Iran arrests 70 professors after meeting with opposition leader

[Turborama]

Source: La Times

Dissident website says their whereabouts are unknown. Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says he won't reconsider the presidential vote results or bow to public pressure. Broadcast outlets intensify attacks on the West.

By Ramin Mostaghim, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
2:25 AM PDT, June 25, 2009

Reporting from Tehran -- Authorities arrested 70 university professors after a meeting with an opposition leader, a dissident website announced today as state-controlled broadcast outlets intensified a media blitz against the West.

Iran's supreme leader vowed Wednesday that he would neither reconsider vote results nor bow to public pressure over the disputed reelection of his ally, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Meanwhile, former Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi, who ran and lost against Ahmadinejad in the marred vote and emerged as the opposition figurehead, along with his backer Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, were meeting with lawmakers in an effort to quell the unrest, an official told an Iranian news agency.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iran-arrests26-2009jun26,0,5415539.story

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The article goes on to discuss Khamenei decrying "lawlessness". Maybe it's time he had another look at his country's constitution to see who's actually breaking the law...

Article 27

Public gatherings and marches may be freely held, provided arms are not carried and that they are not detrimental to the fundamental principles of Islam.

From Iran's constitution: http://www.iranonline.com/iran/iran-info/Government/constitution-3.html

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[grannie4peace]

2. ????????

[azurnoir]

3. Its starting to sound like 1988 all over again

September 1st is recognized by Amnesty International as the 'International Day in Remembrance of the Massacre of Political Prisoners' in light of the massacre of political prisoners in Iran in 1988. In the span of several months, thousands of political prisoners in what is now known as 'The 1988 Iran massacre' were brutally murdered.

Iranians, including former political prisoners like me, along with many international law experts, believe that this heinous atrocity, one of the most under—reported political mass killings of our times, qualifies the current Iranian leadership as perpetrators of crimes

http://www.americanthinker.com/2004/09/the_1988_iran_massacre_crimes.html

please excuse this source but the article was good

[dipsydoodle]

4. I guess that's the 70 which Washington Post

and International Marxist Tendency referred to last night. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3936980&mesg_id=3937891

[ohio2007]

6. They translated what was posted on Twitter

after sifting,vetting and cross checking;


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3936980&mesg_id=3937801




http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3936980&mesg_id=3938095



Latest from twitter;
The purges are under way;

روابط عمومی مرکز بررسی جرائم سازمان یافته:

Public Relations Center, organized crimes reviews:

http://gerdab.ir/fa/pages/?cid=407

Guess I stand corrected when I posted that the theocracy would have a problem executing those that helped the injured riot police
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3924122#3924481

A backer of Mir Hossein Mousavi helps evacuate an injured riot-police officer during riots in Tehran on June 13, 2009. (OLIVIER LABAN-MATTEI/AFP/Getty Images

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3924122#3924493

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=3926773&mesg_id=3927895

[Turborama]

7. Got any idea who the 'purges' website is run by and what it's all about?

Just so you know which one I'm referring to: http://gerdab.ir/fa/pages/?cid=407

[dipsydoodle]

8. Apologies - it hadn't clicked they were using

the Titter translation you'd already mentioned. I thought they'd used a different source.

I've been keeping an eye on the link you gave me - thanks.

[InfiniteThoughts]

5. mullahs ... dhaka 1971 ..

hope you folks keep that in mind. Arresting (Ops Searchlight) & Killing professors (before surrendering Bangladesh to India!) & academicians was a factor in Pakistan losing Bangladesh. And i am sure that there multiple other instances where regimes have collapsed when they tried to throttle universities.

If i were you, i will stay clear of these folks. Each has the potential of becoming hundred times of what Neda is today!