[MJY1288]

Keep us filled in Dr.Zin,

Prayers for the seekers of freedom in Iran are on the way.

[Skywalk]

Bush is too busy playing around with the Israeli-Arab conflict to give focus to one of the dominoes he helped topple in Iran.

HELLO, SPEAK UP! Don't worry about pissing off the govt of a country you called EVIL.

[ConservativeLawyer]

We may be witnessing the beginning of the end for another prong of the Axis of Evil.

Let Freedom Ring!

[Shermy]

“why they haven’t heard from President Bush?.”

Perhaps because he doesn't want to give validity to the Mullahs charge that Americans are running the show.

Anyway, I think it's interesting the protests started a month before their often pronounced date. Might have caught the Mullahs off-guard.

G'nite.

[jwh_Denver]

Finally, the Tehranians were asking “why they haven’t heard from President Bush?.”

The people who get the government they want do it themselves. Now they are victims because the US isn't doing something militarily about it now?

[I_Love_My_Husband]

Women of Iran - throw off your burqas!!!

Men of Iran - the time is now!!!

[DoctorZIn]

BTW, I just checked all the major Arab online sites.
Only one had a story of the protestsin Iran and it was buried deep in the site.
Big surprise.

[TomB]

Here is a blog that allegedly has translations of posts from students in Tehran. It has some interesting info. Maybe you can correlate some of this with what you are hearing.

[Thane_Banquo]

Just go ahead and kill 2 of the bastards. You only need one hostage.

[ewing]

If those students at Tieanmen Sqaure had taken some of Jiang family hostage, it might have worked out differently, bully for the Iranian students!

[yonif]

bump

[dogbyte12]

The counter-revolution is a beautiful thing.

I grew up with several emigrees from Iran who fled when the Shah was toppled. Really hard working nice people. I am proud of the youth of Iran for trying to fix the mess the youth of Iran a generation ago helped create.

[M Kehoe]

How do you spell 'freedom' in Farsi? Abeerzan?

5.56mm

[stlnative]

Pro-Clergy Militants Arrested in Iran
9 minutes ago


TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's hard-line judiciary arrested "scores" of pro-clergy militants Saturday, including a vigilante leader, over attacks on a Tehran student dormitory sparked by attacks on pro-reform supporters, state-run radio reported.


"Scores of people who suspiciously attacked a dormitory and inflicted damages have been identified and arrested," Tehran Radio quoted a judiciary statement as saying Saturday.


Students said dozens of armed vigilantes — who pledge allegiance to Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — attacked students sleeping in their rooms in the Hemmat dormitory of Allameh Tabatabai University and Tehran University's Chamran dormitory before dawn Saturday. More than 50 students were reportedly injured.


Tehran Radio said among those arrested was Saeed Asghar, a vigilante leader who two years ago shot and seriously wounded a top adviser to reformist President Mohammad Khatami (news - web sites).


The arrests came after police authorities, under pressure from reformers, demanded legal action against vigilantes who have taken the law into their hands to punish demonstrators and onlookers in the capital since protests broke on Tuesday.


"Most of detainees are ruffians with previous (police) records," the radio quoted the statement as saying.


The broadcast gave no further details.


"We were sleeping in our beds. Suddenly we heard windows being smashed. Fists and kicks by hard-line vigilantes woke up some of the students held up in their rooms," Allameh Tabatabai University student Mojtaba Najafi said.


The Tehran dorm attacks followed overnight clashes between hundreds of pro-cleric militants and security forces with Iranians throughout the capital.


Friday's standoffs were the most intense and widespread of four consecutive nights of protests in Tehran, which were sparked by university students and snowballed into broader displays of opposition to Iran's clerical establishment.

[eleni121]

2500 years ago a small Greek army defeated Persia's massive army (Marathon) and kept the West out of the clutches of despotic Asia.

Now is the time for Persians themselves to destroy the tyrants of Islam by doing it themselves finally democratizing the nation by using the example of the west (America)

[Semper Paratus]

Got to the newsgroup soc.culture.iranian to get a flavor of whats going on.

[Those_Crazy_Liberals]

These students in Iran aren't much different than conservative students on a typical American university campus. Disagree with the establishment and they'll come attack you.

[cake_crumb]

Finally, the Tehranians were asking “why they haven’t heard from President Bush?.”

The same President Bush who says he supports regime change in Iran? Do they think that's not enough, because if he toppled the government of Iraq, he should now send troops in to topple the government of Iran? Our military isn't even finished in IRAQ, yet!

The US is broadcasting in Iraq, on Iraqi TV stations. It's not enough I know, but it's a start. I'm not sure of the status of satellite antennas in Iraq right now...but considering Saddam's regulations and the looting, it's probably dismal. I'd like to see both an American news channel like Fox and an Arabic-speaking American news channel beamed into Iraq ASAP.

[LibWhacker]

why they haven’t heard from President Bush?

So the nest of scorpions are stinging each other? Surprise, surprise. I wouldn't lift a finger to help a scorpion.

[ApesForEvolution]

As if Hezbollah lives are worth anything...good news nonetheless.