12-12-2020, 04:32 PM
Is there any question that Iran is not a totalitarian state? The Iranian Revolutionary Guards act much like a composite of the Spanish Inquisition, the Nazi Schutzstaffel, and Stalin's OGPU.
Ruhollah Zam (Persian: روحالله زم, also Romanized as "Rouhollah Zam"; 27 July 1978 – 12 December 2020) was an Iranian activist and journalist.[2][3] He was best known for operating a Telegram channel named 'Amadnews' (or 'Sedaiemardom', lit. 'Voice of the People'), which he founded in 2015. Zam played a high-profile role in the 2017–18 Iranian protests, during which he devoted special coverage.[4] Voice of America's Persian service frequently invited Zam on its broadcasts.[5][6] In June 2020, an Iran court found him guilty of "corruption on earth" for running a popular anti-government forum, which officials said incited the 2017–2018 Iranian protests. He was sentenced to death by an Iranian court and was executed on 12 December 2020.[7]
Ruhollah Zam was born into a clerical family in Tehran in 1978.[5] His father, Mohammad-Ali Zam, is a reformist who served in senior government positions in the 1980s and 1990s.[4] Mohammad-Ali Zam chose the name "Rouhollah" for his son as he was a supporter of Rouhollah Khomeini, founder of the Islamic Republic in Iran, however Rouhollah later asked his friend to call him Nima. Ruhollah Zam turned against the establishment after the 2009 Iranian presidential election protests, and was imprisoned in Evin Prison for some time. Zam eventually fled Iran to reside in France.[8]
On 14 October 2019, Iran's Revolutionary Guards announced they had lured Zam back to Iran and arrested him, although according to other sources he would have been arrested in Iraq.[9][10] The guards posted the news of his arrest on Zam's Telegram channel with a following of over a million users, effectively taking over the administration of the popular channel.[11]
The court hearing was held at the 15th branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Tehran presided over by Judge Abolqasem Salavati.[12] Ruhollah Zam was sentenced to death according to the judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili.[13]
Ruhollah Zam was executed by hanging on December 12, 2020.[14]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhollah_Zam
Ruhollah Zam (Persian: روحالله زم, also Romanized as "Rouhollah Zam"; 27 July 1978 – 12 December 2020) was an Iranian activist and journalist.[2][3] He was best known for operating a Telegram channel named 'Amadnews' (or 'Sedaiemardom', lit. 'Voice of the People'), which he founded in 2015. Zam played a high-profile role in the 2017–18 Iranian protests, during which he devoted special coverage.[4] Voice of America's Persian service frequently invited Zam on its broadcasts.[5][6] In June 2020, an Iran court found him guilty of "corruption on earth" for running a popular anti-government forum, which officials said incited the 2017–2018 Iranian protests. He was sentenced to death by an Iranian court and was executed on 12 December 2020.[7]
Ruhollah Zam was born into a clerical family in Tehran in 1978.[5] His father, Mohammad-Ali Zam, is a reformist who served in senior government positions in the 1980s and 1990s.[4] Mohammad-Ali Zam chose the name "Rouhollah" for his son as he was a supporter of Rouhollah Khomeini, founder of the Islamic Republic in Iran, however Rouhollah later asked his friend to call him Nima. Ruhollah Zam turned against the establishment after the 2009 Iranian presidential election protests, and was imprisoned in Evin Prison for some time. Zam eventually fled Iran to reside in France.[8]
On 14 October 2019, Iran's Revolutionary Guards announced they had lured Zam back to Iran and arrested him, although according to other sources he would have been arrested in Iraq.[9][10] The guards posted the news of his arrest on Zam's Telegram channel with a following of over a million users, effectively taking over the administration of the popular channel.[11]
The court hearing was held at the 15th branch of the Islamic Revolutionary Court in Tehran presided over by Judge Abolqasem Salavati.[12] Ruhollah Zam was sentenced to death according to the judiciary spokesman Gholamhossein Esmaili.[13]
Ruhollah Zam was executed by hanging on December 12, 2020.[14]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruhollah_Zam
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.