Mir Hossein Moussavi and Zahra Rahnavard Visit Sohrab's Family

A heartwarming gesture by Mir Hossein Moussavi and his wife, Zahra Rahnavard, who paid a visit to Sohrab's family today.


This is how leaders truly win people over, not by force not by brutality but by kindness, care and compassion:



Don't ever let these ultimate sacrifices by the people of Iran be wasted. Victory to the noble people of Iran in their battle against the savage beasts.

The music which is played, as Moussavi enters Sohrab's house is 'sar oomad zemestoon', 'Winter Has Come to an End':



Winter has come to an end
Spring has burst open
The red bloom of sun has risen again
and the night has become a fugitive
the mountains are carpetted with tulips
the tulips are awake
and they are planting the Sun all over the mountains
......

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Where is Taraneh?

Taraneh Moussavi, was arrested by Baseej forces when Mir Hussein Moussavi supporters turned up at Ghoba Mosque in Tehran, to hear Moussavi speak. Taraneh was held at Hosseineh Ershad until 22:30 along with others who were detained that day. But while others were then transferred to Nowbonyad police station, Taraneh was kept behind by the Baseejis. Her parents search the next day revealed no clues as to where she may have been detained and as a result of all the distress, her father has become ill with heart problems.

Last Wednesday, an anonymous caller called Taraneh's family and said Taraneh is hospitalised in Imam Khomeini hospital, Karaj. The injuries he described her as having suggest, she has been raped. Her family then went to the hospital to enquire about their daughter. They were told a girl similar to Taraneh's descriptions was in the hospital, but she was taken to another unknown location. One of the nurses confirmed that a girl with Taraneh's descriptions was brought in with similar injuries, she was unconscious when she was brought in and unconscious when they removed her.

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Sohrab is not Dead, its the Government that is Dead

Heart wrenching film footage of Sohrab's mother:
'People of this land! know that they killed my son in the most cowardly way 'nA-javAnmardAne'. For 26 days they passed me from one place to another to look for my son, and all the time they knew my Sohrab was dead':

This is the battle of good against evil. Its the battle of javanmardi against na-javanmardi. The fight of a noble people against backward savage occupiers of our land.

It seems with every murder, they are only hardening the resolve of the Iranian people. People in Sohrab's neighbourhood chanting:
'Sohrab is not dead, its this government that is dead':

Read the LA Times piece on Sohrab: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iran-sohrab14-2009jul14,0,3098746.story

And this is what Roshan Muhammed Salih of Press TV has to say:
“Now let me turn to the Islamic Republic of Iran, from which Press TV gets its funding. let me be clear: I believe It is a fundamentally decent government run by a fundamentally decent man.”

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=100579§ionid=3510303

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Sohrab's Funeral Today

Sohrab's Funeral today:

This body that was buried today, was until few days ago, a young 19 year old, with a bright future ahead of him. Why did they take him away from his loved ones? Why was his life suddenly interrupted? Because a small clique want to hang on to power at any cost and regardless of what crimes they have to commit to stay in power. Will the West still appease these monsters? Will the apologists still find excuses to justify them?





Sohrab's mother crying over his body, 'Whoever killed you, may his arms be broken'



And this is Sohrab's last picture at the morgue, it looks as if he is smiling at the most noble death, for freedom and for reclaiming our land from these tyrant occupiers:

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For Iran's Fallen Heroes

The worshippers of the dark think they can stop the light by pulling down the stars, but no matter how many stars they pull down, the sky over our land is still full of stars...

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Russia, Iranians Will Never Forgive You

'RUSSIA, IRANIANS WILL NEVER FORGIVE YOU'.

Has there ever been a nation throughout history which has consistently supported and promoted despots and tyrants like Russia has?

See a previous post: 150 Years under 'Putin'

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Video by FearlessDream

A partial timeline of events that have taken place in Iran in the past few weeks, posted by FearlessDream:

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19 Year Old Sohrab Died in Evin

19 Year old Sohrab Erabi, one of the thousands of protesters who have been imprisoned, has died while in custody in Evin prison. Sohrab had passed his university exam entrance this year and would have enrolled as an undergraduate student in September. He was arrested on Saturday 20th June and taken to Evin prison.




Sohrab's mother shown in this film footage, is showing her son's picture and asking one of the prisoners who has just been released, her son's whereabouts. She was worried ever since Sohrab disappeared and kept saying 'I have a feeling something bad is about to happen to my son '.

Every day since Sohrab's arrest, she has been outside Evin prison along with other families, searching for her son until today, when she was finally told by the authorities that Sohrab died while in custody.

Weep not mother Iran and show the enemy no sign of weakness, for every Sohrab that falls, there will be tens of thousands more who will soon set you free.

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Remember who Galloway's Paymasters were Before

Remember the pain these people suffered while Press TV's Galloway wined and dined with the ousted evil monster, Saddam.







Press TV's George Galloway telling Uday Hossein "We are with you till the end"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlzqMRRyDaM

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Street Busker Playing the Student Solidarity Song

This must be one of the 'rich north Tehran' kids that Galloway is referring to. The street busker with the little girl plays the Iranian student solidarity song, 'Yar Dabestani' to the best of his ability on his old lute and people continuously give him money to show their support and sing along with him. Watch the delight in the little girl's eyes singing this solidarity song.

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Demo in London Today

Around 3000 people turned up for the demo outside the Iranian embassy in London today to mark the 10th anniversary of the student uprising in 1999. My warmest thanks to all the non-Iranians who also turned up in solidarity with the courageous people of Iran. I had to leave before the demo finished for another interview at Al-Jazeera English.

Here are some of the footage from the bravehearts in Iran who once again took to the streets, in different parts of the cities today. Despite all the brutal repression, these fearless men and women have risked their lives for freedom again and again. How can anyone not admire their courage?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGKFtVwX40E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6DBQaWAky4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC1n5lf_U04
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iCOApTqq3iQ

Here they are shouting Mojtaba [Reference to the Supreme Leader's son who is the main engineer of the coup and wants to be the next Supreme Leader] 'Mojtaba You will Never be the Supreme Leader'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGi3Vp_yG0k

'We are warriors, if you fight we will fight back' :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcTMZxQnTsE


Down with the Dictator:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGi3Vp_yG0k

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkRcISXMeUQ

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Please Join us Tomorrow 9th July

Its another big day tomorrow. The 10th anniversary of the student uprising in Iran. The student protests in 1999 spread to 19 cities and went on for 6 days. The uprising was brutally crushed but it was the beginning of a new dawn. It gave us hope that change was coming to Iran. That despite all the propaganda machinery of those who consider themselves the 'Representatives of God on earth', the young Iranians had not been duped, and they had not given up. They were as determined as ever to bring about the 100 year old struggle of the Iranian people for democracy and freedom of speech to fruition.

'Freedom of Thought, Forever, Forever' Was the main slogan of those youngsters who had risked their lives by joining the protests in 1999. Ten years on now, the struggle is much more widespread. Now its every section of the Iranian population. The people of Iran deserve your international support.

Come and join us outside the Islamic Republic embassy in London, tomorrow 9th July,in London after 5:30 pm. Let the forces of darkness know that the freedom loving people of Iran are not on their own.

See you tomorrow at:
16 Prince’s Gate, SW7. The nearest Tube station is South Kensington.

Victory to the freedom loving people of Iran.



Help them enjoy the same freedoms you enjoy:

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92 Killed in Tehran Says Doctor who Fled Iran

Journalist Fintan Dunne provides an English-translation of an article published in the French newspaper Le Figaro, which reports that two Iranian doctors, who recently fled the country to France, counted 92 deaths in the post-June 12Th uprising.

"One of a pair of Iranian doctors, who fled the capital to France says an unofficial tally by medical staff at Tehran area hospitals counted 92 violent deaths related to conflicts with security forces. The death toll is considerably at variance with an official figure of 17 deaths.

The account of events in Tehran by the doctors, who declined to be identified for reasons of personal safety has been published today in the online edition of the French newspaper Le Figaro. They say that intimidation prevented them revealing the scale of casualties but motivated them to flee to France to reveal the details.

Among the dead were an eight months pregnant woman and six young males found dead in Shahriar, on the outskirts of the capital. "They all died from wounds in the neck," said the second unidentified doctor, quoting information from a trusted medical colleague. "Their skulls had been smashed and their brains had been opened, presumably to retrieve the bullet and destroy evidence of the crime."

On June 15th, dubbed "Black Monday" by the second doctor, the Rasoul Akram Hospital, near Tehran University, received 38 casualties, including 28 wounded and 10 dead.

"We found that the bullets had passed through the torsos diagonally, which means they were fired from above - ie a roof," says the second doctor.

To conceal the nature of the assaults, doctors at Tehran hospitals were forced to certify that the deceased died of natural causes. A colleague of the second doctor who was on emergency duty at Erfan Hospital, paid a price for refusing to cooperate. "After being missing for thirty-six hours, he was found half-conscious and disfigured on the sidewalk near the hospital," he told Le Figaro.

"In several hospitals - including Rasoul Akram and Imam Khomeini - we organized sit-in protests. But state television, they said it was a strike for better wages."

Due to resistance by medical staff, the bodies of some protesters were speedily removed. "We think they were transferred to the Baqiatollah military hospital or a place unknown to the general public," says the doctor. Then, under the pretext of "organ donation", the evidence of bullet wounds were excised. Families were forced to go along with the deception in order to recover the remains for burial.

The Le Figaro article adds that a witness in Tehran, contacted by telephone told the newspaper that burials in the public cemetery at Behecht-e Zahra take place under surveillance, with the cause of death prohibited to be indicated on gravestones."

Link to the Le Figaro article: http://www.lefigaro.fr/international/2009/07/06/01003-20090706ARTFIG00225-des-medecins-iraniens-temoignent-de-la-repression-.php

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