Iran Revolution: Day 16 THOUSANDS TAKE TO THE STREETS, Sunday Bloody Sunday

New Pictures from today's bloodshed (and the media keeps talking about the addict MJ)

7:28 pm: Perhaps the impotent and perfidious media can stop saying alleged. Check out this video, where you see the Basij firing at people from rooftops. It was shot on the 20th, giving a stark aerial view of the chaos at the start of the brutal crackdown.

The hierarchy of Power in Iran:  Understanding Iran – Repression 101 –

hat tip Banafsheh

3:45 pm: First video of violence today. More of Obama's "lively debate":

Crackdown Drains Iranian Dissidents

3:26 pm: Tear Gas And Truncheons Are Used To Break Up Post-Election Demonstration

Some described scenes of brutality, telling The Associated Press that some protesters suffered broken bones and alleging that police beat an elderly woman, prompting a screaming match with young demonstrators who then fought back.
The reports could not be independently verified because of tight restrictions imposed on journalists in Iran.

3:00 pm: My piece in Canada Free Press on the media's silence on Iran. It seems the media and Obama share the delusion if they don't cover it, then it ain't happening. Sort of like ….if a tree falls in the forest. This is, if a news story isn't covered, did it happen?

Video from today

John Jay on why there are no stringers in Iran (apart from the fact that most Middle Eastern stringers are Palestinians, and we know whose side they're on).

2:55 pm: Tightening the fiscal screws: Insurance companies are not paying for the damages to people's home or car. Insurance companies are telling people, "We are asked not to help 'rioters'".

2:05 pm: TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) — A 19-year-old woman who was wounded by
Iranian paramilitary forces with clubs escaped with her camera and
shared her photos with CNN — after tricking a paramilitary soldier
into thinking she had given him the images on a disk.

The woman — whose identity is being withheld by CNN — said Sunday
that on the previous day "the streets were full of guards and
policemen."

"They were hitting everyone, and everywhere was fire because of the tear gas they throw at us," she said.

She was walking to Freedom Square in Tehran
with a group of fellow demonstrators, but the Basij — voluntary
paramilitary forces that answer to the government — wouldn't let them
get through, she said.

They warned the group to turn around.
"They said, 'Just run, and don't even walk.' We were just running away
— and we were hit, of course," she said.

It was too crowded to flee quickly, she said. "I said, 'I can't run. How can I run? It's so crowded in here.' Watch the iReporter talk about the pictures she took »

"He hit me and he was twice [as big] as me — he was so big. And I
said, 'You want to hit me?' And he said, 'Yes' and then he hit me with
a club."

She told CNN a Basij member hit her with a club, and then her foot was hit by a stone.

"Today I couldn't go out because my foot was injured and I couldn't run
anymore. And I was sure: If I go out, I'm going to die. So I didn't go
out today."

The group fought back by throwing stones at the
soldiers, she said. "We had nothing to defend ourselves. Just the
smallest stones we throw at them."

There were many women among
the crowd of demonstrators trying to get to Freedom Square, she said.
"We gave the boys the stones because we can't throw them so far. We
gave them the stones, and we said the slogans."

The young woman said many in Iran
think Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is lying about the results
of the June 12 election, in which incumbent President Mahmoud
Ahmadinejad was declared the winner with more than 62 percent of the
vote.

"We don't care who is the president now," she said. "We
had rather [opposition candidate Mir Hossein] Moussavi, but now when
our leader says it was fair and we know that it's not, I think that
it's about our country. We want the truth."

She said her father, after learning of all that had transpired, said to her, "I'm so lucky that you're alive."

1:50 pm: Mousavi is dropping the ball. I hope the Iranian people follow suit and drop him and get behind a real reformer. They need a leader.

From the tweet deck:

Clashes are continuing

Rafsanjani: secret "agents" are creating a gap between people and the system.

Rafsanjani:
Dysfunctions should not increase grudge & division b/w ppl,
obstacles & problems should be eliminated w/ cooperat'

Mousavi could not join people today but apparently he's spoken to them through a mobile & a loudspeaker

Minutes ago: Ghoba Mosque closed, but more than 20,000 ppl around chanting against regime, some clashes, more trying join

12:43 pm Tweetdeck: There are reports of clash between military forces and people

Thousands used the anniversary of 7th. tir martyrs memorial at the Ghoba mosque to take to the streets.

Iran arrests local staff of British Embassy Jihadwatch

Continuing the campaign against Great Satan 2.0,
in a move evocative of the U.S. Embassy hostage crisis three decades
ago. "Britain assails Iran over embassy staff detentions," by Karin
Laub for the Associated Press, June 28:

Iranian authorities have detained several local employees
of the British Embassy in Iran, a move that Britain's foreign secretary
Sunday called "harassment and intimidation."

Iranian media reported Sunday that eight local embassy
staff were detained for an alleged role in postelection protests, but
gave no further details. British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said
the employees were detained Saturday, but did not say how many were
taken into custody.

12:30 pm: O-vomit moment: Obama officials say talks with Iran still possible

We have no guts, no pride, and no humanity now? That's the change people voted for?

Tweets: All streets & alleys leading to Ghoba mosque are loaded with people.

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