He’d been in jail for protesting where he was repeatedly raped and tortured. His father bailed him out. But they came back for him. He ran away, then jumped off a bridge.
I just can’t get this out of my mind. While outsiders can’t do much inside Iran, we can keep an international focus on the [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Iran protests’
Iranian protester commits suicide rather than go back to jail
The repression starts in Iran
Night raids terrorize Iran residents
“Witnesses are telling us that the Basijis are trashing entire streets and even neighborhoods as well as individual homes trying to stop the nightly rooftop protest chants,” Sarah Leah Whitson, Middle East director at Human Rights Watch, said.
Mousavi’s web site closed; Manages message to Iranians abroad
Basiji seizing hospitalized protesters
UK embassy workers [...]
My enemy’s enemy is still my enemy
To badly mix metaphor with a Charlie Daniel lyric, I couldn’t resist chasing this dead horse once more around the parking lot. Because when an “Iran cleric urges severe punishment for rally leaders” I’m guessing that means lots of prison and torture, something you’d think lefties would oppose.
Just because Mahmoud Ahmadinejad thumbs his nose at [...]
Maelstrom
Iranian women upon landing in US: “We’ve seen people being beaten to death”
Iran media: 8 Basijis shot dead during protests
Driving home from a meeting last night on peaceful streets to our condo in a quiet area, I pondered how different it would be for anyone in Tehran now, if they even dared to go out [...]
Never stand in front of a man with a loaded gun
That’s what Sue’s dad made her promise after the Kent State shootings. When the Iran protests started, she said, don’t they know what’s going to happen, that the government will come down on them hard, smashing heads and killing people.
Do I think the government will eventually fall? Yes. But ‘I see dead people’ too.
So, how [...]
Bloodbath in Iran. Police killing, beating protesters
Tweets from the highly reliable persiankiwi.
Andrew Sullivan has continuing coverage.
Iran in the crosshairs
(My friend John Wight, in his usual eloquent and well-reasoned way, takes a differing view from mine on Iran. – Bob. Update: 5:47pm John sent a revised version)
The Iranian Revolution of 1979 dealt a severe setback to the strategic and geopolitical interests of the West, in particular the United States and Israel. Indeed, ever since [...]
On similarities between some far leftists and the ayatollahs
Christopher Hitchens, on the ayatollahs blaming everything on the British.
One of the signs of Iran’s underdevelopment is the culture of rumor and paranoia that attributes all ills to the manipulation of various demons and satans. And, of course, the long and rich history of British imperial intervention in Persia does provide some support for the [...]
North Alabama man helping provide safe forum for Iranian voices
Days of protesting in Iran over allegations of fraud in the presidential election have made headlines around the world.
Here in North Alabama, one man is making sure every Iranian citizen has the opportunity to be heard.
That would be UJ, who comments and posts here too.
These headlines that have made their way across the globe to [...]
Response to lefties who support Ahmadinejad
It’s heartening to see a groundswell from the far left against ultra-left parties who will not support the Iran protests because of their delusion that Ahmadinejad somehow is an ally. (And maybe because they see this as a way to recruit for their parties.) But the sick truth is, too much of the far left [...]
A question to the left on Iran: Can the people make history or not?
Mike Ely at International Journal of Socialist Renewal on the left response to the Iran protests and why the foe of my foe is often not a friend.
There is a self-deceptive politics (among some leftists) that seeks to prettify all kinds of reactionary forces that (for one reason or another) are in opposition to US [...]
Far left response to Iran protests. Crickets
The response of the far left parties to the Iran protests has been either silence, a noncommittal recitation of the facts, or an accusation that US machinations are or will be involved. None of them, to my knowledge, have endorsed the protests. Why is this?
Mass protests erupt throughout Iran in opposition to an nasty, authoritarian [...]
Iran protesters fight back, chase police down street
BBC Persia video
Via Andrew Sullivan
Let us hope this is a microcosm of the whole thing. Faced with so many with such determination, the will of the regime will crumble.
Neda
The Iran protests have their first public martyr
Twitter psyops
Last night on the twitter stream for #iranelection, there was a sudden burst of tweets about how tanks were entering Tehran. Others asked for confirmations or photos. None appeared. Then some military folks opined that tanks don’t do well in urban areas and in fact are quite vulnerable. Then others tracked the tank tweets back [...]
