Nationwide uprising in Iran – Statement 111
NCRI – On July 18, the deputy of the so-called social and cultural affairs of the clerical regime's Ministry of Interior quoted mullahs’ president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, as "demanding the setting up of legal circumstances for making the prison environment more difficult for professional offenders and hooligans and thugs." He stressed that, "Preparations for creating such an atmosphere must be carried out by the Prisons Organization” (Sarmayeh daily, July 19, 2009).
Ahmadinejad and other criminals of the clerical regime’s Supreme Leader's faction have thus far called for the suppression of millions of protesters participating in the nationwide uprising, labeling them as "hooligans, thugs, rioters, and counter-revolutionaries” or nothing but “dust and twigs.”
The mullahs’ Minister of Interior's deputy said, “Social offenses are complicated in their scope," and pointed to the implementation of the multiple-stage plan of "rounding up hooligans and thugs" by the State Security Forces (SSF), adding, "These initiatives that have been welcomed by the people must continue and professional offenders must constantly feel unsafe."
At the same time, a member of the regime’s Majlis (parliament), Bizhan Nobaveh, in an interview with the Fars news agency, affiliated with the regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), shamelessly denied the existence of political prisoners under the rule of the clerical regime and said, "Essentially we do not have political prisoners in the Islamic Republic and many of the detainees have either been rioters or they led the riots. Therefore, they must be tried and punished for their acts in accordance with the law."
The Iranian Resistance warns against the intensification of torture and execution of thousands of those detained during the nationwide uprising of the Iranian people, and calls on all competent international bodies and human rights organizations, and especially the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to refer the regime’s dossier on crimes to the UN Security Council and to adopt binding measures aimed at ending the violent suppression of the detainees.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
July 19, 2009
