100,000 to more than 1 million, defied Interior Ministry warnings broadcast on state television and radio that anyone showing up would be beaten or worse, and even ignored Mousavi's last-minute call to cancel the event.
Tyrants never "get it". Issuing a threatening statement like that, is like using gasoline to put out a house fire.
And Mousavi ought to have realized by now that this uprising is NOT about him.
9 posted on 06/15/2009 9:35:25 PM PDT by Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
100,000 to more than 1 million, defied Interior Ministry warnings broadcast on state television and radio that anyone showing up would be beaten or worse, and even ignored Mousavi's last-minute call to cancel the event.
"The beatings will continue until morale improves."
10 posted on 06/15/2009 9:38:17 PM PDT by dfwgator