Posted on 06/25/2009 2:53:53 AM PDT by WorkerbeeCitizen
Seventy university professors were detained in Iran in a widening government crackdown on protesters, according to a Web site affiliated with Iran's key opposition figure, Mir Hossein Mousavi, who says he was robbed of victory in a rigged presidential election.
The professors were detained on Wednesday, immediately after meeting with Mousavi, said the Kalemeh site, which is affiliated with the opposition leader. The report said it is not clear where the detainees were taken.
Hundreds protesters and activists are believed to have been taken into custody since the June 12 vote, in which Iran's ruling clerics declared hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the winner by a landslide. The government has also set up a special court to deal with the cases of people arrested in more than a week of unrest and threatened harsh sentences.
Widespread protests erupted after the election, amid allegations of massive fraud. Since then, at least 17 people have been killed as authorities gradually intensified their crackdown.
The state-owned newspaper, Iran, reported Thursday that in addition to the 17, seven members of the pro-government Basij militia were killed in post-election clashes, and dozens more injured by weapons and knives. The report could not be independently verified
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“The best U.S. option for pressuring Iran, the world’s fifth biggest oil producer, was to drive down crude prices by reducing America’s dependence on imported energy, Kerry said.”
Then why do Kerry and the rest of the Rats continually vote to deny oil companies our own resources in ANWR, off the coast, and in the upper Midwest?
I’m surprised this guy wasn’t shot by his own troops in the back in Nam.
Go on strike Iranians. The Yanks are not coming.
This post is basically a note that they had come for the thinkers - which will probably happen here to our thinkers sometime in the future.
It seems to me that the street action should be replaced by the strike - withhold the labor that is required for the nation to function. That’s easy to type, I know.
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