-----Original Message----- From: ANDERSON DAVID <andersd at spot.colorado.edu> To: asdnet at igc.topica.com <asdnet at igc.topica.com> Date: Friday, January 12, 2001 10:45 AM Subject: [ASDnet] The mullahs are packing!
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>Fearing Yugoslaviasation, Iranian clerical rulers are packing
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>PARIS 11 Jan. (IPS) Frightened at the idea of Yugoslaviasation, a number
>of senior clerics have sent their close families to foreign nations,
>including the United States and transferred large sum of money to foreign
>banks, most of them in Switzerland, according to a well informed Iranian
>scholar and researcher.
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>"The country is in total chaos and anarchy. Outside Tehran, the regime has
>no control over the situation. The gangs of bandits the regime claims it
>kills in larger numbers in border areas with Afghanistan or elsewhere are
>in fact local population who have taken arms against the authorities", the
>source told Iran Press Service during an interview, asking for anonymity.
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>He said one of the reason that has plunged Iran into chaos is the growing
>sentiment among population, mostly the students, that the regime has
>reached a dead end.
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>"The growing sentiment in the first circle of clerical rulers, including
>people in the office of Ayatollah Ali Khameneh'i and his immediate
>entourage as well as among high-ranking revolutionary guards officers is
>that they may face the same fate as the former Romanian dictator Nicolae
>Ceausescu or, at best, that of Slovobodan Milosevic of Yugoslavia", the
>source said.
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>He said the theories of repetition of events that led to the sudden fall
>of Ceausescu of Romania or a general uprising by the people demanding the
>departure of present rulers are on everyone's lip and mind.
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>The Romanian ruler, a friends of the Iranians, was toppled under a sudden
>but violent popular uprising in December 1989 while he was addressing the
>nationand was executed afterward alongside his wife, and as to his
>Yugoslav counterpart, he was forced to leave office last year under
>growing public pressure.
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>In his view, the moral among the revolutionary guards file and rank is
>"very low" and for this reason, to silence the dissidents, the Judiciary
>power reverts more and more to the Law Enforcement Forces and the Ansar
>Hezbollah pressure groups or the Basij forces.
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>"At several occasion were there has been wide range popular unrest and
>disturbances, with angry protesters attacking banks, setting fire on buses
>and other buildings belonging to the State, seldom the guards intervened,
>forcing the authorities to call in the LEF and the Ansar", he observed.
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>He said in order to persuade the population that they are here to stay as
>long as God decides, the ruling authorities are increasing public
>flogging, hanging, amputations of fingers and hands and stoning of women
>accused of adultery or other major sin.
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>Iranian newspapers reported in recent days several cases of public hanging
>by cranes in Tehran, amputation of fingers and hands of thieves as well as
>stoning of two women, one accused of murdering her husband.
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>The reports were met with a storm of protest by Iranian opposition groups.
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