From the GUARDIAN:
Khameinei is going to believe your personal ambition threatened the Islamic revolution, fellah. The minute you appeared in the street, it was ALL OR NOTHING.
The Guardian Council will NEVER allow anything like this to happen again. That means increased powers for the Basij, and the IRGC, and people like A'jad.
We should be airdropping twenty million miniskirts, jeans, and tight sweaters from Rodeo Drive. They would be worth EVERY PENNY.
BIG MISTAKE DUDE.. you are going to disappear in about a year ..maybe a car accident
- Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, last night dismissed protests over last week's election as the work of "tension seekers" following a fourth day of protests in Tehran
- Posts on Twitter seemed to suggest that there were still pockets of unrest. One user who has been posting messages about the situation in Tehran said there had been reports of street fighting in Azadi square and the surrounding streets with pepper gas being used by security forces. Earlier the poster said hundreds had been arrested during the day, and that as the night wore on Basij militamen were causing trouble.
- As the night went on the user posted: "Our lives are in real danger now - we are the eyes - they need to stop us."
- But numbers on the streets yesterday were far fewer than the 500,000 to 1 million who took part in a mass opposition protest in the capital on Monday
- Ominously, the government ordered foreign journalists not permanently based in Iran to leave the country at once, and banned resident correspondents from reporting from the streets, a move seen as possibly heralding an intensification of the crackdown.
- The regime appeared to be following a dual strategy of partial concessions on Friday's vote combined with arrests of opposition figures who could give coherence to the protests. Those detained yesterday included Muhammad Ali Abtahi and Saeed Hajarian, both Mousavi supporters.
- In his remarks, Khamenei called for tolerance and said those disputing the result were tarnishing the "beautiful" image created by the record 85% turnout.
- Mousavi had appealed to his supporters to stay off the streets and remain peaceful.
Khameinei is going to believe your personal ambition threatened the Islamic revolution, fellah. The minute you appeared in the street, it was ALL OR NOTHING.
The Guardian Council will NEVER allow anything like this to happen again. That means increased powers for the Basij, and the IRGC, and people like A'jad.
We should be airdropping twenty million miniskirts, jeans, and tight sweaters from Rodeo Drive. They would be worth EVERY PENNY.
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via HotAir.com Senior Iranian cleric calls regime “illegitimate”
The Iranian crisis took a promising turn overnight as the senior ayatollah in Iran blasted the regime and its machinations over the election. Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, at one time under consideration to replace Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini as Supreme Leader, wrote on his website that the official results were so ludicrous that no one could believe them. He attacked the Guardian Council itself, saying that they had proved themselves illegitimate through their clumsy attempt to grasp power:
Supporters of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his main rival in the disputed presidential election, Mir Hossein Mousavi, massed in competing rallies Tuesday as the country’s most senior Islamic cleric threw his weight behind opposition charges that Ahmadinejad’s re-election was rigged.
“No one in their right mind can believe” the official results from Friday’s contest, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri said of the landslide victory claimed by Ahmadinejad. Montazeri accused the regime of handling Mousavi’s charges of fraud and the massive protests of his backers “in the worst way possible.”
“A government not respecting people’s vote has no religious or political legitimacy,” he declared in comments on his official Web site. “I ask the police and army personals (personnel) not to ’sell their religion,’ and beware that receiving orders will not excuse them before God.”
Montazeri had fallen out of grace with the Guardian Council years ago. He had the temerity (and bad timing) to criticize the human-rights abuses of the Khomeini regime while Khomeini was alive, which prompted Khomeini to push Montazeri out and put Ali Khamenei in his place. The Guardian Council had him placed under house arrest for his dissent a few years ago, but it has not kept Montazeri from speaking his mind, nor has the Guardian Council taken steps to strip him of his status as an eminence grise.
His dissent at this time would not be unexpected, but perhaps the strength of his argument might be. Montazeri certainly doesn’t hold much back in this statement, accusing the Guardian Council and the regime of stupidity, illegitimacy, and un-Islamic practice. About the only way he could make it worse is by accusing them of having pork luaus in Tehran.
The protestors will certainly take heart from Montazeri’s words, but we will see whether his exhortation to the police and the Revolutionary Guard “not to sell their religion” and to refrain from oppression have any real effect. Those who agreed with Montazeri before now probably no longer work in those jobs, and those who remained likely are the “true believers” in the regime. At this point, though, Montazeri’s statement at least gives dissenters some religious basis, which could boost morale and keep the movement in motion.
There is no doubt at least at one time Montazeri was a heavyweight.
But since they all hate us, what does it all mean unless it starts a revolution, which every history student knows, always CHANGES direction as it evolves as minority motives exert themselves
Fox is now reporting he is calling for the biggest demo yet tmw.
Nothing to lose.
I guess he finally figured that out.
I wonder how they are going to neutralize him?
Maybe they will get to a supporter .. someone publicly a backer.
I notice two big names that lined up with Mousavi are SILENT. Former prez's Khatami and Rafsanjani
He must have figured it out when those two went silent.
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