This is an interesting blog not just about what happened today, but about how young Iranians are thinking these days. This is an excerpt:
- چیزی که من امروز دیدم یک حکومت نظامی ناب و خالص بود. خیلی وقت بود می دیدیم اما نمی خواستیم باور کنیم. ما الان داریم زیر زور سرنیزه و باتوم و گاز اشک آور زندگی می کنیم. اشک های مدام ما گواهه. اما داریم ادای انسان های آزاد رو در میاریم. ماشالله به روحیه.
چون با دوستان قرار گذاشته بودیم رفتم. منتها از ته مسیر به اول راهپیمایی(پیاده روی) کردیم. از آزادی به سمت انقلاب. اما مگه می شد شعار داد؟ نگاه های خشن مأمورا و تجهیزاتشون بهمون یادآوری می کردن که ما در چه جایگاهی قرار داریم. جایگاه متهم و جانی و شورشگر و وابسته به بیگانگان و زندانی و اعدامی بالقوه...
Read the rest here: http://z8un.com/archives/2010_06.html#002290
I have been saying over and over again during the past year in my 4 trips to Iran, that the Mullah's Murderous Regime is on thin ice. This post just proved what I have been constantly saying about the Rank and File of IRGC and Bassij's discontent with this Cruel and Inhumane Regime.
There are a GREAT NUMBER of veterans of the Iran - Iraq war who are ashamed of serving this Garbage Regime. The news piece reports that 1/3 of the IRGC and Bassij are disgusted with, and are against this regime, and I would say the number to be much, much higher. This information was given to me by the men who are still in the services of this regime, and constantly are afraid for the lives of themselves and their families just like the men on this report. These are the same people who served on the front lines in Iran - Iraq war, and now are totally disillusioned with the fast sinking regime.
If Iran did not possess oil, then the fundamentalists would probably have been overthrown long time ago. Fundamentalist are very good in some things and very bad in other things. Fundamentalists are very good in manipulating uneducated people to frenzy and mobilizing them. They are very good in suicide missions. Fundamentalist are very bad in economic development. Why? Because the fundamentalists are products of the complex mode of production in Iran. Iran’s mode of production being in part pre-modern pre-capitalist, in part modern and capitalist, and in part a combination of the two. A very large state sector exists along these modes.
Khomeini’s movement began in opposition to the Shah’s modernization programs of land reform, and female franchise in June 1963. In 1953, fundamentalists sided with the Shah and the CIA coup. This includes Ayatollah Kashani, Brujerdi, Fadaian Islam, etc.
Even after the revolution, Khomeini himself attacked Dr. Mossadegh and sided with the coup.
Khomeini himself served as the envoy between Ayatollah Uzma Brujerdi and the Shah secretly bringing Brujerdi’s messages to the Shah.
So, once fundamentalists come to power, they do not have a coherent economic plan. If Iran did not have the huge oil reserves that provides billions and billions of dollars every single year to the state, the fundamentalists could not survive.
This is an interesting blog not just about what happened today, but about how young Iranians are thinking these days. This is an excerpt:
- چیزی که من امروز دیدم یک حکومت نظامی ناب و خالص بود. خیلی وقت بود می دیدیم اما نمی خواستیم باور کنیم. ما الان داریم زیر زور سرنیزه و باتوم و گاز اشک آور زندگی می کنیم. اشک های مدام ما گواهه. اما داریم ادای انسان های آزاد رو در میاریم. ماشالله به روحیه.
چون با دوستان قرار گذاشته بودیم رفتم. منتها از ته مسیر به اول راهپیمایی(پیاده روی) کردیم. از آزادی به سمت انقلاب. اما مگه می شد شعار داد؟ نگاه های خشن مأمورا و تجهیزاتشون بهمون یادآوری می کردن که ما در چه جایگاهی قرار داریم. جایگاه متهم و جانی و شورشگر و وابسته به بیگانگان و زندانی و اعدامی بالقوه...
Read the rest here: http://z8un.com/archives/2010_06.html#002290
HRANA Report: 600 men and 300 women in 'detention'
http://www.iranian.com/main/blog/shifteh-ansari/june-12-2010-developing-news#comment-304686
I have been saying over and over again during the past year in my 4 trips to Iran, that the Mullah's Murderous Regime is on thin ice. This post just proved what I have been constantly saying about the Rank and File of IRGC and Bassij's discontent with this Cruel and Inhumane Regime.
There are a GREAT NUMBER of veterans of the Iran - Iraq war who are ashamed of serving this Garbage Regime. The news piece reports that 1/3 of the IRGC and Bassij are disgusted with, and are against this regime, and I would say the number to be much, much higher. This information was given to me by the men who are still in the services of this regime, and constantly are afraid for the lives of themselves and their families just like the men on this report. These are the same people who served on the front lines in Iran - Iraq war, and now are totally disillusioned with the fast sinking regime.
http://www.iranian.com/main/2010/jun/former-elite-officers-reveal-tensions
Cole at Tomdispatch
If Iran did not possess oil, then the fundamentalists would probably have been overthrown long time ago. Fundamentalist are very good in some things and very bad in other things. Fundamentalists are very good in manipulating uneducated people to frenzy and mobilizing them. They are very good in suicide missions. Fundamentalist are very bad in economic development. Why? Because the fundamentalists are products of the complex mode of production in Iran. Iran’s mode of production being in part pre-modern pre-capitalist, in part modern and capitalist, and in part a combination of the two. A very large state sector exists along these modes.
Khomeini’s movement began in opposition to the Shah’s modernization programs of land reform, and female franchise in June 1963. In 1953, fundamentalists sided with the Shah and the CIA coup. This includes Ayatollah Kashani, Brujerdi, Fadaian Islam, etc.
Even after the revolution, Khomeini himself attacked Dr. Mossadegh and sided with the coup.
http://www.iranian.com/main/news/2009/03/15/khomeini-supports-sheikh-fazlollah-nouri-and-attacks-mossadegh-and-jebhe-melli
Khomeini himself served as the envoy between Ayatollah Uzma Brujerdi and the Shah secretly bringing Brujerdi’s messages to the Shah.
So, once fundamentalists come to power, they do not have a coherent economic plan. If Iran did not have the huge oil reserves that provides billions and billions of dollars every single year to the state, the fundamentalists could not survive.
Winners and Losers
The major losers include Ahmadinejad and Khamenei
http://iranian.com/main/2010/jun/winners-and-losers