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2006-03-01 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

Bus drivers stage defiant protest in Teheran

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Posted by Steve White 2006-03-01 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#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|| 2006-03-01 00:12|| Front Page Top

#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">Steve White 2006-03-01 00:33|| 2006-03-01 00:33|| Front Page Top

#3 Organized labor in Iran is strong enough to put hundreds of thousands of demonstrators in the streets on May Day, and they hate the Mullahs. Check out one conservative and one leftist site on the strike issue:

Send your solidarity protests to the top:

Mr. Mahmoud Ahmadjinejad,
President of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Email: dr-ahmadinejad@president.ir
Fax: + 98-21-6648. 06. 65 or: + 98 21 649 5880 &

Ambassador Mohammad Reza Alborzi, Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations Institutions in Geneva, Chemin du Petit-Saconnex 28, 1209 Geneva, Switzerland, Fax: +41 22 733 02 03, E-mail: mission.iran@ties.itu.int

Posted by Listen To Dogs 2006-03-01 03:28|| 2006-03-01 03:28|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-03-01 03:31|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-03-01 04:34|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-03-01 09:27|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-03-01 10:03|| Front Page Top

#8 Camel dung comes in balls?

Posted by Thrinetch Tholumble7024 2006-03-01 19:25|| 2006-03-01 19:25|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-03-01 20:51|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2006-03-01 20:59|| Front Page Top

#11 Scarabs in your camel toe.... yikes!

Posted by Visitor 2006-03-01 21:03|| 2006-03-01 21:03|| Front Page Top

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