“Cultural revolution”: Iran cracks down on dissent, cracks heads of dissenters
posted at 3:47 pm on June 23, 2007 by Allahpundit
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This is at least the third separate story I’ve linked recently about the amazing extent of the oppression lately in Iran, but the other two were in Headlines and I’m afraid people missed them. So here’s a proper link to the Times’s take on it published today. Spare five minutes for it. Something’s brewing over there but god only knows how it’s going to shake out. A taste:
Young men wearing T-shirts deemed too tight or haircuts seen as too Western have been paraded bleeding through Tehran’s streets by uniformed police officers who force them to suck on plastic jerrycans, a toilet item Iranians use to wash their bottoms. In case anyone misses the point, it is the official news agency Fars distributing the pictures of what it calls “riffraff.” Far bloodier photographs are circulating on blogs and on the Internet.
There’s a photo at the link. Elsewhere, Iran’s economic crisis explained.
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A religion of peace for a region of peace. Jimmy Carter… Tehran needs you.
Mojave Mark on June 23, 2007 at 3:53 PM
I’ve had a number of friends over the years who’ve more or less told me the same thing, vis-a-vis Iran: The people are some of the sweetest people you could ever hope to meet, and by and large they really do not have an issue with America/Americans. The level of crazy we see over here in the media seems to be concentrated in the government, and amongst the religious leaders.
Mindcrime on June 23, 2007 at 3:58 PM
Edit: friends who’ve been to Iran repeatedly.
Mindcrime on June 23, 2007 at 3:59 PM
repvoter on June 23, 2007 at 4:08 PM
It certainly sounds like something is about to break there; I just wonder if there’s anything we can do other than stand back and watch. I know most American would want to help the Iranians looking for it.
frankj on June 23, 2007 at 4:20 PM
Don’t cha just love the way the “policeman” in the picture is masked? They don’t even have the balls to show their faces. Chickensh*ts.
The whole Iran thing scares me. Akmeddinnerjacket is a ticking bomb.
pullingmyhairout on June 23, 2007 at 4:43 PM
would that be the Kos or DU types? I think most Americans aren’t going to want to jump into a fight with Iran and they probably won’t be very supportive if our President decides that’s the course of action to take. Just my two cents…
pullingmyhairout on June 23, 2007 at 4:45 PM
I think the bigger worry is that a lot of pro-US Iranians might become very anti-US if we start bombing or otherwise interfering in Iran.
flipflop on June 23, 2007 at 4:51 PM
I get the feeling time is running out for the moderates in Iran from two sides. Their own gov’t which is cracking down hard on them and from the West which likely won’t stand for Iran’s nuclear buildup much longer.
Yakko77 on June 23, 2007 at 5:17 PM
Breaking: International human rights organizations and advocates, the U.N. and the U.S. State Dept. are mounting an unprecedented offensive against the infractions in Iran…wishful thinking.
It’s a miracle the Times wrote such a long article about the details, or some of them anyway.
Risible.
Says it all. But the rest of the world believes in negotiations, multi-culti, PC, and being fat and happy, or not so much, while wallowing in the belief that all -isms are cool.
Entelechy on June 23, 2007 at 5:51 PM
It’s the Iranians’ problem to solve, at home.
They can do something about it or be treated like crap by theocratic maniacs.
We only need to keep their nuclear program non-functional.
How they handle the ayatollahs is up to them.
Are there no men in Islam?
profitsbeard on June 23, 2007 at 8:00 PM
Perhaps I’m missing the point but I’m not getting how the jerrycan thing works, exactly. Is this in lieu of toilet paper?
Golden Boy on June 23, 2007 at 8:04 PM
The photo says:
The ‘policeman,’ however, is wearing a ski mask.
Are ya proud, Jimmah?
Shay on June 23, 2007 at 8:54 PM
Golden Boy on June 23, 2007 at 8:04 PM
Don’t anyone tell Sheryl Crow or we won’t even get our one piece of TP.
Buzzy on June 23, 2007 at 9:52 PM
A lot of them are (were) waiting for us to interfere. We should have been helping them out a lot more 5, 10 years ago. It may be too late. If we start hitting military targets, there won’t be too many tears shed.
These bastards are killing our guys, plain and simple. They’re killing our troops, building nukes, funding and arming terrorists - and we aren’t doing a damn thing. It’s unbelievable. No, let’s sit back and play games, while they ship more deadly IED material to Iraq, maybe the regime will fall on it’s own.
I’m convinced the State Department and the CIA are both completely useless.
reaganaut on June 23, 2007 at 11:13 PM
Yeah, Jimmy. There’s a jerrycan over there with your name on it.
What’s with the ski mask? You’re the policeman, a-hole, you’re the one with the baton and the attitude. Yeah, I know, things can turn on a dime over there and you might have to change sides. Between Hamas, Hezbollah, and now these clowns, the ski mask business must be surprisingly brisk for a part of the world that probably has the fewest skis per capita of just about anywhere. You know what buckos? You probably think those masks have a high intimidation factor, but to me it just says, “I don’t have confidence in my team, or my cause. I’m a coward, who is afraid to show his face.”
smellthecoffee on June 23, 2007 at 11:59 PM
How much you want to bet that any shopkeeper in that particular neighborhood who raises prices will quickly discover his legs broken. The fact those shopkeepers can’t stay in business would then be solved by “compassionate” disbursal of additional funds, but businesses outside that Potemkin economic zone are screwed.
pedestrian on June 24, 2007 at 1:51 PM
For a different take, read this:
The Strongest Evidence Yet: Ahmadinejad is “Our Man” in Tehran! (Update)
bgiltner on June 25, 2007 at 2:41 PM