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The new UN envoy to Syria warned that at least 500 civilians trapped in Kobani could be massacred if the town falls.

Staffan de Mistura said in Geneva that a UN analysis showed only a small portion of Kobani remained open for people to enter or flee the town.

De Mistura said there are about 500 – 700 elderly people and other civilians still trapped in Kobani, while 10,000 – 13,000 are stuck in an area nearby, close to the Syria-Turkey border.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/10/kobani-isis-advance-kurdish-resistance-surprise – 10/10/2014.

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For the past eight years the Islamic Republic has been trying to punish a religious leader, Ayatollah Kazemani Boroujerdi, for the crime of expressing “anti-government views.” Boroujerdi is a senior member of the Shia clergy and an advocate for separation of religion and state, and in light of the publication of his new book, the authorities are reportedly working at expediting a death sentence for him. He is slated to die by hanging.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/marjan-keypour-greenblatt/killing-him-softly-with-t_b_5943144.html – 10/9/2014.

Khamenei, in the Name of God – A Comment on the Rayhaneh Jabbari Story

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. . . Shole Pakravan, said Wednesday morning that her daughter has heard nothing about the execution and is being pressured to sign a document that denies there was any attempt at rape and that there was no third party present at the time of the alleged murder.

http://www.bayoubuzz.com/us-news/item/759116-life-or-death-family-of-capitve-iranian-woman-left-in-the-dark – 10/9/2014; primary: http://www.lisadaftari.com/family-rayhaneh-jabbari-iranian-woman-death-row-dark-despite-report-spared/

As if more proof were needed of Ayatollah Khamenei’s ______ (you fill it it in — the writer’s tired), the entire world has now the spectacle of this smiley old white haired fella torturing a young woman not only by denying her an inherent right to an authoritative, honest, fair, just, and open — and openly audited — trial before the Iranian public but by degrading and humiliating her all the way to the gallows — or freedom, God willing.

Reyhaneh Jabbari’s first lawyer, Mohammad Mostafaei, had apparently made it clear that Jabbari’s death sentence was signed by the courts even after the evidence had been destroyed or went “missing.” Possibly those who signed her death sentence in the Islamic Republic of Iran are not even sure of Jabbari’s guilt themselves, or could be just trying to blame her for the murder, regardless.

 http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/4283/iran-rayhaneh-jabbari-stay-of-execution – 4/23/2014.


The government announced that the execution will be postponed but did not give any indication the sentence had been overturned. It also did not disclose if any future execution date had been set.

Jabbari, who has already served seven years in prison, claims Sarbandi drugged her and attempted to have physical contact with her.

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2014/04/15/tehran-government-postpones-execution-woman-charged-with-killing-her-accused/4/15/2014.


Modafe website 31 Aug 2010 News Report- (Human right Lawyer Mr Mostafaei’s Official site)

Reyhaneh Jabbari is a girl from Iran. She is now 22 years old and has been in Tehran’s Evin prison where the last Wednesday of every month a number of prisoners are hanging. She has spent the best years of her life in the prison and she will. Maybe some other days of her life have left.

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/save-reyhaneh-jabbari.html – 8/31/2010.


Here is an interesting trio based on the web search “Iran, executions, last Wednesdays”:

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/08/07/iran.executions/index.html“Human rights group notes ‘alarming spike’ in Iran executions” – 8/7/2009.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/02/us-iran-executions-idUSTRE71161O20110202“Iran executions three times last year’s rate: U.N.”- 2/2/2011.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/04/us-iran-idUSBREA330VH20140404 “Spike in Iran executions seen politically motivated” – 4/4/2014.

Proposed film title: “Iranimania II: Death Cult Hanging Orgy!”

Each of the above reports, published in  2009, 2011, and 2014, comments on the acceleration of the rate of hangings by the Iranian regime: more arrests, more “trials”, more hangings, never fewer, often if not predominantly similarly unjust — and when a hanging is “unjust” it is only a common act of murder.

Into this atmosphere of the Islamic Devilution in Iran comes Rayhaneh Jabbari who presents as a young miss who handily fended off a known regime _______ (again, you fill it in) “—a former intelligence officer and, at the time, a high-ranking member of Iran’s government—,” says an April 2014 Vice article of the deceased Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi, who had attempted to sexually assault her.

Earlier this month, Human Rights Watch declared in a most polite header with subheading, “Iran: Stop Woman’s ExecutionLegal Process Plagued With Irregularities” (October 1, 2014).  The tone was matched by an equally circumspect recounting of the horror.


”The grotesque spectacle of bound, blindfold figures being hauled into the air by cranes in public hangings is a common sight in Rouhani’s Iran.”

Many of these executions were carried out after trials lasting “only minutes,” added Mr Hogarth.

“Iran is a serial human rights offender and Britain needs to confront this fact in any dealings with the country,” he said.

Since Hassan Rouhani has become president over 1000 prisoners have been executed including women and juvenile offenders.

http://www.ncr-iran.org/en/news/human-rights/17329-iran-a-prisoner-hanged-in-zahedan-prison3 – 10/8/2014.

Update – October 26, 2014

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/breaking-iran-executes-reyhaneh-jabbari-26-year-old-woman-who-killed-her-rapist-1471698 – 10/25/2014

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/10/25/iran-woman-hanged-for-killing-rapist_n_6046350.html – 10/25/2014.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/middleeast/2014/10/amnesty-iran-set-hang-woman-at-dawn-2014102422855125759.html – 10/26/2014.

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OTTAWA — MPs from all parties have called on Iran to halt the executions of three individuals.

Ayatollah Hossein-Kasamani Boroujerdi, a Shiite clergyman convicted for his anti-government views, Reyhaneh Jabbari, a 26-year-old rape victim who killed her attacker, and Omid Kokabee, a physicist who is dying in prison after being denied medical care, are all on death row.

http://www.edmontonsun.com/2014/10/07/mps-demanding-iran-stop-executions – 10/7/2014.

FTAC – Aristocats

I’d rather be a film producer than a small country’s President for Life.

Many questions come up with the dissolving of absolute power in definite ways.

Putin has traveled so far into Russia’s future that he’s made it back to the 19th Century and given us the spectacle of a $51 billion Olympic party. From China, the elite have been getting themselves into the cushiest real estate Melbourne, Australia has on offer. Ayatollah Khamenei heads up a $91 billion private enterprise, and much of it built on state seizure AKA “theft”.

On the other hand . . . it’s cool to visit The Pyramids. Or Versailles.

Over popcorn, we’re able to enjoy not only The Last Emperor but The Last Samurai as well.

And how else have I described my own digs but as “a mansion inside a cabin or cottage inside an apartment replete with kitchen, bar, and grill, dining hall, home theater, and a two-thousand volume library?  

Add broadband.

And for walking the fine estate (like Yanukovych), there’s a Barbour in the closet and a gravel lane at the base of the complex.

Just say “Quixote“!

And I am there.

In a State I refer to as “19th Century Modern“.

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And over coffee: good morning!


The prompt: a conversation about political absolutism, more or less.

Your editor on this blog lives a an hermetic and modest life albeit with a wealth in books plus some ownership of his own time.

A rabbi with whom I had lunch now and then wondered, “What if you had six-thousand-dollars a month for living?”

I drew a blank at that remote prospect.

However, probably, I’d get into a small house and update the now 15-year-old car.

🙂

I’ve a neglected journal-styled blog online, so will stop here with that.

On related politics and political psychology: a healthy narcissism takes pride in others as well as the self.  It produces built things and services that no less than good rhetoric “delights, educates, and entertains”.  Our malignant few: those delight, educate, and entertain primarily themselves!

The chain of power I’ve described as Putin-Assad-Khamenei (“together they are defending political absolutism”) deeply exploit their own in the development of what they perceive as their own glorious image (never mind what they Yanukovych Papers may have to tell us about the class in general).

Additional Reference

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/11/ayatollah-khamenei-investigation_n_4254020.html – 11/11/2013 (republished Reuter’s piece).

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