Is Iranian regime ready to put ex President Khatami under house arrest?

Source: Saham News

The website Saham News revealed that the Iranian security forces surrounded the residence of former President Khatami, forbidding him to leave his house. Few hours after the deployment, the security forces left the area, permitting to Khatami to go out. In any case, this news is very important, because could mean that – in any moment in the next future – the regime could decide for put Khatami under house arrest, like it happened in February 2011 to Mousavi and Karroubi. The action of the security forces arrived after the decision of the Iranian magistrature to forbid to Khamenei the possibility to take part to public events for three months. More interesting, the fact happened even if few days ago, for the first time, Khatami has expressed his support to IRGC, after the speech of Trump

Breaking news: Daughter of Iranian head of judiciary system accused of spying for embassies of UK, New Zealand and Italy!

Source: al-Arabiya, Amad News

An Iranian website, Amadnews.org, published two documents in which it is written that Zahara Larijani, the daughter of Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani – head of Iranian Judiciary system – was a spy. In the documents it is written that Zahara, a supporter of the Green Wave Movement, has passed (for more than two years) important documents to the embassies of UK, New Zealand and Italy. Because of this reason, Zahara was arrested by the IRGC Intelligence division, and questioned about the details of her relations with foreign embassies (especially the relations with UK). It seems that this is also the reason of the regime’s intention to close the social network Telegram: despite the requests, Telegram refused to close a pro-Green Wave channels, which has also published information about the Zahara Larijani.
Clearly, all the Iranian political establishment denied the news, and called all the story a “big lie”. The information was also denied by the Intelligence Minister Alawi and the head of IRGC Intelligence Division, Hossein Taib.
This is the second big scandal for Ayatollah Larijani: one year ago he was accused by a reformist journalist of “financial corruption”, for having 63 personal accounts in different banks.

Iran opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi hospitalized after declaring the hunger strike

Source: Twitter

The son of the Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi, Mohammad Karroubi, informed his followers on Twitter that his father was hospitalized, after having declared the hunger strike. Mehdi Karroubi decided to declare the hunger strike in protest against the regime, which is keeping him in house arrest since 2011, without any charge or process. Karroubi is asking to the Judiciary system to process him publicly, obtaining the possibility to defend himself.

Khamenei’s representative to Basij: “The Supreme Leader wants the continuation of the house arrest for Mousavi and Karroubi”

Source: Digarban

Hojatoleslam Toyserkani, Iran Supreme Leader representative to the Basij, denied any change of ideas of Ali Khamenei on the destiny of the leaders of the Green Movement. Hojatoleslam Toyserkani added that the Supreme Leader, personally, supports the continuation of the house arrests for Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, the two leaders of the protest movement, repressed by the regime between 2009 and 2011. The two are under house arrest since February 2011, without any formal charge and without a fair trial.

Iranian journalist attacks General Soleimani: “You are spreading Iran-phobia”

Source: Gooya.com

The Iranian journalist Babak Dad attacked directly the Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Qods Force. Babak Dad wrote that the Iranian interference in Syria, Yemen, Iraq and Afghanistan, goes against the interests of the Islamic Republic. Instead of promoting the national interests, this strategy is damaging Tehran and it’s spreading Iran-phobia, it will provoke the continuation of the international isolation of Iran and it is aligning the positions of Israel and the Arab States. Babak Dad also denounced the arbitrary arrests of Iranians with dual citizenship, which is robbing all the diplomatic energy of the Iranian Government. Babak Dad lives today in Paris, after the crackdown of the Green Wave Movement in Iran.

Iran: President Rouhani implicitly asks to Khamenei to release Karroubi and Mousavi

Source: Instagram

In a post published on his official Instagram account, the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani provokes another time the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. Rouhani published a picture, in which there are also the former Iranian President Khatami – Iran’s media has been banned from publishing his name and his imagine – and in which appears also Mehdi Karroubi (who is under house arrest since 2011). Implicitly the Iranian president it seems to ask for the release of the two leaders of the Green Wave Movement, Karroubi and Mousavi. For his part, Khamenei considers the so called “88 movement” an act of “sedition”.

Iran opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi sent an open letter to President Rouhani asking for a public trial

Source: Sham News, Iran Wire

Mehdi Karroubi, former Iranian Presidential candidate and actual leader of the opposition Green Wave Movement, sent an open letter to Hassan Rouhani from his house arrest. In the letter, Karroubi denounced the fact that now the Iranian regime is represented by only a single voice and denounced that the Presidential elections of 2005 and 2009 were “fraudulent”. He did not ask for his release from house arrest, but request a public trial – based on Article 168 of the Iranian Constitution.

He added that:

The outcome of this trial will show which side in the [2009] election dispute has turned its back on the revolution and which side is dishonorable. It will show which side continues in the path of the revolution and is honorable. “Allah is sufficient witness between me and you,” I emphasize that I will accept the verdict of this court without reserve and welcome it without asking for the right to appeal because the world is god’s court and his deputies on this Earth are the people. And there are no better judges than  God and the people (Iran Wire).

IRIB censors Iranian actress Pegah Ahangarani

Source: Gooya News, Dw.com

IRIB ordered the removal of the name and the imagine of the Iranian actress Pegah Ahangarani from the movie “Closer“. The news was confirmed also by the press agency ISNA, which was involved in the production of the movie. It is the second time, in the last period, that the Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting acts against Miss Ahangarani. She is disliked by the regime because of her political positions.

Pega Ahangarani was arrested in July 2009, for her support to the Green Wave Movement and to Mir-Hossein Mousavi. She was arrested again in 2011, while she was planning a travel in Germany in order to report about the FIFA Women’s World Cup for the Persian page of the Deutsche Well.

Iran: a conference in solidarity with Gaza, became the occasion to attack Saudi Arabia

 Source: Palestine-Persian, Sepah News

During a conference organized in Iran in solidarity with the Palestinian people – entitled “Gaza, the symbol of resistance” – the representative of the Islamic Jihad attacked Saudi Arabia. Nasser Abu Sharif denounced that, with the costs of two military airplanes (approximately 295 million dollars), it is possible to rebuild the Gaza Strip. But, said Abu Sharif, “today we see these airplanes bombing Yemen“.

In the same conference spoke also the head of IRGC, Mohammad Ali Jafari. Major General Jafari underlined that “the uprising in the name of God is a Divine duty” (intending that the new Intifada is a jihad), and denounced that today the Palestinian issue it is not in the center of the agenda of the Arab countries. Jafari took the occasion to attack United States and to repeat that the “88 movement” – the 2009’s popular protest in Iran – was an attempt to destroy the Islamic Republic. He closed his speech remembering that Iran has recruited 200,000 people in order to defeat “external conspiracy” in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, Afghanistan and Pakistan.

 

MP Ali Motahari: “Iranian Police is responsible for the attack to Saudi Arabia’s Embassy”

Source: Radio Zamaneh, Beshar News

Iran conservative MP Ali Motahari, spoke about the attack against the embassy of Saudi Arabia in Tehran, happened after the execution of the Shia cleric Nimr al-Nimr. In his speech, Motahari attacked Saudi Arabia, calling the rulers as ignorants, racist and tribal. But, after the attack to Ryadh, Motahari started to speak about who was responsible for the Saudi diplomatic representations in Iran.

For Motahari, the Iranian police is the responsible of what happened. The Iranian MP,  has compared that attack to the one that he suffered during his visit in Shiraz, in March 2015 (Good Morning Iran). The choice of Motahari to compare the two attacks – the one against him in Shiraz and the one against Saudi Embassy – is a clear attack to IRGC and Hezbollah forces.

After speaking about the crisis with Riyadh, Motahari dedicated the second part of his speech to the internal situation of the country. Another time, the Iranian MP condemned the lack of freedom for the press (Good Morning Iran). He ended his speech with reference to the “events of 88” (the protest of the Green Movement between 2009 and 2011). Motahari denounced that the head of the Iranian Magistrature – Ayatollah Sadegh Larijani – has  issued arrest warrants without the order of a Tribunal, in violation of the Constitution.