Iran blames American T.V. for uprising.

[Tony]

http://news.telegraph.co.uk/news/ma.../15/wiran15.xml ...full article

Iran's cleric-run government has declared war on satellite television and allegedly begun jamming American-based channels, blaming them for inciting the wave of student-led protests which have brought bloody clashes to Teheran's streets.

The move came as mobs controlled by Iran's hardline Revolutionary Guards intervened in the fourth consecutive night of protests about the slow pace of reform, using clubs and iron bars to break up the crowds.

Stick-wielding thugs, mostly unemployed, attacked protesters, riding up to their lines on motorcycles. Women were dragged from their cars and beaten. Dozens fled bearing the marks of chains slashed across their faces, and there were reports of automatic weapons fire.

Students rallied to chants of "freedom" and "democracy" and called for the death of Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, before scattering as riot police fired a barrage of tear gas.

[reprise]

Let's hope there's an Iranian blogger out there somewhere who can keep the world informed of what's really happening over there.

[Kodiak]

Freedom and democracy are dangerous concepts when you're trying to run a totalitarian theocracy...

[WooBot]

Sorry, I really can't resist.

Damn leftist media, always causing trouble.

[Tmy]

I heard the youths were watching Amercan Idol and started to riot after Clay was eliminated.

[Jon_in_london]

Well I damn nearly rioted when they started showing American Idol here.

[Skeptic]

Iran's cleric-run government has declared war on satellite television and allegedly begun jamming American-based channels, blaming them for inciting the wave of student-led protests which have brought bloody clashes to Teheran's streets.

What, it wasn't a "zionist conspiracy" this time, just like the holocaust and sept. 11? Oh wait: the US itself is controlled by the evil zionists? Or are the zionists merely the rotting tool of American imperialism? I keep forgetting; the Muslim world keeps claiming both at once all.

But surely Iran being run by paranoid, totaliatarian, violent religious nutcases is NO REASON AT ALL to stop them from getting nuclear weapons.

[Blue Monk]

Who would have thought that Baywatch could be such a powerful tool for freedom?

[Tony]

Originally posted by Blue Monk
Who would have thought that Baywatch could be such a powerful tool for freedom?


All that T&A is woefully missing in the muslim world. Nudity is a precursor to freedom. :D

[Blue Monk]

Originally posted by Tony



All that T&A is woefully missing in the muslim world. Nudity is a precursor to freedom. :D

Absolutely.

My hanging out at the nudie bar is an act of patriotism and a blow for freedom.

That's my story and I'm stickin' to it.

[Tmy]

Originally posted by Skeptic

What, it wasn't a "zionist conspiracy" this time, just like the holocaust and sept. 11? Oh wait: the US itself is controlled by the evil zionists? Or are the zionists merely the rotting tool of American imperialism? I keep forgetting; the Muslim world keeps claiming both at once all.

But surely Iran being run by paranoid, totaliatarian, violent religious nutcases is NO REASON AT ALL to stop them from getting nuclear weapons.

Well the Jews do run Hollywood!!!!

[subgenius]

Originally posted by Kodiak
Freedom and democracy are dangerous concepts when you're trying to run a totalitarian theocracy...
Or (dare I say it) a patriarchal totalitarian system.;)

[Kodiak]

Originally posted by subgenius

Or (dare I say it) a patriarchal totalitarian system.;)

- groan... :rolleyes:



"praise BOB"

[Skeptic]

Originally posted by Tmy


Well the Jews do run Hollywood!!!!

Of course, but that's just the VISIBLE part of the WORLDWIDE JEWISH CONTROL OF THE WORLD(tm), you know.

The conspiracy is clear, by the way: Hollywood--due to the jewish conspiracy that controls it--keeps showing life in the west as actually BETTER than the poverty-striken ignorance that constitutes life in the islamic world.

Clearly, this is just a ploy to unfairly weaken the muslim resolve to butcher all the jews (and then all other heretics).

How awful.

[aerocontrols]

Ok... I'm pretty sure some of these replies are tongue-in-cheek, but in case some aren't:

The "America-based channels" the Mullah's are afraid of aren't MTV or Oxygen, but stations like National Iranian TV (http://www.nitv.tv/) which is run out of Los-Angeles by Iranian dissidents living in the US. Stations like this are calling for the Iranian people to rise up against the Mullahs (inciting the protests) and good for them for doing so.

If you oppose theocracy, I recommend this link (http://www.nitv.tv/main.htm), where you can put your money where your reason is.

Reprise: Jeff Jarvis (http://www.buzzmachine.com/) has a list of Iranian blogs in the column on the right side of his main page. (Hoder, Eyeranian, Iranian Girl, Steppenwolf...) [edit *smacks self in head* here (http://www.buzzmachine.com/archives/2003_06.html#004019) is his more comprehensive list.]

MattJ

[UnrepentantSinner]

The Mullahs are probably crapping their trousers right now.

After all... this exactly how they came into power.