Posted on 06/19/2009 1:55:32 AM PDT by neverdem
Editor's note: The following are firsthand accounts that were solicited by Journal assistant editorial features editor Bari Weiss. Some were translated from Farsi. Surnames have been omitted to protect the writers.
Don't Accept This Coup By Kaveh from Tabriz
Ahmadinejad has taken revenge on the students of Iran during these violent days. The regime's aim is to damage universities, since they are the first base of change, movement and protest.
I live in the dorms at Tehran University. I was asleep when Basij militiamen entered my room early Monday morning, demolished everything and started beating us. A man with a long beard broke my notebook and said: "It is destroyed, this book that you were using against Islam and Ahmadinejad."
They beat students more when they saw posters of Mousavi in their rooms. And they carried big knives and guns.
They also attacked the women's dormitory next door. The Supreme Leader calls us rioters...
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They don't have pity on anyone. Some of the police cannot speak Farsi. I saw one of them beating a man as he cursed in Arabic. People say they are from Hezbollah.
These men barge into homes and threaten people by calling their families. And they are savage against peaceful demonstrators.
Hospitals are full of people injured by the Military Guard, yet the Supreme Leader of Iran called us seditious. We just want the right to a real vote.
This is the first time an American president did not interfere with Iran's situation -- and it's a good thing. In the past, U.S. support for the protestors led the Iranian government to punish the people more, accusing them of being spies for or taking money from the U.S.
But I think Obama must hear the message of the protests: Ahmadinejad's government is a lie...
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“But I think Obama must hear the message of the protests”
Sorry, but 0bama’s sentiments don’t rest with you. He favors Ahmadinejad and Khameini. You are just troublesome rabble rousers upsetting 0bama’s pizza night plans.
So... the bottom line is: Obama must understand that Nut Job is a tyrant, and say nothing about it.
“Can’t be bothered, I have corrupt cronies to protect, thugs to pardon and IG’s to fire” Obama responded “I don’t have time to praise every popular uprising against tyranny and suppression. Priorities man priorities!”
Obama supporting anything either here or in Iran is the kiss of death. His popularity is waning in America thanks to the continual dialogue of the USA Conservatives with the press. The Conservatives are telling the true nature of Obama’s insane presidential decrees. We look forward to the 2010 elections to over throw this so called “Muslim POTUS.” So called by himself .Obama is after power for himself and his Democrat Socialist Party of which he is the titular head.
Sorry pal...but Obama is on the side of Ahmadinejad and Khameini. They are his kind of people.
I am just bidding my time until 2010 comes.
Thankfully PBO’s numbers are going down because people are starting to wake up.
The Supreme Leader in Iran is speaking this very moment and is televised on TV (I’m watching CNN, as I was watching a rerun of Lou Dobbs and then just as his program was ending and Anderson Cooper’s program was about to begin and I was about to turn the TV off, they came in with breaking news and the Supreme Ayatollah was on speaking to a bunch of his brownshirts and paid thugs (just like Hitler’s SS AND SA). He is blaming everything that is happening in Iran on the U.S., the Zionists, the Europeans, and others for stirring the pot over in Iran and causing the demonstrations that have been taking place for the last 6 days straight. It appears that Mousavi, contrary to the Supreme Leader’s demands that he appear with the Supreme Leader as a show of “solidarity”, is not there. Hahahahahahahah.
Oh jeez, now some of the “audience” are crying, as the Supreme Leader whines about being handicapped, and pleading with the crowd to back him. Saying he gave his life to the revolution. Asks for support and prayers of his followers. they are all standing and waiving their fists and saying they will give their life to the cause of their leader. Earlier the crowd was chanting “Death to America”. He’s done now. Now he’s hobbling off stage, to show how handicapped he is. He was speaking at a University. Went on for 2 hours. They only televised the last part, the grand finale. The first part was the “spiritual” part. Now Christiane Amanpour of CNN is analyzing the speech. Says the Supreme Leader blamed the arrogant world media. Said worst offenders were the British, then the U.S. and Obama (hahahah), and said the idea that a “velvet revolution” like in the Ukraine was happening in Iran is a mistaken view of the West.
Said about election, there were differences among candidates, differences of view. Says should not think election was counter-revolutionary. All 4 candidates could put their viewpoints across. Praised Rafsanjani (former leader who backed Mousavi), which is odd. Trying to molify the opposition with feint praise. Said street demonstrations must stop. Must use legal methods, otherwise those out on streets will be responsible for the consequences (veiled threat). Says how can you talk about cheating with only 11 million votes difference. Says challenges should be taken up with Guardian Council. We shall see what tomorrow brings. Will there be more mass demonstrations by the opposition? We will soon know.
The Surpeme Leader would blame even a tuna fish sandwich for the protests, this is how paronoid they are.
Ping.
So many people in the US still don't get it. Just because the students and opposition to the Mullahs in Iran hate the current regime, doesn't mean they love the US. If the US was perceived as supporting the opposition, it would be the end of the opposition, as then the whole country would unite behind the Mullahs against the US.
To make it perfectly clear. They hate the Mullahs, but they hate the US more.
Too many people see the demonstrations against the Mullahs as signs of hope in Iran, but even if the opposition wins, the best we can hope for is that the new regime will no longer want to nuke us as the current regime wants to. The new regime will not be our friends and will not renounce Islamic fundamentalism. In other words, Iranian Muslims will continue to act like Muslims no matter what happens.
“Said about election, there were differences among candidates, differences of view.”
Funny, that’s exactly how Obama described it—a “dispute.”
This is the first time an American president did not interfere with Iran's situation -- and it's a good thing. In the past, U.S. support for the protestors led the Iranian government to punish the people more, accusing them of being spies for or taking money from the U.S. But I think Obama must hear the message of the protests: Ahmadinejad's government is a lie...
"And what's your point?"
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