Iranian Whistleblower Dies After Eating Poison Salad
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, December 3, 2009, 3:46 PM
Ramin Pourandarjani (pictured) died from eating a poison salad after he spoke out against the regime’s crackdown on democracy activists.
Planet Iran reported:
A doctor who blew the whistle on the torture of jailed protesters in Iran died of poisoning from an overdose of an anti-hypertension drug in his salad, prosecutors say, fueling opposition fears that he was killed because of what he knew about the abuse.
Investigators are still trying to determine whether his death was a suicide or murder, Tehran’s public prosecutor Abbas Dowlatabadi said, according to the state news agency IRNA.
The 26-year-old doctor, Ramin Pourandarjani, died on Nov. 10 in mysterious circumstances — with authorities initially saying he was in a car accident, had a heart attack or committed suicide.
Pourandarjani was a doctor at Kahrizak, a prison on Tehran’s outskirts where hundreds of opposition protesters were taken after being arrested in the crackdown following June’s disputed presidential elections. The facility became so notorious that it was ordered shut down by Iran’s supreme leader as reports of abuse and torture became an embarassment to the clerical rulers and security forces.
Pourandarjani later testified to a parliamentary committee and reportedly told them that one young protester he treated died from heavy torture.
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chuck in st paul commented:
In the mean time sixteen White House aides led by Holdren have flown to Teheran to take notes.
Andreas K. commented:
Waiting for the outcry in Europe in 3… 2… 1…
Wait a second… is that snoring I hear?
starboardhelm commented:
“with authorities initially saying he was in a car accident, had a heart attack or committed suicide”
Why stop there? or lept off a building, eaten by sharks, trampled by elephants, impaled on a fence while playing ninja (could happen!), choked on a candy, parachute didn’t deploy, stung by killer bees . . .
annk commented:
God bless Ramin Pourandarjani.
Dr Carlo Lombardi commented:
I think I had that salad at Chi-Chi’s one time.
yes commented:
God bless him, and all who put their lives at stake on behalf of freedom.
Marsh commented:
Dubai is the enabler and financer of Iran. Boycott Dubai.
Solaratov commented:
Marsh
December 3rd, 2009 | 6:09 pm | #8
Dubai is the enabler and financer of Iran. Boycott Dubai.
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Dubai has troubles of their own, what with defaulting on billions of dollars in “sharia bonds”.
btw; Aren’t sharia bonds supposed to be the safest investment going? And aren’t some of our big brokerage houses offering them? And aren’t some banks offering sharia mortgages?
Poor Dubai. Poor, stupid dhimmi investors.
What *would* mohammed(pbuh) say about it all?
/sarc on&off/
squeaky commented:
the long arm of the mullahs reach into the U.S.
to threaten those opposed to the regime…….
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125978649644673331.html
bg commented:
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God Bless You & Rest in Peace Ramin Pourandarjani..
sarc on/
coming to US sooner than we’ll realize, oh wait.. US
whistleblowers have never been threatened, right??
/sarc off
squeaky @ 7:20 pm #10
[The regime has been cracking down hard at home. And now, a Wall Street Journal investigation shows, it is extending that crackdown to Iranians abroad as well.
In recent months, Iran has been conducting a campaign of harassing and intimidating members of its diaspora world-wide -- not just prominent dissidents -- who criticize the regime, according to former Iranian lawmakers and former members of Iran's elite security force, the Revolutionary Guard, with knowledge of the program.]
gee, wonder how they manage to gather info, oh wait..
Google helps China route out it’s dissidents, right Al??
“Ashraf is the city of peace, it is not a prison,”
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MVH commented:
Gee…I wonder if this terrible news has Obama “concerned”?