Posted on 12/30/2009 11:46:43 AM PST by nuconvert
TEHRAN, Iran – Tens of thousands of hard-line government supporters turned out for state-sponsored rallies Wednesday, some of them calling for the execution of opposition leaders as Iran's police chief threatened to show "no mercy" in crushing any new protests by the pro-reform movement
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Govt employees ordered to attend, security people and their families, the poor/homeless given free travel passes and free food when they got there...
...And *still*, the largest crowd estimate was a paltrey 20,000. Most estimates put the crowd at closer to only 10,000 in a city of 7 million...not even taking into consideration the Basij who were bussed in from out of town.
Yup. Pathetic
This sounds like an ACORN/SEIU operation.
LOL! Too true! Too true! ;oD
Betcha ACORN sent thousands.
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