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Iran: A year of electoral fraud and brutal repression have cut

The June 12, 2009, the official communication that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad imposed in the presidential election by 63% of the vote, gaining a second term, caused shock and outrage in Iran. The opposition candidate Mir Hossein Moussavi, denounced the fraud and claimed victory. Thousands of Iranians took to the streets to defend their vote. The balance was bloody
: 70 dead. The victim was emblematic Neda Soltani, a 27-year-old who was shot in the chest. His agony was shot by a protester. The images were seen around the world and became a symbol of Neda in the Iranian democratic resistance.

As part of the protests and in the weeks immediately following, thousands of people were arrested politicians, journalists, human rights defenders, students ... Several hundred activists still detained and some have been sentenced to long prison terms.

That did not stop Ahmadinejad say, recently, in Iran no one is arrested for protesting. "
In recent years, the Iranian power has been increasingly militarized and has increased the influence of the Revolutionary Guards and intelligence services in the State apparatus.
InsideIran.org website, which expressed opposition to the regime, claims that anyone who publicly criticizes the Ahmadinejad's nuclear policy runs the risk of being imprisoned.
In this first anniversary of the 2009 elections, the opposition was not even allowed to demonstrate peacefully and quietly "without representations or statements", as requested two weeks earlier.
A recent report by Amnesty International (AI) says that in Iran there was an intensification of repression. They recognized authorities have arrested 5,000 people in the weeks after the election. But AI believes that the figure is much higher.
illegal raids and arrests carried out by agents in civilian clothes, incommunicado detention, mistreatment and even torture are some of the human rights violations that Amnesty International report in Iran.
The NGO also estimated that in the course of 2009, there were about 388 executions . Several people were sentenced to death in the process "exemplary" after the fraudulent re-election last June.
a result of fraud on the Iranian president's reelection was the emergence of a broad opposition movement which brings together civic and religious leaders, joined by such basic demands as the right to free speech and a decent life. This current, known as the Green Movement and led by Mir Hossein Moussavi, opposition presidential candidate, has always manifested in a peaceful manner, which did not prevent the regime systematically respond violence.
Ezzatollah Sahabi, leader of the religious nationalist Mazhabi Melli, who spent more than 15 years in prison of the Shah and then in the regime of the ayatollahs, he made an interesting balance in the management of Ahmadinejad in an interview with the newspaper Le Monde "Under the pretext of fighting against 'foreign intervention' this regime arbitrary practices and tramples all ethical and national value, despite its potential, Iran has become the most backward state, isolated and humiliated in the Middle East and Asia, the same level as North Korea. "