Iran has been responsible for the spread of terrorism, including the support of Hezbollah and the Mahdi Army in Iraq. (http://sfcmac.wordpress.com/2008/05/28/irans-contribution-to-terrorism-in-iraq/)
I’d have rather seen Iran vaporized along with several other ME countries on 12 September 2001, but if there’s a chance we can help destroy the Islamofascist bastards and bring democratic reform from within, lets do it.
The latest on the crackdown on freedom:
UPDATE:
Iranian government thugs reportedly hang Mousavi supporters.
As the Iranian authorities warned the opposition on Tuesday that they would tolerate no further protests over the disputed June 12 presidential elections, a report emerged of the hangings of six supporters of defeated candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi.
Speaking after Iran’s top legislative body upheld the election victory of incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, sources in Iran told this reporter in a telephone interview that the hangings took place in the holy city of Mashhad on Monday. There was no independent confirmation of the report.……Underlining the climate of fear among direct and even indirect supporters of Mousavi’s campaign for the election to be annulled, the sources also reported that a prominent cleric gave a speech to opposition protesters in Teheran earlier this week in which he publicly acknowledged that the very act of speaking at the gathering would likely cost him his life.
……On Monday, witnesses said thousands of policemen and Basij militiamen carrying batons were deployed in Teheran’s main squares to prevent any recurrence of the opposition protests. Drivers who so much as shouted “Allahu Akbar” or beeped their horns had their windows smashed by the Basiji and riot police.
……”Some people are still going out into the streets, but there is despair and sadness,” said one source.
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246296541275&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
UPDATE
Iran’s feared Basij militia asked the country’s chief prosecutor Wednesday to investigate embattled opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi for his role in violent protests that it said undermined national security in the aftermath of last month’s presidential election.
The semiofficial Fars news agency said the militia — known as supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s street enforcers — sent the prosecutor a letter accusing Mousavi of taking part in nine offenses against the state, including “disturbing the nation’s security,” which carries a maximum penalty of 10 years’ imprisonment.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529670,00.html
UPDATE
Iranian authorities have banned a newspaper allied to presidential candidate Mehdi Karroubi after he denounced Iran’s government as “illegitimate” because of claims of voting fraud in last month’s election, a reformist political group said Wednesday.
The closure of the daily Etemad-e-Melli, or National Confidence, is another blow by officials seeking to block media and Web sites critical of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, whose disputed June 12 re-election was confirmed this week by Iran’s powerful Guardian Council.
……It’s unclear how many people have been detained during the post-election riots and protests, but at least one group, the Paris-based International Federation of Human Rights, claimed at least 2,000 arrests have been made. Officials place the death toll at 17 protesters and eight security forces, but the figures could be not independently verified because of media restrictions.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529662,00.html
UPDATE
Mahmoud says Neda’s death “suspicious”. Especially since it was a government assassin who took her out, ya swarthy fuck.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad asked Iran’s cleric-controlled judiciary on Monday to investigate the killing of Neda Agha Soltan, who became an icon of Iran’s ragtag opposition after gruesome video of her bleeding to death on a Tehran street was circulated worldwide.
Ahmadinejad’s Web site said Soltan was slain by “unknown agents and in a suspicious” way, convincing him that “enemies of the nation” were responsible.
The regime has implicated protesters and even foreign intelligence agents in Soltan’s death. But an Iranian doctor who said he tried to save her told the BBC last week she apparently was shot by a member of the volunteer Basij militia. Protesters spotted an armed member of the militia on a motorcycle, and stopped and disarmed him, Dr. Arash Hejazi said.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529391,00.html
The investigation will be conducted by the same thugs who did the “recount”.
The protests against the election fraud continue.
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