Τετάρτη 30 Ιουνίου 2021
Όταν έρθει η ώρα..
Δευτέρα 28 Ιουνίου 2021
Ο Παπάρας Άρης..
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Ιωάννης Τζανάκος
Ντροπή σου Άρη Χατζηστεφάνου.
Είσαι αριστερός εσύ;
Ντροπή σου.
Κυριακή 27 Ιουνίου 2021
Gonabadi Dervishes Resist Oppression of All Minorities Since Tehran Clashes
Friday, 25 June 2021
Mohammad Salas, a Gonabadi dervish, was executed in Iran on June 18, 2018. Salas was accused of killing three police officers by running them over with a bus during clashes between dervishes and the police in Golestan-e Haftom Street in Tehran in February 2018. He asserted his innocence in court saying he was forced to confess under torture.
Three years later, Gonabadi dervishes from different parts of Iran visited the tomb of Salas in Boroujerd to commemorate him. Mostafa Daneshjoo, a judiciary lawyer, posted a video of the ceremony on his Twitter account on June 17, 2021, and wrote: "When Mohammad Salas and many others around the world insisted on his innocence, there was no one who could ensure justice and a fair trial for him."
The incident of Golestan-e Haftam, which took place on February 19, 2018, is one of the bloodiest repressions to have occurred in the last 42 years. The Gonabadi dervish minority had long been known for its tolerance and peaceful behavior.
The clashes erupted after a number of plainclothes agents were deployed around the home of Noor Ali Tabandeh, the grandmaster of the Gonabadi Sufi order. Fearing that security agents were planning to arrest Tabandeh or to put him under house arrest, a group of dervishes surrounded his home to ward off any such attempt. The confrontation soon escalated into violence.
The Iran Human Rights Documentation Center (IHRDC) examined the repressive and discriminatory policies of the Iranian government towards Gonabadi dervishes in a recent report and detailed the persecution they face.
IranWire spoke with Ebrahim Allah Bakhshi, one of the dervishes who was arrested and imprisoned in the case of Golestan-e Haftom.
Ebrahim Allah Bakhshi says the repression of the dervishes has a longer history than the incident of the Golestan-e Haftom: “Dervishes have been oppressed and abused in past decades by the government. As someone whose father and grandfather were also dervishes, I have witnessed and heard first hand accounts of the oppression of dervishes over the years. However, with the growth of social media in the past few years, the new generation of dervishes has more access to the tools that help expose the troubles this oppressed group faces.”
“Prior to the widespread news about oppression of dervishes in Golestan-e Haftom, the extremist government forces were constantly destroying the dervishes' places of worship,” Allah Bakhshi says about the repressions that took place before the Golestan-e Haftom incident. “Dr. Tabandeh and other dervish leaders were always under pressure from the government. Gatherings usually faced obstacles and hosts were always summoned, threatened and arrested. As you know, there has been a lot of pressure in recent years to close or destroy the dervishes' Hosseiniyah, congregation halls for commemoration ceremonies. Hence, dervishes host religious rites in their homes. But even these small gatherings are not tolerated and have always been suppressed."
Beginning of the Collision: The First Days of Islamic Republic
Pointing out that repressing the dervishes was on the government's agenda from the first year of the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Allah Bakhshi says: “The first major clash happened in November 1979. Amir Soleimani Hosseiniyah in Behesht Street in Tehran was set on fire and destroyed. At the same time, extremists destroyed the tomb of one of the leaders of Gonabadi dervishes in Shahr-e-Rey. Two years later, by the order of the then Supreme Leader of Iran, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, permission was issued to rebuild the Amir Soleimani Hosseiniyah, and official letters were issued stating that the dervishes should be safe and secure. But this was the beginning of a systematic repression of the dervishes, and every few years the intimidation and repression of the dervishes intensified."
Allah Bakhshi is referring to Ayatollah Khomeini's letter to Mohammad Mohammadi Gilani, the head of the Central Islamic Revolutionary Courts. According to the report by the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center, the letter stated that the grandmaster of the Gonabadi dervishes could travel across the country, hold meetings, and that any interference in his affairs would be considered a serious crime and would be punished.
It Gets Worse During Khamenei's Leadership
After the death of Ruhollah Khomeini and the coming to power of Ali Khamenei, the intensity of oppression against the dervishes increased.
Allah Bakhshi says: "During the 80s and 90s, dervishes experienced all kinds of repressions. Destruction and burning of the Shariat Hosseiniyah in Qom by extremist agents of the government in 2006 was followed by the arrest of hundreds of Gonabadi dervishes, including my father, who had gone to protect the Hosseiniyah. Their trial was not fair and they received long sentences. This led the dervishes to consider setting up an independent media outlet to report on the atrocities against them. They established the Majzooban-e Noor news agency, which has since covered all the news about the dervishes."
Five years later, in September 2011, another bloody clash took place between Basij agents and Gonabadi dervishes in a small town called Kavar in Fars province. But this time, the Majzooban-e Noor agency media exposed the clash.
A few weeks before the clashes, pro-government extremists inspected the homes of dervishes without official orders while shouting “Down to American dervishes”. They also distributed pamphlets, wrote insulting slogans on the walls, and attacked the dervishes' businesses. Allah Bakhshi says: "I thought nothing worse could happen. But we witnessed something even more horrible in Golestan-e Haftom. I mentioned Mohammad Salas, Behnam Mahjoubi and Mohammad Raji. Let me also mention Vahid Banai, who was shot dead by security forces during the clashes in Kavar, and his killer, who according to witnesses, was one of the police officers, was never prosecuted."
The report by the Iran Human Rights Documentation Center indicates that the Islamic Republic violated its own laws, as well as its international human rights obligations to the religious minority of the Gonabadi dervishes. The Iranian government has repeatedly vandalized dervishes' shrines, confiscated their property, and suppressed their peaceful protests.
Why does the Islamic Republic Suppress the Dervishes?
Gonabadi dervishes are Shia Muslims. The IHRDC report says Sufism has a long history in Iran but the root of the dispute between the government and dervishes is one of fundamental ideological differences. Most importantly, dervishes do not accept the concept of velayat-e faqih, or the guardianship of the Islamic jurist, the basis for the authority of Iran’s Supreme Leader over the Iranian government and people. Dervishes refuse to obey an Islamic jurist and, unlike other Shia Mulisms, do not pay Islamic taxes. But if they have funds then they pay it to their dervish grandmaster.
According to the IHRDC report, the guardianship of the Islamic jurist is based on the interpretation of Islamic principles regarding the conformity of one person to the teachings of another; this is something dervishes do not accept. In his attempt to overthrow the Shah, Ayatollah Khomeini introduced a new philosophy in this area. According to him, during the absence of the Mahdi, the Twelfth Shia Imam, whose return Shia Muslim await, a righteous jurist has custodianship over Shia Muslims. But dervishes did not submit to this philosophy. In the 1980s, Dr. Noor Ali Tabandeh published an article rejecting the guardianship of the Islamic jurist in a magazine published by the Association for Defense of Freedom and the Sovereignty of the Iranian Nation.
"The leaders of the dervishes never interfere in the social and political affairs of the dervishes," says Allah Bakhshi. “Despite being political, Mr. Tabandeh never asked dervishes to take any particular political stance, with the exception of one case in 2009, in which he advised dervishes to support Mr. Karroubi [in presidential elections]. Even then, it was just advice, not a direct request. The reason was that Mr. Karroubi had supported the dervishes in the crises that had occurred in previous years."
Allah Bakhshi also says the dervishes have faced their challenges with unity: "The Islamic Republic knows that the dervishes have always stood together. They consider each other as religious brothers and sisters, and if there is a problem, they stand together because of this belief. In all these years, the ruling regime has tried to destroy their solidarity by trying to sow division. After the Golestan-e Haftom incident, they succeeded to some extent. But now, three years later, we see that even the dervishes who are in exile are attending anniversary commemorations of Mohammad Salas’s death. Everyone cares and asks about each other. They have not left the families of Mohammad Raji and Behnam Mahjoubi alone. It means that those efforts [of the authorities] have failed."
"We can call the younger dervishes warrior dervishes,” Allah Bakhshi says about the rise of the young generation. “The new generation is not just those who are born to dervish families. Many became interested and joined after the Golestan-e Haftom incident. The new generation not only pays attention to tolerance, which is recommended among these like-minded people, but is also concerned with problems of other minority groups. We tried to make things better for everyone in prison. Right now, dervishes in exile in the most deprived cities are doing positive things. Today, it is no longer just a matter of arresting or harassing dervishes. We use the small voice we have to reflect the problems of all minorities, and this is what ideological politicians are afraid of."
Related coverage:
Torture and Medical Negligence Led to Prisoner’s Death
Sketches from Inside an Iranian Prison
200 Dervishes Remain in Prison
The Sufi Case: From 2014’s Civil Resistance to 2018’s Violent Clashes
YJA-Star commander Koçgiri: The Third World War is decided in Kurdistan
Since 23 April, the Turkish army has been trying with all its capabilities to capture the areas of Zap, Avashîn and Metîna in South Kurdistan.
Pelşin Koçgiri, one of the commanders of the female guerrilla YJA-Star, speaks about the strategic offensive on Medya TV.
She said: “Indeed, the final phase of World War III is currently taking place in the Medya Defense Areas. The center of the war is Kurdistan anyway and this world war started with the plot against Rêber Apo [Abdullah Öcalan]. We have renewed ourselves as guerrillas in this process. We have adapted to the new era, developed new structures and equipped ourselves in such a way that we can survive a high-tech war. That is the real danger that the enemy perceives, which is why it first tried to get rid of us. As always, Turkey takes on the role of the policeman of the international powers."
"With its dogmatic logic, the Turkish state did not understand the situation"
Commander Koçgiri continued: “This war has been going on in an incomparable way for 40 years and the guerrilla spirit has always won. This 40-year war has shown that there is nothing the guerrillas cannot do. The state, shaped by a strictly dogmatic logic, is not in a position to grasp this. It trusts the technology it got from NATO and believes that this will get it out of the situation. But the state hadn't a clue about the strength of the newly structured guerrillas.”
"We have the power to vaccinate the whole world with hope"
Commander Koçgiri added: “I think the enemies have understood this in the last two months. The technological equipment was handed over to the Turkish state by NATO a long time ago and it has started to try it out. So we were always looking for ways to respond more effectively and keep the guerrilla war going. As PKK guerrillas, we are not limited to Kurdistan. Our philosophy and ideology are not limited to ourselves, we are a force that speaks to the whole world and inoculates the whole world with hope. We have learned a lot from our sacrifices and renewed ourselves at every new phase. We've changed the way we move and position ourselves. The consequences of this can be clearly seen in the results of the last two months and will become even more clearly visible."
"They have shown their failure by using chemical weapons"
Regarding the resistance in areas like Mamreşo, the YJA-Star commander pointed out that the Turkish army was forced to use chemical weapons because it was not being able to fight the guerrilla resistance. This is actually an admission of defeat, said the commander, adding: “In fact, every person who knows anything about war can see that the Turkish state has been defeated. To besiege a place with hundreds of soldiers and not be able to break the determination of these people and get results is a show of desperation. The use of chemical weapons is nothing more than an admission of defeat. Until the last moment we were in contact with the comrades and the last thing we heard was that chemical weapons were being used."
The strength of women guerrillas
Commander Pelşin Koçgiri said that the resistance is not limited to Mamreşo but is taking place in many areas.
She emphasized that women in particular have a special role to play and gave concrete examples of the strength of women from the guerrilla. She said: “The level that we have reached as guerrilla fighters has been evident during the invasion. A really tremendous force was unleashed, both in waging war, in the context of restructuring, in the implementation of the relevant discipline and in the extent of the resistance.”
Among many other examples, she cited the fallen comrades Ronahî and Melsa from the Cîlo yê Biçûk area.
"Final War of Women's Liberation"
The YJA Star Commander explained the importance of this war: “Currently, the history of women and the history of Kurdistan are very similar. Just as all patriarchal men are united against women, all system forces are united against Kurdistan. These attacks are the rape culture's final offensive. The Kurdistan region is exposed to rape. Rape is the most extreme form of violence against a woman's soul, emotions and body, and Kurdistan is also being raped. In the face of this attempted rape, there are three options: you remain silent, you participate and are complicit in the rape, or you fight against it. In this phase everyone has to determine their own position."
Σάββατο 26 Ιουνίου 2021
Ο αρλούμπας δεξιούμπας Μουμτζής
Ιωάννης Τζανάκος
Παρασκευή 25 Ιουνίου 2021
Τρίτη 22 Ιουνίου 2021
Κοινωνική θεωρία και επιστήμη.
Εφιαλτική πολικότητα..
Κυριακή 20 Ιουνίου 2021
Ebrahim Raeesi's Victory Signals Darker Days Ahead for Iran (Maziar Bahari)
The following is the content of IranWire’s extraordinary newsletter issued on Saturday, June 19. You can read all our recent, detailed coverage of president-elect Ebrahim Raeesi’s judicial career to date, and analysis of his future prospects, via the links below.
Iranians the world over woke up this morning to the actualization of an already near-universally acknowledged truth: the eighth president of Iran is Ebrahim Raeesi. State TV studios bedecked with flowers, revolutionary pop music and attempts to imbue Friday’s “election” with a party atmosphere accompanied a tepid vote which, ultimately, will see the inauguration in August of a lifelong regime crony whose hands are soaked in blood.
The polls closed at 2am last night, extended from 11pm in a bid to mitigate the dreadful turnout. Eight hours into the count, all three of Raeesi’s rivals had conceded defeat – even the quasi-reformist Abdolnasser Hemmati, who had earlier insisted he would wait until the final result was declared. In the end, about 30 million people are thought to have cast a vote in a day marked by empty polling stations, technical setbacks, allegations of ballot-stuffing and widespread ennui.
This is a wretched morning for Iran and Iranians. For the next four years the chief executive and global face of my beautiful country is going to be a stone-cold killer, devoid of grace or ingenuity, and a willing tool of Iran’s unelected deep state. Apart from being liable for crimes against humanity – which he does not even deny – Raeesi is sanctioned by both the European Union and the United States. He's subject to travel bans, making official visits to dozens of progressive states impossible, and smothering any hope of bilateral relations with democracies during his tenure. The best the new president can hope for is the odd macabre photo opp in such countries as Russia, China, Venezuela and Syria.
Friday’s vote also laid bare the deep, now possibly untenable divisions in 21st century Iranian society. Tens of millions of ordinary citizens opted to stay at home, out of apathy or disgust. The families of victims of state-sponsored slaughter, from 1988 to November 2019, begged people to take part in the boycott. Fights broke out at polling stations across Europe and the US while the most febrile atmosphere was found on social media, not in the streets of Iran.
Despite the evidence before their eyes, tens of millions of other Iranians were either genuinely happy – or felt in some way forced – to take part in the masquerade. Apart from ushering a mass murderer into Iran’s top executive role, according to the exhortations of Ayatollah Khamenei, the vote will serve to “legitimize” a retrograde, cruel and backward regime into the mid-2020s.
Raeesi’s tenure as president, resting as it does on his decades of human rights abuses in the judiciary, will negatively impact every aspect of public life in Iran. Books will go unpublished, women’s voices will be stifled, minorities will be persecuted, and people will continue to be tortured and executed for not cleaving to the Islamic Republic’s arcane official line. The prospect is difficult to stomach. And indeed, it's hard to imagine that the growing number of educated, pro-democracy Iranians will remain silent about this. We could well see a repeat of the November 2019 protests - perhaps even several times over - in the four years to come.
Election 2021: Raeesi Wins; "Invalid" Votes Come Second
Preliminary
results of the 2021 presidential election in Iran showed Ebrahim Raeesi
leading with at least 17.8 million votes out of 28.6 million so-far
verified votes.
Ebrahim Raeesi: The Case for the Prosecution
Iran's next
president Ebrahim Raeesi had a decisive role in the 1988 massacre of
political dissidents in Iran. Could he be prosecuted for his part in
this international crime?
Ebrahim Raeesi: Leadership Hopeful's Key Role in Brutalizing Dissidents in the 2000s
During his
first five years as first deputy of the judiciary, Raeesi and his
colleagues presided over a welter of human rights violations in the
2000s.
Ebrahim Raeesi: The 1990s Exploits of "Ayatollah Massacre"
The years 1988 to 1994 witnessed the stratospheric rise of Ebrahim
Raeesi from middling to senior member of the Iranian judiciary,
including sitting on Ayatollah Khomeini's death panel which sent
thousands of political prisoners to their deaths in 1988.
Ebrahim Raeesi: The Bloodstained Early Years
This report examines some of the more under-reported details of Ebrahim
Raeesi's life and career to date, from birth in a famous district of
Mashhad to becoming a member of Ayatollah Khomeini’s infamous death
panel.
Ebrahim Raeesi: The Hanging Judge Set to Become Iran's Next President
Where did Ebrahim Raeesi come from, and what is his political record to
date? IranWire examines the long, grim trajectory of Iran’s likely next
president.
Reality Check: Ebrahim Raeesi's Record in Fighting Corruption
Ebrahim Raeesi served as the judiciary’s first deputy for 10 years, then
worked for another 10 as head of the General Inspection Office. In this
time, he presided over a system that became institutionally corrupt and
was inefficient at fighting corruption.
Ebrahim Raeesi’s Presidential Candidacy: A Gamble on Succeeding Khamenei
Chief justice
Ebrahim Raeesi has registered as a candidate in the upcoming
presidential election, but it’s a big gamble that may also cost him the
chance to succeed Khamenei as Supreme Leader.
Raeesi’s Crimes Against Humanity Will Haunt his Presidency
Ebrahim
Raeesi, Iran's next president, is directly implicated in the
extrajudicial killings of thousands of people in summer 1988. From an
international legal perspective, he could easily stand accused of crimes
against humanity.
Όχι τώρα, χθες..
Παρασκευή 18 Ιουνίου 2021
Τουρκικό Κράτος.
Το τουρκικό κράτος στοχεύει στην κατάληψη τού Şengal, όπου τελέστηκαν τα μαζικά εγκλήματα από το ISIS εναντίον των κουρδογενών Γεζίντι, με την υποστήριξη του.
Εν ψυχρώ δημόσια δολοφονία στην Σμύρνη, μέλους τού φιλοκουρδικού αριστερού κόμματος, από γνωστό παρακρατικό γκρίζο λύκο.
Δημοσίευση από:
Πέμπτη 17 Ιουνίου 2021
Guerrillas perform Sophocles’ ‘Antigone’ amid Turkish air strikes
The group plans to perform the play to different guerrilla audiences.
THE TRAGEDY OF KURDISTAN
The adaptation of “Antigone” is called “Kurdistan” and reflects Kurdish women’s freedom struggle, a strong criticism of patriarchal society, patriotism and sociality.
The group says as “Antigone” is the first play in history about resistance, civil disobedience and natural law, it was a perfect fit to reflect the social struggle in Kurdistan.
Οι «άντρες» έχουν ΠΡΟΒΛΗΜΑ.
Την έφαγε την κοπέλα ο Σύζυγος.
Οι «άντρες» έχουν ΠΡΟΒΛΗΜΑ.
Η εργατική τάξη πέρα από τον «θαυμαστό κόσμο» τής «επαναστατικής μπροσούρας»..
Κωμωδία..
Επιτέλους το κατάλαβα. Ζω στη λατίνο περιφέρεια τής δυτικής Μέσης Ανατολής. Επιστρέφουμε επιτέλους στην καθαυτό θεματολογία μας.
Μετά από την υποτροπή μας με τα εδώ κολομβιανά δεδομένα (δεν έχουμε πρόβλημα με τον κολομβιανό λαό, κάθε άλλο), επιστρέφουμε.
Κοίταξε ανατολικά, κοίταξε ανατολικά, ξέχασε τους, τούς εδώ (ξόρκι).
Ελλαδίστας Κομπραδόρες Τραβαχαδόρες Κομπανιέρος ΤσιπροΜητσοτακσιόν.
Ιωάννης Τζανάκος
Τετάρτη 16 Ιουνίου 2021
Ήπιες προτάσεις, επί τού πρακτέου..
Οι δύο ανδροκρατίες..
Διαλεκτική= η ανδροκρατία των «αριστερών».
Τρίτη 15 Ιουνίου 2021
Τεχνική και ηθικο-τεχνική σημείωση για τον λαϊκό πόλεμο.
Σημείο επαναστατικής δημοκρατικής ανάφλεξης.
Ένα μέλλον, ένα πιθανό μέλλον.
Οι εξαρτημένοι μεταπράτες δεν μας αφήνουν.
Τόσο απλά.
Τι μας λείπει; Για αυτό το έχουν το κΚε στο ψυγείο σαν εφεδρεία.
Για να μην το φτιάξουμε.
Η ντροπή τού λαού.
KCDK-E: NATO paves the way for new massacres of Kurds
KCDK-E said that "the final declaration of the NATO Leaders Summit aimed at covering up all the crimes committed by Turkish president Erdogan and the genocidal Turkish army and give a green light to further massacres."
In a written statement, the KCDK-E co-presidency stated that the final declaration of the NATO Leaders Summit aimed at covering up all the crimes committed by Turkish president Erdogan and the genocidal Turkish army and give a green light to further massacres.
The statement said: "The result of the NATO Leaders' Summit held in Brussels on Monday, 14 June 2021, paves the way for new massacres, as it is intended to cover up all the crimes committed by dictator Erdogan and the genocidal Turkish army, which threatens the peoples of the Middle East and especially the Kurdish people."
The KCDK-E drew attention to the following: “Turkey, which has put tens of thousands of people in prisons because of their different opinions, where the free will of any dissenting voice is not accepted, where women are exposed to rape and murder by men, and where a large part of the society is left unemployed and starved, has been rewarded with this decision.”
The statement added: “We call on you, the honourable peoples of Europe and the world, seeing the extent of the danger, remembering the human struggle of the Kurdish people against the barbaric ISIS mercenaries, to put an end to this wrong decision of NATO and to fight wars, massacres, genocide and poverty so that peoples can live in freedom and peace on earth wherever they are in the world.
We call on people to act together against dictatorships, wars, hunger and misery, and prevent people from being imprisoned for expressing their free thoughts. A democratic Turkey, a democratic Middle East, a peaceful Europe and the world are our basic desires.
We call on you to support the struggle for democracy so that he can lead a humane and democratic life in Turkey, Kurdistan and the Middle East.”
Background
The NATO final joint communiqué said among other things:
“Syria retains an inventory of short-range ballistic missiles whose range covers parts of NATO’s territory and some of our partners’ territories. Syria has used these missiles extensively against its own population. We remain vigilant over missile launches from Syria which could again hit or target Turkey. We continue to monitor and assess the ballistic missile threat from Syria.
The conflict in Syria has entered its eleventh year and continues to have significant consequences on the stability of the region and the security of NATO’s south-eastern border. We remain concerned and vigilant over its ramifications. We reiterate our determination to defend NATO territory and borders against any threats and to address challenges emanating from Syria. […] We call for a nationwide ceasefire and the reauthorisation and expansion of the UN cross-border humanitarian assistance for a period of at least 12 months in order to meet the needs of the Syrian people. We reiterate our appreciation to our Ally Turkey for hosting millions of Syrian refugees.”