Violence flares again in Tehran

[kpete]

Source: CNN

Security forces wielding clubs and firing weapons beat back protesters who flocked to a Tehran square, sources say.



UPDATE:

Violence flares again in Tehran

TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- Security forces wielding clubs and firing weapons beat back demonstrators who flocked to a Tehran square Wednesday to continue protests, with one witness saying security forces beat people like "animals."

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At least two sources described wild and violent conditions at a part of Tehran where protesters had planned to demonstrate.

"They were waiting for us," the source said. "They all have guns and riot uniforms. It was like a mouse trap."

"I see many people with broken arms, legs, heads -- blood everywhere -- pepper gas like war," the source said.

About "500 thugs" with clubs came out of a mosque and attacked people in the square, another source said.
more:
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/24/iran.election/


Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/24/iran.election/

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Massacre In Baharestan Square?

That's the impression from several reports now coming in. Stay tuned. From an interview on CNN:

"I was going towards Baharestan with my friend. This was everyone, not just supporters of one candidate or another. All of my friends, they were going to Baharestan to express our opposition to these killings and demanding freedom. The black-clad police stopped everyone. They emptied the buses that were taking people there and let the private cars go on. We went on until Ferdowsi then all of a sudden some 500 people with clubs came out of mosque and they started beating everyone. They tried to beat everyone on bridge and throwing them off of the bridge. And everyone also on the sidewalks. They beat a woman so savagely that she was drenched in blood and her husband, he fainted. They were beating people like hell. It was a massacre. They were trying to beat people so they would die. they were cursing and saying very bad words to everyone. This was exactly a massacre... I don't know how to describe it."

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/06/massacre-in-baharestan-square.html

[lamp_shade]

1. I caught the last few minutes of that phone conv on CNN. I couldn't tell if it was current or

from days ago. I heard the woman say something about people being beat down with axes. She was begging "please help us". My dear God.

[Turborama]

3. Just posted some of that interview in the videos forum

She sounded absolutely terrified!

[lamp_shade]

4. Thanks. I see it.

[Baclava]

2. Right on cue....mullahs blame the US

Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei declared on Wednesday that a disputed election result would stand, despite street protests that Iranian officials say Britain and the United States have incited.

"I had insisted and will insist on implementing the law on the election issue," Khamenei said. "Neither the establishment nor the nation will yield to pressure at any cost."

Now that police and religious militia have regained apparent control of the streets after the biggest anti-government protests since the 1979 Islamic revolution, Iran's hardline leadership is blaming the discontent on foreign powers.

"Britain, America and the Zionist regime (Israel) were behind the recent unrest in Tehran," Interior Minister Sadeq Mahsouli said, according to the semi-official Fars news agency.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20090624/tpl-uk-iran-election-02bfc7e.html


Killing more women is one way to keep them from wearing those evil western style clothes.

[Duer 157099]

9. Boy are they stupid

They cut off all media contact with the West, and then somehow expect their citizens to believe that the West is organizing these protests? How? How in the world is the West getting word to those thousands in Iran?

If nothing else, I hope that this opens the eyes of those Iranians who may have thought their leadership was benevolent in any way.

Truth is a good thing

[Baclava]

10. "Religious militias" = Stormtroopers

And the sky gods still won't care.

[Turborama]

5. Iran: Security forces throw protestors off bridge in violent attack

NCRI, Tehran, 18:30 – In the course of protests in Tehran on Wednesday:


Suppressive forces are preventing people from crossing the road near the Hedayat Mosque on the Jomhouri-Zahiroleslam Junction near Baharestan Square in Tehran.

Suppressive forces repeatedly attacked the protestors at the site with the aim of killing them. In one alleyway, security agents threw a woman in the middle of the road and savagely beat her. Angry people and protestors loudly cursed the agents. They also chanted ‘Allah-o-Akbar’ in protest.

Some 500 agents of the Revolutionary Guards suddenly moved in from side roads and above a pedestrian bridge. They threw a number of people off the bridge.

From: http://ncr-iran.org/content/view/6580/1/

[Baclava]

6. China's Tiananmen Square looks kinda tame compared to this.

It's a bloodbath.

Axes instead of tanks makes things more personal though.

[Turborama]

7. The Daily Mail say they were attacked by 1.000 "police"

But it is the Daily Mail and they aren't the most reliable source...

Link to their story: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1195250/Protesters-beaten-shot-10-000-police-launch-brutal-crackdown-Iran.html

[Baclava]

8. Headline says "10,000 police"

Hamas and Hezbollah thugs?

Persians despise Arabs anyway, from the ancient times, but when they see them getting paid by their government to come to Iran and attack them? Rage.

[SkyDaddy7]

11. BRAND NEW TODAY This is a Massacre BLOODBATH

Source: CNN

This is a short article with a video of a caller from Iran pleading for help! Thousands were trapped by the Basij and state police. Thrown of bridges and shot hit with axes! BLOODBATH

Read more: http://hotair.com/archives/2009/06/24/massacre-near-irans-parliament/

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I am lost for words this is simply horrible!!!

[lamp_shade]

12. So far only CNN is reporting this.

[tekisui]

13. There is no one there to report it.

[SkyDaddy7]

19. Yeah...It has been all over Twitter this AM

It is just now reaching major media...According to what is being said on Twitter thousands of people were allowed to mass at the square and then hundreds of Basij and police poured out of mosque and started shooting, hitting people with axes and throwing people off bridges!

This is horrible! It is hard not to want our military to do something but I know that is wrong...You just feel so helpless!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Sebass1271]

34. i am at a crossroads here.. i don't know NOW if we should

SHOULD DO SOMETHING ABOUT what is happening there... What have other countries said about these horrible acts? President of France? Britain? I have heard anything on the news on their reactions? How about jOrdan?

Can we do something militarily to stop this with other countries as allies?

[SkyDaddy7]

37. I have no idea...

I think real action lies at the feet of the Chinese and the Russians! And they refuse to get involved so sanctions simply will not work!!!

I have never wanted to use our military more than now but I also know that would simply play into the regime hands.

THIS SUCKS!!!

I am emotionally drained!!!!!

[SkyDaddy7]

40. Al Jazeera has eyewitness

Iranian people calling in as well! This is not western propaganda this BLOODSHED!!

[SkyDaddy7]

41. Looking for link!

[Turborama]

65. Check out my sig line for live streaming (worth checking every half hour for the latest)

The Livestation standalone player has a chat room beneath it where you can chat about what's being broadcast as it happens...

Also, keep an eye on their YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/AlJazeeraEnglish

and website: http://english.aljazeera.net/

[SkyDaddy7]

69. Thanks I am a subscriber already!

They do excellent reporting!!

[aquart]

20. And @Persiankiwi

One of the oldest and most reliable of the Iran Tweeters.

[madrchsod]

14. why are you reading/linking to hot air?....use the cnn link

[Sebass1271]

15. I am horrified as to what is happening in Iran, however

how did this woman contacted CNN if supposedly Iran has cut all communications with the outside world?

I don't know....

[tekisui]

16. Warning-Graphic-Video. Prostester killed today-06/24

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02qY9K2iOqA

[damntexdem]

17. This is the familiar old hand of repression and extreme violence.

This is the terrible price of demanding one's rights, what many have paid to end their oppression.

[madrchsod]

18. bbc/uk is crawling this on their front page

http://news.bbc.co.uk/

[Name removed]

21. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[MorningGlow]

25. Dude. What is WRONG with you.

:banghead:

[JerseygirlCT]

26. You let yourself off too easily

Bigoted? Yes.

[kestrel91316]

27. Try saying that to the Muslims in MY community, asshole.

My guess is you are a fundamentalist "christian" who thinks his religion's shit doesn't stink.

[Occulus]

28. "edited fro sepeeilng"

:spray:

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Oh my god.... I just.... I can't breathe...

[notadmblnd]

54. I think we have a new term to add to our dictionary. I'm series!!11

[SpiralHawk]

29. Whereas 'Christian' crusaders are the very model of meek, mild, loving kindness

[Hell Hath No Fury]

30. You're ugly.

:(

[get the red out]

32. Authoritarians being authoritarians

This kind of behavior has crossed all religions and cultures throughout history, authoritarian rule is the common denominator.

[Barrymores Ghost]

33. Disgusting post.

It DOES sound bigoted because it IS a bigoted response, coming straight from a bigot. You casually and conveniently ignore this nation's own history of violence, massacre and pillage over the past 350 years, from the first settlers through the last, barbaric administration that WE and the rest of the world suffered through...much of the crimes committed in the name of appeasing fundy, pseudo-Christian freaks who'd like nothing more than to erradicate entire swaths of humanity from the face of the earth. I get the sense that you rather identify with them.

You're in the wrong forum, creep. There's a special place on the Intertubes for neanderthals who think and speak like you. I suggest you crawl back to it. Kindly clean up the slime trail you leave behind as you go.

[Javaman]

39. Pizza time? nt

[madrchsod]

60. yes it is....i like candian bacon on mine

[Blandocyte]

43. Brave people being brave people

No matter what the religion, I don't think any brave person would do any less than the Sea Of Green people. They are standing up and getting the cr@p kicked out of them for doing so.

I don't think violent repression is a quaint ethnic practice, since it's so widespread, cutting across religions and ethnicities.

Your response is just an ugly way of refusing to help REAL PEOPLE.

[xiamiam]

44. who are you and why are you here..nt

[jpak]

45. NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION!!!111

or bridge dwelling billy goat eaters

:D

[jpak]

47. R U From TX?

:rofl:

[Gen. Jack D. Ripper]

48. I don't want to be a gentile

if that's what you are. gtfo.

[ZeitGuy]

50. Enjoy your short stay, goober.

By the way, you're a sick f*ck. Oh, and while we're at it, Sarah Palin is a stupid, oportunistic bimbo, John McCain is senile, self-serving jerk-off, Dumbya is a sociopathic village idiot, and Cheney is a psychotic, utopian war criminal who's going to get his come-uppance...and when he does, I'm buying shots for everyone at the local bar.

[tkmorris]

51. Ignorant bigot with an opinion.

I am sure the world is just dying to hear your thoughts on African Americans, Latinos, Native Americans, Chinese, France, Feminists, and Atheists. Don't be shy, regale us with your insights on all things.

[notadmblnd]

52. Xenophobic much?

Why do you come here to spew this racist shit?

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

53. I don't know why people are so outraged at your comments.

It's just a douche being well... douchy. I mean I wouldn't expect anything better coming from you. I think pretty soon all knuckle dragging morons will finish each other off. It's a win win for normal people.

PS: You should have gone all Godfather and call them animals while you're at it.

[endarkenment]

55. I think you should probably get something to eat.

[Lithos]

56. Folks - Don't wait for a response

This one is too busy chewing stone pizza.

[endarkenment]

57. +1

thank you. Only slightly less outraged by this troll than by the massacre of Iranians by their foul government.

[madrchsod]

62. finally! i may actually get to see who`s joined the club

i`ve missed them all in the last few months...you`re the best lithos

[ZeitGuy]

64. Did he get anchovies with that?

Cheers, Lithos!
:yourock:

[ChadwickHenryWard]

58. Wrong.

It is Fascists brutalizing the peaceful and freedom-loving citizens of their own nation.

[Stellabella]

61. Uh huh. And how exactly do you justify

the Crusades, the Inquisition, and all the millions and millions of people tortured and murdered by Christians? The religion of 'peace'??

[seafan]

22. Foreboding tweets from Iran, June 24, 2009

The latest posts from persiankiwi

# Allah - you are the creator of all and all must return to you - Allah Akbar - #Iranelection Sea of Greenabout 1 hour ago from web
#
thank you ppls 4 supporting Sea of Green - pls remember always our martyrs - Allah Akbar - Allah Akbar - Allah Akbar #Iranelectionabout 1 hour ago from web
#
we must go - dont know when we can get internet - they take 1 of us, they will torture and get names - now we must move fast - #Iranelectionabout 1 hour ago from web
#
Everybody is under arrest & cant move - Mousavi - Karroubi even rumour Khatami is in house guard - #Iranelection -about 2 hours ago from web
#
they pull away the dead into trucks - like factory - no human can do this - we beg Allah for save us - #Iranelectionabout 2 hours ago from web
#
Lalezar Sq is same as Baharestan - unbelevable - ppls murdered everywhere - #Iranelectionabout 2 hours ago from web
#
they catch ppl with mobile - so many killed today - so many injured - Allah Akbar - they take one of us - #Iranelectionabout 2 hours ago from web
#
in Baharestan we saw militia with axe choping ppl like meat - blood everywhere - like butcher - Allah Akbar - #Iranelection RT RT RTabout 2 hours ago from web
#
reports of street fighting in Vanak Sq, Tajrish sq, Azadi Sq - now - #Iranelection - Sea of Green - Allah Akbarabout 2 hours ago from web
#
rumour they are tracking high use of phone lines to find internet users - must move from here now - #Iranelectionabout 2 hours ago from web
#
phone line was cut and we lost internet - #Iranelection - getting more difficult to log into net - #Iranelectionabout 2 hours ago from web
#
all shops was closed - nowhere to go - they follow ppls with helicopters - smoke and fire is everywhere #Iranelectionabout 3 hours ago from web
#
ppl run into alleys and militia standing there waiting - from 2 sides they attack ppl in middle of alleys #Iranelectionabout 3 hours ago from web
#
so many ppl arrested - young & old - they take ppl away - #Iranelection - we lose our groupabout 3 hours ago from web
#
saw 7/8 militia beating one woman with baton on ground - she had no defense nothing - #Iranelection sure that she is deadabout 3 hours ago from web
#
they were waiting for us - they all have guns and riot uniforms - it was like a mouse trap - ppl being shot like animals #Iranelectionabout 3 hours ago from web
#
I see many ppl with broken arms/legs/heads - blood everywhere - pepper gas like war - #Iranelectionabout 3 hours ago from web
#
just in from Baharestan Sq - situation today is terrible - they beat the ppls like animals - #Iranelection RT RT RTabout 3 hours ago from web
#
Larijani pressing for Mousavi to be given airtime on IRIB to discuss elections #Iranelection RT RT RT - tahlilerooz.irabout 20 hours ago from web
#
MOUSAVi - on his wesite - Wed Sea of Green is 100% confirmed - no cancellation will be made #Iranelection RT RT RTabout 20 hours ago from web

[muriel_volestrangler]

23. I suggest you link to the real news source (ie CNN), and use their headline

not link to a RW blog that happens to have noticed what's on CNN. The LBN rules are clearly visible to anyone starting a thread.

[LoKnLoD]

24. Tweet Grid of tweets coming from Iran

http://tweetgrid.com/grid?l=9&q1=from%3Amousavi1388+OR+from%3A2hamed+OR+from%3Aabbaspour+OR+from%3Abahadorn+OR+from%3ABahram81+OR+from%3AChange_for_Iran+OR+from%3Airan09+OR+from%3Aknv+&q2=from%3Apersiankiwi+OR+from%3Asmileofcrash+OR+from%3AIranRiggedElect&q3=from%3AStopAhmadi+OR+from%3Aparhamdoustdar+OR+from%3Atabesh+OR+from%3ATehranBureau+OR+from%3Atehranelection+OR+from%3Awillyong+OR+from%3Ay_shar&q4=IranElection+OR+IranElection1+OR+IranElection2+OR+IranElection3+OR+IranElection4+OR+StopAhmadi+OR+CNNFail&q5=%23IranElection&an=n

[Billy Burnett]

31. CNN in FULL psyops mode. Waiting for babies tossed from incubator stories soon.

Saying this does not make me a supporter of the Ir regime.

[Sebass1271]

35. how did this woman contacted CNN if supposedly Iran has

has cut all communications with the outside world?

[Javaman]

42. I'm no IT guy, but apparenlty twittering and facebook can still be used

via a technical reason that is beyond my understanding.

[sudopod]

46. Satellite phones with IP bridging capability? nt

[Gen. Jack D. Ripper]

49. I've got an answer

it's called, where there's a will, there's a way.

[TheWraith]

59. You can't cut all outside communications...

...without bringing the country in question to a screeching halt. They're trying to selectively shot down the cell phone networks, along with blocking Twitter, Facebook, and similar sites. However, with the nature of technology, there's more ways around blocks than there are ways to block.

[Dogmudgeon]

36. Who cares? Gov. Sanford had sex with hookers in B.A.!

:sarcasm:

--d!

[Name removed]

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[NYC_SKP]

63. Recommended.

:kick:

Yes, the Twitters have been shocking, glad that CNN has picked it up.

This ought to be on the air in all media.

[Barrymores Ghost]

66. K&R (n/t)

[Odin2005]

67. Disgusting! K&R

[Javaman]

68. At what point do the Iranian protesters start fighting back?

I know they are doing their best to try and have peaceful protests, but it appears as if these paramilitary groups are making it impossible.

At what point do the protesters say, "enough!" and start bringing clubs or other weapons to the protests?

I'm not advocating violence at all, I'm just wondering at point point will their patience run out and for frustration take over?

[Turborama]

70. The Guardian: Tehran 'like a war zone' as ayatollah refuses to back down on election

• Reports militia drafted in and paid to beat protesters
• Ministers threaten to cut diplomatic ties with UK

Mark Tran, Robert Tait and agencies in Tehran
guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 24 June 2009 23.52 BST

Bloody clashes broke out in Tehran today as Iran's supreme leader said he would not yield to pressure over the disputed election. The renewed confrontation took place in Baharestan Square, near parliament, where hundreds of protesters faced off against several thousand riot police and other security personnel.

Witnesses likened the scene to a war zone, with helicopters hovering overhead, many arrests and the police beating demonstrators.

=snip=

The opposition website Rooz Online carried what it said was an interview with a man the government had shipped in to Tehran to quell the demonstrations. He said he was being paid 2m rial (£122) to assault protesters with a heavy wooden stave, and that other volunteers, most of them from far-flung provinces, were being kept in hostel accommodation, reportedly in east Tehran.

With the independent media banned from covering street protests, the reports could not be verified.

There were also unconfirmed reports tonight that Zahra Rahnavard, the wife of opposition candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi, had been arrested. Earlier in the day she had called on the authorities to release Iranians who had been detained.

Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/24/iran-protests-bloody-clashes-khamenei