News from Iran? Good? Bad? Who knows?

[DisturbedPervert]

Nice collection of photos can be found at the Boston Globe site.

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/06/irans_disputed_election.html

I love the pictures of the police bikes.  It's like modern day Mount and Blade.

[citizen k]

There's reports that the Basij's base in central Tehran, in Azadi Square, has been stormed and is currently on fire, the commander's apparently dead.  The Basij are the militia of the Revolutionary Guard and have grown under Ahmedinejad's time in office.  It was speculated a while ago that he was building them up to repress any civil disorder.

I can't find this anywhere, got a source?

This is from the latest AP report:

Later, a group of demonstrators with fuel canisters set a small fire at a compound of a volunteer militia linked to Iran's powerful Revolutionary Guard as the crowd dispersed from the square. As some tried to storm the building, people on the roof could be seen firing directly at the demonstrators at the northern edge of the square, away from the heart of the rally.

[Cerr]

Is there any chance of the regular army intervening (preferably on the side of the protesters)?

[derspiess]

What peaceful people.

Yeah, looks like Walmart on Black Friday...

[derspiess]

Does anyone know why the police and their gear have "Police" written on them in English?

I was getting ready to ask the same thing.

Maybe they got them as a bonus item in the Iran-Contra deal

[jimmy olsen]

TIME is estimating that the protest in Tehran today had 2-3 million people.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1904764,00.html

[The Brain]

Don't they have jobs? Who's stoning the teenagers today?

[Fate]

But the linear regression had an R squared value of 1! IT"S UNIMPOSSIBLE!1

[clandestino]

TIME is estimating that the protest in Tehran today had 2-3 million people.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1904764,00.html

They are talking about 10,000 in Theeran over here.

Numbers...

[DisturbedPervert]

TIME is estimating that the protest in Tehran today had 2-3 million people.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1904764,00.html

They are talking about 10,000 in Theeran over here.

Numbers...

Well, it is Time...

[Martinus]

Can't be arsed to read the entire thread, but I hope someone has already pointed out that Mousavi is a chauvinist antisemite who believes in the nuclear programme and destruction of Israel, right?

[Crazy_Ivan80]

Can't be arsed to read the entire thread, but I hope someone has already pointed out that Mousavi is a chauvinist antisemite who believes in the nuclear programme and destruction of Israel, right?

I guess you prefer ahmedinidong then.

[Martinus]

Can't be arsed to read the entire thread, but I hope someone has already pointed out that Mousavi is a chauvinist antisemite who believes in the nuclear programme and destruction of Israel, right?

I guess you prefer ahmedinidong then.

Not really. I prefer antisemitic muslim fundamentalist retards killing each other, though.

[Queequeg]

Not really. I prefer antisemitic muslim fundamentalist retards killing each other, though.

I don't know how much control Mousavi has over the movement at this point.  It looks increasingly likely that in a post-Revolution Iran the Supreme Ruler and the Guardian Council might be less powerful (which would be true if the Revolution doesn't work, anyway), with honest elections and presumably increasing liberalism. 

[Neil]

TIME is estimating that the protest in Tehran today had 2-3 million people.

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1904764,00.html

And tomorrow Newsweek will be reporting 6-7 billion.

The media is always wrong.