“You will fall…“

* * Iranian protesters have called on people around the world to boycott Chinese goods.

* * Iranian Minister of Science, Kamran Daneshjou (photo),  who is also known to be a member of the Basij militia said that the condition for professors to be eligible to teach at Iranian universities is that they be followers of the Supreme Leader and that they believe in the . Daneshjou added: “Anyone whose belief system is far from that of the officials and takes illegal actions and insults the divinities will be condemned by the authorities.”

* * Received reports indicate that a member of the diplomatic cadre of one of the European countries was also arrested during the Ashura (December 26th & 27th) protests.  The Secretary General of the Security and Foreign Affairs Commission of the Islamic Parliament (Majles) Alaeddin Boroujerdi admitted to such an arrest during a meeting of the public relations directors of the province of Lorestan on Thursday, January 7th. He added: “During the Ashura demonstrations a charge d’affaires of one of the European countries was arrested in Tehran but because of the Vienna convention and the fact that the embassy pleaded and intervened, we let the fellow go after 24 hours.”

* * Civil servants and government employee working for the Ministry of Mining and Industry has been prohibited from having copies of any of the reformist newspapers. The distribution of any media other than official regime-run newspapers such as Kayhan and Iran which will be sent to the employees by the regime is strictly forbidden.

* * Islamic regime is forcing families whose loved ones died during the Ashura (December 26th and 27th) protests to bury them quietly and out of public view. They are also demanding that the graves be in far away locations. The family of one young protester who was killed during those days, has been under constant threat from the revolutionary guards and have been forced to take refuge from one place to another every night in order to escape the constant harassment by the regime agents. In the case of this protesters funeral, the family was only notified of the burial ceremony and the location (in Tehran’s Behesht’eh Zahra cemetary), all of two hours prior to the burial and all through the ceremony a fierce presence of the revolutionary guards was felt. During the ceremony, the deceased mother kept repeating: “They didn’t even let us view his body to say good-bye.”

* * Below: A video of the Iran-Singapore football (soccer) game held in Singapore where Iranian residents of Singapore turned out to support the Iranian team, at which point the Islamic regime’s agent who was there to film the Iranian spectators for identification purposes (by the Ministry of Intelligence and Security in Iran) is identified himself. He is then booed by the Iranian spectators who get the Singapore police to escort the camera-toting spy out of the stadium, as the Iranian soccer team coach looks on.

* * Islamic regime brings criminal charges against the editor-in-chief of Asr’eh Iran newspaper for insulting regime authorities. The public relations office of Greater Tehran’s Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor claimed that the publication of a specific article insulted government leaders. Recently, Abbass Jafari-Dolatabadi, Greater Tehran’s Public and Revolutionary Prosecutor had threatened to take a firm stance against anyone who insults officials of the Islamic regime.

* * Hardliner member of Islamic Parliament (Majles), Ruhollah Hosseinian gives up and resigns. Hosseinian who is a representative of the province of Tehran offered his letter of resignation to the board of directors of the Majles. In the letter he lamented the fact that though for years he has fought the “deviant” reformists, he now has lost all hope and is depressed at witnessing the collapse of the moral structure and spread of dissent that is being perpetrated by western agents and specifically that of America. He goes on to confess his weakness of character in his inability to remain firm in the oath he took when becoming a member of the Majles and that though he has prayed and looked for guidance out of his moral dilemma that he realizes that he has no answers.