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Prosecutor: Iran Water Fights Led from Abroad
TEHRAN (FNA)- The water fights in the Islamic Republic have been "orchestrated from abroad," Iran's prosecutor general said on Monday, referring to the confessions of those arrested.
"This is not simply a game with water. This is a campaign which is being orchestrated from abroad," Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejeie told a press conference.
"Some of those arrested have admitted that they were deceived, with some saying they had responded to calls by anti-revolutionary" groups, he added.
Mohseni Ejeie said water fighting was not a crime in itself but only when "people use it to commit acts against religion and disrupt public security ... particularly when there is a foreign orchestrator".
The remarks came a day after deputy police chief Ahmad Reza Radan said "a handful of people" who tried to take part in water fights at a park in central Tehran were arrested last Friday.
In late July, 10 arrests were made after pictures surfaced of boys and girls in drenched clothing -- some of the women with their hijab head coverings askew -- at a huge water fight in Tehran.
Water fights are believed to be organized by text message or calls on Facebook, widely used by the anti-revolutionary groups to organize protests similar to the sedition plots staged after the 2009 presidential election.
Morality police chief General Ahmad Rouzbahani warned in early August that the police would act forcefully against such events "in public places, or anywhere throughout the country".
In early August, 17 boys and girls were arrested over a water fight at a seaside park in the Southern city of Bandar Abbas, after taking part in what the provincial justice chief said was an act that was "haram," banned by Islam.
The western powers, specially Britain and the US, have sought hard to stoke violence and unrests in Iran, specially during the 2009 presidential election in the country. In response, Iran expelled two British diplomats and arrested a number of local staffs of the British embassy in Tehran after documents and evidence substantiated London's interfering role in stirring presidential post-election riots in Iran in 2009.
In one of the court hearing sessions, British embassy's local staff in Tehran Hossein Rassam, who was charged with spying, admitted cultivating networks of contacts in the opposition movement using a £300,000 budget and confessed that the local staff of the embassy had attended protests against June 2009's presidential election results along with two British diplomats, named in court as Tom Burn and Paul Blemey, and that he had attended meetings with the defeated opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi alongside Burn.
Also, an Iranian deputy intelligence minister said in January 2010 that a number of German diplomats were involved in Tehran's unrests on December 27, 2009.
"One of the networks, whose members were arrested on Ashoura day, had contacts with German intelligence service through the country's diplomats" in Tehran, an Iranian deputy intelligence minister said.
"The network included a number of young men and women who had contacts with the foreign agents and websites and ran a propaganda campaign via the so-called 'Green' groups," the official said.
"The network was linked to German diplomats via a female member who attended their parties and private circles and exchanged intelligence information and news with them on a daily basis," he said.
The intelligence ministry official pointed out that the German diplomats used the said network for identifying intelligence centers in Iran and attracting potential members.
Later in February 2010, one of the detainees arrested during the frenzy in the Iranian capital on December 27, 2009, confessed that some German diplomats had played a direct role in provoking unrests in Iran.
"One of the German diplomats distributed green wristlets packed in a bag among the people (on Ashoura Day)…," the detainee said at the time, adding, "It was obvious that they hadn't made them in Iran."
The detainee also confessed that he had sent e-mails to a German diplomat on the events in Iran, and said, "After sending an e-mail to the German diplomat, he responded to me with an e-mail, saying 'You are off the track, we were informed of such news long time ago'."
On December 27, 2009, anti-government protesters in Tehran took advantage of the Ashoura mourning ceremonies to chant slogans against high-ranking Iranian officials.
In response, millions of Iranian people took part in massive rallies in Tehran and other cities across the country to voice their strong support for the country's Islamic establishment and Supreme Leader and condemn insults to Imam Hossein (AS) by those who took to the streets on December 27.
"This is not simply a game with water. This is a campaign which is being orchestrated from abroad," Gholam Hossein Mohseni Ejeie told a press conference.
"Some of those arrested have admitted that they were deceived, with some saying they had responded to calls by anti-revolutionary" groups, he added.
Mohseni Ejeie said water fighting was not a crime in itself but only when "people use it to commit acts against religion and disrupt public security ... particularly when there is a foreign orchestrator".
The remarks came a day after deputy police chief Ahmad Reza Radan said "a handful of people" who tried to take part in water fights at a park in central Tehran were arrested last Friday.
In late July, 10 arrests were made after pictures surfaced of boys and girls in drenched clothing -- some of the women with their hijab head coverings askew -- at a huge water fight in Tehran.
Water fights are believed to be organized by text message or calls on Facebook, widely used by the anti-revolutionary groups to organize protests similar to the sedition plots staged after the 2009 presidential election.
Morality police chief General Ahmad Rouzbahani warned in early August that the police would act forcefully against such events "in public places, or anywhere throughout the country".
In early August, 17 boys and girls were arrested over a water fight at a seaside park in the Southern city of Bandar Abbas, after taking part in what the provincial justice chief said was an act that was "haram," banned by Islam.
The western powers, specially Britain and the US, have sought hard to stoke violence and unrests in Iran, specially during the 2009 presidential election in the country. In response, Iran expelled two British diplomats and arrested a number of local staffs of the British embassy in Tehran after documents and evidence substantiated London's interfering role in stirring presidential post-election riots in Iran in 2009.
In one of the court hearing sessions, British embassy's local staff in Tehran Hossein Rassam, who was charged with spying, admitted cultivating networks of contacts in the opposition movement using a £300,000 budget and confessed that the local staff of the embassy had attended protests against June 2009's presidential election results along with two British diplomats, named in court as Tom Burn and Paul Blemey, and that he had attended meetings with the defeated opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi alongside Burn.
Also, an Iranian deputy intelligence minister said in January 2010 that a number of German diplomats were involved in Tehran's unrests on December 27, 2009.
"One of the networks, whose members were arrested on Ashoura day, had contacts with German intelligence service through the country's diplomats" in Tehran, an Iranian deputy intelligence minister said.
"The network included a number of young men and women who had contacts with the foreign agents and websites and ran a propaganda campaign via the so-called 'Green' groups," the official said.
"The network was linked to German diplomats via a female member who attended their parties and private circles and exchanged intelligence information and news with them on a daily basis," he said.
The intelligence ministry official pointed out that the German diplomats used the said network for identifying intelligence centers in Iran and attracting potential members.
Later in February 2010, one of the detainees arrested during the frenzy in the Iranian capital on December 27, 2009, confessed that some German diplomats had played a direct role in provoking unrests in Iran.
"One of the German diplomats distributed green wristlets packed in a bag among the people (on Ashoura Day)…," the detainee said at the time, adding, "It was obvious that they hadn't made them in Iran."
The detainee also confessed that he had sent e-mails to a German diplomat on the events in Iran, and said, "After sending an e-mail to the German diplomat, he responded to me with an e-mail, saying 'You are off the track, we were informed of such news long time ago'."
On December 27, 2009, anti-government protesters in Tehran took advantage of the Ashoura mourning ceremonies to chant slogans against high-ranking Iranian officials.
In response, millions of Iranian people took part in massive rallies in Tehran and other cities across the country to voice their strong support for the country's Islamic establishment and Supreme Leader and condemn insults to Imam Hossein (AS) by those who took to the streets on December 27.
