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Iran Launches Preemptive War Against July 9 Protests
Pajamas Media ^ | July 8 | Ryan Mauro

Posted on 07/08/2009 2:04:24 PM PDT by AJKauf

According to reports I’ve received, which have been declining in recent days due to the crackdown, Basiji checkpoints have been set up throughout Tehran, searching all vehicles driving after 11:00 p.m. A particular focus of the regime is schools, the battleground of 1999. For example, every dorm at Sistan and Baluchistan University has been searched, and summer classes that were set to begin July 6 were canceled so the school could be shut down. At Tabriz University, students were forced to leave their dorms immediately after finishing their final exams. At Babol University, seven students arrested for demonstrating are going to be held until after July 9. Tehran University and others are on lockdown, with security forces and police dogs waiting to pounce.

Other measures are being taken at sites assumed to be the gathering points of demonstrators. The graves of those killed by the regime over the past month are being guarded by security personnel who often refuse to let the graves even be visited. The state media is not hiding news about executions, openly reporting that 34 people were hanged last week. In Sanandaj, a Kurdish town, water reportedly has been cut off, an attempt to force the people to disperse and spend time searching for resources rather than mobilizing against the regime...

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1 posted on 07/08/2009 2:04:27 PM PDT by AJKauf
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To: AJKauf

Obama to lend moral support to those suppressing freedom.


2 posted on 07/08/2009 2:11:40 PM PDT by MuttTheHoople
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To: MuttTheHoople

Is there anyway this article can be shoved down the gullet of that arrogant panty waist of a president?


3 posted on 07/08/2009 2:56:08 PM PDT by Republic ( Uhbama has sleezed his way through life.)
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To: Republic

Not without spending the next 20 years in Leavenworth. ;)


4 posted on 07/08/2009 3:44:25 PM PDT by DGHoodini (The New York Times, are lying 'Rats!)
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To: MuttTheHoople

Obama is clearly on the side of the ‘mad’.

Just as he is also clearly on the side of the tyrant from Hondurus.


5 posted on 07/08/2009 3:49:30 PM PDT by Pikachu_Dad
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