Posted on 02/14/2011 1:31:52 AM PST by AdmSmith
What will happen Monday, history will record in less than 24 hours. The atmosphere is filled by suspense over the call for demonstration. Certainly the city is not calm. There were chants of "Allah-o akbar" across Tehran. People expect something to happen. Publicly, Mr. Karroubi and Mr. Mousavi have called for a demonstration in solidarity with the people of Egypt. Nobody thinks or believes this is about Egypt or will remain focused on Egypt. No wonder that their request has been rejected as illegal. Their advisers have announced that according to Article 27 of Iran's Constitution there is no need for a permit. It must be noted that both leaders are under house arrest now. Most likely they will be prevented from attending the demonstration. [While Karroubi has been under house arrest for four days, there is no independent confirmation that Mousavi has been similarly confined. As we noted two-and-a-half hours ago, a senior adviser to the former presidential candidate says that his mobile phone has been disconnected and it has not been possible to reach him. --Ed.]
(Excerpt) Read more at pbs.org ...
Thank You for the link. Had some CP trouble. Pray nobody else did. Will see if can stay connected. Was able to log out, after numerous error messages. Just an update being included with my Thank You.
Must step away for a couple of hours. Will leave link open for updates. Thanking Everyone trying to help the people of Iran overthrow the mullahs. God, grant the Iranian people Freedom from the mullahs, if it be Thy Will to be. Amen.
I shall continue my Orthodox Christian prayers for Iran.
Modern Iran is mainly muslim, and is under the horrible islamist mullah dictatorship. But Heaven is full of Orthodox Christian saints of Persia, who intercede for the Iranian people with our Lord God and Savior Jesus Christ unceasingly!!!!
We American Orthodox remember these saints as their days are celebrated. That’s how I known about them.
Protesters making baracades with trash bins 25 Bahman Feb 14, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIlbV1YE05A
“What happened to oil revenues? Spent on basijis” Tehran 25 Bahman Feb 14, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9C2QIOxVmE
This is from last year:
Riot police attacking old man during 22 Bahman protest - Iran Tehran 11 Feb 2010
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11Xtp4jAG1g
an this is probably from today:
Regime forces attacking people on the streets of Tehran - Iran 14 Feb. 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8s17BZYvM0c
Will find that interview latter once it appears on Rush 24/7 as a keeper!
That was Nic Robertson reporting for CNN, and the whole thing was laugh-out-loud funny.
“Are the networks reporting what’s going on in Iran? “
Fox occasionally gives 30 seconds of what seems like info from 4 or 5 hrs ago. Any photos or video shown gets a disclaimer that it can’t be verified.
Its a fizzler.
How would you know?
Thanks for the ping.
Thanks for the name correction..I knew he had a Brit accent.
I can't believe he actually gave that summation, when it was so blatantly a lie. He probably figures the protesters will never see the Live clip to complain, and Obama followers will believe it as Robertson reported; thus mimic it throughout other Left leaning media outlets and blogs. The video/interview "in the crowd", most likely, will not be seen to dispute.
This is a great example of how a news outlet can [CNN] "manufacture news" for Obama 2012.
3:30 pm marked a painful visual landscape for me that I will never forget: the Basijis and the Revolutionary Guards had brought children in the street. They gave them clubs and were directing them for the attack, which happened right at that crossroad. The kids were probably 15 or 16 years old but their eyes were filled with hate. “Good Islamic Teaching, right?” I heard an elderly man say in an angry but muffled voice.
I called my family to tell them where I was but the phones went dead around 3:45 and this was when the bikes rolled into the sidewalks and started beating people. I was separated from my friends in Enghelab Square but kept on going. The energy of the people and especially of the women and the elderly was like an electrical charge. I could not feel the beatings anymore and the clubs kept on coming on our heads, shoulders, legs and knees.
Right at Jamalzadeh crossing, I heard a cheering crowd and realized that a large group of screaming demonstrators pouring south into Azadi Avenue (the continuation of Enghelab Avenue after Enghelab Square towards Azadi Square is called Azadi Avenue). The guards stopped all of the buses in the middle of the boulevard and forced us into the middle of the street. It was déjà vu as we reached Dampezeshki (Animal Husbandry Hospital). This was the same spot I was badly beaten in a June 2009 post election demonstration. So I kept myself on the extreme right side of the sidewalk. It seems that the Revolutionary Guards were repeating the same tactics again because they rounded up the people in the middle of the street and attacked them the same way they did in 2009. I slipped through the angry-looking guards and plainclothes militia and came across another scene.
When I reached Eskandari Street it looked like a war zone: smoke, dust, teargas, screaming people, flying stones and regular attacks by the well equipped motorcycle riding guards. A petite young girl with a green wristband and a small backpack was walking to my left. Just before we reached Navab Avenue the guards charged from behind, one of their clubs hit my left leg but three of them attacked the girl relentlessly. She screamed and fell to the ground, but the guards kept hitting her. I ran towards them, grabbed the girl’s right hand and released her from the grip of the guards. She was in a daze and crying unstoppably. I pushed her north into Navab Avenue towards Tohid Square away from Azadi Avenue when the guards charged towards us. This time the crowd fought back and stones of all sizes were directed back at them. This gave me a bit of time to ask one of the restaurants to open their doors and let us in. The girl was in shock and pain. I got her some water and asked how she was. Her clothes were dusty, her backpack was torn and her hands were shaking. “Why?” she kept asking.
The battle in front of the restaurant raged on. The crowd had only their fists and stones gathered from the sides of the street, but the guards were shooting people in the head with paint guns, and spraying pepper gas and shooting teargas canisters. Then in a moment that I thought I would never see, two guards ran up, sat on one foot and randomly fired plastic bullets into the crowd. We waited until the demonstrators pushed the guards back before leaving the restaurant.
WOW, this was on PBS?
The kids were probably 15 or 16 years old but their eyes were filled with hate. “Good Islamic Teaching, right?” I heard an elderly man say in an angry but muffled voice.
As far as I know, “Tehran Bureau” is an independent organization. A couple of years ago, they had their own url (tehranbureau.com?) but didn’t have funding to keep it going. That’s when they relocated to be a part of pbs.org.
Here’s the take at Russia Today on Youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/2/LiYjAiUJpQ4
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