All the Components of a Coup
Yeah, it only feels like they f***ing with you.
"Jailed hiker’s mother requests release" by Associated Press | December 19, 2009
MINNEAPOLIS - Wearing a headscarf, the mother of one of three American hikers jailed in Iran appealed yesterday in a new video to the Islamic Republic’s supreme leader to release her daughter and her friends for the holidays.
It’s been almost five months since the three were taken captive in Iran for allegedly straying across the country’s border and almost two months since their families have had any word on their condition....
As if it is in question now?
Sarah Shourd, 31, along with Shane Bauer, 27, and Josh Fattal, 27 had been trekking in Iraq’s northern Kurdistan region when they accidentally crossed the border, according to their relatives.
That's the spies cover story, huh?
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TEHRAN - Three Americans arrested in July after crossing into Iran from neighboring Iraq are still under investigation, a prosecutor said yesterday, adding that Tehran is concerned about 11 Iranians it says are being held in the United States.
The Tehran prosecutor did not link the two issues, but officials have increasingly mentioned their campaign for the Iranians when speaking about the detained Americans. US officials have been concerned that Iran would try to use the Americans as bargaining chips in its dealings with the West.
I'm tired of the one-sided bias and reporting; how about you, readers?
“The Americans should know that there are 11 Iranian nationals in US prisons. We hope the Americans are treating them based on regulations,’’ Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi said, according to the IRNA news agency.
Yeah, I hope they are not being tortured.
Iran released a list earlier this month of 11 Iranians it says are being held in the United States, including a nuclear scientist who disappeared in Saudi Arabia and a former Defense Ministry official who vanished in Turkey.
Also see: Iran's Missing Nukes
The prosecutor did not go into details about the case of the three Americans, whose families say they were trekking in northern Iraq’s Kurdish region and accidentally strayed over the unmarked border with Iran.
“We sense that in the Iranian government there is some kind of equivalency that they offer with regard to the hikers and Iranian citizens who have left Iran. There really is no equivalence at all,’’ said State Department spokesman P.J. Crowley.Oh, I AGREE!
In one case you have AMERIKAN SPIES caught INFILTRATING Iran; in the other you have AMERIKAN SPIES ABDUCTING and IMPRISONING Iranian nationals!
Yeah, NO EQUIVALENCY at all.
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And there are the protests, of course.
Has the agenda-pushing, war-promoting, Zionist AmeriKan MSM covered any protests more than these in the last six months, readers?
That should tell you a lot about who is really behind the movement.
"Many protest during Iranian cleric’s funeral; Montazeri’s mourners clash with vigilantes" by Thomas Erdbrink, Washington Post | December 22, 2009
Remember, readers, the Washington Post is the CIA 's newspaper.
They already pulled off one coup there; what makes you think they aren't trying again?
TEHRAN - Tens of thousands of mourners.... turned it into an antigovernment protest that included sporadic violence.
Groups of vigilantes clashed with some of the mourners, and both groups threw stones and other objects at each other, witnesses and opposition websites reported. There were some injuries, witnesses said. The reports could not be independently verified. Authorities denied foreign correspondents permission to travel to Qom, the Shi’ite holy city about 90 miles south of Tehran.
Iranians are observing one of the most important periods on the Shi’ite religious calendar, which emphasizes themes of sacrifice and martyrdom. It ends Sunday, the same day mourners will gather for the traditional seventh-day memorial for Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri’s death.
During yesterday’s service, about 100 of the progovernment Basij militia attacked the house of the late ayatollah and tore up a banner displaying his portrait, his son Saeed Montazeri said in a telephone interview from Qom....
Why do I not believe him?
The best way to divert attention is to accuse the accuse of the same thing you did, isn't it?
Witnesses said demonstrators chanted, “Death to the dictator,’’ which has become a protest slogan against Iran’s leadership, witnesses said. Some protesters shouted specific slurs against Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, according to video clips posted on the Web.
Now I KNOW they are FOREIGN AGENTS and TOOLS!!
Regardless of what they think of the leader, that is BLASPHEMY!!
Several leading ayatollahs paid their respects to Montazeri, who was one of the highest-ranking Shi’ite clerics in the world, but for years lived under house arrest for criticizing political leaders. Opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi visited Montazeri’s house, according to the opposition website Kaleme.
Montazeri’s body was carried in a shrouded glass coffin on top of a semi-trailer, which moved through seas of weeping people toward the shrine of Hazrat-e Masoumeh, a female Shi’ite saint.
Say what?
See: Muslim Men Hate Their Women
I guess I heard wrong from my jewspaper again.
There, the cleric was buried next to his son, who died in the Iran-Iraq war of the 1980s....
Related: Iran-Iraq war memorial
Yes, if ANYONE in this world knows the costs of war it is the IRANIANS!
That is why they DO NOT WANT ANOTHER ONE and are BENDING OVER BACKWARDS to please the West!
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“Many hip young people from Tehran, who usually have no interest in Montazeri, were there, crying,’’ one witness said. “It was very moving, and many people shouted slogans against the government.’’
Translation: This event was used by those forces for ulterior motives!
People shouted political slogans such as “Montazeri is not dead, the government is dead’’ and “Dictator, dictator, we will follow Montazeri’s path.’’ Government supporters, who were present in smaller numbers, shouted, “Hypocrites leave Qom.’’
Yeah, so says the one-sided, biased reporting of the Zionist-controlled western media.
See: Iran is Paranoid
Sort of a PATTERN, isn't it?
Some protests are worthy of full-article coverage, and others only a brief (if that).
The ayatollah, 87, died in his sleep of multiple organ failure Sunday, dealing a blow to Iranian human rights and democracy advocates, who considered him their spiritual guide.
I'm accepting that on face value; however, it got people back out into the streets, huh?
Hmmmmmm!
Yeah, people and kids that didn't even have an interest in the guy, huh?
Hmmmmmmmmm.
Montazeri, once designated to lead the Islamic Republic, died during Muharram, an already tense Shi’ite mourning period that millions will observe by taking to the streets in the coming nights to mourn a revered Shi’ite saint.
Yeah, the timing of the death sure is odd, isn't it?
After Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, an Iranian-born Shiite cleric residing in Najaf, Iraq, Montazeri was considered the highest Shi’ite authority in the world. He played a central role during the biggest crises of the 30-year-old Islamic Republic.
Wow, this guy was HUGE!!!!!
As one of the main revolutionary clerics supporting the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, leader of Iran’s 1979 Islamic revolution, Montazeri helped oust the US-backed Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in 1979 and supported the ideological spread of the Islamic revolution.
Notice how the Zionist AmeriKan MSM always skates over the U.S. involvement in Iranian affairs?
I mean, the last time I heard any reference at all was in an article on a Senate primary candidate.
In 1989, Montazeri, designated to succeed Khomeini as Iran’s supreme leader, had a public falling out with the leadership over the mass execution of political opponents.
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"Iranians mourn dissident cleric; Montazeri’s followers fear official crackdown during memorial rites" by Thomas Erdbrink, Washington Post | December 21, 2009
They they are again!
TEHRAN - After Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, an Iranian-born Shi’ite cleric residing in Najaf, Iraq, Montazeri was considered the highest Shi’ite authority in the world. Sistani has not yet responded to the death of his fellow senior cleric, his office in Qom said by phone.
His response could be politically sensitive, because Sistani, who is mainly active in Iraq where he has huge influence, is known to oppose elements of Iran’s system of religious leadership.
Montazeri played a central role during the biggest crises of the 30-year-old Islamic Republic. As one of Iran’s main revolutionary clerics supporting Khomeini, he helped oust the US-backed Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in 1979 and strongly supported the ideological spread of the Islamic revolution....
Yeah, I already know that.
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"Hossein Ali Montazeri; led Iran’s reformers" by Ali Akbar Dareini and Jason Keyser, Associated Press | December 21, 2009
TEHRAN - Ayatollah Montazeri, a key figure in the 1979 Islamic Revolution who later split with Iran’s leaders and became the spiritual father of Iran’s reform movement, died yesterday of heart failure while sleeping in his home in Qum, his son Ahmad told Iran’s official IRNA news agency. He was 87....
Even though the kids had no interest in him, huh?
In particular, he opened the door to direct condemnation of the ruling clerics, a bold step that energized Iran’s young activists.
You would think they would have know who he was or been interested then!
In August, he decried the “despotic treatment’’ of protesters at the hands of the ruling theocracy. A month later, he accused the regime of committing “crimes . . . in name of Islam.’’
Hossein Ali Montazeri was born in Najafabad in Isfahan Province to a peasant family. He studied under Ayatollah Khomeini in Qum and became involved in networks opposed to Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, leading to a four-year prison sentence in 1974.
Oh, so the Shah put him in jail, huh? No house arrest?
After the Islamic Revolution overthrew the shah, Ayatollah Montazeri was designated to succeed Khomeini, the movement’s spiritual and political founder, as the supreme leader.
Ayatollah Montazeri helped draft the nation’s new constitution, which was based on a concept called velayat-e faqih, or rule by Islamic jurists. That concept enshrined a political role for Islamic clerics.
But a deep ideological rift soon developed with Khomeini. Ayatollah Montazeri envisioned the Islamic experts as advisers to the government who should not have outright control to rule themselves. He was also among those clerics who believed the power of the supreme leader comes from the people, not from God....
Despite his stature, Ayatollah Montazeri’s death is not likely to have a profound impact on the opposition movement....
Then ALL THIS Zionist AmeriKan and Boston Globe press coverage has been a skewed and slanted account, huh?
Just like all their other reports on, well, EVERYTHING!
Oh, yeah, and about that nuclear bomb they ain't making....
"Iran official downplays nuclear capability" by Los Angeles Times | December 19, 2009
TEHRAN - A top Iranian nuclear official sought yesterday to ease international worries about his nation’s nuclear program days after Tehran test-fired an upgraded medium-range missile that alarmed the West.
Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the country’s Atomic Energy Organization, said Iran won’t have a new generation of more-efficient centrifuges for the production of nuclear fuel until 2011 and won’t have its heavy-water plant in Arak operational for “three or four years.’’
His statement was a possible attempt at reassuring world powers that there was no hurry to place new sanctions on Iran.
“We are not hurrying at all for entering the phase of industrial-scale production of fuel,’’ he said.
Yeah, we all know that: Iran is nowhere near a nuclear bomb, but that doesn't stop the Zionist AmeriKan MSM from spewing war propaganda. This last article here was a 2x6 Slow Saturday special buried in the middle of the first section.
Related: Breaking News: Iran Stops Making Nuclear Bomb
The thing is, the Iranians know the game and are one of the few nations to call us out one it:
"Iran leader defies nuclear fuel deadline; Ahmadinejad says US fabricated bomb document" by Nasser Karimi, Associated Press | December 23, 2009
TEHRAN - The United States warned Iran....
What, AGAIN!!
Iran’s president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad also accused the United States of fabricating a purported Iranian secret document....
Oh, like the "Yellowcake" documents indicating Iraq was trying to build nuclear weapons?
Yeah, ANYTHING USRAEL or its MSM CLAIMS these days is to be viewed skeptically, suspiciously, and AS A LIE until proven otherwise.
In Paris, Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said that the chances of finding a diplomatic solution to the nuclear standoff with Iran were “never very significant’’
And WE ALL KNOW because of WHO and WHY!!!!!!!!!!
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In a separate interview with ABC News, Ahmadinejad accused the United States of forging the document that appears to describe an Iranian work plan for developing a neutron initiator, a key component in detonating a nuclear bomb.
Naaaaw, we'd never do anything like that!
“They’re all a fabricated bunch of papers continuously being forged and disseminated by the American government,’’ he said.
You know, HE is RIGHT!!!!
It's either them or the Zionist AmeriKan MSM that is a stenographer for their statements.
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"There are some indications, moreover, that the MEK obtained the documents not from an Iranian source but from Israel's Mossad
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That's even worse; you know they are lies then!
Update:
They make my points for me, readers.
"Iranian police issue warning; Promise reprisals if protests persist" by Thomas Erdbrink, Washington Post | December 24, 2009
Again, CIA, 'er, WaPo on the beat!
TEHRAN - Iran’s national police commander said demonstrators will face a fierce crackdown if their illegal activities continue, the semiofficial Fars news agency reported yesterday, following several days of anti-government protests and officials calling for the arrest of the opposition’s political leaders.
“We advise this movement to end their activities,’’ Fars quoted Iran’s national police chief, Brigadier General Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam, as saying. “Otherwise, those who violate the order will be fiercely confronted, based on the law.’’
Eyewitnesses reported protests and clashes yesterday in Qom, Isfahan, and Najafabad, where supporters of dissident cleric Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, who died Sunday, battled police and plainclothes paramilitary forces.
The government’s crackdown showed signs of moving for the first time against clerics who support the opposition: Basij militiamen surrounded the house and office of two prominent religious figures, shouting slogans and breaking windows, opposition websites reported.
May all be true; however, given the slanted and shaded coverage of the WHOLE ISSUE since BACK in JUNE, the fact that Ahmadinejad legitimately won, and the minimizing of the counter-protests to the USRAELI and BRITISH agents of destabilization, I can no longer trust these sources staring up at me from the desk.
I'm looking down at my red and blue markings and it all seems so useless because I'm just marking up the same old lies, deceptions, distortion, obfuscations, and omissions.
Memorials for Montazeri have brought out not only the young, urban activists who filled the ranks of earlier protests, but also older, more religious Iranians who revered him on grounds of faith as much as politics.
Yeah, you know, the people who would be INTERESTED in HIM -- not the college kids being used as pawns by western intelligence agencies and their collaborators.
Where is Rafsanjani, anyway? He's rarely mentioned anymore.
Tens of thousands marched in his funeral procession in the holy city of Qom Monday, many chanting slogans against the government. Violence erupted yesterday when thousands tried to gather for a memorial to Montazeri at a mosque in the central city of Isfahan, 200 miles south of Tehran. They were met by a large force of riot police and Basijis, which stormed the crowds to disperse them, according to a witness and opposition websites.
Umm, WHAT WITNESSES? Which websites? They link enough corporations, governments, and agenda-pushing causes in their s*** articles, so WTF?
Farid Salavati, an Isfahan resident who tried to attend the memorial, said baton-wielding riot police clubbed people on the head and shoulders, and kicked men and women alike, injuring dozens. “They didn’t allow anybody to enter the mosque,’’ Salavati said. “I saw at least two people with blood pouring down their face after being beaten by the Basijis.’’
Yeah, good thing that kind of thing never happens in Ameri..... oh, yeah, I'm, yeah.... sorry, can't comment 'cuz I do not like tossing rocks -- especially when I'm smelling MSM war propaganda that I have no faith in and don't believe anymore.
State authorities have long been contemplating the arrest of the opposition leaders, but some officials have publicly said they fear such a move would only cause more protests. The funeral Sunday for Montazeri, which attracted tens of thousands and possibly more antigovernment demonstrators, again showed that the opposition is able to rally large groups of people.
Instead of arresting the opposition leaders, authorities have made attempts to isolate the two men and their aides, preventing them from leaving their houses at times and taking away their offices and official positions. But they still manage to travel through the country and get their messages out through the Internet....
Isn't the AmeriKan MSM amazing?
They can FIND the INTERNET when they WANT TO, but.... you know what I mean, readers, otherwise you wouldn't be here. Thank you.
More antigovernment protests are expected in the coming days.
Oh, so it will be FULL ARTICLE after FULL ARTICLE in my Zionist War Daily!
Thank goodness gracious that it is Christmas and New Year's time.
Today, a four-day mourning period for a Shi’ite saint starts, with millions of people expected to take to the streets for parades.
So some WESTERN FLUNKIES are going to RUIN the CEREMONIES?
Aaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!!!!!!!
Oh, I AM SO SORRY, Iranians!!!!!!!!!!!
What an INSULT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Opposition members have vowed to use the opportunity for protests and are calling for a mass gathering in Tehran on Sunday, the day of Ashura, the high point of the mourning period.
Yeah, that is REALLY MAKING ME QUESTION this TIMING on the death of the GRAND AYATOLLAH!!!!
Look, readers, I WANT TO BELIEVE MY PAPER when it tells me things, but it is SO FULL of ROT-GUT LIES every single day it has LOST ALL SHREDS and SEMBLANCES of CREDIBILITY!!
