Obongo would get on there and ask us all to not make too many rash judgments about massacres in Teheran, that's for sure.
(Still have not figured out if Obama is Sunni or Shiite...perhaps Wahabbist, I reckon.)
about 50 riot police in bikes were headed toward Azadi Square. Another 100 are at Ferdowsi square. No protests yet
He grew up in Indonesia, which is predominantly Sunni. His Saudi sponsors in his college days were, of course, Sunni as well.
Maybe the anus orifice is all three. That would make him a WaShitSu.
I share your lack of optimism. Even if they did have media support, Iran is not Egypt. This is more likely to end up like Beijing 1989 than Berlin 1989.
Still, it would be deliciously ironic if the mullahs got a taste of their own medicine. Just because Iran may have helped encourage or even engineer the revolts in other countries doesn’t mean it won’t give their own people ideas.
However, while I sympathize with how badly this is likely to go for the Iranian people, anything that disrupts or distracts the Iranian regime is probably good for us.
There may be one glimmer of hope there, though. The government’s reliance on irregular paramilitaries like the Basij during last year’s riots probably indicates it’s lack of confidence in the political reliability of the Revolutionary Guards, let alone the regular army. It was, after all, reported that they arrested the Revolutionary Guards’ commander for refusal to use force on the protesters.
If those reports were accurate and if the Revolutionary Guards’ loyalty is still in question, then the mullahs may actually be in an even weaker position than was Mubarak. Caesars who can’t count on their own Praetorian Guard usually aren’t long for the world.
I’m pretty sure I read that his father was Sunni.