Maybe the natives are restless in Iran too (as Iran is in Syria killing Syrians)

[Christians4LessGvt]

Iran pumps large Bassij militia forces into Tehran as riots flare

DEBKAfile Exclusive Report

October 3, 2012, 6:41 PM


Police clash with Tehran merchants

The Iranian government Wednesday, Oct. 3, invoked the emergency measures drawn up for the 2009 protests to deploy large-scale Bassij militia forces in the capital and put down the first angry protests against mounting economic hardship and the plummeting rial. 

debkafile's Iranian sources report two waves of riots swept through Tehran's trading centers Wednesday:

the stores trading gold coins and foreign currency on Fereowsi, Estanbol and Manoucheri Streets, and the celebrated gold jewelry market in the Tehran Bazaar.

Money changers and gold traders attacked police forces and torched their vehicles, playing cat and mouse with the officers after they arrested some of the money changers and accused them of black market dealings.

This was part of the regime's effort to curtail the steep plunge of the Iranian currency against the dollar. Wednesday, a dollar went for 40,000 rials compared with 37,500 rials Tuesday and 24,000 only a week ago.

Fearing that the troubles Wednesday presaged a general strike shutting down the bazaar for an indefinite period, the authorities decided to draw the line before the unrest spread to the rest of the capital and other cities.

Two teams are now at work to deal with the crisis before it gets out of hand: One is meeting at the office of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei; the second, including Interior Minister Mostafa Mohamnmad-Najjar and Revolutionary commander of the Tehran district, is working on ways to rein in the crisis in the presidential bureau of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

Both have received intelligence briefings, according to which there was a real risk of the Tehran merchants' revolt igniting a popular uprising in Tehran that may well encompass the entire country.

The brutal Bassij militia were accordingly sent into Tehran. They were told to spread out early Thursday and force the merchants to open their shops. They were directed to act firmly but cautiously and avoid loss of life. Iran's rulers are fully aware the any blood spilt at this stage would quickly inflame the masses.

http://www.debka.com/article/22402/Iran-pumps-large-Bassij-militia-forces-into-Tehran-as-riots-flare

[Xavier_Onassis]

This, not Netayahu showing idiotic cartoons of Wile E Coyote bombs and attacks, are the only way to actually cause real change in Iran.

Bombing Iran would surely convince most Iranians that a bomb is essential as a deterrent to prevent more attacks.
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Our president is doing an excellent job, in SPITE of Netanyahu.

[Christians4LessGvt]

Our president is doing an excellent job, in SPITE of Netanyahu

yeah sure....
he was out in front with protests in Egypt and Libya
but when the protests broke out in Iran...
he fell basically silent and called for nobody to leave

[Christians4LessGvt]

Demonstrations in Iran - Oct 2013

http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/3593.htm

[Xavier_Onassis]

he was out in front with protests in Egypt and Libya
but when the protests broke out in Iran...
he fell basically silent and called for nobody to leave

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He was not silent. I don't recall him calling for anyone not to leave. He certainly did not tell the candidates in the contested election what to do. That would have been meddling. It would have been counterproductive.

Iranians are not likely to obey the US President. It is one thing to pressure Mubarak and Qadaffy to step down. No9ne of them was elected in anything anyone would call a fair election. The US did not appoint any oppressive government to run Egypt or Libya. It DID put the nasty little Shah on the Iranian throne, just for the benefit of Big Oil.

It was clear that Mubarak and Qadaffy could not stay in power. There was no such clarity in Iran.