Clashes in Iran Between People and Security Forces in First Week of Revolution Anniversary

Iran Focus ^ | Feb. 13, 2005

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Clashes in Iran between people and Security Forces in first week of revolution anniversary

Sun. 13 Feb 2005

Iran Focus

Tehran, Feb. 13 - Thousands of people flooded the streets of Mahabad (northwest Kurdistan province in Iran) this morning, clashing violently with State Security Forces after days of gas, water, and electricity interruptions.

According to local residents, household gas has been cut off in the town for the past four days, electricity has been out for more than 24 hours, and water was repeatedly cut off for several hours at a time over the past day.

Protestors gathered in front of government offices, complaining that there as extreme shortage of bread as bakeries could not provide them during the energy blackout.

Temperatures in Mahabad have reportedly dropped to as low 15 degrees below freezing over the past few days.

The demonstration quickly turned into a mass rally and youths set fire to banners and poster celebrating the 26th anniversary of the revolution that toppled the monarchy and brought to power Iran's turbaned clerics, residents reported.

Mahabad residents complained that the price of bread on the black-market had increased to 2,000 rials.

SSF agents, plainclothes police, and members of the Bassij (Iran's paramilitary police) attacked the demonstrators with clubs and batons, arresting at least ten individuals, as residents shouted slogans against the Iranian regime.

Eye-witnesses reported that at least two plainclothes policemen were injured during the ensuing clashes.

Schools in Mahabad have been shut down during the blackout.

[F14 Pilot]

ping!

[EagleUSA]

A little civil unrest? Word finally getting into Iran that they could have a democratic government and individual freedoms??? Hmmmm...hey, Mullahs, sleep with one eye open!!!

[SauronOfMordor]

What needs to happen is for the security forces to experience a whole lot of casualties if they attack the protestors

[stbdside]

I think things are starting to heat up over there.

[McGavin999]

Is it starting? Do you think the shortages are deliberate on the part of the Mad Mullahs to "punish" the people?

[drt1]

Bread, basic utilities and freedom in short supply while the zealot, cult-like Leaders pursue expensive, dangerous and ultimately damaging Nuclear Weapons? Sounds like Iran's twin, North Korea.

[Claytay]

Do you think the shortages are deliberate on the part of the Mad Mullahs to "punish" the people?

If that is the case(which I think it is) they are stupid b/c that will just cause the people to want government accountability and DEMOCRACY.

[ProudVet77]

We might be able to help if we let the citizen in the street see and hear our overflights. If we have a supersonic UAV it would be good to overfly at night so we let them all wake up to the sound of the sonic boom. During the daytime if we have an Aurora type ramjet, it would be great to let them see the contrail.
Nothing like stirring the pot to forment a little revolution.

[stbdside]

A little psy-ops should rattle their cage.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

CNN is running a poll :

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Created: Friday, February 11, 2005, at 18:09:31 EST

Which country poses a bigger threat to the United States?
North Korea		68%
Iran		32%

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link here:

CNN late.edition

[nuconvert]

Interesting

[F14 Pilot]

I think the Mullahs also think of another North Korea in the middle east.

We shouldn't let Iran become a North Korea in that region

[drt1]

"We shouldn't let Iran become a North Korea in that region"

The Iranians are following the NK model. They engage in extended 'Negotiations'. Watch the World Community dither about a solution, alternately offering meaningless 'Carrots' and threatening equally meaningless 'Stick' all the while working towards the Nuclear Option. The only thing missing is Jimmy Carter and Albright to assist in these negotiations but they do have equally inept EU and UN counterparts to take up the slack.

[F14 Pilot]

Yeah and that is what we should work on hard to prevent from happening.

[Paul_Denton]

Bread, basic utilities and freedom in short supply while the zealot, cult-like Leaders pursue expensive, dangerous and ultimately damaging Nuclear Weapons? Sounds like Iran's twin, North Korea.

Indeed.

[Paul_Denton]

We shouldn't let Iran become a North Korea in that region

We need to free those people and stop the mullahs from getting nukes. We need to do whatever it takes,

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I voted iran.

[Cold Heat]

My, My!

Mullah mad people are getting madder!

And for good reason. It should not be much longer before we see something big.

A year, two, three..........not more than five I would think. Perhaps a very hot summer.

[F14 Pilot]

I guess the regime will be gone By early 2006