Posted on 06/14/2003 7:51:20 AM PDT by Eurotwit
The Uprising is Spreading to the General population
Independant News Agency Zagros (INAZ) - Saterday June 13th, 2003,
The third night and the fourth day of the urpising of the people is still in progress. From the start of last night thursday, thousands who headed towards the university helped open the locked gates for the students and the people to join each other. Clashes between the people and the regime's forces, in particular the Ansar e Hezbollah (Islamist Vigilante's) has started. These clashes lasted 9 hours, and the plainclothes Hezbollah vigilantes attacked the people with chains and poniard daggers. There is talk of hundreds of injured and there are no official numbers. Many girls and women last night removed their veils, and they were attacked quite viciously by the Ansar e Hezbollah.
Last night, like three nights ago, there was active resistance to the regime's forces and during clashes many times the students forced the Ansar e Hezbollah and the anti-riot police to flee. Around the university makeshift barricades and throwing stones and gasoline bombs broke the regime's advances.
Throughout the town there was heavy traffic indicating a very large presence of the people out on all the streets. Tens of thousands in their cars honked their horns and chanted political slogans against the regime and its leaders. Around the university, these cars had fully taken over all the streets.
In the university, groups are being organised for resistance and assaults against the regime's forces, and there are fires lit on the streets. By chanting slogans such as "Death to Khamenei", "Death to Khatami", and "Death to Dictatorship" the students are showing their resolve. Farshad, with his face covered and his hands full of stones said, "It is time for the nation to take their revenge, what we will do to them will make them buy mouse holes."
Zhilah who was organising girls groups in the dorms said, "These are the university dorms, the first liberated zones in the country to be declared free of the Mullahs. The people have to rise up for other parts of the country to get liberated".
Foreign media have been forced to give coverage to these protests, helping to influence and inform world opinion about the developments in Iran.
A political analyst considers this as a preview of a much larger uprising that will spread to the general population, and consist of a large scale solidarity that cannot be repressed. He added, "the current situation is so volatile that the more the regime represses the more radical the movement will get, in other words represssion will only increase protests not decrease it. This will make it impossible for the student uprising to be stopped after this".
He concluded, "with this logic the complete collapse of the Islamic Republic is inevitable, because avoiding clashes will only increase the protests, and repressive measures will only radicalise it".
I hope you are right and I am wrong. For a person lost on a desert island, remembering civilization does little to help him a build civilization. Wealthy peaceful countries got that way because of culture, habits and expectations of their population. That's what really disturbed me about Gore, by undermining people's faith in the electorial process, he undermined the political stability of the United States.
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