Iran Roiled, Crowds Burn Banks, Police Station; Chanting against Theocrat Khamenei;(Cropped)

The BBC is reporting that clashes are continuing into Monday morning between protesters and the regime security forces in Tehran and perhaps other cities, marking the first decisive failure of the basij paramilitary to control the streets by early morning of the day of a big demonstration. The number of protesters allegedly killed by security men rose to 9, with dozens wounded and 300 persons allegedly arrested.

This video is allegedly from Monday morning and shows protesters freeing others taken prisoner in a basij van:

The chanting on Sunday turned against Ayatollah Ali Khamenei himself, not just against President Ahmadinejad. He was castigated as the Dictator and as worse than the old shah, and the very ideological basis of the regime, the doctrine of clerical rule, was chanted against in the streets. The legitimacy of the regime, profoundly shaken by the events since early June's presidential election, is now being shredded further.

Another remarkable dimension of Sunday's events was the sheer number of cities where significant rallies and clashes occurred. Some of those allegedly killed are said to have fallen in Tabriz, a northwestern metropolis near Turkey. Even conservative cities such as Isfahan and Mashhad joined in. Shiraz, Ardabil, the list goes on. The attempt of some analysts to paint the disturbances as a shi-shi North Tehran thing has clearly foundered.

The most ominous sign of all for the regime is the reports of security men refusing orders to fire into the crowd.

1. If you have not already done so, read the report on AntiMullah which gives a good overview and lots of videos

http://noiri.blogspot.com/2009/12/backlash-against-islamic-regime-in-iran.html

and

http://noiri.blogspot.com/2009/12/iran-cries-out-in-pain-and-victory.html

2. Reports from good inside Iran sources have put the death toll at 116. And Ali Moussavi was a targetted assassination to try to give a warning to his uncle Mir Hossein Moussavi, Green movement leader, that he was not immune to being killed.

The regime is still afraid to arrest Moussavi but if they do he will be foreced to swallow a cyanide pill or have air injected in a vein to cause an “invisible” heart attack. A long time Iranian method.

3. As you know they stole the nephew’s body from the hospital to prevent mourners from gathering and making this a further excuse to rebel/riot.

4. Inflation is NOT 15%!! Sometimes the price of goods like dairy products (on which most Iranians rely for daily food) has DOUBLED OVERNIGHT.

An average of close to 40% would be closer to reality.

5. Shortages: many food items are subsidized (sugar one these), meat another. With the low income levels and salaries, a large cros cestio of Iranians can not afford to buy eggs or tomatoes - noting that an egg omelette is a poor person’s staple food. Now out of reach of most Joe or Jane Sixpack Iranians. Specially as many of the government factory workers have not been paid for ove NINE MONTHS. Now do they survive? By holding down two or even three jobs and working some 20-hours a day.

Any wonder they are not happy with the regime?

The current mystery is whether a military announcement is a regime operated (Ahmadi-Nejad) Revolutionary Guard coup d’etat or a real take over of the regime by disssdent military units deciding to proetect the people rather than the regime.

Hints found in the announcement text point in both directions and pro-Mullah regime shills in the USA are also using this as a talking point, confusing the issue even further.

Oba-Hussein-Khomeini still cannot bring himself toward suporting the people, who will not provide him help to b e re-elected, as the Mullah regime did and would.

He cannot make a decision and when the people win in Iran, he will have created an enemy of a country that is deeply from the people and not the future administration.

AntiMullah will be putting up (possibly in a few days if not sooner) a statistical comparison of what is going on in Iran and what the Mullahs inherited - and ruined. Specially under Ahmadi-Nejad the Turd.

Things are really dicey. The hardliners are worried about a military coup supporting the people.

Ahmadinijad has been moved to a secret and hidden location.

Grand Ayatollahs that have supported the people, are being beaten and arrested, the Hardliners are rounding up clerics that support the people even in Qom.

The Mirority Party of The Iranian Parlement has warned the Intelligence and Justice Depts not to take sides.

Protests and round ups continue.

Some places are under Martial Law and other are in dispute as to who is in control.

The hardliners have gone full out and have raided all of the major opposition leaders headquarters and arrested all the key aides they can lay their hands on.

Family members of Opposition leaders are being arrested.

Reports of some aides being taken the the Ministry of Intelligence instead of to prisons.

Protests continue even without Opposition leaders. It’s been reported over half of Tehrans workforce has stayed home today rather than risk going to work, or showing support for the regime...

...And the beat goes on...

A society in where law abiding citizens have a right to own guns is a right and just society, but, in where the government and the justice system allow criminals to have the guns is a unjust and corrupted society.
Now matter how much you crackdown on criminals having a gun or passing gun laws, the government and the justice system will always allow criminals to own a gun less that government and justice system is serious of taking a bite of of crime of the criminals.. so ? where does the problem lay ? at the foot of the criminals, government, and the justice system, and not the law abiding citizens..... in fact, a law abiding citizen that owns a gun would be a more just society.

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