Monday, June 22, 2009

Is There A Split In The Iranian Revolutionary Guard?

From Allah at Hot Air:

No verification on this, but it’s potentially so huge that I’m tossing it out there anyway.

According to unconfirmed reports in Balatarin [Farsi] , Gen. Ali Fazli, the head of revolutionary guards in Tehran, has been arrested after refusing to execute Khamenei’s order of using force against demonstrators in Tehran. He is a war veteran who lost an eye during the Iran-Iraq war.

Update: The regime counters Mousavi’s call for a strike by reportedly announcing that anyone who doesn’t come to work tomorrow is fired.

7 comments:

Always On Watch said...

I was just about to post this.

You beat me to it. LOL.

Pastorius said...

Where did you see it?

If there are other sources on this, we should add them.

Always On Watch said...

Same source, but via Flopping Aces.

andre79 said...

Looks more and more like the Romanian revolution.

Pastorius said...

Andre,
Perhaps, and I hope so.

You know what's interesting? I lived through that. I'm in my mid-forties. I lived the through the fall of Communism. And, I was happy to see all that happen. And, I did watch the events unfold on TV.

However, I have always had an aversion to the passive exercise of watching TV.

It is much more satisfying to be able to hunt down this information, and to be involved in helping to distribute it, the MSM be damned.

Epaminondas said...

Thoughts on that (after being away)...

If the IRGC is split we may have a cynical calculation by someone inside that knows more than we can imagine that a tipping point has been reached.

These boyz will be the first strung up if there is a French Revolution and someone may have a fine sense of survival.

OR....they are smoking out weak links inside (that is what the Cheka used to do in the 20's)

Or...someone like a quiet conservative living in a blue state has decided to roll'em and try to change the world

Odds this is correct?
10% or less... but boy do I hope that is a true story

Always On Watch said...

I don't have time to post the following in a separate post. Maybe somebody else can do so?

From this source:

A commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards has been arrested for refusing to obey Iran's Supreme Leader, according to reports from the Balatarin website.

General Ali Fazli, who was recently appointed as a commander of the Revolutionary Guards in the province of Tehran, is reported to have been arrested after he refused to carry out orders from the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei to use force on people protesting the controversial re-election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.


A commander!!!