On the side of Evil

The protest against Ahmadinejad and Khamenei and their rigged elections in Iran continues, despite the arrests, brutal repression, the beating and shooting of demonstrators, hundreds, probably thousands of people swallowed by the prisons of the regime. Students, university professors, human rights activists, journalists and bloggers. The regime thought to be able to get away with the systematic use of violence but it was wrong.

Although the theocratic dictatorship, or at least most of it, has tried to keep the country in the Middle Ages, their plan did not work at all. In Iran there are computers, blogger, video cameras, students, musicians and activists able to expose before the eyes of the world the brutal savagery of the regime. A part of Iran went forward, held up over the years while they tried to destroy it and is now in the streets protesting. Opposition leader Mousavi and former President Khatami called for a referendum, and Khamenei's response to them and to the Friday sermon of former President Hashemi Rafsanjani has been saying that the continuing divisions could cause the collapse of theocracy. A warning to opponents, saying that they could even destroy themselves if they can oust him and Ahmadinejad, but also a sign of great anxiety and fear.

The Iranian regime is afraid, it cannot stop the protest. They played too dirty. Ahmadinejad won with more than 50% of votes in provinces where it had previously obtained a maximum of 7%. They killed young women in the street, arrested and beaten protesters as much as possible before the eyes of the world. From Iranian prisons despite the censorship regime comes horrific stories of young people tortured and killed, like that of Taraneh Mousavi, a girl who had coincidentally the same last name of the leader of the opposition, arrested June 28 because she was wearing a green veil, even if she was not participating in the demonstrations.
Brought to a detention center, she said to the other young people arrested to call her family, but was not moved along with the others. Days after an unknown man called the family to say that the girl had not been arrested at all but had been raped and had tried to kill herselves, and now was in hospital. The family went to the hospital but didn't find her, nor she was ever registered, but a nurse told them that a few days before she saw an unconscious girl with multiple injuries caused by rape, but then the girl was taken away again. Her burned body at the end was found in the desert. She could not be allowed to live and tell. The family was threatened several times, and so didn't want a public funeral. But friends talked about her story, that now will spread in the world like that of Neda.
And it is not the only story like this. It's impossible to verify whether all this is true, in a country where foreign journalists were expelled and the local ones arrested.

But if such stories were false, the regime would have an interest to let journalists work, to let them see the prisons, to ensure respect for human rights in front of impartial observers. If they don't do it, is because their conscience is dirty with blood.

But this shatters the mask of Ahmadinejad and Khamenei. They aren't the guardians of morality and justice as they would like their citizens to believe, they aren't the defenders of the Islamic world against U.S. and Israel imperialism like they would like the world to believe. They are just tyrants who use rapists, torturers and killers to terrorize their own people. Now devoid of any legitimacy and justification, in the face of Iran and the world, they are consciously and deliberately on the side of Evil.

Francesco Defferrari