Iranian leaders say they have obtained confessions from top reformist officials that they plotted to bring down the government with a “velvet” revolution. Such confessions, almost always extracted under duress, are part of an effort to recast the civil unrest set off by Iran’s disputed presidential election as a conspiracy orchestrated by foreign nations, human rights groups say.Read the whole thing at the link.
Reports on Iranian Web sites associated with prominent conservatives said that leading reformers have confessed to taking velvet revolution “training courses” outside the country. Atef, a Web site of a conservative member of Parliament, referred to a video of Mohammad Ali Abtahi, who served as vice president in the reform government of former President Mohammed Khatami, as showing that he tearfully “welcomed being defrocked and has confessed to provoking people, causing tension and creating media chaos.”
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s representative to the Revolutionary Guards, Mojtaba Zolnour, said in a speech Thursday that almost everyone now detained had confessed — raising the prospect that more confessions will be made public. Ayatollah Khamenei is supreme religious leader.
The government has made it a practice to publicize confessions from political prisoners held without charge or legal representation, often subjected to pressure tactics like sleep deprivation, solitary confinement and torture, according to human rights groups and former political prisoners. Human rights groups estimate that hundreds of people have been detained.
Plus, "Iran Cleric Says British Embassy Staff to Stand Trial," and "EU Summons All Iranian Ambassadors in Co-ordinated Protest."
See also, Atlas Shrugs, "Iranian Revolution Day 21: Germany Reverts to Nazism, Sells Torture Devices to Mullahcracy, Obama Backs Murdering Mullahs."
"Upon hearing that there was absolutely no waterboarding involved, the State Department issued a statement declaring that the Cairo speech had been a smashing success, and the Iranian Regime was officially morally superior to the Bush Administration."
ReplyDeleteI did not hear that smitty1e - but, that makes so much sense.
ReplyDeleteWell, I am sure the Iranians are principled people, like we are now in the United States taking the lead of Barack Hussein Obama. Therefore, it might be assumed by our new democratic leaders that guide us now, that these confessions were forthcoming, with no prolonged, excruciating torture, and that none of their family members were purged.
Isn’t it wonderful that the Iranian government finally can tell the world that it was these few youthful, insolent mischief-makers that started all this dissent? They caught them, and now, they can cut off their heads, and do business as usual with the U.S.
Shall we send over the articulate Biden and the strangley quiet Hillary Clinton after the dust settles? Why? Well, now that those pesky grassroots students of liberty are gone, our administration can discuss whether or not the regime intends to continue building nuclear facilities to take out the newly established Iraq, and then, Israel, and then…well, I’ll leave the rest to the experienced foreign affairs guru, Biden. Where is he?
It is so nice to live in this utopian left-land, with a magnetic president that is making friends with our past enemies. I feel strangely safe. The Iranian government will have no worry about Americans helping to support any troublesome upstarts trying to reach for freedoms – we can all be at peace – no concern about global unrest as we are all one with our fellow Islamic, Hindus, Buddhists, et. al.. We may be understandably mistrustful of our Christian roots, but according to our president, we finally, after all these years of hatred, suddenly relate to, and respect all Islamic people, and respect their Holy Koran. When they all sort out their difficulties, our leader will then reach out and talk to whoever is in charge.
We will befriend them.
We will, for the first time in history, prevent war.
At least this is the comforting expectations I am getting from the left.
If I may offer a wry comment here. I heard this morning on one of our early morning news bulletins (here in Australia that is) that Iran hanged 20 men convicted of drug offences.
ReplyDeleteThe incongruous thing is that these 20 persons were hanged inside a Jail where no one could see them, and yet those who fomented dissent over the recent elections were hanged in public like this for all to see and take images like this with their mobile phones.
Am I missing something here?
And they have the hide to call what they have a democracy.
TonyfromOz.