From: saied@odin.unomaha.edu (Saied*)
Subject: The Khomeini Regime's Terror and the Mentality of it Supporters
Organization: University of Nebraska at Omaha
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 20:19:19 GMT

I found the following article last night. It was posted to
s.c.i sometime ago.

I do not know who the author is, but the article is valuable.
It describes the mentality of the Khomeini regime's followers.
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	It never stops to amaze me the amount of persisting reaction,
terror, inhumanity, brutality and undemocratic behavior that both, the 
government of Iran and its followers continue to prevail. It is a policy
previously taken and is repeating itself; and that is to blame others for 
their own inhumane actions.  

Kazim Rajavi was only one of the victims of such outrageous and unexposed
acts. Some others were; Ghasemloo from the Democratic Party of Kurdistan, 
Keshavarz from 'Komaleh', Hamid ... from 'Toofan', the group of Iranian 
refugees in front of UN office who were gunned down in Pakistan and many 
many others. 

	The truth is, this is nothing in comparison with what the government
has done inside the country. Torture, execution, mass murders, suppression
and humiliation is what Behnam Sadeghi-ha are supporting. What kind of an
experience has that been for the people of Iran? Let us see:

Religious minorities: 
Baha-is where the main victims, many executed for being Baha-is (an
unrecognized religion by Islam), only. (It is pitiful to argue about 
the number of Baha-is executed and not addressing the fact that why
should any Bahais be executed, even if it was only one person; the act 
is condemned!)

National minorities: 
One of the first actions of the government was to attack
Kurdistan because of their sovereignty demands. The results were brutal murder
of defenceless Kurdish men and women. Many women had had their breasts cut 
off before they were killed! 

Another attack was on Turkaman Sahra, another massacre of innocent, 
defenceless people who had created their own groups and councils to take 
role in their
own destiny.

Women: 
The famous law of retribution, which is the most impudent action taken
against women. Women are valued as half of men in their social rights, their
punishments their abilities and ....

The legalization of polygamy, forced veiling, encouraging prostitution by
performing the act of 'Seegheh' among women who lost their husbands in the war
and men who came back from the war, raping women in prisons before executing 
them and shamelessly taking a flower to the parents of that child in return 
(in these Islamic rapes, the torturers perform 'Seegheh' before 
executing their victims), killing 9 year old girls (and of course raping 
them before the executions) ; this was justified by the fact that a high 
ranking clergy had said that a 9 year old girl is as mature as a 40 year 
old man! and it goes on and on and on.

Prisons:
The masterpiece of the Islamic Republic Regime during the past eleven 
years has been the way it has handled prisons and prisoners. Tens and 
thousands of people ranging from nine year olds who were caught distributing
leaflets all the way to old workers who refused to be pushed again, 
experienced these prisons. For many unfortunately, this was their last 
experience. Torture is common practise in the prisons and execution is 
the only ticket out. Many have been buried in groups,

The War:
An eight year long war between the governments of Iran and Iraq, and 
innocent people as their victims. Kids directed towards mine-fields, while
they are given plastic keys made in Taiwan and told they were keys to 
heaven and the minefields were the direction to heaven. Millions killed,
thousands handicapped, cities distroyed, millions of refugees and . . ..
And remember the propaganda the government of Iran started about the 
Chemical bombings of a Kurdish village in Iraq, well the UN says that Iran
was responsible for those chemical bombs as well as Iraq! 

And the list goes on.  
 
	These are not street rumors, they are facts stamped in our
history. Victims are not only supporters of Mojahedeen, Tudeh, Fedaiis,Peykar 
monarchists or Nehzate Azadi, they are not only the Baha-is, Armenians, Kurds, 
Turkmans,Arabs and Baluchis, the victims are all of those plus all of the people
who trusted the empty words they were promised, the victims are the
children of this generation, who are being brought up in a reign of
terror, deprived of any right to speak or express themselves and become either
suppressors or be suppressed inhumanly. 

	Behnam sadeghi-ha can pretend these are all lies, these things never
happened and the government and its agents can kill anyone who disagrees,
but the truth is it happened and is still happening. As it is happening in 
El Salvador, Palestine, South Africa, it is happening in Iran. So it is hard 
to believe the nerves of Behnam Sadeghi-ha when they defend these actions.

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