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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Probably the best bet now would be to subvert the regular military, if that hasn’t already been done, and get them to side with their people against the imported thugs and the religious fanatics, if it can be done.
They may be importing thugs because they are afraid the military will support the protestors.
Curious as to what degree Mossad has used this internal unrest to strengthen their positioning inside Iran.
Wouldn’t shed a tear if some of those captured Iranian IEDs were used on the Basiji.
“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.”
Loving it . . . loving it!
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... 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... 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.G'night all. I'm going to try to stay offline and maybe ENJOY the summer weather the next few days.
This is like the Taliban in Afghanistan - using foreign Islamic Thugs to tyrannize people in their own country.
My guess is a lot of them are Wahhabist bastards trained and recruited in the land of our “friend and ally” the Saudi Sheik - the guy the Obamanation bowed to.
At this very minute there are Wahhabists from Saudi Arabis preaching in Mosques and Madrassehs here in the U.S.
Obama works hand in glove with Islamist thugs everywhere and supports Marxist Tyrants. He is a national disgrace.
We're looking at our near-term future, America.
The difference is, when the mosques and community centers spew forth their rotten ACORN cargo of club-wielding thugs determined to beat the Tea Party demonstrators into submission, and stop complaining about yet another stolen election, we won't be armed with just chants and signs.
This is why democrats want us disarmed.
Wait till the Sierra Club, ELF, and the rest hear about that outrage!
I thought the same thing...but it is such a locked country.
Obama’s rooting for the muslims!
There are Shiites in Iraq who follow Grand Ayatollah Sistani that could help move weapons for defense to Iranians. Sistani certainly does not agree with the Iranian regime.
Ayatollah Sistani preaches that Muslims should be guided from the mosque, not ruled by force of rule of the government. His followers, both in Iraq and Iran, surely deplore what they see in Iran now.
If our country were to assist them, wouldn’t those Iraqis help arm the Iranians, who suffer tyranny far worse than Americans suffered under the British, and who rose up to fight for freedom?
It makes you wonder just who his connections and relatives really are; even what kind of childhood he had before moving to Hawaii. I had an Indonisian friend back in the early and mid 60’s who said there were problems in his country even then. So, I wonder if they brought him over here to keep him safe.
“Looks like no hope and no change for Iran. Zero should be furious, but he is strangely silent...”
What’s so strange about Obama being silent. Surely he must realize that when one dictator loses they all lose. Obama’s just looking out for his own totalitarian future.
“Looks like no hope and no change for Iran. Zero should be furious, but he is strangely silent...”
What’s so strange about Obama being silent. Surely he must realize that when one dictator loses they all lose. Obama’s just looking out for his own totalitarian future.
“Looks like no hope and no change for Iran. Zero should be furious, but he is strangely silent...”
What’s so strange about Obama being silent. Surely he must realize that when one dictator loses they all lose. Obama’s just looking out for his own totalitarian future.
It's late, I'm just home from a week on the road and am tired... but need to think of good sign ideas. Or maybe just being there as one obviously American in a(n American) Western-style hat with a stars&stripes bandanna waving a Sun&Lion says enough. I don't know. (I guess it'll say a lot to Iranians, but most Americans won't get it. Who's the audience here?)
VERY well said!!
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