Attack on Mr. Kazemeini Boroujerdi’s prison cell

A new round of pressures and inhumane treatment, threats and abuse against freedom-loving Ayatollah Kazemeini-Boroujerdi 

According to Human Rights Activist for Democracy in Iran on Sunday, November 17th, Mr. Boroujerdi was viciously attacked inside his prison cell and then transferred to the Special Clerical Tribunal offices (a building specifically designed for the interrogation and temporary detention of dissident clerics) in the Zaferanieh district of Tehran. However, Mr. Boroujerdi who has  stood on his principals refused to go. He was then beaten and verbally abused by a special  agent by the name of Rousta. Later the same afternoon, a colleague of Rousta, by the name of Youssefinia (deputy to Ebrahim Raissi, Special Clerical Prosecutor appointed by the Supreme Leader) returned to attack and further abuse Mr. Boroujerdi.

Mr. Kazemeini-Boroujerdi’s condition worsens in Evin Prison

Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) - Hossein Kazemeini-Boroujerdi, dissident cleric and political prisoner detained in the Special Clerical ward at Evin prison is suffering from various illnesses and has been prohibited from receiving all medical treatment.

Based on received reports from HRANA, the 55 year old Boroujerdi has served seven years in prison and has never been given any furlough from prison.

Moharram and the Importance of a Secularist Movement

I embark upon my eighth Moharram in prison. One thousand four hundred years ago, twenty eight generations back, Imam Hossein who is my ancestor, was also held captive by a religious dictatorship. He had revolted against that political religion in order to free faith from Yazid’s political pollution. So Hossein stood firm, armed with his faith and gave his, his families and friends lives to that cause. Today, that same tragedy has been repeated and I, the descendant of the prophet, who stands in defense of the merciful God who has been misrepresented by the plot of a religious regime which oppresses, violates and suffocates and in the name of divinity promotes the crimes of the Supreme Leader. Therefore, I now suffer the same calamity that my innocent forefathers faced.

Roger Cohen, "Bibi’s Tired Iranian Lines": Again, "Iran Is Not Totalitarian"

Jeffrey Grossman

After telling us throughout the first six months of 2009 that Iran is not totalitarian, i.e., until his bubble was burst when Supreme Leader Khamenei savagely quashed Iran's Green Revolution, Roger Cohen is again seeking to spread his delusional hogwash. In his latest New York Times op-ed entitled "Bibi’s Tired Iranian Lines" (link), Cohen, who doesn't speak Farsi, would have us know:

"It is not just that the world has now heard from Netanyahu of the imminent danger of a nuclear-armed Iran for a very long time. It is not just that Israel has set countless 'red lines' that proved permeable. It is not just that the Islamic Republic has been an island of stability compared to its neighbors Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. It is not just that, as Rouhani’s election shows, Iran is no Nazi-like totalitarian state with a single authority but an authoritarian regime subject to liberalizing and repressive waves."

They suffocated my voice with the bribes they offered up

I send greetings to friends, family and supporters and wish them all success in serving our God Almighty and the righteous everywhere 

In my eighth years of captivity in the prison of the Supreme Leader, I have come to know about political realities. One cannot be political and defend freedom and justice as it is powerful politicians who set the parameters and in order to awaken the politicians, it is the political activists around the world who should be defending human rights. However, the issue of human rights has become nothing more than an artifice for some activists and therefore politicians, to use, to either promote or to obstruct to their own advantage. 

They have shamelessly put on the clerical frock in order to legitimize the massacre of innocent people

On the occasion of the Eid Ghadeer, Mr. Kazemeini-Boroujerdi has penned a letter from inside prison, in order to once again expose the regime: “Never will the articulate calendar of history forget my annihilation for having exposed the nature of political Islam and for standing up to the monarchic Mullahs.”

Once again, I send Eid Ghadeer greeting to all humanitarian authorities

I salute all those righteous leaders who are strangers to violence and I greet all those who rule justly and peacefully. I offer my condolences to our Almighty as his guardianship of all his creatures was viciously and audaciously taken hostage by the message of this nefarious revolution, which was the installation of a divine governance for the truly needy and wanting. How awful and unfortunate when an inferior person is called the Supreme Leader! They have made such a mockery of the clerical ranks, toying with the length and breadth of humanity. 

A short Glance to 22 years non-violent resistance

As I begin my eighth year as a prisoner of dictators, I would like to briefly look back at the theory behind these inexcusable and irrefutable crimes and I will search my mind for the account of all that has happened.

In 1991 when I established the faculty for instruction of traditional and non-traditional Islamic sources, it was in order to expound on the true heart of the religion. I was watched, wiretapped and threatened by Intelligence and Security agents of the regime.

The country has been under the control of wolves dressed in clerical clothes

Once again another sacrificial lamb has appeared so that he can offer his life in the slaughterhouse of history, to the alter of the bloodthirsty who have no mercy on great or small and who behead one and all with their sword of cruelty, inhumanity and perversion.

It is the Eid of Sacrifice (Eid’eh Ghorban) and thirty five years of holding Muslims hostage to the Islamic ideology of a regime that deceives and steals, disguised as clerics and men of the cloth. The country has been under the control of wolves dressed in clerical clothes.

Mr. Kazemeini-Boroujerdi’s message on the occasion of the eighth year of the storming of his home and arrest of his supporters

Greetings of the meek to the Almighty who at no time neglected to caress his creatures; the Almighty who neither commanded violence, nor ever sent forth a prophet to abuse believers, and whose commandments were not ordained for inhumanity.

 I embark on the eighth year of the most horrifying and painful imprisonment, which is the mark of a treacherous political Islamic apparatus, headed by fraudulent clerics. It is with great pity that thirty four years ago, the forsaken people of Iran were fooled by these so-called men of the cloth, giving the power of their vote away to a religious regime and scorching the path to their own future and that of generations to come.

The campaign to Keep Mr. Kazemeini-Boroujerdi Alive has begun it's efforts

We have come together to establish a campaign to “Keep Kazemeini-Boroujerdi Alive”

He has been in prison since October of 2006, deprived of any legal representation and medical care. It is now the beginning of the eighth years of his arrest and he is near death as a result of the years of torture, malnutrition and horrific sanitary conditions in prison; he has contracted numerous illnesses that have become chronic, starting from his heart, to his kidneys, pulmonary, and severe arthritis pain. Despite all this, his jailers who take their orders directly from Ali Khamenei, the so-called Supreme Leader, have not only prohibited him from being released from prison, on medical furlough at a hospital, they have also refuse him all the necessary medication.

Iran’s Imprisoned Ayatollah Suffers Heart Attack

Ben Cohen - COMMENTARY
10.03.2013

In July, I reported on the grave situation of Hossein Bourojerdi, one of Iran’s most courageous dissidents. Bourojerdi, who carries the honorific Shia Muslim title of “ayatollah,” is a veteran opponent of Iran’s ruling system of velayat e faqih, whereby Islamic jurists exercise total control over society and its institutions.

Bourojerdi was first incarcerated in 2006. At the time, hundreds of the ayatollah’s supporters valiantly attemped to stop him from being dragged out of his south Tehran home by the police. Since then, reports of Bourojerdi’s failing health have regularly surfaced. Now, Iranian human-rights activists have passed on the news that Bourojerdi, who is languishing in Tehran’s notorious Evin Prison, began experiencing heart failure last Sunday.

Kazemeini-Boroujerdi suffers a heart attack in prison

Based on received reports from the organization Human Rights Activists for Democracy in Iran, prisoner of conscience, Mr. Kazemeini-Boroujerdi suffered a heart attack and pulmonary hypertension in his cell in Evin prison. However rather than being transferred to a hospital, the prison authority transferred him to the on-sight infirmary which is hardly equipped to deal with any such emergencies. He was kept in the infirmary for a short time and then returned to his cell. 

Mr. Boroujerdi who is at the beginning of his eighth year of his imprisonment, has continued to experience serious heart and pulmonary issues throughout the years. On Sunday morning, September 29th, he began to once again experience extreme pain in his chest and shortage of breath that was untreated the entire day; finally on Monday morning the chest pain and shortage of breath combined, lead to a heart attack.