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Iranian Clerical Opposition Forming
The Washington Times ^ | June 16, 2009 | Jim Robbins

Posted on 06/16/2009 2:35:41 PM PDT by Abakumov

The uprising in Iran can only succeed if there are fundamental shifts within the clerical power structure that runs the country. There are now signs that an opposition group is crystallizing within the religious leadership.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: abtahi; iran; iranuprising; iranviolence2009; khamenei; montazeri; mullahs; rafsanjani
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To: D-fendr; G8 Diplomat

See link at #39.


41 posted on 06/16/2009 4:46:49 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Support Geert Wilders)
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To: G8 Diplomat

Abtahi, Rafsanjani, and Montazeri, may soon find themselves out of jobs, and perhaps house arrest.


42 posted on 06/16/2009 4:49:09 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Obama must be making huge piles of cigarette butts around the WH grounds at this point.)
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To: Abakumov; My Favorite Headache; fishergirl
Related thread from yesterday:

Iran: There Will Be Blood

43 posted on 06/16/2009 4:50:31 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Support Geert Wilders)
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To: A CA Guy
All these problems go back to Carter helping remove the Shaw to bring in the Muslim theocracy instead.

That would be "Shah".

44 posted on 06/16/2009 4:51:06 PM PDT by SeaHawkFan
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To: PapaBear3625

See updates...#39.


45 posted on 06/16/2009 4:51:40 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Support Geert Wilders)
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To: A CA Guy

See updates..&..#39.


46 posted on 06/16/2009 4:52:18 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Abakumov
More:

#IranElection RT Iran: Terrorist govmn't assaulting college campuses http://bit.ly/zLMQ2 pics of bullet-sprayed doors. That ain't security

1 minute ago from web

Spence Stokell

47 posted on 06/16/2009 4:55:28 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Yes it is very disturbing. Mad Dog's henchmen are having a great time of it by all indications. Wonder how many more planes loaded with Hizbollah will be flown into the capital in the days to come.
Then again. They probably have sufficient numbers of radical Islamic goons to kill off half the Iranian population if need be.
48 posted on 06/16/2009 4:56:22 PM PDT by Marine_Uncle (Obama must be making huge piles of cigarette butts around the WH grounds at this point.)
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To: GreyFriar
Apparently the mullah’s fear of Mousavi’s willingness to loosen the leash a bit on the population causing then end of their control caused them to insure that Ahmadinejad would

Don't forget the close relationship the Iranians have with Putin's regime. Putin knows that Glasnost was the beginning of the end for the Soviet Empire. They can't give an inch or they will start an avalanche they can't control.

49 posted on 06/16/2009 4:56:38 PM PDT by Straight Vermonter (Posting from deep behind the Maple Curtain)
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Direct link to the photos referenced at post #47:

Kooye Daneshgah (Tehran Uni Complex)

And I'll post a few of them:

50 posted on 06/16/2009 4:57:10 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Iran is an object lesson on what happens when only the thugs have guns.

The Basiji better pray that disgruntled Army guys don't "misplace" a truck full of AKs and ammo.

51 posted on 06/16/2009 4:58:13 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money -- Thatcher)
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52 posted on 06/16/2009 4:59:15 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Support Geert Wilders)
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53 posted on 06/16/2009 5:03:55 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Support Geert Wilders)
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Looks like they were shooting thru the door:


54 posted on 06/16/2009 5:05:32 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Support Geert Wilders)
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55 posted on 06/16/2009 5:06:32 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Support Geert Wilders)
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last one of the 60+:

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56 posted on 06/16/2009 5:08:54 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (Support Geert Wilders)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

RT Quote of the day- “140 characters is a novel when you’re being shot at.”


57 posted on 06/16/2009 5:15:44 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money -- Thatcher)
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To: Abakumov

I’m sure Jimmy Carter is going to be very upset about this. Wasn’t he a “Meddler” once himself in Iran. I thought Obama said today that Presidents don’t meddle in Iran’s affairs. hmmmmmmmmm. Short memory.


58 posted on 06/16/2009 5:19:24 PM PDT by annieokie (i)
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To: annieokie

Jimmy Carter is in large measure to blame for everything that’s happened in Iran since 1979. He is a total dunce, who doesn’t know when to shut up.


59 posted on 06/16/2009 5:22:15 PM PDT by popdonnelly (The greatest crimes in history have been perpetrated by governments. You've been warned.)
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To: Marine_Uncle

Abtahi has already been arrested, according to the article. I read that Rafsanjani was under house arrest, but he went to Qom the other day so I dunno if that’s accurate.


60 posted on 06/16/2009 5:25:55 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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