Shifteh Ansari

Dec 31 Amazing footage of

Dec 31

We came across this video here thanks to a reader (AM) and it’s amazing.  You got to watch it, if you haven’t seen it already.  Its quality is better than the typical jerky cell phone videos.     This video shows the prelude to the Ashura pics here of the anti-riot police under attack which we had previously posted and the related videos here and here.   We hope Iran’s security forces see these videos and pictures and realize the regime’s collapse is inevitable.  They need to see the writing on the wall, stop their violence and switch sides.  The Iranian people can’t be stopped!

 //www.irannewsdigest.com/2009/12/31/amazing-footage-of-protesters-fighting-with-anti-riot-police/

    Demonstrations in

Karim Sadjadpour CNN, December 30, 2009

KARIM SADJADPOUR, MIDDLE EAST EXPERT: Well, Tony, when I was based in Tehran, I used to attend these government-sponsored protests frequently. And when you talked to the demonstrators, they were often, as Rosemary mentioned, bused in from the provinces, given the day off of work, given a free lunch. So you compare that to the anti- government protesters who are warned weeks in advance that there are going to be severe repercussions if they attend these protests, and still hundreds of thousands turn out.

So, I am very confident, Tony, having been based in Tehran a couple of years, that a majority, if not a vast majority, of people in Iran want to see a different type of government in Tehran.

SADJADPOUR: Certainly, Tony, no country, no population on earth is monolithic. There’s a diversity of views. But let’s put things in perspective.

The Iranian population is overwhelmingly young, two-thirds under 33. Under Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s tenure, the Iranian economy has severely deteriorated, social freedoms have severely been curtailed, political freedoms have severely been curtailed.

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اصطکاک و اعتراض در اردوی حامیان دولت

سایت اینترنتی آینده نزدیک به محسن رضایی دبیر مجمع تشخیص مصلحت نظام در اشاره به برخی شعارهای طرفداران دولت در راهپیمایی روز چهارشنبه گفت که استفاده از عبارات توهین آمیز علیه رهبران معترضان از جمله میرحسین موسوی و مهدی کروبی و نیز علی اکبر هاشمی رفسنجانی تنها به "مظلومیت" معترضان حکومت و "منطقی" بودن آنان و در عین حال "منفعل شدن حامیان دولت در میان نخبگان منجر می شود". سایت آینده ضمن نسبت دادن این روش به آنچه جریان افراطی حامی دولت نامیده، افزوده است که " این جریان افراطی حامی دولت هزینه های سنگینی را بابت توهین و هتک حرمت شخصیت های نظام پرداخته است" و تدوام این رفتارها، به نوشتۀ آینده، "تردید در مورد وجود حداقل هوش سیاسی در این جریان را جدی کرده است." سایت آینده در ادامه نوشته است که سیاست "فحاشی و اهانت" به شخصیت های درون نظام و مردم با خود رئیس جمهوری، محمود احمدی نژاد، آغاز شد و سپس به درون مجلس اسلامی، برخی مشاوران ارشد محمود احمدی نژاد و نیز خطبه های ائمه جمعه نیز سرایت کرد. //www.rfi.fr/actufa/articles/120/article_1019...

Pix:تصاوير: تجديد بيعت كفن پوشان وراميني

//www.tabnak.ir/fa/pages/?cid=79357

Quote:"" فاکتوری را

Quote:""

فاکتوری را که سید علی و ولادمیر حرامزاده کثیف حساب نکرده
بودند همان قصه معروف ارنست همینگوی نویسنده متوسط
امریکائی بود در مرد پیر و دریا

خمینی یک ماهی گنده باور نکردنی را به *ون قایق شکسته
اسلامش بست
و خامنه ای در بیست سال ادامه جنایت خمینی یک بار به عقب
نگاه نکرد و وقتی به ساحل رسید از ماهی فقط اسکلت
استخوان هایش مانده بود

ملت متحد پیروز است

Chinese armored anti-Riot trucks arrive Bandar Abbas

Dalian Eagle-Sky Co.
Tel: +86-411-8681-3362
Fax: +86-411-8681-3763
Email: eagle@eagle-sky.net
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این زره پوش ضد شورش دارای مخزنی 10 هزار لیتری برای شلیک آب سرد و آبجوش و 3 مخزن 100 لیتری جداگانه برای شلیک مایعات شیمیائی سوزاننده، آب مخلوط به رنگ پاک نشدنی و یا آب مخلوط به گاز اشک آور است. هر زره پوش دارای دو تفنگ پرتاب مایعات با بُرد 70 متر است که از داخل کابین کنترل می شوند. قیمت خرید هر دستگاه 650 هزار دلار می باشد که بهمراه آن مقادیر زیادی مایعات مختلف سوزاننده و اشک آور و رنگی نیز خریداری شده است.
مدت زمان لازم برای تحویل این زره پوشها 4 ماه بوده که بنا به عجله حکومت ایران و موافقت دولت چین، زره پوشها مستقیماً از زره پوشهای سازمانی ارتش چین بطور فوری تحویل شده که در نوع خود بی سابقه است. دولت چین هم باندازه حکومت جمهوری اسلامی تعجیل بخرج داده تا این زره پوشها هر چه سریعتر برای سرکوب مردم ایران به مقصد برسد.
دعای همه مردم مظلوم ایران این است که حکومت هرگز عمرش به استفاده از این تجهیزات خشونت بار نرسد، اما چنانچه روزی هم این زره پوشها را به خیابانها بیاورد، جای نگرانی نخواهد بود، ایرانیان آنقدر با استعدادند که ارزانترین راه برای نابودی آنها را پیدا کنند.
دولت مستبد و خونریز چین باید بداند که با این رفتار ضد انسانی خود بر علیه مردم ایران، در فردای پیروزی این مردم، گوشمالی سختی خواهد شد و نه تنها دستانش از بازار ایران قطع خواهد شد بلکه ملت ایران همه تلاش خود را خواهد نمود تا سرنوشت مشابهی برای محصولات چینی در بین کشورهای منطقه هم اتفاق بیفتد. همچنین چین منتظر باشد تا مردم آزاد ایران با همه امکانات خود از آزادیخواهان چینی پشتیبانی و حمایت نموده و بویژه در برابر جنایات وحشیانه دولت چین بر علیه مردم تبت و همچنین مسلمانان استان سین کیانگ با تمام قوا بایستد و پوزه کثیفشان را بخاک بمالد.
این دخالت آشکار چین در امور داخلی ایران و مشارکت در سرکوب مردم ایران باید توسط همه ملتهای دنیا محکوم گردیده و از مظلومیت مردم ایران حمایت نمایند. برای ولایت فقیه نیز هزاران تأسف، که حاضر است برای سرکوب مردم ایران حتی برای چینی های کمونیست بی خدا هم دستمال بدست شود ولی گوش به حرف حق ملت ایران ننماید. Shifteh, there are pix also. I will post on blog.

Dear Shifteh, I do not know of him

A quick review of his work indicates a middle of the road scholar. But I do not know or heard of him as a political activist.

Holly

Actually, I think they tried to bus all their supporters to Tehran, so there were none left in provinces!  What a pathetic bunch.  Pathetic and cruel is a very dangerous mix.  The chatter I hear is that the greens are regrouping and reflecting on this week's events.  When they are ready to go forward again, nothing will stop them. 

I hope the New Year is a year of peace for Iran and the world. I wish you a successful and prosperous new year HollyUSA. Thank you for everything.

Video: Basijis attack Qoba Mosque in Shiraz (Dastgheib's base)

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnOWrtQFMvA

Re: تظاهرات حامیان حکومت درکرمانشاه

LOL pathetic is correct Shifteh jan. One is likely to see a better turn out at a local garage sale and this after all their advertising and propaganda.

Louie Louie: Spot on...

Louie Louie: Spot on...

اژه ای از اعدام 3 نفر از دستگیرشدگان عاشورا خبر داد

جنبش راه سبز (جرس): روزنامه اعتماد گزارش کرده که در جلسه غیرعلنی مجلس با دادستان کل کشور، محسنی اژه‌ای از اعدام قریب‌الوقوع «حداقل سه تن» از دستگیرشدگان روز عاشورا سخن گفته است.
به گزارش روزنامه اعتماد، دادستان کل کشور گفته است که دستگاه قضایی مصمم است حداقل سه تن از بازداشت‌شدگان روز عاشورا را که «محارب» شناخته شده‌اند محاکمه و حکم اعدام آنها را به اجرا درآورد.
//www.rahesabz.net/story/6865/

Video (warning, pathetic!): تظاهرات حامیان حکومت درکرمانشاه

//www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qVeghP8EC4

Faramarz_Fateh

Hi. Thanks for your suggestion. I copy/paste news titles as they are in order to report them.  I make very few editorial changes to what I post.  Many people call those murdered during the recent events martyrs and news and blog titles address them as such. 

I do see your sensitivity with the jargon used by IRI and I respect it.  Hero, Ghahreman and Delaavar are all apt and deserving words for describing the young men and women who have given their lives for Iran.  As for martyr, the meaning of the word in the dictionry is:  "a person who sacrifices something of great value and especially life itself for the sake of principle."  Would this not qualify the unarmed and brave young people of Iran who have jeopardized their life and limb for speaking their minds?

Happy New Year Mr. Fateh. I hope 2010 is a year of peace for the world and particularly for Iran.

PLEASE STOP USING MARTYR (SHAHEED)

Please leave the words like Shaheed for the Islamic SOBs of IRI.

The young people who are dying are HEROS (GHAHREMAAN, DELAAVAR) not freaking shaheeds.  

Let them blame PMOI

Sag zard baradare shoghaleh.

Re: Iran blames PMOI for Mousavi death

Next the Mullahs want to blame Pomegranate juice! POMI sucks but the blame for Mossavi is on IRI. No way to worm out of this one.

What a surprise!

Both the source and the content:

'Video of Tehran unrest vehicle assault probably fake'

The Iranian police say they have launched
an investigation into a "probably fake" video, which seems to show a
police vehicle running into a group of protesters in Tehran.....

//www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=115070&sectio...

Forget the ultra left

They love the fact that Iran is giving millions of dollars to Venezuela and Bolivia or whoever is anti West. You should read their comments on Huffington post. Some poor soul is tortured or killed in Iran and their immediate response is: So? Don't we kill our own people in USA. I have never seen or heard anybody more idiotic than them! Well maybe the teabaggers and the birthers.

Iran blames PMOI for Mousavi death

//www.upi.com/Top_News/Special/2009/12/31/Ira...

هویت یکی دیگر از جانباختگان عاشورای تهران مشخص شد

هویت یکی از جانباختگان عاشورای تهران مشخص شد.
به گزارش خبرنگار جرس، شهید شاهرخ رحمانی در روز عاشورا ودر چهار راه ولی عصر توسط خودروی نیروی انتظامی زیر گرفته شد و به شهادت رسید.
پیکر این شهید روز گذشته همزمان با پیکر شهید سیدعلی موسوی در بهشت زهرا به خاک سپرده شد.
پیگیری ها حکایت از آن دارد که خانواده شهید رحمانی توسط نیروهای امنیتی به شدت تهدید شده اند به گونه ای که در هراس از این نیروها، حاضر به هیچ گونه مصاحبه ای نیستند.
نیروهای امنیتی به شرطی پیکر این شهید را تحویل خانواده اش دادند که هیچ گونه مصاحبه ای انجام ندهند و علت درگذشت او را تنها تصادف عنوان کنند.
جرس
//www.autnews.de/node/5703
So young, so handsome, this is so sad.

Shifteh jan

"I believe this is an area where Middle East immigrants to the west can help their homelands and the world."

I couldn't agree more. Sadly though one of our biggest challenges as a nation and/or immigrant group has been our inability to unite for a common goal and set aside, even temporarily, our differences in order to push forward our own community's agenda and interests. And this is more a real problem it seems, amongst those of us who are the 'majority' of Iranians. Our minority groups seem to be a lot better at uniting. 

Sad and I'm sure a lot more complex than something that can be cured anytime soon. But I'm hopeful nonetheless and do/will do my part at least.

Noam Chomsky

To his credit, he did join the July hunger strike in New York, on invitation from Akbar Ganji, and in support of Iranian protesters.  I haven't heard much from him since then. 

Holly, the old "expert" guard is changing quickly in the world.  Some of the old timers will have to fade and they will have to be replaced with new, younger, and more worldly voices.

It has become increasingly clear how naive and uninformed US media anlysts and policy makers have been about Iran.  As they scramble to catch up, I hope a new generation of good analysts and thinkers will emerge.

Think about it, what if the reason there is no way out of the stalemate of conflicts in the Midle East is because new voices are kept out of the thinking circles and the same old "doctors" keep dispensing the same old, tired, and ineffective prescriptions for a way out?  

I believe this is an area where Middle East immigrants to the west can help their homelands and the world.

AN's appeal

His only source of appeal is his stance against Israel and imperialism and the west's despicable foreign policy moves especially in the mid east. He knows that full well and leverages it to the fullest extent knowing it appeals to and successfully manipulates the realistically ignorant 'western left' as well as many Iranians and other middle easterners. But this is not news! Sorry to digress.

Shifteh jan

I hear you but this is unfortunately the way of the world of politics and  joon to joonesham koni at the end of the day a 'politician' is just that.

Noam's been most recently busy on Gaza. I sure hope he has something respectable on Iran waiting to publish. Otherwise it will be 'disgraceful' on his part this time!

Shifteh Jan

I agree that anyone who supports murderous dictators is A.P.O.S. In the paxt I have been very critical of both right and left. You are right though for some reason Ahmadinejad really appeals to the Western left. I met an American woman months ago who told me how she liked to hear Ahmadinejad talk. She assumed that since I was Iranian I would be an AN supporter. She was shocked to hear how so many of us including me hate AN. The Western left has a guilt complex and cannot understand how we think.

They have these grand Utopian ideas which they are unwilling to try themselves. So they first put their hopes in the Soviet Union; that collapsed. Next they look to Islam to bring their Utopia; that is failing. I wonder what the hard left will do now?

Holly Jan

I guess there is human rights and then there is human rights!  What has been happening to people of Iran is not some vague report from a village somewhere which might take days and months to reach the mainstream media; it is real, live coverage of murders in broad daylight.  How long would it take anyone with a modicum of decency, let alone a Nobel Peace Laureate to watch those video clips and to state a position?  It is really disheartening.

In Mehdi Karroubi's words "Nanjoon e bandeh ham fahmeed," and we are still waiting to hear from some of these world figures.

Picture of Moussavi's

Picture of Moussavi's nephew, Ali, saying farewell to his father on his way to defend the country against Saddam's henchmen.  So sad.

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Carter is conveniently silent

He's been apologizing to Israel this month and asking for forgiveness and insisting that it is not because his grandson is now aiming for a political career in Georgia. So is it safe to assume he will remain silent on Iran for now and avoid risking further possible backlash?

Iran Police Chief “The era of tolerance is over. "

Democracy Now:

The iran section on the video beginsat around 29:00

//www.democracynow.org/2009/12/31/the_era_of_...