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Allah be praised??????
Yep. The cop car ran over the rioters. That’s the ugliness of civil unrest. I look at these cops in Iran, and wonder, what side are they really on? My guess is that they only are doing their job, and things get out of control. I know, this is not a popular opinion. I certainly am prepared for civil unrest in the United States, and I expect it will look just like Iran today.
Yes, running over people is in their job description. Very soon the islamic murderers will up the kill rate, just do it off camera in the middle of the night. The Iranian youth will soon equal the escalating violence and stop with the silly protesting, and these basiji islamists will scatter to where ever they can hide where they can beat themselves up.
It’s going to get a lot worse any moment now.
These police, the military, all who are a part of the current regime don’t want to face the consequences.
Of course, as they get more repressive…
In 3,2,1, can you say IED?
Looks like the video was tampered with. Although the time counter in the upper left IS advancing at the correct rate, the footage looks like its going at double speed, for dramatic effect.
Also the cop might have just panicked and was just trying to get away. Remember Reginald Denny? Those situations can get very ugly fast.
That sort of thing will just fuel the fire. I look for the protesters to get very violent some time soon. The revolution has begun, and it started with a bogus election…
why do they never throw a molotov cocktail at these bastards driving police cars or motorcycles with batons.
they have enough oil! nothing like a roasting pig to get the civil war going! wake my brothers in iran, go insane you have nothing to lose.
Barry Goldwater – “I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice.”
Some seem to agree?
I hope the west stays out of this, that the spiring revolution is allowed to develop within the Iranian society without any interference from opportunistic politics. In that way the change will be genuine and rooted solidly in Iranian society. Just like what happened in east Europe in 1989.
The US and UK is not very popular in Iran to state it mildly, ref. history – worth to read ‘Legacy of Ashes’ a feel ashamed.
#10 Then the protesters will be just as sick and twisted as what they are fighting against. As soon as they start to kill they lose.
They have to have some part of the military with them to succeed. Remember this is footage from the cities, with better educated and enlightened people. The country side might not give a damn either way. Anyone here remember Kent State? That what happens when to put inexperienced bone heads in this type of situation. One idiot panics and shoots. A lot of macho bravado going on also. I also doubt that MI5 and the CIA has clean hands in this.
@#14
Yea I heard there is Gas Shortage too, what is up with that,
aren’t they the second largest producer of natural gas?? it is weird huh?
May be the government sells it all, and the money goes to the IRGC the giant cooperation.
I read a report on IRGC by RAND, at this address it is free to download the pdf scroll down
It is interesting the guys who run Basij and all these militia are working for this company, even Ahamdnedat is one of the of IRGC guys,
any I know they are revolutionary guard but when you read about them, they are more like a company.
Does it remind you of anywhere else run by giant cooperation? where people don’t have much say?
“Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) — also known as the Pasdaran (Persian for “guards”) — was initially created by Ayatollah Khomeini during the 1978–1979 Islamic Revolution as an ideological guard for the nascent regime. Since then, it has evolved into an expansive socio-political-economic conglomerate whose influence extends into virtually every corner of Iranian political life and society. In the political sphere, many high-ranking officials are former Pasdaran. As a force in Iranian culture and society, the IRGC controls media outlets and conducts training and education programs that are designed not only to bolster loyalty to the regime and train citizens in homeland defense, but also to improve the IRGC’s own institutional credibility. And on the economic front, the IRGC controls a wide variety of commercial enterprises, including both government contracting and illicit smuggling and black-market enterprises. In this monograph, Wehrey et al. assess the IRGC less as a traditional military entity and more as a domestic actor, emphasizing its multidimensional nature and the variety of roles it plays in Iran’s political culture, economy, and society. “
Not quite as bad as when National Guard troops gunned downed demonstrators at Kent State University in Ohio, but still Awful.
I hope critical mass of demonstrations take place in Iran for regime change.
They don’t have Hummers there?
It looks like police are the same all over the world. Probably trained here in the U.S.
I have an acquaintance who is from Iran and still has contacts there. She said that in general the government makes it hard for citizens to contact the outside world. She also said that on Sunday they just cut off international phone service, no explanation. So apparently they’re feeling the heat…
@# 23
I had no idea , it seemed people were happy with their current president Hugo Chávez and their government, the bad boy of politics , he definitely puts on a good show.
Is there any good country in the world that is free, that people are truly free ?
we got to bring back the Hippie movement , this time we should go international.
NOW I wonder why the USA wishes to ban guns..
Kent State
#30 As several of our early American politicians said, the price of liberty is eternal vigilance. If you would be free, there is no place you can live in peace. For there will be always those wanting to take away your freedom.
The only true peace is the peace of the slave, the fatalistic acceptance of whatever life inflicts on you.
The rest of us… we have to keep our wits about us and our minds alert.
Those who profess to favor freedom, yet deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightening. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. — Frederick Douglass
First the full body scans at airports and then this, the world is getting a lot more similar to the movie Total Recall.
#7 & #9
Believe me, I have NO love for Iran. I’m old enough to remember the hostages.
But one of my pet peeves is “the lie that’s good for you”.
Impacts at 2X speed are much more shocking as any film maker knows. If was recorded at 15fps and now played at 30fps thats an honest mistake. But the time counter should show a 1 second advance every 1/2 second.
Why don’t the protesters have guns already?
Well, they are doing it there now, as they have done it here in the past, and probably will do it somewhere on the planet in the future.
People around the world are just people. The jerks who want all the political power, ANYWHERE, sometimes find it hard to hold on to that power. Of course they have their lackeys to help, but when it comes down to it, absolute power corrupts, absolutely.