Hundreds of thousands of Iranians took to the streets of central Tehran today to mark the 31st anniversary of the Iranian revolution. The streets were also filled with security forces, anticipating a large turnout of opposition protesters.
But while there were clashes and arrests reported in several areas around Tehran, it was unclear how large the opposition presence ever actually got. The opposition officially insisted that there were massive numbers of them in the crowd, while would-be protesters expressed disappointment at the small numbers, with many apparently staying away fearing the security crackdown.
Some analysts had expected that today’s massive rallies could be a game-changer for the Iranian opposition, with massive numbers of Iranians on both sides of the issue in close proximity.
But while exact details of what it happening on the ground in Tehran are murky, at best, owing to government censorship of non-state media, the opposition rallies and the clashes appear to have been much, much smaller than previous incidents in the nation.
There is no queston that the majority of Iranians are supporting the government,it is a wishfull thinking that the so called oppositon has wide spread support among the Iranian masses. The opposition is a bunch of spoiled rich kids mainly from the northern Tehran,they donot work and live with their parants,over sexed and over fed,and bored to death. American-Iranian relation could create l,000,000 jobs for the American wrokers.Remember the oppositon is fabricated by the ,Musad,and has no credibility among the masses.
The U.S. NED is pouring millions of dollars into Iran to destabilize its democratically elected government on behalf of oil and Israel:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/hossein-derakhshan/…
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0609/23745.h…
This propandizing of Iran is resttricted to the commands upon the US by Israel and American Jews. The Oil companies and refining industry have nothing to do with demanding that the Straits of Hormuz be closed to refined oil and gas or the shipping of oil to the West. Regime change is the demand of Israel. America is requested by Israel and American Jews that Israel continues its nuclear hegemony over the Arab and Persian countries. Oil is of no significance in this demand to embargo Iran and change the Government of Iran. Incidentally, where did the last Obama $20 million tax dollars go in Iran — to whom or which organization?
Note that there was a post online saying as of October 2009, the US government had cut funding to the Iranian opposition. No info on how much of the funding was cut, or how much the original funding was. Does anyone know? Does anyone still believe anything this government says?
It is about time for our government in America to stop meddling in the affairs of the other nation at the same time our country America is going bankcurrupt
People in Iran want reform, as naturally they would. Does that mean they want Moussavi and Rafsanjani? DOUBT IT.
Meanwhile brave reformers in Honduras continue to be murdered, tortured, and otherwise oppressed. Where is the concern for their fates? Don't argue that the US shouldn't involve itself – it's already up to its neck in supporting the oppression.
Do not omit the fact that the US is demanding "human rights" for the Iranian opposition while at the same time the US is agreeing with Israel that the citizens of Gaza should have no "human rights" such as medicines, shelter and food. Is it any wonder that the Arab and Persian nations consider the United States as a nation of hypocrits?
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If what Joe Klein of Time Magazine once said “Iranians are News junkies” is right, the Iranian protestors must have read about those American polls and compared it with countless Twitter messages they were bombarded by on the Election days, telling them about the “Mousavi won with 63%, Ahmadi got 14%”, “stolen election”, “Where is my vote”, “Ahmadi’s coup to rig the vote”, “I wrote Mousavi they read Ahmadi” etc.
Some of them also must have read the translations of articles by Paul Craig Roberts, Flynt and Hillary Leveretts and others revealing the universal widespread Lies and half-truths of the West’s corporate media.
Some of the Iranians could’ve also read on the allegations of Ari Ben Menashe (the Israeli Government/Intelligence insider ) in his book entitled “Profits of War”. He mentions on the links of Rafsanjani, Karroubi and Mousavi with Israel and USA. (He also alleges Mousavi’s friend (Manouchehr Ghorbani) was (is?) a CIA agent).
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It is probable the Iranian protestors who were exposed to similar information realized who was really behind the Green (Kenneth Timmerman’s Group and many others) and the “gross lies” or brainwashing tactics which humiliatingly deceived them and their friends. It is possible they concluded “for now we have to accept the will of the majority”.
As one of them commented in a blog “We were shafted once again by those ruthless warmongering foreigners”.
The next steps of Iranian protesters will show how mature they are in adopting a civil purely Iranian approach towards a real independence and a true secular federal democracy.