detainees is Alireza Beheshti, a senior adviser to Moussavi and the son of Iran's first head of the judiciary after the 1979 revolution - who was subsequently released on bail.

http://newageislam.com/iran%E2%80%99s-unfinished-crisis/islam-and-politics/d/1813


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