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One of them is the man who claims Ahmadinejad's Holocaust denial is "misunderstood." No doubt he is misunderstood too. From Human Rights Watch, with thanks to Hans:
(New York, December 15, 2005) – Iran’s new Minister of Interior is implicated in grave human rights violations over the past two decades, possibly including crimes against humanity in connection with the massacre of thousands of political prisoners, Human Rights Watch said in a briefing paper released today.Human Rights Watch also said that the new Minister of Information should be investigated for his possible involvement in a dissident’s killing.
The briefing paper, Ministers of Murder: Iran’s New Security Cabinet, details credible allegations that Minister of Interior Mustafa Pour-Mohammadi and Minister of Information Gholamhussein Mohseni Ezhei were involved in extremely serious and systematic human rights violations over the past two decades.
“It’s completely unacceptable that men with such records would be serving in Iran’s government,” said Joe Stork deputy Middle East director at Human Rights Watch. “They should be removed from their posts and investigated for these terrible crimes.”
Iran’s cabinet is now dominated by former security and intelligence officials, Human Rights Watch said, raising fears that President Ahmadinejad’s government will readily resort to violence to suppress dissidents and punish critics.
During Pour-Mohammadi’s tenure as top deputy of the Ministry of Information from 1987 to 1999, agents of the ministry systematically engaged in extrajudicial killings of opposition figures, political activists, and intellectuals.
In 1988, the Iranian government executed thousands of political prisoners held inside Iranian jails. The deliberate and systematic manner in which these extrajudicial executions took place may constitute a crime against humanity under international law, Human Rights Watch said. Mustafa Pour-Mohammadi was a member of the three-person committee that ordered prisoners held in Tehran’s notorious Evin prison to their summary executions.
Posted by Robert at December 17, 2005 4:52 AM
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Joe Stork is finally doing something acceptable to justify his existence? I don't quite believe it, but I'll engage, for now, in a willing suspension of disbelief. Unless of course it is merely the minimum that can be done, and would be done by others, and the organization wishes now to prove its bona fides all the better to come back with the usual denunciations of Israel (that is Joe Stork's beat, and he's been walking that predictable beat for decades). And along with Israel, America. And along with America, the entire Western world, especially if any part of that world decides to act forcefully to diminish the threat of islamization from its midst. But for now, let this one small step for mankind and for Human Rights Watch (still waiting for more on Bangladesh's Islamic fanatics from Irene Khan) be taken -- or let's pretend to take it -- at face value.
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at December 17, 2005 6:44 AM
Now with all that past silly nonsense about Bush being the most dangerous man, blah blah by the left wing media, perhaps now some real criminals with monsterous torture and killing past will be brought out to the forefront! The world can now see who are the true monsters. islmofacists from Iran for a starter!
Posted by: Lulu at December 17, 2005 8:17 AM
This should not be a surprise to anyone as Bush was quite right in labeling "Iran" as part of the "Axis of Evil".
But the braindead leftists don't believe in "evil", just "root causes". But look at history and that is why they were called "useful idiots" by Lenin and Stalin.
Posted by: learjet0450 at December 17, 2005 9:20 AM
This will have no effect whatsoever.With the torrent of lies pouring our of Teheran WTF do they care about what the west thinks?
If these murders and crimes have justification (in their brainwashed minds) in just one word, one sura of the Qur'an, haditha etc then they will have NO guilt whatsoever and , in fact, like Einsatzgruppen members in WW2 probably consider that they have done the world(the islamic one) a favour and prhaps may even expect to be rewarded by their corrupt society.
Dont these people understand that western words have NO effect upon Muslims unless backed by extreme military or economic force.
Posted by: Zathras at December 17, 2005 9:20 AM
I have to wonder if the Holocast is a myth how about the Iranian Hostage crisis?...is that a myth as well???????
Ahmadinejad's Holocaust denial fits right into place with the Islamic agenda,lie's, lie's and more lie's.
Posted by: chuck at December 17, 2005 10:56 AM
What's the big deal? Once they have full nuclear capability, I'm sure they'll become shining examples of morality, peace and justice. Just give it time.
/sarc
Posted by: Insomniac at December 17, 2005 11:03 AM
Each to himself the truth should have been told
while sitting hypnotized, passive, in front of the telly
watching with fake helplessness letting this genocide unfold
in slow motion, this latest mass murder to crawl from Islam's belly
That this didn't have to be let to happen
it didn't have to be allowed the means or the time
we could have put the Devil back into its beshat play pen
and saved Israel and saved freedom and prevented this crime
at December 17, 2005 1:35 PM
Crimes against humanity? These murderers should fit right in with the REST of Iran's government.
Judging by the lies being spewed out of Iran today as the 'truth', this sort of behavior is probably the norm rather than the exception.
I seriously doubt anything whatsoever will be done to remove these barbarians.
at December 17, 2005 1:39 PM
..close, but no banana,,
Iran President’s bodyguard dies in ambush Sat. 17 Dec 2005
Iran Focus
Tehran, Iran, Dec. 17 – One of the bodyguards of Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was killed and another wounded when an attempt to ambush the presidential motorcade was thwarted in the southeastern province of Sistan and Baluchestan, according to a semi-official newspaper and local residents.
“At 6:50 pm on Thursday, the lead car in the presidential motorcade confronted armed bandits and trouble-makers on the Zabol-Saravan highway”, the semi-official Jomhouri Islami reported on Saturday.
“In the ensuing armed clash, the driver of the vehicle, who was an indigenous member of the security services, and one of the president’s bodyguards died, while another bodyguard was wounded”, the newspaper, which was founded by Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, wrote."
more..
http://www.iranfocus.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=4931
at December 17, 2005 2:05 PM
Iran President’s bodyguard dies in ambush Sat. 17 Dec 2005
Iran Focus
Maybe, just maybe, when Iraq becomes free it will set a precedence in Mid-East like never before and the peolple of other places will want what the Iraqi's are about to have and they will force the hand that oppresses them.......
Posted by: chuck at December 17, 2005 3:38 PM
Well, if HRW wants the MSM to give a shit, perhaps they should release some photos of prisoners stacked naked, on leashes, etc.
Posted by: Big G In TX at December 17, 2005 9:43 PM
Iran is ran by the same caliber of folks that ran germany in the 2nd war:criminals. and unfortunately the only solution is the same solution that solved hitler, anything else will be useless.
Posted by: bigdoor at December 17, 2005 10:00 PM
Yep as I expected, can't have a thread without some stupid freakin' FREEPER ranting leftist, leftist,leftist.. and when a supposed Lefist shows equanimty, like by condemning Iran, it's still the same braindead, petrified, self righteous FREEPER rant of leftist, leftist, leftist.
You morons keep it up, and the west will most certainly lose the battle for civilization,because the braindead, ignorant FREEPERS will have successfully alienated all natural allies, with their immature and irrational rants.
Who in the world, with any sense of integrity, would even try to shake hands with people who throw brickbats and epithets and demand unconditional surrender.
You Right Wingers are already outnumbered by Muslims, but you stupidly swell their ranks by alienating and demonizing your own fellow Americans and Europeans.
Stupid, you are, of strategy and tactics you know nothing, because stupid you are..and apparently with a martyr (suicidal) complex of your own.
at December 18, 2005 12:17 AM
Sorry Nariz but i do not have a clue about what ever it is you are saying. However being a fool I will rush in and guess.
As for politics: I do NOT see a deep fear about the future of western society as having any right or left wing colours. Certainly liberals are more tolerant of others inadequacies but when not chronically exposed to lies and misinformation even they can come to thr correct conclusions.
My fight isn't with politics, it is with that obscene polito-economico-religious bastard born out of military convenience in the mind of a lying, delusional paedophile called Muhammad and named Islam by its brainwashed followers and violence by all else.
When the time comes the lefties will fight and die also. But do remember how the Nth Vietnamese pandered to and supported the antiwar effort in the USA and then look at the lies printed by proIslamic media. Do something about the lies before you can blame those who swallow them.
Was I close to yr subject?
Posted by: Zathras at December 18, 2005 3:18 AM
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