Iran's opposition calls for renewed street protests
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Wed Feb 09, 2011 7:13 am » by Proto
Iran's opposition green movement calls for renewed street protests
Iran's opposition has called for renewed street protests next week on the back of the wave of demonstrations that have swept across the Middle East.
Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, the leaders of the green movement in Iran, have issued a call for what they have described as "a solidarity move to support the protests in two Muslim countries of Egypt and Tunisia" on Monday.
The green movement staged a series of mass demonstrations for several weeks in 2009, following a disputed presidential election that gave Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a second term in office. Tehran and other major cities saw the biggest popular uprising in the history of the Islamic Republic.
In a joint letter addressed to Iran's interior minister, Mustafa Mohammad Najjar, Mousavi and Karroubi have asked permission to stage a march from Imam Hossein Square to Azadi (or Freedom) Square in central Tehran.
On his official website, Mousavi has likened the protests in Egypt and Tunisia to those in Iran in 2009. "Undoubtedly, the starting point of what we are witnessing in the streets of Tunis, Sana'a, Cairo, Alexandria and Suez should be seen in the Iranian protests," he said.
"The Middle East is on the threshold of great events these days that could affect the fate of the region and the world." .
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has hailed the Egyptian uprising and said that it was inspired by the Islamic revolution in 1979.
"Today's events in the north of Africa, Egypt, Tunisia and certain other countries have another sense for the Iranian nation. They have special meaning. This is the same Islamic awakening which resulted in the victory of the big revolution of the Iranian nation," he was quoted by the IRNA state news agency as saying at his Friday prayer sermon last week.
It is unlikely that Ahmadinejad's government will give permission for the opposition protest, but the leaders of the green movement are using the request to reach out to the public. Iran's constitution allows for peaceful demonstrations.
The call has been welcomed by Iran's huge online community, which has already started to promote it via social networking websites and in blogs. Flyers and posters are being designed by anonymous supporters of the green movement who have distributed them among internet users.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/fe ... CMP=twt_gu
Viva la revolution
Iran's opposition has called for renewed street protests next week on the back of the wave of demonstrations that have swept across the Middle East.
Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, the leaders of the green movement in Iran, have issued a call for what they have described as "a solidarity move to support the protests in two Muslim countries of Egypt and Tunisia" on Monday.
The green movement staged a series of mass demonstrations for several weeks in 2009, following a disputed presidential election that gave Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a second term in office. Tehran and other major cities saw the biggest popular uprising in the history of the Islamic Republic.
In a joint letter addressed to Iran's interior minister, Mustafa Mohammad Najjar, Mousavi and Karroubi have asked permission to stage a march from Imam Hossein Square to Azadi (or Freedom) Square in central Tehran.
On his official website, Mousavi has likened the protests in Egypt and Tunisia to those in Iran in 2009. "Undoubtedly, the starting point of what we are witnessing in the streets of Tunis, Sana'a, Cairo, Alexandria and Suez should be seen in the Iranian protests," he said.
"The Middle East is on the threshold of great events these days that could affect the fate of the region and the world." .
Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has hailed the Egyptian uprising and said that it was inspired by the Islamic revolution in 1979.
"Today's events in the north of Africa, Egypt, Tunisia and certain other countries have another sense for the Iranian nation. They have special meaning. This is the same Islamic awakening which resulted in the victory of the big revolution of the Iranian nation," he was quoted by the IRNA state news agency as saying at his Friday prayer sermon last week.
It is unlikely that Ahmadinejad's government will give permission for the opposition protest, but the leaders of the green movement are using the request to reach out to the public. Iran's constitution allows for peaceful demonstrations.
The call has been welcomed by Iran's huge online community, which has already started to promote it via social networking websites and in blogs. Flyers and posters are being designed by anonymous supporters of the green movement who have distributed them among internet users.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/fe ... CMP=twt_gu
Viva la revolution
Wed Feb 09, 2011 4:49 pm » by Proto
tntbw wrote:All the people in the Middle East need to get together and party, maybe have a pig roast with plenty of booze.
I'm all for parties ,but ,LOL, pig roast ? i have a "feeling" some participants wont like it.
heh
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Wed Feb 09, 2011 5:01 pm » by Mediasorcerer
yeh,they could do it in the gaza strip!!!!!next to the wall,the aparteid wall,and use the dead bodies for a barbecue.
with the power of soul,anything is possible
with the power of you,anything that you wanna do
with the power of you,anything that you wanna do
Wed Feb 09, 2011 5:18 pm » by Proto
Actually yes , but because you are so detached from reality ,you cant
even read the real situation in Gaza correctly ...
Thousands support 'day of rage' against Hamas
Facebook group ' Revolution of Honor' urges Gaza's residents to take to streets. Fatah lauds initiative.
Inspired by the recent uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, a Facebook group called "The Revolution of Honor – Gaza" has called for a "day of rage" next Friday to protest against the Hamas government which rules the coastal enclave.
The group has grown to some 10,000 members just three days after it was launched.
The group's Facebook page features hate slogans directed against Hamas and its leader Ismail Haniyeh, a photo Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas beside another photo of Che Guevara, as well as detailed instructions on how to promote the 'day of rage' using YouTube, Twitter, emails and banners.
The Facebook page mysteriously vanished Thursday evening, but its initiators quickly set up a new one and said they would not back down from their plan to encourage Gaza's residents to take to the streets.
Hamas allowed about a thousand Palestinians to hold a demonstration against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. "Mubarak, you must leave," the protestors chanted.
However, police dispersed those protestors who called for Mubarak's resignation and arrested four of them.
http://www.ynet.co.il/english/Ext/Comp/ ... 06,00.html
VIVA LA REVOLUTION
even read the real situation in Gaza correctly ...
Thousands support 'day of rage' against Hamas
Facebook group ' Revolution of Honor' urges Gaza's residents to take to streets. Fatah lauds initiative.
Inspired by the recent uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, a Facebook group called "The Revolution of Honor – Gaza" has called for a "day of rage" next Friday to protest against the Hamas government which rules the coastal enclave.
The group has grown to some 10,000 members just three days after it was launched.
The group's Facebook page features hate slogans directed against Hamas and its leader Ismail Haniyeh, a photo Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas beside another photo of Che Guevara, as well as detailed instructions on how to promote the 'day of rage' using YouTube, Twitter, emails and banners.
The Facebook page mysteriously vanished Thursday evening, but its initiators quickly set up a new one and said they would not back down from their plan to encourage Gaza's residents to take to the streets.
Hamas allowed about a thousand Palestinians to hold a demonstration against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. "Mubarak, you must leave," the protestors chanted.
However, police dispersed those protestors who called for Mubarak's resignation and arrested four of them.
http://www.ynet.co.il/english/Ext/Comp/ ... 06,00.html
VIVA LA REVOLUTION
Sun Feb 13, 2011 5:46 pm » by Proto
Iran Government tightens grip to prevent planned demonstration on Monday
“The government is doing all it can to intimidate Iranians and deny their right to peaceful assembly. With recent events in Egypt, we see another round of repression in Iran aimed at silencing a people frustrated and dissatisfied by the denial of their human rights,” said Hadi Ghaemi, the Campaign’s spokesperson.
http://en.irangreenvoice.com/article/2011/feb/12/2752
“The government is doing all it can to intimidate Iranians and deny their right to peaceful assembly. With recent events in Egypt, we see another round of repression in Iran aimed at silencing a people frustrated and dissatisfied by the denial of their human rights,” said Hadi Ghaemi, the Campaign’s spokesperson.
http://en.irangreenvoice.com/article/2011/feb/12/2752
Sun Feb 13, 2011 5:59 pm » by Spock
This gives me personal hope.
This is GREAT for Iran, but I am still not sure about Egypt, much fear concerning their fledgling democracy and the idea of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Hopefully the people of Egypt will stand behind the revolution of Iran, and learn from Iran's history.
We KNOW this. The zealots in Egypt are salivating power.
We'll watch and see.
This is GREAT for Iran, but I am still not sure about Egypt, much fear concerning their fledgling democracy and the idea of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Hopefully the people of Egypt will stand behind the revolution of Iran, and learn from Iran's history.
We KNOW this. The zealots in Egypt are salivating power.
We'll watch and see.
ATHEISM:
The belief there was once absolutely nothing. Nothing happened to the nothing until the nothing exploded into everything. Then all of the exploded everything rearranged itself, into self-replicating bits which turned into dinosaurs.
The belief there was once absolutely nothing. Nothing happened to the nothing until the nothing exploded into everything. Then all of the exploded everything rearranged itself, into self-replicating bits which turned into dinosaurs.
Sun Feb 13, 2011 6:21 pm » by Proto
spock wrote:Hopefully the people of Egypt will stand behind the revolution of Iran, and learn from Iran's history.
Egyptian activist’s message to Iranians: Learn from Egyptians, and we learned from you
“I would tell Iranians to learn from the Egyptians, as we have learned from you guys, that at the end of the day with the power of people, we can do whatever we want to do. If we unite our goals, if we believe, then all our dreams can come true,” is the prominent Egyptian activist’s message to Iranians on the threshold of the 14 February demonstrations.
http://en.irangreenvoice.com/content/2747
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Mon Feb 14, 2011 12:33 am » by Proto
1:30AM Tehran Time
Video purportedly from last night of chants of “Allah-o-Akbar” (God is Great) and “Mar bar dictator” (Down with dictator). These chants were used during the 1979 revolution that ousted the Shah of Iran. They are a challenge to the regime’s legitimacy, which the regime wants to base on religious credentials. By using the chant of “God is great” in protest to the regime, the idea is to unnerve and infuriate it:
as anticipation mounts for what is shaping to be another historic day of protest in the nation–the nation that following a heavily disputed presidential election in 2009, began the trend of uprisings against tyranny and dictatorship that we have been witnessing across the entire middle east.
In 2009, following the presidential election (with immediate and mounting evidence of widespread fraud and vote rigging) people poured into the streets in a spontaneous protest against the injustice of a rigged result that handed the election to the incumbent and controversial Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. A peaceful protest of millions of people asking, “Where is my vote?” was brutally attacked and suppressed by a merciless, ruthless regime. Over the course of many protests and months, hundreds (possibly thousands) were killed, thousands were imprisoned and brutalized, raped, tortured and humiliated in the name of a regime that sees itself as the representative of God on earth.
Last February, during the 31st anniversary of the founding of the Islamic Republic, the regime was able to frame the story to their benefit by preventing the thousands that showed up to protest against them from coalescing into a visible, organized protests. They were able to do this by spending hundreds of millions to bus in and pay for hordes of paid goons, regime loyalists, revolutionary guards, mercenaries and volunteer Basij to flood the streets of Tehran.
Many proclaimed this to be the death knell of the movement for liberty, fundamental human and civil rights and justice that had formed in reaction to the regime’s hubris and brutality.
Since then, while there have been days where the people have shown their opposition to the regime under no uncertain terms, the regime has been able to largely keep the story from getting out that the movement is alive.
But after the revolutions that we have witnessed in Tunisia and Egypt, the people of Iran are once again emboldened.
The opposition leaders, Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi have called for protests in Iran in solidarity with the movements for freedom and against tyranny in those countries. We have been witnessing these calls morph into a renewal of the demands of the Iranian people for their own freedom now.
The day for this protest call is upon on us.
It is now just after midnight, Tehran time. Stay tuned as we monitor the events and report on them here.
http://www.irannewsnow.com/2011/02/live ... eb14-2011/
Video purportedly from last night of chants of “Allah-o-Akbar” (God is Great) and “Mar bar dictator” (Down with dictator). These chants were used during the 1979 revolution that ousted the Shah of Iran. They are a challenge to the regime’s legitimacy, which the regime wants to base on religious credentials. By using the chant of “God is great” in protest to the regime, the idea is to unnerve and infuriate it:
as anticipation mounts for what is shaping to be another historic day of protest in the nation–the nation that following a heavily disputed presidential election in 2009, began the trend of uprisings against tyranny and dictatorship that we have been witnessing across the entire middle east.
In 2009, following the presidential election (with immediate and mounting evidence of widespread fraud and vote rigging) people poured into the streets in a spontaneous protest against the injustice of a rigged result that handed the election to the incumbent and controversial Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. A peaceful protest of millions of people asking, “Where is my vote?” was brutally attacked and suppressed by a merciless, ruthless regime. Over the course of many protests and months, hundreds (possibly thousands) were killed, thousands were imprisoned and brutalized, raped, tortured and humiliated in the name of a regime that sees itself as the representative of God on earth.
Last February, during the 31st anniversary of the founding of the Islamic Republic, the regime was able to frame the story to their benefit by preventing the thousands that showed up to protest against them from coalescing into a visible, organized protests. They were able to do this by spending hundreds of millions to bus in and pay for hordes of paid goons, regime loyalists, revolutionary guards, mercenaries and volunteer Basij to flood the streets of Tehran.
Many proclaimed this to be the death knell of the movement for liberty, fundamental human and civil rights and justice that had formed in reaction to the regime’s hubris and brutality.
Since then, while there have been days where the people have shown their opposition to the regime under no uncertain terms, the regime has been able to largely keep the story from getting out that the movement is alive.
But after the revolutions that we have witnessed in Tunisia and Egypt, the people of Iran are once again emboldened.
The opposition leaders, Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi have called for protests in Iran in solidarity with the movements for freedom and against tyranny in those countries. We have been witnessing these calls morph into a renewal of the demands of the Iranian people for their own freedom now.
The day for this protest call is upon on us.
It is now just after midnight, Tehran time. Stay tuned as we monitor the events and report on them here.
http://www.irannewsnow.com/2011/02/live ... eb14-2011/
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