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Ordinary Americans

Hello.  I am just an ordinary American of nonIranian descent on an ordinary street in a small town in the USA.

This is just a note to tell you that many ordinary Americans like me are praying and hoping for the many ordinary people of Iran during this time of turmoil.  We pray for your vision and your safety.  We do not want a return of the Shah or any of his descendants to power in Iran.  We do not wish to take away or destroy your Islamic faith.  We do not want our country to meddle in Iran's affairs as it once did.  I think most people here in the United States probably feel about the same way.  We want only what the Iranian people want for themselves and support only what the Iranian people want for themselves.  Many blessings to you all.  It looks as if the Iranian people have chosen a new revolution.

You are not hearing similar statements of support from the U.S. government  and will not hear them because President Barack Obama does not want the Khameini regime to have any evidence claiming that the "American Satan" is the cause of the current unrest.  We do not wish to be involved in such unrest.  He feels that the best way to support the Iranian people is to simply reassure them that the destiny of Iran is solely in the hands of the Iranian people with no interference from outside.  Because it is this way, you can be reassured that there will be no American treachery against you or the Iranian people, and the Khameini regime will know that it has irretrievably lost its own people.        

in Iran Live-blogging

//www.dailyniteowl.com/wordpress/index.php/2009/12/27/live-blogging-ashura-protests-in-iran/

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 I watched the video that people took down the Khamenei's Street sign from Shifteh's blog....it was fun...he can stop whining about Khomenei's photo being torn up!!! Now it is his turn to be humiliated!!

Delaram Banafsheh (Yolanda)

"Cactus in the Desert"

Hot stuff from NY Times: Video of 3 Basilj surrendering, etcv.

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 Thank you for your blog and videos. I am glad to hear that guards refuse to shoot people. Thank God that guards have started to be disillusioned and come to people's side.

Delaram Banafsheh (Yolanda)

"Cactus in the Desert"

Basilj motorcyclists surround hospital; regime denies death

Update | 11:43 a.m. A source in Tehran tells The Lede that he has spoken with someone at the hospital where opposition leader Mir Hussein Moussavi’s nephew reportedly died on Sunday, and was told that 30 motorcycles, each with tw members of the security forces, “plus a truck full of Basij” militia members arrived and “they are now inside and outside the hospital.” The same source says that the hospital denies that Ali Moussavi, Mr. Moussavi’s 35-year-old nephew, was there. An opposition Web site reported that Ali Moussavi was shot in the chest at midday in Tehran’s Enghelab Square.--NY Times Lede

//thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/updates-on-protests-and-clashes-in-iran/

(How stupid is the regime?  How long do they think they can hide young Mousavi's death?  Do they think his uncle will help their lie?) 

Basilj motorcyclists surround hospital; regime denies death

Update | 11:43 a.m. A source in Tehran tells The Lede that he has spoken with someone at the hospital where opposition leader Mir Hussein Moussavi’s nephew reportedly died on Sunday, and was told that 30 motorcycles, each with tw members of the security forces, “plus a truck full of Basij” militia members arrived and “they are now inside and outside the hospital.” The same source says that the hospital denies that Ali Moussavi, Mr. Moussavi’s 35-year-old nephew, was there. An opposition Web site reported that Ali Moussavi was shot in the chest at midday in Tehran’s Enghelab Square.--NY Times Lede

//thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/updates-on-protests-and-clashes-in-iran/

(How stupid is the regime?  How long do they think they can hide young Mousavi's death?  Do they think his uncle will help their lie?) 

There is a FULL SCALE MUTINY!!!!

NOW CUT OFF THE HEAD OF THE SNAKE!!!!

FREE IRAN NOW!!!! 

A sure thing prediction

The regime will claim it was framed and blame and say a "foreign spy" or "opposition protestors" killed Mousavi's nephews.  All it will do is enrage even more people and add to the opposition's numbers.

BBC link on Mousavi death & my comment

//news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8431523.stm

First Khamenei stole his election victory, then he kills his nephew, will be "do" Mousavi next.  This death will win hundreds of thousands more over to the opposition and radicalize people further.

I suspect that after this even Mousavi may give up on the idea of the regime's "reformability."