Iran, not even the reformists are saved: Javad Emam, coalition spokesperson, arrested

The regime continues to arrest dissidents: today it is the turn of Reform Alliance spokesman Javad Imam, at the same time as President Massoud Peseshkian.

Iran, not even the reformists are saved: Javad Emam, the spokesman for the coalition, was arrested

In the same hours that the head of Iran's nuclear agency, Mohammad Eslami, announced that Tehran was willing to dilute highly enriched uranium in exchange for the lifting of sanctions, a new wave of arrests occurred over the past 24 hours in Iran - in the face of the 40th day of protests.According to a report by the justice-linked Mizan Agency, the detainees are Jawad Imam, Mohsen Aminzadeh, and Azar Mansouri.and Ibrahim Asgharzadeh, all of whom belong to the reformist camp.

The last in chronological order is Javed Imam, currently the spokesman for the reformist coalition (which also includes the president, Massoud Pezeshkian), as well as the former coordinator of the presidential campaign of Mir Hossein Mousavi - now under house arrest - in 2009.

However, yesterday, February 8, it was the turn of Mohsen Aminzadeh, the politician and diplomat who had been arrested during the 2009 Green Movement protests.He was one of the founders of the Islamic Iran Participation Front, a reformist party that was banned after a disputed election period.As a minister and a historical promoter of the "Dialogue of Civilizations", he opposed Samuel Hunt's ideological "Clash of Civilizations" across the ocean.

Azar Mansuri, 62, is also on the government's blacklist. A pioneer in the rise of women's rights organizations in Iran in the first decade of the 2000s, he is a historic founder of the "One Million Signatures" campaign for the equality of men. He is one of the founders of the Iranian Islamic ParticipatoryFront. then became deputy director. and then, in 2021, as the secretary general of the Islamic People's Union Party of Iran which is a reform party that currently holds seats in the parliament, he was also first canceled by the Guardian Council in the 2008 elections, then arrested as part of the green.

Mansouri, in this round of protests, exposed himself publicly, first with an empathetic message to the protesters, and then, together with other reformist figures, to promote the sending of a letter to the Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, asking him to resign on February 1.In the week between this attempt and his arrest yesterday, Mansouri was also the victim of an attack in his home village, Varamin: Once back home, the politician discovered that the heat pump in his house was blocked by unknown persons, a sign of a possible carbon monoxide poisoning plan.

However, the most famous of those arrested is Ebrahim Ashgharzadeh.A former parliamentarian of the capitol assembly as well as the national parliament between 1988 and 1992, Ashgharzadeh is best known as one of the most important student leaders during the 1978-1979 uprisings, and especially as one of the organizers of the hostage-taking of American diplomats in the US embassy, as part of a student group in Tehran, as part of a student group in Tehran.became the leader of the Bureau for Strengthening Unity, founded by Ayatollah Mohammad Beheshti to fight the Islamic-Marxist Mojahedin-e Khalq.After a six-month stint as a front-line commander during the Iraq War, Ashgharzadeh linked up with future reformist President Mohammad Khatami, from when the latter was editor of the Kahyan newspaper.

With Khomeini's death, and the subsequent split within Khomeiniism, Ashgarzadeh became increasingly critical of both intellectuals and the "right" of the Front, was placed under house arrest for nearly a month, then disqualified from the legislative elections, Khomeini's last election, and the party's 1999 elections.expressed himself in 1997. Since the fall of the reformists since 2009, Ashgarzadeh has thwarted democratic reforms and removed the Guardian Council's veto powers from presidential candidates, a position that makes him increasingly forgettable.

Wake is a surprise in many ways, a perfect test of the understated complexity of the Iranian field.As noted, he is not only one of the main actors in the kidnapping crisis (although he expressed some regrets regarding this, Mr. Editor, in an interview with the Associated Press in 2019), but also one of the most determined and passionate fighters in one part of the country - the politician who has spent the most in Iran to improve relations with the United States.

Even taking into account these last elementsNot surprisingly, the Iranian authorities arrested four people, accusing them of“Attack on national unityHolding a position that is contrary to the constitutionFacilitate surrenderDivert the attention of political groupsCreate a secret mechanism that subvertsand coordinate with enemy propaganda.” These arrests are in addition to the 51,591 arrests authorities have made over the past month and a half.That's according to HRANA estimates, which reported 6,961 deaths, nearly double the estimated 3,600 deaths reported by the government. Yesterday also saw another prison sentence for Narges Mohammadi, who has already been detained.which won the 2023 Nobel Peace Prize