Trials start for 100 reformists, moderate politicians in Iran

[DashSia]

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationwo...,2702112.story

That is the most trial ever held in the world? What the hell? They judge 100 people all at once? and they don't even have a lawyer! And worse than that, they have got turtored in the prison!

[Babur]

Does the regime know that this will provide fuel for further discontent?

[DashSia]

Does the regime know that this will provide fuel for further discontent?

It's not their first time. They did it after revolution. They judged about 60 people's lives in 55 minutes. (That Damned Ayatollah Khalkhali did these)

[Каие]

Robespierre said; You can't have a revolution without a revolution. He was right.

[Farnan]

Maybe the men on trial can use this opportunity to publicly speak against the regime. They are doomed anyways, and better to be punished on your feet than on your knees.

[DashSia]

Maybe the men on trial can use this opportunity to publicly speak against the regime. They are doomed anyways, and better to be punished on your feet than on your knees.

They don't show it in public. No reporters even know the time of this trial. And regime TV only shows the ones who have said what Islamic Republic wants (of course, those tortures can bring down most of the men, any who does not obey will be killed like Mohsen Rooh-allamini) But they don't show the ones who still support Mousavi.

[nopasties]

http://www.reuters.com/article/world...43622620090802

Iran's Khatami says detainees' trial a "show"
Sun Aug 2, 2009 4:47am EDT
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TEHRAN (Reuters) - Moderate former president Mohammad Khatami rejected as a "show" the trial of 100 prominent reformers who were arrested after Iran's disputed June presidential election set off unrest, his website said on Sunday.
"The trial on Saturday was a show and the confessions are invalid ... What was called a trial was a violation of the constitution ... Such show trials will directly harm the system and will further damage public trust," his website khatami.ir reported.
Iran tried on Saturday 100 moderates arrested shortly after Iran's June 12 election, charged with trying to overthrow the clerical establishment.
It was the first time since Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution that dozens of senior officials, including former ministers, vice-presidents and lawmakers, had been put on trial.
The official IRNA news agency quoted the indictment as saying the charges against the defendants also included acting against national security by planning unrest, participating in the "Velvet Revolution," attacking military and state buildings and conspiring against the ruling system.
State television showed footage of the courtroom with many young defendants, some handcuffed, and vice-president Mohammad Ali Abtahi, former deputy foreign minister Mohsen Aminzadeh and former MP Mohsen Mirdamadi in prison uniform.
Leading moderates say the vote was rigged in favor of hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The authorities deny the charge and Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has endorsed Ahmadinejad's re-election.
State television showed two prominent reformers saying that that the vote was not rigged. Abtahi, a close ally to Khatami, apologized for his misjudgments about the vote.

[s.rwitt]

It's things like this that make me laugh when I hear people say that Iran is responsible enough to have nuclear weapons. I hope this attempt at revolution succeeds but I doubt it will.

[Tajir]

I don't see why Americans want a moderate, secular republic in Iran when many Americans are trying to take their own country back to the 1950s cultural atmosphere.

[Phier]

It's things like this that make me laugh when I hear people say that Iran is responsible enough to have nuclear weapons. I hope this attempt at revolution succeeds but I doubt it will.

No kidding. But remember US intervention would have only galvanized the people against us!

I don't see why Americans want a moderate, secular republic in Iran when many Americans are trying to take their own country back to the 1950s cultural atmosphere.

I see you had nothing useful to post.

[Jubal_Barca]

I don't see why Americans want a moderate, secular republic in Iran when many Americans are trying to take their own country back to the 1950s cultural atmosphere.

In what way?

[Gromovnik]

In what way?

By clinging to their guns & religion.

[Jubal_Barca]

By clinging to their guns & religion.

The ones who do that have been doing so since the 50s and will probably carry on that way. The ones who don't are the vast, vast majority and are as sane as any european, african, asian, or anything else.

[Tiberios]

It's things like this that make me laugh when I hear people say that Iran is responsible enough to have nuclear weapons. I hope this attempt at revolution succeeds but I doubt it will.

Yeah. One can alsways hope a revolution succeedes though, it would really be a nice change for the Middle East.

Anyway this is just a shining example of why Iran should not be considered responsible enough to have nuclear technologies and certainly not nuclear weapons.

[Каие]

Iran is not responsible enough for Nuclear technology, but Israel, China, Pakistan and India are?

[Tiberios]

China, no. Israel and India, sure why not.

[Barry Goldwater]

Hopefully this will undermine rather than reinforce the Iranian government's position...

[Phier]

Iran is not responsible enough for Nuclear technology, but Israel, China, Pakistan and India are?

Of course Israel is, its a real republic, which you dont' like being a young Muslim since you haven't got that out of your system yet.

The rest not so much but its too late. Why add another one?

[Babur]

Of course Israel is, its a real republic, which you dont' like being a young Muslim since you haven't got that out of your system yet.

The rest not so much but its too late. Why add another one?

India is a real republic too ,yet I don't think nuclear weapons have done any good for stability in South Asia.Then again it was Indira Gandhi (she was quite power crazy) who tested our first nuclear weapon in 1974,ten years after the first Chinese nuclear test.

[John I Tzimisces]

Of course Israel is, its a real republic, which you dont' like being a young Muslim since you haven't got that out of your system yet.

The rest not so much but its too late. Why add another one?

It's a "real republic" with real apartheid which is something actual republics and democracies tend to frown upon.