Posted on 10/08/2006 10:56:58 AM PDT by oldleft
TEHRAN (Reuters) - A senior Shi'ite Muslim cleric who has challenged Iran's system of clerical rule was arrested on Sunday after his supporters clashed with police outside his house in the Iranian capital, Iranian news agencies reported.
Ayatollah Mohammad Kazemeini Boroujerdi was detained with several supporters, Iran's student news agency ISNA quoted the deputy governor of Tehran, Abdollah Rowshan, as saying.
The Iranian authorities are wary of any challenge, particularly from top clerics, to the system of clerical rule that was established after the 1979 Islamic revolution by revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini.
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The MSM is downplaying this, rattling off the official mullah's party line, Amnesty International is ignoring Boroujerdi's pleas, and I don't think there's going to be any blue helmets heading that way anytime soon.
It will be unfortunate to find one of - if not the only remaining moderate spiritual leaders, along with hundreds of his followers slaughtered, but sometimes sacrifices in the face of evil is the only way to bring about change, and revelation.
I pray for the souls of those about to lose their lives, may some find Salvation in time....God's Will Be Done.
Same here.
BUMP
There is, in effect, no story and they have successfully stomped on it....
In a couple weeks they will not even remember who, much less the what, when or where.
Iran is now a totally closed society and there is little hope of a revolution remaining. I gave up that hope more than a year ago. I wish it were different, but it is not.
If we cannot penetrate it, and believe me when I say we have tried. Then it follows that we will eventually be required to take the government down from the air and special forces. Then, it may be possible for the people to revolt and regain control.
I expect this to happen in less than two years but not sooner.
bttt
The story supports something I've been thinking all along ... the support for the Mullahcracy is very shallow, and shored up only by armed force and terror. At some point, it will collapse.
The end of the Iran Nuke crisis (and probably also of organized Islamofascism) will come when normal Iranians finally have enough. I suspect it's not long, now.
may God protect him and give him strentgh during torture at the hands of his captors.
The United States should start bombing Iran's nuclear sites now, and keep bombing them until they are pulverized. At the same time, we should bomb their oil pipelines. This would castrate the current regime.
No, we shouldn't. There may come a time for that, but it's not quite yet. I think the Mullahs are on the verge of falling, and just need a shove. For a lot of reasons -- including with American politics -- it'd be lots cheaper and more effective if we concentrate right now on giving the shove.
While we're waiting for internal change, the current regime will develop a nuclear bomb with the ability to deliver it.
Iran is allied with the terrorist organizations, and with Syria, North Korea, Cuba, and Venezuela.
The UN is a joke.
We should attack Iran right away.
I think he was arrested, despite a handful of his supporters attempted to prevent it. So I read on other stories.
Isn't this guy from the tiny reformist/leftist movement?
We should be packaging up the AK-47s and the RPGs captured from the insurgent Iraqis and returning them along with fresh ammo via air drop to out of the way places in Iran. The Iranians have more then enough people, they need weapons.
Regards,
GtG
Amen. May God intervene on behalf of these brave souls.
There are, within Islam, factions which are perfectly fine. These include Sufi and Druze. The Muslims we're fighting don't accept these as true Islam, so when some one talks of Islam as the religion of hate they generally are talking of the mainsteam, not the civilized oddshoots.
Arresting opponent is nothing compared to what Bush/Rove have done in the US... /s
Thanks for the ping, Julie. Sad......
Oh no. He was Iran's biggest hope.
I hope the people rally to save him now. I was crossing my fingers they'd rise to the challenge yesterday.
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