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Title: Iranian lawmakers condemn protests; call for execution of leaders
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CNN
URL Source: http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/meast ... n.protests/index.html?hpt=Sbin
Published: Feb 16, 2011
Author: the CNN Wire Staff
Post Date: 2011-02-16 07:38:02 by A K A Stone
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Comments: 14
Tehran, Iran (CNN) -- Iranian lawmakers denounced Monday's protests in Tehran and called for the execution of two opposition leaders for inciting the demonstrations, Iran's state-run Press TV reported Tuesday. Members of the Iranian parliament issued fiery chants against opposition leaders and former presidential candidates Mehdi Karrubi and Mir Hossein Moussavi. Press TV aired video Tuesday of lawmakers chanting "Moussavi, Karrubi ... execute them." Lawmakers also named former President Mohammad Khatami in some of the death chants. The calls for the leaders' executions come after a particularly deadly month in Iran. At least 66 people were executed in January, according to Iranian media reports. Most of the executions were reportedly carried out for drug offenses, although at least three involved political prisoners, a U.N. statement said. U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay expressed alarm earlier this month over the number of executions. Brutality and hypocrisy in Iran Could Iran be the next Egypt? Clinton denounces Iranian 'hypocrisy' RELATED TOPICS * Iran * Mir Hossein Moussavi * Mehdi Karrubi Iranian leaders have praised Egypt's revolution, but Monday when protesters in Iran took to the streets the government cracked down hard. Last week, the Iranian government rounded up activists after Karrubi and Moussavi called for supporters to gather at Azadi Square -- the site of mass protests by Iran's opposition movement after the disputed 2009 presidential elections. Despite the security crackdown, tens of thousands of demonstrators marched in Tehran Monday. Patrolling security forces battled protesters with batons and tear gas for much of the day. The massive crowd was largely cleared from the city's streets by nightfall and the main squares near Tehran University remained free of police, security forces or protesters. Dozens of demonstrators were detained during Monday's protests, while videos posted on the showed others had been chased and beaten. One person was shot and killed during the protests, according to Iran's semiofficial Fars news agency. Several others were injured and listed in serious condition as a result of the shooting, which the Iranian government blamed on "agitators and seditionists." The official Islamic Republic News Agency reported that nine security force members were among those injured in the protests, which the country's deputy police chief called "illegal gatherings ... directed from America, England and Israel." "The hands of sedition leaders are drenched in blood and they should answer for these actions," Ahmad Reza Radan said, according to IRNA. Video uploaded to YouTube showed throngs of demonstrators marching, burning posters of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and in one instance beating a man who appeared to try to remove a poster from the hands of protesters. Other YouTube video showed police in riot gear pursuing dozens of people running away from the baton-wielding officers. Other videos show similar protests going on in other cities in Iran such as Shiraz and Isfahan. CNN cannot independently verify the authenticity of the videos and witnesses declined to be named for fear of retribution. Reporting from Iran proved extremely difficult Monday -- foreign journalists were denied visas, accredited journalists living in the country were restricted from covering the demonstrations and internet speeds slowed to a crawl in an apparent attempt to both limit protest organizing and restrict information from being transmitted out of the country. Catherine Ashton, the European Union foreign policy chief, released a statement Tuesday urging Iranian officials to "fully respect and protect the rights of their citizens, including freedom of expression and the right to assemble peacefully."
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#1. To: All, Ferret Mike (#0)
Mike even the Shah didn't shoot the protesters. And you preferred Khomeni. What a dupe.
Wouldn't it be humorous if a bomb fell from the sky on their parliament when it was in session. I would be quite amused.
Like Egypt never happened. No lessons learned.
Do you support the overthrow of the islamic regime in Iran? Do you admit in hindsight that they had it much better under the Shah?
I saw on the news this morning that they are protesting in Libya too. Good news.
Hypocritical opportunism at best. You're knowledge is woefully short here, A K. See Shah SAVAK Operation AJAX for detail. " Clinton claims that the Obama administration took a consistent line as revolutionary events unfolded in Egypt. It was against violence, it supported universal human rights for the Egyptian people and it backed political change that would guarantee positive outcomes. And she insists that Washington is committed to those three principles for Iran. For some reason, the secretary of state sees no need to include the peoples of Yemen, Bahrain, Algeria, Jordan, Libya and Saudi Arabia in this festival of peace, human rights and positive outcomes." ;}
" Mubarak's Egypt was Washington's partner in crime in torturing extraordinary rendition victims. It routinely brutalised its own citizens while its thugs murdered hundreds of people during the Liberation Square protests. When Clinton observed today: "History has shown us that repression often sows the seeds for revolution down the road," she could have been speaking of Egypt, but she wasn't. As usual, she was referring to Iran, with which the US is obsessed."
The revolution was in 79. Not 53. That is what I am talking about. The end of the regime. Or possible end of the new regime.
A google of Shah's Iran torture: # SAVAK - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 1979 stated that the CIA taught Nazi torture techniques to SAVAK. .... Writing at the time of the Shah's overthrow, TIME magazine described SAVAK as having ... An example of the public image of the SAVAK in Iran as all-pervasive and ... History - Operations - Victims - Fardoust and security and ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SAVAK - Cached - Similar # Savak/Savama, the symbol of censorship and torture in Iran The agency was also active abroad, especially in monitoring Iranian students who publicly opposed the Shah's government. Interrogation, torture and long ... www.angelfire.com/home/iran/savak.html - Cached - Similar Democracy in Iran, Dr. Mossadegh, Shah and Ayatollah Khomeini Thereafter, the Iranian people deeply suffered under the Shah's dictatorship ... www.angelfire.com/home/iran/ - Cached - Similar They don't hate us for our freedoms, A K. ;}
That is what I am talking about. The end of the regime. Or possible end of the new regime. OMG The Revolution WAS in 53. Funny you're familiar with that date, eh? And thanx for bringing it up. Note how it immediately followed the Egyptian Revolution felling King Faruk, and the beginning of the End of the British Empire, which is what Operation Ajax was about. The British were losing Iran to the Nationalists Mossadegh who had removed the Shah. The US 'had' to step in to re colonize. 8D
I brought up the date mcdork. You are talking about different things. The Shah to hold onto power in 79 didn't shoot the protestors to maintain power. He could have squashed them with all the US military equipment he had. He didn't. He could have had Khomeni killed instead of exiled. He didn't. Now we have the fanatical Islamic regime, that could be at the end of its days ( I don't believe that but it is possible) and they are choosing violence and killing people. I'll put you down as pro Khomeni based on your comments.
Shit like this makes me wish the bombs would start flying, but then I remember the people.
He couldn't. A) he had left the country in early January and b) in 1978, the Iranian Army told the Shah that it would not quell the protests.
I didn't prefer Khomeini, and the Shah tortured and killed people through the agency given Savak his secret police. Great, false assumptions, and ignorance of the Shah's brutality. That's a great demonstration of cluelessness. For one thing, I have read extensively on the history of American manipulation of the political, social and economic realities of Iran for decades and know the Shah was only there because of American desire for money and influence. For another, I have no use for dogmatic, intolerant religions, be it Islam Iranian style, or Christianity, U.S. fundie style.
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Mike even the Shah didn't shoot the protesters. And you preferred Khomeni. What a dupe.
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The revolution was in 79. Not 53.
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Press TV aired video Tuesday of lawmakers chanting "Moussavi, Karrubi ... execute them."
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The Shah to hold onto power in 79 didn't shoot the protestors to maintain power.
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