Comments on: Tomorrow: Tiananmen in Tehran? Report: Khamenei issues ultimatum to Mousavi; Update: Mousavi says no?

By: Red Spilling Over Green

Red Spilling Over Green — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 01:48:39 +0000

[...] Rumor has it that the IRGC will be called into to crush the Iranian protests sooner rather than later. [...]

By: dogsoldier

dogsoldier — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:29:46 +0000

lwssdd on June 19, 2009 at 2:14 PM

I think you just did! I’m wearing green.

By: Iranian Supreme Leader Blames Zionist Media for Uprising; Congress Introduces Resolution to Support Dissidents | The Great Illuminator

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:27:45 +0000

[...] there be a Tienanmen Square-type event next? Technorati Tags: Iran, uprising Last 5 posts by NCVikingCoburn Report Blasts [...]

By: Classical Values

Classical Values — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:10:09 +0000

Red Spilling Over Green…

Rumor has it that today the IRGC will be called into to crush the Iranian protests sooner rather than later. While many see hope for revolutionary change, I’m skeptical any internal movement will displace the mullahs. It’s easy to forget……

By: lwssdd

lwssdd — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:14:22 +0000

If the POTUS won’t show is support for the Iranian citizens then why don’t we show our support. We won’t have to put our lives in danger but we can put our own pressure on Obama. All we have to do is wear green. I don’t know how to get it started but would be glad to show my stand for freedom from tyranny.

By: lobosan5

lobosan5 — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:10:09 +0000

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2009/06/19/house-condemns-tehrans-crackdown-protestors/

405-1

& the 1 was Ron Paul

By: lobosan5

lobosan5 — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:59:37 +0000

http://iran.twazzup.com/

http://giagro.wordpress.com/torrents/

By: fenja

fenja — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:20:39 +0000

The libtards never learned the truth about what happened in 1953 thanks to public “education” & this is why they are so wrong about this “meddling” nonsense.

http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/12039

By: Terry_Dyne

Terry_Dyne — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:00:52 +0000

No mention of Iran on the State Department frontpage, http://www.state.gov/, but there are headlines for “June Is Gay and Lesbian Pride Month” and a “Mascot Challenge” for their kids education program.

Way to set the priorities, Hillary.

By: Fausta’s Blog » Blog Archive » What is the revolution about?

Fausta’s Blog » Blog Archive » What is the revolution about? — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:57:53 +0000

[...] Via Betsy, the Tianamen outcome may be coming up. [...]

By: Tomorrow Is A Long Time « Around The Sphere

Tomorrow Is A Long Time « Around The Sphere — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:19:29 +0000

[...] Allah Pundit: Three things I can’t figure out, though. (1) If Khamenei’s preparing for a bloodletting, why would he want his face out in public at Friday prayers before it begins? All that does is drive home the fact that he’s complicit in it. (2) The Guardian Council’s still supposed to meet with all four presidential candidates on Saturday to talk about the vote. Is a crackdown tomorrow meant to keep that from happening or is the crackdown actually set for Saturday, after the meeting, which is bound to prove unsatisfactory to Mousavi? (3) If it’s true, and it probably is, that Rafsanjani is rounding up support from top mullahs in Qom for him and Mousavi, why haven’t we heard anything from them yet? Surely they’d want to come out in favor of the protesters before a crackdown begins, to throw the full weight of their authority against the Guard in hopes that they’ll back down in fear of damnation. As it is, if the last thing Iranians see before a Tehran Tiananmen is launched is Khamenei intoning about religion at Friday prayers, they’re apt to target the whole clerical system for reprisals. Good news for the west, not so good if you’re a mullah. Might want to speak up while you can. [...]

By: MB4

MB4 — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:14:23 +0000

Silence Isn’t Golden Since a wave of protests broke out in Iran last weekend following its presidential election, the American media has promoted the Obama administration’s view that it could do more to help demonstrators by staying on the sidelines than actively offering rhetorical support. The theory is that if President Obama publicly encourages those taking to the streets in Iran, it will only backfire by allowing the Islamic regime to paint protesters as tools of America. As Obama himself put it, “sometimes the United States can be a handy political football…” But Amir Fakhravar says this approach is dead wrong. And he speaks with authority. Jailed and tortured in Iran for advocating democracy and speaking out against the Iranian government, Fakhravar in 2006 fled for the U.S., where he currently lives in exile while maintaining close ties to the reform movement in Iran. Contrary to most reports in the American press, he said the demonstrators he is in contact with in Iran are desperate for Obama to make a forceful statement reassuring them that he stands with those who are striving for freedom. “Right now, the people in Iran are disappointed,” he said in a telephone interview with TAS. The Obama administration’s decision to engage the Islamic regime, Fakhravar said, has been worrisome to his friends in Iran. After Obama released a message in March for Nowruz, the Persian New Year, in which he addressed the “leaders of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” a friend called him from Iran, crying that the American president would want to talk to the dictatorship. “’What does that mean?’” he remembers his friend saying. “’We’re going to be alone. They’re going to kill us.’” He said he’s hearing similar things from Iranians he has been speaking with throughout the week, who are stunned by Obama’s muted response in the wake of the election. “What’s wrong?” Iranians ask him. “What’s going on with the U.S. government? Why aren’t they going to help us?” What’s especially troubling, he said, is that Obama’s reaction has added fuel to a rumor traveling around Iran that Obama is in secret talks with the Iranian government. “They think he is trying to help the Mullahs stay in power,” he said. To combat this view, Fakhravar suggested Obama speak up. “Right now, (Obama) could say, ‘America stands for freedom and democracy, and as a United States president, I want to stand behind all of the freedom fighters in the world that are fighting peacefully to have democracy and freedom,’” Fakhravar said. “That’s the American Dream. I don’t know why he didn’t say that. He said, ‘this is none of our business.’” Fakhravar dismissed the view that such a statement would be exploited by the Iranian regime to discredit the protesters. He noted that even with Obama’s tepid reaction, the official Iranian news sources are reporting that America is behind the protests. “Whether Obama says anything or not, Iran is still going to play that game,” he said. Barackito Obamalini, tyrant at home and friend of tyrants abroad.

By: JIMV

JIMV — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:39:04 +0000

o one knows where this is going but our government should be ready for opportunity. I fear we are dithering in the style of that arech bumbler, Jimmie Carter…

By: TrueBrit

TrueBrit — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:36:00 +0000

To the person who says its a good idea to let Iranians kill Iranians, lets be blunt about it, though the regime of Iran is Islamic the people really are not, remember that. Some of use see the Iranians rejecting Islamic rule as the begining of the end for Islam. I see people like me demonstrating, not Islamics, those people demonstrating, I care for them in my heart just as much as I care for Israeli’s killed on buses and having their heads smashed by rocks and the killer feted, they are the victims of the same malice and hate and you should think some more on that.

We have had some more good news, the early Quran that was found in Yeman and is being studied in Germany is now being exposed, which is different to the Quran which is called the unchanging word of god, that will really strike a blow to their faith if properly handled…

We have two major blows to Islam coming up, the loss of the Islamic Republic and the proof tha the Quran is not the divine word of god for all but the most blinked, the world is about to change and it has nothing to do with Obama, I have become a little bit optimistic for a change, the hardest part however is to deal with the Islamic nutters living in the West, that is a real challange…

By: Webrider

Webrider — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:34:59 +0000

You know, if I were Imadinnerjacket I’d be afraid, very afraid. He has been a less than useful tool for the Mullahs for the term of his Presidency. And, once a tool becomes useless it’s time to throw it out. Above all else, Khameini and his supporters want to continue to rule the country as they enrich themselves and their families. Now, just suppose he arranges for an assassination of Imadinnerjacket? He can then blame it on the entire freedom movement under Moussavi and order his IRGC and Basij to kill without discrimination and crush the “rebellion” completely, all the while saying he’s only trying to “restore order” caused by the godless ones protesting the election, which he already proclaimed as “fair” due to the size of Imadinnerjacket’s supposed plurality.

No, I wouldn’t be surprised at all if Imadinnerjacket becomes Imacorpse real soon.

By: dogsoldier

dogsoldier — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 15:24:53 +0000

Khamenei’s calling the election “divine” was a huge and stupid mistake. The people know the tally was corrupt and therefore he shows himself corrupt.

Based on account I read from people there, these are not stupid people. They are stubborn even in the face of beatings, torture and death. They refuse to give up. Determination at that level, when moving as a mob, is a scary thing.

If the thugocracy attacks the mob, they will be signaling their own swan song, the beginning of the end of their control.

Also, if a democracy forms there, it may resemble the one in Iraq.

By: Iran: Khameni Speaks | QandO

Iran: Khameni Speaks | QandO — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:55:49 +0000

[...] question, of course, is how will the regime react. Allahpundit at Hot Air has posted some interesting information about a rumored purge supposedly happening within the [...]

By: profitsbeard

profitsbeard — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:09:47 +0000

There will not be any hope for ~~Iran~~ Persia until the last mullah lies strangled with the entrails of the last ayatollah. (To paraphrase Diderot.) Let the people throw off their theocratic crazies now!

By: jeanie

jeanie — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:05:10 +0000

jp on June 19, 2009 at 9:46 AM

Good point. However, if it had not been Iran, it might have been some other Islamic country, as they do seem to have as their underlying mission the formation and perpetuation of Islamic states and Islamic law–in one form or another. Along with this is the increasingly apparent goal of keeping power in this or that Islamic group’s hands.I think if you put all these factors into one basket, you have a recipe for continued problems all over the Middle East and Pakistan for a long, long time to come.

By: maverick muse

maverick muse — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:58:27 +0000

Some days ago, Musavi was advocating a day of mourning for those assassinated by the Khameini thugs.

Gateway Pundit has information from Iranians that the Khameini has called in the Palestinian terrorists to attack protestors.

this isn’t Mousavi versus Ahmadinejad anymore, it’s Mousavi versus the whole regime.

Hasn’t it been so all along?

Khameini has bound himself to Ahmadinejad. Together they planned to gain further authoritarian power via militia.

Khameini has a competitor on the sidelines who has also aspired for years to become the Supreme Leader.

Mousavi would likely be coordinating with that competitor.

I would be surprised if these politicians did not previously have their own contingency plans, waiting to be put in place, knowing what would likely occur, as is transpiring.

By: jp

jp — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:46:51 +0000

Ummm, you mean… Payback is a Motherf$%k’er….. ??

doriangrey on June 19, 2009 at 8:04 AM

they have it coming to them, we should be returning the favor.

Imagine how much different the US political debate, how many less US soldiers lost…had Iran not played a role in Iraq

By: We Must Help These People | Track-A-'Crat: The Roll Call of Democratic Delinquency

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:45:09 +0000

[...] The Iranian people, meanwhile, continue their protests, despite the inevitable crackdown getting closer and closer. [...]

By: jp

jp — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:44:39 +0000

too Bad McCain isn’t in there.

By: B Man

B Man — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:44:06 +0000

It looks like Iran might be disintegrating into a civil war over this.

O supreme leader just stoked the raging fires even more today. That’s all he did.

By: jp

jp — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 13:43:28 +0000

Down with the Mullahs!