Sun Dec 27, 2009 at 13:46:00 PM EST
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The New York Times is reporting four dead Guardian UK New York Times (Dec 29) reports nine at least 13 dead, including a nephew of Moussavi, along with as many as 1500 arrested after security forces opened fire Sunday on the protestors thronging Tehran and other Iranian cities during Shia holy day demonstrations. A second day of clashes erupted Monday as plainclothesman confiscated bodies of some of the dead from local hospitals to prevent another round of mourning protest rallies and arrested several prominent activists and/or their family members.
Fuck tha police state!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worl...
Ebadi - winner of the 2003 Nobel peace prize - said her sister, Dr Noushin Ebadi, a lecturer in medicine at Tehran Azad university, was arrested at her home last night by four intelligence agents. She was taken to an unknown location. Shirin Ebadi, who is currently in London, said the arrest was intended to pressure her into giving up her human rights work.
"During the past two months, [my sister] has been summoned by the intelligence ministry several times and ordered to persuade me to stop my human rights activities," Ebadi said in a statement posted on the reformist website Rah-e Sabz. "She was also ordered to vacate her home, which adjoins my apartment. She was threatened that if she failed to comply with these two demands, she would be arrested."
The arrest coincided with the detentions of relatives of other prominent figures, including Shapour Kazemi, brother-in-law of the reformist leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, and Leila Tavassoli, niece of the former foreign minister Ebrahim Yazdi, who has also been detained. It was the second time Kazemi, the brother of Mousavi's wife, Zahra Rahnavard, has been arrested since June's disputed presidential election.
The latest detention came after Mousavi's nephew, Ali Mousavi Khamane, was killed on Sunday in what his family allege was an assassination by security forces. At least 20 prominent figures, including journalists, have been arrested since Sunday's clashes, which took place on the Shia holy day of Ashura.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worl...
Whither thou, O Ahmadinejihad dick suckers of teh whiteysphere? |
| donkeytale :: Iranians Take to the Streets in Defiance of their Dictator (and the US Fake Left) |
The protests, taking place on the holiday marking the death of Shiite Islam's holiest martyr, were the bloodiest - and among the largest - since the uprisings that followed Iran's disputed presidential election last June, with hundreds of thousands of people thronging Tehran alone, witnesses said. There were reports of hundreds of injured people and numerous arrests.
In Tehran, thick crowds marched down a central avenue in mid-morning, defying official warnings of a harsh crackdown on protests as they chanted, "Death to the dictator!" They refused to retreat even as police fired tear gas, charged them with batons and discharged warning shots.
The police then opened fire directly into the crowd, opposition Web sites said, citing witnesses. At least four people were killed, the Web sites reported, and photographs circulated of a man with a bloodied head being carried from the scene.
Meanwhile, the Asia Times reports that the diplomatic vice grip is tightening around the the pencil necks of the theocratic fascist regime, as its support from China and Russia, not to mention the non-aligned nations which have backed it implicitly, appears to be eroding in the face of UN diplomatic maneuvers which have successfully called Iran's game of nuclear weapons peek-a-boo bluff.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/M...
The writer of this article sees a contradiction between Iran's desire to become a globalist power and its feeble economy which has been decimated by the blatant corruption and economic blunders of the Ahmadickewad regime and his ever tightening circle of "revolutionary guards" AKA "fascist thugs", who as we speak are desperately killing their own people along with the regime's dismal prospects for longterm survival.
From this contradiction the UN and Obama may gain an opportunity to help the Iranians achieve their long-desired role on the global stage, an improved economy and status as leader of the Non-Aligned Movement, now that India has moved into the big leagues and chosen to "align."
A vanguard in the disarmament movement that operates by raising the red flag of nuclear proliferation if the big powers fail to heed their nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty commitments - this is, indeed, how Iran may increasingly come out in the near future; in other words, a proto-nuclear weapon state that is perpetually playing the "game changing" role of a proto-nuclear power based on its latent capability, destined to play a global leadership role.
Unfortunately, the proponents of a "grand bargain", such as US foreign policy analyst, Flynt Leverett, completely miss the point about Iran's international ambitions and orientations, proposing a near simultaneous resolution of all the outstanding issues between the US and Iran, without presenting any clue as to how Iran actually perceives itself in terms of world affairs and its long-term strategic outlook. Such serious omissions in studying Iran and its foreign behavior are quite clearly unhelpful in addressing the US-Iran stalemate.
But once a proper reading of Iran's foreign policy and its global ambitions is managed by US policymakers, then the latter may soon discover a potentially rich area of convergence that is hitherto unknown, that is, the potential synergy between US President Barack Obama's disarmament vision and that of Iran.
The current internal political unrest which becomes more intense with each passing Shia holiday may serve to undermine the regime to the point that it can no longer allow itself to act in the nation's and its allies best interests since those interests are diverging at a rapidly growing pace.
This is a realistic concern, particularly since Iran has the solid backing of many UN member states that are involved in the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM). A NAM official in New York, also wishing to remain anonymous, tells this author that the 118-member NAM has "supported Iran in blind faith" by accepting Iran's declarations about its peaceful program and since Tehran is taking over the leadership of NAM in 2012, it is vitally important for it to keep its promises to the NAM community.
"If Tehran goes nuclear despite its pledges to NAM, then the whole movement will lose face in the international community," said the source.
In other words, the regime finds itself between an international rock and a domestic very hard place. Gee. Too bad, suckas.
"Death to the Dictator!!!" |
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