The Latest from Iran (29 July): Challenges Outside and Inside the Government
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2105 GMT: Still no confirmation of the release of Saeed Hajjarian from detention, which was supposed to take place today. Gooya.com, reporting of behalf of the “Green Wave”, says the news should not be trusted.
2025 GMT: Another Arrest. Now it is Khatami advisor Shayesteh Amiri who has been arrested.
2015 GMT: The Latest from the Police. It’s not just the Ministry of Intelligence that is being shaken up (see separate story). Three high-ranking officers — the head of preventive forces, the head of the traffic section, and the head of airport police — have been replaced.
Meanwhile, the overall head of the security forces, General Esmail Ahmadi-Moghaddam, is adjusting his position. Hours after the Prosecutor General insisted that officers show restraint, Ahmadi-Moghaddam said, “The security forces try to install calm and justice in society…..however no type of provocation must cause the security officers to step out of the law….Some members of the security forces have overreacted.”
Ahmadi Moghaddam added, “In response to the complaints of 440 of our countrymen we have compensated 197 of 300 people that have sustained damages….The total amount of compensation paid was $50,000.” (Correspondent Mani thinks the General is being a bit of a cheapskate, since the cost of a car in Iran starts from $8000.)
2005 GMT: Press TV Coverage Meter – Mousavi Up, Mahmoud Down. There is an overload of indicators of the shifting view of state media in this story from Press TV’s website, “Amid growing dissension among Iran’s ruling elite over the president’s conduct, former presidential candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi says the post-vote crisis is the product of undervaluing the will of the people.”
Who is the troublemaker now?
2000 GMT: Don’t Give Up the Story Now. Press TV may have stopped treating the murder of Neda Agha Soltan as a foreign plot (0720 GMT), but others are not ready to quit. A Revolutionary Guard commander has told an audience that the “accident was completely planned”.
1905 GMT: Mahmoud, We Want Our Vote Back. An editorial in Ya Lassarat newspaper, associated with Ansar al Hezbollah activists, has demanded, “Mr. Ahmadinejad, apologize to the nation!” The editorial continued,
We must tell you, Mr. Ahmadinejad, that our criteria in voting for you was your indisputable allegiance to the Leadership. But now we see that you, in the past week, have done things that raise questions about your allegiance to the Leader. The appointment of [First Vice President] Rahim Masha’i, the removal of the ministers, leaves doubts about allegiance to the Leader whose only fault was reminding you to obey the order of the Leadership. Your hesitation in carrying out the Leader’s orders has led us to begin to assume that your love for a person such as Masha’i is far greater than your love for the Leader. Of course we hope that we are mistaken.
We would like you to be aware that in the event you repeat, persist with such behavior, we will have no choice but to ask you to return our votes.
1900 GMT: Some Come Out, Some Go In. Further illustrating that the release of 140 detainees is a limited concession, Iranian authorities have reportedly arrested Saeed Shariati, a leading member of the Islamic Iran Participation Front.
1800 GMT: Press TV’s English website reports from Iranian security services: “An underground network providing foreign media outlets with photos and footage of the post-election unrest has been identified and arrested in Iran.” No further details of the network, the foreign outlets, or the footage is given.
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