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UPDATE: 11:00 PM CEST
Khamenei’s Representative Paved Way for His Son to Succeed as Supreme Leader
On September 3, a video was posted online that showed Mehdi Tajzadeh, the Iranian regime’s Supreme Leader’s representative in Baharestan, Isfahan province, conducting a speech and paving the way for Khamenei’s son to become the next Supreme Leader.
Tajzadeh said: “If the Assembly of Experts chooses the son of the Supreme Leader as the future leader, is this a hereditary rule? The law does not state that the offspring of the leader must become the next leader, but is there any prohibition against it if such a thing happens? Is there a prohibition in the law? No way. The criteria mentioned for the selection of a leader suggest that he must be a jurist, he must be a guardian, he must be knowledgeable, he must be against greed, and so on. Now, if the Assembly of Experts assumes these qualifications are perceptible in the son of the Supreme Leader and if Ayatollah Sayyed Mojtaba Khamenei, for example… what’s then the holdup?”
As the clerical rulers have hijacked a popular revolution that toppled the monarchial hereditary rule in 1979, Ali Khamenei is facing an uphill battle to legitimize his ambitions to install his own son Mojtaba as his successor. But some recent developments are indicating he is moving in that direction.
UPDATE: 6:00 PM CEST
Wary of Flammable Society, Iranian Regime Announces Stricter Security Measures
Following the increasing rate of strong reactions against security forces and state-affiliated clerics in various cities across Iran, a top police official announced new measures to intimidate the Iranian people.
According to the state-run Eqtesad News on September 4, Qasem Rezaei, the regime’s Deputy Chief of Police stated: “In order to intensify the fight against the criminals and perpetrators of violent crimes, we have envisioned new, striking, urgent, and effective mechanisms and soon we will see the exercise of special police patrols.”
“We are satisfied with the strengthening of special patrols on foot, motorcycle, and car in dangerous spots. We are reinforcing the strength, structure, and organization of crime detection units as a requirement. On the other hand, we consider intelligent control of criminals with a history of violent crimes to be effective,” Rezaei boasted.
UPDATE: 1:30 PM CEST
Security Forces Attack Street Vendors in Southern Khuzestan Province
On Sunday, September 4, police forces along with municipal officials attacked several street vendors in Kui Mandali neighborhood and confiscated the clothes these people were trying to sell to make ends meet.
UPDATE: 9:00 AM CEST
Iranians in Exile Mark MEK’s 57th Founding Anniversary, Condemn Regime’s Atrocities
Incarcerated Women Face Growing Pressure
The mullahs’ fear and desperation over the eruption of people’s discontent and the danger of being overthrown knows no bounds. The regime wants to deal with Ebrahim Raisi’s failure to contain daily protests by more executions and bringing more pressure on political prisoners, both men, and women. Exerting pressure, imposing restrictions, repression, torture, and physical and mental harassment of prisoners, especially incarcerated women, are common in the clerical regime’s jails. Such pressure and repression have brutally increased during Raisi’s tenure.
Monthly Report August 2022, Iran Human Rights Monitor
August 2022 saw a spree of executions and the brutal suppression of civil liberties. At least 51 people were executed in August including a woman and two child offenders. Iranian authorities increased persecution of the Baha’i religious minority last month through raids, arbitrary arrests, home demolitions, and land grabs. These are a part of the issues covered in this monthly report of the Iran Human Rights Monitor (Iran HRM).
The Crime of Being an Activist: 5 Women Jailed in Iran
Raha Asgarizadeh, a journalist, photographer, and women’s rights activist, started her two-year sentence in Evin Prison on Saturday, September 3, 2022.
She had been summoned to the Prosecutor’s Office of Evin Prison on September 1, 2022, to begin serving her time. Ghazal Asgarizadeh, her sister, posted a report saying, “My sister, Raha Asgarizadeh, was summoned to Evin Prison on Thursday, September 1, 2022, and was admitted this morning to serve her two years in jail.”
Vienna JCPOA Talks Hit Yet Another Deadlock
The Iranian Vienna nuclear talk (JCPOA) saga has become a tasteless pull-and-push game. Meaningless rounds of negotiations, statements of optimism or pessimism, countless photo ops and news conferences, tweets of this authority or that, saying the same things but using different words at different times, and truckloads of rhetoric portray the current state of the Vienna nuclear negotiations.
Freedom-Loving Iranians in Europe and Canada Celebrated the Anniversary of the Foundation of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK)
September 3, 2022: Freedom-loving Iranians and supporters of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK) held rallies in different cities in Europe (Stockholm, Oslo, Cologne, and Paris) and Canada (Toronto) on Saturday, September 3. Iranian Resistance (NCRI and MEK) supporters celebrated the beginning of the 58th year of the People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran (PMOI/MEK).
Also, read Iran News in Brief – September 4, 2022