As you know, Zaniar and Loghman Moradi were arrested for assassination of the son of Imam Jomeeh (Friday Prayer leader) of Marivan (city in Kurdistan of Iran). Supposedly, an MI6 agent Jalil Fatahi, had paid them to kill the young man. A charge that would be funny if it did not involve hanging two innocent young men. So I started calling around and found some connection to Marivan. Marivan is a rather small city, old fashioned in a sense that people know each other and most have lived there for many generations. I found a person who connected me with Zaniar's father and had a short interview with him . Details in (http://ahvalvatan.blogspot.com/2011/01/interview-with-aghbal-moradi-father-of.html).
After talking to Zanyar's father I understood why Zanyar was arrested. I still could not see the relationship between Zaniar and Mr. Jalali. Since Mr. Jalali is now in hiding some where in England, presumably, I had to ask the people of Marivan to fill in the details.
So this is how the story begins, Zaniar's father is an active member of one of the Kurdish parties and has been jailed by IR before. Finally he had to leave Iran. His youngest son Zaniar decided to stay to take care of his grand parents> Moradi's felt safe because Zaniar was not involved in any kind of political activity. Last year IR tried to assassinate Eghbal Moradi, Zaniar's father. He was badly injured but survived. A few months later, Zaniar was arrested in Iran.
It is not uncommon for IR to arrest family members of the opposition so arresting Zaniar in revenge against his father did make sense.
However, there are many odd points about this story. One of the most important ones is that there is a man already in jail for killing the son of Imam Jomeeh! He is a highway man and known to work for the IR. His name is Haiwa Tab. There is a rumor that he is the man that arrested the 3 American hikers in Iraq and delivered them to IR. It is also a known face that he had a contract with the IR to kill Kurdish rebels known as Pish Margehs (the sacrificial ones). For years, shepherds and the mountain people in Marivan and cities around went missing. By some account the numbers are in 50 to 60 person a year. It is believed that Haiwa Tab and his gang were killing these people and dressing them in the PishMarg clothes and delivering them to IR for bounty.
Haiwa Tab's crimes does not end there.Once he tried to black mail the Imam Jomeeh's family. Apparently the Imam Jomeeh body guards captured Haiwa Tab and drove him in chains to Hamedan, city close to Tehran and Many Many miles from Kurdistan. There they left him bare foot and with no money to walk back to Marivan. After his return, he supposedly attacked the Imam Jomeh's car and killed the occupants, which happen to be his son and a couple of other passengers.
The other character of note here is the son of Imam Jomeeh. Despite being the son of top religious figure and follower of IR in Marivan, he was known to extend a help free those who were captured by IR agents and Sepah. One of the people I talked to said that he, himself has been rescued twice by this young man.
And now for the Kurdish 007, Mri jalil Fatahi. I asked to see if any one know why MI6 would send an agent to Marivan of all places. My new found friends responded ,through a lough burst of laughter, no he is not an agent. He is a chicken farmer. He also had owned a taxi and had worked for the parks services as a forest ranger. He was in fact a well respected social activist, helping kids on drugs with his own money. One of the things that stood out to me was that while working as a forest ranger, Mr. Fatahi had found large plantations of opium poppy and suspected that the fields belonged to Sepah members. He also suspected that uncommon large fires that seem to burn in Kurdistan forests are an attempt to prepare the land for poppy plantations. It is known that Sepah actively deals in narcotics so this did not seem too far fetched and it also explains the raid on Mr. jalalian's house and confiscation of his computer and papers. Both he and his wife were accused of being British spies, however after he left Iran secretly, his wife and son flew out of Tehran's main airport without any problems. So the spy story does not seem to hold much water, well at least not for one of the two alleged spies.
So we come to the last person, Loghman Moradi, who is not related to Zaniar Moradi. Loghman's father worked in department of roads and was a driver. After Mr. Jalalian had left, there were two broken down cars on his property which Mrs Jalalian wanted removed. Loghman was the one who moved the cars using his fathers flat bed truck.
So here are all the little links in this chain. On one hand we have IR's story of James Bond of Marivan and the two juvenile delinquents or a dangerous criminal who crossed the line at revenge killing of Imam Jomeeh son? I leave it up to you to decide!!
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