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30-Nov-2011
Other embassies may be closing in Iran according to Washington Post and I suspect this makes more likely a vote to shut off Iranian oil imports to the West. That could add to the regime's economic woes.
Excerpt from Washington Post:
European ambassadors in Tehran had a long meeting Wednesday in which the options of withdrawing heads of missions and even closing all European embassies in Tehran were debated, said a European diplomat who asked to remain anonymous. One diplomat had visited the British Embassy grounds to search for the British ambassador’s dog, which was found. The diplomat said damage to the buildings was extreme.
“The place had been systematically ransacked, paintings were destroyed and furniture was broken,” the diplomat said. “We have concluded that the attack had been extremely well coordinated by the authorities,” he said.
Iran’s leaders apparently made a deliberate decision to allow groups of young men armed with sticks to pillage the diplomatic compounds Tuesday and briefly detain six embassy staffers.
PHOTOS CAPTURE HIGH REGIME OFFICIALS PARTICIPATING IN EMBASSY ATTACK
At Enduring America, an article identifies one high Basilj official and what appears to be a top IRCG Quds officer (Special Forces) involved in the demonstration. EA has circled their faces in red. You can clearly see a mullah is among the demonstrators. Toss in the encouragement of such attacks by Khamenei's hard-line supporters in parliament, plus praise for it by so many top regime officials afterewards.
This regime is going to be held accountable for outlaw behavior and it will be costly. A news outlet associated with Ahmadinejad has also praised the attack, indicating that--whatever arguments he may have on the mullahs--both factions are as "tight" on this one as they were on election day and afterwards.
Like the recently disrupted attack in Washington, this is another bone-headed scheme by a hard line regime at the worst possible time. It's as stupid as the blatantly rigged election. These thugs think they can get away with anything and people won't notice.
A MESSAGE TO IRAN'S CENSORS: Don't worry about EA's analysis of the photos. Even if you could filter them, they are all over the internet now and in the offices of many western governments. Everyone knows the Basilj are directly controlled by the Supreme Leader and couldn't act without his permission. The same has been true when, dressed in plain clothes, Basilj and Hezbollah types beat up moderate clerics and trash their homes and mosques. Everyone knows who is the MAIN MAN behind it all.
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A frightening thought
by Veiled Prophet of Khorasan on Wed Nov 30, 2011 05:25 PM PSTWhat if Bachmann and AN had a child toghether? How dumb would that kid be.
Bachmann: I Would Close Our
by MM on Wed Nov 30, 2011 05:13 PM PSTA really funny denial from the Basilj
by FG on Wed Nov 30, 2011 04:52 PM PSTAnd students in the Basij militia play down events with the curious explanation, "We did not destroy property of the British Embassy. The damages had happened before."--Enduring America
FG: I suppose the diplomats saw the honorable gentlemen climbing the walls and set out to frame them by trashing the place before they could get in the door. Or I should say BOTH places which are six miles apart.
Khamenei's rep praises attack on embassy & more news
by FG on Wed Nov 30, 2011 04:33 PM PSTAs many folks have observed, including British foreign minister Hague, the attack could not occur if not approved at the highest level. So here it is:
Mohammad Mohammadian, a representative of Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, praised the attackers, saying they had targeted the "epicenter of sedition."
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Proposed: TOTAL EMBARGO ON IRANIAN OIL, FREEZE ON CENTRAL BANK HOLDINGS
France's budget minister, Valerie Pecresse, said the EU should consider a total embargo on Iranian oil or a freeze on Iranian central bank holdings. British officials said the U.K. would likely support new measures against Iran's energy sector.
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GOODBYE AND GOOD RIDDANCE
Iran currently has 18 diplomats in Britain. About 24 British Embassy staff and dependents were based in Tehran. England has given them 48 hours to get their ugly butts out of the country.
I hope they enjoy life back in "Khamenei's Paradise." In most foreign affairs departments, Britain and France are considered prime assignments. As we've seen, Paris may no longer be available either.
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BASILJ ATTACKERS COULDN'T RESIST A BIT OF THIEVERY AS USUAL
Hague told Parliament the private quarters of staff and Britain's ambassador were trashed in the attack and that diplomats' personal possessions were stolen.
(As we all know, the same thugs working for the same folks under Khamenei or Ahmadinejad have looted and trashed dozens or possibly hundreds of homes, dorms and or mosques of regime critics, sometimes killing a few in the process, especially REAL students.
Source for all items above:
//news.yahoo.com/britain-orders-irans-diplomats-leave-uk-181415665.html
MULLOCRACY WARNS OF RETALIATION & SCARES NO ONE
Iran warned that Britain's closure of the Iranian embassy in London would lead to further retaliation.
(What did they expect? That the Brits would keep diplomatic relations as usual. An government that did that would be voted out of office in short order, In a democracy the people can check a government's behavior if undesired. Iran has no such checks.).
WHAT EFFECT WOULD AN OIL EMBARGO HAVE ON IRAN'S ECONOMY?
The United States, which cut diplomatic relations with Iran after its embassy was stormed in 1979, has not bought Iranian oil since the 1990s, but has not taken any measures against Iran's central bank. That would cripple Iran's economy as it would not be able to process payments for its vital oil exports.
The source for the above two items is the link below. I do have a problem with one theme in that article. It implies, though it doesn't say, that the embassy takeover was some sort of slap at Ahmadinejad's faction. Not so. See Ahmadinejad's gloating over the takeover in my original post. Rafsanjani probably didn't approve the incident and a few principalists.
//news.yahoo.com/iranian-protesters-storm-british-diplomatic-compounds-020152775.html
Donald Trump: 'Barack
by vildemose on Wed Nov 30, 2011 04:31 PM PSTDonald Trump: 'Barack Obama Will Start A War With Iran' To Get Elected In 2012
//www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/11/30/donald-trump-twitter-obama-iran_n_1121431.html?ref=politics
"It is the chain of communication, not the means of production, that determines a social process."
-- Robert Anton Wilson
Let's call a spade a spade
by Rea on Wed Nov 30, 2011 04:00 PM PSTBasiji, not students. Glad to read they are finally calling them what they really are.
FG jaan: there are a couple of expressions that comes to mind...
by Bavafa on Wed Nov 30, 2011 03:42 PM PSTتٔفِ سر بالا
یا
بزمین صفت شاشیدن
'Hambastegi' is the main key to victory
Mehrdad
Bavafa catches my own thoughts
by FG on Wed Nov 30, 2011 03:35 PM PST"It seems they have taken the same approach with the foreign nations and
diplomacy as they have taken with the Iranian people..."
Exactly. Except those foreign nations aren't such easy targets for those who prefer to bully the unarmed. They can bite back, including pulling the bone (oil revenues) from doggie's mouth.
........
by yolanda on Wed Nov 30, 2011 12:04 PM PSTIRI's top cop, Radan, vows to protect UK diplomats......but British diplomats evacuated already. IRI's about-face is too little and too late:
//www.presstv.ir/detail/212998.html
Press TV also reported that Germany, France and the Netherladns recall ambassadors!
//www.presstv.ir/detail/213099.html
IRI really screwed up big time! It is IRI's big diplomatic gaffe, blunder, and fiasco!
Let me make a prediction here: someone has to resign: either AN or Salehi
what does khameni et al
by vildemose on Wed Nov 30, 2011 11:05 AM PSTwhat does khameni et al hope to gain from this barbaric behavior?
"It is the chain of communication, not the means of production, that determines a social process."
-- Robert Anton Wilson
I wish the captions would stop saying
by Mehrban on Wed Nov 30, 2011 10:37 AM PSTthat Iranian Students were the demonstrators.
Finally a good report/blog on the subject…
by Bavafa on Wed Nov 30, 2011 10:10 AM PSTIt is mind boggling how utterly stupid these thugs in charge of Iran can be. It seems they have taken the same approach with the foreign nations and diplomacy as they have taken with the Iranian people, a show of choomagh va butoon
It will certainly be interesting to see what follows, but it would not be of any surprise to see IRI in a deeper hole with the foreign nations then already is. Unfortunately, they take the Iranian people with them and undoubtedly they will be the main sufferer from the stupid adventurous [miss] policy of IRI.
'Hambastegi' is the main key to victory
Mehrdad
Thanks FG - good update
by MM on Wed Nov 30, 2011 09:50 AM PSTI hope that the IRI thugs who mascarade as Iranian students will pay for this gross miscalculation.
........
by yolanda on Wed Nov 30, 2011 09:37 AM PSTThank you for the update! IRI made the wrong move and is digging her own grave! Maybe Iran is at cross-road of a new era now!
Nuclear facility was hit in Isfahan?
by FG on Wed Nov 30, 2011 08:57 AM PST//www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4155246,...
NOTE: I found this link in a subpost to the Washington Post article on the embassy siege. Observe, however, the original source was not Israeli but apparently the London Times.
I suspect, as in the previous explosion at a missile base, there are satellite photos of the damage which will soon emerge. Otherwise why mention them? When they do emerge, it is going to be clear that the regime is indeed undergoing a variation of the sort of asymetric warfare it has waged cheaply, effectively with nice deniability against its neighbors.
Who is behind these attacks?
One thing suggests it is not the Americans--the recent roundup of CIA agents in Iran would have reduced US capacity to carry out such acts covertly. Also, the Iranian regime, having questioned such agents by now by the usually means, would be ballyhooing US involvement if the trail led there.