Tens of thousands of protesters were reported in the streets of Tehran today, clashing with police and defying government edicts warning them against public demonstration. Reports say many of the protesters wore green ribbons, in support of the failed 2009 Green Movement protests.
The protests were the first major rallies in Iran since the regional uprisings began, and protesters appeared to be fueled by the same anger about curbs on personal freedom and rising unemployment and food prices as they were everywhere else.
Of course the most noteworthy difference between the protests in Tehran and those in the rest of the region were how quickly the Obama Administration jumped on the bandwagon, praising the protests and saying that they deserve the “same rights as those in Egypt.”
Which in context probably wasn’t meant to mean that they have a right to the US supporting a tyrannical regime and vigorously opposing regime change until it was clear that it was collapsing then changing their minds and claiming support for “freedom” as a rationale.
Rather, the Obama Administration’s cheerleading for the Tehran protests, and its sudden launching of a Farsi language State Department twitter feed will likely be counterproductive to the protests, fueling a belief that they are a US backed uprising (like so many others in the region) rather than a reflection popular discontent.
The riots in Egypt was a popular movement against a government which conducted the country economy and politics just how America wanted.In Iran the riots are stirred by people incited exactly by American pro0paganda and money,against a government which looking to defend its rights against American-Israel dictate .Seems to be two opposed events.
The Evil doers must be having wet dreams about bringing in Pahlavi Junior to destroy Iran and become Zionist servant.
Ditz! shows us the massive pictures of the Greenies revolting and if there is any money left from the $350 million given by Bush? Your title should reflect the actual event—A big dud!
They don't want Iran to free itself from the mullahs. They fear a democratic republic. They fear what Mossadegh did in '52. Besides, they need a bogeyman to frighten congress into spending more money.
If our govt would just keep its mouth shut and its hands out of the cookie jar, things will be just fine…but noooo, we have the reverse Midas touch and simply must show everyone in the world how cool it is…
You realize that with every Arab nation that rebels and gains its independence, the MIC "war of terror" cash cow gets skinnier and skinnier. These people are showing them for what they are, one country at a time.
I am not sure how accurate the cited Washington Post article is. It reads like propaganda for the most part – to me.
The coverage on Al-Jazeera SUGGESTS that it is small. And strangely the only death reported so far is a killing by one of the Protesters – not the police but the protestors!. Sounds just like Mubarak's thugs – and of course Mossadegh was brought down long ago by the CIA's rent-a-thugs, remnants of which surely endure and are not immune to the $400 million Congress is pouring into Iran for regime change.
China and Syria we were also told were ripe for insurrections. Not so – not a whimper in either place so far as I can see.
As for Iran some bit of the truth can surely be found in the Hewbrew or Farsi or Arab language press.
I would look at the article in Al-Jazeera and the pictures there. Looks like a CIA job to me.
1- One of the question that Iranian people need to ask their regime and let people around the world to know is the facts about constitutional social and political freedom which says the following:
(7. Ensuring political and social freedoms within the framework of the law;
8. The participation of the entire people in determining their political, economic, social, and cultural destiny;)
In accordance they need to include their demand based on what is written in constitution; however, there is a loophole and that is where the wording “within framework of the law” is written, which is based on Quran – nic law; therefore, people are oppressed not having any social or political freedom.
2- Although the green movement is the only opposition (at this time) yet most of the intellectuals from this movement deeply been involved and are from the present regime. This scenario creates a dilemma not for the regime but rather for the uprising and those who want to have a total change in Iran and not just reforming the Islamic system. The green movement hade the chance and they could have continued organizing people without asking the regime for permits demonstrating in 2009, that’s where they lost their chance. Now people of Iran is up in their feet and demanding the same as before, reform the system, and that’s not good enough, this time they need to continue demanding a total change of a brutal and dictatorial regime with a functioning democracy for the people and by the people.
Hillary doing what she does best: being the mouthpiece for Israel. And, of course, goes without saying that, should the people of Iran prevail on gaining their democracy once again, the US would not hesitate on a replay of 1953 Part Deux. How shameful!
Unfortunately, if you go to "Press TV", the Iranian website, you'll see all kinds of news concerning popular demonstrations in the ME, but sadly they mention absolutely nothing about unrest in Tehran. It seems to me that those in power are all the same, be it, Sunni, Shia, Republican, Democrat, Christian, Jew or Hindu. Sorry if I missed a few. Power truly corrupts. I don´t think that there's a man, woman or government out there that has any wisdom or knowledge.
1- Open Letter to secretary of state Hillary Clinton, the US senate, the white House and EU governing body. What the Iranian people or for that matter rest or the middle east are suffering is because of the fact in what is called "Western democracy", a fake statement that been working for the west and its interests, playing with peoples life in middle east, north Africa for decades.., this statement have a history in wrong doing and all of it is recorded and well sealed,. The idea is not from EU but rather from both side of Atlantic ocean in cooperation, now what the state secretary Hillary Clinton is saying is what here husband and before him have said,. A concept in their interest for any regime to be changed where such change would respect the EU and US social economic and their geopolitical interests, here there is no independent nor is people who have the right or can say anything but rather the interests of the west is what must be protected.
2- That "interests" brought us the Balkan war with help from Madeline Albright and others, warmongers or whatever you want to call them. Bush regime brought us the Iraq war and now we have the peoples uprising asking for a independent, a functioning democracy in each and every country. Here, what makes US and EU governments nervous, simply is a fact from the people and by the people all over demanding for EU and US to leave them alone, demanding to take their puppets and implemented lapdogs out, let people achieve their democracy, right or wrong way history will tell, it is not your country, nor anyone for that country have given you the right to dictate what people should or have to do. So Hillary Clinton or any one from left to right in senate or for that matter in EU.., all those whom with their political portfolios in one hand and in the other holding their wallets full of paid in advance ideology can say or do anything they want, this is the peoples will. This the peoples demand. This is the people uprising, if you understand the basic concept in democracy then you would respect it, if you don’t then you know who you are.