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Tehran's Grand Bazaar Boarded up
* * A day after the passing of the European Union sanctions resolution, the British government confiscated the cargo on board two Iranian shipping line doing business incognito. The Iranian regime which is said to have been taken off guard reacted by reporting in one of the state-sponsored websites that the two shipping companies were in fact registered legally in Britain and that they have no acted unlawfully.
Reja News, a site close to Khamenei published a piece attacking the Iranian regime officials, criticizing them for ‘not doing their homework’ where British law is concerned. The site also wrote that the incompetence of the Iranian authorities who oversee these issues must be mindful of protecting Iranian property and has demanded they familiarize themselves with international laws or hiring knowledgeable people who can handle the job, preventing any such occurrences in the future.
* * Party goers arrested. The security agents of the Tehran suburb of Karaj arrested 159 young women and men, guests at a party. Raids on co-ed parties which has been an ongoing problem in Iran has recently skyrocketed. In this case, 80 men and 79 women which an Iranian regime-run site describes as “half naked and drinking alcoholic beverages” were arrested and arraigned.
* * The Persian-language section of the Russian site Ria Novosti reports: “In recent weeks commercial cooperation between Iran and China has declined. Chinese banks have begun to refuse extending Iranian credit. Ahmadinejad who visited Shanghai last month is said to have sensed a rather cold reception from Chinese officials as none of the Chinese authorities greeted him upon his arrival in China.
Mohammad-Reza Naghdi
* * Seventy Iranian anti-regime networks broadcast via satellite. On Wednesday night, July 28th, Mohammad-Reza Naghdi, Commander of the Basij militia spoke at a gathering of ‘cultural activists’ in the town of Zanjan. Naghdi announced: “Currently there are seventy Persian-language networks broadcasting propaganda against the the Islamic leadership. Awareness and vigilance is the top priority in confronting the enemy’s soft war, standing up to the threats and conspiracies. The enemies of Islamic leadership fear the spread of Islamic doctrine around the world and that is why they psychological war against us, to weaken us and our people.”
* * Sunni Online reports: Sunni Friday prayer leader of the city of Zahedan, Sheikh al-Islam Mowlana Abdol-Hamid prohibited from leaving Iran. Following his trip to Turkey to participate in the International Assembly of World Ulama conference, Abdol-Hamid was arrested in Tehran’s airport and his passport was confiscated. The Iranian regime agents who arrested him, did not provide him with a receipt that would allow him to reclaim his passport. The arrest warrant is said to have been issued by the Special Clerical Court.
Sheikh Abdol-Hamid who is among the world’s leading scholars on Islam had been invited by the Assembly of the World of Islam to attend it’s conference in Mecca on August 1st; the conference was in commemoration of the 50th year of the establishment of the Assembly.
When asked about the confiscation of his passport Abdol-Hamid replied: “In my opinion this is nothing more than narrow-mindedness and a lack of tolerance of Iranian Sunnis with the world of Islam.”
The Shi’ite-Sunni relations in Iran are and always have been strained as the Iranian regime’s leadership which is strictly Shi’ite is intolerant of any other sect than their own. And especially following the Jundollah suicide bombings in Zahedan two weeks ago, the Iranian regime has mounted pressure on all residents of Zahedan and the province of Sistan and Baluchestan in general.
