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6 Mousavi Supporters Reportedly Hanged
Jerusalem Post ^ | 1 July 2009 | Sabina Amidi

Posted on 07/01/2009 2:09:10 AM PDT by edpc

As the Iranian authorities warned the opposition on Tuesday that they would tolerate no further protests over the disputed June 12 presidential elections, a report emerged of the hangings of six supporters of defeated candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi.

Speaking after Iran's top legislative body upheld the election victory of incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, sources in Iran told this reporter in a telephone interview that the hangings took place in the holy city of Mashhad on Monday. There was no independent confirmation of the report.

(Excerpt) Read more at jpost.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: election; hanging; iran; mousavi; protest; studentmovement
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"We don't know yet how this thing is going to play out" - President Obama, June 23, 2009

Yes We Can

Yes We Did.

1 posted on 07/01/2009 2:09:10 AM PDT by edpc
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To: edpc
A populace unarmed is a populace at the mercy of the Government.
2 posted on 07/01/2009 2:13:01 AM PDT by MaxMax (America's population is 304-Million. Obama must punish America for the other 4.7 Billion)
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To: edpc

LOL, stop it, you're killing people
3 posted on 07/01/2009 2:15:46 AM PDT by MaxMax (America's population is 304-Million. Obama must punish America for the other 4.7 Billion)
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> A populace unarmed is a populace at the mercy of the Government.

Well, in this day and age, the only difference is that armed resistance to tyranny can at least die fighting, rather than dying with their hands tied behind their backs.


4 posted on 07/01/2009 2:16:01 AM PDT by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: edpc
This is what I was afraid of. Against sheer brutality, the movement could peter out.

The question is that, after brutal suppression is done, he could be emboldened enough to do something really dangerous.

5 posted on 07/01/2009 2:26:07 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (LUV DIC -- L,U,V-shaped recession, Depression, Inflation, Collapse)
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To: edpc

What have you to say for yourself now Mr. President?


6 posted on 07/01/2009 2:38:05 AM PDT by blueyon (It is worth taking a stand even if you are standing alone!)
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To: edpc

it’s the mullahs that need to be hanging

there’s got to be a way , around the ‘impasses’


7 posted on 07/01/2009 2:39:15 AM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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"What have you to say for yourself now Mr. President?"

"Coming to your neighborhood soon through the courtesy of ACORN"........that is what he is saying.

8 posted on 07/01/2009 2:59:51 AM PDT by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: TigerLikesRooster; edpc

I was sure this was going to happen. People were saying he’d call out the tanks, but there was really no need for him to do so. Once Bambi made it clear that the US and hence the world press and institutions didn’t care, all Ahmadinejad had to do was let things die down (which was inevitable, since the people were unarmed and had no support) and then pick them up at his leisure.

I read that some had been arrested in the hospital days ago, and many others were being tracked through the Western made technology that he used to block and monitor their phone calls and Internet use.


9 posted on 07/01/2009 3:02:37 AM PDT by livius
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To: MaxMax

"Death to any country and person that champions freedom
... and to all democracies and Constitutions"

10 posted on 07/01/2009 3:34:45 AM PDT by Diogenesis
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To: TigerLikesRooster

It’s what many of us feared. We were not naive to think the mullahs would not sink to this level.

Their barbarism is what keeps them in power.


11 posted on 07/01/2009 4:21:23 AM PDT by romanesq
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To: livius

Many people would not go to the hospital. The reports I was able to read said that the hospital was nothing but a place of tears.

All the staff, the doctors and nurses would have to sit by and watch injured people being taken away and beaten.

And they could do nothing.


12 posted on 07/01/2009 4:22:45 AM PDT by romanesq
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To: blueyon

“What have you to say for yourself now Mr. President?”

I am sure he would just quote the article: “There was no independent confirmation of the report.”

He would completely ignore the fact that there can be no independent confirmation if all of the witnesses are killed. But I’m sure he would say something like “uh if... uh, there are uh people, uh being hanged in the streets, uh, uh... that uh, is uh, a problem.” Evil eye to reporter who asked the question.


13 posted on 07/01/2009 4:37:18 AM PDT by Never on my watch (You are in the most danger when you are in the company of pacifists.)
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To: edpc

Sad, but this was going to happen no matter what Obama and/or the UN would or could have said or done.


14 posted on 07/01/2009 4:44:44 AM PDT by RepublitarianRoger2
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To: edpc

A glimpse into our future, perhaps?


15 posted on 07/01/2009 5:28:01 AM PDT by thelastvirgil
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To: edpc
"This is a conflict without battlefields or beachheads, a conflict with opponents who believe they are invisible. Yet, they are mistaken. They will be exposed, and they will discover what others in the past have learned: Those who make war against the United States have chosen their own destruction.

George W. Bush

September 15, 2001

Unless you're Iran, in which case you get a pass. Iran can kill our boys by financing (providing newly improved, shaped charge IEDs,) training and supporting guerilla operations agains our boys in Iraq and develop nuclear weapons. But nobody else better try this. They'd sure be sorry...

16 posted on 07/01/2009 5:47:31 AM PDT by Sax
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To: edpc

Ain’t that the truth. Of course we knew what was going to happen...


17 posted on 07/01/2009 5:50:55 AM PDT by theDentist (qwerty ergo typo : i type, therefore i misspelll)
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To: edpc

I wish you people would get your priorities straight. Don’t you know that Micheal Jackson died? /S...I think.


18 posted on 07/01/2009 6:23:40 AM PDT by ladyvet (WOLVERINES!!!!!)
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To: Sax
Those who make war against the United States have chosen their own destruction.

UPDATE: Politicians who make war against the people of the United States have chosen their own destruction.

19 posted on 07/01/2009 7:12:32 AM PDT by Edgerunner (Second Amendment Spoken Here)
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To: thelastvirgil

A glimpse into our future, perhaps?
__________________________________

Wicked things this way come.


20 posted on 07/01/2009 7:20:46 AM PDT by unkus
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