Comments on: Tehran ‘Eerily Calm’ – Death Toll At 17

By: bronzeprofessor

bronzeprofessor — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 21:26:50 +0000

Sadly, one of the stories I came across — I think it was WSJ — had the sentence: “in a crackdown, police and state troops brought calm to Teheran.” Stunned, I went back to the same page later and saw the writer had changed his wording to sound less twisted.

By: MinnesotaRush

MinnesotaRush — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:04:27 +0000

o-blah-blah (the putz) will step in for sure when they start waterboarding.

Uh huh. Righhhhhhht.

By: tranquil.night

tranquil.night — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 17:48:49 +0000

That was mostly just yesterday when it was widely acknowledged that the cheese hit the fan. There’s been countless arrests – which probably means torture – and raids of university students, protesters, and civ reporters since day one as the regime tried it’s damndest to scare, disrupt, and isolate the people into not letting it get to this point. If Khamenei/Ahmadi falls I wouldn’t be surprised to see human rights violations much worse than we know – although it’d be hard to match Saddam.

By: beautyofreason

beautyofreason — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:55:49 +0000

“These ‘holymen’ cannot be shamed or embarrassed into relinquishing their grip on Iran. ”

Of course. In the last day I have heard accounts from Iranian bloggers and video posts showing many human rights abuses, including:

16-year-old girl sniped and killed from militia from a rooftop
Helicopters dumping lye or another caustic chemical onto crowds
Gunmen randomly firing into crowds
Water hoses shot into crowds
Several dead unarmed young men
Estimates of dead range from 17 (Iranian government) to 150 (unconfirmed)
Basij busting down the doors at night of people suspected to participate in the protests
Wide swaths of arrested protesters sent to Evin prison (a political prison known for torture)
Stationing basij around foreign embassies that have opened their doors to treat wounded
Iranian slam on all media leaking out from the country (internet, journalists, etc)
Iranian Press TV refers to protesters and dead as “terrorists groups” clashing with police

The mullahs are not holy, yet they will present their cooked election and bloodshed as the will of their god, as tyrants heading theocracies can so easily do. The election was already unfair because it eliminated most reformist candidates and represents only a small percentage of the political power of Iran – much unelectable. Yet the government cooked the numbers anyway. They have no shame.

By: Media_man

Media_man — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 16:36:02 +0000

Through his weak and tepid response to the incredible bravery of the Iran protesters, Obama has been revealed as the clueless jug eared idiot that he is. This is Obama’s Katrina moment. He’s toast.