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Torture In Iran

April 5, 2009 4:00 PM

Ahmad Batebi tells CNN's Anderson Cooper, in his 1st U.S. television interview how he was tortured for 9 years in an Iranian prison and how he managed to escape.

How Ahmad Batebi Survived Torture In Iran
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by nedaka July 26, 2009 6:42 AM EDT
Many thanks for revealing a tiny reality of ?Islamic Republic? regime in Iran. when he was in jail I always tried to find out about his health. never crossed my mind that he was treated so savagely. God bless you always Ahmad.
Neda K
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by iraqvideos_net April 26, 2009 9:54 AM EDT
I am american and I am not so stupid as to believe that. Usa news like this is usa news grin. I need nto say more.
as for the usa pretending and such about torture in iran and as for the past lies of usa it was just cuz they are too stupid to know the diff in people there. Also was cuz they wanted to attack for the natural gas since they took oil from iraq.
americans are just retarded and their news reporters are either as retarded or part of the usa govt lies. is just as it is there. They had to again report they were wrong last yr. grin. inbreeding should not be legal then 99% of the usa population would be no more. grin.
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by NimaNas April 12, 2009 11:24 AM EDT
Torture is bad... It doesn't matter where in the world it is... but what has that to do with this video?? So because torture exist in other countries, 60 minutes aren't allowed to show this case about Iran??!?!
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by NimaNas April 12, 2009 11:16 AM EDT
Maryam-Maryam.. I would like to see your scources and research which confirms that there exist no torture in Iranian prisons... You need to do some more neutral research and not the kind research the islamic government supports. the comments and so called facts you spread are false and against all the researh and works organisations like Amnesty have done.. So please stop this.. It is very hurtfull for those who have their childrens being tortured and killed in these satanic prisons...

And by the way: how hard is it to get a cellphone which can record his way out?? Seriously!?!
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by maryam_maryam April 10, 2009 5:03 PM EDT
LOL!!! You mean to tell me that Iran's gov't just let this man go free and live a life with a cell phone and transport access. I am an Iranian American, I've lived here and in Tehran and Kurdistan, this notion is absurd!

Iran does have it's repressive problems, clearly it's a theocracy, however, there are other motives and interests not exposed here. Now this man will be the poster-boy for the looney Shah-loving, imperial Iranians living in Los Angeles and Great Neck, NY. I suppose the Shah's American trained Savak tortures were okay, right?

Please, Mr. Cooper, I thought you were more investigatory and smart, this is more likely to come out of FOX. 1 more point for the fanatics of Israel.

It seems, if this were true, Iran is taking tips from the uneducated, poor, martyrs of the U.S. military on how to torture. And has anyone been to Angola prison in the south or Ryker's Island and checked on conditions there? Prison torture is bad EVERYWHERE.
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by bsaheb April 10, 2009 12:55 PM EDT
Thanks to internet I have not been watching TV for a long time but I was told by a friend to watch your story about Mr. Ahmad Batebi. I do not know what he truly had done to be taken to prison as he claimed? whether he was guilty or innocent of the charges but I only wondered about several things?
1- Interesting how he was offered a job with the Voice of America in Washington which airs anti-Iran propaganda and fully financed from the hundreds of million of tax payer dollars given to so many radio and TV stations which air anti-Iran propaganda.
2-I have done years of independent research on the treatment of Political prisioners in many of the Middle Eastern countries. I would be happy to share with you my opinion backed by facts that Islamic Republic of Iran does not torture prisioners. Even during the nine year of war when Iraq under Saddam attacked Iran with the full support and backing of the West, not one Iraqi soldier captured by Iran was tortured.
3-I wish that 60 Min producers would go to Libya, Jordan, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Israel and see how those countries treat their political prisoners. The world would love to see that. I have done my homework and will be happy to share with you. Unfortunately the US Media has made a very bad image of Iran ever since the Islamic revolution of 1979 and continues to this day. We talk about democracy in the Middle East, but support all the dictators running almost all the countries in that region. We will see the day when this paradox expoldes and the millions living in those countries rebel against dictatorships like Iran did against the Shah.
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by buddy12325 April 8, 2009 5:57 PM EDT
What an interresting story but one question if he was fleeing for his life what kind captor
supplied a camera phone to record his escape
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by thebullss April 8, 2009 6:56 AM EDT
This is the beginning, I hope the networks would have more articles and documentaries for the crimes of this regim.
Marchello
Senellville GA.
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by Babak_M April 8, 2009 5:53 AM EDT
There would hardly be any improvement or progress in the relations between Iran and USA unless both sides try to learn lessons of the past ; for USA new adminstration : that their foreign policy has led to a mistrust in the mind of the majority of Iranians (even young people reading the history of their land) and considering that the rule of a single nation (or with few others) over the rest of the world is bygone (let's do not forget that the Persian Empire was the bigest of the planet once upon a time...) : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW_Rbka6eZ8

For the "governers" of this regime that has absolutely nothing to do with our National Identity, what some people call the "iranity", there will be no other issue than the one faced by the Shah in 1979 : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHEynnldZDE
With a population composed by the young up to 60-65 per cent who are more than fed-up with this barbaric regime, it's just a question of time. Meanwhile, the democracy Movement and the NGO's inside the country (students, workers, women, etc.) need most of all the moral support of the rest of the world.
As people said in 1979 : " We shall overcome ! ", let's hope that this time will be for the best ...
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by jogan9 April 7, 2009 6:51 PM EDT
Persians need to be united and west and eu need to support over throwing this torturers and barbaric Islamic regime
http://www.u-too.blogspot.com/
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