Iran

[AU_domer]

It would be nice to see CNN and Fox quit covering Sarah Palin and the Six Flags bankruptcy long enough to report some of the stuff going on in Iran.

This link has a bunch of good reporting and videos.

http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/2009/06/iran-on-fire.php

[Jeremy Roenick]

Verge of revolution.  That's what we're seeing.  What will be Iran's Tianamen (sp?) Square moment?

Too bad David Letterman, Lost and Dancing with the Stars is more important than history shaping events.   

[Flummoxed Lummox]

It would be nice to see CNN and Fox quit covering Sarah Palin and the Six Flags bankruptcy long enough to report some of the stuff going on in Iran.

This link has a bunch of good reporting and videos.

http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/2009/06/iran-on-fire.php

Apparently you haven't watched CNN much this weekend. I've seen a plethora of reports about what is going on in Iran. For the life of me I can't understand why you think Iran isn't being covered.

Here is a sample of some of the coverage on CNN:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/14/iran.protests.scene/index.html

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/14/iran.election.rival/index.html?iref=mpstoryview

http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2009/06/14/sot.ahmadinejad.presser.presstv

[The One Man Gang]

This is Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei's call.  If he has the stones ol' Khomeni had, there will be round-ups and beheadings before the end of the week.   The REAL power rests, as it has since 1979, with the office of the Iraniian "Vel'yat-e faqih" (Supreme Leader).

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1904589,00.html

Ack!mydinnerjacket is a figurehead.

Period.

Khomeni knew how to use Ack!mydinnerjacket and other psychopathic punks to "persuade" internal opponents to see things his way.  Now these guys are all "respectable" members of the government and used to having real houses and three squares a day.  I'm not sure they still have the mind-set necessary to survive. A fat and comfortable psychopathic thug generally becomes a DEAD psychopathic thug. (Q'u'say Hussein, call you office.)

1979 was a loooonnnnggg time ago.

When the Soviet Union went down, it wasn't so much that the West won, it was more that Gorbachev wasn't ruthless enough to liquidate his opponents the way Stalin would have.  Gorby was more concerned about his "image" with the western media and tried to find some "bi-partisan" solution to the issue.  He ended up losing control just like Czar Nicky.  He was more fortunate than the hapless Romanovs in that Boris Yeltsin liked vodka and broads more than listening to screams emanating from the lower levels of the Lubyanka. 

Remember though, that Yeltsin had no compunction about using T-80 tanks and Spetznaz against HIS opponents who got a little too "uppity."

http://articles.latimes.com/1993-10-05/news/mn-42407_1_death-toll

If Khamenei tries to do a Gorbachev, the Ayatollahs are done.

[Jeremy Roenick]

Good analysis OMG.

The movement in the streets seems pretty dedicated.  It will take mass be-headings to quell this uprising.

The media is there and watching every move, so we'll see just how PC Khamenei is.

Right now riding around on motorcycles and whipping people with sticks looks pretty tame.  Hell that happens in South Knoxville when the Vols beat the Gators.   

[Dementia_Madness]

In the end they will blame America and say we are somehow behind this...much like they were in the problems in Iraq. I have  learned that narcissistic people or cultures generally think everybody else does things the same way they do, and work along the same lines of motivation they do.

[Flummoxed Lummox]

This is Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei's call.  If he has the stones ol' Khomeni had, there will be round-ups and beheadings before the end of the week.   The REAL power rests, as it has since 1979, with the office of the Iraniian "Vel'yat-e faqih" (Supreme Leader).

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1904589,00.html

Ack!mydinnerjacket is a figurehead.

Period.

1. Where are the "beheadings" before the end of the week?? I guess Khamenei doesn't have the stones you think he has.

2. If Ahmadinejad is nothing but a "figurehead" why all the fuss? I agree that Khamenei has most of the power. No doubt. But to assert that Ahmadinejad is a figurehead is simply not factually true. Tens of thousands of people don't protest and risk death over a figurehead.

[Sasquatch]

Tens of thousands of people don't protest profess that Jesus rose from the dead and risk death over a figurehead if He was just a dead Jewish faith healer.

Fixed.

[Jeremy Roenick]

I was wrong AV...  They're shooting them in cold blood in the streets.

Next question.

[plumbervol]

The question is how does America react to all of this?

Let me give you the Lunch Pail "take" on Iran and the entire Arab world for what it is worth. I don't give a damn. Let the blood flow and bodies pile up. In fact screw the Arab world, not one ounce of American blood nor more than few minutes of American attention should be spent on any Arab problem.

Over at Y-12 plant America makes a product that can solve all their woes... The Arab world should understand that any attempt to get the attention of mainstream America will lead to nothing more that annihilation.

America is urinated off at the entire region and I have no interest in nation building nor do I care if a liberal or conservative cleric runs that hell hole. I could care even less about the democratic right to vote in Iran when the best result as far as American sensabilities is some ex official who served under some Ayatollah.

my reply is "death to the entire Iran people" using the word death in the most Arabic muslim tradition...  LOL!! Oh yeah "Death to potatoes" 

[Just Win]

It would be nice to see CNN and Fox quit covering Sarah Palin and the Six Flags bankruptcy long enough to report some of the stuff going on in Iran.

This link has a bunch of good reporting and videos.

http://www.michaeltotten.com/archives/2009/06/iran-on-fire.php

i agree aud. no question the letterman thing has helped dave's abysmal ratings stance, besmirched and in a disgusting cruel way humiliated the family of a conservative Governor, and left the public uniformed on real issues of the day that could have a direct impact on their daily lives. n. korea and what is going on in iran are of major import as well as how the administration is handling these foreign policy affairs.  cnn along with mssnbc(?sp) are certainly the networks to tune in if you are seeking celebrity gossip. no question they are the best at this sort of thing. it is not even close. however, if you are seeking news you are forced to look for other news sources.

 it has the feel like our attention is being diverted away from the real issues of the day by these liberal cable news (a rather loose use of the term news) networks. I wonder why this is so?



PS - don't fret too much re: this falure of the fourth estate. i hear ABC or CBS???? is turning their nightly newcast over to Rhambo and the Presidnet for one night in the White House. That should be unbiased and informative. No?

[Just Win]

1. Where are the "beheadings" before the end of the week?? I guess Khamenei doesn't have the stones you think he has.

2. If Ahmadinejad is nothing but a "figurehead" why all the fuss? I agree that Khamenei has most of the power. No doubt. But to assert that Ahmadinejad is a figurehead is simply not factually true. Tens of thousands of people don't protest and risk death over a figurehead.

is this the white house twitter blasting to you to spout?. i knew the white house was hanging those wanting a regime change (at the ayatollah and presidential level) out to dry but i did not think it was that bad. sure sounds like you are "enamoured" with khamenei and ahmadinejad all of the sudden. you sound like their lobbyist. have you always had an affinity for despots?

i guess it is time to bring out the gas and beating sticks and get those wanting freedom and liberty from an oppressive despotic government under control per the white house. this is a most reveling post for you fluxy girl.