IRAN: Endgame?

Hot Air ^ | June 22, 2009 8:46 am | Ed Morrissey

[mad_as_he$$]

Hey lay off!!! We had a riot because the Lakers won. What more do you want? /s

[Allegra]

[ScreamingFist]

Only the Rev Guard can remove them, and it's still unclear what their intentions are right now.

Interesting observation. An army has to eat, an army needs supplies.....a general strike effectively shuts down, food, transportation....etc. How long can strikers stop the country...? They either start marching Iranians people out as slaves......or the mullahs lose.

[Miss Behave]

BUMP BUMP BUMP, Allegra! Hope all is well with you, and THANKS for all you do!

[Marine_Uncle]

I see at this IranTracker exactly the stuff I just blabed about in another post. Shut the damn country down. Make it known, the people will now determine what happens and what does not. Let more of the IRGC forces decide if they want to go in with the regular military forces and police forces that will eventually move over to the people's side.
I would bet a dime, there are many older and not so old military folk that would love to see all the Mad Dog types purged from their midst along with the Bearded ones ran out of the country, or forced to stay in Qom and just play Islamic religion practices, say sit around and read their books and beat their wives when they feel frustrated.
If we start getting solid news that the regular military branches will not let Mad Dog and his bearded masters play any more games, then the Iranian citizens just might have a new lease on life. One with the right type of westernized thinking leaders to step in and make them a good neighbor in their region as well as restoring a position within the world community.
Of course the reality that some twenty or more million older folks are still mostly ill-educated and living in their little world of socialism. How will they act. Will there be a real full blown civil war in due time.
Dictator regimes world over must be following these events with concern.

[SE Mom]

I just found this on twitter- it is a gruesome new video of more young people shot and dying.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npdISZUtdmU

[Marine_Uncle]

Perhaps it is time for some here to help me post the following CSPAN one hour session on a reporter roundup listening to the Shah of Iran's son, fmr. Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi
HERE.
Where the CSPAN title is: Shah's Son Says Iran Unrest Threatens Clerical Rule.
Reza answers a lot of questions regarding how this growing movement by the people is developing, and why.
As suspected by some of us. It is much more then simply a frustration of voter fraud in his opinion. But one of long term dissatisfication with the clergy ruling over them where the people know according to their Shia background the clergy have no right to rule over them.
Also the long term failure to raise their standard of living, and suppression of basic human rights. In short many feel they live in a police state with no hope.
I'll let it go at that. Draw your own conclusions.