Posted on 05/23/2005 1:53:20 PM PDT by Khashayar
Students of Tehran University are protesting against the ban on candidates of the upcoming presidential election.
They are chanting: Death To Dictator, Death To Oppression.
Agree. I've been reading that some of the mullahs want to go to war with us, that's what dictators do when they think they're going to lose power.
Yeah but you don't pick on the biggest and toughest kid on the block.
Yes indeed, it is.
Good point. It looks like the same group of people in each picture. Of course, we're also assuming that this is an actual protest--and that it's an anti-government protest.
But hey...a good photo-op is a good photo-op, and those who want the U.S. to intervene in Iran will use every photo-op they can get. They're nothing if not persistent.
Bush Doctrine at work...
Icn bin ein Iranian
.....may the force be with you....
Icn bin ein Iranian
"...and how we burned in the camps later, thinking: What would things have been like if every Security operative, when he went out at night to make an arrest, had been uncertain whether the would return alive and had to say good-bye to his family? Or if, during periods of mass arrests, as for example in Leningrad, when they arrested a quarter of the entire city, people had not simply sat there in their lairs, paling in terror at every bang of the downstairs door and at every step on the staircase, but had understood they had nothing left to lose and had boldly set up in the downstairs hall an ambush of half a dozen people with axes, hammers, pokers, or whatever else was at hand. . .The Organs would very quickly have suffered a shortage of officers and transport and, notwithstanding all of Stalin's thirst, the cursed machine would have ground to a halt!" - - - Alexandr Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
thanks for the pics. Iranians are so beautiful - men and women, as are the Iraqi people.
You're right though, the interventionists will take anything they can get their hands on and run with it. By the end of summer it may be an imperative to change the leadership in Iran for some imagined necessity. Of course, as we well know, the replacements may not be much better
Some of the blood beaten out of the Iranian students and other protesters is on their hands. If the MSM were, and had been, giving this story the bare minimum attention that it objectively deserves, the exposure would force the mullahs to be more restrained (to at least some degree) in the use of thuggery, imprisonment, torture and murder.
What will probably happen is that as the current generation of rulers retires and dies off, they will be replaced with reformers. The writing is on the wall - the old guard is on the way out. There's no need to try to rush things, as a tincture of time cures all. Unless we bomb them and screw everything up.
One should wonder why there are too many security forces for such a small scale protest!?
what does mean "VERY MUCH" to you?
I made it clear in my previous post. I don't believe the size of those crowds are very big. I want a reform movement to succeed in Iran. But I never see panoramic pictures of gigantic crowds. Only close ups. So it's hard to believe that this is a protest truly representative of all of the people in Iran - only a particular segment of it. Like I said before, there were student protests in the US in the 1960s.
and a lot of money from a foreign source to close the shops in many of the cities simultaneously and allow the merchants to go on strike
I don't recall reading that. Do you have a source? Thanks.
I love those pictures. Those beautiful young women refuse to be sad little blackbirds.
Prayers for your safety. I am quite anxious for a free Iran.
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