[Situation in the city of Khoram-Abad temporarily became quiet. It took 7 days for Revolutionary Guard and Bassijis who mostly went from Tehran with civilian cloth to subdue the people and students in that city. They arested over 1000, and injured 500. people. Mr.Nurollah Abedi. Governor of Lorestan was secerly beten by Revolutionary Guard.
In last few month, due to economic hardship, lack of freedom and, lack of drinking water and electricity, peaceful protest started in Tehran, Islamshahr, Mashad, Abadan, and Khoram-Abad.The regime's aswer were resorting to force and harsh repression and imprisonment. and President Khatami has become insensitive to demand of the people and agents of the regome's brutality.
Mr. Khatami insdead of dealing with pressing ever inceasing problems of peoplr and lissening to them and preventing agents of the regime from beating student and arresting them, is coming to The U.N. to lecture world community on dialogue between civilizations and creat legitimacy to Velayat-e- Faghih, rule of supreme religious leader.
He either is pusilanimus, timid who would like to hold power with lack of dignity, he is decietful agent of the Clerical regime. believe the regime is pouring gasoline in fire, instead of water. You will see son that protests and violence will spead to most of the cityes that nobody could contol, and it could be harmful for the country and very very harmful fo The clerics who are blind to political realities. The onle solution is transfering power to a respolsible national secular government. It would be the only way for the regome to by insurence for their safety, and stability in Iran. Situation in Iran is very Fluid. Pepole of Iran have decided to remove the clerics from power and information technology and force of demography will definitly help the to succeed .]
NICOSIA - The governor of Iran's Lorestan province was seriously
injured after hard-line vigilantes attacked him while attending the funeral
of a police officer killed in earlier riots.
Nurollah Abedi was severely beaten before he was rescued by police, the
Teheran-based daily Kayhan paper reported.
Prior to the attack, Islamic vigiliantes in the city of
Khorramabad clashed with reformist students attending a student conference on democracy organized by the
pro-Khatami Office to Consolidate Unity.
The conference in western Iran sparked
the latest outbreak of violence which left two the policemen dead and 30
students injured, Middle East Newsline reported.
Violent confrontations began earlier, following several days of
demonstrations protesting the banning of two prominent reformists --
Abdolkarim Soroush and Mohsen Kadivar of Teheran University -- from
addressing the student conference.
At least 20 students and policemen were seriously injured during the
rioting that ensued. Stores, banks and municipal buildings were also damaged
in the clashes. Several rioters were arrested.
''Police officer Ardeshir Karami was killed Sunday evening during
clashes with opportunists and rioters who smashed windows of shops causing
damages to public and private properties,'' Teheran Radio said.
The students aborted the meeting but the bus carrying them back to
Teheran was attacked in city of Boroujerd. Assailants who hurled bricks and
stones as it was passing through, injuring several students.
On Tuesday, the OCU held a press conference in Teheran.
"Avoiding anarchism is the continuation of active peace policy and the
students would respond to even armed attacks of the
violent seekers with a smile," the students said. They pledged to remain
calm but to continue the fight for more social and political reforms.
On Sunday, a police officer was killed and two others wounded in a
grenade attack in Teheran.
Early Monday, five mortar shells were fired at the Heshmatieh army
barracks in east Teheran. No casualties or damage was reported. The barracks
were once used as a jail for captured Iraqi soldiers.
In other developments, Iranian troops killed dozens of fighters from the
Iraq-based opposition People's Mujahedeen in operations overnight Saturday,
military sources said.
The sources said the Mujahedeen forces had been trying to cross into
Iran near the city of Meymeh in the border province of Ilam but were stopped
by Iranian ground troops.
Three Iranian soldiers were also killed in the clashes.
In an unrelated development, an Iranian Jewish Member of Parliament is
part of the eight-member Iranian delegation attending Monday's
Interparliamentary Millennium Conference in New York.
"I hope to discharge my duty well as a representative of
Iran and the Iranian Jewish community at the conference in New York," Moris
Motamed said "I will talk about the President's [Mohammad Khatami] proposed
Dialog Among Civilizations, and will tell the conference that since 2,500
years ago that Jews have been living in Iran, a continuous dialogue has been
taking place within the heart of the Iranian community and that the
followers of all other religions are currently living in peaceful
coexistence with their Muslim brethren in Iran."
Meanwhile, 13 Iranian Jews convicted of espionage for Israel have
appealed their sentences. The appeals court is expected to announce a
decision in September.
