Dec 21
2009Iranian Protests
Filed Under (Uncategorized) by Gary on 21-12-2009
Tagged Under : Current Events, news
The protesting continues in Iran. I bet the officials never dreamed they would last this long when they gave the election to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over Mir-Hossein Mousavi.
These protests are formed during the funeral of Grand Ayatollah Hossein-Ali Montazeri who at one point was the second in charge in Iran until he criticized Khomeini for the mass killings of political prisoners in Iran. That got him removed two months before Khomeini died.
Hossein Bastani, an Iranian political analyst, said the protests had moved beyond anger over the election and were now aimed directly at Khamenei. “Khamenei’s comments about Montazeri met with a very negative reflection in Iranian opposition websites and media,” he said. “Today we had a very great demonstration in Qom, a small provincial city and the ideological centre of the Islamic regime,” he added
“I don’t think there were demonstrations there of that size even during the revolution. The slogans people were chanting were indirectly against the Islamic regime and similar to what was chanted before the revolution against the Shah.”
