Tayyibun??

Anyone know any thing about this?

http://www.tayyibun.com/

Gerald

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Exclusive: How US soldier was captured in Afghan.

Taliban confirms capture of US soldier.

Exclusive: How US soldier was captured in Afghan.

By Gerald Interent Anthropologist Think Tank

07.07.09

From our sources inside the Beltway:

First lie:

A commander of the Taliban's hardline Haqqani faction on July 2 said his militia had captured a US soldier in Afghanistan....NOT.

This is what appears to have happened,

An American, enlisted Army, Pfc. stood a watch on a forward operating base until 0100, 06309, with three local Afghan militiamen. The Afghans had access to alchohol and women, off base near the village of Melech, Yusef Khiel district, Paktia province. The Afghans convinced the Pfc. to go with them to "party". The Pfc. left behind his body armor, web gear, and weapon, dressed as a local and went with them in a humvee, parking it near the village.

They walked to a location and began drinking and "socializing" with the locals. The Pfc., later left the location, returned to the humvee and fell asleep inside. Other locals became aware of his incapacity, word got around and a local Taliban-connected tribesman and cohorts went to the humvee, captured the Pfc., restrained him and sent word to the Haqqanis. The Haqqanis sent a detachment for the Pfc. and after considerable haggling, "bought" the Pfc. from the locals.

The Haqqanis have him and will likely want a hostage trade and concessions or save him for a later day. The Pakis are very concerned that the Pfc. will be brought to Pakistan, and will be used by us, a basis for an armed raid and/or occupation of the FATA/NWFP in Pakistan. We have been seriously threatening that all along anyway.

The Pfc. is too important alive, there will be videos, confessions, threats, accusations, negotiations, family on CNN, etc. The Pfc. is likely quite safe for now. We do have every source lit up, but the Haqqanis are very capable, clever, and secretive. They are well able to keep him hidden indefinately.

The Pfc. did not report for morning formation, his bunk was searched, all of his gear and weapon was there as I previously mentioned, except one odd thing, he took his daily journal along, nothing else. There is a $25,000 reward to the locals for information.

This Maulvi Sangin that is mentioned by the media, is 34, a smuggler from the Safi clan in Mohmand, spent a lot of time in Saudi Arabia and is well connected to al Qaeda and the Haqqanis. He is the medai source for all of this and is generally regarded as pretty reliable.

( He phoned this in to Pajhwok Afghan News and Maulvi Sangin: Tribal Clan: Safi, Age: 34

Maulvi Sangin son of Salim, Sangin is completely illiterate and has spent sometime in Saudi Arab. He is remained a smuggler and has a low family background. He joined jihadi type of activities after coming from Saudi Arab.G )

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Gerald

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EXCLUSIVE: Basij turning against Regime.

From our Iranian source.

She has proved reliable many times in the past.

EXCLUSIVE: Basij turning against Regime.

From an encrypted communication.

She is fully cloaked.

My com to her:

Sorry to hear about your....... attack.

Can you confirm anything about

"coup by the revolutionary guards"

http://iranpoll2009.wordpress.com/2009/07/06/monday-july-6-the-daily-story/

G

Her reply:

Hello Gerald
Thank you
Yes
This is not a coup as u many name it.
It is an engineered centralization of power to help the Spiritual Leader to mange future clashes and crashes and purges.
This is pre-planned from before the so called elections. sorry u cant understand Farsi but only yesterday the Leader of the opposition Mr. Rajavi sent a message in Faris its in the tube, that explains well that this was very well predicted a coupe of years ago by this resistance. The whole election was staged to get Khamenii the power for full control. Ofcourse there is a section of the Bassij which has in a way gone off control of the central gov and has made a group of resistance mainly agaisnt Ahmadinejad's thugs and Intelligence elements. They according to their statement have carried a couple of operations against certain thugs responsible for the arrest of some of their friends who denied opening fire on the people.
So the whole thing estimated by the resistance has already begun.
This regime will crack down from the middle and this will lead to an other element.

sig. deleted.

end of file. end of file.

Gerald

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Ayatollah Ali Khamenei tells the truth

"Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warned foreign governments on Monday that Iranians would react as a 'united fist'....

Its true, see fist above.

Gerald

Anthropologist

Energy shortage problem. NOT

Energy shortage problem.

there is NO energy shortage.

Just a lack of technology.

By Gerald Internet Anthropologist Think Tank

07.08.09

There is no energy shortage.

The universe is converting matter to energy as fast as it can.

Our sun is a good example, no energy shortage there.

There is a shortage of usable fuel on earth.

A shortage of oil.

And so far earth lacks the technology

to safely convert matter into energy.

When this technology barrier is broke

the world will have almost unlimited

supply of almost FREE energy.

Can you imagine a utility bill

for the house, auto, heat and electric

for just a few dollars.

Darpa says they have made such a break

through, at least on a nano scale.

Gerald

Anthropologist

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Chip-Scale High Energy Atomic Beams 0.000 0.000 3.000

(U) The Chip-Scale High Energy Atomic Beams program will develop chip-scale high-energy atomic beam technology by developing highefficiency

radio frequency (RF) accelerators, either linear or circular, that can achieve energies of protons and other ions up to a few mega electron

volts (MeV). Chip-scale integration offers precise, micro actuators and high electric field generation at modest power levels that will enable

several order of magnitude decreases in the volume needed to accelerate the ions. Furthermore, thermal isolation techniques will enable high

efficiency beam to power converters, perhaps making chipscale self-sustained fusion possible.

(U) Program Plans:

FY 2009 Plans:

− Develop 0.5 MeV proton beams and collide onto microscale B-11 target with a fusion Q (energy ratio) > 20, possibly leading to selfsustained

fusion.

− Develop neutron-less fusion allowing safe deployment for handheld power sources.

− Develop microscale isotope production by proton beam interaction with specific targets.

− Explore purification of isotope systems.

− Develop hand-held pico-second laser systems to introduce wakefield accelerators for x-ray and fusion sources.

SOURCE: About half way down the page.

.( If this works that would be the end of battries. G )

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Regime spaming Twitter.

PSA

Iran Pro-Regime Voices Multiply Online (WSJ)

Posted Sat, 2009-07-04 01:47 by IRelec09

Iran Pro-Regime Voices Multiply Online : Via Wall Street Journal.

Ariel Silverstone, an Internet security expert in Atlanta, says the number of pro-government messages on Twitter in the past few days has increased to about 100 every six hours from just one every 12 hours or so earlier in the post-election period.

It is impossible to determine whether the comments come from members of Iran's government or simply supporters. Attempts to reach such users of Twitter weren't succ . essful.

But Internet experts see clues in certain patterns of use. In the case of Vagheeiat, the user biography on Twitter says the person who sent the message is a member of a unit of the Revolutionary Guard, which oversees the Basij. The user's profile links to the Web site of the Revolutionary Guard unit. Vagheeiat used Twitter on only one day, last Thursday.

On Twitter, users can receive the messages of others by choosing to "follow" them, or joining in conversations on a certain topic. Many of the Iranian users sending pro-government missives opened accounts only a few days ago, and have few, if any, followers -- nor are they following anyone else, Mr. Silverstone said. Also pointing to an orchestrated effort, some pro-regime messages are simultaneously blasted from different online accounts at regular intervals. Among them: "Mousavi the Instigator is in custody," referring to opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi.

Twitter Inc.'s co-founder Biz Stone declined to comment.

The government "has made a concrete effort to fight the opposition online," Mr. Silverstone says. "Over the past few days this has really increased."

While some of the tactics are new -- particularly the use of Twitter -- the regime and its supporters aren't new to the Internet. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has had his own blogs, in English and Persian, since the summer of 2006, and posted four messages before the recent election. Earlier this year, the Revolutionary Guard put out a call online for 10,000 bloggers to spread its views.

In one instance, the regime has sought to tap into the power of the Internet to help identify and round up individuals for arrest. A Web site called Gerdab, which means "vortex" in Persian, shows nearly two dozen candid photos of individuals with their faces circled in red.

The site, which says it is owned by the organized-crime-fighting unit of the Revolutionary Guard, states that these people were behind the post-election chaos, and seeks information about them. There are spaces for visitors to the site to enter names, addresses, phone numbers and other information about the people who are marked.

The site says that so far two of the people pictured had been identified and arrested.

Read Original Article:(Via Wall Street Journal.)

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124658422588090107.html

From Great blog:

http://iranelection2009.com

G

The Green Breif #20 (July 06)

The Green Breif #20 (July 06)

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I'm NiteOwl AKA Josh Shahryar - twitter.com/iran_translator on twitter - and I've been immersed in tweets from Iran for the past several hours. I have tried to be extremely careful in choosing my tweet sources. What I have compiled below is what I can confirm through my reliable twitter sources. Remember, this is all from tweets. (My work is released under Creative Commons (CC). So use it freely. A big apology for not being able to brief yesterday. I was in a different city and the internet connection at the hotel was just...)


These are the important happenings that I can positively confirm from Monday, July 6 in Iran.


Protests

1. As reported yesterday, people did indeed gather in front of Evin Prison with flowers and gifts for prisoners. These individuals were there to celebrate Iranian’s Father’s Day. However, the peaceful gathering resulted in the presence of security forces – which again used force in order to scatter the crowd. It has not been confirmed if anyone was injured in the incident. Videos of people chanting in front of the Evin prison have been released, but dates cannot be confirmed on any of them.

2. UAE police last night prevented roughly 100 Iranian expatriates from signing a piece of cloth which said, “Ahmadinejad is not our president!” It was supposed to be sent to Paris and used as a petition where it would’ve joined similar petitions from around the world. The UAE police told protesters that they had the right to gather, but did not have the right to sign petitions against the Iranian government.

3. In an interview on an Iranian website, the spokesperson for Imam’s Way Faction (members of Parliament) accused security forces of attacking people’s homes and abducting Iranian students from universities in Tehran. He also complained that the government was blocking their website, Parlemaan News, from time to time. He demanded the government to stop filtering news from reaching the people.

4. Protesters are widely being dubbed as “rioters” by the Iranian Media and government officials. It has increasingly replaced the word protesters in government channels. Ayatollah Khamenei called the participants of the post-election protests a ‘depressed’ and ‘distressed’ minority.


Opposition

5. There were reports today of a meeting between Rafsanjani and Mousavi, however, it could only be partially confirmed. Rafsanjani is proving to be very elusive for both sides of the conflict - so anything attributed to him needs to be considered with great caution.

6. Mousavi celebrated Imam Ali’s birthday today with a small group at his house. Mousavi said, “The flaws in the system had become more apparent because of the election.” He called the government illegitimate and stated that he and his followers will continue to work to achieve their goal of nullifying the election. He went on to say, “the real issue has not disappeared simply because the protests have quieted down - on the contrary, we will continue to work to the very end.”


Government / International / Clerics

7. Ali Larijani, Speaker of the Iranian Parliament, congratulated Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on his victory as President today. He was being eyed as a key member of the government who might be swayed to join the pro-reform movement, however, despite earlier indications; he has remained firmly in Ahmadinejad’s side.

8. It must be noted that except for one statement from pro-reform clerics in Qom supporting the protesters, no pro or anti-protester statement has been released by major clerical organizations from Qom. This also holds true when it comes to congratulating the new president. Reports indicate that the majority of clerics in Qom are against crackdowns on protesters and meetings are daily held between various factions to determine their course of action.

9. Hossein Subhani-Nya, a key member of the Iranian parliament’s foreign relations committee, told Iran’s Al-Alam TV today that they had indications that 6 member nations of the G8 group had already decided to call back their ambassadors from Iran after being urged to do so by Britain. He did not divulge the names of the members. He added that Iran would never bend to Western pressure and that it will take action against countries who call back their ambassadors on a case by case basis.

10. After Joe Biden’s statements yesterday, Alaeddin Broujerdi, the head of Iran's parliamentary committee on national security and foreign policy, said today that Iran was going to take ‘real and decisive’ action if attacked by Israel. He defended the government’s crackdown on protests and called the situation in Iran calm and peaceful. Today, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said that the Iranian people deserved a better government.

11. Ayatollah Khamenei warned the West to not interfere in Iran’s internal affairs. He urged Western countries to not meddle in Iran and warned them of a reaction by the Iranian nation if they didn’t pay heed to his warnings. News of Khamenei being abandoned by senior officials is intensifying. It was reported today that the spokesperson for the Guardian Council – Mr. Kadkhodaie – will be resigning soon to focus on teaching. Reports indicate it is a move by Kadkhodaie to distance himself from the government.

12. Grand Ayatollah Abbas-Ali Amid Zanjani – a former chancellor of Tehran University and a member of the Combatant Clergy Association – said today that every healthy mind doubted the impartiality of the election. He said that the large scale arrests of post-election protesters was regrettable and slammed the government for killing protesters and then branding them as rioters.

13. Meanwhile, Maj. Gen. Mohammad Ali Jafari, the commander of the IRG, said today that the IRG had taken a large role in quelling the protests. He said that the opportunity had presented itself and the Guard had to take action in order to restore calm in the country which it did almost flawlessly.


Arrests / Releases / Killed

14. Ahmadi-Mogham, a high-ranking police official in Tehran, today said that the police had not fired a single shot at protesters. He also denied any relationship between plainclothesmen and the police and the Basijis. This comes at a time as more and more sources report that at least 100 people were killed in Tehran during the protests – many of them by Tehran’s police.

15. Reports indicate of the arrest of at least one female French citizen in Iran. It cannot be positively confirm when she was arrested and where she is kept at this point. It has been reported by the BBC that she’s an academic who had spent 5 months in Isfahan and was arrested on her way out of Tehran at the city’s main airport.

16. Farnaz Moyerian, a student activist and reporter, was released today from Evin Prison. It has been reported that Mousavi will be meeting with the families of detained protesters sometime in the next few days to discuss their release.


Communications

17. SMS services have been disconnected in Tehran again. Iran’s national broadcasting agency has been removed again.


Miscellaneous

18. Tehran's Air Pollution Monitor Center warned citizens not to go out on Tuesday as air pollution was above Crisis Level because of recent dust storms. Due to air pollution, all government offices and educational institutions in Tehran will be closed tomorrow. The chants of Allaho Akbar echoed across Iran again at night, even as the roofs could be hardly seen because of low visibility.




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Our Brilliant surfers, 07.06.09

Wasting NSA's time

Cybersecurity Plan to Involve NSA, Telecoms

DHS Officials Debating The Privacy Implications

I have trouble with this paradigm.

Raise the bar for some but not everyone?

the paradigm fails to address the seminal issues related to

Internet Security.

THE INTERNET IS NOT SAFE.,

Not for anyone.

Giving special consideration to some dot Gov sites

is near sighted and short range solution.

NSA has special signatures to test against

for intrusion and malware.

That does not help with new malware or

first day exploits. It does nothing to make

even Gov sites safer from uber state hackers.

$18 Billion USD would be better spent

in the civilian sector to protect EVERYONE.

Can you imagine the efforts and work that would be expended

to win even a $1 million USD prize for an unhackable

browser?

Or a truly effective STONE firewall.

Lets examine the current paradigm.

Several Internet security companies have

security suites and they don't even share

signature files and block each others fire walls.

A few security companies have research teams

that are reactive, discover new threats and try

to prevent them.

They NEVER get ahead of the curve, only

react. Limited funds and limited scope.

One Million dollars may not be enough.

The world needs a rethink of cyber security

paradigm.

The world looses billions and billions of

dollars a year, ID theft, credit card fraud,

Information theft.

And there are a few small million dollar

cyber security companies struggling

to keep abreast of the new threats.

The cornfliker worm cabal is a prime

example, there just isn't the brain

power among the white hats to

defeat the confliker bots.

WE LEARN TO LIVE WITH THEM

AND ID THEFT AND CREDIT CARD

FRAUD.

USA could make a world impacting

contribution to cyber security with

just setting up one eighteenth of that

$18 billion dollar budget.

Make it a Darpa challenge.

Put up a Billion of the 18, for

new cyber security break troughs.

The paradigm suffers from lack of funds

and brain power, which the black hats don't

lack for. They rake in Billions of dollars for

their criminal exploits, and virtually have the

field to themselves.

And the funding to pay fot the top brains.

We don't need NSA side tracked into

cyber security, we huge bonuses for

good quality anti-malware and Stone

fire walls.

Something that is effective against

the hackers.

Not specialized signature files

react to past attacks.

Using NSA for cyber security

is like using Bounty Hunters

to keep persons from walking

on the Library's lawn.

Gerald

USA's new cyber command:

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It can allow hackers to remotely take control of victims' machines. The victims don't need to do anything to get infected except visit a Web site that's been hacked.

Security experts say criminals have been attacking the vulnerability for nearly a week. Thousands of sites have been hacked to serve up malicious software that exploits the vulnerability. People are drawn to these sites by clicking a link in spam e-mail.

The so-called "zero day" vulnerability disclosed by Microsoft affects a part of its software used to play video. The problem arises from the way the software interacts with Internet Explorer, which opens a hole for hackers to tunnel into.

SOURCE:

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Loan Sharke abuse 82 yr old BLIND WIDOW.

Loan Sharks abuse 82 yr old Blind widow.

By Gerald, Internet Anthropologist Think Tank

07.06.09

I just found out one of my neighboors,

82 yrs old BLIND widow is into these

402% Pay day loan Sharks.

It started with small amount,

She now turns over her

Social Security Check

AND THEN BARROWS MONEY

TO PAY RENT AND BUY FOOD.

I will report more as I learn more.

Loan sharks into 82 yr old BLIND

WIDOW. 402%

If any one told me it would

be legal for 402% LOAN SHARKS

to take advantage of

82 yr old blind widows 10

years ago I wouldn't have believed it.

NOT EVEN THE MAFIA WAS

SO HEARTLESS.

SOMETIMES ONE JUST ISN'T

PROUD OF THE CONGRESS.

BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE BANKING

MAFIA. disgusting...402%

GERALD

ANTHROPOLOGIST

You can't even start to imagine HOW SLEAZY

these guys ARE...CLICK THERE

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Ops and Intel update, 07.06.09

Afgan youtube channel putting out false

spread sheets on casualties in Afghan.

Close this channel.

http://www.youtube.com/user/resistz2exist#play/uploads/21/kG-uDR_sNxg

hat tip to my bartender.

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IRGC sees no middle ground

in Iran's polity But what

does it mean?

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The Revolutionary Guards have publicly declared that

they have taken control of Iranian national security.

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China says 140 dead in Xinjiang riot, blames

separatists

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Saudi Arabia Is Behind

Terror in Iraq MEMRI

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Iran's Web Spying Aided By Western Technology

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Iranian hacktivists hand-crank DDoS attack

Farsi hackers do without botnets

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Kremlin may tighten up

internet use in Russia

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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/wo...ef=global-home

"CAIRO — The most important group of religious
leaders in Iran called the disputed presidential
election and the new government illegitimate on
Saturday, an act of defiance against the country’s
supreme leader and the most public sign of a major
split in the country’s clerical establishment."

It's only a matter of several weeks before the the coup fails and fair elections are held.

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The Green Brief #18-19

The Green Brief #18-19

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I'm NiteOwl AKA Josh Shahryar - twitter.com/iran_translator on twitter - and I've been immersed in tweets from Iran for the past several hours. I have tried to be extremely careful in choosing my tweet sources. What I have compiled below is what I can confirm through my reliable twitter sources. Remember, this is all from tweets. (My work is released under Creative Commons (CC). So use it freely. A big apology for not being able to brief yesterday. I was in a different city and the internet connection at the hotel was just...)


These are the important happenings that I can positively confirm from Saturday and Sunday, July 4-5 in Iran.


Protests

1. The head of the IRGC – one of the various security forces used to quell protesters – claimed today that the BBC and the British Embassy were the main instigators directing ‘rioters’. Brigadier General Abdullah Iraqi (Iraqi is just a last name) claimed that the government did not deal with the protesters harshly in the beginning – although it could have. Among his many outrageous claims was that ‘rioters’ hauled other injured ‘rioters’ from ambulances and killed them. He also claimed that ‘rioters’ injured 600 IRGC officers and that 8 officers had been killed in the line of duty.

2. Monday 6 July at 5 PM Iran time, the families of some Iranians who have been detained at Evin Prison plan on gathering in front of the prison with flowers and gifts in recognition of Father’s Day. Around 5000 workers at the Haft Tapeh Sugar Cane Plantation the city of Shosh in Khuzestan province have gone on strike – although said to be in solidarity with the Sea of Green, this could not be independently confirmed. Although said to be still in the planning phase, reports indicate the government has already started planting cameras in areas of Tehran where protesters have gathered in huge numbers in the past. It is said to be a way for pinpointing individual protesters for arrests and also better coordination of security forces in case of protests. It is interesting to note that Ahmadinejad has opposed the idea.

3. Heavy sand storms have hit Tehran and according to sources within the city, the entire city is affected by low visibility. Confirmed reports indicate that protesters are quietly going through the city and writing anti-government slogans on city walls, using the storm to their advantage.

4. Recently, a lot of news has been circulating about IRG and military clashes over how to deal with protests. Although we’ve been hearing a lot about it, the more reliable twitter sources have not been able to confirm anything in this regard.


Opposition

5. Mehdi Karoubi today stated that they will continue to fight even though it looks as if resistance will become more difficult. He mocked Ahmadinejad for ordering a probe into Neda Agha-Soltan’s death while many more people have been killed in the unrests. He claimed that the government had completely ruined the reputation of the Basij by ordering it to act violently during the protests. He further asked the government to stop the spree-killings during protests.

7. Reliable sources have indicated that Mir Hossein Mousavi will be creating a new party in order to further their goals of nullifying the election. Among the many instances of fraud in the election that have been claimed by Mousavi is the alleged printing of 20 million extra votes by the government in order to fill boxes with votes for Ahmadinejad.

8. It is continually being hinted that Rafsanjani is working frantically behind doors to find a solution to the current stalemate. Reports indicate that he has stepped up pressure on the Guardian Council and is working to weaken their sway over the security forces as well as the Iranian regime. Nothing is fully confirmed at this point, although the sources who have reported this are quit reliable. In a meeting with families of detainees, he said that what has happened since the election has been a bitter experience and that Iranians should join hands and help make the regime stable in the long-term.3

9. Several high-ranking officials within the government or related to government officials have been disowned by their parents. In the latest case, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s son-in-law was disowned by his father. Mahdi Khorsheedi’s father said on Saturday that he no longer had a son named Mahdi because Mahdi Khorsheedi had sided with Ahmadinejad in the post-election unrest.


Arrests, Releases, Fatalities

10. Isa Saharkhiz, a prominent Iranian journalist and founder of IAPPF (Iranian Association for Protection of Press Freedom) was arrested on Friday. Another reformist and member of Musharekat Party (IIPF), Jalal Mohammadlou was arrested while on his way to the hospital. Two prominent members of Musharekat Party, Saeed Hajjarian and Mohsen Amin-Zadeh, both of whom had already been arrested and released earlier in the uprising, have now been transferred to an IRG hospital in Tehran. According to sources, Hajjarian is in failing health.

11. Masood Bastani, an Iranian journalist and the husband of detained Iranian journalist Mehsa Amrabadi, was detained while he was at court seeking information about his wife. Mahsa was detained 20 days ago and is with child. Their house had previously been raided, but Masood hadn’t been home while the security forces caused serious damage to their property.

12. It has now been confirmed that the lone UK Embassy staffer in custody is being charged with endangering Iranian national security and is the Embassy’s senior political analyst. Most detainees that were arrested in the post-election unrest have been charged with attempting to endanger national security. So far, 20 journalists are also in Iranian prisons. A Greek-born American journalist working for the Washington Times has now been released by the Iranian government. Bita Samimi Rad, a leftist student activist, has now also been released from Evin Prison.

13. Members of Mourning Mothers, a group that was formed by mothers of detained protesters to seek their release, who had been arrested in Laleh Park last week have now been freed. The group has planned more gatherings in Tehran in the next week to try and seek the release of their loved ones.

14. Hamid Maddah, a core member of Mousavi’s campaign in Mashhad, died in custody on Saturday. He had been arrested in Gowharshad Mosque along with many other Mousavi supporters. According to sources, he had been tortured badly and wasn’t able to recover. The official death certificate registers the cause of death as internal bleeding in the skull.
15. There are reports surfacing of the wide-spread use of torture and intimidation in Evin prison. Protesters are regularly beaten, sources claim, and there have been instances of male protesters being raped. Unconfirmed reports also indicate of several protesters being hanged at Evin and in Mashhad, but they cannot be confirmed at this point.


Government / International / Clergy

16. The Association of Researchers and Teachers of Qom released a statement on Saturday calling the election invalid and the government formed by it illegitimate. The association boasts within its ranks respected clerics and Shi’ite teachers that reside in the holy city of Qom, a center for Islamic learning for Shi’ites. It had been reported before, on the Green Briefs and other outlets, that there were intense negotiations going on in Qom. This seems to be only the tip of the iceberg and sources indicate more is soon to follow in the form of support for reformists and protesters.

17. Ahmadinejad on Saturday told a meeting of medical school deans that he wanted to hold negotiations with President Barack Obama before the media. He stated that he would go to the United Nations and ask President Obama for the opportunity. The White House has not released any comments about the offer. Ahmadinejad also indicated the Iran will pursue more active diplomacy in his second term.

18. Ayatollah Hashemi Shahrodi, the head of Iran’s judiciary, asked courts throughout the country to prosecute people who are aiding protesters through websites. He has also ordered an overall clampdown on anyone ‘using any means’ to help protesters. Furthermore, Sharhodi has ordered the prosecution of people who’re ‘helping to spread lies about Iran through satellite channels’.

19. In Kordestan province, the government has started to compile a list of supporters of opposition candidates. The list is supposedly being prepared to make the work of security forces easier when arresting unwanted elements. As sit-ins at mosques were used by protesters to show their discontent, the doors of several mosques in Tehran have now been closed. There are notes hanging on the doors telling people that the mosques are closed to Etekaaf, a form of religious sit-in at mosques where people pray to Allah and ask for forgiveness.

20. Mohammad Mollabashi, a government official in the Ministry of Education, has stated that students who have been active in ‘riots’ will not be permitted to pursue their education in Iran.


Media / Communications

21. Fars News alleged on Sunday that Mousavi’s campaign headquarters was nothing but a meeting point for sexual-deviant Iranian youth. He claimed that many of these people wanted to help Mousavi to gain sexual freedom. The editor-in-chief of Keyhan newspaper has said that any party formed by Mousavi is illegal as Mousavi’s responsible for spilling Iranians’ blood.

22. Several prominent television personalities have now been banned from IRIB. The editor of Etemaade Melli newspaper was again summoned on Sunday by the public prosecutor’s office in Tehran. He was there to answer accusations of involvement in ‘riots’ by the newspaper’s staff and support for them by the newspaper.



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