Breaking: Major Demonstration In Iran Against The Regime (200 to 400 Thousand in the streets)!

Ya know, that's not bad......

221 posted on 09/27/2004 8:56:37 AM PDT by Hi Heels (Proud to be a Pajamarazzi.)

Two points here:

This is great news for Bush, although the media might put a different spin on it.

Sometimes revolutions spin out of control and the new regime becomes as bad as the the one overthrown.

Freedom now, may it inspire the people of other Muslim dictatorships to do the same.

222 posted on 09/27/2004 8:56:48 AM PDT by catonsville

Iranian counter-revolution bump.

223 posted on 09/27/2004 8:56:51 AM PDT by roaddog727 (The marginal propensity to save is 1 minus the marginal propensity to consume.)

224 posted on 09/27/2004 8:59:06 AM PDT by T. Buzzard Trueblood ("I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things." -Dan Rather)

how many of those "muslims" will stay muslim after the mullahs are thrown out?

yes... I can see the survey crew now, knock on door.....hello?... yes we are with CNNCBSMULLAH Polling Institute and are taking a survey.....

225 posted on 09/27/2004 9:48:44 AM PDT by gdc61

226 posted on 09/27/2004 9:54:46 AM PDT by DoctorZIn (Until they are Free, "We shall all be Iranians!")

Exile call prompts Iran protests

By Sadeq Saba
BBC regional analyst

Iranians are showing signs of desperation for change

A call from a US-based Iranian TV personality has prompted thousands of Iranians to protest for more freedoms.

People took to the streets of the capital, Tehran, and other cities on Sunday after Ahura Pirouz Khaleghi Yazdi urged protests across Iran.

The exile has predicted Iran's Islamic government will fall on 1 October.

Nobody had heard of Mr Yazdi until a few months ago when he set up a satellite channel in California to try to overthrow the Iranian government.

Since then he has become a hot topic of conversation both among disaffected Iranians and exiled opposition groups.

For several weeks he has been declaring that he intends to return to Iran on 1 October to end the rule of Islamic clerics.

He has called on the Iranian diaspora to accompany him in his so-called liberation flight and has urged his supporters inside the country to stage protests.

He is advocating peaceful means and civil disobedience.

TV power

Mr Yazdi, who seems to be about 50, apparently left Iran when he was a child - and his command of the Persian language is poor.

The pro-government press in Tehran has described him as insane.

His simplistic views about overthrowing the Islamic government singlehandedly have also angered serious exile opposition leaders who have labelled him a demagogue.

But analysts say the fact that thousands of people heeded his call and took to the streets on Sunday evening proves that Iranians are desperate for change.

The Yazdi phenomenon also shows how US-based opposition satellite TV stations are becoming an important means of putting pressure on the Iranian government.

227 posted on 09/27/2004 10:20:15 AM PDT by DoctorZIn (Until they are Free, "We shall all be Iranians!")

Exile call prompts Iran protests

By Sadeq Saba
BBC regional analyst

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1227597/posts?page=227#227

228 posted on 09/27/2004 10:29:38 AM PDT by DoctorZIn (Until they are Free, "We shall all be Iranians!")

Is there any accurate protest numbers yet?

Are there any protestors still in streets?

I know if you knew these things, you would have already posted here, just wanted to get these two questions out so maybe we can get some hard data today.

229 posted on 09/27/2004 10:37:48 AM PDT by free_life

Thanks again President Jimminy Carter.

Thanks Jimmuh for the malaise and the mollahs - and good riddance to you and your ilk

230 posted on 09/27/2004 11:10:08 AM PDT by geros

what can we do to help them...

Prayers, because I think that's all they'll get from our state dept.

231 posted on 09/27/2004 12:09:32 PM PDT by valkyrieanne

I hope the world takes a good hard look and recognizes that, unlike some other Arab states, these people actually DON'T want a repressive Islamic regime.

Iran's not an Arab state. They are of the ancient Persian culture and speak Farsi, not Arabic. They are not ethnically Arab either.

232 posted on 09/27/2004 12:12:45 PM PDT by valkyrieanne

Knowing Tereza. Her response would most likley be "Let them eat catsup".

233 posted on 09/27/2004 12:13:43 PM PDT by Starhopper (Remember. For evil to conquer,good men need to do nothing.)

The people are either secular or turning to Christianity and/or Zoroastrianism. But remember it is illegal to leave Islam in Iran.

I am fervently praying for a successful Persian revolution in Iran, and self-determination for the Iranian people, whatever religion they choose.

234 posted on 09/27/2004 12:16:17 PM PDT by valkyrieanne

To: Doctor Stochastic

Tends to make one think that Islam suffered a Reverse Enlightenment. (Perhaps as a result of the Mongols.)

Makes sense. Several centuries of Mongol rule didn't help the Russians much, either.

235 posted on 09/27/2004 12:20:05 PM PDT by valkyrieanne

Thanks for the BBC article on Yazdi.

The British thought Mohandes Gandhi was "insane," too. Is Yazdi possibly a Persian Gandhi?

236 posted on 09/27/2004 12:22:59 PM PDT by valkyrieanne

Freedom is contagious.....
We need to help real 'freedom fighters'.....
ASAP

237 posted on 09/27/2004 3:11:06 PM PDT by joesnuffy (If you can read this tagline...thank the "Big Blogger")

To: valkyrieanne

Did the Mongols destroy everyone but Western Europeans?.

238 posted on 09/27/2004 3:13:36 PM PDT by John Will

If you want to see Dr. Ahura Yazdi's National Press Conference today in Washington, DC, download it here:

http://rang-a-rang.com/YazdiNPC09_27_2004.asx

239 posted on 09/27/2004 3:46:35 PM PDT by DoctorZIn (Until they are Free, "We shall all be Iranians!")

Revolution is best served blood warm.

240 posted on 09/27/2004 5:43:35 PM PDT by satchmodog9 (Murder and weather are our only news)

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