They’re B-a-a-ck!!
Thursday—today—was supposed to be an important day in Iran, and they have not disappointed:
Hundreds of young men and women chanted “death to the dictator” and fled baton-wielding police in the capital Thursday as opposition activists sought to revive street protests despite authorities’ vows to “smash” any new marches.
For days, supporters of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi have been calling for new protests in Tehran and other cities on Thursday, their first significant attempt to get back on the streets since security forces crushed massive demonstrations nearly two weeks ago in Iran’s postelection turmoil.
Tehran governor Morteza Tamaddon warned that any new march Thursday would meet the same fate.
“If some individuals plan to carry out any anti-security actions by listening to calls by counterrevolutionary networks, they will be smashed under the feet of our aware people.”
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The calls for a new march have been circulating for days on social networking Web sites and pro-opposition Web sites. Opposition supporters planned the marches to coincide with the anniversary Thursday of a 1999 attack by Basij on a Tehran University dorm to stop protests in which one student was killed.
Though I wish the protesters well, I’m afraid I’ve moved on from expecting regime change in Iran.
So has our president, though he shows it differently:
In January 2007, the US captured five Iranians providing assistance to the Shi’ite extremists in the south of Iran killing US soldiers. The Bush administration identified the five as members of the Quds Force, an elite unit within the Revolutionary Guard, tasked with fomenting terrorism and undermining the US in Iraq. The BBC reports today that the Obama administration has released them today to the Iraqis as a means of allowing them to go free.
Appeasement: it’s what’s for breakfast.