Bahrain Sentences Iran-Backed Militias to Prison

Hoshang Amiri
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Bahrain Sentences Iran-Backed Militias to Prison
The Bahraini government sentenced 51 offenders linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) for terror activities, most of them in absentia, according to the government statement issued on November 3. Earlier, on September 20, Bahraini authorities foiled an Iran-plotted terrorist attack in early 2020. However, this was neither the ayatollahs’ first nor their last attempt to disrupt regional peace and security. For many years, Iranian authorities continue their atrocities across the Middle East and the world. For instance, on September 28, Saudi Arabian authorities disbanded a terrorist unit in their territory. “Special authorities dissolved a terrorist cell, whose elements received military and field training inside IRGC’s camps in Iran,” the spokesperson of Saudi Arabia’s security forces stated.
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Tehran’s Terror Activities on European Soil

Furthermore, nowadays, a senior Iranian diplomat awaits trial in Belgium. On June 30, 2018, German law enforcement detained Assadollah Assadi, the third secretary of the Iranian embassy in Austria, due to his involvement in a terror plot against the Iranian opposition. A few days earlier, Assadi had delivered 500g of TATP explosive material and a detonation device to a young couple to bomb the annual gathering of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in Villepinte, a suburb of Paris. Assadi had abused his diplomatic coverage to transfer explosives on a commercial flight from Tehran to Vienna. In December 2018, the Albanian government expelled the Iranian ambassador Gholam-Hossein Mohammad-Nia and his first aide Mostafa Roudaki. Based on undeniable evidence, Tehran’s embassy in Tirana, the Albanian capital, had masterminded a terror attack against members of the Iranian opposition Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK/PMOI) in March 2018. Mohammad-Nia, Roudaki, and several other “diplomats” were identified as individuals who disrupted Albania’s national security. Albanian authorities also sealed a so-called cultural center, Said, for recruiting local citizens to carry out espionage activities and terror attacks against the MEK members. All instances mentioned above underline the imperative of adopting a firm and effective approach against the ayatollahs’ malign activities in the region and across the globe. For decades, Iranian authorities are employing terrorism, hostage-taking, and radical entities to blackmail the international community.
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International Community’s Obligation to Stop Ayatollahs’ Atrocities

The ayatollahs and IRGC’s hands are stained with the blood of hundreds of thousands of innocent people in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Kuwait, Argentina, and France. However, the Iranian people are the foremost victims of the world’s leading state-sponsor of terrorism. In such circumstances, the international community must stand alongside the Iranian people’s protests against the government’s meddling in other countries. Iranian citizens demand their wealth to be spent on improving their welfare, health system, and eradicating poverty and illiteracy. However, authorities insist on their atrocities, responding to any peaceful protests by cruel means. The ayatollahs clearly announced that they would never change their horrible policies. And when they are not ready to change themselves, someone else—the people—should. Iranians have well grasped this truth.
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Seventy Percent of Iran’s Construction Workers Are Unemployed

Jubin Katiraie
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Seventy Percent of Iran’s Construction Workers Are Unemployed
According to the vice-president of the Association of Construction Workers’ Unions Hadi Sadati, only 30 percent of construction workers in Iran are currently employed. The coronavirus has caused many Iranian construction workers to suffer from work and livelihood problems. Hadi Sadati says that unfortunately, the coronavirus has caused that only 30 percent of construction workers go to work in the current situation and the rest of the construction workers are now unemployed and unable to make the minimum living. Because they hoped to paint the building or repair the pipes and fixtures of the houses, they were offered less work due to the coronavirus and reduced demand. Due to this, their employment and livelihood are endangered. “Currently, construction workers who are waiting for insurance have been identified. And if Social Security is going to carry out [Supreme Leader Ali] Khamenei‘s order, in addition to the required facilities and tools, it has the information of the insured persons,” he said. “For those who are not insured, their statistics and information can be collected by construction workers’ associations across the country. And whenever social security wants, we provide it to the organization through the center.” According to Sadati, construction workers’ unions are active in 450 cities and counties. This can assist in transmitting statistics and information about insured and uninsured construction workers to Social Security.

Construction Workers Are Worried

These days construction workers can pay their premiums with great difficulty. Government officials are now pursuing unilateral reforms instead of facilitating the situation for them. They are just looking to increase the income of the Social Security Administration. The draft amendment to “Article 5 of the Construction Workers’ Insurance Law”, which was apparently signed by 30 members of Parliament (Majlis) but was actually drafted with the concurrence and participation of the Social Security Organization and is on the parliament’s agenda, has exacerbated the concerns of construction workers and their unions. Will the “construction workers’ insurance” and the social protection of these workers be more endangered and difficult in these critical conditions of the coronavirus outbreak? The deputy chairman of the Iranian Majlis Economic Commission acknowledged the extreme poverty of the people. Describing people’s living conditions as critical, and sharply criticizing the government’s plans he said, “many people have nothing to eat but bread and cheese.”

The Government Is Just Watching the Death and Poverty of the People

In all countries of the world, at the same time with the start of the coronavirus outbreak, the government has started providing aid packages to the people, especially the unemployed. In many countries, governments have spent billions of dollars doing this. But in Iran, the people are starving, and the government has not provided the least help to the people. All the plans that have been announced with propaganda so far have remained just hollow words. The result of this situation is the unemployment of workers and the suicide of young people and adolescents.
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A Look Back at Last Year’s Protests in Iran

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A Look Back at Last Year’s Protests in Iran
In November 2019, a protest in nearly 200 cities in all provinces across Iran shook the establishment to its core, as people came out into the streets with calls for regime change, democracy, and “death to the dictator.” Some of the biggest areas of participation were previously thought to be ayatollahs’ strongholds, but during the protest, it became increasingly clear that there is widespread popular support for regime change. This actually built on the previous nationwide protest in December 2017, which was the largest protest in Iran since the 1979 revolution. Both recent protests began over economic concerns—the rising cost of food and gas respectively—but quickly became about regime change, with people chanting “hardliners, reformists: the game is over” because it was obvious that the ayatollahs were the problem. After all, they had the money to fix the issue, but they didn’t. Instead, in both instances, they cracked down violently with arrests and murders. In the November 2019 protests, they shot dead 1,500 people in the streets in just a few days. Iranian opposition Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK/PMOI) which helped organize the protests. This is really what the state is worried about, even going so far as to admit that the MEK was involved when for decades they have tried to pretend that the MEK has little support in Iran. In reality, the government sees the MEK as the only group capable of overthrowing it, which is why they tried to exterminate the MEK in the 1988 massacre of 30,000 political prisoners.
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“Although they would never say so explicitly, there are clear signs that Iranian officials recognize this phenomenon and are afraid of it. Among those signs are their public expressions of commitment to a violent crackdown, particularly one that is focused on resuming past efforts to destroy the MEK in its entirety,” wrote Alejo Vidal-Quadras, President of the International Committee In Search of Justice (ISJ). This is what led to the thousands of people murdered in the streets and is still resulting in the murders of MEK members and protesters by the Iranian security forces today. But the international community is doing nothing. “It is [ridiculous] to think that the feared international scrutiny will not expand to include the 1,500 people who were killed one year ago this month or the others who have been marked for execution since then. At least, it would be ridiculous to think these things, if not for the fact that there is a long history of Iran’s human rights abuses being ignored, especially when they involve the organized Resistance movement,” ISJ President wrote. “No one has been held accountable in an international court for the 1988 massacre and last November’s crackdown has barely been mentioned in policy discussions in Western democracies. Sadly, it remains to be seen whether Western powers will rectify these oversights before Tehran tries again to destroy the democratic opposition,” Vidal-Quadras concluded.

Iran Government’s Heavy Debts

Pooya Stone
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Iran Government’s Heavy Debts
Iran’s economy has gone through a period of super-challenges and long-standing crises, and the looting officials of this government have increased their wealth and property as much as they can and taken the rest abroad. They brought debt to the country and, in fact, plunged the deprived nation into a debt crisis in which they themselves had no part in deciding. Today, the volume of these debts has skyrocketed, and it can no longer return to zero. For this government, there is only one way: more debts.
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Increasing the Debts of the Government and Banks

In a report, the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) announced the amount of debt owed by the government and banks to the CBI. By the end of September this year, these debts have increased by 26.1 and 16.7 percent, respectively. The government debt to the CBI in the period under review was equal to 13.96 quadrillion rials [$64.533 billion]. The total debt of banks to the CBI has increased by 16.7 percent to 1.291 quadrillion rials [$4.3 billion], while last year the total debt of public and private banks had decreased. “On the other hand, the debt of banks and non-bank credit institutions to the CBI at the end of September this year has increased by six percent to 1.291 quadrillion rials [$4.3 billion]. The amount of debt of commercial banks to the CBI was 9.6 quadrillion rials [$32 billion], which shows a 139 percent increase compared to September last year. The amount of debt of specialized banks to the CBI during this period was 446 trillion rials [$1.486 billion], which is equivalent to eight-tenths of a percent less than in September last year,” Arman-e-Eghtesadi daily wrote on November 4. Although the CBI has not published detailed government budget statistics since December 2018, its recent report reveals dense corners of the government spending crisis. The government’s debt to the banking system has almost doubled in two years. The issue that the International Monetary Fund also mentioned in its October report is the large volume of debt. This figure amounts to $260 billion, which is equivalent to 44 percent of the country’s gross domestic product. This debt is more than double the debt of the last two years. The only chance that the government has brought is its $11 billion foreign debt, which, of course, is due to its discredit from taking any loans and receiving foreign currency. An example of this was the request for a $5 billion loan from the International Monetary Fund, which was not approved.
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Debt Reflection on Liquidity Growth and Inflation

Are the huge debts of the government only reflected in the bookkeeping accounts or in the computer of the CBI? Unfortunately, not. These astronomical debts show themselves in the growth of liquidity and the crushing inflation rate. To compensate for the deficits and to meet its needs, the Rouhani government eventually resorted to the CBI printing house, sending unsupported banknotes to the market, as well as adding fuel to the high prices of the essential goods of the poor and helpless people of Iran. In its report in September of this year, the CBI had announced the amount of liquidity as 28.96 quadrillion rials [$96.533 million]. This amount of liquidity has increased by 13 percent compared to last year. The statistics center also says that the inflation rate has reached 41 percent, which only five countries are ahead of Iran. A careful analysis of the budget situation of the governments in power in Iran in the last decades and their persistent deficits and the relationship between these two important economic issues and the amount of debt of these governments makes it clear that these relations are twin and affect each other. “From the day the new budgeting system was established in Iran until today, the problem of the budget deficit has grown bigger and bigger along with this newborn. Interestingly, as government revenues increased at different times, not only was the budget deficit not resolved, but it also emerged surprisingly on a larger scale than the year before. It is as if they have cut the navel string of our economy with the budget deficit,” claimed the official website of Iran’s Ministry of Industry, Mine, and Trade on November 2.
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Iran Hostage-Taker Defends Massacre of Protesters

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Iran Hostage-Taker Defends Massacre of Protesters
One of the people responsible for taking U.S. embassy staff hostage in 1979 has, frankly unsurprisingly, defended the arbitrary murders of pro-democracy protesters in the November 2019 uprising. The Vice President for Women and Family Affairs, Masoumeh Ebtekar, who served as the spokesperson for the hostage-takers 41 years ago today, defended the Governor of Quds Town, near Tehran, for ordering the security forces to open fire on peaceful protesters because they were “terrorists” who had “stormed the governorate.” The so-called “reformist” official,  was known as “Sister Mary” during the hostage crisis, a real example of terrorists storming a government building, which she called a “unique and special” action. Ebtekar then proceeded to portray the security of the government as the security of the people in her defense of the indefensible.
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“In that incident, there were a number of protesters and a limited number of terrorist gunmen who attacked the arsenal and the city defense center. She [the Quds governor] said: ‘I should defend people’s privacy and security,’” Ebtekar said. Of course, the people were not in danger from protesters – they were the protesters. The only thing in danger was the continued rule of the Islamic Republic; after all, protesters were chanting “Death to the dictator” and marching on oppressive centers during a protest that began over a fuel price-hike. It was very clear that they were targeting the ayatollahs, who had essentially spent 40 years covering the country in gasoline before dropping a lit match on it. Some 1,500 protesters across the country were killed in the streets by security forces in just a few days after Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei ordered the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) and the State Security Forces (SSF) to open fire, something first reported by the Iranian Resistance and then confirmed by Reuters. Ebtekar’s comments, alongside authorities’ other recent actions, like appointing ruthless SSF commander Colonel Alireza Daliri, who massacred the people of Kurdistan in the 1980s, as SSF head in Kermanshah province, show that the government is terrified of another round of nationwide protests. They are using oppression to counter rebellion, often under the pretext of coronavirus protections. IRGC commander Hossein Salami recently ordered his troops to “search all houses” to find and isolate those with Covid-19 but in essence, this was about arresting and/or scaring potential protesters. “The regime has not been able nor willing to resolve the economic and social crisis, which resulted in the November 2019 uprising. Now the COVID-19 crisis and its rising death toll, which is a byproduct of the regime’s inaction and cover-up, has increased the society’s restiveness,” the Iranian opposition National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) wrote.
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Iraqis Return to al-Tahrir Square—New Flash Protests 

Mehdi Hosseini
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Iraqis Return to al-Tahrir Square—New Flash Protests 
Tired from corrupt politicians and a bad livelihood as well as Iran’s guided militias and their terror operations, Iraqi people took to the streets again. On the first anniversary of the October 2019 protests, Iraqi demonstrators heat up the protests called the “October Revolution.” Various cities are witnessing anti-establishment rallies demanding an account of the corrupt and murderers of the demonstrators. In the cities of Kut, Hilla, and Nasiriyah, slogans were chanted calling for the trial of those who killed more than 600 people. The scene in the southern city of Basra was more violent. The skirmish between the two sides lasted for several hours.  Following the security forces’ attacks against protesters and burning their tents in various Iraqi cities, youths returned to al-Tahrir Square in Baghdad, chanting slogans against Tehran and its militias. They reaffirmed their determination to fan the flames of the uprising. Demonstrations by Iraqi youth resumed in addition to al-Tahrir Square and other cities in the south and center of the country, including Basra, Nasiriyah, Amara, Kut, Najaf, Karbala, Muthanna, Diwaniyah, and Hilla, and continued with slogans against Iranian-affiliated parties and militias. 
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The demonstrations in Nasiriyah were more powerful than ever. Most of the clashes and fighting were in Basra. Security forces cordoned off the protest square in Basra and police forces blocked the way of the protesters. But the youth continued their demonstrations until late at night. According to social media reports, about 50 demonstrators were arrested in Basra. It is said that police forces used live ammunition to disperse rallies, leaving several wounded among demonstrators. In Basra, clashes between youths and government forces and Iran’s controlled militias continued into the night. Iraqi protesters in Nasiriyah, Najaf, Wasit, and Muthanna condemned the crackdown on demonstrators in Basra and al-Tahrir Square and warned of the consequences of continuing attacks on protesting squares.  “We will not retreat, and we will not move from our places, until our legitimate demands are met, and we will not give in to any attempt to break up the sit-in by force,” protesters chanted. “Attacking the demonstrators and the protest squares makes us just more determined.” 

Assassination of a Sheikh in Al-Amara and a Christian Lawyer by Iran’s Militias 

In Al-Amara, militants assassinated Sheikh Abdul Nasser al-Tarfi, a supporter of the protesting people. Previously, in a clip al-Tarfi was posted on social media, sending a message against Qassem Soleimani, Iran’s eliminated Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Quds Force commander. Iran’s militias also stormed the office of a Christian lawyer and assassinated him. He was injured.   “The evil Iranian regime must be told that it has no place in Iraq. The next step is to end the corrupt system and form an interim independent national government,” protesters posted on their Facebook page.
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Al-Tahrir Square in Baghdad witnessed demonstrations demanding their fulfillment of three main demands: the prosecution of the perpetrators of the protesters’ assassination, the transformation of the Iraqi government into a presidential system, and the dissolution of Parliament.  At 7 pm on November 3, security forces called on the demonstrators to disperse as the demonstration permit expired. Security forces also made the upcoming demonstrations in al-Tahrir Square conditional on obtaining permission from the Interior Ministry.

Iran: Human Rights Situation in October 2020

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Iran: Human Rights Situation in October 2020
As with every month, Iran Human Rights Monitor compiled a report on human rights abuses in Iran in October and we have summarised it but the full report can be accessed here. During the past month, the State Security Forces became increasingly violent against Iranians, even torturing them in broad daylight, as happened in these cases:
  • Mehrdad Sepehri, who was tied to a pole in Mashhad and tortured with stun guns and pepper spray until he suffocated
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  • Mohsen Minbashi, who was shot and then beaten in Esfarayen
  • An unidentified woman in Abadan, who was already bloody by the time the video clip began and is seen on the ground while Jahan-Nejadian, a high-ranking manager of Abadan Oil Refinery and an operative of the Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), puts his foot on her chest
Of course, the government has shown no remorse for this. Judiciary chief Ebrahim Raisi told the SSF earlier this month not to show “weakness” against those who threaten the country’s security, by which he means political prisoners, who are charged with national security crimes. While Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei praised the SFF giving them a green light for violence against Iranians. The country is in a volatile state right now, on the eve of the anniversary of the November 2019 protests, so the authorities seek to suppress any sort of dissent, which included the arrest of at least 2,140 people last month.

A Quick Breakdown of the Ayatollahs’ Other Human Rights Abuses in October

Executions

The Iranian authorities executed at least 19 people in October, including:
  • Shahrouz Kazemi, 28, who had committed an armed robbery but not killed anyone
  • Razieh, 37, who was described as “desperate”, and murdered because of poverty
It should be noted that fair trials are not really a thing in Iran and many are tortured into making false confessions, without access to a defense lawyer.
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Arbitrary Murders

The SSF’s violence led to at least ten deaths last month, including 17-year-old porter Ashkan Azizi, as well as those mentioned above.

Torture

Torture is an ongoing facet of the government, with several instances reported in October. This included:
  • The sentencing of Arash Ali Akbari to have four fingers on his right hand cut off
  • The sentencing of Hadi Rostami (33), Mehdi Sharfian (37), Mehdi Shahivand (42), and Kasra Karami (40), to have their hands amputated
  • The flogging of Christian convert Mohammad Reza (Youhan) Omidi for drinking wine during Holy Communion
  • The lashing of four young prisoners, two who were identified as Behrouz Momeni and Mohsen Torkashvand

Iran: Security Forces Murder Young People in Streets

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Iran: Security Forces Murder Young People in Streets
The Iranian State Security Forces (SSF) killed a young man in broad daylight in Mashhad by chaining him to a pole and then using an electric taser and pepper spray on him several times until he suffocated.  A video of this senseless crime and the man’s lifeless body was posted to social media, igniting more outrage against the ayatollahs, but this was far from the only example of this sort of abuse.  There are reports that another young man was murdered in North Khorasan, northeast Iran, by authorities who opened fire on him and then further assaulted him when he was injured. His family has filed a ‘deadly shooting’ lawsuit in response.  Young Iranians are being tortured and murdered by the SSF, even as the ayatollahs condemn police brutality in other countries. Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei spoke in June about the “messy situation in America”, but he can’t be that concerned about police violence when his officers are reacting exactly the same.
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While, in October, Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) commander Hossein Salami said that the SSF was not at all separated from the IRGC and that they showed “the most elegant morals of the administration.” “These criminal measures are always endorsed and supported by officials, including Khamenei himself,” the Iranian Opposition Mojahedin-e Khalq (MEK/PMOI) wrote on November 1. After all, in October, he sent his best wishes to the “good, hardworking State Security Forces”, who the people “value” for their “strength and kindness”. These “kind” forces are publically killing, attacking, or humiliating people. The people do not value this.  So why are the government doing this? The ruling theocracy is on the brink of collapse because the Iranian people’s outrage is only growing and will continue to grow. Authorities are terrified of another round of protests, so the state-run media talks of “escalating” violence and warns that this is the inevitable response to ignoring the people’s dilemmas.  “The most important outcomes of economic crises are likely to be followed by social and political effects. Therefore, there is a risk of this spreading insecurity, violence, and clashes,” Mostaghel daily wrote on October 26. With social peace nosediving—usually being prior to a general peace—there are concerns about widespread public unrest in the near future,” Mostaghel added. The ayatollahs fear overthrow because of public anger, so they send the SSF to create an atmosphere of fear, which leads to more anger and will result in the overthrow of the theocratic government. 

Iran: People No Longer Tolerate Current Governing System

Sia Rajabi
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Iran: People No Longer Tolerate Current Governing System
Iran’s state-run outlets have tried to hide the country’s socio-economic crises and their government’s global stalemate and isolation as the world’s attention is focused on the U.S. and France. But the crisis of the coronavirus in Iran, along with the waves of inflation and high prices, indicates the situation of the crisis of the government. The dimensions of the bankruptcy of the system and the explosive atmosphere of the society are such that in every field, government experts are forced to acknowledge this explosive atmosphere and the unfillable gap between the people and the system. The state-run daily Setareh-e-Sobh, quoting Ali Bigdeli, an expert aligned with President Hassan Rouhani’s faction, while examining the effects of the U.S. election on the government. “It is necessary to change Iran’s strategy at the domestic, regional, and international levels; Because the situation is such that there is no other way. Because these conflicts and hostilities have made the situation unbearable for the people,” the daily wrote on October 31.
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The Etemad daily, quoted Saeed Leylaz, an economist and political analyst while examining Iran’s internet filtering. “With the implementation of filtering, a sense of distrust has been created in the society so that the degree of public trust in the government, the government and the official media of the country has reached the lowest possible level after the revolution,” Etemad wrote on October 31. The Arman daily, without any interpretation, gave a clear picture of the exploding society. “A telegram channel with 140,000 members advertises the sale of kidneys and liver, and liver is priced at 2 billion rials [$6,666] and kidneys from 1-1.5 billion rials [$3,333-5,000],” Arman wrote on October 31. “Examining the statistics also gives the right to tens of thousands of people who have no choice but to sell their kidneys and livers, an issue that, with the outbreak of the coronavirus in Iran, like gasoline on the fire, ignited the flames and made inflation more difficult for them,” Arman added. Setareh-e-Sobh daily, in fear of economic suffocation, global isolation, and social upheaval warned officials and stressed the need for a retreat. “If [U.S. President Donald] Trump wins, it should be not said that we will not negotiate with a ‘knife-wielder’. It does not matter if the other party is a knife wielder or a politician,” the daily wrote on  October 31. Shargh daily, quoting Mohsen Mirdamadi, former head of the Security Commission of Iran’s parliament, wrote about the explosive atmosphere of the society and the necessity of negotiations.
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“It should be noted that the economic pressure on the people is now such that decision-makers cannot and should not be indifferent to it. The current situation is not sustainable. Referral of problems abroad is not a matter of convincing people and creating persuasion. A solution must be found. One of the methods is secret diplomacy. Similar to what happened at the end of [Mahmoud] Ahmadinejad’s presidency and negotiations with the United States began under [President Barack] Obama,” Shargh wrote on October 31. The Hamdeli daily, referring to the family of Iranian asylum seekers who drowned in the English Channel, highlighted an aspect of the establishment’s internal isolation and the people’s hatred of the government. “Let us admit that all those who run away from the country may not all have political motives, but politics is the main factor. A policy that cannot organize the economy and take some to the sky overnight and bury others—which are much more. If a person or authority within the governing system wants to answer the question of why the Iranian people are fleeing, it is better, to consider the most pessimistic situation and to see all the motivations of the people trying to emigrate as political,” Hamdeli wrote on October 31.

Under the Ayatollahs: Iranian People Sell Their Body Organs to Fill Food Baskets

Jubin Katiraie
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Under the Ayatollahs: Iranian People Sell Their Body Organs to Fill Food Baskets
“Iranian workers, men or women, who have been hired by a more desperate employer are waiting for a promised ‘it’ [referring to the change and uprising of the people] in these virus-struck days, hopeless about the opening of any door that he/she has knocked,” Iranian state-run daily Etemad wrote on October 28. “Officials sitting in government seats and their supporters playing the role of oppressors should be afraid of this ‘it’. They should be very scared. From this ‘it’ which, when the time comes for it to appear, penetrates through the invisible seams of every advice and fence and protection and camouflage, and burns the roots and dries up the hopes, and does not even allow for regret and the effect of negligence. Officials sitting in government seats and government supporters should be afraid of this ‘it’. They should be very scared,” Etemad added. The above paragraphs reflect the situation of the Iranian government, which after forty years of rule, has reached a stage that now most of its state-run media are warning about a situation worse than the November 2019 protests. Despite what the Iranian leaders are trying to show as the main culprit of this situation, the Seven Woes of Jesus Christ to the Pharisees can teach us very clear the main culprits, as he said: “How terrible it will before you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you won’t let others enter the kingdom of Heaven, and you won’t go in yourselves. (Mat. 23:13) “How terrible it will be for you teachers …and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! You shamelessly cheat widows out of their property, and then, to cover up the kind of people you really are, you make long prayers in public. Because of this, your punishment will be greater. (Mat. 23:14) “Yes, how terrible it will be for you teachers …and you Pharisees. For you cross land and sea to make one convert, and then you turn him into twice the son of Hell as you yourselves are. (Mat 23:15) “Blind guides! How terrible it will be for you! For you say that it means nothing to swear ‘by God’s temple’—you can break that oath. But then you say that it’s binding to swear ‘by the gold in the temple.’ Blind fools! Which is greater, the gold or the Temple that makes the gold sacred? And you say that to take an oath “by the altar” can be broken, but to swear ‘by the gifts on the altar’ is binding! How blind! For which is greater, the gift on the altar or the altar that makes the gift sacred? [So] when you swear ‘by the altar,’ you’re swearing by it and by everything on it. And when you swear ‘by the Temple,’ you’re swearing by it and by God who lives in it. [In fact, even] when you swear ‘by Heaven,’ you’re swearing by the throne of God and by God who sits on the throne. (Mat. 23: 16-22). “How terrible it will be for you teachers … and Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you’re careful to tithe even the tiniest part of your income, but you ignore the important things of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. You should tithe, yes, but you shouldn’t leave undone the more important things. Blind guides! You strain your water so you won’t accidentally swallow a gnat, then you swallow a camel. (Mat. 23:23-24) “How terrible it will be for you teachers … and Pharisees. Hypocrites! You’re so careful to clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside you’re filthy—full of greed and self-indulgence! Blind Pharisees! First, wash the inside of the cup, and then the outside will become clean too. How terrible it will be for you teachers …and Pharisees. Hypocrites! You’re like whitewashed tombs—beautiful on the outside but filled on the inside with dead people’s bones and all sorts of impurity. You try to look like upright people outwardly, but inside your hearts are filled with hypocrisy and lawlessness. (Mat. 23:25-28). “How terrible it will be for you teachers … and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you build tombs for the prophets your ancestors killed and decorate the graves of the godly people your ancestors destroyed. Then you say, ‘We never would’ve joined them in killing the prophets.’ In saying that, you’re accusing yourselves of being the descendants of those who murdered the prophets. Go ahead: finish what they started. Snakes! Sons of vipers! How will you escape the judgment of Hell?” (Mat. 23:29-33) The warning of Jesus Christ to the hypocritical Pharisees has been fresh and influential for millennia; As if we are hearing it now. And Iran’s rulers should listen to this because what the above the state-run media is calling it ‘it’, referring to the people’s fury and uprising will happen very soon. The heirs of the Pharaonic Khomeini Caliphate, after freeing up oil, petrochemicals, fisheries, mines, forests, and even mountains and seas for themselves and their nobles, have not stopped trying to bring the Iranian people to the status of their so-called ‘humanity’. The plans for the development of the world and the hereafter of the people have progressed to the point that people even risk the death of themselves and their children to escape the hell created by the ayatollahs. In other words, displacement, hunger, homelessness, humiliation, and finally death is more acceptable than the ‘heaven’ created by the ayatollahs.
The Widening Gap Between Iran’s Rich and Poor
“Emigration is the story of many who no longer hope for change and prefer to carry the burden of homelessness and think of a better future. What pressures and frustrations have made the citizens of one of the richest countries in the world prefer to flee at any cost?” Elham Khoshnamvand wrote in Ebtekar daily on 31 October.

Organ Market in Iran

Let us look at Iran today. This is just one example of legitimate trade in human organs; a bloody business just to survive and breathe in the hell of a place called the Islamic Republic. “Some heads of households have turned to sell kidneys and livers to make a living and solve financial problems. In the meantime, a telegram channel with 140,000 members advertises the sale of kidneys and liver, and the liver is priced at 2 billion rials [$6,666], and kidneys from 1-1.5 billion rials [$3,333-5,000], depending on the age of the people and the type of blood,” Arman daily wrote on 31 October. “There is not a day that someone does not text me [admin of a telegram channel selling kidneys and livers] to advertise the sale of his kidneys and liver, there were so many requests that we agreed to publish them. People are really in trouble, one of these people whom I know closely and who has donated 2 billion rials [$6,666] to his liver, his little child is sick and has a tumor on his head, he comes to Tehran from Bandar Jask to be treated. Each doctor has a diagnosis and has been living with his wife and four children in an inn on Railway Square for months. He sold his kidney last month, brokered half of his money, and now wants to sell part of his liver,” Arman added.
Organ Trade on the Increase in Iran
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