Posted on 06/17/2009 8:27:45 AM PDT by SonOfDarkSkies
“This is an order of magnitude different from those earlier demonstrations,” said Juan Cole, a professor of Middle East history at the University of Michigan, who has been tracking the upheaval on his Informed Comment blog. “In the earlier student demonstrations, people were saying that the hard-liners were doing things that were wrong. What these demonstrators are saying is that the regime has become so corrupt and so dictatorial that it has become rotten to the core.”
In the earlier protests, the middle class extended something like drive-by support, honking their horns or flashing their high-beam headlights as they drove past the chanting students. Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, spoke like a rueful patriarch, saying he regretted the few student deaths and that people who criticized him should not be chastised. After the initial spasms of violence the president at the time, Mohammad Khatami, fearing wider bloodshed, declined to call his followers out in support.
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They need guns, otherwise nothing will change.
Guns, money, and organization. Contra Warren Zevon, the lawyers should come last.
Good for them!
Yes.
Timing is everything.
If it weren’t for the “one” who sleeps in the White House, it might be different.
What would a C-130 full of AK’s and ammo do to the situation in Iran now?
I received the following information from a cyberfriend, and I’d like to share the info with all the freepers. So if anyone has any thoughts, I’d like to hear them.
To provide a quick heads up on this so called moderate, I put this together:
Who is Mir-Hossein Mousavi Khameneh, the so called moderate that may or may not have defeated Mahmoud Ahmadinejad earlier this week?
According to the NYT, he was part of the leadership in 1987 that tried to blackmail the US with a money/arms for hostages deal. http://www.nytimes.com/1987/01/04/weekinreview/the-world-iran-and-us-fail-to-settle-account.html
In 1988 “Iranian Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi yesterday called Israel a “cancerous tumour” and said the Palestinian move to accept UN Resolution 242 would anger Muslim revolutionaries.”
“In 1989, Mousavi called for Salman Rushdie to be killed. The Times (London) reported that “Mr Mir-Hossein Mousavi, the Prime Minister, said the Ayatollah Khomeini’s order that Mr Rushdie should be killed ‘will undoubtedly be carried out and the person who has become a tool of Zionists against Islam and brazenly attacked it and the Prophet will be punished’, according to Tehran Radio.” And in that same year, the Washington Post described Mousavi as a “leading hardliner,” with links to regime attempts to assassinate political opponents in exile.”
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/06/who_is_mir_hossein_mousavi_kha_1.asp
Articles on numerous sites have plenty of info stating he was one of the founders of the terrorist organization Hezbollah.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/06/it_has_always_been_the_mullahs.html
http://www.newsmax.com/timmerman/Iran_elections_Hezbollah/2009/06/03/221083.html
How many decades will it take for U.S. citizens to get this fed up with Obamunism?
How many decades will it take for U.S. citizens to get this fed up with Obamunism?
I give it 6 more months.
I’ve been wanting to say, the Iranian people don’t like the US. If this revolution succeeds they still won’t like us.
bttt
He unleashed the rabid dogs.
Thx for the link!
news - Mousavi & Khatami have delivered joint letter to Ministry of Justice demanding release of protestors - #IranelectionThe latter I think is potentially ominousordinary ppl in Iran have no reliable info - gov is trying to break all communication routes - #Iranelection
Sea of Green will continue tomorrow and every day until election is declared void - #Iranelection
chanting 'my brother - my martyr - I will claim your vote for you!' - #Iranelection
He has half of the U.S. voters in a hypnotic trance but the other half already seems to have his number (wondering if said number is 666 or thereabouts).
Not sure what kind of trance technique he is using (NLP, Kenyan witchcraft, or what) but it seems to be holding nicely.
If he turns out to be the Biblical character some folks think he is, he has about 3 and 1/2 years (if the eschatologists have interpreted matters correctly).
Thx!
Where did you get the idea that Iranians don't like the US? Their government certainly doesn't but by all accounts the people seem to like us.
Points in history we should not forget Lil. Somehow to many think any of the three approved candidates the Grand Ayatollah allowed to run against Ahmadinajah would somehow make Iran a more stable state.
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