Posted on 06/14/2009 10:49:07 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
1:05 update: According to our private phone conversations with people in Tehran, hundreds of parents have gathered by a police station in Yousef Abad, now known as Seyyed Jamal Aldin Asad Abadi, with their hands raised to the sky saying “Obama, please help us, they are killing our young children.” They were gathering there because their kids are missing and they were trying to find out where they are.
Also, according to eyewitness accounts, gunshots could be heard last night until 3am in Elahiyeh, alongside chants of “God is great!” from people on their rooftops. This was a widespread tactic in the 1979 revolution, in which people were urged to take to their rooftops and shout “Allah-u Akbar.”
Reformist candidate Mehdi Karroubi has taken off his clegry robe in protest.
12:27 update: Video from Esfehan shows the unrest is by no means limited to Tehran.
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Farsi has a lot of Arabic loan words. “Allahu akbar” is one of them.
They should be asking Bibi.
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