Police Tear-Gas Iran Protesters During Prayer

AP via Yahoo News ^ | 17 July 2009 | Ali Akbar Dareini

[edpc]

TEHRAN, Iran – Tens of thousands of government opponents packed Iran's main Islamic prayer service Friday, chanting "freedom, freedom" and other slogans as their top clerical backer Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani delivered a sermon bluntly criticizing the country's leadership over the crackdown on election protests.

[edpc]

Outside, police and pro-government Basiji militiamen fired tear gas and charged thousands of protesters who chanted "death to the dictator" and called on President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to resign. Dozens were arrested, piled in trucks and taken away, witnesses said.

What a nice way to observe your day of prayer.

[Made In The USA]

Protesters are being arrested and piled into trucks. Do their families wait for them or will the Iraqi government just bill them for the bullets?

Isn’t there supposed to be a country somewhere that promotes freedom across the globe? Didn’t some guy, uh.. Reagan say something about this?? Instead the yahoo-in-chief and his foreign policy are MIA..

[himno hero]

I love the the Iranian Islamic Icon, its successes and its failures. I wish the people the best.

Mainly though, I love the ring of....imagining ...

TENS of thousands chanting freedom!, freedom!

Those few words speak volumes!

[at bay]

Darling Neda, the Supreme Thug Konmany and his little liar puppet Amadamnutjob will soon be history. I weep that you can not witness what is about to happen. The mad mullahs turbine charged dictatorship is about to hit a brick wall...

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

July 17: A man is assisted after being beaten by anti-riot police at an opposition rally in front of the Tehran University.

More photos at

Iran Protesters Gassed at Friday Prayers

[G8 Diplomat]

From Musavi's Twitter account:

mousavi1388: Free the prisoners, this is no way to treat people هاشمی: کسانی که به این شکل دستگیر شدند باید آزاد شوند، این روش درست نیست #iranElection

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

This seems close to the video clip I saw on the Foxnews Special News Hour:

Iran Divided?

Use link at post #6 and select video on the right side....they don't give any link that I can other than what I supplied.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Apparently many video clips have been uploaded to Youtube.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Youtube:

Iran Tehran rafsanjani 17 July Protests Part 1

Iran Tehran rafsanjani 17 July Protests Part 2

Iran Protest Tehran 17 July rafsanjani Part 3 tear gas

Iran protest rafsanjani slogan 17 july 2009 Tehran Part 4

[nuconvert]

Thanx for posting. There’s a lot of people in that #2 video at the Univ.

Marg bar diktator!

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

That particular video seems to have been pulled now,...not sure what you saw....

Here is another one:

2009 Iranian Revolution - street battle in north Tehran 17 june

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

FARS has some interesting comments regarding the size of the crowds...on the thread ..see post #7:

BBC: (Rafsanjani ) Call for Iran protesters' release

[Marine_Uncle]

My eyes are shot and I have to hit the rack. I trust the crowds will continue to grow even larger in many cities throughout Iran in the months ahead.
Give no rest to the puppet clown and his masters.