Iran election anger boils; Ahmadinejad defends results

Los Angeles Times ^ | 9:50 AM PDT, June 14, 2009 | Ramin Mostaghim and Borzou Daragahi

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Protesters who claim the vote was rigged clash with police for a second day. The government denies that two of the president's challengers are under house arrest.

Reporting from Tehran -- Protesters angered by alleged vote count fraud erupted in street violence for a second day today, throwing rocks and setting fire to storefronts as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defended his reelection as "free and real" in a press appearance before local and international journalists.

Vigorous and assertive, Ahmadinejad vowed to maintain his tough foreign policy posture in his second term. Afterward, he appeared before a massive rally in his support in Tehran's Vali Asr Square, with thousands of supporters waving red, white and green Iranian flags and banners with religious slogans.

[PapaBear3625]

twitter reports shooting and 4 deaths in Rasht

[livius]

so now he's stuck with precious few options with regards to the stolen election in iraq.

I think Obama expected and wanted Ahmadinejad to win. There's little difference between the two mullah-picked candidates, in any case. But Ahmadinejad personally is important to Obama because he is the best buddy of Obama's best buddy, Hugo Chavez. Ahmadinejad has spent considerable amounts of time and money helping Chavez and also helping him stir up left wing trouble in the rest of Latin America.

The Iranians have been suffering under a truly miserable economy, and it no doubt angers them to see Ahmadinejad lavishing so much effort (and probably money) on Venezuela while they have such severe problems. That's the only reason I can see for this little rebellion.

But I am convinced that Obama has been relatively quiet because he was just assuming that Ahmadinejad would win and that the three of them, Obama, Chavez and Ahmadinejad, would be able to continue their cozy threesome.

[PapaBear3625]

Youtube: Iranian riot cop pulled off motorcycle and beaten

[SolidWood]

It’s long been practice to use Iraqi Shias and Lebanese Hezbullahis as thugs against Iranians.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

twitter chatter has multiple reports of Arabic-speaking riot police (Iranians speak Farsi). The regime may be importing thugs to crack down on Iranians.

Could be Hamas...also.

Al-Queda's new home...?

[VeniVidiVici]

Thought the goofs that wrote this article sounded familiar.

They’ve engaged in propaganda before:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/lynn-davidson/2007/10/06/la-times-whitewashed-threatening-ahmadinejad-speech

[ExSES]

Reporting from Tehran -- Protesters angered by alleged vote count fraud erupted in street violence for a second day today, throwing rocks and setting fire to storefronts as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad defended his reelection as "free and real" in a press appearance before local and international journalists.

I fear that very soon, those in Iran who seek personal freedom will face the fate afforded the educated classes of of China and Cambodia..., and the world at large will avert its gaze and merely move on to other causes...

[SolidWood]

Se post 24. They have recruited since the 1980’s Shia Iraqi refugees and Lebanese Hezbullah thugs. They are the regime’s leashdogs against the Iranian people.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks .

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks.

[BigBobber]

Protesters angered by alleged vote count fraud erupted in street violence for a second day today, throwing rocks and setting fire to storefronts.

This is why the mullahs have been in rule for 30 years. If they want to get rid of tyrants they must storm the palaces and mosques and government buildings and kill the enemies of freedom.

Shopkeepers are not the enemy.

[wiggen]

Since they’re yelling allah akbar on most of the video i’ve seen i think its unlikely,at least at this point,that they direct their anger at those old moon worshiping loons.

[PapaBear3625]

Running blog on Huffpost:

Just got off the phone with my dad. He leaves in northern tehran... He said that most iranians believe that a lot of the basijis [plain clothes officers] on the bikes are hezbollah arabs brought in to do to the citizens what a persian cop would refuse to do. Accordingly when the protesters knock one of the basijis off their bikes they are being particularly brutal, believing that the rider is arab. Regular uninformed cops are not being pursued with the same anger.

It's a long-running pattern with dictators to cultivate a thug-class which is alienated from the population being controlled, who have no economic alternative to being a thug, and who know that things will go badly for them if the regime goes down.

[SolidWood]

It’s actually a reference to the chant of the Revolution 1979, when they got up the roofs and chanted Allahoakbar.

The regime has to be brought down sooner or later, and I don’t care what the chant of the day is.

[SolidWood]

Accordingly when the protesters knock one of the basijis off their bikes they are being particularly brutal, believing that the rider is arab.

Iranians need to throw off the arabized yoke and that ridiculous arabic-islamist faux "culture" forced down their throats for 30 years.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Ernest!

[Marine_Uncle]

A few years back I made comments that the people must gain the regular army's support, have arms issued out in huge numbers, as well as anti tank weapons, etc., and go directly after the secret police, RG and other protectors of the mullahs.
Blood most be spilled to physically kick out the cult rulers and their puppets and protectors.
Only the people in large masses supported fully by the army, navy, and airforce (many true blue military folks with patriotic heads and modern thought) will change Iran into a better place for all their neighbors and themselves.
Otherwise as in China and NK, the shit will continue as usual.