IRAN: Protesters advised to carry roses as weapons
LAT
08-Jul-2009 (7 comments)

Keep quiet under all circumstances, the circular advises those planning to march in Thursday's unauthorized demonstrations in Iran cities.

"The heaviest weapon to carry is one rose in the hand," it says. 

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Iranians prepare for what could be another violent day of confrontations Thursday between demonstrators and security forces, including pro-government plainclothes Basiji militias, supporters of opposition candidate Mir-Hossein Mousavi have distributed instructions to try to keep any anticipated violence to a minimum. >>>
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rosie is roxy is roshan

Apparently there have been a few thousand

by rosie is roxy is roshan on Thu Jul 09, 2009 11:05 AM PDT

at various places in Tehran. There's all kinds of nifo out now by now on it. It's readily available. I haven't checked it carefully yet.


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Kaveh Nouraee

Question

by Kaveh Nouraee on Thu Jul 09, 2009 10:53 AM PDT

Does anyone have any info on the number of people expected to march?


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capt_ayhab

Ladies

by capt_ayhab on Wed Jul 08, 2009 01:39 PM PDT

As a related news you might want to check this one out.

//iranian.com/main/news/2009/07/08/khamen...

Regards

-YT 


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IRANdokht

even as a non-believer

by IRANdokht on Wed Jul 08, 2009 12:10 PM PDT

I'll pray for tomorrow, I'll pray for no loss of life. I'll pray that not one drop of blood is spilled.
and I'll pray for the WILL, COURAGE, AND SPIRIT of the Iranian people.

10 years has passed since the day Batebi and many others were arrested. Now I fear for the lives of so many more...

IRANdokht


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rosie is roxy is roshan

Yeah, they would be..

by rosie is roxy is roshan on Wed Jul 08, 2009 12:07 PM PDT

I don't do those tweets. Niac and huffpost funnel the essential.

What does piss me off though is that last week at the top of the home page for a couple of days there was this flyer up, you probably saw it, a really well-made one, announcing the strike and demo this week, and it wasn't very well-commented. And the comments were basically, a) oh how great, b) but who organized it c) MKO or Monarchist b.s. or d) doesn't matter, won't happen.

I said on the thread well why don't you people find out who organized it and of course no one bothered. Worse still, the item was rotated out after a couple of days just as are quizzes and belly dancer videos..if you get me...

A couple days later Donly avid ET (who else?) blogged about this and it was very undercommented.

And of course it turns out who organized it was Moussavi.

And all the time people are sitting around here drinking their mint juleps and doing post-mortems about the dead movement and lamenting its and their fate.

And then I go on these threads over and over and I say what can we DO, we need to DO more, what should we DO to help keep the momentum going...and basically I get stonewalled.

But we will catch that great white guppy yet. LOL

(oh ps I hope you know I didn't mean you were rude on that other blog, it was really to the f. word poster that I directed myself. Anyway that whole thing was a waste of time. Water under the bridge though. Take care. r.)


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capt_ayhab

Rosie

by capt_ayhab on Wed Jul 08, 2009 11:56 AM PDT

Thanks for the article. Twitters are abuzz about tomorrow

May God help them.

-YT 


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rosie is roxy is roshan

Related. (water your roses but watch your backs...)

by rosie is roxy is roshan on Wed Jul 08, 2009 11:26 AM PDT

Huffpost posted this this a.m. and this whole violence thing is the reason why I keep saying they should've postponed the demo for a bit until they have organized vertically and laterally to make sure there is GOOD crowd control with training in passive resistance, while pushing the strike more as well as some smaller things more immediately.

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10:25 AM ET -- Big day tomorrow. Patrick Disney of the National Iranian American Council emails:I wanted to give you and your team a heads-up that we're hearing from a lot of sources that Thursday will likely see a lot of unrest and potential violence in Iran. It marks the 10th anniversary of the "18th of Tir", which is a monumental day in Iran.
On that day in 1999, students protesting the closing of the reformist newspaper "Salaam" were attacked in their dormitories in Tehran and Tabriz. Six days of protests ensued, which began with several hundred students and blossomed into thousands of people from all walks of life supporting the demonstrations. They were the biggest display of [protest] sentiment in the regime's then twenty-year history, and they were put down by the regime with a mandate by the threatened leadership to stop the unrest at any cost.The parallels to today's events are uncanny, and while the date has been marked with numerous protests since 1999, this anniversary takes on a special significance. We know that authorities are already trying to lock the cities down ahead of time. Demonstrations are planned all over the U.S. in solidarity with the protesters letting them know the world is watching what the regime is doing.


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