Death to Ahmadinejad! cries crowd.

[DesertFox]

Many Iranian youths rallied in streets across the country, shouting "Death to Ahmadinejad," in celebrations marking the end of the Persian calendar year.

More (http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2008/03/19/death_to_ahmadinejad_iranian_crowds_cry/3794/)

[DesertFox]

Boy ain't so popular after all.

Maybe it's the queers?

[DeclinetoState]

We'll see if these same people turn up in the next few months next to a crane with nooses around their necks.

[Elgalad]

:rolleyes:

Ahmadinejad is a puppet. He has absolutely zero real power in the Iranian government and only serves at the whim of the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

Why people ascribe him Any importance whatsoever as a world leader, I just can't understand.

Iran's government has been using him since the moment he was placed in the hot seat for the sole purposes of tweaking the West, making inflammatory speeches, and giving us a 'target' for our hatred of radical islam. When he is no longer useful to the Mullahs, he'll be gone.

It may be that Is already the case.. and while it's very possible DTS' possible outcome may come to pass; if it doesn't, it may also be clear that "Ahmed" is out of favor. From that moment on, his days will definitely be numbered.

The bottom line is, if this was a Real protest, the students would be screaming "Death to Khamenei!"

For all of the 20 seconds it takes for the nearest guardsmen to empty his AK-47 into their midst.



-Elgalad

[DeclinetoState]

So, Elgalad, you think this may be evidence of an internal power struggle, shake-up, and/or change?

[Elgalad]

I think it's just some kids letting off a little steam and seeing how far they can push it, heh.

Seriously though, it looks like a big deal to us on the outside.. but I remember a scene from a tv series back in the 80's called Amerika. The conquerers (the Russkies) staged 'protests' in the streets where disaffected youths would go nuts, break windows, turn over police cars, etc.. all in a controlled environment that the government had created.

They did this to keep the mob appeased so that they wouldn't Really get out of control.

While that seems awful conspiratorial, I wouldn't be surprised if the Iranian gov't did something just like that. Remember that the Mullahs have used the student 'uprisings' in the past, and isn't in fact Ahmadinejad himself a former 'student demonstrator' who was involved in the Hostage Crisis? (Not sure if that was ever proved conclusively or not).


-Elgalad

[Beowulf]

I've said before that I think Iran's demise will come from within as many young Iranians are becoming more westernized with cloths, fads and the like. I think they're sick of his lies and idiocy.

[BarkleUSA]

We'll know if there is a serious threat to the Mullah's Islamic theocracy when we see Jimmy Carter show up to quell the uprising and restore "peace". He is responsible for the Ayatollahs running Iran in the first place - and by extension most of the terrorism in the world today.

Never underestimate the damage one communist peanut farmer from Planes Georgia can do.