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Pictures and Latest News From Today's Iranian Protests

Posted on 06/13/2009 8:40:23 PM PDT by Shellybenoit

mousavi1388 Dear Iranian People, Mousavi has not left you alone, he has been put under house arrest by Ministry of Intelligence #IranElection about 4 hours ago from web

A friend who works in the media sent me the pictures below of the riots going on in Iran today as the voting public expresses their anger over the sham elections

Leading Iranian opposition presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi issued a statement warning of "tyranny" Saturday after a tense night in Iran in which state organs proclaimed that incumbent hardline Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad had won a "landslide" victory by a two-to-one margin, a statistic that defied the belief of many analysts. Voter turnout was an unprecedented 84%.


TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: ahmadinejad; iranelections; mousavi; riots

1 posted on 06/13/2009 8:40:24 PM PDT by Shellybenoit
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To: Shellybenoit

From here:
موسوی 19 میلیون، کروبی 7 میلیون و احمدی نژاد 8 میلیون

Musavi 19 million, Karubi 7 million, Ahmadinejad 8 million

It was rigged, and don't expect the riots to stop any time soon. The mullahs' theocracy can only last so long....
2 posted on 06/13/2009 8:42:46 PM PDT by G8 Diplomat (I'm learning Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, Pashtu, and Russian so someday you won't have to)
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To: G8 Diplomat

Ferdinand Marcos fell from power when he rigged the elections against Corazon Aquino in 1986.

People Power took him down with the military eventually siding with the people.

Will the same thing happen in Iran ? One can only hope.


3 posted on 06/13/2009 8:44:42 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: G8 Diplomat

I see no pictures on that website (


4 posted on 06/13/2009 8:45:55 PM PDT by Critical Bill (An awareness of the Muslim contradiction must gnaw in even the dullest fundamentalist brain.)
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To: Critical Bill

to Shellybenoit that should be.


5 posted on 06/13/2009 8:46:41 PM PDT by Critical Bill (An awareness of the Muslim contradiction must gnaw in even the dullest fundamentalist brain.)
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To: Shellybenoit

Its starting to look like our elections.


6 posted on 06/13/2009 8:47:46 PM PDT by beckysueb (Palin/Jindahl in 2012)
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To: beckysueb

Iran does have an ACORN of sorts....the Revolutionary Guard. They’re better armed and like Stormtroopers, dispence the Emporer’s Justice.


7 posted on 06/13/2009 8:54:20 PM PDT by ak267
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To: Critical Bill
Here's a link to another thread that has some updated info. One guy is using a laptop from on top of a building in Tehran.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2271258/posts?page=28

8 posted on 06/13/2009 8:55:57 PM PDT by calex59
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To: Shellybenoit

So are they even attempting a pretense like “We’ve placed Mr. Mousavi into protective custody for his own safety” or are they going to “disappear” him?


9 posted on 06/13/2009 8:58:45 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: G8 Diplomat

I heard it didn’t matter whether Musavi or Ahmadinejad won because the mullah’s still ran everything.


10 posted on 06/13/2009 8:59:21 PM PDT by freeagle
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To: G8 Diplomat
"The mullahs' theocracy can only last so long.... "

So can Satan's reign on earth.

But that doesn't mean it can't be a pretty long while, relative to human life span.

11 posted on 06/13/2009 9:43:33 PM PDT by TheClintons-STILLAnti-American
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To: freeagle

Yes, that’s true. The reason I posted the vote numbers was to show just how rigged the election was.


12 posted on 06/13/2009 10:06:25 PM PDT by G8 Diplomat (I'm learning Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, Pashtu, and Russian so someday you won't have to)
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To: TheClintons-STILLAnti-American
part of the the strategy of Iraq was a democracy in the the heart of the Muslim world would over time destabilize the dictatorships which dominate the region. Maybe its working.
13 posted on 06/13/2009 10:08:33 PM PDT by The Klingon
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To: The Klingon

If it does, I hope Bush gets credit for it.


14 posted on 06/13/2009 10:59:26 PM PDT by freeagle
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The mullahs could be toppling.

Be nice for the insurgents to have some US and Western support.


15 posted on 06/13/2009 11:55:36 PM PDT by D-fendr (Deus non alligatur sacramentis sed nos alligamur.)
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To: D-fendr

Better still if support came stealthily from Saudi Arabia!


16 posted on 06/13/2009 11:56:41 PM PDT by MHGinTN (Believing they cannot be deceived, they cannot be convinced when they are deceived.)
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To: freeagle

Bush will not get credit, I’d bet he’d be happy with the results.


17 posted on 06/14/2009 9:04:55 AM PDT by The Klingon
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