Hatred, chaos and savage beatings in Tehran

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Source: CNN

TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- He was surrounded and pleading for them to stop but six men with clubs, batons and metal rods kept battering a young Iranian man with ruthless force. The swing that keeps replaying in my head was the black baton that smashed the man in the skull behind his left ear.

Seconds earlier the man had dared to stand up to the baton wielding men because they had shoved a 14-year-old girl. For his chivalry he got one of the most savage beatings I have ever seen at the hands of four Iranian riot policemen and members of the Baseej, Iran's plain clothed volunteer militia.

"To hell with Iran," he said as he sat beaten and battered along the sidewalk. "This is not my government. This is not my country."

A grown man who watched the beating burst into tears.

Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/14/iran.eyewitness/

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1. Guess this means the DLC and GOP will team-up to grant them most-favored nation status

and they'll get an olympic games in about 20 years, attended by george w. bush.

if history is any indicator of what's going to happen.

[MADem]

2. I am sickened. I was in Iran in 79 and this looks as big as that did, to me. nt

[Suji to Seoul]

3. Traditionally, this doesn't last long and people go back to being the subservient, scared

people they are when they throw their temper tantrum.

If this continues for more than a week, the power structure may have had its straw that broke the camel's back moment and revolution in Iran may seem inevitable. The Iranian people may have had their backs finally broken after 30 years of this radical bastardization of Islam crap.

If they have, more power to them. We should help them, not shun them, and ensure Iran becomes what Heir Chimpendick tried to force on Iraq. Only this time, use the carrot, not the stick!