BREAKING IN PROGRESS - Ayatollah Boroujerdi Revolts - Calls for Uprising

KRSI - RADIO VOICE OF IRAN & ANTIMULLAH ^ | October07-2006 | Alan Peters

[FARS]

Breaking news - Saturday (PST) - After Midnight Sunday - Tehran time (TT)

LATEST UPDATE - all phones in the area of the Ayatollah's house have been disconnected and his numbers, which worked till just now have a recording saying "they never existed".

Monitored from live communication with Iran and the Ayatollah Boroujerdi himself by Voice of Iran Radio (KRSI) and local citizens calling in from Tehran to KRSI.

Shots were being fired around the Ayatollah's home at Sard (cold) Park, Avesta Avenue, Sard Street #9 close to Freedom Square. Fires are springing up in the region at major intersections. Ambulance sirens scream futiley as Tehran citizens pour toward that address blocking streets to prevent Security forces from getting close but also blocking the paramedics and ambulances.

Distress calls from wounded men and women fill the air waves as what they describe as total war is erupting. KRSI, which covers all of Iran, constantly broadcasts calls for the populace to rise up, urging them to make the most of this opportunity.

Said Ghayem-Maghami, the announcer of KRSI repeatedly urges all provinces, cities, professions to revolt against the current regime. He also broadcasts live all suggestions provided by Tehran citizens to wake everyone up and let them know something is up.

Ayatollah Boroujerdi, blockaded on the roof of his home, has used the phone contact broadcast with KRSI to declare that anyone in the Security forces who respects him as their spiritual source should lay down their arms and not harm anyone.

Other Ayatollahs like Mehdi Haeri have come on live to urge the people not to set gas stations on fire or do other damage as these sugestions phoned into KRSI come from the Security forces agents.

Ayatollah Haeri added that fasting during this crisis in the month of Ramadan is not required, giving the example of the urgency of a house catching on fire compared to a lower urgency of fasting. He insisted that religion and politics has to be separate and that the populace should support the brve efforts of Ayatollah Boroujerdi.

Meanwhile Mohssein Ejai, Minister of Information and Security (MOIS), has promised Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that he will bring him Ayatollah Boroujerdi's severed head before dawn.

In the first serious clash with the old guard Mullahs, the Hojatieh fringe sect of the Ahmadi-Nejad administration sent security forces around 10 a.m. (Tehran time) Saturday, to arrest Ayatollah Seyed Hossein Kazeymeni Boroujerdi, son of the Ayatollah of the same name, killed by the Khomeini Islamic regime.

His father was so respected by the late Shah of Iran that when questions about religion arose for which the Shah wanted advice, the monarch would drive down to the holy city of Qom to speak to the Ayatollah instead of ordering him to Tehran.

The younger Ayatollah Boroujerdi recently declared that the national Administrative Government of Iran should be separated from the Clerics and become purely secular. Religion and Politics must be separated he said, live on KRSI.

The current Islamic regime's reaction was to issue death warrant for him falsely claiming apostasy by him because he was said by them to have claimed to be the 12th Imam, who disappeared down a well 1300 years ago and will return to redeem the world.

His followers resisted the efforts of the Security Agents sent during the afternoon to capture the Ayatollah and the on-going confrontation has resulted with multiple arrests, estimated by the Ayatollah himself in a live phone interview as being several thousand people. His people, who rushed to protect him also took several security agents hostage, finding bottles of acid in their pockets, intended to disfigure demonstrators.

The mostly foreign, generally Arab national, Bassiji paramilitary forces, whose total role is to suppress any street demonstration and have been recently equipped with over $500 million of equipment and weaponry and appear in both civilian clothes and uniforms, attacked on motorcycles but were repulsed and several of their motorcycles set on fire.

They brought in eight tanker trucks that propel boiling water onto demonstrators but streets were soon blocked and their efforts curtailed. Currently, regime forces have surrounded the area and blocked major access. Clashes at crossroads initially drove security forces back but reinforcements managed to set up a cordon and hold it.

One panicked caller to KRSI at around 2:15 a.m. (TT) screamed that he had been spotted by the regime mercenaries and had been given refuge inside a nearby house but that the agents were kicking in the door. He pleaded with KRSI to give out his name and remind people that he was about to be arrested and might never be seen again.

Several of those wounded and finding refuge in Ayatollah Boroujerdi's house were women. One an Armenian woman, not a Moslem, called on minorities and specially Armenians, to rush to the Ayatollah's support and to come into the streets. Another woman, a baby in her arms, a club in her hand was seen standing guard at Ayatollah Boroujerdi's ready to face anything the regime would throw at her. Including confiscating the bread and food that those at the residence required to break their Ramadan fast.

Calls by Tehranis demanded Ahmad Hossein Khomeini, the Islamic regime founder's grandson and Ayatollah Montazeri, should join in the resistance and defend Ayatollah Boroujerdi. Other calls wanted the late Shah's son Reza Pahlavi to join the fray and call on the West to provide tangible support to his countrymen in their time of need at this moment of opportunity.

Another caller mentioned that every single one of about 300,000 Bahais in Iran had been recently identified and listed, including their addresses, and wondered if this was an indicator that a slaughter of these thorns in the side of the Hojatieh as about to happen. Bahais claim to follow their spiritual leader is the 12th Imam, who has already returned.

Meanwhile, in a dramatic gesture of defiance, Ayatollah Boroujerdi carrying his burial shroud and a sword paces the roof of his home.

Observers and analysts hope that if the resistance can survive through the night, in the morning, people who sleep unaware of what is going on will join the uprising. Some of those woken up at random by phone calls showed very little interest, responding that replacing one Mullah with another gets them nowhere, so why risk their lives.

[ConservativeMan55]

bttt

[Knitting A Conundrum]

That's the first story I've seen this morning...Haaretz said AP was carrying it, but I think their newsticker person made a mistake...they're carrying the Reuter's story on their website, with the same title as the one their ticker says ap is carrying...

[woodbutcher]

Iran is a very large country.

Even if there are 3,000 rebels there, it is no more than a minor incident.

I had hoped it would snowball, but it seems that it has not and will not.

[Valin]

The thing is these minor incidences keep happening all the time, all over Iran.

[mom4kittys]

Of cours!!!Sorry! I was trying to explain to a newbie that a lot of accounts of events are firsthand by freepers and that there is also usually a link if appropriate.
I am usually more fascinated by the firsthand accounts that freepers present. I am hoefull for Iran.

[TexKat]

Clashes in Iran to defend critical cleric - reports
Sun Oct 8, 2006 1:00 PM BST

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Supporters of a senior Shi'ite Muslim cleric who has challenged Iran's system of clerical rule have clashed with police during a protest outside the cleric's house, Iranian media reported on Sunday.

Police used teargas to disperse the crowd, which was estimated at 200 people or more, who had gathered on Saturday outside the home in southern Tehran of Ayatollah Mohammad Kazemeini Boroujerdi, newspapers reported.

Etemad-e Melli daily said protesters formed a cordon around the house to call for the release of Boroujerdi's followers who they said had been detained. Some newspapers said the crowd feared Boroujerdi might himself be arrested.

Seday-e Edalat reported that the crowd, some carrying knives, lit fires to stop police approaching the house. A picture showed police in riot geared lined up near a crowd of people in the street and smoke rising up.


Officials were not immediately available to comment.

The Iranian authorities are wary of any challenge, particularly from top clerics, to the system of clerical rule that was established after the 1979 Islamic revolution by revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.

"We believe that our nation is tired of political religion and they want to return to traditional religion," Boroujerdi told Iran's labour news agency ILNA on Saturday.

He said he had written to U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan, European Union foreign policy chief Javier Solana, Pope Benedict and other leaders asking them "to make efforts to spread traditional religion", ILNA reported.

A senior police officer was quoted as saying Boroujerdi claimed to be a representative of the "hidden" 12th Imam, who Shi'ite Muslims revere, and this prompted some people to make donations.

"This is misinterpreting religion and is sheer lies," the police officer was quoted by Seday-e Edalat as saying.

Iran has an elected president and parliament, but final authority lies with the supreme leader, currently Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to 'velayat-e faqih', the system of rule by a religious legal scholar that was propounded by Khomeini.

The supreme leader is chosen by an assembly of elected clerics.

Some traditional Shi'ite Muslim clerics hold that religious leaders should not have a political role.


The protesters outside Boroujerdi's home chanted "God is greatest" and verses from the Muslim holy book, the Koran. One newspaper said a placard they carried read: "We are ready to be martyred for defending traditional religion."

As an ayatollah, Boroujerdi holds one of the highest ranks in the Shi'ite Muslim religious hierarchy.

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=worldNews&storyid=2006-10-08T115958Z_01_BLA829259_RTRUKOC_0_UK-IRAN-CLERIC.xml

[TexKat]

Clashes in Iran to defend critical cleric: reports -ABC News

[cgk]

Bump...

[TexKat]

Clashes in Iran to defend critical cleric: reports - Washington Post

[TexKat]

Iranians clash with police over cleric: press
(AFP)

8 October 2006

TEHERAN - Hundreds of people clashed with police in Teheran while protesting in support of a controversial cleric who advocates separating religion and politics, a taboo in Islamic Iran, press reports said on Sunday.


The protesters, some carrying knives, gathered around the house of Ayatollah Mohammad Kazemeini Borujerdi on Saturday to protest the arrest of a number of the Shiite cleric’s followers and restrictions imposed on him, the reformist Hambastegi and Aftab dailies said.

“The objective of my followers and myself is in defending traditional religion,” the semi-official ILNA news agency quoted Borujerdi as saying.

“We believe people have grown tired of political religion and they want to return to traditional religion,” said the ayatollah.

But the deputy head of Teheran police, Commander Nasser Shabani, accused the ayatollah of claiming to be the representative of the Shiites’ “hidden” twelfth Imam, Mahdi and misinterpreting religion.

“A person has gathered some naive people around to pledge donations and have their wishes come true, which is a sheer lie and distortion of religion,” he told ILNA.

The protesters were reportedly shouting slogans such as ”religious freedom is our right” and “freedom is our undeniable right”, and carried banners that said “we are ready to be martyred to defend traditional religion”.

His aims breach a taboo in the Islamic republic, a theocracy where the all-powerful supreme leader is a cleric chosen by a top Shiite clerical assembly.

A large number of key positions in Iran are taken by clerics, such as the head of the judiciary and members of the non-elected watchdog body, the Guardians Council, which vets all legislation and candidates for public office.

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2006/October/middleeast_October138.xml&section=middleeast

[Knitting A Conundrum]

Clashes in Iran to defend critical cleric: reports
ABC News - 51 minutes ago
... at 200 people or more, who had gathered on Saturday outside the home in southern Tehran of Ayatollah Mohammad Kazemeini Boroujerdi, newspapers reported. ...

RADIO FREE EUROPE / RADIO LIBERTY
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Czech Republic - 1 hour ago
... TEHRAN, October 7, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Several hundred supporters of an outspoken cleric in Tehran, Ayatollah Kazemeyni Boroujerdi, gathered today in the streets ...

Clashes in Iran to defend critical cleric - reports
Reuters.uk, UK - 1 hour ago
... at 200 people or more, who had gathered on Saturday outside the home in southern Tehran of Ayatollah Mohammad Kazemeini Boroujerdi, newspapers reported. ...

Clashes in Iran to defend critical cleric: reports
Washington Post, United States - 1 hour ago
... at 200 people or more, who had gathered on Saturday outside the home in southern Tehran of Ayatollah Mohammad Kazemeini Boroujerdi, newspapers reported. ...

Tehran Police Clash With Supporters Of Outspoken Cleric
Persian Journal, Iran - 15 hours ago
Several hundred supporters of an outspoken cleric in Tehran, Ayatollah Kazemeyni Boroujerdi, gathered today in the streets around his house to protest what ...

Iran: Outspoken Ayatollah Alleges Official Persecution Payvand, Iran - 21 hours ago ... 2006 (RFE/RL) -- A dissident Iranian cleric who advocates the separation of religion and politics, Ayatollah Seyyed Hossein Kazemeyni Boroujerdi, is accusing ...

Tehran Police Clash With Supporters Of Outspoken Cleric
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Czech Republic - 21 hours ago
TEHRAN, October 7, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Several hundred supporters of an outspoken cleric in Tehran, Ayatollah Kazemeyni Boroujerdi, gathered today in the streets ...

[mdmathis6]

Would be a perfect time to send a few cruise missiles to key points in Iran....

[Vn_survivor_67-68]

"...Arabian thugs used to keep order there."

Same deal as the Hessian Prince renting out his army to the British to help them keep control in the Colony on this side of the pond.

[SheLion]

Still nothing on the tube about this.

I know.  Strange isn't it?  Something this big.

I have had Fox on all morning and not one word..................

[Enterprise]

Crossing my fingers and hoping for their success. I was reading this last night and some of the counter measures used by the Government are downright sadistic.

[RobRoy]

They think they're french.

[IronJack]

the 12th Imam, who disappeared down a well 1300 years ago and will return to redeem the world.

The jokes write themselves ...

[bonfire]

Still nothing......

FOLEYFOLEYFOLEY on all news channels.

[4woodenboats]

The only story being told is Rueters' skewed and shallow version. Not alot of true reporters left I'm afraid.

[Therapsid]

Nothing in the major news services?

Whats going on?

need to drop robotic surveillance