Solidarity Rally in Iran, feb 14th

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The request for a solidarity rally was made by the opposition groups in Iran:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20110206/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_opposition

Iran's opposition website Kaleme reported Sunday that opposition figures Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mahdi Karoubi asked for permission for a Feb. 14 solidarity rally with protesters in Egypt and Tunisia.
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But the government has turned down their request, it seems.
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/bab...i-egypt-hosni-mubarak-tahrir-ahmadinejad.html

The Iranian judiciary on Wednesday rejected a request by opposition leaders Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karubi to hold a rally Monday in support of the antigovernment uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, the Iranian Labor News Agency reported.

"If an individual truly shares the brave Egyptians and Tunisians motivation, then he will participate in the rally to be held on [Friday], the anniversary of the Islamic Revolution's victory, along with the government and the nation," said Iranian Judiciary Spokesman Gholamhoseyn Ezhe'i.
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What hypocrites.
Caught between schadenfreude and the knowledge that their bs is bs.

I put the Feb 14th date in the title because.
 
Perhaps this will lead to a resurgence of the green rebellion. I hope so, at any rate.
 
Not only has the Iranian government stopped the planned event, they have put one of the event's promoters under house arrest.

Iran: Mehdi Karroubi 'house arrest' after protest call
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-12416708
Iranian opposition leader Mehdi Karroubi has been put under house arrest, his official website says.

Security officials at the premises say the measures will last until next week, it adds. No one is being allowed to enter the house except his wife.

Mr Karroubi and Mir Hossein Mousavi, another opposition leader, had called for a rally on Monday to support the popular uprisings in Egypt and Tunisia.

The authorities refused permission, calling it a political move.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704329104576137813613162704.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Iran's pro-democracy Green Movement has called people to the streets in solidarity with protestors in Egypt and Tunisia, as the call gained momentum on blogs and social networking sites, with over 30,000 people pledging to participate on one protest group's Facebook page.

Iranian youth activists got a nod from Wael Ghonim, the Google executive and Egyptian protest leader, who showed up on Tahrir Square wearing the signature green wrist band of Iran's opposition.

"I tell all Iranians that you should learn from Egyptians because we learned from you," Mr. Ghonim told an Iranian human rights group on Thursday.


[...] In Tehran and other big Iranian cities this week residents scribbled on paper money, "End executions, stop dictatorship," and spray painted "Tahrir Square"—the central location of recent Egyptian protests—on traffic signs on Tehran's Azadi square, the site of Iran's anti-government protests in 2009.
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It would seem to me that Iran and Lybia should be very scared of what is occuring in Egypt. However, we know that neither regime is averse to hitting opposition hard...
 
headscratcher4 said:
It would seem to me that Iran and Lybia should be very scared of what is occuring in Egypt. However, we know that neither regime is averse to hitting opposition hard...
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That's where the cell phone cameras and the Internet come in.
 
In the papers this morning: journalists banned, internet turned off in certain areas of Tehran, mobile phone traffic blocked, riot police deployed, also on motorcycles.

They try to catch the movement in a violent way, while it is still small.

Gotta love their public support for the "Islamic revolution" in Egypt, where the people stood up against "Zionist puppets".

You could literally taste the wishful thinking in that statement.

Do the Mullah-boys realise that the demonstrators in Egypt have a lot in common with the Iranian greenshirts?
 
Unfortunately I don't think the armed forces will be as neutral as they were in Tunisia and Egypt so we could see a lot more violence if anything starts to grow in Iran.
 
Sadly, my prediction is that there will not be a successful revolution in Iran.

Hope I'm wrong, though.

Any chance of a big name like Rafsanjani throwing his weight behind the greens?
That might give them a boost.
 
headscratcher4 said:
It would seem to me that Iran and Lybia should be very scared of what is occuring in Egypt. However, we know that neither regime is averse to hitting opposition hard...
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They've already executed many of the leaders of last years protests.
 
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said the opposition protests seen in Iranian cities on Monday are "going nowhere" and vowed to punish their organisers.
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'Corrupt on earth'
Earlier, conservative members of Iran's parliament called for the two opposition leaders they accused of fomenting the unrest, Mir Hossein Mousavi and Mehdi Karroubi, to be tried and sentenced to death.

Pumping their fists in the air, a large group marched through the main parliamentary chamber, chanting "Death to Mousavi, death to Karroubi".
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Link
 
Darth Rotor said:
"Let's try them and sentence them to death."

Wait, if you already have the sentence, why bother with the trial? :p

I wonder if those gents "get" how oafish they can sound.
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I suspect if the old poop was still alive he'd explain that, like fun, there is no nuance in Islam either.

May they all be boiled in oil. (The Council of Guardians, that is.)
 
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