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2011-02-17 Syria-Lebanon-Iran
Clashes at Funeral of Iranian Student Killed in Anti-government Protests
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Posted by Fred 2011-02-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ]  Top
 File under: Govt of Iran 

#1 Supporters of the government are far outnumbered, even though they have the guns and a willingness to use them. So what the protesters need to do is start chipping away at the most violent of the government supporters.

Being cowardly curs, for every one that is killed, two will defect.
Posted by  Anonymoose 2011-02-17 08:37||   2011-02-17 08:37|| Front Page Top

#2 When the (our morning) news did the checkdown of Mideast unrest, they didn't mention Iran. Why?
Posted by swksvolFF 2011-02-17 14:52||   2011-02-17 14:52|| Front Page Top

#3 Here we go again, on the Iranian martyrs' funerary carousel. Somebody gets killed at a protest, his funeral becomes an opportunity for another fatal protest, a funeral for the victims of the last funeral riot, and so on until the Basiji puts out the embers or they lose control of the streets and the army has to pick a side.

So far they haven't made it to option B. I'm not sold that it's possible with an intact and funded Basiji. Even after that, what's to keep the regime from just sending in loyal Revolutionary Guard troops & leaving the Army in the barracks?
Posted by Mitch H.  2011-02-17 14:52|| http://blogfonte.blogspot.com/  2011-02-17 14:52|| Front Page Top

#4 Likely in any case, if it really gets bad, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) will go in and the regular military will be confined to quarters.

However, there's still several battalions of Basij trained in both urban combat and counter-civil-disruption that haven't been deployed. And what we saw in the 2009 uprising were the 'Ashoura' (aka neighborhood/local). We didn't see the 'Imam Hossein' (Basij war veterans who train to coordinate with the IRGC) nor the 'Imam Ali' Brigades (a rough equivalent of the NKVD when mobilized).
Posted by Pappy 2011-02-17 22:24||   2011-02-17 22:24|| Front Page Top

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