BREAKING: Iran's Most Famous Political Dissident Escapes to United States!

Gateway Pundit ^ | July 05, 2008 | Jim

[faq]

"I wish each and every Iranian could travel abroad, come to the U.S. or go to Europe, for just one week, and feel, smell, and breathe freedom, human dignity, and realize the value of their lives."

Ahmed Batebi
Voice of America Interview
Washington DC, USA
June 30, 2008

AHMED BATEBI HAS ESCAPED TO THE UNITED STATES--
The brave Iranian student activist who was sentenced to death and who was severely tortured for years in the notorious Evin Prison in Iran has arrived safely in the United States!

During a break from prison, Batebi fled Iran traveling through Iraq and Austria and finally arriving in Washington DC.

Ahmed Batebi is the Iranian student who gained international fame for his appearance on the cover of The Economist magazine holding up a bloodied shirt claiming to belong to a fellow student beaten by the Basij paramilitaries. The photo, which has been called "an icon for Iran's student reform movement," was taken during the Iranian Student Protests in July 1999 in Tehran. Human Rights activist Shirin Ebadi, reports that the shirt belonged to Ezzat Ebrahim-Nejad, a student who was shot and killed reportedly by a plainclothes police or vigilante.

Ahmed Batebi was one of four people who received a death sentence in a closed-door trial by a Revolutionary Court on charges relating to "creating street unrest" and "agitating people to create unrest," and "endangering national security" following the demonstrations. Batebi, in an open letter addressed to the judiciary, wrote that he had been beaten in his "testicles, legs, and abdominal area- -Wiki.

Ahmad Batebi is now in Washington D.C. and had a tv appearance on VOA Persian a few days ago in which he spoke of the horrific torture he endured at the hands of his interrogators for 9 years!!!

Iranian blogger Aryamehr has more on Batebi's escape to America where he describes more of Batebi's horrible torture.

This is a MAJOR BLOW to the brutal Iranian Regime!

WELCOME TO AMERICA AHMED BATEBI!

--Hat Tip to Iranian Human Rights Activist Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi--

MORE-----
July 8th is the anniversary of the student uprising that ended in bloodshed in 1999. Every year students commemorate this day. This year, there is a special commemoration. Iranians inside Iran are organizing widespread demonstrations across the country in all major cities (More HERE). The people of Iran need the support of the international community in their uprising against the dictatorial Islamic regime.

[omega4179]

she wasn’t pretty though, so it was torture.

[FARS]

check out this practical demo of cell phones being
harmful”?

http://noiri.blogspot.com/2008/07/cell-phones-pop-corn.html

[JerseyHighlander]

That is a viral video, and has been debunked. There is a hot plate under the tables.

[TigersEye]

Er, uh, that is a tad disturbing. lol

[TigersEye]

I was wondering if it was a trick of some kind.

[FARS]

Thanks for the heads up. Will have it removed from AntiMullah

[TigersEye]

How do they get the table hot enough to pop popcorn without causing the table cloths to burn or smoulder?

[skr]

Excellent news indeed!!! May his family and friends be shielded from revenge.

[Chode]

Outstanding...!!!

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[FARS]

infrared?

[TigersEye]

LOL I don’t know. I only have one cell phone so I haven’t tried to pop any popcorn. I do know that the radiation from a cell phone isn’t micro-wave radiation so it does seem a little preposterous.

[FARS]

Islamic Iran using lefty organizations

New York City - Los Angeles -
Washington DC - Boston - Raleigh NC - Salt Lake City - and more than 50 cities

http://noiri.blogspot.com/2008/07/islamic-iran-dont-attack-us-pretty.html

[edcoil]

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[SunkenCiv]

Thanks FARS.

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the ping!

[odds]

Thanks, I’ve been quite aware of his situation & condition including the arrest of his wife last year.

[PhilDragoo]

He was a genuine dissident student, which makes his positioning more dangerous for our naive, easily fooled authorities. He is not a bad guy himself but as you say, he has no choice but to obey Mullah pressures.

Halloween 1977 Carter's DCI Turner fired 820 case officers guttting our humint capability unto this day.

Your caveat is that a) the person has a legitimate track record as a dissident; and b) he has been compromised by the peril of his wife in the mullahs' hands as well as relatives of his associates.

You warn he is sent on a mission to discern and misdirect our planning vis-a-vis covert ops, et cetera.

The correct response embraces the humanitarian side as well as the tradecraft: namely, he is welcomed, but not given any information which is not already public.

Perhaps he is what we would have called "a penetration agent".

I would like to see us penetrate the Islamic Republic regime with some doses of lead above the limit imposed by the EPA.

[Deetes]

boom

[Pontiac]

I thought she was cute.