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Mullahs’ regime steps up repressive measures to confront popular uprisings

Mullahs' regime steps up repressive measures to confront popular uprisingsNCRI – Unable to contain widespread public discontent and popular uprisings across the country, the clerical regime has resorted to setting up new suppressive organs and institutions and to adopting new repressive measures nationwide.

In a report by the state-run news agency, IRNA, on June 6, Brig. Gen. Esmail Ahmadi Moqaddam, the State Security Forces Commander, attributed the popular uprisings in recent weeks to the regime’s "wounded enemies". He added, "Inciting ethnic, religious and occupational discord is one of the main objectives of the enemy which seeks to destabilize the country. As for the ethnic unrest in Azerbaijan, the enemy was trying to use counterrevolutionary forces to instigate chaos and undermine security."

Stressing that "these actions were coupled with the counterrevolutionaries’ media blitz," Ahmadi Moqaddam warned, "The mayhem and turmoil were neither the first nor the last ploy by the foreigners. The State Security Forces must be cognizant of the capacity of the paramilitary Bassij and promote mutual cooperation between the two forces in improving security in the country."

In another development, in remarks appearing in the daily Kayhan quoted on June 7, mullah Abbas-Ali Soleimani, the Friday prayer leader of Sistan and Baluchistan Province, pointed to the role of the "Rassoul-Akram operational garrison in establishing peace and security and arresting and killing bandits."

The Province’s Justice Department Director General, Mohammad Ebrahim Nekoonam, underscored the need for more and speedier executions. "The purpose of setting up a special complex dealing with security crimes in the Province is to thwart offenses, armed robberies, wholesale narcotics trafficking as well as weapons and ammunition smuggling and any unrest and insecurity," he claimed, adding, "Recommendations were made to the Judiciary to expeditiously set up a branch of the Supreme Court in this complex to expedite carrying out (execution) sentences in order to reduce the time between the offense and the implementation of the verdict.”

Secretariat of the National Council of Resistance of Iran
June 8, 2006