News from Iran? Good? Bad? Who knows?

[citizen k]

for Spellus:

[DisturbedPervert]

So Britain are the most evil of evils, I'm honored 

You got one vote, big deal.  You'd probably get Zimbabwe too.  But America still has the North Korean, Chinese, Russian, and Venezuelan judges.

[Syt]

Reuters: Suicide bomber kills self at Tehran shrine: report

TEHRAN (Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew himself up near the shrine of Iran's revolutionary founder, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in Tehran on Saturday, Iran's semi-official Mehr news agency reported.

"A few minutes ago a suicide bomber blew himself up at the shrine," Mehr quoted a police official, Hossein Sajedinia, as saying.

Two other people were wounded in the incident in the northern wing of the shrine, another news agency, Fars, said.

Elsewhere in Tehran Iranian riot police used teargas to disperse demonstrators protesting against a disputed presidential election, a witness said.

Iran's English-language Press TV said police used teargas to disperse demonstrators at Tehran's Enghelab square.

"Police also used water canon to disperse the demonstrators," state television said.

[Queequeg]

Reports that Moussavi has declared that "I am ready to be martyred" and has taken a "martyrdom bath", which I suppose is some Shiia ritual purification.  Damn.  Check out the big low hangers on this guy.  I'm not totally sure we'd agree on everything, but he's got more guts than any political figure in my life time. 

[Neil]

Which just proves my point that you can't treat Iran as a rational actor, especially with these revolutionaries trying to sieze power.  Israel must strike immediately.

[DisturbedPervert]

Israel must strike immediately.

Let them kill each other for a bit first.

[Tamas]

Islam and it's fucking martyrdom cult. They are worse than the emos

[The Brain]

Reports that Moussavi ... has taken a "martyrdom bath",

I took one of those once in a small hotel is southern France. *shudders*

[grumbler]

Islam Religions and it's their fucking martyrdom cults. They are worse than the emos

FYP

Islam is just younger than the religions which still adore martyrdom, just don't put it into practice much anymore.

Masada wasn't Islamic, nor was St Paul, nor the Oxford Martyrs, nor the "Sunday of the Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia."

[Jaron]

Islam Religions and it's their fucking martyrdom cults. They are worse than the emos

FYP

Islam is just younger than the religions which still adore martyrdom, just don't put it into practice much anymore.

Masada wasn't Islamic, nor was St Paul, nor the Oxford Martyrs, nor the "Sunday of the Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia."

THANK YOU. I was about to post something like this, almost word for word but you captured my thoughts better than I could have.

[Tamas]

I dont care. Just because there were similar morons in history it does not make them less sucky or destructive to our global society. It's not like we say "we should not look down on Hitler, after all there were people like Genghis Khan or the Assyrians"

But yes, I consider all religions equally stupid.

[Queequeg]

In a non-religious country the Rebellion would have fizzled out fairly quickly.  Instead, you have Iranians going out on to the streets afraid but comforted that they are dying for a cause, that they are martyrs.  I think it is reasonably clear from that that religion is a two-edged sword.  And I wouldn't blame Twlever Shiism for the current government, as it was just as likely that Iran would be dominated by some form of Socialist tyranny, a la Burma (where the best resistance to the regime is also religious-based).

[Tonitrus]

So if Iran is trying to have a "color revolution", what color would it be? 

[Monoriu]

So if Iran is trying to have a "color revolution", what color would it be? 

Rainbow.

[Queequeg]

A fucking beautiful fucking Iranian woman fucking shot down in her fucking prime by the motherfucking goatfucking Basij.

Jesus Christ.  That was among the most disturbing videos I've ever watched.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1aPejT0izs

The scream at the end of that is among the angriest things I've ever heard.  Fantastically disturbing.