Posted on 01/01/2010 3:19:25 PM PST by nuconvert
While the west has been on vacation, truly momentous events have been occurring in Iran. With stupendous courage, the people have been on the streets in enormous numbers demonstrating against the hated regime and declaring that the Supreme Leader Khamanei will be overthrown. In bloody street battles last Sunday, the nephew of the opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi was shot dead along with nine others. On Monday, the regime started rounding up opposition leaders as well as arresting hundreds of protesters, beating and shooting them and using vehicles to run them over. As the Wall Street Journal reports, one of the arrested dissidents was the veteran democratic activist Heshmat Tabarzadi:
On December 17, Mr. Tabarzadi wrote in an op-ed article on these pages that ‘If the government continues to opt for violence, there very well may be another revolution in Iran. One side has to step down. And that side is the government—not the people.’
The regime has opted for violence. It is clear that despite – or perhaps because of – this, it is now struggling to regain control of events. Today's demonstration by government stooges should fool no-one. The wind is behind the protesters. It is not possible to say whether a tipping point has now been reached in Iran, but it is clear that the regime cannot indefinitely withstand this level of protest – and the protesters are not giving up. The more violence, torture and murder are meted out to them, the more their numbers swell. And when the police start refusing to carry out their instructions to cut the dissidents down, as reported here, here and here, the writing for the regime is surely on the wall.
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A BTT. It is a little ironic that the regime that has caused such death and misery smuggling arms into Lebanon should itself be so vulnerable to the same activity. What goes around does come around if the U.S. spooks are up to the challenge. I don’t see 0bama approving it, however. But it wouldn’t hurt me to see the Russians lose a client state when the mullahs fall.
partial answer.
These people saw the purple ink in their neighbors right after voting and said, Hey why not me?
Bushes fault.
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