Posted on 09/26/2004 11:06:26 AM PDT by DoctorZIn
It is being reported by Azadi Tv (Iranian Satellite TV) that between 200,000 to 400,000 Iranians have started a demonstration in front of Tehran University in support of Azhura Khaleghe Yazdi and it is still going on as we report this.
Dr Yazdi has been claiming that the Iranian regime will end next week when he returns to Iran.
It was an anti-regime demonstration using the pretext of the victory of Iran in the battle to free the city of Abadan in Iran/Iraq war. Then the anti demonstration police force was called in and they fled because of overwhelming resistance of people, so other forces were called in but, as it has been reported the clashes became sporadic and the crowd moved from there towards Amirabad and.
We also heard on Azadi Tv from Mr. Yazdi himself that the force called "Pasdaran" have called him and supported him for his return this week to Iran and said that if anybody harms their Iranian brothers and sisters they will fight with them and will fully support people!
More information will be posted as it develops...
Ya know, that's not bad......
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.
Iranian counter-revolution bump.
Bump.
Great!
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. |
Exile call prompts Iran protests
By Sadeq Saba
BBC regional analyst
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1227597/posts?page=227#227
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.
Thanks again President Jimminy Carter.
Thanks Jimmuh for the malaise and the mollahs - and good riddance to you and your ilk
Prayers, because I think that's all they'll get from our state dept.
Iran's not an Arab state. They are of the ancient Persian culture and speak Farsi, not Arabic. They are not ethnically Arab either.
Knowing Tereza. Her response would most likley be "Let them eat catsup".
I am fervently praying for a successful Persian revolution in Iran, and self-determination for the Iranian people, whatever religion they choose.
Makes sense. Several centuries of Mongol rule didn't help the Russians much, either.
The British thought Mohandes Gandhi was "insane," too. Is Yazdi possibly a Persian Gandhi?
Freedom is contagious.....
We need to help real 'freedom fighters'.....
ASAP
Did the Mongols destroy everyone but Western Europeans?.
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
Revolution is best served blood warm.
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