Iranian version of showdown at the O.K. Corral on Horizon
Iran’s Regime and Opposition Prepare for Deadly Showdown
If “Green Path of Hope Movement” loses to Ahmadinejad Thugs
It will go underground to attempt to depose Ahmadinejad Dictator!
August 16, 2009
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Begin Excerpt from DEBKAfile Special Report
DEBKAfile Special Report
August 15, 2009, 11:32 PM (GMT+02:00)
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his hard-line supporters are calling for opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi to be tried for sedition after he announced Saturday, Aug. 15, the formation of The Green Path of Hope movement to restore the people’s stolen rights. DEBKAfile’s Iranian sources report that Ahmadinejad is trying to build a puppet government composed of inexperienced, pliant cronies and officials known for their brutality to usher in a takeover of the regime by the Revolutionary Guards.
The two factions are set for a final showdown.
The regime hardliners are bent on smashing the opposition by brute force. Their leaders face trials on charges that carry the death sentence, such as sedition.
Sunday, Aug. 13, a third group of 25 protesters against the disputed presidential election goes on trial before the Revolutionary Court. The first two sessions were blasted as travesties of justice and “show trials.”
Seven leaders of the Baha’i community are also to be tried for allegedly spying for Israel and desecrating Islam.
Although the president has muscled his way past many obstacles, he has been held back from forming by bitter factional strife within the regime, which is reflected in the Majlis, parliament, where the majority refuses to accredit his planned lineup. Many conservatives have turned him down after fired 14 ministers in humiliating circumstances.
The cabinet beginning to emerge now, according to our Iranian sources, is as follows:
The Ministry of Intelligence will go to one of three candidates: Hossein Taeb, commander of the Basijj thugs responsible for abusing opposition demonstrators in recent weeks; Esmail Ahmadi Moghadam, head of the security services, and Mohammad Rouyanian, chief of the Transportation Police, who is known for his brutal methods.
The candidates for Minister of the Interior are Rouhollah Hosseinian, head of the Revolutionary Archive, and Ahmad Reza Radan, deputy commander of the security service. Reza Radan resigned as warden of the Kahrizak prison on the southern edge of Tehran after extreme case of torture and murder were exposed.
Contrary to the official claim, this chamber of horrors is still open and several dozen political detainees continue to suffer abuse.
DEBKAfile carried an exclusive expose of the atrocities suffered by political prisoners in this and six other Iranian prisons.
There is a fierce struggle for the Petroleum Ministry which controls 85 percent of the national foreign exchange income and most of the funding for the regime’s covert military, missile and nuclear programs.
The president has not yet decided whe ther to leave
the hardline Mostafa Najar in the Defense Ministry or transfer him to the Interior department.
Manouchehr Mottaki may be dropped as Foreign Minister
as Ahmadinejad and his clique finds him too soft.
One candidate for the job is Iran’ s nuclear negotiator Said Jalili, who i
s secretary of the National Security Council.
The Iranian president promises to publish his cabinet in full by Tuesday, August 18, but he still has to overcoming factional infighting and win the support of parliament – and that could take weeks.
Begin Excerpt from CNN via World News
Top Iranian general: Let’s prosecute opposition leaders
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
Brigadier General Yadollah Javani is a senior official in the Revolutionary Guard
He wants to put opposition leaders Mir Hossein Moussavi, Mehdi Karrubi on trial
Javani also wants to put former reformist President Mohammad Khatami on trial
Until now, the government has gone after the protesters themselves.
August 10, 2009-08-10
TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) — A senior official with Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard is calling for the prosecution of two key opposition leaders and a former president, accusing them of fanning the protests that have gripped the nation since its disputed presidential election two months ago.
Opposition leaders Mir Hossein Moussavi and Mehdi Karrubi, along with former reformist President Mohammad Khatami, should be tried for attempting to lead a Western-backed “velvet revolution” that aimed to topple the regime, the official said.
“If Moussavi, Khatami … and Karrubi are the main suspects believed to have been behind the velvet coup in Iran, which they are, we expect the judiciary to go after them, arrest them, put them on trial and punish them according to the law,” said Brigadier General Yadollah Javani.
Javani heads the Guard’s political bureau. The Guard, which was initially created to protect the leaders of the revolution, is under the direct control of Iran’s supreme leader and enforces the governments’ Islamic codes and morality.
His comments were reported Monday by the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency.
A day earlier, state-run Press TV reported that lawmakers were working on a complaint to present to the parliament’s National Security Commission to bring Moussavi to trial for fomenting the post-election unrest.
Until now, the government has gone after the protesters themselves in mass trials that have been denounced internationally. Among those appearing in court are two French and British embassy employees and a French citizen.
Iran says many of the defendants have confessed to helping foreign countries — specifically Britain and the United States — “instigate the unrest.”
Moussavi and Khatami have contended the detainees were forced into confessions through torture.
Human rights organizations have also decried the mass trial, calling it a farce and a way to intimidate Iranians who speak out against the government.
Moussavi and Karrubi ran in the presidential election on June 12, in which hardline incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was declared the overwhelming winner.
Hundreds of thousands of Iranians took to the streets to protest, calling the election results fraudulent, and more than 1,000 people were arrested. Iran said at least 30 people were killed in post-election violence.
The two opposition leaders unsuccessfully challenged the results for weeks, and Ahmadinejad was sworn in for his second term last week.
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