The Green Movement: Two Years Later, the Iranian Regime Continues to Brutalize Its Own People
New Republic / Abbas Milani
16-Jun-2011 (one comment)

With the second anniversary of Iran’s Green Movement earlier this week, it’s worth keeping track of the cruel litany of bloodshed and oppression that the regime continues to carry out against its own people. Just in the last few days, when democracy advocates in Tehran tried to commemorate the remarkable street protests that followed the fraudulent elections of 2009, the regime once again responded with a massive show of force. Beginning the night before, regime thugs and police took over the streets where the demonstrations were planned to be held. A couple hundred demonstrators have been reported to be arrested.

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by yolanda on Thu Jun 16, 2011 10:34 AM PDT

The Iranian regime combines the logic of a schoolyard bully with the self-profiting ethos of a bazaar merchant. It will stop bullying its people only when the cost of that brutality becomes intolerable.


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