Reformers 'Confess' to Iran Plot; British Embassy Show Trials, Regime Consolidates Blood Purge!

Just in from the New York Times, "Top Reformers Admitted Plot, Iran Declares:"

Iranian leaders say they have obtained confessions from top reformist officials that they plotted to bring down the government with a “velvet” revolution. Such confessions, almost always extracted under duress, are part of an effort to recast the civil unrest set off by Iran’s disputed presidential election as a conspiracy orchestrated by foreign nations, human rights groups say.

Reports on Iranian Web sites associated with prominent conservatives said that leading reformers have confessed to taking velvet revolution “training courses” outside the country. Atef, a Web site of a conservative member of Parliament, referred to a video of Mohammad Ali Abtahi, who served as vice president in the reform government of former President Mohammed Khatami, as showing that he tearfully “welcomed being defrocked and has confessed to provoking people, causing tension and creating media chaos.”

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s representative to the Revolutionary Guards, Mojtaba Zolnour, said in a speech Thursday that almost everyone now detained had confessed — raising the prospect that more confessions will be made public. Ayatollah Khamenei is supreme religious leader.

The government has made it a practice to publicize confessions from political prisoners held without charge or legal representation, often subjected to pressure tactics like sleep deprivation, solitary confinement and torture, according to human rights groups and former political prisoners. Human rights groups estimate that hundreds of people have been detained.

Read the whole thing at the link.

Plus, "Iran Cleric Says British Embassy Staff to Stand Trial," and "EU Summons All Iranian Ambassadors in Co-ordinated Protest."

See also, Atlas Shrugs, "Iranian Revolution Day 21: Germany Reverts to Nazism, Sells Torture Devices to Mullahcracy, Obama Backs Murdering Mullahs."