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Fw: [ASDnet] The mullahs are packing! by Michael Pugliese 12 January 2001 19:16 UTC |
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-----Original Message----- From: ANDERSON DAVID <andersd@spot.colorado.edu> To: asdnet@igc.topica.com <asdnet@igc.topica.com> Date: Friday, January 12, 2001 10:45 AM Subject: [ASDnet] The mullahs are packing! > > >Fearing Yugoslaviasation, Iranian clerical rulers are packing > >PARIS 11 Jan. (IPS) Frightened at the idea of Yugoslaviasation, a number >of senior clerics have sent their close families to foreign nations, >including the United States and transferred large sum of money to foreign >banks, most of them in Switzerland, according to a well informed Iranian >scholar and researcher. > >"The country is in total chaos and anarchy. Outside Tehran, the regime has >no control over the situation. The gangs of bandits the regime claims it >kills in larger numbers in border areas with Afghanistan or elsewhere are >in fact local population who have taken arms against the authorities", the >source told Iran Press Service during an interview, asking for anonymity. > >He said one of the reason that has plunged Iran into chaos is the growing >sentiment among population, mostly the students, that the regime has >reached a dead end. > >"The growing sentiment in the first circle of clerical rulers, including >people in the office of Ayatollah Ali Khameneh'i and his immediate >entourage as well as among high-ranking revolutionary guards officers is >that they may face the same fate as the former Romanian dictator Nicolae >Ceausescu or, at best, that of Slovobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia", the >source said. > >He said the theories of repetition of events that led to the sudden fall >of Ceausescu of Romania or a general uprising by the people demanding the >departure of present rulers are on everyone's lip and mind. > >The Romanian ruler, a friends of the Iranians, was toppled under a sudden >but violent popular uprising in December 1989 while he was addressing the >nationand was executed afterward alongside his wife, and as to his >Yugoslav counterpart, he was forced to leave office last year under >growing public pressure. > >In his view, the moral among the revolutionary guards file and rank is >"very low" and for this reason, to silence the dissidents, the Judiciary >power reverts more and more to the Law Enforcement Forces and the Ansar >Hezbollah pressure groups or the Basij forces. > >"At several occasion were there has been wide range popular unrest and >disturbances, with angry protesters attacking banks, setting fire on buses >and other buildings belonging to the State, seldom the guards intervened, >forcing the authorities to call in the LEF and the Ansar", he observed. > >He said in order to persuade the population that they are here to stay as >long as God decides, the ruling authorities are increasing public >flogging, hanging, amputations of fingers and hands and stoning of women >accused of adultery or other major sin. > >Iranian newspapers reported in recent days several cases of public hanging >by cranes in Tehran, amputation of fingers and hands of thieves as well as >stoning of two women, one accused of murdering her husband. > >The reports were met with a storm of protest by Iranian opposition groups. > >The preceding is a personal opinion. Try not to post more than daily. > >____________________________________________________________ >T O P I C A -- Learn More. Surf Less. >Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Topics You Choose. >http://www.topica.com/partner/tag01 >
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