On February 14 2011 00:38 don_kyuhote wrote: Interesting that while Egyptian protest removed a government that US wanted to keep, while Iranian protest aims to remove a governement that US can't stand. If I know correctly, much of Middle East is run by monarchs and dictators. Things should be interesting in the next few months...
Iran('s leader Khamenei) is the US' asshole in the closet. If they run out of options to distract their citizens from the shit that's going on inside the US, they grab the good ol' fella and (try to) give him a good talkin' to, usually involving carpet bombing of big cities and other civilian settlements (see the last 100 years for reference, some country always had at least one asshole they could demonise, if not, they killed the current leader and installed a new one, a potential asshole preferably). Why in the world would the US want a true peaceful democracy in Iran? No fucking way, Israel's myth of being at risk would be even further from the truth than it is already. I think the US has at least one very good reason to prevent democracy movements in the Middle East.
You make yourself look really bad when conquering peaceful countries.
TehranBureauTehranBureau.com Kaleme is reporting that nightly chants of Allah o Akbar were heard not only in Tehran, but also Tabriz, Shiraz, Rasht and Isfahan.
A day of protest in the Iranian capital of Tehran have been marked by clashes between demonstrators and security forces.
Thousands of demonstrators marched on Monday on Enghelab and Azadi streets [which connect and create a straight path through the city centre], with a heavy presence in Enghelab Square and Vali-Asr Street.
Quoting witnesses, the AP news wire reported that least three protesters injured by bullets were taken to a hospital in central Tehran while dozens more were hospitalised because of severe wounds as a result of being beaten.
Al Jazeera's Dorsa Jabbari, in Tehran, confirmed reports that security forces used tear gas, pepper spray and batons against the protesters. As with other foreign media, she was prohibited by government order to witness the demonstrations.
Jabbari said that she had received reports of up to 10,000 security forces had been deployed to prevent protesters from gathering at Azadi Square, where the marches, originating from various points in Tehran, were expected to converge.
The AFP news agency reported that police fired paintball bullets on protesters. One video, posted on Youtube (claiming to be from Monday's protests) shows people chanting, "political prisoners must be freed" when a woman cries that tear gas has been deployed, dispersing the crowd.
I feel so fucking bad for youth trapped under that horrible regime. Hundreds and thousands of people our age have been killed by the regime after the previous revolt, and god knows how many are imprisoned. Such a tragedy.
I was born in Iran and lived there till I was 14, then my family moved to Canada. My relatives all live in Iran still, and I feel so damn bad for them.
There are no jobs, food is expensive, liberties are limited. I remember visiting last year, and hanging out with my cousins and their girlfriends in some shopping mall, and the "Moral" police was doing its usual raid in the mall and all of a sudden someone yelled a warning for impending "Moral" police search and every girl and boy separated, until they left. But they dragged away and took a couple of young couples who were being defiant.
On February 14 2011 03:12 PlaKen wrote: Unlike Egypt, people in Iran VOTED for the current president: Ahmadinejad. Whether the elections were 100% transparent or not is debatable but what we read in the news coming from sources such as CNN and BBC is the most biased shit I've ever seen.
As much as I dislike posting in a super-bumped thread, I have to mention that Iranians most definitely did NOT vote for Ahmedinijad. All signs were suggesting the opposition would win... and then Ahmedinijad wins in a landslide? Give me a break, he stole the election and everyone knows it. Iranians as a people are getting really fucked because of their batshit loony government. Replace them and there could be much more stability in the middle east.
I will also mention, however, but the US of A doesn't exactly want stability in the middle east. Oil flow is fine, but arms manufacturing is a huge business and it benefits select group of the ultra-influential ultra-wealthy in the States when there is conflict. The USA loves Israel exactly because it fucks shit up in the region. It lets them say they are trying hard to have peace but nobody is giving it to them.
Actually amigo, you're not counting on facts. If you search this thread a while back someone explained and showed proof with different surveys that showed Ahmadinejad as a winner by even bigger percent. So it's definitely not like that.
There aren't as much similarities between Egypt and Iran as people tend to look at all that region as same people just like for most japan/sk or china are nothing but same asian people.
And Iran isn't a dictatorship. They have a very weird system though.
CAIRO – Iranian authorities briefly detained the daughter of former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the most powerful opposition supporter inside the country's clerical leadership, the official news agency reported.
Faezeh Hashemi, who has appeared at opposition protests in the past, was detained Sunday while trying to cause unrest by chanting anti-government slogans in one of the main streets of Tehran, the IRNA news agency said. Another pro-government news service reported that she was released a short while later.
Iran's opposition had called for rallies Sunday to mark a week since the deaths of two people in Feb. 14 clashes between security forces and opposition protesters in Tehran. Hashemi's detention suggested crowds did attempt to gather Sunday, despite severe warnings from authorities.
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