Iran marks 30th anniversary of revolution
The Associated Press
31-Jan-2009 (one comment)

Iran began 10 days of festivities on Saturday marking the 30th anniversary of its Islamic revolution that toppled the U.S.-backed shah and brought hard-line clerics to power.  But pro-democracy reformists, who have been kicked out of power by hard-liners in recent years, complained that those running the country have failed to bring freedom and justice to Iran.  The anniversary festivities — known as the "Ten Days of Dawn" — highlight the homecoming of the late Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, whose return to Iran sparked mass protests that led to the ouster of the shah in 1979.

Church and school bells rang out mixing with the wail of train and boat sirens at 9:33 a.m. — the time Khomeini touched down 30 years ago at Tehran's Mehrabad Airport aboard a chartered Air France plane after 14 years in exile. Ten days later, the shah's monarchial rule effectively collapsed following nationwide protests.

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Mehdi Mazloom

Celebrate what?.

by Mehdi Mazloom on Sun Feb 01, 2009 08:56 PM PST

What the world these morons in Tehran have to show for to justify 10 days of celebrations.?

Just ask 80% of the Iranians, are they really celebrating this day of infamy. A day which Iran was set back 1000 years, back to the dark ages of fundamentalism, and oppression.

Are Iranians better off today, then even under the brutal regime of late shah.

What is there for millions and million poor Iranian young and highly educated man and woman to celebrate. Unemployment, or submission to the religious police in the streets of Tehran, Mash-had, Kashan, or tabriz. Their basic freedom to be what the creator had given to all of us. The desire to fall in love, and marry his / her choice, instead of through that despicable system of khaste-gari.

freedom to speak their mind granted to other youth of their ages throughout the rest of the world.

What those millions of hard working Iranian have to celebrate when their money loses its value by the day. Gasoline is rationed in a country which floats on oil like an island.

Celebrate Iran for being treated like an outcast state, shunned and condemned, now even ridiculed by the rest of the civilized world - all because, poor Iranians made the tragic mistake and believed the panacea which the late Khomeini had promised them, to which never he or his succesors had delivered?.


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