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Syria-Lebanon-Iran
What's Going on in Iran?
2006-10-08
via LGF; I am not familiar with this source, but it's pretty interesting stuff
Breaking news - Saturday (PST) - After Midnight Sunday - Tehran time (TT). LATEST UPDATE - all phones in the area of the Ayatollah's house have been disconnected and his numbers, which worked till just now have a recording saying "they never existed".

Monitored from live communication with Iran and the Ayatollah Boroujerdi himself by Voice of Iran Radio (KRSI) and local citizens calling in from Tehran to KRSI.

Shots were being fired around the Ayatollah's home at Sard (cold) Park, Avesta Avenue, Sard Street #9 close to Freedom Square. Fires are springing up in the region at major intersections. Ambulance sirens scream futiley as Tehran citizens pour toward that address blocking streets to prevent Security forces from getting close but also blocking the paramedics and ambulances.

Distress calls from wounded men and women fill the air waves as what they describe as total war is erupting. KRSI, which covers all of Iran, constantly broadcasts calls for the populace to rise up, urging them to make the most of this opportunity.

Said Ghayem-Maghami, the announcer of KRSI repeatedly urges all provinces, cities, professions to revolt against the current regime. He also broadcasts live all suggestions provided by Tehran citizens to wake everyone up and let them know something is up.

Ayatollah Boroujerdi, blockaded on the roof of his home, has used the phone contact broadcast with KRSI to declare that anyone in the Security forces who respects him as their spiritual source should lay down their arms and not harm anyone.

Meanwhile Mohssein Ejai, Minister of Information and Security (MOIS), has promised Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei that he will bring him Ayatollah Boroujerdi's severed head before dawn.

In the first serious clash with the old guard Mullahs, the Hojatieh fringe sect of the Ahmadi-Nejad administration sent security forces around 10 a.m. (Tehran time) Saturday, to arrest Ayatollah Seyed Hossein Kazeymeni Boroujerdi, son of the Ayatollah of the same name, killed by the Khomeini Islamic regime. His father was so respected by the late Shah of Iran that when questions about religion arose for which the Shah wanted advice, the monarch would drive down to the holy city of Qom to speak to the Ayatollah instead of ordering him to Tehran.

The younger Ayatollah Boroujerdi recently declared that the national Administrative Government of Iran should be separated from the Clerics and become purely secular. Religion and Politics must be separated he said, live on KRSI.

His followers resisted the efforts of the Security Agents sent during the afternoon to capture the Ayatollah and the on-going confrontation has resulted with multiple arrests, estimated by the Ayatollah himself in a live phone interview as being several thousand people. His people, who rushed to protect him also took several security agents hostage, finding bottles of acid in their pockets, intended to disfigure demonstrators.

Meanwhile, in a dramatic gesture of defiance, Ayatollah Boroujerdi carrying his burial shroud and a sword paces the roof of his home.
Posted by:Glenmore

#9  Zen, the Fire holiday is sometimes in february (26th?), but maybe they can make a new holiday, "mullah flambeaux". ;-)
Posted by: twobufour   2006-10-08 17:39  

#8  How about burning mullahs just for fun?
Posted by: Zenster   2006-10-08 17:23  

#7  how about burning mullahs to counter the effects of the tear gas?
Posted by: Frank G   2006-10-08 12:21  

#6  Here's another report about this N/T The Corner
From Radio Free Europe

http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/10/bb6e3780-684e-4582-97f9-22a138e7b7ec.html


TEHRAN, October 7, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Several hundred supporters of an outspoken cleric in Tehran, Ayatollah Kazemeyni Boroujerdi, gathered today in the streets around his house to protest what they described as violation of "freedom of religion."

Protesters told Radio Farda that they were trying to prevent the arrest of Boroujerdi by security forces. Boroujerdi advocates the separation of religion from politics.

One of his supporters told Radio Farda that during the past two months there have been several attempts to arrest the ayatollah.

"[Security forces] took away his daughter and 38 others two months ago, they've freed them but they came this morning to take away [Boroujerdi] but the neighbors didn't give in," the man said. "They came again later to arrest him but his supporters have gathered here and will resist. Thank God, we're many, about 2,000 to 3,000."

Iran's ILNA news agency reported that police used tear gas to disperse the protest but protesters resisted by burning tires to counteract the effects of the gas.
Posted by: Sherry   2006-10-08 12:11  

#5  If this is true, and a peoples revolt has started, then America should attack Syria from Iraq. By the end of the week, Syria would not exist, and Iran would either be in a lockdown or all out revolution. Either way, Happy Halloween.
Posted by: wxjames   2006-10-08 11:01  

#4  could it be that the Iranian Government ocassionally stages such events to give the West the illusion that upheaval from within is possibe?
Posted by: HammerHead   2006-10-08 09:35  

#3  We could sort these sons of whores out in a big hurry if Bush had the cojones to do it. The Mullahs are sitting on a damned unstable throne. All we'd have to do is blanket-broadcast across Iran that the Iranian people have 48 hours to overthrow their government or the United States will, as an act of preemptive war, use nuclear weapons to destroy Iran's major cities. If Bush did that we'd need one hell of a lot of popcorn because the next 96 hours would see a ton of Muzzy mullahs ripped apart by the bare hands of frenzied, terrified mobs. Ahmedinejad would meet an Allende-like end and we could reinstall the old Shah's son.

I think such an outcome beats the hell out of waiting for the Iranians to nuke somebody first and then retaliating with nuclear weapons, and you KNOW that's going to happen unless someone steps up and takes them out beforehand. Like the Fram guy said, "pay me now or pay me later."
Posted by: mac   2006-10-08 09:08  

#2  The younger Ayatollah Boroujerdi recently declared that the national Administrative Government of Iran should be separated from the Clerics and become purely secular. Religion and Politics must be separated he said

Thereby signing his death warrant.

I'll stay up and pop some popcorn for everyone just in case.
[scurries off to kitchen clattering pots and pans]
Posted by: Zenster   2006-10-08 04:37  

#1  Slight hope this may be the "Ants will grow the food, Ants will keep the food and Grashoppers will leave!" moment. Question is whether army will join the revolt if it is not running out of steam before day is over, stay aside, or go against it. The odds are not that good for joining.
Posted by: zazz   2006-10-08 01:38  

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