The good folks at the Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy in Iran are reporting more action by insurgents (yes, real insurgents, not the kind you read about in Reuters) against the Mullahs.
In Tehran alone, unidentified individuals, whom the local residents call “Freedom Fighters,” set 26 businesses on fire and destroyed 14 patrol vehicles and were able to escape from the scene unscathed.
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1. Lola:I want to believe this, but I haven’t seen any comments by the Iranian blogs I keep bookmarked (admittedly, only Hoder and one or two other blogs) about this. And especially when the MSM is covering up for the mullah . . .
Oct 4, 2004 - 8:24 am 2. Brian J.:Businesses are legitimate targets for insurgents?
Oct 4, 2004 - 8:56 am 3. M. Simon:Jerome Corsi of “Unfit to Command” is representing the Iranian Students against Mr. Nemazee
Also Main link to Iranian Student news where there are lots of good articles.
Iran is ready to boil over.
Oct 4, 2004 - 10:40 am 4. M. Simon:Brian J.,
Iran is basically a socialist/communist country. The businesses are owned by the regime or regime supporters (according to the article which I’m sure you have read).
Oct 4, 2004 - 10:43 am 5. Ron Wrght:I just sent this around this morning. Check out the novel idea of going around the MSM to get the word out.
Ron Wright
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To my friends,
This may be of interest to you. If not just delete. The mainstream media is not giving much coverage to this major story in Iran.
See the link on the hanging of the 16 year-old girl by the Mad Mullahs. Also see how you can help bring these atrocities to the attention of the world. This is important to everyone because the Mad Mullahs of Iran will have nuclear capability by the spring of next year. The strategic consequences of Iran going nuclear will be disastrous.
Please share with your friends. The Blogosphere can make a difference here!
Ron Wright
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FLASH – IRAN AT THE TIPPING POINT! [?]
From: Ron Wright
TO: Informed Source
CC:
Date: Sat Oct 02, 2004 02:08:39 PM PDT
Subject: FLASH – IRAN AT THE TIPPING POINT! [?]
See following post by Jonah Goldberg, NRO editor-at-large on the Free Iran site:
Here
Perhaps this is the beginning. We can only hope.
See my post on The Command Post:
Here
(The sixth comment under the original post)
Also here’s my previous piece of the great impact the Net and the Blogosphere can do in support of the Free Iran Movement. Please remember the Mad Mullahs of Iran will soon have nuclear capability and recently hanged a 16 year-old girl because they believe they have a “Divine” right to do so!
Here
Ron Wright, Moderator
HSPIG Forums Site
http://www.hspig.org
DISCLAIMER – This is not the position of my employer and/or any organizations I’m affiliated
Oct 4, 2004 - 12:51 pm 6. M. Simon:Ron,
I’ve done some pretty good research on the mullah’s financial support of Kerry, I’ve sent it out to all the usual suspects.
I’ve been sending it out since 15 Sept. With updates as they become available.
Level of interest? Other than the Captain’s Quarters zip. Nada. Bupkiss. Not even the FreePers last time I checked are on this. This is highly unusual given the paper trail available.
Thing is when Clinton had his hand in the Chinese cookie jar the blogs (such as they were) were pounding it day and night.
I don’t get it.
I am hopeful that with Corsi on the case he will find a way to make an issue of it.
Oct 4, 2004 - 3:26 pm 7. M. Simon:I’ve done some checking a FreePer and found the following on Corsi and the Kerry Iran connection:
03 Oct – Corsi, Iran, Kerry
01 Oct – Corsi, Iran, Kerry
Oct 4, 2004 - 3:37 pm 8. richard mcenroe:You know, maybe Kerry can get us back together with France and Germany and Russia. Why can’t an American gigolo hook up with the whores of Europe?
Oct 4, 2004 - 4:30 pm 9. M. Simon:A Dallas Judge rejected a very controversial request from Nemazee’s lawyers. They wanted the deposition of their client to take place after the US Presidential elections in November!
Freeper link with above quote
Oct 4, 2004 - 5:29 pm 10. ambisinistral:It has been years since I’ve seen the movie, but what struck me about the John Wayne movie Green Berets was how out of kilter it was. At some point it struck me they had possibly just dug up a WWII script, blew the dust off of it and changed the Nazi character’s names to oriental names. That popped into my mind because, more than once, in watching the media’s coverage of Iraq it has struck me they’ve dug out the old Vietnam cue cards and switched the names to Moslem ones. Same kind of out of kilter, wrong war feeling.
That said, pro democracy riots in Iran, or at the very least anti-moolah riots, would mess with the media’s notion of Iraq being a quagmire. I doubt the notion that both ideas and people can both cross the Iran/Iraq border has ever crossed thier minds.
The Iranian dissidents need to get photgraphs and film of the riots. TV news thrives on images.
Oct 4, 2004 - 5:59 pm 11. Lola:ambisinistral, you’re definitely right about the visual images. This would give me a clear picture as to just what is going on.
Watched the O’Reilly show earlier tonite and it seems there are interesting stuff coming out. One of the topic was about Iraq and what happened after the invasion. Apparently the problem we’re having with these terrorists could have been bought into control had we been able to bring in our troops in into the north. O’Reilly seemed surprised and said this was the first time he’d heard of this info.
More importantly, looks like things are starting to heat up with oil for food scandal. Seems the congressman investigating it knows who the big names are. Or at least where the trail is leading toward.
Oct 4, 2004 - 6:31 pm 12. ambisinistral:Lola,
I’ve read comments that the 4th Infrantry (I think that unit) slated to come in from Turkey was intended to grind up the opposition in the north Sunni Triangle on the way to Baghdad. As it was, I don’t think they were even in theater when Baghdad fell.
Aside from the aide that would have given in the first days of the occupation, I would think they would have sealed the Syrian border better than it was in the aftermath of the regime’s collapse.
Oh well, I’m guessing that when we dig a little deeper, our friends the French and Germans bullied Turkey into closing its borders with threats of blocking Turkey’s entrance into the EU.
With friends like these…
Oct 4, 2004 - 6:46 pm 13. ambisinistral:One more thing, as for Oil for Food. I’m beginning to hold out less hope for that. I think the Iraqi government is the one with the leverage in the whole matter. They’re the ones that could really stir things up by bringing suit against France, Germany and Russia for defrauding them. I suspect there will be significant a deal with debt relief worked out by those three countries to spike the investigation.
Oct 4, 2004 - 6:52 pm 14. TmjUtah:Roger -
You’ve commented before about the dearth of media coverage from the west where domestic unrest in Iran is concerned.
What would be the repurcussions be if the Iranians threw out the mullahs? First and foremost, it would reduce the roster of Axis of Evil parties to one. (I’ll leave Saudi out of this – Bush did). It would mean the instant collapse of the most vicious external interference in Iraq.
It would mean that muslim nations can reform themselves, with freedom as their goal.
And it would be the nail in the coffin of the Kerry candidacy.
Don’t be looking for NYT stories about Iran, just like the UNSCAM stories will remain buried behind the Arts section until at least after the New Year.
Oct 4, 2004 - 9:02 pm