Posted on 09/26/2010 9:52:07 PM PDT by DGHoodini
The hangman of Tehran may soon get a taste of his own medicine. Over the last decade, Saeed Mortazavi has jailed dozens of journalists and reformist politicians and was instrumental in squashing the opposition Green Movement after last year's presidential election. He was openly associated with some of the regime's worst post-election abuses. But in August he was stripped of his judicial immunity, and a Tehran prosecutor named him as the lead person accused in the abuses at Kahrizak prison, a notorious detention facility where at least three people were killed and a handful of others claimed they were raped.
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Perhaps. But remember what happened to the heads of the Soviet secret police. When he had outlived his usefulness, Yagoda was killed and Yezhov took over. When he had outlived his usefulness, Yezhov was killed and Beria took over. When he had outlived his usefulness, Beria was killed and Abakumov took over. When he had outlived his usefulness, Abakumov was killed and then Shelepin(?) took over. And so on.
He may be useful enough as a brutal secret policeman but eventually they are inconvenient and need to be destroyed. Such is the nature of the secret police.
The Robespierre Award winner.
Live by the sword die by the sword. The people who know too much or want to much power are recycled, and sometimes they are given to the masses as sacrificial lambs
Regime hardliner Vs. .....?
>>>”wqhen the hardliners want to kill off more protesting slave uprisings.”
If by “protesting slave uprising” you mean the ‘reformists’ or ‘moderates’ of the same Islamic Iranian regime, then I won’t lose any sleep over it. After all, whether moderate or hardliner (labels assigned by the West to differentiate between different factions of the same despicable establishment in Iran), they both, at the end of the day, support having an Islamic govt & regime in Iran. Let them sort things out, any way they can, among themselves.
Over the last decade, Saeed Mortazavi has jailed dozens of journalists and reformist politicians and was instrumental in squashing the opposition Green Movement after last year's presidential election. He was openly associated with some of the regime's worst post-election abuses. But in August he was stripped of his judicial immunity, and a Tehran prosecutor named him as the lead person accused in the abuses at Kahrizak prison, a notorious detention facility where at least three people were killed and a handful of others claimed they were raped.
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