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Iranian Leader Ayatollah Khamenei's jet put on standby (for evacuation to Russia)
Radio Netherlands Worldwide ^ | 29 December 2009 - 7:46 pm | Radio Netherlands Worldwide

Posted on 12/30/2009 12:20:51 AM PST by BP2



photo: Ayatollah Khamenei (left) en Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (right) (EPA)

Reports from Iran indicate that the Supreme National Security Council has ordered a complete check-up of the jet which is on standby to fly Ayatollah Sayyid Ali Khamenei and his family to Russia should the situation in Iran spiral out of control. The order, to the Pasdaran Revolutionary Guard Corps, was dated on Sunday, 27 December. A fax containing the order was sent to Dutch-based Shahrzad News.


 
In Iran, tens of thousands of pro-government supporters took to the streets on Tuesday, calling for leaders of the opposition to be punished. They say the opposition is to blame for the protests during the Shiite festival of Ashura in which eight people are reported to have been killed by riot police.
 
Opposition supporters launched the demonstrations following the death of Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri a critic of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The protests were crushed by the authorities and the opposition is now calling for the government to apologise for the excessive violence used by the police.
 
President Ahmadinejad says the United States, Great Britain and Israel are behind the protests. The British ambassador in Tehran has been summoned by the Iranian authorities. The Revolutionary Guard says the foreign media and Iran's enemies are waging a psychological war aimed at bringing down the legitimate Iranian government.
 
Some Iranian MPs are calling for demonstrators to be sentenced to death. Various opposition figures have been arrested including the sister of Nobel peace prize laureate Schirin Ebadi.



TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: iran; khamenei; middleeast; obama
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To: FARS

Blessed be the Name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are His: And He changeth the times and the seasons: He removeth kings, and setteth up kings” Daniel 2:20-21


61 posted on 12/30/2009 3:19:04 AM PST by bushpilot1
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To: BP2

62 posted on 12/30/2009 3:23:35 AM PST by GalaxieFiveHundred
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To: FARS

Who are the Bassiji and where do they come from?

Who pays them?

I can’t make sense of the websites provided when I goggle “Bassiji.”


63 posted on 12/30/2009 3:26:40 AM PST by sergeantdave
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To: FARS

That said of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, You shall be built; and to the temple, Your foundation shall be laid.

Isaiah 44:28


64 posted on 12/30/2009 3:27:35 AM PST by bushpilot1
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To: FARS

I am all for a nations freedom, my concern with Iran is Who is ready to assume and lead Iran with peaceful intentions, not only for Irans people..but from a world wide perspective?


65 posted on 12/30/2009 3:27:47 AM PST by caww
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To: BP2

If this government falls...who will take its place?


66 posted on 12/30/2009 3:29:50 AM PST by bushpilot1
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To: bushpilot1

Exactly! and we should be concerned. Their history of leadership via what we see happening now, doesn’t encourage me their will be alot of difference....rather this will at least give pause for a time.


67 posted on 12/30/2009 3:34:46 AM PST by caww
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bump


68 posted on 12/30/2009 3:45:14 AM PST by hoosiermama (ONLY DEAD FISH GO WITH THE FLOW.......I am swimming with Sarahcudah! Sarah has read the tealeaves.)
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To: sergeantdave; FARS

The Basiji are volunteers. They are not paid, but are provided with some basic things like transport and clothes. Their duties are comparable to the National Guard in the US. They are called up when needed. They do security work for the govt - thus fighting protestors - but also more ordinary work such as digging up after earthquakes. They are usually young working class men with few employment options. Service as a basiji gives them the possibility of later on getting a paid position in the Revolutionary Guards, and other govt corps.


69 posted on 12/30/2009 3:51:18 AM PST by BlackVeil
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To: sergeantdave

The Basij are either imported Syrians, Lebanese,(Hizbullah,) or palestinian foreign street thugs to Iran who do not understand Farsi, for the most part, so they will be less inclined to show compassion if they don’t understand the pleas. Some are the underclass Iranians who will accept blood money no matter where it comes from. They are paid by the regime and are indiscriminate in their use of barbaric tactics. They will just as soon crack the skulls of helpless small children as they would young men who would fight back.


70 posted on 12/30/2009 4:00:58 AM PST by MestaMachine (Your CORE is the path you walk. RINOs don't walk paths, they build roads to nowhere..)
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To: April Lexington

The original Ayatollah Khamenei was in exi;le in France...

at least that is where he was living when he returned in 1979...

The present IWannaJihad was one of the students who kidnapped the Westerners at the American Embassy and held them for 444 days until 12 Noon January 20, 1981..

Then the Ayatollah came back amongst a big celebration..

You would have though the 12th Imam had returned...


71 posted on 12/30/2009 4:01:43 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: bushpilot1

Persia was never a world power.
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Dont get out much and into the pages of the Bible do ya ????


72 posted on 12/30/2009 4:02:48 AM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: BP2

Will he have to fly in a “no-fly” zone? Knock him out of the air!


73 posted on 12/30/2009 4:03:23 AM PST by Road Warrior ‘04 ( I'll miss President Bush greatly! Palin in 2012! The "other" Jim Thompson)
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To: BP2

Is that “revolution” a hoax distracting our attention from the nuclear program?
It’s stll isslamists against islamists


74 posted on 12/30/2009 4:04:35 AM PST by Ulysse (a)
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To: BlackVeil

What you have stated is partially true. But from back when these protests first began, the regime began importing foreign thugs who are the “new” Basij. That is why they are so hard to get a handle on.


75 posted on 12/30/2009 4:05:54 AM PST by MestaMachine (Your CORE is the path you walk. RINOs don't walk paths, they build roads to nowhere..)
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To: BP2

All freedom loving people can learn from the great courage of the Iranian people.

They have the guts to stand up to a tyrannical government! They have shown that they can comunicate and organize! They have spread leadership roles and abilities throughout the population incase a leader falls the revolution continues and they are not afraid to fight and die for the cause!

It matters not what our marxist governments opinoins are. Freedom is an irresistable right of all Human beings. I pray they win theirs!


76 posted on 12/30/2009 4:08:03 AM PST by timetostand (And a Hap Hap Happy New year !)
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To: FARS

ALSO someone is impersonating persiankiwi on Twitter so beware that. Please check on the elderly scenario because I am given to understand they will publicize a slaughter supposedly carried out by the dissidents and that it will be soon. This did not come from a public source and I have lost contact. I am very worried.


77 posted on 12/30/2009 4:11:43 AM PST by MestaMachine (Your CORE is the path you walk. RINOs don't walk paths, they build roads to nowhere..)
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To: caww

Ezekiel 38 Is not the end time battle. It is the war that gives rise to the anti Christ. The period of false peace will come after this war then the great tribulation and the final war that ushers in the second coming of Christ. Atleast that is my understanding on the subject.


78 posted on 12/30/2009 4:14:17 AM PST by timetostand (And a Hap Hap Happy New year !)
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To: Tennessee Nana

I have been to a few places.


79 posted on 12/30/2009 4:14:35 AM PST by bushpilot1
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To: BP2

Thank you, President Peanut.


80 posted on 12/30/2009 4:20:37 AM PST by prairiebreeze
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