The Four Iran Scenarios and "Basiji Hunting"

The Washington Note ^ | Friday, Jun 19 2009, 2:06PM | Steve Clemons

[ASOC]

Option #5
News outlets learn to spell “Tienem Square “ in Persian.

The Mullahs will not give up power without a lot of bloodshed. No dictator ever has.....

[VanShuyten]

Wishful thinking. #2 wins, hands down.

[wolfcreek]

What, *The One*...*the Messiah* ain’t good enough?

[BenLurkin]

Postscript — Google enters into agreement to steer searches away from photos of the massacre.

[BeerLover NYC]

Not bad!

[ASOC]

Missed that

Agreed with the Mullahs or with the State Dept?

[BenLurkin]

Heh-heh!

[ASOC]

It was an honest question.

Given the non-stance taken by The One and Only BogO, I could believe the State Dept told Google to back off.

HOw about BING
Dogpile
ALtaVista
Etc?

[BenLurkin]

Please accept my apology. The “postscript” was offered to the possible 5th scenario that you posed. It was not meant to be a report of an actual happening. I should have been more clear.

[ASOC]

AH - I see now.

Would not surprise me given the way Google bowed to the folks running China....and other dictators.

[SunkenCiv]

1 - Happy ending... 2 - Damp squib... 3 - Confrontation... 4 - A second revolution... As of Mr. Khameneni's speech today it seems that (1) above is no longer an option. For everything that Mousavi has publically announced option (2) also seems unlikely. Unfortunately for everything I know, it now seems its either (3) or (4).

Thanks Ernest.

[Fitzy_888]

The Supreme Leader in Iran is religiously/legally infallible –period. He has entrenched himself. How can the Supreme Leader now flinch with any grace?

This is the blasphemy of the Mullahs, but how they collect their 20% annual tax. And what polarizes Iran from other Islamic states and Sunni’s.

Simply put, arrogance is a sin. (You don’t have to be religious to learn and know this ethic.)

Once the supreme leader sets out to put this down aggressively, presumably Tomorrow, it will be a fight to the finish.

[Marine_Uncle]

"By the way, two nights ago I went out to see a few things ... as the general crowds spread into their homes militia style Mousavi supporters were out on the streets 'Basiji hunting'."
Well that is a refreshing bit of news.

[Marine_Uncle]

Hopefully major numbers of the regular police will join in and go on Basiji hunts. Burn them out of the HQ’s and obtain their arms and ammo and expand. Let news get out that any IRGC that interferes will loose their heads, literally. Then lets see if the regular military folks will grow some balls and do what they should have done a long time ago, once the IRGC started to get to powerful within the governmental framework.