Posted on 10/07/2006 5:25:13 PM PDT by FARS
Breaking news - Saturday (PST) - After Midnight Sunday - Tehran time (TT)
LATEST UPDATE - all phones in the area of the Ayatollah's house have been disconnected and his numbers, which worked till just now have a recording saying "they never existed".
Monitored from live communication with Iran and the Ayatollah Boroujerdi himself by Voice of Iran Radio (KRSI) and local citizens calling in from Tehran to KRSI.
Shots were being fired around the Ayatollah's home at Sard (cold) Park, Avesta Avenue, Sard Street #9 close to Freedom Square. Fires are springing up in the region at major intersections. Ambulance sirens scream futiley as Tehran citizens pour toward that address blocking streets to prevent Security forces from getting close but also blocking the paramedics and ambulances.
Distress calls from wounded men and women fill the air waves as what they describe as total war is erupting. KRSI, which covers all of Iran, constantly broadcasts calls for the populace to rise up, urging them to make the most of this opportunity.
Said Ghayem-Maghami, the announcer of KRSI repeatedly urges all provinces, cities, professions to revolt against the current regime. He also broadcasts live all suggestions provided by Tehran citizens to wake everyone up and let them know something is up.
Ayatollah Boroujerdi, blockaded on the roof of his home, has used the phone contact broadcast with KRSI to declare that anyone in the Security forces who respects him as their spiritual source should lay down their arms and not harm anyone.
Other Ayatollahs like Mehdi Haeri have come on live to urge the people not to set gas stations on fire or do other damage as these sugestions phoned into KRSI come from the Security forces agents.
Ayatollah Haeri added that fasting during this crisis in the month of Ramadan is not required, giving the example of the urgency of a house catching on fire compared to a lower urgency of fasting. He insisted that religion and politics has to be separate and that the populace should support the brve efforts of Ayatollah Boroujerdi.
Meanwhile Mohssein Ejai, Minister of Information and Security (MOIS), has promised Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that he will bring him Ayatollah Boroujerdi's severed head before dawn.
In the first serious clash with the old guard Mullahs, the Hojatieh fringe sect of the Ahmadi-Nejad administration sent security forces around 10 a.m. (Tehran time) Saturday, to arrest Ayatollah Seyed Hossein Kazeymeni Boroujerdi, son of the Ayatollah of the same name, killed by the Khomeini Islamic regime.
His father was so respected by the late Shah of Iran that when questions about religion arose for which the Shah wanted advice, the monarch would drive down to the holy city of Qom to speak to the Ayatollah instead of ordering him to Tehran.
The younger Ayatollah Boroujerdi recently declared that the national Administrative Government of Iran should be separated from the Clerics and become purely secular. Religion and Politics must be separated he said, live on KRSI.
The current Islamic regime's reaction was to issue death warrant for him falsely claiming apostasy by him because he was said by them to have claimed to be the 12th Imam, who disappeared down a well 1300 years ago and will return to redeem the world.
His followers resisted the efforts of the Security Agents sent during the afternoon to capture the Ayatollah and the on-going confrontation has resulted with multiple arrests, estimated by the Ayatollah himself in a live phone interview as being several thousand people. His people, who rushed to protect him also took several security agents hostage, finding bottles of acid in their pockets, intended to disfigure demonstrators.
The mostly foreign, generally Arab national, Bassiji paramilitary forces, whose total role is to suppress any street demonstration and have been recently equipped with over $500 million of equipment and weaponry and appear in both civilian clothes and uniforms, attacked on motorcycles but were repulsed and several of their motorcycles set on fire.
They brought in eight tanker trucks that propel boiling water onto demonstrators but streets were soon blocked and their efforts curtailed. Currently, regime forces have surrounded the area and blocked major access. Clashes at crossroads initially drove security forces back but reinforcements managed to set up a cordon and hold it.
One panicked caller to KRSI at around 2:15 a.m. (TT) screamed that he had been spotted by the regime mercenaries and had been given refuge inside a nearby house but that the agents were kicking in the door. He pleaded with KRSI to give out his name and remind people that he was about to be arrested and might never be seen again.
Several of those wounded and finding refuge in Ayatollah Boroujerdi's house were women. One an Armenian woman, not a Moslem, called on minorities and specially Armenians, to rush to the Ayatollah's support and to come into the streets. Another woman, a baby in her arms, a club in her hand was seen standing guard at Ayatollah Boroujerdi's ready to face anything the regime would throw at her. Including confiscating the bread and food that those at the residence required to break their Ramadan fast.
Calls by Tehranis demanded Ahmad Hossein Khomeini, the Islamic regime founder's grandson and Ayatollah Montazeri, should join in the resistance and defend Ayatollah Boroujerdi. Other calls wanted the late Shah's son Reza Pahlavi to join the fray and call on the West to provide tangible support to his countrymen in their time of need at this moment of opportunity.
Another caller mentioned that every single one of about 300,000 Bahais in Iran had been recently identified and listed, including their addresses, and wondered if this was an indicator that a slaughter of these thorns in the side of the Hojatieh as about to happen. Bahais claim to follow their spiritual leader is the 12th Imam, who has already returned.
Meanwhile, in a dramatic gesture of defiance, Ayatollah Boroujerdi carrying his burial shroud and a sword paces the roof of his home.
Observers and analysts hope that if the resistance can survive through the night, in the morning, people who sleep unaware of what is going on will join the uprising. Some of those woken up at random by phone calls showed very little interest, responding that replacing one Mullah with another gets them nowhere, so why risk their lives.
Maybe Israel will see an opening here, maybe act as a catalyst of sorts. They're the only ones with the balls right now to do anything overt at this point.
Anyway, Hooah Iranians! Get some!
I AM WONDERING AT THIS POINT...
If this news is so apocalyptic as some of us think or hope, why don't I see any pickup from any big news media ? Not even from FOX...
Not even a blip on the radar screen.
AM WONDERING AT THIS POINT...
If this news is so apocalyptic as some of us think or hope, why don't I see any pickup from any big news media ? Not even from FOX...
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The news media is enjoying the weekend off. They take weekends off. Too bad. When will this country get a serious news organization?
If you have a PING List, could you put me on it?
"Therefore, my money says it's all a pipedream."
Pay me! The pipe dream got arrested at 4 a.m. after bloody clashes, where the regime authorities fired live rounds at the demonstrators. One of the KRSI people on the ground Kianoush Sanjari was also arrested.
Come on, get real. Several hours of direct, live phone - on air - contact with people on the ground in Tehran located close to the Ayatollah's house broadcast live is far too complex to "invent".
I write screenplays but this would be beyond my creativity.
The MSM, Fox News and Drudge etc. held back to see what would happen - as did many people in Iranian cities, like Isfahan.
MSM reluctant to give the Administration an October surprise boost so close to elections. And not sure of what is actually going on.
Incidentally, some pretty serious blogs used the story and Radio Free Europe also confirmed the events. It's all over, just not in the MSM. Now that the Ayatollah was arrested, there will be little follow on.
As some of you have said, some people like Alan Peters at http://www.antimullah.com receive first hand information long before it reaches the wire services, let alone the MSM. The site has broken stories in the past. It has had over 3,000 individual visits yesterday afternoon and over 3,000 this morning, so the story had legs. As it should have.
This is the closest we have come to having some kind of uprising against the Mullahs by someone who might have carried it off - by being a cleric (of different philosophy). His father was against Khomeini and he is against what he terms a "false religion" put into place by Khomeini and still being used in Iran.
As some noted, his slogan of "no political religion, no religion governing us" (roughly translated) appears to favor the "secular" Ahmadi-Nejad, who, however, is fanaticaly a Hojatieh believer and thus marches to the drums of the crazy Hojatieh Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi. Therefore, not what Ayatollah Boroujerdi had in mind.
If anyone wants to learn more about al this, visit the antimullah site andread some of the articles/analyses there.
One of your "hidden" assumptions fits some feedback.
Just playing - :-)) not upset.
Thanks bitt!
ROTF.... very good!
Well, it is awful to think what is actually happening to these people right now...most likely torture and death.
Sometimes I think that we view all of this as a TV show. It's too depressing to really think about the human suffering that is taking place.
If you get any more news on this please add me to a ping list. I think that if such an uprising could work it would not only dramatically change the outlook in Iran and Iraq, but also send a clear heads up to Kim Dong whats-his-nose and Ego Chavez that they're next!
Would that the Iranian people could succeed in obtaining democracy!!
I've always been for regime change!
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