2506 More from Iran

Friday, July 17, 2009

Robert Orben: "Illegal aliens have always been
a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian."

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Iran was at the top of the news after the election, but dropped out of sight for a while. Even if the news has been silent, the Iranian people haven't been.

From The Huffington Post, at http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/13/iran-uprising-blogging_n_230402.html

"Former president Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a powerful cleric in Iran who supports reformist Mir Hossein Mousavi, delivered the Friday sermon in Tehran today for the first time since June's presidential election. The sermon was heavily attended; many thousands of people are now demonstrating in the city, and reports indicate that riot police are out in large numbers, using tear gas and batons."

Frequently updated, including video clips. If you're interested, go read.

This part was good:

"Traditionally, there's this guy at the Friday prayers whom people mockingly call 'vazireh shoaar', or the minister of slogans. His job is to shout slogans through loudspeakers and lead the crowd to chant death to America or Israel or whoever after him. In this clip you hear the crowd going flatly against him as he desperately cycles through the usual slogans (death to America, death to Israel, death to England and so on), and regardless of what he shouts, the crowd keeps repeating one chant: 'marg bar roosiyeh' (Death to Russia) !!

The chants against Russia and China -- whose governments have both recognized Ahmadinejad's election victory -- were widely used today. As noted below by a reader, the strategic benefit here seems to be associating the Iran's government with a foreign power, just as the government is trying to do to tar the reformists."

Good for them.
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