NCRI – Brig. Gen. Ismail Ahmadi-Moqadam, chief of the State Security Forces (SSF), stressed that the suppressive plan known as "Boosting Public Security" will be "complemented" and "not abandoned" and suppression in the New Year will intensified.
Speaking to a gathering of border regiment personnel in Paveh, western Iran, he said that people may think "these plans were temporary … the SSF is determined and I promise people that the plan will not be abandoned and it is not going to end under any circumstances and the trend is irreversible," the official news agency IRNA reported on March 26.
Ahmadi-Moqadam spoke about various methods to boost suppression and said, "We will try to prevent minor crimes and robberies by doubling our efforts, ordinary and under cover police presence, increased number of patrols and police stations, equipping constabularies, monitoring systems and undercover inspectors," IRNA reported on March 26.
In the meantime, Brig. Gen. Hossein Zolfaqari, deputy commander of the SSF, declared that new forces would be deployed under various names to spread suppression. "The neighborhood watch plan will be expanded with the help of people… honorary police force plan aimed to get people more involved in promotion of law and order is among other measures by the SSF this year," State-run TV reported on March 26.
Remarks by the SSF commander, a close confidant of Ahmadinejad, indicates that the clerical regime, engulfed in domestic and international crises, is planning to expand brutal suppression to a new dimension. This follows the sham Majlis elections and maturity of the regime's internal consolidation while efforts to acquire nuclear weapons and export of fundamentalism and terrorism have stepped up.
Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
March 27, 2008
