Iran: The Eighth Day

KEEP. GOING. IRAN!!!
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As always, watch The Spirit of Man and Azarmehr blogs, Andrew Sullivan and Huffington Post, especially Nico Pitney, for updates. niacINsight is also invaluable. I'm adding Gateway Pundit to this list.
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Here's a list of foreign embassies in Iran that are taking in the injured. Apparently Canada doesn't have full diplomatic relations with Iran. Here's a description of the relationship from the Government of Canada's website. Apparently they are working under a "Controlled Engagement Policy, whatever that is. It seems to involve doing a lot of "expressing concern". I'm sure Iran's history of abuse and murder of Canadian citizens has something to do with this, but you'll notice on the website that many abuses involving Iranian citizens and Iran's behaviour in general are also mentioned.
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The Basij are using a mosque to store weapons and to take their prisoners and, no doubt, torture them. 7:30 pm, June 20th.
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So many videos of young people being beaten, shot, bleeding to death. I so hope their bravery is not in vain.
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Andrew Sullivan has continuous Twitter updates. Spend the day there.

This comment from Sullivan's site (colour in the original):

1.12 pm. confirmed - Riots in Tabriz, Mashad, Isfahan, Ahwaz - Gov using violence

Someone needs to arm these people. Maybe all those armaments sent to Iraq by the Mullahocracy should be shipped back. Maybe the Iraqi army should invade Iran and liberate them. Obviously Obama won't lift a finger.
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Video posted today. If this is today's protest then the regime's attempt to prevent it from happening has failed utterly.



Somehow I doubt it was today's protest, though. Not from the reports and videos I've seen so far, vis (Facebook account required):

Girl shot in heart

FUCKING BASTARDS!!!!!!!!!! AND WHERE THE HELL ARE OUR WESTERN LEADERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THEIR SILENCE IS UNCONSCIONABLE!!!!
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Is the world coming to an end? CBC wanker, Brain Stewart, actually admits George Bush may have done the right thing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"But one must now face the facts as they are. It is starting to look as if President George W. Bush set in motion a chain of events that, frankly, few of us expected at the time."

I must be hallucinating.

Of course, the CBC commie readership is dissing democracy in the comments below the article:

"As much as I admire you Brian I have to disagree with the assessment that democracies are the be all end all for mankind. It is patently obvious there is no such thing as democracy, only capitalism and over exploiting greedy capitalism at that. Democracy was based on the Greek version, which was the rich and elite were still in charge and greedy only they now tolerated the lesser citizens, it is worthy to note that Greece included the black market in the free market model of democracy." - TerriRobson

Lecherous asshole. Must have been studying at one of our hallowed institutions of political correctness otherwise known as universities. Democracies are soooo much worse than dictatorships, aren't they, Terri.
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Just a thought. Now would be a good time for the Israeli air force to take out Iran's nuke facility. No?

Netanyahu is a major hawk. He should have no qualms about it and with the recently developed chill going on between the US and Israel, what does Israel have to lose? The Arabs will secretly applaud, too.
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Yikes. Go read Michael Ledeen's article at Pajamas Media. Especially read what Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi has translated from a website owned by defected members of the Revolutionary Guard. The brutal arm of oppression has fractured and is joining the revolution. It seems a very large proportion of the population is determined to topple this regime. As I said before, when the policing agencies fall apart it's all but over. These defectors, I'm sure, will have taken their arms and ammunition with them.
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Today Everyone is an Iranian

"President Obama's halting comments only made clear his fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of the Islamic regime. It appears President Obama is going to betray the Iranian people as Jimmy Carter did 3 decades earlier."

Obama continues to get a drubbing for sitting on the sidelines. Is it deserved? I think there is something to be said for allowing the coming revolution to be a made-in-Iran movement. But still, for a man gifted with oratory flair, you'd think he could have done better.
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