Blogging the democratic revolution
These are the first photos showing, inside the stadium and despite the presence of the Islamic Republic’s vice-president, Iranian fans waving their original flag, the Lion & Sun, instead of the Khomeinist one that was imposed in 1979. In Iran, women (who have to wear the mandatory veil) are banned from entering the stadiums. Outside the stadium: Israeli, German and Iranian protesters, waving Israeli, German, American and Iranian Lion and Sun flags: And, below, members of a neo-Nazi group supporting Ahmadinejad and his anti-semitic remarks Updates coming soon. Stay tuned!
I was fortunate enough to participate in a conference call with Natan Sharansky hosted by the Heritage Foundation. As you all have probably guessed, I’m a big fan of his book, The Case For Democracy, so this presented a very unique chance to get a question in. I was joined by several heavyweight bloggers Regime Change Iran, Right Wing News, Red State, Power Line, Gateway Pundit, Hugh Hewitt, Atlas Shrugs, and Boker Tov, Boulder. Follow those links! Unfortunately, there was an audio problem so no file or transcript will be available. Meaning I have to go by memory or notes.…
From SMCCDI “In several cities groups gathered in order to organize opposition soccer gatherings, in which they displayed the banned “Lion & Sun” flag and some posters of the Islamic regime’s crimes. Such actions were very noticeable, especially, in cities, such as in Los Angeles, where, the Marzeporgohar Party had rented a full restaurant in the Westwood area, and where tens of Iranians gathered to watch the match on Television. In Dallas and in Seattle, several SMCCDI and Iran National Secular Party members took off the Islamic regime’s displayed flags, from the walls of some businesses, where some Islamic regime…
This is just breaking, thousands of Iranian women are demonstrating for equal rights now in Tehran – police are going after them with full Islamofascist barbarism. Speculatively, it might well be that the Iranian soccer babes had an impact – I felt they would when I saw them. Keep an eye on GatewayPundit, if anyone catches this in full, he will. UPDATE: I was right, go see GatewayPundit’s excellent roundup and photos here.
The SMCCDI Movement informs that there have been clashes in Iran soon after the match, with people voicing their disgust for the Islamic Republic regime: Unrest, sporadic clashes and attack of some public buildings and materials happened in several Iranian cities, yesterday night, following Iran’s 3-1 loss to Mexico in the frame of the 2006 Soccer World Cup. Angry supporters expressed their hostility, against the Islamic regime and in cities, such as, Tehran, Ahvaz, Shiraz and Esfahan. Several were injured or arrested by the Islamic regime’s security forces and plainclothes men. Ä…Å Already many Iranians were speaking about the way…
Following on from Stefania’s post, the World Cup match between Iran and Mexico went on, and Iranian exiles, though they didn’t win the match, did a good job cheering their team. As Stefania noted, many of the exiles were making a political statement about Iran’s regime by waving the old Iranian flag, which featured a lion and sun emblem. You might argue that there’s something off about politicizing a soccer match by waving politically loaded flags, but I see something very different – the babes are cheering the Iranian team (and I am sure it’s a state-sponsored team) even though…
Despite the presence of the regime’s vice-president at the stadium, tens of Iranian fans cheered their team but also staged a significant anti-regime protest. While the Islamic Republic’s national hymn was played, many Iranian fans sang the original Iranian national anthemn, named “Ey-Iran! Marze por Gohar”. The latter has been officially banned by the Khomeinist regime since 1979. The same goes for the national flag, that is the Lion & Sun flag, used for thousands of years with small changes in the centuries, but abolished by the Islamist regime since when it took power in 1979. Since then, the regime…
While cheering their national team, the Iranian exiles in Germany will be demonstrating against the regime, in and out of the stadiums where Iran will play. Hundreds of members of Iranian Diaspora are expected to seize the opportunity, offered by the game, in order to stage a protest rally against the Islamic regime, inside and outside the Nuremberg Stadium, by carrying the banned “Lion & Sun” Flag and shouting slogans. The Islamic regime which is aware of this preparation will broadcast the game with a short delay, in order to allow the censors to cut off hostile footages. Iranians in…
Long overlooked on the world scene, China has been a great destabilizer of several regions of the world by its strategy in seeking to lock up supplies of oil. Sudan. Iran. Venezuela. Ecuador. China is a player in all of these areas and more. China’s efforts to lock up oil may not be as barbaric in means as the Japanese, who went on resource conquests just before World War II but it is the same idea. In any number of ways, it could lead to World War III. It’s no good for anyone. Fausta at Fausta’s blog has an illuminating…
Nazanin, a 17-year-old Iranian girl, who was attacked by an Iranian rapist thug in a Tehran park as her weaselly, masculinity-challenged ‘boyfriend’ ran away, was left to defend herself with a small knife, and in the course of that act, accidentally killed the vile bastard, who is now in hell where he belongs. But that wasn’t enough for Iran’s mullahs. Showing the depth of their ethics, they insisted that SHE, the helpless teenager, was the real criminal, and Iranian society could simply not exist in its current form if Iranian rapists were not allowed to do as they wished to…
From the news: PUTRAJAYA, Malaysia (AP)–The Nonaligned Movement, the world’s biggest bloc after the U.N., emphatically backed Iran Tuesday in its nuclear standoff with the U.S., and condemned Israel for occupying Palestinian lands. Meeting in Malaysia’s administrative capital, the foreign ministers of NAM member nations also demanded that Israel accede to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty without delay and open its nuclear facilities to international inspection. On Iran, the ministers “re-affirmed the basic and inalienable right” of all countries to develop, produce and use atomic energy “for peaceful purposes, without any discrimination and in conformity with their respective legal obligations,” said…
The SMCCDI has two reports on the protests underway in Iran here and here. Below, some photos of the demonstrations. In my next Iran-related post, I’ll write more in detail about these demonstrations.
Students are protesting in Iran, and according to this report, it’s against Iran’s nuke program. Some of it has turned violent. Police are blamed. GatewayPundit has the scoop, and a tremendous roundup of this big potential democracy revolution here.
As part of a new, despot-pleasing goodie package, the European Union wants the United States to sell Iran new airplanes so that it can modernize its decades old fleet. They already fell for this once — back in 2005, the Bush administration signed an order allowing the U.S. to sell aircraft spare parts to the maligned regime as part of an earlier incentive design to halt uranium enrichment. Given that Presidenti Ahmadinejad has already refuted the offer before it has even been presented, doing such a thing wouldn’t make sense. The U.S. may not be officially at war with Iran,…
I have previously remarked on Algeria????????s growing ties to the Islamic Republic of Iran, and President Bouteflika????????s fiery rhetoric towards France on the issue of colonial apologetics. Both of these issues is contrary to Algeria????????s national interest, though on different scales. The first is an issue of independence in foreign policy, which has been a hallmark of Algerian foreign policy since independence. That is, how to balance relationships with international heavy hitters, be they First, Second, or Third World nations, while still maintaining flexibility on the world stage. Today this issue is similar to Algeria????????s domestic politics; will Algeria side…
As you might have heard, the United States resumed diplomatic relations with Libya, one of the most totalitarian countries in the world. To even begin trying to account for how this matches up to the stated “Bush Doctrine” of promoting democracy, and how it will benefit the people of Libya, boggles the mind. It does go to show, however, that the world is a complex place and the administration isn’t single-mindedly ideological when it comes to foreign policy. The reasons for this move therefore have little consideration for democracy, and everything to do with how the attainment of nuclear weapons…
It’s with great sorrow that I learn that the U.S. gov’t caved in to the Mullahs. SMCCDI, a secular , democratic and anti-islamist movement committed to regime change in Iran reports some worrying news. Many Iranian oppositionists had used to support President Bush and now the U.S. gov’t sells its soul to the Islamic regime and announces it won’t grant funds to the Iranian oppositions. If Bush’s popularity has reached a new low, it is not because of being a “warmongering” administration, as some naive pundits claim. No. It’s because it seems very weak in front of terrorists and the…
Iran’s leader, Mahmood Ahmadinejad, Monday sent a letter to President Bush in some sort of effort to communicate with him, and to halt potential action over Iran’s nuclear program. It has a weird bloggerly quality to it, mulling over events, ranting and raving here, whining about always being a victim there, and it’s sort of interesting to read. But the most interesting part (to me) is Ahmadinejad’s clear reference to Venezuela’s dictator, Hugo Chavez. It’s obvious he watches the Chavista soap opera going on in the Western hemisphere, and clearly has discussed the paranoias of Chavez. They fill his thoughts.…
Yesterday, at a meeting with the Algerian speaker of parliament, Ammar Sadani (or Saadani), the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared that the years of “discord” among the Muslim countries was over. These years of discord had allowed Israel to occupy Palestine and for the West to dominate the lands of Islam. But, the “enemies” of the ummah had been weakened by recent developments in the Middle East, and, Ahmadinejad said, Iran and Algeria could change the balance of power in the Middle East against Israel and the United States. Sadani, in support of the Iranian president, responded, ever carefully, by…
Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak recently ruffled feathers in the Arab world when he publically questioned the loyalty of Arab Shiites not only to the Arab nation, but also to their own homelands. “Most of the Shiites are loyal to Iran, and not the countries they are living in,” he said. Such fears in the Arab East are long standing and often taken in a very matter of fact way when the region????????s Sunnis look at their Shiite neighbors???????? affinity for portraits of Iranian political leaders and mosques built with Iranian funds. Suspicion among the region????????s various groups has only been…
I noticed this photo on the Yahoo! site, listed as one of the most frequently viewed and emailed. It’s interesting because at my workplace, the photo editor was struck by the strangeness of the photo, too, and called me over to look at it as something disgusting. He pointed out that the hackneyed peace symbolism, the dictator-pleasing dance concept, and the scary topic – nuclear uranium – all combined to create a surprisingly Orwellian image. The phony joy of the lobotomized culties just happens to match the ayatollahs’ announcement of “happy news” about Iran’s new uranium enrichment program. Kim Jong…
As I previously reported, the Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy in Iran (SMCCDI) needs urgent help in order to continue to exist and strenghten the fight against the Mullahs. You can make a donation of any amount or simply help spread the word asking to help. To know more on how to help, click here. I had also posted about the financial problems faced by the Los Angeles-based National Iranian Television (NITV), which is the most prominent opposition network broadcasting to Iran and helping Iranian freedom fighters by coordinating demonstrations and helping spread the opposition groups’ messages to the…
The Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy in Iran (SMCCDI) , which most of you probably know by reading its reports I use to post both here and on my blog, is desperately looking for help in order to survive and keep on fighting for a just cause : total regime change in Iran and the establishment of a true secular democracy. Please, read SMCCDI’s Urgent Action, and spread the word as much as you can!
Tchahar-Shanbe Soori (Fire Fiest) has been celebrated by millions of Iranians, who defied the regime’s official ban on this “pagan” pre-islamic ritual, symbol of ancient Iranian heritage, and took to the street to celebrate and protest against the regime in its totality. Thousands of potraits of the regime’s leaders were set on fire and the females bravely took out their mandatory veils and set them on fire, too. Reports speak of copies of Koran and the Islamic Republic’s illegitimate constitution also burned. To see the photos, go here and here.
Thousands of Iranians are rushing into the streets of the main Iranian cities in order to celebrate their ancient pre-islamic festivity known by the name of “Tchahar-Shanbe Soori” (Fire Fiest). The event has been banned by the regime and labeled as “pagan”, “haram” and “un-islamic”, but millions are increasingly defying the ban by celebrating what is the symbol of Iranism while rejecting Islamism and the Shiite religion itself. Tchahar Shanbe Soori is an ancient persian festivity that derives from the Zoroastrian religion. The SMCCDI Movement is reporting that : Noise of fire crackers and hand made explosive devises are echoing…