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Iranian envoy admits Kazemi was murdered OXFORD, England - Iran's ambassador to Britain admitted yesterday that Canadian photojournalist Zahra Kazemi was murdered by Iranian security officials -- radically reversing the official position of the Iranian judiciary, which has said her death had been an accident. "I don't support the killing by some shrewd security forces of that lady," Seyyed Mohammad Hossein Adeli said at Saint Antony's College at the University of Oxford. "We are sorry for it." Mr. Adeli's startling statement contradicts the formal explanation for Ms. Kazemi's death given last July by Iranian authorities, following the acquittal "due to lack of sufficient evidence," of Mohammad Reza Aghdam Ahmadi, an intelligence ministry agent who had been charged with her death. At the time, the hard-line judiciary claimed Mr. Ahmadi's acquittal proved Ms. Kazemi died when she fainted and hit her head. "The only suspect in this quasi-intentional murder of Zahra Kazemi was innocent, so there remains only one other option," its statement said. "This is that the incident leading to the death of the late Kazemi was because of a drop in her blood pressure caused by her hunger strike, thus making her fall from a standing position and get hurt." In 2003, Ms. Kazemi, an Iranian-Canadian photojournalist, was working in Iran with the permission of the Iranian government. On June 23, she was arrested while taking photographs outside the Evin Prison in Tehran, where demonstrators were protesting the incarceration of students and other democrats. Ms. Kazemi, 56, was arrested and taken inside the prison, where she was subjected to more than three days of interrogation. Four days later, she was taken to a hospital, bleeding from her nose and mouth. She died July 10. Iranian authorities initially claimed she had died because of a stroke, before admitting her death was likely the result of head injuries and charging Mr. Ahmadi with quasi-intentional murder. Her case became a source of tension between reformers in Iran's parliament and conservatives in the religious judiciary and Council of Guardians, who hold real power in Iran. At one point, a spokesman for the reform-leaning intelligence ministry promised to identify the alleged real killer, if the judiciary allowed it. But the judiciary declared Ms. Kazemi's death an accident and effectively closed the case. Mr. Adeli claimed Ms. Kazemi's murder was an isolated event, similar to the Port Moody, B.C., police shooting Keyvan Tabesh, an 18-year-old who was shot and killed after he charged a plainclothes officer with a machete. "May I speak frankly?" Mr. Adeli said. "It is compatible with police in Vancouver shooting that Iranian boy, just because they thought he was running after that lady." In a wide-ranging speech, Mr. Adeli also said Iran needed nuclear power to help reduce greenhouse gas emissions, as required by Kyoto. -- In God we trust, all others we monitor. -- NSA, Intercept Operator's motto, circa 1970 ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> DonorsChoose. A simple way to provide underprivileged children resources often lacking in public schools. Fund a student project in NYC/NC today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/EHLuJD/.WnJAA/cUmLAA/TySplB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
