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Monday, June 15, 2009

This is What A Scared Regime Looks Like

Posted by on Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 12:11 PM

Iran today, via PicFog and HuffPo and Sullivan:

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President Obama will reportedly make a statement on the protests and violence there later today.

 

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Carollani 1
Wow, those pictures are pretty powerful. Iran is in for a revolution.
Posted by Carollani http://twitter.com/carollani on June 15, 2009 at 12:17 PM
Tina 2
Thanks for keeping track of this...
Posted by Tina on June 15, 2009 at 12:19 PM
Julie in Eugene 3
I'm surprised you guys haven't liked to The Big Picture. Good photos there, too, as always. By "good" I mean "kind of terrifying", of course.
Posted by Julie in Eugene on June 15, 2009 at 12:21 PM
Sargon Bighorn 4
They must take their politics seriously.
Posted by Sargon Bighorn on June 15, 2009 at 12:23 PM
Julie in Eugene 5
liked = linked. The pics in this post are on there (at least two of them are), along with many others...
Posted by Julie in Eugene on June 15, 2009 at 12:24 PM
6
Jesus Christ.
Posted by Mr. Poe on June 15, 2009 at 12:25 PM
The Amazing Jim 7
Don't we have to bomb 'em in order for them to be "free"?
Posted by The Amazing Jim http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/profile.php?id=100000076496291&ref=profile on June 15, 2009 at 12:27 PM
Loveschild 8
My God! we all know that this is the sort of thing that happens during freedom struggles but it's still hard to see so much bloodshed.
Posted by Loveschild http://www.samaritanspurse.org/index.php/articles/responding_to_haiti_earthquake/ on June 15, 2009 at 12:28 PM
9
See if Ahmadinejad turns up for the SCO meeting in Yekatarinburg later today. If he stays home, he's worried.
Posted by Toe Tag on June 15, 2009 at 12:29 PM
10
The regime doesn't look scared. They look like they are kicking ass!
Posted by the dead and injured look scared though on June 15, 2009 at 12:30 PM
11
*heavy sigh*
Posted by m@tt on June 15, 2009 at 12:32 PM
DavidC 12
Reports are that the Moulas are being pushed out too by the military - I don't think this is a revolution - this is a coup.
Posted by DavidC http://members.shaw.ca/karenanddavid/ on June 15, 2009 at 12:33 PM
13
Does any one else get squirmy from Andrew Sullivan's uber-earnesty? I'm just too cynical I think.
Posted by matt! on June 15, 2009 at 12:34 PM
The Max 14
I read that headline as, "This Is What a SACRED Regime Looks Like."
Posted by The Max on June 15, 2009 at 12:46 PM
You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me 15
I'm sure Obama will run through a long list of moral equivalencies between the protesters and the regime while remaining aloof and personally superior to both and impressing upon them how their only hope is to do exactly what ever he, in his vast and God like wisdom, dictates.
Posted by You_Gotta_Be_Kidding_Me on June 15, 2009 at 12:49 PM
Jenny from the Block 16
@14 Because it's a play on words...
Posted by Jenny from the Block on June 15, 2009 at 1:00 PM
17
Reminds me of Kent state -

Youth are the key - a giant per cent of the Iranian population is under 35, and they want to go modern. Remember, women drive, go the university and on the whole are far from Iraq or Saudi Arabia -

And the CIA is helping and other covert orgs as well.
Posted by Ace on June 15, 2009 at 1:06 PM
Fnarf 18
@13, yeah, a little. He's passing on some information, sure, but from his tone you'd think he was leading the revolution, not sitting on his ass six thousand miles away. Ooh, he changed his logo to green!

Same with Twitter -- yeah, it's cool that Iranians are using it to spread the word, but for every real message of interest there are ten thousand shitheads messaging "wowz this is so cool!", and blocking the interesting and useful stuff out.

It's very early days yet. It is by no means a given that this is, in fact, some kind of revolution or even a seriously significant event, and not just a big protest that's about to get mercilessly squashed.
Posted by Fnarf http://www.facebook.com/fnarf on June 15, 2009 at 1:34 PM
stinkbug 19
Don't know if this link has already appeared on slog, but Big Picture has some good ones up:

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2009/06…

Posted by stinkbug on June 15, 2009 at 1:43 PM
20
so the only reason the stranger is heavily covering this as opposed to the other countries with repressive violent governments or bloody conflicts is because of twitter? we needed twitter to care about the rest of the world?
Posted by datajunkie on June 15, 2009 at 1:45 PM
Max Solomon 21
i heard khamenei's daughter got picked up by the po.
Posted by Max Solomon on June 15, 2009 at 1:51 PM
wench 22
@20 - Twitter isn't needed to care about the rest of the world, but it helps. I'm sitting in British Columbia at the moment. Without twitter, I'd have read a few articles, maybe checked for updates to find out what was going on. The immediacy is one component. It also brings more people to caring about the world around them and gives them a sense of interconnectedness with others that they will never meet.

As for what slog covers - the amount of information that gets out is key to how thoroughly something can be covered. It's not like the Stranger has correspondents in every country to cover breaking news. So yes, twitter can affect what is covered through sheer volume of current information.
Posted by wench on June 15, 2009 at 2:16 PM
kim in portland 23
Thanks for posting. It's so important to see, even when it's hard to see.
Posted by kim in portland http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2010/11/fast-paced_video_provides_a_fu.html on June 15, 2009 at 2:41 PM
Will in Seattle 24
There are ways around the Iranian news filters they imposed.
Posted by Will in Seattle http://www.facebook.com/WillSeattle on June 15, 2009 at 2:55 PM
25
Well, at least you are spreading your agenda using dead adults as opposed to dead babies. Super!!
Posted by Timmy Tom on June 15, 2009 at 6:28 PM
26
Scrolling from the bottom of the page to the top, my first reaction was "ooowwwhh! (sounds like "owe" but more drawn/drawled out)" Had to steel myself to look at the bottom picture again.

By way of comparison, the rage of 8- and 4-years ago in this country seem so impotent. Makes me think of equal and opposite newtonian physics.

Thanks for posting this.

dp
Posted by Derek http://hurricanechasermusic.com on June 15, 2009 at 7:31 PM
27
Whatever happens PLEASE don't fuck with the OIL supply. These weekends of gassing up my truck, boat, and dirt bikes are killing me. Think that gunned down protester feels bad, try skitubing kids all day with gas at some horrid post-revolution FIVE DOLLARS PER GALLON. Go to hell protesters.
Posted by Tricyclic on June 15, 2009 at 7:49 PM
28
I would have hoped for the more graphic of those pics to be after the jump... IMHO.
Posted by FormerSeattelite on June 16, 2009 at 6:32 AM

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