In recent years, particularly since the growth of the reform movement, the totalitarian and suppressive ruling faction in Iran has increasingly and rapidly resorted to violence. Illegal, arbitrary and unusual arrests, torture, solitary confinement, unethical interrogations, attacks on the dignity of citizens, unacceptable detentions, heavy and shameful prison sentences for uncommitted acts, massive and unfounded closure of critical and independent newspapers, serial murders and revengeful killings, attacks on peaceful gatherings, brutal and pre-meditated assaults on student dormitories and election campaign offices, opening fire on innocent and unarmed civilians, in the streets and many other acts are only examples of the disgraceful record of the suppressive machine in recent years which unfortunately continue as the elite remain lethally and deeply silent.  Greater pressure on political prisoners and ultimately the revengeful executions of recent days are the most recent circles in this shameful chain of atrocities.

But despite this, the propaganda machinery of the regime’s hardliners and suppressors continues to distort the fact in an effort to erase the real issues and by changing the scene of events is striving to present a completely different image. In recent years, public opinion has been brought under assault through the use of Stalinist methods where phrases and words that have already lost their real meaning have been repeatedly thrown at the public and accentuated in order to justify the open and illegitimate violence they have been committing through their deeply sinful hands. Using such terms as coup d’état or soft overthrow, color or velvet revolution, soft war, and others are part of the propaganda techniques of the suppressive faction of the regime. But despite all these, this clique has not bothered to explain even to its supporters with what power did the so-called coup perpetrators intend to overthrow those in power or what power other than public opinion did they have at their disposal. If a demonstration by millions of peaceful individuals is viewed as a coup, then what do you call a military take over of a city, controlling the free movement of people, organized censorship of the media, en masse arrest of people, containment of political leaders?

Like other precedents in contemporary and distant history, the reality is that it is despotic regimes that resort to any means and illegitimate tools to unlawfully keep themselves in power and it is they who are not constrained by religious principles, tradition, ethics etc and who through Stalinist methods strive to temporarily protect their spider-net and unpopular power. Using mass media against the public for propaganda and deceit purposes on one hand and preventing the publication of opposing voices by any possible means – and I stress any possible means – on the other, are the means these regimes use. The leaders and rulers of the “Any republic” have established such an unethical method for publicity and reporting that future generations will have a hard time passing judgment on them. This method is nothing other than the jamming of satellite signals to prevent the receipt of satellite programs. These methods are neither practical nor legitimate. They are not practical because in the age of technological innovation, news of event are rapidly spread through other channels and they reach all towns and countries across the globe. And they are illegitimate and shameful because these thuggish methods are a health hazard for the residents of Tehran who must pay the price of the official propaganda machinery of the state.

According to official and non official reports, the physical and psychological health of many residents of the greater Tehran is in danger and some lives are even under threat. This issue becomes even more troublesome when one considers the fact that the location from where these jamming signals are transmitted in northern Tehran is adjacent to a children’s hospital that treats seriously ill children. Based on their research, some prominent researchers in medicine are talking about the Darabad Syndrome (Darabad is a section in northern Tehran) which is a covered up tragedy caused by the inhuman policies of absolutist power mongers. According to these reports, those in power are gradually and quietly implementing a policy of gradual genocide through the transmission of jamming signals. This silent and gradual genocide is advanced by the totalitarian power mongers and its price must be paid by innocent Tehrani residents, and particularly children with incurable illnesses.