1.0 link 232167 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/amb-marc-ginsberg/a-cabal-in-the-college-of_b_232167.html Supported by the Revolutionary Guards and its Basij Miliitia (the equivalent of its Gestapo/SS), the Supreme Leader's iron-fisted tactics are beginning to resemble what the revolution was supposed to have overthrown -- the worst vestiges of the dreaded Shah's secret police state built around the notorious SAVAK. In the face of the continued repression, the latest courageous Tehran street demonstrations and the civil disobedience taking root from the rooftops of homes throughout Iran is important confirmation that the sinister baton-swinging...

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