Anti Government protests in Iran

Cantona's Collars

Anti Government protests in Iran are taking place just as they did in Cairo.It seems Facebook is becoming a popular and powerful tool in organising these protests and there was me thinking Facebook is a waste of time.

I know the link is from the Daily Mail but here it is.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1356982/Tehran-protest-Tens-thousands-demonstrate-pro-democracy-rally-sparking-vicious-police-crackdown.html

drunkmonkey

This is American meddling, there just going to get people killed trying to push there agenda in the middle east.
Hilary Clinton has blood on her hands this morning. Iran is a nuclear country they should thread very carefully.

/awaits wiki leaks

biko

I hope

drunkmonkey

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Hilary Clinton has blood on her hands this morning...they should thread very carefully.

Yeah, those damn needles can cut you if you don't thread carefully.

NothingMan

drunkmonkey wrote: »

Hilary Clinton has blood on her hands this morning. Iran is a nuclear country they should thread very carefully.

/awaits wiki leaks

She got a snuke in her snizz!

Duggy747

Better send in the nuke-sniffing pig, then.

ChessHacker

drunkmonkey wrote: »

This is American meddling,

Some meddling, some genuine protest. There is good independent coverage and comment at Juan Cole's Informed Comment

Iran is a nuclear country [...]

If you mean a country with a nuclear weapon, then that's wrong.

Iran has a nuclear enrichment programme that has been able to enrich some uranium to 20% (which is allowed under the NPT), which is enough for fuel and the creation of medical isotopes. This programme was disrupted by the StuxNet virus which was probably developed by major Western powers.

RichieC

drunkmonkey wrote: »

This is American meddling, there just going to get people killed trying to push there agenda in the middle east.
Hilary Clinton has blood on her hands this morning. Iran is a nuclear country they should thread very carefully.

/awaits wiki leaks

Iran is not a nuclear country.

AnonoBoy

In before someone says 'this is what we need to do in Ireland'.

alandublin15

gonna end badly.
iran is a different story to egypt.
expect a few dead protesters then back to their normal routine.

UglyBolloxFace

AnonoBoy wrote: »

In before someone says 'this is what we need to do in Ireland'.

This is what we need to do in Ireland:mad:

Getting it out of the way early.

wes

alandublin15 wrote: »

gonna end badly.
iran is a different story to egypt.
expect a few dead protesters then back to their normal routine.

There were 300 protest deaths in Egypt btw. There has also already been 1 reported death in the Iranian protest so far

ejmaztec

wes wrote: »

1 reported death in the Iranian protest so far

I wouldn't take the Iranian Police as a reliable source, and we'll probably never find out the truth of the matter.

wes

ejmaztec wrote: »

I wouldn't take the Iranian Police as a reliable source, and we'll probably never find out the truth of the matter.

Yes, that is a fair point, the same thing happened in Egypt, where the regime tried to down play the deaths. Probably see the same thing in Iran, and in Bahrain as well.

old hippy

Now Iranian MPs are openly calling for opposition leaders to be executed. WTF?

Dangerous Man

old hippy wrote: »

Now Iranian MPs are openly calling for opposition leaders to be executed. WTF?

That's almost a national hobby over there with those people. Of course, I don't want to cast any aspersions...

Fratton Fred

drunkmonkey wrote: »

This is American meddling, there just going to get people killed trying to push there agenda in the middle east.
Hilary Clinton has blood on her hands this morning. Iran is a nuclear country they should thread very carefully.

/awaits wiki leaks

Why shouldn't Iranians get some freedom? Just because the Iranian regime hates the US does not make them the good guys.

BluePlanet

Fratton Fred wrote: »

Why shouldn't Iranians get some freedom? Just because the Iranian regime hates the US does not make them the good guys.

No it doesn't.
But the problem is that USA - the world's super bully, along with Israel get up to dirty tricks against Iran.

It ends up making it all too easy for the iranian government to simply play the nationalist card and dismiss the protestors.

Fratton Fred

BluePlanet wrote: »

No it doesn't.
But the problem is that USA - the world's super bully, along with Israel get up to dirty tricks against Iran.

It ends up making it all too easy for the iranian government to simply play the nationalist card and dismiss the protestors.

So the people of Iran should just put up with it?

They know what to expect, there were enough beatings after the elections to give them no illusions.

Good luck to them.

RichieC

Fratton Fred wrote: »

Why shouldn't Iranians get some freedom? Just because the Iranian regime hates the US does not make them the good guys.

The yanks would (and have) as soon install a dictator to rule with an iron but stable fist.


US blind support is always sh*t at history.

Gunsfortoys

This is great to see to be honest.

People power is starting to flourish and it is only a matter of time before most of these brutal oppressive dictatorships are forced to end.

Manic Moran

it is only a matter of time before most of these brutal oppressive dictatorships are forced to end.

You're missing out the golden rule: The people with the guns make the rules. In both the cases of Egypt and Tunisia, the people with the guns decided not to get involved (Or in the Egyptian case, not openly). In Iran, there are plenty of armed government ideologues who are more than happy to get involved on the government side. You can see where it's going to go.

NTM

Kasabian

Manic Moran wrote: »

You're missing out the golden rule: The people with the guns make the rules. In both the cases of Egypt and Tunisia, the people with the guns decided not to get involved (Or in the Egyptian case, not openly). In Iran, there are plenty of armed government ideologues who are more than happy to get involved on the government side. You can see where it's going to go.

NTM

Apt for a yank.

Manic Moran

We're very pragmatic over here.

NTM

SEPT 23 1989

These protests will not end well