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Heshmat Alavi ‏ Rasht, northern #Iran
As promised, I found this video showing the scene of young musicians being literally pulled away by what seems to be plainclothes agents.
One source told me state police was also present at the scene.
RT to show the world the mullahs' ruthless nature... Rasht, northern #Iran
As promised, I found this video showing the scene of young musicians being literally pulled away by what seems to be plainclothes agents.
One source told me state police was also present at the scene.
RT to show the world the mullahs' ruthless nature...
pic.twitter.com/DJWT0kJ6dM— Heshmat Alavi (@HeshmatAlavi) November 16, 2018

[lysie]

Wow!

[Rusty0604]

Good grief. I wonder what some of our youth that protest everything in this country would say about that.

Meanwhile in Venezuela,

As part of a $70 million government effort to bolster “national security,” Venezuela last year hired ZTE to build a fatherland database and create a mobile payment system for use with the card, according to contracts reviewed by Reuters. A team of ZTE employees is now embedded in a special unit within Cantv, the Venezuelan state telecommunications company that manages the database, according to four current and former Cantv employees.

The fatherland card is troubling some citizens and human-rights groups who believe it is a tool for Chávez’s successor, President Nicolás Maduro, to monitor the populace and allocate scarce resources to his loyalists.

“It’s blackmail,” Héctor Navarro, one of the founders of the ruling Socialist Party and a former minister under Chávez, said of the fatherland program. “Venezuelans with the cards now have more rights than those without.”

https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/venezuela-zte/