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The Four Iran Scenarios and "Basiji Hunting"
The Washington Note ^
| Friday, Jun 19 2009, 2:06PM
| Steve Clemons
Posted on 06/19/2009 12:27:50 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
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.....
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posted on
06/19/2009 1:06:12 PM PDT
by
ASOC
(Who IS that fat lady, and why is she singing?????)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Wishful thinking. #2 wins, hands down.
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posted on
06/19/2009 1:10:39 PM PDT
by
VanShuyten
("Do you call it 'unsound method'?" "No method at all," I murmured.)
To: BeerLover NYC; BenLurkin
What, *The One*...*the Messiah* ain’t good enough?
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posted on
06/19/2009 1:10:55 PM PDT
by
wolfcreek
(KMTEXASA!)
To: ASOC
Postscript — Google enters into agreement to steer searches away from photos of the massacre.
To: G8 Diplomat
To: BenLurkin
Missed that
Agreed with the Mullahs or with the State Dept?
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posted on
06/19/2009 1:15:21 PM PDT
by
ASOC
(Who IS that fat lady, and why is she singing?????)
To: ASOC
To: BenLurkin
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?
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posted on
06/19/2009 1:28:00 PM PDT
by
ASOC
(Who IS that fat lady, and why is she singing?????)
To: ASOC
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.
To: BenLurkin
AH - I see now.
Would not surprise me given the way Google bowed to the folks running China....and other dictators.
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posted on
06/19/2009 1:54:12 PM PDT
by
ASOC
(Who IS that fat lady, and why is she singing?????)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; Marine_Uncle; AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; ...
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.
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posted on
06/19/2009 3:08:14 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
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 Sunnis.
Simply put, arrogance is a sin. (You dont 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.
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posted on
06/19/2009 3:20:54 PM PDT
by
Fitzy_888
("ownership society")
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
"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.
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posted on
06/19/2009 5:07:55 PM PDT
by
Marine_Uncle
(Obama must be making huge piles of cigarette butts around the WH grounds at this point.)
To: SunkenCiv
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.
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06/19/2009 5:13:26 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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