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News / International The Green Uprising Continues
Posted by Brendan Kiley on Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 9:59 AM
The government keeps arresting and attacking, and the people keep coming.
From the NYT:
Thousands of Iranians poured into the streets of Tehran on Thursday, clapping, chanting, almost mocking the authorities as they once again turned out in large numbers in defiance of the government’s threat to crush their protests with violence.As tear gas canisters cracked and hissed in the middle of crowds, and baton-wielding police officers chased protesters up and down sidewalks, young people, some bloodied, ran for cover, but there was an almost festive feeling on the streets of Tehran, witnesses reported in e-mail exchanges.
A young woman, her clothing covered in blood, ran up Kargar Street, paused for a moment and said, “I am not scared, because we are in this together.”
Here is some haunting video of people shouting Allah Akbar from rooftop to rooftop in a sign of solidarity—it was a practice of the 1979 revolution that is being flipped on its head. The ruling party has lost even its most visceral symbols and most cherished memories:
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