1. Wednesday’s Protest Footage: BBC Persian is reporting that Iran’s provinces were relatively quiet today but that Tehran had yet another major protest and that it went without a hitch. See the footage here.
2. Thursday Protest Planned: Another large rally is planned for tomorrow.
3. Momentum and the 40-Day Mourning Cycles: So there is a lot of fear that the movement will lose momentum. Again, this is why history is important. During the Iranian Revolution, which was a movement that unfolded on the streets for more than a year, momentum was almost lost time and again. But the 40-day mourning rituals gave the opposition a specific excuse and date to re-launch demonstrations. And when more people died on those 40th day mourning periods, 40 days later, the opposition had another excuse to demonstrate. And with each 40th day demonstration, the protests grew and grew. The people that have died in the past couple days, can quite possibly give the opposition the same opportunity to re-launch protests if they should lose steam 38 or 39 days from now when they go to observe the 40-day mourning ritual.
4. The Rafsanjani-Khamenei Internal Power Struggle: al-Jazeera has a short but important video on the internal power struggle that was the impetus to tamper with the elections. See the video here.
5. “Allahu akbar”: At night, protesters reminiscent of 1978-79, are shouting “Allahu akbar” in solidarity with the movement. See the footage here.
6. Team Melli: Iran tied S. Korea 1-1 today. Their chances at making the World Cup look slim. 6 of the team’s players wore green wristbands in support of the protesters back in Iran (the game was in S. Korea). They were asked to take them off before the start of the 2nd half of the game. Team captain Mehdi Mahdavikia was the only one to keep his on the entire game. See the footage here. Read about it here.
7. Slogan from the Protesters: “NATARSIN, NALARZIN, MA HAMEH BA HAM HASTIM!!!” (“Don’t be scared, don’t tremble, we are all together” – It rhymes and sounds better in Persian, of course).
http://www.countercurrents.org/roberts170609.htm
Pakistan’s former military chief, General Mirza Aslam Beig, said on Pashto Radio on Monday, June 15, that undisputed intelligence proves the US interfered in the Iranian election. “The documents prove that the CIA spent 400 million dollars inside Iran to prop up a colorful but hollow revolution following the election.â€
The success of the US government in financing color revolutions in former Soviet Georgia and Ukraine and in other parts of the former Soviet empire have been widely reported and discussed, with the US media treating it as an indication of US omnipotence and natural right and some foreign media as a sign of US interference in the internal affairs of other countries. It is certainly within the realm of possibility that Mir Hossein Mousavi is a bought and paid for operative of the US government.
We know for a fact that the US government has psychological warfare operations that target both Americans and foreigners through the US and foreign media. Many articles have been published on this subject.
Think about the Iranian election from a common sense standpoint. Neither myself nor the vast majority of readers are Iranian experts. But from a common sense standpoint, if your country was under constant threat of attack, even nuclear attack, from two countries with much more powerful military establishments, as is Iran from the US and Israel, would you desert your country’s best defender and elect the preferred candidate of the US and Israel?
Do you believe that the Iranian people would have voted to become an American puppet state?
Iran is an ancient and sophisticated society. Much of the intellectual class is secularized. A significant, but small, percentage of the youth has fallen in thrall to Western sexual promiscuity, to personal pleasure, and to self-absorption. These people are easily organized with American money to give their government and Islamic constraints on personal behavior the bird.
The US government is taking advantage of these westernized Iranians to create a basis for discrediting the Iranian election and the Iranian government.
This is not JZ, whoever it is, IT IS NOT JEWISH ZIONISTS! hahahahha I was wondering when we will hear the conspiracy stories about foreigners meddling in Iran’s election and some poor soul being tricked by foreign dollars. Somehow they all seem very very familiar especially when we were kids and they used to tell us that everyday that it is foreigners who are trying to tempt you, to rub you, to destory you. I am just amazed no body has arrested some Jews and say it is Zionists’ fault.
Hey, I had a pleasure of checking out the site that the so called “JZ” set up, why do i have a feeling it is nahid? Hey look at this section: http://www.countercurrents.org/palestine.htm
what do you know?!!! The same person who is playing down the movement in Iran is saying those things and by the way without a single shred of proof. DO I SEE A PTTERN HERE?
Nahid I see your footstep and the kind of thing you say.
Pouya please do an IP check on this person. I am begging you.
http://www.ireport.com/docs/DOC-273363
Embarassing.
If I write or print any thing, it will be unader my name. I must be dead to put that ugly name on me, you sleazy, scum bag.
do not be so happy,