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This is going to get interesting in a hurry I am afraid.
One might suspect that the thinking is better to get it done while things are moving in a favorable direction for US interests. The events in Lebanon may have boosted some confidence there.
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6 Hour Uprising Will
Topple Tehran
Iran Guards tell leader forces unable to control
Tehran uprising lasting more than 6 hours
February 24, 2005
Iran Focus
Tehran, Feb. 24 – In a recent secret report to the Iranian regime's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps pointed out that were a demonstration or rebellion to last more than six hours in Tehran, the security apparatus would no longer be able to control the situation.
"Society is in an unstable state. Were certain sensitive locations in Tehran to 'explode' under these circumstances, and the capital sink into chaos, if uprisings continue unabated and grow larger for more than six hours in Tehran, the situation would become uncontrollable", the report said.
The Iranian capital has been the scene of numerous clashes between people and State Security Forces over the past few months.
The Iranian regime has stepped up repression throughout the capital over the past year to combat any outbursts against the state.
Clashes have also erupted elsewhere in Iran in recent weeks. Iranian Kurds and security agents clashed heavily on Friday in three towns in western Iran, leaving dozens injured and hundreds arrested.
The disruption occurred after SSF agents used force to disperse demonstrations taking place simultaneously in the towns of Sardasht, Saqqez, and Baneh in protest against severe fuel shortages in the area, eye-witnesses reported.
The demonstrations quickly turned violent as protestors fought back and shouted slogans against Iran's ruling clerics.
Similarly, thousands of people flooded the streets of Mahabad (Kurdistan province) in mid-February, clashing with the SSF after days of gas, water, and electricity interruptions.
The demonstration quickly turned into a mass rally and youths set fire to banners and posters celebrating the 26th anniversary of the revolution that toppled the monarchy.
Eye-witnesses reported that at least two plainclothes policemen were injured during the ensuing clashes.
Interesting. Kinda seems like it might be total BS, but interesting nonetheless. (Um, African Union troops??? They can barely get 300 guys to Sudan!)
Our Man in Baghdad says the special forces guys he works out with say that, basically, we've been in open combat with Revolutionary Guards in the area along the Iran-Iraq border for a while. We just call them "insurgents," but everyone knows that they're not just Iranian-trained fighters, they're actual Iranian soldiers in mufti.
I'm not sure what Iran's game is. American troops in the West and East, American naval forces in the Gulf and itchy Israelis a little further away. I think the regime might be trying to quell problems at home by stirring up a fight abroad. How else do you explain their provocations. They must know by now that Bush isn't Clinton.
They should hunker down and try not to annoy us. If they stuck to internal repression and made deals on nukes/missiles, they'd stand a better chance of avoiding Benito M.'s fate (take one rope and one gas station, end one dictatorship). Oh, sorry, according to Powell's old buddy Dick Armitage, Iran is a democracy. :)
I wonder if the recent increase in oil prices is the market anticipating a move on Iran?
i saw a note that said it was because a shut down of a refinery....don't really know.
What Occupied Islands???????????????????
There is no occupation, and I do not understand why there are articles threatening the integrity of the country of Iran. Moreover, the name of the Gulf is PERSIAN GULF, not the Gulf which was produced by communists like Gamal Abdul Naser and Little Arab Sheykhdoms whom I have never respected so far.
If Iran is gonna be freed, it should be freed in one piece.
As far as every historians and documents say, the Islands were occupied by Arab sheykhdom of UAE before 1971 and the Shah gave independence to Bahrain and got the Iranian islands of Lesser Tumb and Bigger Tumb plus the island of Abu Musa in exchange of that.
I hope the US does not play in the hand of bunch of idiot Arabs who has nothing in their culture but hate toward other people in the world.
I am writing an e-mail to American thinker reminding them the facts they missed and tell them they are dead wrong on what they think about Iran!
From one side Mullahs are selling Iran a piece at the time which outrages Iranian people. I wonder which side will they take when mullahs don’t need to do much to spin this bad news about US intent? Has mistake written all over it. Ultimately leads to a prolong physical war if Iranian people fight back.
Mullahs have destoryed Iran so far, no doubt about it.
They took our pride, land, credit and respect away together and left us with misery and pain that most but not least, of us have hope in a foreign force to come and free us.
That is the bitter side of the story but the other unseen bitter part of the story is that none of us, Iranians, tried to educate people around the world about the truth of our forgotten land.
Look, the article simply denies the truth that those islands were part of Iran for thousands years. Fighting misunderstanding is so hard.
Okay, pushing "Iranian operators out of the Horn", I got that.
Seizing Abu Musa? That's an act of war. That will NOT go over well with the average Iranian in the street, and will turn them against the U.S. real fast.
The American Thinker needs to think some more.
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