Iran's Competing Rallies Use Widely Different Tactics

GlobalPost:

TEHRAN -- With cellphone connections disrupted and SMS services shut off by the government, Mousavi demonstrators at the historic rallies in the capital passed the details of their next rally from person-to-person, by word of mouth: Tuesday, 5 p.m., at Vali Asr Square.

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[mergina]

I hope they continue and just get larger shutting the country down UNTIL THE WILL OF THE PEOPLE IS HONOURED. FREEEEEEEE­DDOOOOOOOM­MMMMMMMM!

[TCL58]

Iranians are discovering that they will be left alone, by the U.S.A. and EU nations, to face prison, torture, firing squads and many years to come of totalitarism, exactly as Hungary found it in 1956.
I don't care for Mousavi. After all he is a member of the same religious crowd and was prime-minister during the horrors of the war with Irak. Mousavi and Ahmadinejad are two branches from the same tree.
But the people in the street!!! The young, the not so young, the women in black in line to vote, they are the real thing and they are the ones we are leaving behind.
Their hopes, their dreams are being crushed at the same time by Iran's Guardian Council and by our collective treason of the Human Rights Principles

[SkyCap]

So...what do we do? Endorse the rioters and give the ruling party a chance to use the US as a scapegoat for the unrest? Invade? What? huh? tell us. You just wanna hurl criticism and you don't have any better solution. I wish something could be done, but things aren't so simple.

[PoliticalAmazon]

They will be left alone because Iranians are not toddlers needing mommy to come rescue them.

Obama is taking the right course with Iran. Americans are very different from Iranians, and most Americans don't even comprehend that they are different, let alone how incredibly different they are.

Iranians are people with incredible resolve. Iran rose from the Persian empire; the first faith was Zoastorism. One of the concepts of that belief is that it is the people's duty to be loyal to a just leader, if that leader is just, and brings prosperity and happiness to the country. If the leader doesn't, it is the peoples' honor, responsibility and duty to remove him from power an install a leader who will be just, and bring prosperity and happiness.

Akmadinijad and his supporters need to manifest their full a$$hattery because that will prove to the Iranians that it is time to take action. I believe they've already crossed that threshhold.

Akmadinijad leaving for Russia is a clear indication that the game is over.

Mousavi is the default choice, but if he was not a just leader, they would have found someone else. The vote was really a polite FYI to Akmadinijad that his services were no longer needed.

I don't sense that the Iranians want to get rid of the theocracy. It[s theocracy keeping the See Eye Aye from effecting another c o up, as they did when they removed Mossadegh, a very popular, just, man, and a terrific leader.

[dsws]

Got squid?

[QuietLightTraveler]

I don't know what is going on in Iran, but if history has ever taught us anything, Theocracies have no place in a modern world, especially islamic ones, because of the nature of their extremism. They must be eliminated. How can the world sit by and let these maniacs develop nuclear weapons? Are you willing to let crazy people who blow themselves up all the time just to kill others have nuclear weapons? If we allow that, we are crazier than they are.

[Khirad]

You're crazy to think they'd do that -- that would be Iran's assured annihilation -- even the mullahs know that. But you're right about Theocracies having no place -- anywhere.

[Furby]

"Are you willing to let crazy people...."

Point taken. A man like George W Bush should never have that kind of power because he would invade a country for oil. How does that make the rest of the world feel about their own security? Not too good, as you can see. The world has now decided the best way to protect themselves from the U.S. is to develop nuclear weapons. It's a sad state of affairs.

[SkyCap]

I'm no fan of GWB, and neocons are dangerous, but you act as if Iran and N. Korea are legitimate regimes and fully justified in their aggressive posturing toward the West. Even without GWB, these places would still be harsh dictatorships full of injustice. Don't legitimize them by blaming their bad behavior on Bush. That's not helpful.

[PoliticalAmazon]

"Theocracies have no place in a modern world." Why do you think that applies to Iran? Iranians don't have the romantic yearning that Americans have for democracy. It's a foreign concept to them, and one they manifest very differently than we do. Iranians do all right under autocratic rule, and autocracy stabilzes a Middle Eastern country.

Your judgments seem to come from an anglocentric reference point, and don't take into consideration the differences in culture. Iranians, even Ayatollahs and mullaghs, are not as a rule "maniacs." Every group has their goof-ball, but it's not the norm.

It is theocracy that has kept the See Eye Aye from effecting another c ou p and installing another puppet president, turning Iran again into a pseudo-Ame­rican-colo­ny rules by an American puppet.

If you want to talk about crazies, you might want to focus on the extremist Christians in America. They are far more of a threat to our country than Iranians who are, for the most part, loyal, intelligent, very accomplished, and very compassionate people.

[Hayduke1969]

Indeed. Democracy is a not the natural or desired condition for most societies. I'd wager that a good 20% of my fellow citizens would happily trade in democracy for a theocracy led by a Southern Baptist Ayatollah with a bad comb-over.

[ezbreezer]

Israel = nuclear armed theocracy

[SlimPickins79]

wow....