Obama was on the wrong side of history when the people of Iran took to the streets in June 2009 and met clubs, bullets, and batons with .....sheer will.
They have taken to the streets again. Will the media and Obama ignore them again? Last time, the only comprehensive coverage was here at Atlas and the Puff Ho.
IRAN: Protesters fill streets of Tehran by the thousands LA Times
Video clips (here) uploaded to the Internet are said to show crowds of protesters out in streets of the Iranian capital on the day the political opposition had called for a rally. The video clip above purportedly depicts crowds of students at a protest rally at Tehran's Sharif University on Monday. Sources told Babylon & Beyond that the gathering at Sharif University started in the early afternoon and that protesters chanted anti-government slogans and Allah o Akbar--God is Great-- before members of the Basij militia arrived at the scene to disperse the crowds.
This video shows rally-goers are purportedly seen marching in the streets of Tehran while chanting anti-government slogans on Monday.
UPDATE: The mad, murdering mullahcracy is running scared:
Iran Blocks Pre-Rally Internet Sites; US: Tehran Running Scared by Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu
Revolution fever is returning to Tehran, where new and illegal protests are planned tomorrow as the United States charges Iran “is scared of the will of its people.”
The regime of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has already blocked several opposition websites, including one named "Bahman,” the 11th month of the Persian calendar, in advance of the planned rally Monday.
Elsewhere in the Middle East, opposition elements in Yemen have accepted an offer by President Ali Abdullah Saleh not run again after demonstrations threatened stability in the country. Bahrain’s kingdom tried to stem trouble by offering every family $2,653 to "praise the 10th anniversary" of its constitution.
In Algeria, where protesters defied a ban on demonstrations, President Abdelaziz Bouteflika promised to lift emergency laws.
Iran was the scene of massive opposition rallies nearly two years ago after Ahmadinejad won re-election in a vote that opponents charged was riddled with fraud. Leaders of the opposition remain under house arrest, and others have been taken into custody ahead of Monday’s planned rally.
The Islamic Republic has praised the Egyptian uprising as being a copy of the Islamic revolution that overthrew the Shah in 1979, but the prospect of new protests in the streets of Tehran have prompted charges of a “double standard” against the government.
Ahmadinejad as recently as last week told Egyptian anti-Mubarak protesters, "The Iranian nation is your friend and it is your right to freely choose your path. We will soon see a new Middle East materializing without America and the Zionist regime and there will be no room for world arrogance in it.”
The Obama administration, which had remained silent on Iran during the Egyptian turmoil, charged on Saturday that the Iranian regime is "scared of the will of its people.” White House spokesman Robert Gibbs said, "We know that what they really are scared of is exactly what might happen.”
Iran has jammed BBC’s Persian-language television channel and has arrested several foreign journalists. "The recent arrests and effort to block international media outlets underscores the hypocrisy of the Iranian leadership," National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor said.
"By announcing that they will not allow opposition protests, the Iranian government has declared illegal for Iranians what it claimed was noble for Egyptians," he added in a statement. "We call on the government of Iran to allow the Iranian people the universal right to peacefully assemble, demonstrate and communicate that's being exercised in Cairo.”
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UPDATE: Here are Banafsheh Zand-Bonazzi's links:" Videos, so far: Iranian people's 'valentine's day message' to Iranian regime: GO TO HELL"
As the day progresses, I will send you more and more info. For now, these are the videos. Cities throughout Iran are boiling over. The Basiji and revolutionary guards are out in droves but the people are standing strong.
1. http://www.iranpressnews.com/source/092627.htm
2. One of the regime's thugs cornered by the people
4. People set rubbish bins and dumpsters on fire and chant "Death to Khamenei"
5. People march and chant "Political prisoners must be released"
6. CNN's report
7. Esfahan: "Death to the Dictator"
8. Basiji thugs on red motorcyles heading toward Azadi Square (Freedom Square)
9. Basiji thugs situate themselves in streets of Tehran
Protesting Iranian girl climbs regime's execution crane, as regime thugs try to force her down
More from Banafsheh:
A new piece of information about the Iranian regime's raping of the prisoners in prison...turns out that while raping the young men & women they photographed them and delivered the photos & video footage to their parents & families. How lucky the Egyptians were who never had to put up with ONE day of such treatment. No wonder their government came down so easily.
Shiraz, Kermanshah and Mash'had have erupted and thousands are out on the street fighting the regime forces.
