Tehran governor: New protests will be smashed

[Adsos Letter]

Source: AP/Yahoo News

TEHRAN,Iran – The governor of Tehran province warned that security forces will "smash" any attempt at protests on Thursday amid calls for the first significant opposition marches since a major crackdown more than a week ago.

Supporters of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi have called for new demonstrations in Tehran and several other cities. The calls are a bid to revive street action after police, Revolutionary Guards and Basij militiamen crushed the dramatic mass protests that erupted over Iran's disputed June 12 presidential election.

There has not been a major protest in 11 days since the crackdown. Tehran government Morteza Tamaddon warned that any new march would meet the same fate.

"If some individuals plan to have anti-security move through listening to a call by counter-revolutionary networks, they will be smashed under the feet of our aware people," he said, according to the state news agency IRNA in a report late Wednesday.


Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090709/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_election

[tomm2thumbs]

1. Perhaps it is time for the resistance to be more covert to undermine the government

It will be very interesting to see how this plays out, but I am guessing there are some pretty p*ssed off people there that aren't going to continue to let the powers that be drive their society and they are probably going to be smart about it. Good luck to 'em.

[pjt7]

2. How much taxpayers $$ do you think

the CIA has spent in the "uprisings"?

[sam sarrha]

3. i really doubt there was any involvement.. maybe info gathering.. arent the same as the 70's/80's

if you think that DEMONSTRATION was the result of the Cia medaling you are delusional.. Islam is Institutionally Paranoid.

[aquart]

4. Because the people of Iran are incapable of doing anything for themselves?

What a bloody racist statement you made. And how disgustingly contemptuous of those decent people.

[SkyDaddy7]

7. I agree!

I was just a bit more passive in my response. LOL!

[SkyDaddy7]

6. I understand where you are coming from but...

I think the Iranian People were responsible for this uprising. They are simply tired of being treated like property! This is not right wing propaganda this is what I have been told by Iranian People I have talked to. Plus, the CIA is no longer good enough to do such a thing in my opinion without getting caught red handed. Of course this may happen but as of now I think this is due to decades of anger that has been building up within the Iranian People and the CIA has nothing to do with it. I hope!

[Flaneur]

10. Sy Hersh said it was a $400 million covert ops budget aimed at Iran

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/07/07/080707fa_fact_hersh

That was under Bush. Does the program continue?

[Warpy]

5. They're protesting in other ways

getting smarter and smarter about it. One way is religious seclusion during the holidays (no work!). Another is defiantly continuing shouts from rooftops. Another is small, targeted protests that converge quickly and disperse as quickly when the Basij show up, nothing left to see here, thugboys, just move along.

Although millions aren't marching together now, this is not going away. There is a cycle of martyrdom in Islam and you can expect to see a mess 40 days out from the stolen election.

There was a great work shutdown among Tabriz shopkeepers, many of whom were then dragged out of bed by Basij thugs and forced to open. My guess is that customer service was not job #1 in these cases.

Information coming out is becoming more defiant, more fatalistic, and increasingly fragmentary, so it's hard to know what's going on at any one time.

Most of what I've written here has been verified by journalists still in that country.

[aquart]

11. I like the way they forced brownouts during an Ahmadi speech.

By turning on every item that uses electricity they could find.

[Warpy]

13. That must've been while I was in the hospital

I didn't hear about that one!

That's just GREAT!

[aquart]

14. It's from the Green Brief #21, IIRC.

[Warpy]

15. Yep, still incarcerated

and out of it for the first two nights I was home. Tonight is the first GB I've read since Thursday.

[zbdent]

8. freeptard porn ...

which is really funny, because they try to paint themselves as the protestors, all the while fantasizing about being the guys behind the nozzles of the water cannons ...

[Arkana]

17. "Tehran cops are hittin' another guy!" FAP FAP FAP FAP

Yep, you're right.

[Jefferson23]

9. What these people have gone through, sad the outcome was not what they worked so hard for.

But this story about no action on the street, this revolt will still go on, just via the internet it appears. I continue to wish them all the best.

[Baclava]

12. The tear-gassing has begun

Iranian police fired tear-gas on Thursday as thousands of demonstrators defied government warnings and staged a march to commemorate the anniversary of bloody student unrest in 1999, witnesses said.

Protesters chanted "Death to the dictator" as they gathered in streets around Tehran University, epicentre of the violence 10 years ago.

According to the witnesses, members of the hardline Basij militia were also reinforcing police ranks as the authorities sought to thwart the protest.

Iranian authorities have banned all gatherings amid a fierce crackdown on protesters, reformists, journalists and political activists since the protests over the official results of the June 12 presidential election, which Ahmadinejad's main challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi called a "shameful fraud."



http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/iran-police-fire-teargas-as-1000s-mark-1999-unrest-20090709-deub.html

[aquart]

16. But I never knew fire could dissipate tear gas.

They light cigarettes against it.

[Baclava]

18. Paris ne s'est pas fait en un jour

Il n'y a pas de fumée sans feu