NCRI – As December 7, Students Day, approaches, Iranian regime’s officials line up to underscore the need to resort to suppression, therefore, intensify the reign of repression.
Abbas Jaafari Dowlat Abadi, Tehran’s Prosecutor General, On December 1 said, “With regards to unlawful gatherings, the Police are ordered to deal with trouble-makers.” (Fars state-run news agency, December 1, 2009)
A day earlier, on November 30, head of mullahs’ State Security Forces (SSF), the Revolutionary Guard Brigadier General Ahmadi-Moghadam, emphasized the need to kill protestors by saying, “Killing one person in order to save the lives of one hundred is not considered violence.” He called the Kahrizak scandal which caused international uproar and was under his jurisdiction, merely a “mistake by some personnel” that brought “misfortune” for the whole of the mullahs’ regime.
In support of deploying barbaric punishments by the regime, he continued, “The enforcement of these orders is for people’s own good.” (State-run media, November 29)
Prior to his remarks, mullahs’ head of Investigative Police described criminal laws of the regime as “divine rules” and said, “If these punishments were enforced on all criminals, the number of crimes would certainly fall by hundred folds.” (ISNA state-run news agency, November 23)
The threats by mullahs’ regime officials are aimed to heighten the atmosphere of intimidation in the society and to prevent people and specially students from taking part in the demonstration planned in advance for Students Day.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
December 1, 2009
