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Keep Watching Iran

Abulsme — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 08:22:41 +0000

I haven’t even bothered trying to check TV news for this stuff. From what I hear, they once again aren’t paying attention, but there is plenty online.

Informed Comment: Iran Roiled, Crowds Burn Banks, Police Station; Chanting against Theocrat Khamenei; But No Revolutionary Alternative Yet.

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The chanting on Sunday turned against Ayatollah Ali Khamenei himself, not just against President Ahmadinejad. He was castigated as the Dictator and as worse than the old shah, and the very ideological basis of the regime, the doctrine of clerical rule, was chanted against in the streets. The legitimacy of the regime, profoundly shaken by the events since early June’s presidential election, is now being shredded further.

Another remarkable dimension of Sunday’s events was the sheer number of cities where significant rallies and clashes occurred. Some of those allegedly killed are said to have fallen in Tabriz, a northwestern metropolis near Turkey. Even conservative cities such as Isfahan and Mashhad joined in. Shiraz, Ardabil, the list goes on. The attempt of some analysts to paint the disturbances as a shi-shi North Tehran thing has clearly foundered.

The most ominous sign of all for the regime is the reports of security men refusing orders to fire into the crowd.

But for the movement to go further and become truly revolutionary, it would have to have a leader who wanted to overthrow the old regime and who could attract the loyalty of both the people and elements of the armed forces. So far this key revolutionary element, of dual sovereignty, has been lacking, insofar as opposition leaders Mir Hosain Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi have tried to stay inside the Khomeinist framework while arguing that it is Khamenei who violated it by making it too authoritarian.

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Something is Happening in Iran (again)

Abulsme — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 18:14:25 +0000

Over the last week or so things have been building up again. Time to once again turn eyes in that direction.

http://www.pheedcontent.com/click.phdo?i=a121f30ec7303dbc36ec47b514b95c73

(The Daily Dish)

A moment to savor: the marching crowd manages to turn back the regime’s thugs, and as a riot cop helmet is grabbed, a roar of excitement spills out of the crowd.

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A Time Warp One Week in the Past

Abulsme — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 18:08:09 +0000

In the latest Curmudgeon’s Corner…

Sam and Ivan talk about:

Iran News
Saturn Dies
Olympics to Rio
Reading the News
Roman Polanski Case
Brooke Shields Photos

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Five by Ten

Abulsme — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 22:59:48 +0000