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Iranian Crackdown Goes Global
An anonymous reader writes "Tehran's leadership faces its biggest crisis since it first came to power in 1979, as Iranians at home and abroad attack its legitimacy in the wake of June's allegedly rigged presidential vote. An opposition effort, the 'Green Movement,' is gaining a global following of regular Iranians who say they never previously considered themselves activists. The regime has been cracking down hard at home. And now, a Wall Street Journal investigation shows, it is extending that crackdown to Iranians abroad as well. Part of the effort involves tracking the Facebook, Twitter and YouTube activity of Iranians around the world, and identifying them at opposition protests abroad. People who criticize Iran's regime online or in public demonstrations are facing threats intended to silence them."
First you get the money, then you get the power...
Obama: Say hello to my little war.
Set your phasers on "funky"!
FTA: "Although it wasn't possible to independently verify their claims, interviewees provided consistently similar descriptions of harassment techniques world-wide. Most asked that their full names not be published."
This is the same game that the Administration and the Media used to get us into Iraq. No names, no verification. But they promise it's true!
"There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on -- shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again."" -George W. Bush, 2002
How's that cyber-revolution turning out?
I sincerely detest your conclusion. It is also based on a fallacy, as there is no "absence of an external interfering force".
Your belief that Eastern Europe developed democracy without external influence shows your total ignorance about recent European history. Eastern Europe has received massive funding from the EU to build infrastructure and ensure economic development. Equally important is the political and economic integration across Europe, and the military strength of the USA that brings stability and a sense of security. The democratization of Eastern Europe is the result of determination and massive investments, and this is by the way the norm. Think about how the US treated Germany and Japan after WW2.
Those examples are in stark contrast to the how Iran has been influenced from the outside. Both the USA and USSR opted to support both sides of the Iran-Iraq war
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_aid_to_combatants_in_the_Iran%E2%80%93Iraq_War
Meaning simply that a conflict in the middle east was in the interest of both super powers, playing divide and conquer. Or was that also because of some cultural phenomenom?
To state that culture is the ultimate force in political developments is simply naive. Not only naive, it is dangerous. People like you scare me.
can you please tell me where your grandfather is buried so i can go and water him with my liquid waste product?
I can't believe I used my last mod point before I saw this. Wouldn't have made much difference, as you are a coward.
It's amazing the things we feel we can say online behind the cover of anonymity that we would never say in person. Could someone with a mod point please -1 Troll this guy?
Silence! I kill you!
If you could reason with religious people, there would be no religious people
You are a bigoted ignoramus. What do you know of Iranians? Have you been there? Do you have close friends and associates from Iran, who are not resentful expatriates?
Your second hand knowledge of somethoing you clearly bray your ignorance is not worth a damn.
Whay don't you read "Mirrors of the Unseen" by Jason Elliot? It is among the books that have been produced in recent years that vicariously demonstrate the real modern Iran, and its real faults and virtues - not the Ideological ones, presented in the daily PRAVDA of the American and Israeli controlled media machinery.
Look at ALL of this: http://www.worldisround.com/articles/98910/ It's not the place you've been told, nor are the people those you've been hoodwinked into judging.
"Speaking the Truth in times of universal deceit is a revolutionary act." -- George Orwell
You are some shade of stupid if you think the US compares to Iran. I'm sorry, I don't give a fuck how much karma I burn on this one, but you, pal, are a fucking retard.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Yes, but the FBI doesn't throw your relatives in jail for whatever YOU get up to in foreign countries. In fact, they don't even throw your relatives in jail for what you do in the U.S. They're aren't allowed to, and since doing so has nothing to do with catching criminals, they probably wouldn't want to. They don't even haul YOU in and beat you up because of what you post on the Internet, nor do they send you death threats warning you to shut up.
Now, explain to me your apparent equivalence between "keeps files on people protesting the government" and "sends death threats, threatens relatives, harshly interrogate, physically abuse, imprison on trumped-up charges, and otherwise behave like goons toward people protesting the government"?
---dragoness