Posted on 06/26/2009 6:56:18 AM PDT by wk4bush2004
One of the founders of Iran's Revolutionary Guard, who's also a former deputy prime minister, tells Weekend Edition's Scott Simon that what amounts to a "military coup" has occurred in his country. And he claims authorities know the election was rigged.
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What..what? Is this some new requirement?
bttt
If the military is in power why are there thugs killing in the streets with no military presence stopping them, asserting the power of the military?
It doesn't make any kind of sense.
Now, an attempted coup might make sense.
Right after the election, 11 o’clock at night, was a military coup because they went to (presidential candidate Mir Hossein) Mousavi’s headquarters — five persons from the Revolutionary Guard — and told him that, ‘Yes, the leader says that this is true, you have won the election, you are the elected president, but you can’t be the president. (Mahmoud) Ahmadinejad should remain in the position.’
“And then they started to invent those fake numbers in Ministry of Interior. And right after that they started to arrest the people, to disconnect the country, to dismiss the reporters, and that is the reason that we call it a military coup.”
Replace Mousavi with whomever and replace Ahmadinejad with Obama and you have American elections to come...
The msm excuse. Well, we don’t have anyone on the ground in Iran so we can’t possible speak to anything happening there.
After all, O wants us all to wait to see how it all ‘plays’ out.
If the mullahs have lost faith and trust in the military (especially the iRGC)- then a precursor of a coup has already occurred. The military has lost its loyalty to the regime. The breakout will be when the regime can no longer contain an untrustworthy military by confinement and purges of its leadership.
The mullah’s managed to break and take control of the power of the shah’s military and has spent 30 years building a parallel (but now more powerful?) ideologically driven Rev Guard counterforce.
So if they lose confidence in large parts of the IRGC - what next? We don’t hear much about what is happening out in the provinces, beyond the cities, in the small villages that provide the peasant manpower for the paramilitary.
This indicates that at least one faction of the Army is backing the mullahs and Ahwannajihad.
The fact we have not seen Army units in the streets, as well as the notable and noticeable absence of the regular uniformed police for use in the crackdown suggests that faction may well be in a minority at the time, and other units are indeed restricted to base/barracks.
This is indicative of a classic power struggle.
We don't - can't - know what's going on behind the scenes, but the very fact that the “protests” continue unabated, albeit in lower numbers, leads one to believe these people know something is up, and they won't quit until such time as the fuse is finally lit for certain.
No, this thing isn't over yet - not by a long shot!
CA....
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“I really hope and pray the Khamenei/Ahmadinejad/Mullah regime is overthrown. “
Yes. But the people don’t want to become another Myanmar. So a military coup is NOT a good thing.
Could be our future in 2012.
Mickey’s dead? You would think there would be something on TV about something that important. Perhaps they could interupt the coverage of Princess Diana to let us know.
Even though I read your post before going to the article, I thought this is what it might mean. If the Army was one the side of the people, this would have been over a long time ago. The army/Khameni are taking over.
This is bad, bad, news.
Buy Oil futures and bullets.
This from NPR? National Public Radio? Do they have permission from the Messiah to make this story public? Or if true, have they already worked out how he can take credit for the “new democracy!”
If there is a military coup in Iran then why are the protesters unarmed?
Cause just like the American left, the mullahs want to protect the public by making sure that “criminals” can’t get guns! It’s for the people’s own good, don’t you know.
When the military and police turn against the regime and attack the outside thugs, things will get really hairy there. THE ONE will probably go on another date with Aunt Esther.
The report is refering to the Iranian Revolutionary Guards as “military”. They are saying that the “Guards” have effectively taken control of the country — like that’s News?!
He’ll have to find new ways to grovel to the perversions of Islam. We’re sure he’ll be up to it.
Short-term, I think you're right. But power is also shifting away from the Mullahs & toward the IRGC commanders (& Ahmedinijad). I think that Ahmedinijad used to be the Fig Leaf for the Mullahs. Now the situation is reversed.
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