The Latest from Iran (10 November): Uncertainty and Propaganda
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1920 GMT: We have posted, in a separate entry, the English translation of Mir Hossein Mousavi’s interview with the Jamaran website.
1845 GMT: Mohammad Saleh Jokar, a senior official in the Student Basij organization, has announced that 6,000 Basij units will be created in elementary schools, seeking to promote Basij and revolutionary ideals among pupils from a young age. Jokar added that about 4.5 million students at elementary and high schools and 320,000 teachers are members of the Basij force.
1830 GMT: Rooz Online has published an English-language version of Ferehsteh Ghazi’s interview with Grand Ayatollah Montazeri. The cleric asserts,
The confessions that have been extracted in prison have absolutely no religious or legal value and cannot be the basis for the death or prison punishments that have been issued. Those who are responsible and their accomplices for such confessions, are religiously and legally guilty and criminal.
Whenever the execution of a religious punishment leads to negative consequences on religion or society, the judge can and must stop the execution. (see also “Ayatollah Montazeri’s Interview on Eve of 13 Aban“)
1820 GMT: Labour Activists Jailed. We reported in late October on the threats to detain leaders of the Syndicate of Workers of Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane Company after protests. Four of them — Fereydoun Nikoufard, Jalil Ahmadi, Ghorban Alipour and Mohammad Haydari — have now begun prison terms.
1800 GMT: Publish and Be Damned. Tehran’s Prosecutor General Abbas Jafari Doulatabadi has warned that he will pursue sites that “publish baseless news”. The statement follows Monday’s declaration by Esmail Ahmadi Moghaddam, Iran’s commander of security forces, “There is need for greater supervision over the internet….Every time we have entered this scene, the media and individuals who show off as intellectuals attack and we step back.”
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