"Backers of Iran rulers decry infighting; Urge compromise with protesters to quell unrest" by Thomas Erdbrink, Washington Post | December 7, 2009
Remember, readers, the Washington Post is the CIA 's newspaper.
TEHRAN - With authorities threatening a strong response to new antigovernment demonstrations planned for today, prominent supporters of Iran’s system of religious rule are urging leaders to soften their approach to protesters and end high-level infighting that they say is paralyzing the country.
Violent crackdowns by security forces are turning demonstrators who do not oppose the Islamic republic into extremists intent on bringing down the country’s leaders, according to members of Iran’s political establishment....
So says the CIA.
Opposition supporters have called for antigovernment demonstrations to mark Iran’s annual Students Day, which commemorates the 1953 killing of three university students by security forces of the then-monarchy....
Yes, it was CALLED of Operation Ajax and have you noticed how UNMENTIONED IT REMAINS in the war propaganda articles regarding Iran? Last time I saw it mentioned it was BURIED in a piece on state's candidates to replace Ted Kennedy.
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Of course, THESE PROTESTS get LEAD COVERAGE from my AGENDA-PUSHING WAR DAILY!!!
"Thousands rally across Iran against government; Security forces unable to curb campus protests" by Borzou Daragahi, Los Angeles Times | December 8, 2009
BEIRUT - Campuses across Iran erupted in protests yesterday, as tens of thousands of college students clashed with security forces armed with clubs and tear gas in a forceful round of antigovernment confrontations.
The daylong protests, the largest demonstrations against the Tehran regime since the summer, took place in an unprecedented number of cities and towns and followed weeks of warnings by security officials. And they continued despite harsh but nonlethal measures taken by uniformed and plainclothes security forces arrayed on streets and inside campuses.
Same thing happens at AmeriKan protests -- if they are not supported by the agenda-pushing papers.
Besides Tehran, demonstrations broke out in ethnic Kurdish and Azeri regions that often have clashed with the government but thus far had been relatively quiet in the election protest movement. The demonstrations, marking National Students Day, received international coverage despite a government ban on foreign media and large-scale filtering of Internet sites and the shutting down of some telecommunications services.
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Thousands of riot police, Revolutionary Guard forces, and Basij militiamen began to surround Tehran University at dawn yesterday to prevent any unrest from spilling into the streets. They sought to seal off the campus from view, draping the campus fence with signs bearing slogans from the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
“Students were really brave,’’ said one Iranian journalist who covered yesterday’s events for the local reformist media. “They said all they needed to say today. The way ahead is long. But the goal is achievable.’’
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The movement borne of the election loss of Mir Hossein Mousavi appears to have grown more radical. Fewer and fewer of the slogans were aimed at Ahmadinejad and more at Iran’s theocracy-based political system, a shift that could alienate potential opposition supporters but also further galvanize protesters and serve to destabilize the Islamic republic.
Which means they are WORKING FOR US, folks!!!
“Death to the oppressor, whether it’s the shah or the leader!’’ the students chanted, according to witnesses quoted by the Associated Press, implying a comparison between Khamenei and the pro-US shah overthrown in the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
They don't even know what they are protesting!
“I take to streets to protest because I want change now, not tomorrow,’’ said one young female protester. “I am fed up with the current situation.’’
Now in that way IRANIANS are BETTER than AmeriKans!!!
WHY are YOU NOT in the STREETS, America -- so that EVEN the *EW MEDIA can't IGNORE YOU!
Some Iranian leaders appeared to recognize the risk that a large-scale grass-roots movement originally devoted to overhauling the government could become a hardened opposition dedicated to overthrowing it....
That's the GOAL, huh?
Then I would say the Iranian government has legitimate concerns!
State television and radio dismissed the protests....
At least they COVERED THEM, pot-calling-kettle MSM!!!!
But amateur video posted to the Internet showed thousands of antigovernment students chanting slogans and gathering on various campuses.
Yeah, the MSM sure is SELECTIVE when it comes to the WEB, huh?
Credible reports of protests emerged from campuses in the central Iranian cities of Esfahan, Shiraz, and Kerman; in the eastern city of Mashhad; and in the western cities of Tabriz, Kermanshah, Hamedan, and Ilam as well as in Rasht and Gilan along the Caspian Sea.
Witnesses and news agencies also reported numerous arrests and injuries.... Security forces refrained from using deadly force, perhaps to avoid repeating history. It was the monarchy’s slayings of protesters in 1977 and 1978 that helped build the momentum for Iran’s revolution.
Yeah, DON'T TELL US that was UNDER OUR GUY the SHAH -- installed after the CIA-sponsored COUP that REMAINS UNMENTIONED!
National Students Day traditionally was marked by government rallies but has been co-opted by reformist student groups since a 1999 uprising.
So we have been working on the Iranians since 1999, huh?
How did we miss that new nuke plant, huh?
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And it looks like one country is putting the brakes on the war march:
"Turkey resists call to sanction Iran" by Associated Press | December 8, 2009
I guess Israel and Turkey are not friends anymore.
Yeah, that would do it.
WASHINGTON - President Obama praised Turkey yesterday for its “outstanding’’ contributions in Afghanistan, but he was unable to persuade the Turkish prime minister to immediately support sanctions against Iran.
A US push for sanctions at the UN Security Council, where Turkey sits as a nonpermanent member, will force Ankara to choose between a NATO ally and an important neighbor.
Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan said after a private meeting with Obama that persuading Iran to give up its nuclear ambitions should be left to diplomacy. He said that he expressed Turkey’s willingness to mediate negotiations, but said current sanctions are ineffective because of loopholes that allow Western goods to reach Iran.
Obama said Turkey’s commitments have helped bring stability to Afghanistan. Turkey took over the rotating command of the NATO peacekeeping operation in Kabul last month and doubled its number of troops to around 1,750. However, it has resisted repeated US requests to send its troops on combat operations.
Turkey better watch it!
Yesterday’s meeting comes at a time of rising Turkish influence in the Middle East and Central Europe....
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Update: Turkey To Israel: Cross Our Airspace To Bomb Iran & We Will Respond Like An Earthquake
Yeah, the friendship is over!
