who, besides Reza, is taking a leadership role in making changes in Iran?
They are there but have to remain underground because if they emerge as a secular leader, they would be hauled off to Evin Prison and tortured until they admit they are spies for the West.
There is an underground movement underway. There are leaders in the Green Party, but they and their families are under house arrest. They are not all that organized because the minute a leader is identified, he is arrested and probably executed.
Most of those kids who were arrested in June for protesting the illegal election have all been executed. And they charge the families for the bullet used to kill them, if they want the body back.
There are several news reports out there about it. Here's just a few:
According to one report, Ebrahim Yazdi was arrested today in Isfahan, Iran. His family in the United States are still trying to determine whether or not he is still in police custody.
79-year-old Yazdi is the Secretary General of the Freedom Movement in Iran. He was the first Foreign Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Yazdi resigned because he did not support the taking of U.S. hostages in 1979. He has remained in politics, though in opposition, working for reforms in his country. His six children live in America. Yazdi prefers to live in Iran.
Yazdi and several other members of the Freedom Movement—Hashem Sabbaghian, Ghaffar Farzad, Ahad Rezai, and Ali Asghar Ghafoori—were all picked up as they moved from the funeral for a member of their party to a private residence, for a prayer service, according to Yazdi’s family.
The house where they were to attend the prayer service was reportedly attacked by plainclothes police who identified themselves as members of the security forces and the Basij militia.
liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com
On Jan. 12, several agents from the Islamic Republic's intelligence ministry raided the home of Mohammed Taqi Khalaji. They took Khalaji into custody and confiscated his computer, satellite receiver, and hundreds of notes, books and personal letters. The agents also seized the passports of Khalaji and members of his family, banning them all from leaving the country. Khalaji's family does not currently know where he is being detained and Iranian authorities are refusing to provide any information.
Khalaji is a prominent cleric in Qom, the center of Iranian Shiism. Since June 12, he has been a courageous critic of the Iranian regime's crackdown on peaceful protests and a supporter of the so-called Green Movement. Khalaji was known to be close to Iran's most prominent dissident cleric, the late Grand Ayatollah Montazeri, and is an ally of Ayatollah Sanei — another well-known reformist cleric who has come under withering attack from the regime following the massive Ashura demonstrations of Dec. 28. Clearly, Khalaji's arrest is of a piece with the Islamic Republic's escalating — though so far miserably unsuccessful — efforts to crush all signs of peaceful opposition. Khalaji now joins hundreds, if not thousands, of other brave Iranians dragged from their homes and illegally detained for exercising their most fundamental rights of citizenship.
npr.org
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