A sky news report on last week's rally - at least it is factual

I have just come across what I consider some rather ridiculous statements from the Iran Press. The latest happens to be that "the regime has caught people who had penetrated the ranks of the police and basij and it was these people who had fired upon the crowd". On the BS meter that has to score a 10/10 for BS. The report actually claimed that the Basij and police are not allowed to be armed. They even produced some people who claimed that they were encouraged by the BBC Persian TV to go out on the streets with ..... wait for it.... hand grenades..... those poor women having to sign and repeat such lies!!

Gateway Pundit has some more video evidence of Basij shooting at demonstrators from the rooftop. Well I clicked on some of the other Youtube links, and I found one that showed the shooter leaning out of a window with his gun... make no mistake he is Basij.... and the other one that I include here is a Sky News report. It is very factual....

Women in Iran

Iran's women have been the victims of a misogynist regime. They have suffered a lot of indignity at the hands of a regime that treats women as second class citizens. In the courts their testimony is not equal to that of a man. They are punished for lesser crimes by hanging, or even being stoned to death. The women of Iran have their own testimony to the brutality of the Khamenei-Ahmadinejad regime. I just found this video which depicts the sufferings of the women of Iran:



I cannot understand what is being said, but the images tell me everything about what these women have suffered at the hands of the basij.

More reports out of Iran

The news from Tehran is not good. The latest is that Iranian employees of the British Embassy have been arrested and detained. The great lie from Khamenei is that the UK is responsible for the unrest, which of course is b.s. The turmoil is due to the coup d'etat in Iran that was conducted by the military, Ahmadinejad and Khamenei.

I have just seen a video concerning two very brave women who have managed to flee Iran and return to family in the USA. These women have a story to tell. One of them has a broken ankle and arm due to being trampled as a result of the brutality of the basij on the demonstrators. What the one woman has to say is a message that everyone should hear:

Missing student activist turns up in Tehran morgue - authorities refuse to hand over his body to relatives

His name is Kianoosh Assa. He disappeared on Monday 22 June 2009.  His grieving family had been trying to locate him, and they found his badly beaten body in a Tehran morgue. The authorities are refusing to hand over his body because he is tagged as I.D. unknown.  

Personally? I think that it is BS for the authorities to refuse to hand his body over to the grieving family. God only knows what Kianoosh suffered before his death. I would guess that the extent of the beatings shows that he was treated in an extremely brutal manner. 

It is now imperative that the international community starts taking a stand against the Khamenei regime with all of its repressive brutality. There are other students who have been taken by the basij to an unknown location. There are many who have disappeared from the streets. The death toll is more likely now to be at least 500 - we do not know how many have been murdered behind closed doors. The basij have been making sure that there is no proper body count because they take the bodies away on trucks. 

It is up to us to speak out on behalf of the Iranian people, and to pressure the United Nations to take a stronger stand against the human rights abuses in Iran. It is up to us to shame Amnesty International to make a stand against the Khamenei regime.  It is up to us to shame the POTUS into condemning the repressive Iranian regime and to cut off all diplomatic ties with Iran. It is also up to POTUS to agree to a boycott of Iran. There must be a constant external pressure on this illegitimate regime until all of the political prisoners are released. Nothing else is good enough.

Beat It Ahmadi

Even if it is a photoshop, this image is just great and it represents so well the daughters of this revolution.

When I saw it I had to laugh and yes Michael Jackson's "Beat it" is so very fitting.

Berman Post has more news and information here.

In Memory and the 200 plus who have been murdered by the Iranian regime

I do not believe the official toll of 17 dead. From everything that I have read since the people took to the streets, it would seem that the toll is a lot higher. I have not seen any verification of 8 basij dead - I think that it is a regime lie.

The people have not been allowed to mourn their dead, and I find that the attempt to stop the mourning is despicable. Neda's parents have been forced to move from their home, and no one in the apartment block has been allowed to mourn for a daughter of the new revolution, who was an innocent bystander. The same goes for the youth who died on the same day - a victim of the basij who just shot anybody.

What is more despicable is the attempt by the regime to cover up their own actions, first by accusing a British journalist and then by the Iranian ambassador to Mexico making the absurd claim that Neda was shot in the back of the head, CIA execution style. Well, having seen the video, I know that it is not true, and people should believe nothing claimed by this illegitimate Iranian regime.

Khamenei has lost all credibility as leader in Iran. He did it because he wanted to have power. He did it because of a belief in the fantasy of the 12th imam.

An Iranian tribute to the late Michael Jackson - a message for Ahmadinejad

The production of the video is really good. It has a message and it is to the tune of Jackson's "Beat It" - very appropriate: