Mega bombshell story coming out of Iran:
Defeated presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi called on the Assembly of Experts to investigate the sexual assault of a number of young men and women arrested in the post-election unrest.
In a letter to the head of the Assembly, Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanjani, Karroubi said," Some of the detainees of the [post-election] unrest claim that the detained girls have been sexually assaulted with such brutality that they have all sustained intense vaginal tearing.
The young men in detention were also sexually assaulted in a manner that some are now suffering from depression and other physical and psychological problems and are incapable of even leaving their homes.
http://tehranbureau.com/...
"The people who informed me about these events hold sensitive positions in the country... these officials told me that the things that happened in the detention centers [are so deplorable] that even if one count is true, it would be a tragedy for the Islamic Republic... and it would whitewash the sins of many dictatorships including that of the deposed shah."
Wow. This could be worse then anything that happened under the shah!
One of our Persian readers explains why this letter is a "huge deal":
By publicly stating that he knows of many, many young girls and guys who have been brutally raped while in the infamous Kahrizak jail, Karroubi breaks a major taboo and brings shame on the whole system. He challenges the religious figures and any conservative Ayatollahs who are very sensitive to sexual crimes to indirectly hammer Khamenei. More importantly, by writing the letter to Rafsanjani and not the Supreme Leader, he is basically elevating Rafsanjani to a position higher than Khamenei. (After all, Rafsanjani is the head of a council that appoints and can potentially remove him.)
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.co...
Yeah, Rafsanjani should hammer Khamenei and A Jad over this. How could these horrific abuses take place under their leadership, and under this Islamic syatem? How could this sort of corruption and inhumane treatment been fostered under their regime!
Iran has put on trial some 100 politicians, journalists and activists accused of involvement in the alleged post-election revolution while the treatment of detainees in Iran's prisons has become an increasingly high-profile issue, with human-rights groups accusing guards of conducting harsh interrogations, beatings, sleep deprivation, and threats of torture to coerce false confessions.
Iranian media have reported that Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, has ordered one prison, Kahrizak, shut down amid reports it did not measure up to the required standards. Kahrizak's chief was fired and arrested over allegations of detainee mistreatment, according to local reports.
A spokesman for Iran's Foreign Ministry Monday denied that prisoners had been tortured.
What kind of talk is this? There was never any pressure used against these people, Hassan Qashqavi said, according to the semi-official Mehr news agency.
http://edition.cnn.com/...
That guy's pretty funny. He's playing all dumb like. Wha? Torture? What do you mean? We do not torture. We do not use "pressure" against these people! I have no idea where these charges came from, they are mere imaginings of spies and foreign interlopers bent on discrediting our pure and righteous election....
The mistreatment of detainees arrested in the crackdown on protesters has extended far beyond the reformist camp. Influential figures in Iran's clerical hierarchy have also condemned the abuses and the three deaths known to have taken place at the Kahrizak prison, which is at the center of the abuse claims.
One of those to die after being detained in Kahrizak was the son of a top adviser to the defeated conservative presidential candidate Mohsen Rezaie. After Mohsen Ruholamini's death, Iran's most senior judge, Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi-Shahroudi, ordered officials to inspect all prisons and detention centres. A parliamentary investigation into Kahrizak is also under way. So it's no surprise that calls for investigations followed the murder of a prominent conservative's son. I mean no investigations for the general riff raff, but when a prominent conservative's son is killed, then heads start to roll. sure right
Iran's prosecutor general called Sunday for those responsible for mistreatment to be punished and said protesters weren't even meant to be taken to Kahrizak prison, located on the southern outskirts of the capital, Tehran.
The country's police chief Gen. Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam on Sunday also acknowledged protesters were beaten by their jailers at the same facility but maintained that the deaths in the prison were caused by a virus, not abuse.
The head of the prison has since been arrested along with three guards there and the prison has been closed.
http://www.breitbart.com/...
That is truly fantastic! The deaths were caused by a virus, not torture! hmmm, battered skulls, broken limbs, beatings, getting hanged upside down are all viruses! Yeah it's the virus of a brutal regime gone out of their darkened demented deranged power crazed minds. I call it Mahmoud's Virus!
But anyway, back to these brutal rape allegations. Let's see who's held accountable. Let's see if Khamenei or A jad pipe up about them. Let's see if they trigger outrage in the general public. Let's see if Rafsanjani rebukes the entire Islamic gov't.
Oh, I just saw this:
Iran's influential parliament, Ali Larijani, speaker has called for an investigation into allegations that post-election detainees were raped while in custody, state-run media said.
http://edition.cnn.com/...
We shall see.....
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