Posted on 06/21/2009 3:19:58 AM PDT by don-o
At least 10 people were killed and more than 100 wounded when police clashed with "terrorists" in Tehran on Saturday, state TV says.
It said "rioters" set two petrol stations and a mosque on fire and attacked a military post, during protests over disputed elections.
State TV earlier said 13 had died, but the toll was then reduced.
The reports cannot be verified as foreign media in Iran are being severely restricted.
State media said calm had returned to Tehran on Sunday.
It was unclear whether fresh protests would go ahead, after official demands for them to stop.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...
Dang it! I meant to put this in Breaking to try to get more info / links posted in one thread. That’s what I get for FReeping before coffee.
probably 3 times that number
A number we will never know.
Excellent. They get it. Attack mosques (aka Baseej posts) and military posts.
Link is supposed to compile Tweets and facebook. I have read that there will be continued protest today.
Of course the Beeb is quoting the lying Iranian media. CNN reporting 19 fatalities from ONE hospital.
MSM is saying at least 150 dead. For them to admit that is something, so the number’s probably higher.
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Read a couple of posts on twitter saying there will be rallies today in some of the other cities beginning at 4 (7:30am eastern)
CNN is second hand reporting from a Iranian underground newspaper/flyer, that a major Iranian employer, a car manufacturer, has gone out on strike in sympathy with the protesters. Hopefully, many more Iranian businesses will follow suit.
I had read earlier that some plant workers had been having daily 30 minute work stoppages all last week in support.
Does anyone know - is Sunday a normal workday in Iran? Like our Monday?
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I was hoping that today we might have one thread to post Iran news in rather than multiple ones like yesterday. We are leaving for church. I did ask this to be moved to the BN sidebar.
Iranian Tweet: CAUTION: BLOCK all NEW users with NO or VERY FEW followers! They are BASIJ! #IranElection #Tehran #gr88 #neda
Yes, they work on Sunday, and have Thursday and Friday off. Iranian working class people often only have Friday afternoon, and national holidays.
BreakingNews Authorities arrest daughter of former President Rafsanjani along with four family members for taking part in unauthorized protest rallies-TV
F&F interviewed a young Iranian lady this morning who has family in Iran.
She had not heard from them for several days. Then, she got a message from them, via Internet. According to them, some 200 protesters were killed in Tehran yesterday.
What a crock.
RT Iran Yahoo, Gmail and Hotmail is now completely out of service in Iran - #Iranelection
Sunday, June 21, 2009 7:54:59 AM
PressTV (Iran) in English [news channel]
MS Player link
mms://wms.edgecastcdn.net/200216/ipresstv
wwiTV webpage link
http://wwitv.com/tv_channels/b3830.htm
“At least 10 people were killed and more than 100 wounded when police clashed with “terrorists””
Ahmadinijahd, Mullahs: YOU ARE THE TERRORISTS!
Prayers continue for the brave people of Iran.
The numbers of course, like any our ‘State Run Media’ offer; are skewed for sure. (Heard FoxNews analyst with family in Iran; offer that they knew of at least two hundred had been killed; and many more injured. And more to come; and higher numbers already embedded in skewed stats.)
some twitter;
RT : all foreign satellite tv news has been stopped in Iran - they think a blinded man cannot see in the darkness
some police refuse to shot people (french news)
LaraABCNewsBBC resident Tehran correspondent Jon Leyne, a friend and ace reporter, given 24 hours to leave
Watching Al Jazeera, they still have a correspondent in Tehran
BBC’s John Leyne expelled from Iran
There are rumours that Gov is losing control of army
my sources say please talk to western media and encourage them to stop using Iranian TV as a news source.
Contrary to LA Time report, a Facebook video purportedly shot June 21 shows a street packed with chanting demonstrators
RT reports that a bomb has exploded in the past few minutes at Talaghani Street undergound metro station
Rumors that the tear gas being used is unusually strong— causing severe nausea, pain. Any chemists with ideas?
RT from Iran: Kourosh Zaim - member of national peoples party arrested
RT: Larijani, Iran’s Majlis spkr, criticzs Guardian Council mmbrs (supp to be neutral) for backing one candidate (Ahmadinejad)
Reporters & Journalists being evicted from Tehran & Iran. Some embassies bringing their ambassadors out of Iran
Iranian Bus workers joined the Resistance!
I thought Iran was a democratic country with Ahmedinejad. It was all LIE!
From Iran - basij everywhere in Tehran - people told to stay home - many not at work
Found another update;
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2275713/posts?page=198#198
Just got this heads up:
Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and his family and about another dozen people of his close entourage have been moved to a location around the Maidan Azadi (Freedom Square, Tehran), into which numerous tanks have been placed as well as crack riot squads.
The move is to provide him adequate protection in the face of the events in Iran and be close to the new airport from which he can flee the country. Reportedly various means of transportation are ready to move at instant notice.
If nothing else this shows his uncertainty of being able to contain the rebellion and stop it from turning into a full fledged revolution.
Another twitter say’s this is spreading around among the folks;
Iran’s Rage Against the Machine - Freedom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_cj9MEk16M
Dedicated to my family and all of my brothers and sisters in Iran fighting for truth and justice. Your voices and stories will be heard. The World is on your side. AZADI!
Rafsanjani daughter detained during protest
Fars News Agency, citing a security official, said Faezeh Rafsanjani and some other relatives had attended the protest and were detained in order to “preserve their security from terror acts of rioters.”
It said they were transferred to the nearest military base and were kept there until the end of the unrest, suggesting they had been released.
This is supposed to be a University Professor’s letter, full doc here;
http://docs.google.com/View?id=dc5cv33h_0dwm4847c
If we want to go forward we need to pass through tear gas. So we ask a car to give us a lift. Then there is an attack. They cannot tell enemy from other people although they want to show everything is fine and they’re only after trouble-makers. There is a woman who is being beaten. She’s horrified and hysterical but not as much as the anti-riot police officer facing her. She shrieks, ‘Where can I go? You tell me go down the street and you beat me. Then you come up from the other side and beat me again. Where can I go?’ In sheer desperation, the officer hits his helmet several times hard with his baton. ‘Damn me! Damn me! What the hell do I know!’
I ask myself, ‘how much longer can these officers tolerate stress? How many among them would be willing to give their lives for somebody like Ahmadinejhad?’
The driver tells us that he did not vote but he has come out to the streets to beat the Basijis. At each intersection he is guided by officers in a different direction and after a while we realize we are back where we started. We see officers load people in a van used for carrying frozen meat. Then a couple of minutes later, a new scene unfolds. We get out. Here’s a true battleground. And this time it’s huge. Columns of smoke rise to the sky. You can hardly see the asphalt. Only bricks and stones. Here people have the upper hand. Three lanes, the middle one separated by opaque fences, under construction for the metro. The workers have climbed up the fences and show the V sign. They start throwing stone and timber to the street to supply the armament. I tell myself, ‘Look at the poor, the ones Ahmadinejhad always speaks of.’ But the president’s name is no longer in fashion. This time the slogans address the leader, something unheard of in the past three decades. It’s a beautiful sunset, with rays of light penetrating evening clouds. We feel safe among people moving back forth with the anti-riot police attacks.
I wish the protesters well but I can’t help thinking how many of them not too long ago were shouting death to America in the same streets.
Obama: “We mourn each and every innocent life that is lost,”....
yes, UHbama- we all mourn innocent life with a trip out for ice cream.........
Yep, just replacing of Ahmadinijahd would be a small step, but one that could continue towards Freedom, unfortunately though, Øbama wouldn’t have his buddy to have dialog with
Yep, Øbama must think this regime is as good as any other form of Government being he can’t articulate he supports freedom for all people of the world. Øbama hides behind statements like ‘whatever the people choose’
Obama will start to care once he figures out who is going to win. He will adopt their cause and take credit it for their success claiming behind the scenes work. If the revolutionaries win, he will claim it was because of his influence. If the mullahs win, he will claim that his intervention prevented more deaths and violence.
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