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Pro-Democracy Protest in Iran Gains Momentum
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 10:20 pm    Post subject: Pro-Democracy Protest in Iran Gains Momentum Reply with quote



TEHRAN (Reuters) - A rare pro-democracy protest in Tehran gained momentum late on Sunday with hundreds of cars pouring onto the streets, blaring horns and provoking an appearance from hardline vigilantes, witnesses said.
Local residents said Persian-language television channels from the United States had been broadcasting callers throughout the day who had exhorted Iranians to turn out for demonstrations.

Two hundred riot police were drafted into central Tehran earlier in the day when more than 2,000 people started milling round the streets after a minor protest inspired by the U.S.-based channels, witnesses said.

"There have been callers from all over the place, even from places like Montreal, telling people to go out onto the streets," said one with access to satellite television.

Spontaneous protests demanding greater social freedoms are rare in the Islamic Republic.

A Reuters witness saw dozens of cars near Valiasr Avenue, the tree-lined street that cuts the city north to south, repeatedly honking their horns. Another witness on a footbridge further down Valiasr saw more than 300 cars.

A group of volunteer militiamen arrived on motorbikes but there was no sign of any fighting. Hardline vigilantes crushed demonstrations by student activists last summer.

Eyewitnesses saw a further 300 cars driving up and down Jordan Boulevard, a boutique-lined street popular with the young and wealthy. The occupants made victory signs through the windows and blared their horns.

Earlier in the day, motorists tooted horns in support of what they perceived as a demonstration. A witness said scores of people had been chanting "freedom," clapping and handing out pastries.

He said police had used their batons to push people from the scene but added there had been no fighting.

The ILNA labor news agency labeled the protesters monarchists, loyal to the shah toppled in the 1979 Islamic revolution.

Some of the crowd said they had turned out because of a call by the mystic Ahura Pirouz Khalegi Yazdi, who has predicted the fall of Iran's government on Oct. 1. He broadcasts on a California-based channel and promised to charter aircraft to bring home the Iranian diaspora from the United States.

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 12:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

AND I ADVERTISED FOR THIS PROTEST THE DAY BEFORE

OOOOOOOOOO YEAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!

Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy Very Happy
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 4:32 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is Sweet! Hopefully this is the straw theat breaks the Mullahs neck's!
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 6:49 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Lets hope for the best and spread the word everywhere possible. Lets see what happens this week!!!!
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 4:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

10 mehr everyone to maydoon shahyad


doostane aziz 10 mehr maydoon shahyad!!!!!!!
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 4:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://www.daneshjoo.org/smccdinews/article/publish/article_4296.shtml

Sporadic and violent clashes rock center of Tehran
SMCCDI (Information Service)

Sep 26, 2004

Sporadic and often violent clashes rocked, this evening, several areas of the Iranian Capital and some of the main provincial cities, as, few thousands of residents gathered to celebrate the "Mehr ritual" inherited from Iran's ancient legacy and qualified by the Islamist clerics as "Pagan".

The demonstrators defied the official injunctions by dancing, chanting and shouting slogans against the Islamic regime, its Islamist ideology and called for the freedom of the country.

Regime's special troops, composed by hundreds of foreign mercenaries, moved on the crowd in front of Tehran University, Vali-e-Asr, Vanak, Mirdamad, Tehran Pars, Enghelab and Azadi squares by, in some occasions, beating with heavy clubs and firing tear gas and plastic bullets. Tens have been reported as injured or arrested. The traditional security force members, such as LEF, stayed afar and in some cases some of them were seen helping demonstrators aggressed by plainclothes men.

Many angry demonstrators, especially young, retaliated to the regime forces' brutality by throwing pieces of stones and hand made incendiary devices wounding several militiamen and damaging patrol cars and official buildings.

Heavy popularly initiated traffic jams created more problems for the security forces to deploy more personnel.

Reports from cities, such as, Hamadan, Esfahan and Shiraz are also concordant with news from the Capital.

Sporadic demos and clashes are still going on in several areas of the capital by the start of the night and slogans are heard shouted from roofs.

These gathering have taken place following calls made by a controversial individual, named Ahura (Fatollah) Yazdi and living in the US, who has reached many Iranians in the last months via his spiritual programs broadcasted by a satellite TV. Iranians who have been deceived by the traditional opposition and the regime's so-called reformists seems to be turning toward anyone who can enlighten hope of better future in them.

Yazdi's under some sharp criticisms for some aspects of his past and some astonishing claims, such as, it was him who advised the late Ronald Reagan and helped him in order to bring down the former Soviet Union. He claims publicly that his mission in Soviet Union was much easier as the Russians were familiar with the book of Nostradamus and that the 14th century psychic had predicted Yazdi's arise. Most Iranian opponents believe that Yazdi's claims and his impossible promises, such as of a very future return to Iran in less than 5 days, are very unproductive and that they'll contribute more to the Iranians increasing deception while undermining a real program targeting the overthrown of the Islamic regime.

What ever Yazdi could have been or what he's, the fact is that his daily televised speeches, on the need of bringing back some of Ancient Iran's principles of friendship, trueness, peace, liberty and freedom have reached millions of minds tired by quarter of a century of Islamist rule. The Ancient Iran's principles were dissoluted by the brutal and bloody Islamic invasion of 7th century which forced many of the Iranians of that time to convert to Islam in order to have their lives safe.

The huge popular participation of today seems to have already acted as a wake up call for many elements and declared leaders of the traditional opposition. Many of Yazdi's critics have started to publicly support what has happened today by separating the Iranians' aspirations and actions from the caller of rally. Talks have already started on what to do with this new phenomenon and the measures to adopt in order to support the Iranians in their legitimate aspirations of freedom and ending the Mullahcracy.

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 5:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

http://web.peykeiran.com/net_iran/irnewsbody.aspx?ID=18798

Stories emailed to Peykeiran

There was a large gathering of people yesterday in Esfehan around Darvazeh Shiraz. Anti riot police showed up and there were heavy clashes, and gun shots could be heard.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 5:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hey even the BBC, the British Brainwashing Corporation wrote about it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/3694594.stm


Photo caption: Iranians are showing signs of desperation for change

Exile call prompts Iran protests
By Sadeq Saba
BBC regional analyst

A call from a US-based Iranian TV personality has prompted thousands of Iranians to protest for more freedoms.

People took to the streets of the capital, Tehran, and other cities on Sunday after Ahura Pirouz Khaleghi Yazdi urged protests across Iran.

The exile has predicted Iran's Islamic government will fall on 1 October.

Nobody had heard of Mr Yazdi until a few months ago when he set up a satellite channel in California to try to overthrow the Iranian government.

Since then he has become a hot topic of conversation both among disaffected Iranians and exiled opposition groups.

For several weeks he has been declaring that he intends to return to Iran on 1 October to end the rule of Islamic clerics.

He has called on the Iranian diaspora to accompany him in his so-called liberation flight and has urged his supporters inside the country to stage protests.

He is advocating peaceful means and civil disobedience.

TV power

Mr Yazdi, who seems to be about 50, apparently left Iran when he was a child - and his command of the Persian language is poor.

The pro-government press in Tehran has described him as insane.

His simplistic views about overthrowing the Islamic government singlehandedly have also angered serious exile opposition leaders who have labelled him a demagogue.

But analysts say the fact that thousands of people heeded his call and took to the streets on Sunday evening proves that Iranians are desperate for change.

The Yazdi phenomenon also shows how US-based opposition satellite TV stations are becoming an important means of putting pressure on the Iranian government.

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 5:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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Police break up demonstration at Tehran varsity
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TEHRAN: Iranian police yesterday broke up a demonstration for increased freedoms outside Tehran university apparently inspired by calls from a US-based opposition television, the student agency Isna and witnesses reported.

"People gathered around 4.30 pm (1200 GMT) in front of Tehran university's main entrance shouting slogans and handing out flowers and sweets," the news agency said.

"These people are obviously under the influence of the Iranian opposition based abroad," added the report, in an apparent reference to anti-regime satellite television channels broadcast into Iran.

Witnesses confirmed that hundreds of people had gathered in front of the university shouting pro-freedom slogans.

The report said the gathering was broken up by police, but there was no suggestion that any violent clashes took place.

A reporter who toured the area around the university later in the evening reported heavy traffic but no sign of any fresh gatherings.

Security forces could be seen maintaining a discreet presence around the campus, an area that has in recent years been the focal point for often violent pro-democracy and anti-regime demostrations.

Details of the protest and comments from one protestor suggested the gathering was inspired by a US-based Iranian exile and opposition television personality, Ahura Pirouz Khaleghi, who appears on the Rangharangh satellite channel.
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 5:06 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

From Pan-Iranist on Activistchat.com

Radio Israel reported this morning that demonstrations in favor of Dr. Ahura Khaleghi Yazdi took place in several cities across Iran. People were distributing flowers, pastries and candy and the atmosphere was largely joyous. It also reported clashes between monarchists and securitey forces at several locations in Iran. Radio Israel stated that the wave of peaceful demonstrations in favor of Dr. Ahura Khaleghi Yazdi is growing at a steady and quite rapid pace all across the country
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 9:24 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

DONT MESS WITH DR. YAZDI

HE IS THE MAIN MAN!!!!!!!!!!


TELL EVERYONE ABOUT 10 MEHR

MAYDOON SHAHYAD!!!!!!!!
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 9:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

REZA PAHLAVI DOESNT EVEN SUPPORT HIM
ALSO U CANT JUST "BRING" SOMEONE TO POWER THERE MUST BE A REFERANDOM!!!!!!!!!
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 9:33 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Iranians A.R.E. R.E.A.D.Y for Regime Change,

UK DROP THE AYATOLLAHS! NOW!


I was watching Xtv at the time and many called from Iran and reported a large gathering and also thousands of cars in streets,

yet many news agencies tried to downplay the event.
BBC finally reported on the event but too late! comparing they announce every time khatami farts the day before! and describe the it in all details and measure the level of gas and sound emitted!

Yet most of these anti-Iranian agencies become retards and can't even count the crowd, or see the atmosphere of hope, joy and highest level of solidarity amongst them.

Hopefully "BBC Persian" reporters will be completely deaf and blind by the time of THE FINAL UPRISING. cause we don't give a rats ass about what they have to say about Iranian Naiton!


Eat your hearts out BBC and Jack ASSTRAW.

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 10:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

JACKAss Straw's mullah boys are gonna get bitchslapped by the Iranian people once and for all!!!
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 10:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thats how it was with the Soviet Union. Nobody expected it, until it was impossible to ignore. Then everyone questioned the press and why they had not reported how bad things had gotten and how the regime was so close to collapsing. Meanwhile Tiannemon Square was widely reported, only to result in the subsequent massacres and clampdown. So not receivng coverage can sometimes be a good thing, and receiving too much coverage can sometimes be bad.

Reza Pahalvi has repeatedly and consistantly stated very directly and clearly that the only way he will rule as a monarch is if the majority choose a system of Constitutional Monarchy in a free referendum. He has clearly stated that if this does not happen, he will not rule.

So please stop making up false stories about RP!


And remember, the regime cannot maintain an effective martial law presence for too long, no regime can. The element of surprise is always a plus, and the best plans always involve a secretive element.
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