Sister of Martyrs Blasts Regime

Zahara Bakeri had 3 brothers martyred for the Islamic Republic including one executed by the Shah. Her brother above pictured was martyred in the war with Iraq. She has put out a strong statement in which criticizes the behavior of the regime and says the Shahs regime was less tyrannical. It shows you how much good Muslims no longer have any respect for this regime:

I am the sister of three martyrs. In the days of the Shah’s tyrannical regime, one of my brothers was executed and another was sentence to life in prison. My other two brothers were martyred during the rule of the Islamic Republic. I have spent thirty years of my life in the Shah’s regime, and the next thirty years in the Islamic Republic.

In the days of the Shah, when my eldest brother was executed and my other brother was imprisoned in Ghasr, Evin, Adel Abad (Shiraz), Ghezel Ghaleh, and Oroomiyeh prisons, we, and people like us had the right to speak and meet with international lawyers, and members of Amnesty International, and members of prisoners’ rights organizations. But in a ruling system which claims to be adorned with the names of Imam Ali [first shi’a saint] and Imam Mahdi [twelfth and last Imam], the mothers, fathers and wives of the prisoners have no right to ask about the health of their loved ones, they have no right to any information. And the families have no right to repeat what they have heard about the status of their loved ones??!!! The men who are at the top of these affairs, where is your justice? Compare the status of political prisoners in the days of the Shah, which, apparently, some of you have experienced, to the status of prisoners today.

After my eldest brother, Ali, was executed, my family had the right to hold a funeral ceremony for him. The ceremonies for the 7th and 40th day after his death were held by my uncles in Tehran. A few months after the execution of my brother, I was formally employed by the ministry of education and my sister was employed as head of the Institute for Education and Development. My brother Mehdi [who died in the war, pictured above] was accepted in the university entrance exam, and the Shah’s regime did not create any problems for us. Truly, is this similar to the status of the victims’ families today?

My brother was hanged while chanting Allah o Akbar, and the Shah’s regime did not use him to justify itself. I beg of you, to the lord almighty of which you constantly preach but to whose guidance you pay no heed, sit back and ponder: on which humanitarian law do you base your actions?!!