Protests spring up in Iran...quelled with violence

[transplant99]

Security forces attacked demonstrators Monday who were protesting the regime of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, witnesses said.

Security forces in uniform and plain-clothed members of the pro-government Basij militia rushed toward crowds chanting "Death to the dictator!" at Imam Hossein Square, the planned starting point of a scheduled rally, a witness said. Several people were hit while the bulk were chased away, the witness said.

Clashes also erupted in front of Tehran University, where security forces dispersed crowds by firing tear gas and paint-ball guns, a witness said. Police detained several protesters, the witness said

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast/...ex.html?hpt=T2

[North East Goon]

They have to come out in massive numbers like millions to make any impact there.

[TylerSVT]

Yea pretty much the whole country needs to revolt if things are going to change.

[Delthefunky]

Sounds like 1500 people were arrested

http://www.payvand.com/news/11/feb/1145.html

[CaptainCrunch]

And anyone is surprised.

I think that they're are going to be a lot of tired guards tonight with all the floggings and beatings that are going to happen.

[mykalberta]

Iran is where Egypt will be in 20 years.

These are the tactics Mubarek should have used the first day it started in Egypt.

[burn_this_city]

Good call, he should have put them down like a pack of rabid dogs.

I find it somewhat humorous the rise of the Egyptian Islamic caliphate has been delayed from immediately to 20 years, whew what a relief.

[blankall]

Originally Posted by North East Goon

They have to come out in massive numbers like millions to make any impact there.

Very difficult to organize anything large in Iran as the country is controlled by thought police. When your neighbour is a spy for the government reporting everything you say or do, it makes it tough to get the ball rolling.

[Pinner]

Originally Posted by burn_this_city

Good call, he should have put them down like a pack of Sled dogs.

fyp

[blankall]

Originally Posted by Pinner

fyp

too soon....alright i laughed a little, although it was the most awful thing I've heard this week

[SeeBass]

on a side note we get Al Jezeera on Bell now ch516

[HOZ]

This piece on Revolutions is very relevant to recent events everywhere even though it is mainly focused on Egypt. It gives a run down of Toqueville's thesis of the revolution.

You say you want a revolution?

Fitful and semi-effective autocratic reformers whet people's hopes for a better future, but cannot satisfy the expectations they arouse. Their own semi-effective reforms unleash the forces that overthrow them. Then the liberal reform regime is in turn swept away by the true revolutionaries, who do not want a liberal "bourgeois" revolution like the American revolution, but want to revoke both traditional authority and the half-completed modernization in favor of a populist collective.

[T@T]

What a bunch of freaks running that country. Members of the Iranian parliament issued fiery chants against opposition leaders Mehdi Karrubi and Mir Hossein Moussavi chanting "Moussavi, Karrubi ... execute them."