By: Josh Shahryar - twitter.com/iran_translator and twitter.com/joshshahryar
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Protests / Unrest
1. The government flexed their muscles today by seizing and closing Mehdi Karroubi's office. Officials from Tehran's Attorney General's office entered the building during the day, forced Karroubi and his staff to leave and confiscated documents, CDs and computers. Until further notice, Karroubi’s office is currently under government control.
2. The office of Karroubi's newspaper, Etemaade Melli was also raided and closed. Documents, computers, films and CDs were confiscated and the office was locked down. All staff members were forced to give their names, addresses and other information and then sent home.
3. This comes, as the planned protest for September 18 is gaining a lot of support amongst the populace. Karroubi today, yet again confirmed that he would be participating and invited all Greens to participate.
4. The Attorney General's office also sent officials, to close down the office of the human rights organization Defenders of Detainees' Rights. Material from the office, located in Tehran was confiscated. Further information in the next Brief.
5. More than a hundred members of detainees' families gathered under a bridge close to Evin Prison this evening and chanted against the government. They were surrounded and threatened by security forces, but they did not stop chanting. They were joined by more people from the area. The protest lasted for more than an hour.
6. More than a hundred family members of detainees also gathered in front of the Islamic Revolutionary Court - the main judicial body in the country. They were also surrounded by security forces. There were unconfirmed reports of other gatherings and clashes in other parts of the city as well.
7. In Qom, a man was arrested with his family while they were through a busy streeet. Armed plainclothesmen stopped his car in the middle of the road and after meeting with resistance, shot him in the shoulder. He was dragged away while chanting, "Death to Khamenei". His crime and where the family was taken could not be confirmed.
8. Iran's Police Chief Esmail Ahmadi-Moghaddam has warned reformists against using September 18 for protesting. According to him, it would only show the true colors of reformists who are going to use the day for political purposes. He said people had accepted the results and rejected that the elections were fraudulent. He also added that no rape had occurred at Kahrizak.
9. A high-ranking IRG commander, Ali Fazli, said they will be holding meetings with officials in Iranian universities to counter any unrest that might occur as a result of protests planned for next week.
10. Greens are holding prayer gatherings in Tehran, Qom, Tabriz and Shiraz to mark the final days of Ramadan. The gatherings are non-political and are being used by Greens, praying for the release of detainees and the reform of the regime.
11. Yesterday, we reported the government was banning dozens of university students from continuing their education. Today, it has been reported that a women's rights activist and campaign worker for Mir Hossein Mousavi's election bid Leila Sehat has been barred from continuing her education at Tehran University.
12. On the occasion of the first Qadr night, Allah o Akbar was heard all across Tehran and other parts of Iran.
13. After the government banned the annual gathering for commemorating Ayatollah Taleghani at Hosseiniya-e Ershad, his family has asked all those who want to gather to come to the office of his son on Wednesday to commemorate the cleric's life.
Opposition
14. Karroubi's son, Hossein Karroubi, today said that his father was being intimidated by the government into giving up his support for the investigation of rapes in Iranian detention centers. He said his father was very serious about the cases and was not going to give up that easily.
15. The Imam's Way faction of MPs released a statement today denouncing IRGC Commander Mohammad Ali Jafari's accusations against reformists. The statement said that these allegations were baseless and were being pitted against people who had spent their entire lives following the footsteps of Imam Khomeini.
16. Sazemane Mujahidine Enghelab (Mojahedin of the Islamic Revolution Organization) today released a statement asking newly-appointed Judiciary Chief Sadegh Larijani to step down if he couldn't deal with the rampant lawlessness of government agencies. The organization called upon Larijani to step up and deal with the illegal activities of security forces, especially in the aftermath of the elections. They also accused security forces of trying to coerce Javad Imam into confessing by abducting his daughter and holding her for 24 hours.
17. In a meeting with members of reformist student groups, Grand Ayatollah Bayat-Zanjani harshly criticized what had happened in the aftermath of the elections. Zanjani said that power was not the source of legitimacy, but rather legitimacy was the source of power. He added that some think - clearly hinting at the government - that if by playing with words, they could change that. However, he said this had been the monarchy's ideology and not the Shi'ite Imams' ideology, which emphasized that no one was above the law.
Government / International
18. Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani, sought to quell people's anger today. Speaking at an Iftar party with a group of MPs, Larijani called for diminishing, and not exaggerating, the political disputes in the country amid what he described as a "critical juncture" in the political arena. Every healthy government and society witnesses "ideological, tactical, and strategic differences of opinion," he said. "The country is currently going through a complicated phase, and right and wrong are mixed up," Larijani said.
"If we want to help the country pass this critical situation with little cost [so that] the people are not affected with these differences, we should not create disputes or raise issues that take the [existing] disputes in the society to another level," Larijani added. He went on to stress, that in situations like this "there is doubt about certain issues; we should heed the Leader's views and advices."
19. Khamenei will be leading the Friday prayers on September 11. Since June, this is the first time he is going to be taking the pulpit. Sources inside Iran, strongly suggest he will be calling for another crackdown - possibly against reformist leaders this time.
20. Brigadier Yadullah Javani - the head of IRGC's political office - in response to criticism over IRGC's increasing political role, said that the country's atmosphere had changed and the IRGC no longer viewed itself solely as a security organization. He added, the IRGC would continue to fight with people opposed to the regime.
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