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| Bus drivers stage defiant protest in Teheran |
| 2006-03-01 |
| Tehran, Iran, Feb. 28 – Close to a hundred bus drivers and conductors, who have been released recently from Evin Prison after being locked up for taking part in union protests, gathered on Monday outside the Tehran Bus Company headquarters to protest against the government’s handling of their case. Iranian authorities launched a heavy crackdown on the transit workers late last month, arresting large numbers of bus drivers who had decided to go on strike. Earlier this month, a dissident worker told Iran Focus that agents of Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence and Security (MOIS), the country’s secret police, had been conducting night raids into the homes of striking bus drivers and workers in Tehran, arresting more than a thousand people on political charges. During Monday’s protest by the recently released bus drivers, they demanded that the government clarify their position and reinstate them to their previous posts. Many of the union’s members are believed to still be behind bars. Four union activists had to appear in court on Monday. |
| Posted by:Steve White |
| #11 Scarabs in your camel toe.... yikes! |
| Posted by: Visitor 2006-03-01 21:03 |
| #10 Camel dung comes in balls? It does once the dung beatles (a.k.a. scarabs, if I recall correctly) are done with it. I always wondered why the Egyptians were so keen on such creatures... |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2006-03-01 20:59 |
| #9 What about those Chicom pebble reactors? Aren't those relatively safe? They can have reactors, they just can't have bombs. |
| Posted by: anonymous2u 2006-03-01 20:51 |
| #8 Camel dung comes in balls? |
| Posted by: Thrinetch Tholumble7024 2006-03-01 19:25 |
| #7 Shouldn't we also pay a bunch of them to attack one of our ships so we can get this war reved up ? Umm ..... no. That's precisely the sort of sh!t that generates; "America flew their own planes into those skyscrapers so that they could start a war on Islam." sort of crap. wxjames, leave it to the Mullahs to do something just crazy enough (as if virtually declaring war on the United States, threatening to nuke Israel and meddling in Iraq weren't sufficient), that will get this whole ball of camel dung rolling. |
| Posted by: Zenster 2006-03-01 10:03 |
| #6 That's about 4 cents. Shouldn't we be smuggling cell phones into Iran ? Shouldn't we also pay a bunch of them to attack one of our ships so we can get this war reved up ? |
| Posted by: wxjames 2006-03-01 09:27 |
| #5 Listen To Dogs (interesting nym) - I hope there's more than petition-signing going on under the surface. The list is long... Making contact with the US Govt - yes, the CIA Providing intel on the targets that need to be neutralized Cooperation and collaboration in developing real action plans Recruitment - with all the risks that entails Arming the cells, once organized Coordinating actions to be effective, not pointless bloodbaths Focus - on regime change and on removal of nuke threat Ditching the Pollyanna and romantic BS - this will be real war If the people you've pointed to are serious, and not just Cause of the Day types or childish dreamers, then there are many things which they can be doing to make the overthrow of the Mad Mullah and the entire despotic Mullahcracy a reality. If they are few in number and / or unwilling to pay the price, then they are wasting their, and our, time and efforts. The regime will fall - we can't allow them to survive to restart their games and force us to do it all over again another day. They will have to be eliminated. The nuke program (which I've read is very popular, unlike the Mullahs) will have to be destroyed. Period. End of fucking story. If you think we'll sacrifice lives and treasure to remove the Mullahs but preserve your Shi'a Muzzy Viagra, you're wasting your time. Not. Happening. Get over it, if that offends you. We will help you regain control of your country, but you have to pull your weight and recognize our interests, too. We are going to remove the threat and your agenda had better include that item. Otherwise, wank away with the website shit and keep dreaming. Shit's coming down and it will happen with or without you. The petition games can be your front, but it achieves nothing, nada, zilch. The Mullahs are laughing at you. Get bizzy helping our intel people and organizing yourselves to make this your victory, independence from insanity - not just our campaign to remove a major threat. Is that 2 cents worth? |
| Posted by: .com 2006-03-01 04:34 |
| #4 This should work: http://www.activistchat.com/ http://www.labournet.net/world/0601/iran9.html |
| Posted by: Listen To Dogs 2006-03-01 03:31 |
| #2 I thought so too. We just don't know enough about Iran. I've been surfing some of the Iranian ex-pat websites, but they're mostly clipping services. And I can't read Farsi. I do have a friend, lovely woman who's Persian, but I dunno if I can get her to translate on a regular basis. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2006-03-01 00:33 |
| #1 Hmmm. These guys have some serious brass... Are there more like them, who haven't bubbled to the surface of our awareness? Interesting. |
| Posted by: .com 2006-03-01 00:12 |