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DUBAI - A group of Iranian military commanders has blamed Mohammad Khatami for student protests and warned him they are losing patience with what amounts to Iran's most serious unrest in two decades.
The warning from commanders in the Revolutionary Guard -- a force dedicated to the ruling Islamic clergy -- came in a July 12 letter sent to Khatami at the height of six days of student protests in the capital Tehran.
"Our patience is at an end. We do not feel it is our duty to show any more tolerance," the commanders told Khatami in the letter, published Monday in the Kayhan newspaper.
"Mr. President, if you don't take a revolutionary decision today and (you) fail to abide by your Islamic and nationalistic duty, tomorrow will be too late and the damage done will be irreparable and beyond imagination," Kayhan quoted the letter as saying. The newspaper's reports are monitored in Dubai.
The letter was signed by 24 senior
officers of the Revolutionary Guards, including the commanders of its land,
sea and air forces.
Khamenei Steps Up Attacks On Mullahs' Weakened President, Iran Zamin News Agency, July 20
The publication of a threatening letter addressed to the clerical regime's President Mohammad Khatami by 24 top commanders of the Revolutionary Guards signals a new push in an ongoing offensive launched by Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei against his rival faction.
Despite Khatami's appearance on the state television last week and his pledge to suppress the demonstrations and the suppressive directives issued by the Supreme National Security Council under his chairmanship, Khamenei's faction has made the letter public. The power struggle within the clerical regime is thus surging out of control.
The publication of the letter a week
after it was written further proves the point that Khatami has been the
biggest loser in the events of the past two weeks.
Urgent Call to Save Those Arrested in Recent Student Uprising, Iran Zamin News Agency, July 20
Following seven days of upheaval by students and people of Tehran, the mullahs' religious, terrorist dictatorship has subjected to torture a number of those arrested.
To prevent another explosion of public disenchantment and control the situation, the mullahs' anti-human regime has made extensive arrests in Tehran and other cities. A number of those arrested are being tortured in Vali-e Asr Garrison under the supervision of the Guards Corps' counter-intelligence. GC Brigadier General Nazari, commander of the State Security Forces in Tehran, oversees the arrests.
Thousands of protesters arrested recently in Tehran are presently held in Vali-e Asr Garrison, Evin Prison's Hosseinieh, Qasr Prison, Gohardasht and Qezel-Hessar prisons in Karaj, and Varamin Prison.
The prisoners detained in Qasr Prison are to be transferred in groups of 100 to the Qezel-Hessar Prison in Karaj.
The Iranian Resistance calls on international
human rights organizations and authorities to intervene to save the lives
of those arrested during the uprising in Tehran and other cities. The officials
of the anti-human clerical regime have officially threatened to "execute"
those arrested or cut off their "hands", "legs" and "tongues."
Regime Blames Opposition For Student Uprising, Reuters, July 18
TEHRAN - Iranian authorities said on Sunday that some of those arrested in last week's violent unrest were linked to exiled opposition groups.
"It has been established that some of those arrested, with a major role in the riots and (orchestrating) deludable slogans, have links with anti-revolutionary elements outside the country," the intelligence ministry said in a statement.
"Based on confessions, some of the more active ones were being supported and guided from abroad and continuously received money in their bank accounts," the statement said. The Mujahideen Khalq is the largest and most active Iranian dissident group.
[The President of the National Council of Resistance, Mr. Massoud Rajavi, has urged the UN Secretary General, the President of the Security Council and the High Commissioner for Human Rights to immediately dispatch an international fact-finding mission to Iran. Mr. Rajavi drew the attention of human rights organizations, especially the relevant bodies in the United Nations, to the ongoing developments in Iran and the need to defend the lives and basic rights of all student activists and political prisoners who were abducted, assassinated or arrested by the clerical regime in recent days. The NCR President emphasized: "One must not allow the ruling mullahs to enjoy free rein in committing murder and crimes in the last phase of their rule."]