The suppressive forces destroyed Dervish house in Isfahan and closed down Sunni’s mosque in Ahvaz
NCRI – In a crackdown on Dervishes in Iran, the State Security Force (SSF) — mullahs’ suppressive police — leveled Mr. Rahmatollah Javadi’s house on July 5 using municipal bulldozers. Other Dervishes and the residents of Charmhin city in Isfahan, rushed to the area and clashed with the suppressive forces.
In Ahvaz, The mullahs’ regime closed down a mosque belonging to the Sunni minority and sentenced its prayer leader to seven years imprisonment. The regime officials also barred worshipers to go to Vahid mosque near Abadan, southwest of Iran.
Suppression of ethnic and religious minorities have increase as the social discontent and protests against the faltering regime rise. The regime committed similar crimes against Dervishes in the holy city of Qom in February 2006 and then again in the western city of Boroujerd in November 2007 by attacking their centers murdering and arresting a number of worshipers each time.
Similarly, more than forty Sunni missionaries were imprisoned in Tehran in February. The Iranian regime met strong condemnation by the international community when last February its Majlis (parliament) tried to pass a bill legalizing death sentence for those citizens converting from Islam to other faiths.
The Iranian Resistance calls on the UN Secretary General, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, the United Nations Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Religion or Belief and all international human rights organizations to condemn the mullahs' medieval regime for its suppressive measure against religious minorities.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
July 8, 2008
