Posted on 06/14/2009 3:23:54 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
I wondered when that would happen. Will twitter be next?
That's enough people for a revolution.
That was my thought...if they all had weapons....that would be a serious deal!
If he attempts Gorbachev-like liberalization he may lose control just the same.
Ahmadinejad in Moscow--if he is cagey, he will confer with cagey-bee.
Only ruthless, cunning repression of a certain type could succeed--
--for which Ahmadinejad should be booking flights on to Beijing.
An exchange student from China told a radio host last month that they are taught that Tiananmen involved one soldier who dropped his weapon and accidentally killed one student-demonstrator.
Iran has too many cell phones--
Can we just get along--dispatch James Earl Carter immediately without escort to wander alone in the sea of seething dissatisfaction.
Karma coming home to roost.
This is starting to look serious.
7 killed in attack in Tehran; Moussavi vows to 'pay any cost'
Signing off....nite
A sea of people.
History turns on such things.
It's for the people to go from knowing they've been manipulated and repressed, to identifying and deposing the manipulator-repressors.
It's a huge leap from being supporters of other candidates to realizing these same candidates may well be more alike than different from Khamenei-Ahmadinejad.
I will urge our congressmen and senators and president to act.
After all, the whole world is watching.
That blue-lipped phreek in the Whitehouse never uttered a single word of support for these people. Damn him...and the machine he rode in on!
I can’t find any news outlet that confirms the Russian story.
I take it back. Now I found a ton of them. Doesn’t seem like he should be nywhere but Iran right now. That pic of him and Putin...
Putin looks fit to be tied and Homodinejad looks like a scared rabbit.
They've been told not to do anything until they've been issued their 'Miranda rights' card.
Start with the guy in the red shirt!
The “right” and the “right wing” and “conservatives” are the people who wish to maintain the “old regime.” The Old Regime in Iran is the Mullahs and their puppet government. In the US the Old Regime is the Constitution and the Declaration, free markets. etc.
There Will Be Blood -- Exclusive Interview With an Iranian Journalist in Tehran
Through the night, primarily through intermittent internet connection I have been able to talk with Iranian photo-journalist NS (she does not want her name used, for obvious reasons). NS has been in the middle of the protests. While the interview text below was compiled before the sermon, a later communication tells me this: Like many others, she is enraged by the "khutba" (Friday sermon) of the Ayatollah Khamenei which will now open the doors for a Tiananmen in Tehran. Saturday will likely be the bloodiest day so far, if the brave crowds decide to come out. Another friend from Tehran cried on the phone, after he had been to Tehran University to pray and hear the Ayatollah's sermon. His last words to me before the mobile phone connection was cut off were: "Tomorrow there will be blood."
Thanks,...
Actually, the "Old Regime in Iran" would be the Shah - the Mullahs are nothing but wet-behind-the-ears, rabble-rousing terrorists. And even a government led by a shah is hardly comparable to "the Old Regime" in these United States, which you suggest "is the Constitution and the Declaration, free markets. etc."
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