Source:
Saham News
Mansour Osanlou |
Mehdi Karroubi visited the family of Mansour Osanlou, the imprisoned trade union
activists and a founding member of the Syndicate of Workers of Tehran and
Suburbs Bus Company which is an independent union campaigning vigorously for
workers' rights, and comforted them. According to SahamNews (official website of
Etemad Melli party) in this visit that all the family members of Osanlou family
were present, Mother of Mansour Osanlou while praising and thanking Mehdi
Karroubi for his rightful positions in defending the rights of the people
expressed joy for Karroubi's presence in her son's home.
During this visit, the mother of Mansour Osanlou spoke of the pressures and
damages that have been brought on Roya Samadi, their daughter-in-law, to Mehdi
Karroubi. She expressed her sadness over the brutal attack of the security
forces on Zoya Samadi and added: "Unfortunately, they kidnapped her on June 23rd
and after transferring her to an unknown location, she was severely beaten and
bashed by a few male agents." The mother of Mansour Osanlou continued: "They
severely beat her in a way that many parts of her body have been bruised; and at
the late hours of the night they pushed her out of the car under the Seyyed
Khandan Bridge (in the western part of Tehran)." The mother of Mansour Osanlou
added that the beating and bashing was so severe that caused Zoya, who was
pregnant at the time, to suffer miscarriage.
Mehdi Karroubi in this meeting while expressing deep sorrow and regret regarding
such horrendous actions hoped that Mansour Osanlou would be released soon and
return to the arms of his loving family.
Karroubi by recalling his own resistance campaign during the Shah's era said:
"At that time when we started our resistance and Imam [Khomeini] started his
campaign, the foundations of the revolution was based on this principle that no
one would suffer from oppression. The barbaric practices that now is being
committed against individuals and their families is the oppression against the
people that the Shah's regime, with all its corruption, had not have committed
such actions against families and I, as a member of this system, am ashamed from
you; but don't see these treatments as part of Imam [Khomeini]'s path and
Islam."
Mehdi Karroubi expressed hope that on the eve of the holy month of Ramadan, all
political prisoners be freed and would be with their families at Iftar time.
Mehi Karroubi at the end while expressing his deepest condolences to the people
of Sistan and Baluchistan province, who are mourning the loss of their loved
ones following the suicide terrorist bombings, said: "The occurrence of such
events in the country is shameful and sad. I express my condolences to the
people of this province for this event and I hope that as soon as possible we
witness the arrest and trial of those who ordered and those who implemented this
event."
The illusion of having single party system in
Iran is doomed to fail
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Mehdi Karroubi
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In a meeting with a group of students of children
of martyrs and veterans Mehdi Karroubi emphasized: "All citizens from ethnic
minorities to people with different political views have the same rights and no
injustice upon any citizen is allowed."
He added: "Never has someone so obviously and shamelessly been lying and
spreading superstition. Morality has been destroyed and has been replaced by
lies, slander, and superstition; and all immoralities like cancers are gaining
control and increasing their influences."
Mehdi Karroubi continued: "With the efforts of some and of course at the expense
of the people, slanders and lies against others have become a duty and daily
routine [for some] in a way that if we want to pay attention to them we should
issue one or even several objections every day."
He added: "The pathology of the political currents can be a successful approach
to advance the progressive goals of the Islamic Republic which unfortunately
now, thanks to the country's administrative steersmen and institutionalizing of
lies, slander and hypocrisy, we have gone miles away from them."
He continued: "The illusion of having a single party in Iran is not only bound
to failure but also the political structure of the Islamic Republic of Iran does
not accept it. Of course, there have been people who have had this illusion in
their minds and even in the previous regime they announced it as Rastakhiz (the
resurrection) [party] but they took this illusion and idea to their graves."
Karroubi continued: "It was supposed for the
supreme leader to be on top so that creates the appropriate background for
maximum participation and healthy competition among the parties and groups and
expands the room for critiquing in the country to expand; not to rather bring it
to this low level and in portray in the form of a single party."
At the end, Mehdi Karroubi referred to the youth and students present at the
meeting and said: "No government has been able to remain with lies, hypocrisy
and repression. The human experience has proven that those who seek to remove
diversity and want to create monologue in the society, have not learned the
great lesson of the history and have put themselves on the historical path of
destruction. Bad management in the global stage, not abiding by the law,
weakening public institutions through lack of acceptance and bullying, misuse of
sacred beliefs, lying, intervention and making decision for people in their
personal lives (like telling people how many kids they should have), calling the
great nation of Iran scratches and chips and read the great nation of Iran ...
were all not enough that today they bring up the single party!"
Karroubi added: "But know that victory definitely belongs to the great nation of
Iran. Because no government anywhere in the world has been able to remain with
such means and of course the people of Iran have proven that they will give in
to tyranny and bullying." l
... Payvand News - 07/19/10 ... --
