خاكِ پدران است كه دستِ دگران است

Beast eating its own children. poetic justice!

We can expect many more events like that of Qom with Montazeri & Kahroubi. This is the cornered animal growling and showing its fangs; but in fear. Mousavi/Kahroubi et al have tried to make a bargain for power at the expense of people. That bargain will cost them their power base first, freedom next and possibly their lives. This beast will continue to eat its own children as it has in the past.

OKtaby

amgw4 : giving

free lessons on how to loot Iran!! Pretty hilarious; I guess it takes a Mulla to know how to steal Iran's Moolah :-)

Next amgw4 is going to be giving lessons at Harvard Business school to IMF and I don't mean the dude from Lebanon! Heh heh heh.

In IRI, the geda "looters" are the rulers of the country

The murderers and rapists are Khomeini, Khamenei, present and all past "presidents", Mousavi, Karroubi, and pseudo-Parliament (aka Majles). That's what happens when akhoonds and the akhoond's executioners (aka IRGC) hijack oil and natural gas revenues for 31 years. One Rapist sets himself up, and then helps his kids, grandkids, nephews, and other smelly, illiterate relatives to move up in life. It's the way of doing things in the Rapist Regime, whose entire economic output is well under small, insignificant states in the U.S.

BTW, did anyone notice that the Rapist Regime came to power by setting banks, cinemas, police stations, and cafes on fire in 1978-79 during the orgy of arson and murder called the Islamist Rapist Revolution?

if you want money beg for it like normal gedahs

don't organize riots so you can loot banks

As I have maintained all along...

Moussavi, that seyyed prick bastard, must be charged with crimes against humanity (mass murder, really) for his involvement in the butchering of some 20,000-25,000 political prisoners in the summer of 1988. He was Khomeini's prime minister then. He must pay for all that blood with his own, and soon.

As Khomeini's nokar and favorite shoe-shine boy, Akhund Karroubi should fare no better.

Well put, oktaby, indeed.

Iran is a prisoner of IRI 

Much obliged OI. Maa bishomaareem

This is our collective love & duty as Iranians as these are dangerous times. Iran can ill afford another mistake like 79. 

OKtaby

Nicely done Oktaby

I truly admire your great analytical skills and your ability to cut through the BS and get to the real point and to describe the inevitable conclusion.  

Keep up the good work, and thank you for being a great Iranian. 

AO jaan, you are right, this regime will go. That's why

now thru the day it falls is high time we the Iranians influence its direction and course. Meanwhile, this regime is like a cornered beast now and will violate every norm and rule to continue its miserable existence.

Oddly enough, the end of Mousavi & Kahroubi will likely come at the hands of their beloved islamic regime & constitution not any post IRR government.

OKtaby

Oktaby you are very correct sir

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Mahmoudg jan

Both Mousavi and Karrrobi are IRI supporters. No secret there. They have one purpose. To blunt peoples anger and prolong the IRI. To give more time to Mullas to line their pockets.

They should know that they will be put on trial. That the stolen money will be recovered. So they are wasting their time. The carrot should be: go now and keep some money. Go later and keep no money and go on trial. 

Regarding bread and butter: bread and butter issues will hit once they remove subsidies. When prices go up. People get mad. Then strikes and demonstrations. T

Oktaby Jaan

Great analysis as always.  The bottom line is that this regime will be toppled, whether from within its own apparatus or at the hands of the people.  It's only a matter of time.  

benross, it is a new turn

masoudg, I believe the focus at this point should be on making the movement more cohesive and united. This includes bringing in the 'bread & butter' issues to the slogans and protests so the movement resonates more with the poor and lowest spectrum of working class. There will be plenty of time for crime & punishment based on due process, legal & fair proceedings under a new secular constitution.

Rea,  Kurdistan was a step forward that more directly connected a regional/tribal protest to the broader movement; A model to follow and one that worked in 79 but we are not there yet. A general strike can take hold when more layers of society's anger and frustration is channelled into engagement, as I mentioned with 'bread & butter' issues. I suggest instead of pointing the obvious, stand up and act on what you believe can be done. How would you orchestrate a general strike that everyone will follow tomorrow? or could have yesterday?

A general strike is part of final 1-2 punch not the process and the several rounds that gets a movement to that point. Lets walk first. 

OKtaby

The Government of Iran will not be toppled...

God what have you learned for over 30 years...

The government is here to stay, however we can take ownership of it.  

Mehdi Karroubi is a great man and a good Iranian Muslim.  It is people like him who are getting hurt and people like him who will take over and deserve to take over the leadership of Iran.  

Not like the sell outs who live in their plush houses and talk smack.

I remember reading on IC recently

.... about a general strike in Kurdistan province, people protesting the May executions of 5 activists.

This time one would've expected a general strike in the whole of  Iran. Minimizing risk of getting people killed and yet marking the anniversary of last year's killings.

Hope the iranian oposition "has taken notice".

Excellent

The momentum just started.

Agreed

Moussavi Karroubi are actually agents of this same regime and they realise, they will be the first to be put on trial when this social movement is successful in toppling the regime and hence Islam.