Tuesday, November 2, 2010
Monday November 1st, 2010 - Despite attempts by security forces to prevent Mehdi Karroubi from entering Pastor and visting with Mr. Hossein Mousavi, this meeting took place yesterday at Mousavi's residence as a result of Mousavi's own initiative. The following is a summary of the discussions that took place.
The meeting between Mir Hossein Mossavi and Mehdi Karroubi began with Karroubi expressing regret over the fact that lies and slander have been institutionalized in our country stating: "They made sure that the candidate of their choice was fraudulently elected president during the 9th presidential elections. Both the 8th parliamentary elections and 10th presidential elections were rigged, leading to an explosion of protests by the people; protests that were dealt with in the most violent manner possible. Government owned media outlets use the treasury's wealth to spread lies and insult the opposition and the slightest response from opponents and critics is not tolerated by the pro government media outlets and newspapers. It has reached a point that not only do they not publish any news related to us, but we are also banned from publishing condolences to those who have lost loved ones. They do not tolerate any form of freedom of expression. Rather than ensuring that free and fair elections be held in our country, they decided instead to slaughter any form of freedom, truth and honesty."
While pointing to the lack of tact and wisdom in the manner in which the affairs of the country are being managed, Mousavi stated: "In general no one is opposed to targeted subsidies. The point we are making here is that the necessary work force to manage this type of subsidy program is currently nonexistent. A large segment of the expert task force and those with knowledge have been eliminated. The government should not be proud of the fact that in order to implement the targeted subsidy programs it has been reduced to creating fear by deploying police, basiji and IRGC forces to 2000 locations across Tehran. These gentlemen's management practices and methods have led to the destruction of our economy and other sectors of our society, making it exceedingly more difficult to return to the conditions that our country found itself in 6 years ago [pre Ahmadinejad]."
With the 13th of Aban [anniversary of take over of U.S. Embassy in Tehran 31 years ago] approaching, Mousavi and Karroubi noted: "On the eve of 13th of Aban, Student Day and the Anniversary of the Imam's exile we unfortunately continue to witness great pressure on our country's intellectuals, members of the academia, students, lawyers and journalists. Every day heavier sentences are issued against journalists and not only are they receiving prison sentences but they are also being banned fir decades from practicing their vocation. Well known and established lawyers are accused of defending their clients and condemned to heavy prison sentences in order to intimidate them from taking over the cases of political prisoners. Students and members of the academia are sentenced to long prison terms and exiled to prison far away from their residence, leading to distress, hardship and danger for their families. Despite all the oppressive measures taken by the current government, new and motivated forces join the political scene with the passing of every day and with it the people's Green movement is only getting stronger."
"Creating divisions amongst the various segments in our society and calling tens of millions of individuals such as teachers, laborors, students, professors, women and men in our nation "dust & trash", "incompetent", "microbes" and "members of a sedition" is not in the best interest of our nation. The regime that our dear Imam fought for during 15 years was after citizens obtaining sovereignty over their own destiny, rather than labeling a large segment of our population as enemies. We therefore strongly believe that it is the inherent right of every Iranian citizen to have access to civil rights and labeling them "microbes" and "dust and trash" is unacceptable and a foreign concept to say the least. A healthy society is one that that arises out of the will and vote of its people; a society in which criticism, protests and strikes are natural and considered as basic and fundamental right of its citizens."
"The adventurous foreign policy of the current government has led to a number of resolutions being issued against our country by several international organizations. We are already witnessing the negative impact of these resolutions on the livelihood of our citizens. There is unprecedented poverty, unemployment, closures of manufacturing facilities and indiscriminate imports to the point where even tombstones are imported from abroad. While our people suffer under these conditions, our government has provided grants and loans to foreign and neighboring countries. It is unclear to what extent the Parliament is involved and aware of these activities. Our countries economy has weakened significantly as a result of this mismanagement, but more importantly if we continue on this path of destruction, we may very well witness the demise of the regime. Is this type of mismanagement and splurging to the benefit of our nation? Why is there no transparency so that our citizens can be more aware of the affairs of their own government?"
"In conclusion, rather than waging a fruitless war against the institutions of Human Sciences in our country and demonstrating intolerance even towards your own friends, we urge you to take advantage of the knowledge and expertise of the individuals within our humanities fields; our economists, sociologists, demography specialists and individuals in other branches and empower them to resolve our countries problems with their expertise."
Source: Saham News: http://sahamnews.org/?p=10430
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