Iranian Cities: Tens of Thosands of Protestors in the Sreets

[brindisi]

Tehran Beats Back New Protests: In Year's Biggest Rally, Iranians Seek Spiritual Head's Ouster -- Wall Street Journal Online, February 15, 2011

Iranian police used tear gas and electric prods to crack down on the country's biggest antigovernment protests in at least a year, as demonstrators buoyed by activism across the Middle East returned to the country's streets by the tens of thousands Monday.

Monday's protests come as calls for regime change have led to the popular ousters of Egypt's Hosni Mubarak and Tunisia's Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali. They mark a broadening from Iranian rallies that drew hundreds of thousands through 2009 and early 2010

Those who saw the rallies in Tehran placed the number of protesters in the capital in the tens of thousands. Witnesses in the cities of Mashad, Isfahan and Tabriz saw crowds they estimated at thousands of demonstrators each, with blog reports and other online dispatches placing overall participation in such cities at over 10,000 each.

Iranian officials have all but banned reporting on anti-regime protests, making it difficult to estimate not only the size of crowds, but the number of casualties, fatalities and arrests

 

[TG123]

Tehran Beats Back New Protests: In Year's Biggest Rally, Iranians Seek Spiritual Head's Ouster -- Wall Street Journal Online, February 15, 2011

Iranian police used tear gas and electric prods to crack down on the country's biggest antigovernment protests in at least a year, as demonstrators buoyed by activism across the Middle East returned to the country's streets by the tens of thousands Monday.

Monday's protests come as calls for regime change have led to the popular ousters of Egypt's Hosni Mubarak and Tunisia's Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali. They mark a broadening from Iranian rallies that drew hundreds of thousands through 2009 and early 2010

Those who saw the rallies in Tehran placed the number of protesters in the capital in the tens of thousands. Witnesses in the cities of Mashad, Isfahan and Tabriz saw crowds they estimated at thousands of demonstrators each, with blog reports and other online dispatches placing overall participation in such cities at over 10,000 each.

Iranian officials have all but banned reporting on anti-regime protests, making it difficult to estimate not only the size of crowds, but the number of casualties, fatalities and arrests

May God bless and protect them. This is a very interesting time across the middle east, from Egypt to Iran to Jordan to Syria to Yemen... it must really suck to be a dictator right now.

 

[Notamonkey]

I guess Obama will not stand with these. Like the last time, he said we wouldn,t "mettle". We should be reaching out to these people who want some sort of freedom from this theocracy to give them hope.

 

[TG123]

I guess Obama will not stand with these. Like the last time, he said we wouldn,t "mettle". We should be reaching out to these people who want some sort of freedom from this theocracy to give them hope.

Hillary Clinton is openly backing the protesters.

What we see happening in Iran today is a testament to the courage of the Iranian people and an indictment of the hypocrisy of the Iranian regime - a regime, which over the last three weeks has constantly hailed what went on in Egypt. And now, when given the opportunity to afford their people the same rights as they called for on behalf of the Egyptian people, [Iran's leaders] once again illustrate their true nature," she said.

Clinton Accuses Iran of Hypocrisy Over Egypt Protests | Middle East | English

Iran Latest to Face Egypt-Inspired Protests -- News from Antiwar.com

The US government didn't speak so supportingly of the Egyptian protesters until very late in the game and they spoke less harshly of Mubarak.

Their stance on democracy is decided by politics and nothing else, they couldn't care less about anyone in the region.


In spite of American government hypocrisy, people should support the Iranian people as they supported the Egyptian people, as they should be standing by the people of Algeria, Yemen, Jordan and Bahrain and other nations where dictatorships are openly being challenged by people they have oppressed for so long.

 

[Christos Anesti]

That's awesome news. I really need to start listening to the news more often. This is the first I've heard of it.