“Baseej find themselves surrounded by the flames of their own motorcycles” as protesters pelt them with rocks. (Quite a change from the early protests when baseej drove motorcycles through the crowds clubbing and killing people.)
Remember, if you are caught and put in jail there for protesting you are quite likely to be repeatedly tortured and [...]
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The protesters are winning in Iran
Protesters fight back in Iran, police beaten, police cars burned
Andrew Sullivan has continuing coverage including reports that police are sometimes refusing to follow orders to shoot protesters. Their corrupt, brutal, illegal government may yet fall. Let’s hope so.
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Daughter of Ahmadinejad’s advisor applies for asylum in Germany
She hopes her father will see the error of his ways and support the Green Movement.
As one of the employees of the Islamic Centre in London quietly told me, the Green Movement has penetrated every layer of the Iranian society, its not a question of if the Green Movement wins, its just a question of [...]
Voices for Iran. Protest Ahmadinejad at the UN
Join us in New York City on September 22-24 as we raise our Voices for Iran and demand Ahmadinejad be held accountable for crimes against the Iranian people. We aim to have in one location the biggest international action ever in support of Iranian rights.
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I wonder, will the lunatic fringe of US far left [...]
Mousavi’s chief adviser and others arrested
They were part of Committee for the Tracking of Prisoners.
Enduring America says this could be the defining showdown.
Somebody very important has decided enough is enough with the pressure for enquiries into post-election Government activities, even if those enquiries were going to be defined tightly enough to limit the pressure on the system.
The only step up [...]
Was ‘hijacked’ Russian ship intercepted by Mossad and carrying missiles to Iran?
Could be, says Tikun Olam.
To lefties who support Iran against the protesters because the US must have been interfering somehow
Iran’s supreme leader disagrees with you.
“I do not accuse the leaders of the recent incidents to be subordinate to the foreigners, like the United States and Britain, since this issue has not been proven for me,” said Ayatollah Khamenei, in a statement read out on Iranian television.
For the rest of you wondering what this is [...]
The increasing irrelevance of the left
There are now multiple, reliable reports of the government of Iran using rape, multiple times, as a deliberate way to emotionally and psychologically destroy jailed protesters.
Bizarrely, the hard left is still having a argument as to whether the government of Ahmadinejad should be supported either because it supposedly opposes imperialism or because the US sometimes [...]
Roxana Saberi. Only a pawn in their game
In what was clearly a kangaroo court, Iran has sentenced Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi to eight years in prison on bogus espionage charges
Journalists have started FreeRoxana.net and are also on Twitter.
US refuses to support Israel attack on Iran
From John Wight
The story which appeared in the Guardian newspaper on 26 September, reporting that President Bush refused to support (which really means refused permission) for an Israeli air strike on Iran’s nuclear facilities recently, is hugely significant for two reasons.
Firstly, it reveals the extent to which the US military is overstretched in the region [...]
Conspiracy rumor of the day
The big question is whether Saakashvili is another US proxy who over-estimated US support (q.v. Saddam Hussein), or whether the US put him up to the attack to distract the Russians prior to some sort of operation against Iran.
Just paranoid speculation, right?
[Kuwait] has reportedly activated its “Emergency War Plan” as a massive U.S. and European [...]
The cut cables. Internet as weapon.
From John Dvorak at MarketWatch (“an unlikely source of tinfoil” says Peak Energy)
The cut cables — originally blamed on ships dragging anchors — look more like a ploy by some intelligence agency to disrupt Iranian commerce, specifically an emerging oil bourse that the Iranians have been quietly establishing and hoped to roll out fully in [...]
Oopsie
Iran’s international trade has grown dramatically since the imposition of US sanctions against Iran in 1987.
