Iran - post election unrest

Amalgam

Iran - post election unrest

A striking picture featured on today's Irish Times website. Will unrest escalate or be contained? Considering the amount of bumf and spin we're spoon-fed in the west about various countries, it is an eye opener to see people, well.. fighting back.

Feature: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2009/0615/1224248850944.html

An Iranian supporter of defeated presidential candidate Mir Hussein Mousavi is beaten by government security members as fellow supporters come to his aid during riots in Tehran yesterday.
Photograph: AP

Direct link to picture: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/images/2009/0615/1224248850944_1.jpg

jmcc

It may escalate. And it may not be pleasant as a lot of old scores will be settled if the current regime is deposed.

Regards...jmcc

Amalgam

Indeed, Iran has a very colourful past, amazing to see how different it was under the Shah, as recent as the late seventies.

uncle_sam_ie

It's looks like the CIA have been busy. You wearing GREEN today? We need to show are GRASSROOTS support for a free Iran. This reminds me of the Orange and Rose "revolutions"
Follow the money people!
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/07/080707fa_fact_hersh
"Late last year, Congress agreed to a request from President Bush to fund a major escalation of covert operations against Iran, according to current and former military, intelligence, and congressional sources. These operations, for which the President sought up to four hundred million dollars, were described in a Presidential Finding signed by Bush, and are designed to destabilize the country’s religious leadership.
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“The Finding was focussed on undermining Iran’s nuclear ambitions and trying to undermine the government through regime change,” a person familiar with its contents said, and involved “working with opposition groups and passing money.”

mike65

The reason green has been adopted is cos Mousavis newspaper is Kalemeh Sabz, or the Green Word. Green is also the "identity colour" of Islam.