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This is what put the revolutionaries over the top in '79...
If the oilers strike, the economy hits the skids almost instantly and gas prices jack up. Heck they will tomorrow no matter what. totally worth it.

Nothing like hitting the country where it hurts! I'd say that's pretty peaceful and serious at the same time. rapier, I noticed the army never came out in the streets, think the clerics were worried about allegiance?

Mousavi, on his face book has called of a major rally on Thursday to mourn the people who have been killed. Some tweets out of Iran which are uncomfirmend say Mousavi is endorsing the general strike on Tuesday.

From Al Jazeera today...

Crimes charges against Iran sought
Payam Akhavan, a former UN war crimes prosecutor at The Hague and co-founder of Iran Human Rights Documentation Centre, is working on a petition to send to the UN Security Council and The Hague. It will look into Iran's post-election violence.

In an interview to Al Jazeera from New York, Akhavan said "the Iranian regime can't continue to suppress people unless they resort to mass murder".

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/06/2009622104946437308 .html

Just two weeks ago Americans hated the very idea of Iran and Iranians, now we spell blood.

Hypocritical Americans.

I saw a video on youtube where the "police" were running away from the protesters, amazing.

STRATFOR article of interest...

http://www.stratfor.com/weekly/20090622_iranian_election_and_revolution_ test

The election was probably rigged at least enough to prevent a runoff election so as to keep the process as short as possible since the Iranian hard-liners likely suspected (or realized rather) that they were in the crosshairs of a C.I.A./National Endowment for Democracy "color revolution" and panicked. Which doesn't excuse either Iranian government rigging or U.S. government meddling, but might explain it.

The neo-con fascist John Bolton stated plainly in May 2007 that pursuing regime change in Iran by interfering in its elections (in other words backing an opposition candidate or several) was being undertaken and that if it failed then airstrikes against Iranian nuclear facilities (though unsaid probably by the Israelis, not that it would give the U.S. anything like plausible deniability since they would have to overfly Iraqi airspace patrolled by the U.S. Air Force) could be the last resort rather than see Iran insist upon being a truly independent country and deciding to develop whatever power generation or weapons programs it feels like developing:
"Mr Bolton said: "It's been conclusively proven Iran is not going to be talked out of its nuclear programme. So to stop them from doing it, we have to massively increase the pressure. If we can't get enough other countries to come along with us to do that, then we've got to go with regime change by bolstering opposition groups and the like, because that's the circumstance most likely for an Iranian government to decide that it's safer not to pursue nuclear weapons than to continue to do so. And if all else fails, if the choice is between a nuclear-capable Iran and the use of force, then I think we need to look at the use of force."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1551726/We-must-attack-Iran-befor e-it-gets-the-bomb.html

Iranian filmmaker Makhmalbaf who is a friend and supporter of Mousavi in the course of claiming that Khamenei and Mousavi were told that Mousavi won he states that he (Makhmalbaf) had spoken on Voice of America the previous night.
http://www.antemedius.com/content/iranian-filmmaker-says-mousavi-was-tol d-he-won

Voice of America is a propaganda outlet for the U.S. State Dept. and the C.I.A., as are Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty. This is widely known. It is a propaganda arm for the U.S. government abroad and has been heavily involved in Iran.

"The Voice of America beams a youth-oriented TV show into Iran each evening, usually a mix of Hollywood releases, music videos, and tips on high-tech gadgets. This week's show featured a weightier topic: how to evade a crackdown on free speech. "What we're seeing is a new level of cyber warfare," said producer Gareth Conway, referring to the Iranian government's blocking of text-messaging services and Internet sites, and Iranians' attempts to fight back. "We're trying to give viewers updates on technology, how they can continue to communicate with each other." As protests have erupted over Iran's presidential election, the VOA's Persian-language TV network and a similar BBC service have emerged as a critical new way for Iranians to share information. It is a moment of redemption for the VOA service to Iran, which grew rapidly under the Bush administration but has been dogged by problems."
http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/06/18/us-persian-news-service-p rovides-critical-link/

"VOA/Persian Mistranslated Obama's Speech AGAIN
VOA Persian translation banner implied that President Obama supports the pro-Mousavi faction only"
http://my.barackobama.com/page/community/post/arezakashani/gGGGkR

"The State Department confirmed on Tuesday that it had contacted the social networking service Twitter to urge it to delay a planned upgrade that would have cut daytime service to Iranians who are disputing their election. Twitter and Facebook have been used by many young people to coordinate protests over the election's outcome. Obama himself used these networking tools in his own campaign to spread his political message before being elected. Twitter Inc said in a blog post it delayed a planned upgrade because of its role as an "important communication tool in Iran." The hourlong maintenance was put back to 5 p.m. EDT/2100 GMT, which corresponds to 1:30 a.m. on Wednesday in Iran. The upgrade originally had been planned for Monday night in the United States, which would have cut daytime service in Iran on Tuesday. The State Department declined to give details of its contact with Twitter, which has been used particularly by young urban Iranians who dispute Ahmadinejad's re-election. "We highlighted to them that this was an important form of communication," said a State Department official of the conversation the department had with Twitter officials. Any sign of U.S. involvement in the actions of Twitter or any other social networking service could be seized on by Iran as U.S. interference in the electoral process. But State Department spokesman Ian Kelly strongly rejected that contacts to Twitter amounted to meddling in Iranian internal affairs."
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1093610.html

State Dept.'s Iran Democracy Fund shrouded in secrecy
http://www.countercurrents.org/leopold110708.htm

For some further information about the Iran Democracy Fund and other American meddling in Iran in recent years to try to effect regime change you could read the article called "Hard Realities of Soft Power" by Negar Azimi in the New York Times.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/24/magazine/24ngo-t.html

Especially interesting to note in that article is who the Cheney regime put in charge of the State Dept.'s efforts at Iranian regime change through intrigue, one David Denehy:
"As a senior adviser to the State Department's Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, David Denehy is charged with overseeing the distribution of millions of dollars to advance the cause of a more democratic Iran... If the spider's nest had a headquarters, it might well be the Office of Iranian Affairs, which sits on the second floor of the State Department, its pencil-thin plastic sign a bit more shiny and newer than those glued to adjoining doors. Begun in March 2006 with the patronage and blessing of the secretary of state, the office was charged with outlining, in close consultation with Denehy, how to spend the democracy fund... Unlike most of his colleagues at State, he is a political appointee. Some have taken to referring to his office as the "vice presidential outpost at State." A veteran of democracy promotion programs in Eastern Europe and Central Asia with the International Republican Institute and a close associate of Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz during the Iraq War"

So the guy that Cheney and Bush appointed to be America's chief funnel for funding of Iranian dissidents, aside from being close to Wolfowitz, is "a veteran of democracy promotion programs in Eastern Europe and Central Asia with the International Republican Institute" which is an arm of the National Endowment for Democracy (N.E.D.) or in other words Denehy is a veteran of the C.I.A.-N.E.D. color revolutions.
http://www.iri.org/history.asp

The N.E.D. funds or funded the Foundation for Democracy in Iran
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Foundation_for_Democracy_in_I ran#Funding

as well as funding the National Iranian American Council
(along with grants from others like the Open Society Institute [George Soros].)
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=National_Iranian_American_Counci l#Funding

Also funded by the N.E.D. is the Iran Teachers Association
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Iran_Teachers_Association

and the Women's Learning Partnership.
http://www.ned.org/publications/newsletters/011509.html

(The Women's Learning Partnership is led by a woman who was minister of state for women's affairs in the Shah's regime)
http://www.tingroom.com/voastandard/2004/9/3412.html

Then remember that there is a C.I.A.-supported terrorist group that carries out attacks inside Iran. Consider the recent mosque bombing:
"The Jundullah aka 'Soldiers of God', terrorist group operating from the border of Iran and Pakistan, has claimed responsibility for a deadly bomb blast of a Shia mosque in Iran that claimed the lives of 25 people and wounded dozens more. According to the Telegraph.co.uk the group has been sponsored by the US under a 'black ops' program created under the George Bush administration to destabilize Iran and promote regime change."
http://www.newsrescue.com/2009/05/jundullah-terrorist-group-allegedly-suppo rted-by-usa-claims-iran-bombing-three-hung/

Jundullah is definitely working on behalf of the C.I.A.:
"A Pakistani tribal militant group responsible for a series of deadly guerrilla raids inside Iran has been secretly encouraged and advised by American officials since 2005, U.S. and Pakistani intelligence sources tell ABC News. The group, called Jundullah, is made up of members of the Baluchi tribe and operates out of the Baluchistan province in Pakistan, just across the border from Iran."
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/04/abc_news_exclus.html

"America is secretly funding militant ethnic separatist groups in Iran in an attempt to pile pressure on the Islamic regime to give up its nuclear programme. In a move that reflects Washington's growing concern with the failure of diplomatic initiatives, CIA officials are understood to be helping opposition militias among the numerous ethnic minority groups clustered in Iran's border regions. The operations are controversial because they involve dealing with movements that resort to terrorist methods in pursuit of their grievances against the Iranian regime... Funding for their separatist causes comes directly from the CIA's classified budget but is now "no great secret", according to one former high-ranking CIA official in Washington who spoke anonymously to The Sunday Telegraph. His claims were backed by Fred Burton, a former US state department counter-terrorism agent, who said: "The latest attacks inside Iran fall in line with US efforts to supply and train Iran's ethnic minorities to destabilise the Iranian regime."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1543798/US-funds-terror-groups-to -sow-chaos-in-Iran.html

May 2007 "President George W Bush has given the CIA approval to launch covert "black" operations to achieve regime change in Iran, intelligence sources have revealed. Mr Bush has signed an official document endorsing CIA plans for a propaganda and disinformation campaign intended to destabilise, and eventually topple, the theocratic rule of the mullahs."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1552784/Bush-sanctions-black-ops- against-Iran.html

And Obama isn't likely to put an end to these covert ops underway in Iran:
"it has been pointed out that there are covert operations against Iran under way. Obama may be changing the atmospherics, but the underlying reality has been that overt military action was not on the table. Furthermore, it is not clear that the atmospherics are going to change while the United States is conducting covert operations, and it is very hard to imagine Obama abandoning covert operations. He may reshape them in some way, but is not likely to abandon them."
http://www.stratfor.com/geopolitical_diary/20090111_geopolitical_diary_obam a_deals_his_first_iran_cards

And as we have seen since then like during this election campaign in Iran, Jundullah has been hard at work trying to destabilize Iran by giving the impression that the mullahs have lost control of the situation. So if the U.S. government is willing to support such actions (and it is) then it isn't a stretch at all to suspect its involvement in the "green revolution" in Iran with the terrorist attacks by Jundullah being a part of that overall plan. It would in fact be naive (and contrary to the evidence) to think that the U.S. government and its intelligence and propaganda organs are uninvolved and that the "green revolution" is a purely indigenous Iranian phenomenon that just happens to smell just like the (other) C.I.A.-N.E.D. color revolutions and that the money, effort and terrorism the U.S. has poured into Iran to try to bring about regime change through these means over the course of the last couple years has nothing to do with it.

I just realized that Youtube/Google has become way to powerful.

Well it's kind of hard for the Iranian government to fund anything if the oil workers go on strike. No oil = no money. The people want change in this country and it's time for that change to occur.