Posted on 06/24/2009 6:30:32 PM PDT by nuconvert
• Reports militia drafted in and paid to beat protesters • Ministers threaten to cut diplomatic ties with UK
Bloody clashes broke out in Tehran today as Iran's supreme leader said he would not yield to pressure over the disputed election. The renewed confrontation took place in Baharestan Square, near parliament, where hundreds of protesters faced off against several thousand riot police and other security personnel.
Witnesses likened the scene to a war zone, with helicopters hovering overhead, many arrests and the police beating demonstrators.
One woman told CNN that hundreds of unidentified men armed with clubs had emerged from a mosque to confront the protesters.
"They beat a woman so savagely that she was drenched in blood and her husband fainted. They were beating people like hell. It was a massacre," she said.
The opposition website Rooz Online carried what it said was an interview with a man the government had shipped in to Tehran to quell the demonstrations. He said he was being paid 2m rial (£122) to assault protesters with a heavy wooden stave, and that other volunteers, most of them from far-flung provinces, were being kept in hostel accommodation, reportedly in east Tehran.
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What is the reaction of the British government to this?
How hard would it be for us to get some guns into the hands of the Iranian people so they can take their country back?
Looks like no hope and no change for Iran. Zero should be furious, but he is strangely silent...
put dozens of armed Predators over Tehran to hunt the Mullahs
and over Qum too
100’s of 1000’s of AK’s in storage next door in Iraq
All we can do is holler, but that we must do. Call the White House, call your legislators.
One of the tweets I read earlier in the day.
azzi28: @iranbaan Thugs were setting fire on trees of the streets of ShahrakGharb from which AllahAkbar was shouted. #iranelection
Setting trees on fire to burn protestors down from trees.
Precisely. It would put an end to the evil murdering regime pretty fast, if you ask me.
He is a muslim and is well pleased with the outcome... he is at one with the evil ruling iran.
LLS
War zone? More like a mass murder scene.
Thank you, Jimmah Carter . . . you’ll go down as the 2nd worst president . . . way above our illegal alien president . . . but 2nd, nevertheless.
Iran had little trouble getting ammo & bombs into Iraq to assist in the slaughter of our Troops and Iraqi civilians.
While brave Iranians are slaughtered in the street by their own government as they seek liberty, Obama "considers" disinviting Iranian officials to American 4th of July celebration.
we’ve already got them surrounded .
I say “ Go for it!”
and let me go too!
we’ve already got them surrounded .
I say “ Go for it!”
and let me go too!
The religion of peace again. Spare me the bullsh*t about the sanctity of mosques next time we accidently hit one.
Yes. And, if armed for their own defense, the people of Iran would have little trouble taking their country back from the evil murderers.
‘Thank you, Jimmah Carter . . . you’ll go down as the 2nd worst president . . . way above our illegal alien president . . . but 2nd, nevertheless.’
How about this:
Carter - worst American-born American President.
Hussein - worst foreign-born American President.
This way, both Carter and Zero can each be #1 in their own category. For self-esteem reasons, of course.
THIS is why we have the second Amendment.
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