It's high time the madmen are overthrown.
Posted on 05/05/2007 4:44:09 PM PDT by freedom44
From the very moment when students of Polytechnic University chanted slogans against president Ahmadinejad while he was presenting a speech to them at their school on the occasion of Student Day, one could predict that the president’s aides and particularly his political-security ones, would strive to get even with them harshly.
On that occasion, while the president tried to remain calm and present a kind image in response to their charts, eventually his patience ran out and he called the protesting students American agents, spoke about them getting money from foreigner and even made an unprecedented threat: “We will crucify pseudo-students.”
Following that, Mohammad Reza Bahonar who happens to be the principal supporter of the Majlis deputy speaker and also the leading supporter of the president in the parliament, announced that protesting Polytechnic students shall pay the price for their behavior in the presence of the president. He used a Persian proverb that says, “Anyone who eats a watermelon, will also have to bear its chilling effect.” Then, the Polytechnic University Student Baseej published the photographs and detailed background of all the students who had chanted harsh slogans against the president and warned that if university officials did not confront the students, Baseej would take action in this regard.
In any case, it appears that some individuals have already taken some action. Exactly one day after the Minister of Islamic Guidance – who happens to be the former editor in chief of Keyhan newspaper – accused members of protesting university student organizations of disregarding divine religious principles, certain individuals embarked on a startling act of publishing material that contains insulting language to religious tenets and the leader of the Islamic republic of Iran using the forged seal of publications belonging to the protesting students. From that day on, student organizations at Polytechnic University which are critical of the government came under assault, even though these groups have repeatedly stressed that they have no knowledge of the publication of these insulting materiel and that what is distributing under their name in this regard are forged documents.
On the same day of the original event, using the “confessions” of an imprisoned student, Keyhan newspaper called the publication of this insulting materiel to be guided from outside Iran; while plainclothes vigilantes gathered in front of the university demanding stern confrontation with organizations that are critical of the government.
The rest of this scenario is pretty much predictable: After extensively airing “people’s protests regarding the insulting material in some student publications” by the national radio and television network and the publication of the same by newspapers such as Keyhan, some will try to gradually pull some senior clerics from Qom into the picture. Probably, some individuals will organize protests in the religious city of Qom itself in connection wit the insults of a group of pseudo-students and will demand “a serious response against the culprits”. Of course some moderate regime critics will try to appease the situation by arguing that there is a difference between “real students” and those responsible for the insults, and that “honorable students should keep their cool.” And finally, the security machinery of the state will enter the field in response to the calls of the divine people and supporters of the revolution to crucify pseudo-students, as the president had earlier threatened, not just from Polytechnic University but also from other institutions of higher education and prove that those who eat a watermelon will have to bear the subsequent chill.
All of these events will most likely take place before August so as to neutralize the possibility of any protests at Polytechnic and other universities that may take place to commemorate the violent police crackdown on August 9h, 1999, and, as the second semester reaches its end, ensure that terrorized students will leave the university scene – without any trouble-making - and get on their way to the summer holidays.
The reality is that for years now observers of the Iranian political scene are familiar with the beginnings of these type of security games during the weeks leading up to the month of August. After the events of August 9th, this is not the first time that selected students from student organizations become targets of such security scenarios, during the weeks leading up to August. This year too, it will probably be the students of Polytechnic University who will be targeted to serve as lessons for others, because of the audacity that they showed last year in the presence of the president of the country.
But let us not make pre judgments. Perhaps these predictions will not materialize. In fact we sincerely hope that they won’t. We hope that the depth of the appalling forgeries recently committed against student activists will provide the potential for destroying this dirty plot.
Who would really believe that even the most radical student activists in Iran would not know the consequences of crossing the most serious red lines in their activities, i.e. that of insulting the leader of the Islamic republic, the Prophet of Islam, the Shiite Imams and the religious edicts, and thus cross all four of them at the same time in four different publications?
That about sums it up. If he does it right, they'll kill him to get even.
“We will crucify pseudo-students.”
Death by cricifixion is a Persian invention of punishment but the Romans gave it the notoriety it has.
So eating watermelon offends them too?Add that to the growing list of things that gets their undies in a wad.
We need some kind of MAJOR instigating event in Iran within the next 12-18 months so we can avoid waging war with Iran. I’m not against a war with Iran, it’s just that it would be very bad. And could start a World War.
Nothing sux like messing-up a headline.
It's high time the madmen are overthrown.
The CIA should be abolished if they can't perform a simple covert task,
like sending Ahmadinejad to his virginal reward.
Please don't say it's against the "law".
The Congress disregards the Constitution,"the law of the land",
whenever they please.
I can only assume that there is an unspoken "gentlemen's agreement".
"You don't put the hit on us, and we wont put the hit on you",
but dispatching a handful of maniacs could change the world dramatically for the better.
As long as even worse maniacs don't rise to take their place.
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