Posted on 06/12/2010 2:25:10 PM PDT by Ooh-Ah
The shrinking number of loyalists around the Ayatollah Khamenei are shaken by their failure to break the will of the opposition.
Today is the first anniversary of the fraudulent election ...
Having failed to recognize the intensity and dimensions of the opposition, many Iran observers performed a neat about-face, concluding that the regime was doomed and would be brought down in the near future. Yet while there have been many demonstrations this past year, the regime has brutally fought back, killing or arresting hundreds if not thousands of real or suspected critics....
So is the new Iranian revolution fizzling? Has the regime taken firm control? The reality is that the regime's leaders are frightened, ...
Thus, the mass arrests of workers, intellectuals, filmmakers and any woman who shows a bit of hair under her veil. (Much of this brutality has been carried out by foreign forces, notably Hezbollah thugs brought in from Lebanon and Syria, adding to Iranians' rage.) Thus, the unprecedented ban on laughing or telling jokes recently promulgated at the Shiraz Medical School. Thus, the epidemic of executions, five and six a day of late. Many go unreported; the bodies simply disappear. ...
To say that the regime is unpopular is a gross understatement. A week ago Friday marked the anniversary of the death of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the 1979 Islamic revolution that overthrew the shah and established the theocratic tyranny that's ruled the country ever since. Leaders called for a massive turnout to celebrate the Islamic Republic, and they bragged that millions of supporters would come to the Tehran cemetery where Khomeini's remains are interned. More than 50,000 buses were deployed for the effort, and supporters were offered free food and drink as well as free subway transportation to the shrine.
(Excerpt) Read more at online.wsj.com ...
The Iranian regime, like Stalin’s shows that brutality works. It may be unpopular, but it’s in power and soon they will have the bomb..
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We have friends among the expat Bahá'í community here.
A few years ago we were invited to a celebration. At one point it was expected that everyone contribute something artistic, whatever one could manage.
Unprepared, and because I do not speak Farsi, my wife and I gave them something completely different: the Scottish (gaelic) waulking song "An Toll Dubh" or in English "The Black Hole" (prison), about a culture in danger of dying from official repression. I don't recall noting the irony then...
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