Iran: There Will Be Blood

The Washington Note ^ | Saturday, Jun 13 2009, 10:29PM | Steve Clemons

[calex59]

From the sounds of this message it seems some of the citizens have obtained firearms after all.

I find it interesting that CNN would rather talk about Sarah Palin and Letterman than to cover what might turn out to be a full blown revolution. Don't want to hurt Bozo's image I would guess.

Unstrung: RT @persiankiwi apparently there is running battles in tehran uni right now. i can hear shooting on the phone line. #Iranelection Twitter - 34 secs ago

[jackv]

My goodness! I thought our brilliant leader was just telling us how wonderful things were over there in Iran regarding this election, since his great speech! (sarc)

[calex59]

And another one:

roprice: RT @persianwiki students being killed in tehran uni dorm in amirabad right now. this must stop, ahmadinejad must stop. #Iranelection Twitter - 49 secs ago

[calex59]

Yeah, he was, but that was when he thought the other guy was going win. He was going to claim credit for hope and change in Iran, but now he is looking pretty stupid. The MSM isn’t reporting on the riots much and I would suspect because of his asinine statement Friday about how he fixed everything in Iran!

[mia]

But the scariest point he made to me that I had not heard anywhere else is that this "coup by the right wing" has created pressures that cannot be solved or patted down by the normal institutional arrangements Iran has constructed.

Why would Obama support a right-wing coup? Can't believe Olberman is even interested in Iran.

[jackv]

I’m sure bo is “not to be disturbed” til after the nba game tonight tho. You know...priorities!

[PapaBear3625]

after all Mousavi is a Khomeinist, former PM, and did not pose a danger to the system, so voter fraud does not make sense Twitter - 1 min ago

It does make sense if the mullahs are falling into factions, fighting over dwindling shares of loot from oil revenues.

[PapaBear3625]

BBC: Internet brings events in Iran to life

[calex59]

The link below is to a BBC report about how Iran is blocking the news satellites and stopping much of the coverage of the riots

Link to BBC

[VRWCer]

“Maybe someone will actually cover the news tomorrow, eh?”

They can’t - Obummer hasn’t given them permission, or their talking points. They are incapable of independent thought or action.

[calex59]

Just a little insight into the jamming going on in Iran, I posted a link to a BBC report on it.

petegaines: RT @persiankiwi: internet very slow. dialup only. no facebook, no bbc, cnn nothing. even arab stations blocked. #Iranelection Twitter - 2 mins ago

[calex59]

It does make sense if the mullahs are falling into factions, fighting over dwindling shares of loot from oil revenues.

I kinda think he had something to do with Bozo shooting his mouth off about how he solved all the problems in Iran and had started a "robust(snicker) dialog" between the factions, trying to grab credit. I don't think the Mullahs could let that stand so at the last minute they rigged the elections. I think Mousavi was actually supposed to win until that point. Just some speculation on my part and probably means nothing.

[VRWCer]

What a nightmare for those poor people. How frustrating it must be to have their avenues of communication blocked, and be under fire from their own govt. What’s scary is that I believe that the left in our own government would love to be able to do the same to us.

[Irish Eyes]

How would things be different if Mousavi had won the election? I know very little about him.

[Matchett-PI]

bttt

[Vanders9]

We live in interesting times.

[calex59]

To tell you the truth, there would probably not be any difference, he is a Mullah man, he was in a governmental position(forget which one)and toes the Mullah line. He talks softer and doesn't bluster as much but he still thinks nuke the Israelis is the way to go.

I believe the people know this, but they are so pi**ed at having the election blatantly ripped out of their hands so that even the semblance of democracy was taken away from them that they just exploded.

That happens when you have been ground under the government thumb for 30 years(since 1979, thanks to Carter)and I think it just came to a head, and POW, you have a riot and possible revolution.

[Marysecretary]

Oobama will send Joe Biden and Jimmy Carter in to talk to them, nicely.

[Technogeeb]

I am convinced that the vast majority of people under the age of 35 in the Middle East hate Islam and want real freedom

Unfortunately, that probably isn't the case in the United States...

[Marysecretary]

We sure do. I calls it the best of times and the worst of times. Quoting Churchill, I think.