Canadian-Iranian journalist was arrested by "Evin Guards"
SMCCDI
Jul 18, 2003
The murdered Canadian-Iranian Journalist was last time seen alive as she had to follow the guards of the Evin's Political jail toward the doors of this infamous prison.
She was arrested as the well known "Commander Mohamad-Hossein Bahrami" in charge of the special unit of Evin came out of the facilities along with several guards and asked from Zahra Kazemi about her ID card. Kazemi was requested, then, to follow the guards and the commander and this was the last time that she was seen alive.
Her arrest followed her indentification by several guards who had gathered around the prison's top placed mirador and who saw her taking pictures of the crowd of protesters who were getting beaten, by the plainclothes men, as they were requesting the release of their arrested relatives. Kazemi was seen taking pictures while hidding behind trees which it was making very difficult for the plainclothes men, busy by beating anyone on their way, to see her.
She had stated, few minutes before her identification and to several mothers crying for their children: " I promise you to show the pictures of what they are doing to you to the World".
http://www.daneshjoo.org/generalnews/article/publish/article_1229.shtmlIslamic regime can not be toppled, top Iranian cleric tells US
World News
Jul 18, 2003
TEHRAN - A top Iranian cleric said it would be impossible for the United States to topple the nearly 25-year-old Islamic republic, accusing Washington of fomenting unrest but saying it had only served to strengthen the regime.
"The July demonstration was a scandal for the Americans," Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati said in a Friday prayers sermon.
He was referring to July 9, the fourth anniversary of bloody pro-democracy student riots when tens of thousands of people in Tehran protested against the regime but remained largely confined to their cars.
"Thinking this regime will be toppled with one move is stupid and short-sighted," said Jannati, an Islamic conservative and secretary general of the powerful Guardians Council, a legislative vetting body.
"This regime is stable. If the regime could be overthrown, it would have been toppled during the first days of the revolution," he added. "Whatever plots and conspiracies you have come up with, the power of the regime has increased."
His comments were greeted by the habitual chants of "Death to America!", "Death to Israel!" and also "Death to England!.
The cleric alleged the demonstrators who took to the streets in July and for 10 days in June for protests marked by virulent anti-regime slogans and violent clashes had been paid to do so by the United States.
"Do you believe that you can topple the regime with a bunch of dollars? If you do believe that, then you are stupid," he argued, describing opponents of the Islamic regime set up in 1979 as "politically bankrupt".
Following the June and July protests, thousands of people were arrested, while the judiciary has also launched a fresh crackdown on the reformist press.
Embattled reformist President Mohammad Khatami, who defended the right to peaceful protest but wields little or no authority over conservative-run institutions, has ordered the justice and intelligence ministers to probe the crackdown.
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