Posted on 10/26/2005 6:56:30 PM PDT by F14 Pilot
Tehran, 26 Oct. (AKI) - A self-styled Islamic Army in Iran has said it would like to elminate 210 journalists in the country. The list, recently circulated in Tehran, includes almost all the independent journalists who have not been recognised by the new government of hardline president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. In the few lines preceding the long list of dissident journalists, the authorities promise "to liberate the Islamic revolution" of Ayatollah Khomeini, which has been "taken hostage by the hacks who are in the service of the enemies of Islam." Anyone mentioned in the list "is worthy of death as much as enemies of Allah and his word."
However Mashaollah Shamselvaezin, the former director of independent newspapers who was banned from working as a journalist by Iran's judiciary, does not seen to be too concerned by the list.
"It is not the first time that they publish a similar list and even if sometimes someone is actually killed, we cannot take these threats too seriously," said Shamselvaezin in a telephone interview with Adnkronos International (AKI).
"The regime uses many means to prevent us journalists from expressing ourselves freely, and these death threats are just one of them," added Shamselvaezin, who founded the Association for Freedom of Press in Iran.
"While we still have judges such as Saiid Mortazavi who kills arrested journalists, like what happened to the photo journalist Zahra Kazemi, or locks them in a cell and throws away the key, as in the case of Akbar Ganji, this so-called Islamic Army does not really scare us," concluded the well-known Iranian journalist, who in the coming days will be in Italy.
In Tehran, the judiciary has continued targeting journalists. According to the newspaper "Rooz on Line", in the days before the list was published, six journalists were summoned by Saiid Mortazavi and accused of not respecting Islamic law. On many occasions the journalists and writers have been condemed under charges of consuming alcohol or having relationships outside of marriage.
Mark my words, there is little difference between the present Iranian regime and the Nazis. Don't be silent about the treatment of the opposition in Iran. Their lives are at stake.
I'm not gonna say anything!
to be an army they would first have to stop hiding behind skirts
Regime Change in Iran is a must
PREDICTION: TIME Magazine will come out with a clarification tommorrow explaining that they didn't mean "REAL" journalists only "spies and security forces" masquarading as journalists.
TIME has inside people hangin' with the Mullahs and will be happy to provide damage control outside the ME (in case anyone gets the wrong idea about the benevolence of the Mullahs and their Religion of Peace).
dung.
Why aren't the libbies in the US stepping up to voice their outrage over their fellow journalists in Iran being suppressed??? Oh yeah...these Iranian journalists are in favor of regime change and hope the US assists them with it. In other words...they want Bush to intervene in Iran. And of course the libbies in the US will have nothing to do with that.
Judith miller is more important to them since she can prepare fire power for Anti-Bush/Right idiots.
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