"Moderate Iran" - We can read your emails, says Iran’s intelligence minister. HT: AlMonitor.
“The Intelligence Ministry will confront without reservation terrorist elements or groups that want to challenge the security of the Islamic Republic,” Alavi said. “Sometimes an individual reaches a point at which the Intelligence Ministry has no choice but to act against them.”
In regard to terrorists with links to foreign groups, Alavi said, “When they want to deny taking actions in favor of foreigners, when their emails, Gmail, conversations, texts, exchanges and chats are put in front of them, that’s when they realize nothing is hidden from the Intelligence Ministry and they have no choice but to confess.”
In the transcript provided by Iranian Students’ News Agency, the impression Alavi gave was that the online activity of individuals with suspected terrorist links is monitored before their apprehension. Otherwise, the security services would have to wait until they apprehend suspects and force to give up their passwords, to acquire the incriminating information.
Alavi also said that there were limits to how far Iran’s Intelligence Ministry would go. “The hands of the security agencies are not [so] open that they ensure security in any shape or form,” Alavi said. “Ensuring security in an Islamic system has to be in the framework of Sharia, ethics and the law.”
“Within the sacred Islamic Sharia, people’s private lives are considered,” Alavi said. “Islam does not allow the entrance into a person’s privacy.”Hmmm......But...."Sometimes a dictatorship has to do what it has to do"? Read the full story here.
The dimensions of gross human rights violations in Iran are expanding beyond imagination in every possible direction. The list is very long: torture and other cruel and inhuman punishments, arbitrary and often very long pre-trial detentions and extremely non-standard and unfair trials frequently based on vaguely worded charges often even used to issue and implement death sentences, execution of dissidents and juveniles and the use of death penalty for non-serious offences, growing discrimination against women and women’s rights defenders, as well as against all religious minorities and groups, and ethnic communities, suppression of all kinds of dissent and opposition, extremely heavy-handed crackdown on political activists and organizations of all hues and civil society institutions, increasing number of political prisoners and the massive pressures on them, denial of freedoms of assembly, association, expression and press, censorship of books and blocking of various websites and blogs
ReplyDeleteUntil the international community wakes up and links relief from economic sanctions to human rights improvements, then its willingly condones the continued inhumane treatment of Iran's people by this regime with more to come.