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2006-10-08 Syria-Lebanon-Iran

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Posted by Glenmore 2006-10-08 00:00|| || Front Page|| [7 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Slight hope this may be the "Ants will grow the food, Ants will keep the food and Grashoppers will leave!" moment. Question is whether army will join the revolt if it is not running out of steam before day is over, stay aside, or go against it. The odds are not that good for joining.

Posted by zazz 2006-10-08 01:38|| 2006-10-08 01:38|| Front Page Top

#2 The younger Ayatollah Boroujerdi recently declared that the national Administrative Government of Iran should be separated from the Clerics and become purely secular. Religion and Politics must be separated he said

Thereby signing his death warrant.

I'll stay up and pop some popcorn for everyone just in case.
[scurries off to kitchen clattering pots and pans]

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-10-08 04:37|| 2006-10-08 04:37|| Front Page Top

#3 We could sort these sons of whores out in a big hurry if Bush had the cojones to do it. The Mullahs are sitting on a damned unstable throne. All we'd have to do is blanket-broadcast across Iran that the Iranian people have 48 hours to overthrow their government or the United States will, as an act of preemptive war, use nuclear weapons to destroy Iran's major cities. If Bush did that we'd need one hell of a lot of popcorn because the next 96 hours would see a ton of Muzzy mullahs ripped apart by the bare hands of frenzied, terrified mobs. Ahmedinejad would meet an Allende-like end and we could reinstall the old Shah's son.

I think such an outcome beats the hell out of waiting for the Iranians to nuke somebody first and then retaliating with nuclear weapons, and you KNOW that's going to happen unless someone steps up and takes them out beforehand. Like the Fram guy said, "pay me now or pay me later."

Posted by mac 2006-10-08 09:08|| 2006-10-08 09:08|| Front Page Top

#4 could it be that the Iranian Government ocassionally stages such events to give the West the illusion that upheaval from within is possibe?

Posted by HammerHead 2006-10-08 09:35|| 2006-10-08 09:35|| Front Page Top

#5 If this is true, and a peoples revolt has started, then America should attack Syria from Iraq. By the end of the week, Syria would not exist, and Iran would either be in a lockdown or all out revolution. Either way, Happy Halloween.

Posted by wxjames 2006-10-08 11:01|| 2006-10-08 11:01|| Front Page Top

#6 Here's another report about this N/T The Corner
From Radio Free Europe

http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/10/bb6e3780-684e-4582-97f9-22a138e7b7ec.html

TEHRAN, October 7, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Several hundred supporters of an outspoken cleric in Tehran, Ayatollah Kazemeyni Boroujerdi, gathered today in the streets around his house to protest what they described as violation of "freedom of religion."

Protesters told Radio Farda that they were trying to prevent the arrest of Boroujerdi by security forces. Boroujerdi advocates the separation of religion from politics.

One of his supporters told Radio Farda that during the past two months there have been several attempts to arrest the ayatollah.

"[Security forces] took away his daughter and 38 others two months ago, they've freed them but they came this morning to take away [Boroujerdi] but the neighbors didn't give in," the man said. "They came again later to arrest him but his supporters have gathered here and will resist. Thank God, we're many, about 2,000 to 3,000."

Iran's ILNA news agency reported that police used tear gas to disperse the protest but protesters resisted by burning tires to counteract the effects of the gas.

Posted by Sherry">Sherry 2006-10-08 12:11|| 2006-10-08 12:11|| Front Page Top

#7 how about burning mullahs to counter the effects of the tear gas?

Posted by Frank G">Frank G 2006-10-08 12:21|| 2006-10-08 12:21|| Front Page Top

#8 How about burning mullahs just for fun?

Posted by Zenster">Zenster 2006-10-08 17:23|| 2006-10-08 17:23|| Front Page Top

#9 Zen, the Fire holiday is sometimes in february (26th?), but maybe they can make a new holiday, "mullah flambeaux". ;-)

Posted by twobufour 2006-10-08 17:39|| 2006-10-08 17:39|| Front Page Top

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