Iran: "Ferocious" Crackdown

Kucinich and Paul vote with this terror regime. The American left sides with the terror regime. The EU backs this terror regime. Russia and China arm this terror regime. America is alone (so was Columbus). Our biggest problem is the enemy within. Supporters of terror regimes and Bush haters ought to live in the countries they support.

"Young men wearing T-shirts deemed too tight or haircuts seen as too Western have been paraded bleeding through Tehran’s streets by uniformed police officers who force them to suck on plastic jerrycans, a toilet item Iranians use to wash their bottoms (ass crack). In case anyone misses the point, it is the official news agency Fars distributing the pictures of what it calls “riffraff.” Far bloodier photographs are circulating on blogs and on the Internet."

Iran Cracks Down on Dissent, Parading Examples in Streets The Ledger hat tip

Iran is in the throes of one of its most ferocious crackdowns on dissent in years, with the government focusing on labor leaders, universities, the press, women’s rights advocates, a former nuclear negotiator and Iranian-Americans, three of whom have been in prison for more than six weeks.

The shift is occurring against the backdrop of an economy so stressed that although Iran is the world’s second-largest oil exporter, it is on the verge of rationing gasoline. At the same time, the nuclear standoff with the West threatens to bring new sanctions.

The hard-line administration of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, analysts say, faces rising pressure for failing to deliver on promises of greater prosperity from soaring oil revenue. It has been using American support for a change in government as well as a possible military attack as a pretext to hound his opposition and its sympathizers.

Some analysts describe it as a “cultural revolution,” an attempt to roll back the clock to the time of the 1979 revolution, when the newly formed Islamic Republic combined religious zeal and anti-imperialist rhetoric to try to assert itself as a regional leader.

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Young men wearing T-shirts deemed too tight or haircuts seen as too Western have been paraded bleeding through Tehran’s streets by uniformed police officers who force them to suck on plastic jerrycans, a toilet item Iranians use to wash their bottoms. In case anyone misses the point, it is the official news agency Fars distributing the pictures of what it calls “riffraff.” Far bloodier photographs are circulating on blogs and on the Internet.

The country’s police chief boasted that 150,000 people — a number far larger than usual — were detained in the annual spring sweep against any clothing considered not Islamic. More than 30 women’s rights advocates were arrested in one day in March, according to Human Rights Watch, five of whom have since been sentenced to prison terms of up to four years. They were charged with endangering national security for organizing an Internet campaign to collect more than a million signatures supporting the removal of all laws that discriminate against women.

Eight student leaders at Tehran’s Amir Kabir University, the site of one of the few public protests against Mr. Ahmadinejad, disappeared into Evin Prison starting in early May. Student newspapers had published articles suggesting that no humans were infallible, including the Prophet Muhammad and Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

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The entire campaign is “a strong message by Ahmadinejad’s government, security and intelligence forces that they are in control of the domestic situation,” said Hadi Ghaemi, an Iran analyst for Human Rights Watch. “But it’s really a sign of weakness and insecurity.”

At least three prominent nongovernment organizations that pushed for broader legal rights or civil society have been shuttered outright, while hundreds more have been forced underground. A recent article on the Baztab Web site said that about 8,000 nongovernment organizations were in jeopardy, forced to prove their innocence, basically because the government suspects all of them of being potential conduits for some $75 million the United States has earmarked to promote a change in government. Full article here.

I think we need to send a contingent over there - Fonda, Belafonte, Jolie, Garafolo, and ROSIE.

Gateway has more disgusting pics here.

Iran Focus has several postings on the violence HERE, HERE, HERE and HERE.

Dragging a man through the streets with his hands tied behind him while  beating and kicking him.

UPDATE: Everyday the neighborhood bully threatens another free country.

ANGER IN IRAN OVER RUSHDIE KNIGHTHOOD AAP

Iran's speaker of parliament says the award of a British knighthood to author Salman Rushdie was a shameless act that would not go without a Muslim response.

UPDATE: More Islamic brutality.This from the Aryamehr blog;

(May 17th, 2007), In the north-western city of Tabriz, two Iranian boys were confronted by an Islamic morality security guard of the Islamic regime over "un-Islamic" music that the boys were listening to in their car.  In pure Taliban fashion the Islamic morality police ends up shooting one of the boys and arresting the other - the wounded boy who lost a lot of blood, sustained from his wounds, is in critical condition and hospitalized. These are some very disturbing pictures especially knowing the bizarre situation which led to these Islamist animals shooting an Iranian boy!

More pictures here

 

Comments

[tazzerman2000]

The silence from the left is deafening isn't it? Not only that, but where is our our own resident moonbat Duncan. Interesting how he never has any comments on posts like this isn't it?? I guess it is tough to comment on these topics when your head is buried in the sand so deep :) ...

[x_dhimmi]

tazzerman, He and his ilk think burying their heads in the sand is a brilliant plan to make their necks unaccessible to the sword of islam. Hope they calculate a deep enough hole; otherwise, it'll be six feet with a necklace of stitching courtesy of the undertaker.

[Abu Daboo Doo al Bedrocki]

These mullahs and their minions are disgusting. They stand for everything that true (small 'd') democrats around the world stand against (or should stand against).

Unfortunately, as bad as Iran is, they are not alone. Many are persecuted around the world in tyrannical regimes everywhere. For those who might be interested, there is a great Website that helps publicize the plight of persecuted Christians around the world.

http://opendoorsusa.org/

As for Duncan, I think it is good that he hangs out here. He helps us to see what we are up against in terms of the politics of today. While I disagree with his opinions (that I have read), I would fight for him to voice them (even here). I seriously doubt he would do the same for any of us who disagree with him. This is the difference with today's liberals and Democrats versus those of 30 years ago.

[va87]

Fucking animals! What is it that the asshats on the left don't get about these demon muslims and their "religion of peace"?These same brain dead liberals will be THE FIRST to lose their heads when the muslim hoard over-runs America. This is a CANCER that needs to be eliminated and eradicated from the face of the earth! Sierra Hotel to you Atlas for continuing to sound the klaxon about this monsterous cult of personality disguising itself as faith.This is one American who IS NOT AFRAID to say what is politically incorrect but the truth: islam is a cancer that needs to be killed! If we don't kill it.....IT will kill us!
NO MORE fence sitting! It's time to take sides!

[eavesdropper]

Making people drink shit-water.... only ramps up my hatred towards Jihadists.

May they all die.... soon.

The liberals could care less.