Comments on: The Latest from Iran (14 November): Political Fatigue?

By: WitteKr

WitteKr — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 22:54:09 +0000

@Catherine
You can find the mentioning of the protest on Why We protest/Anonymous Iran here: http://iran.whyweprotest.net/news-current-events/58771-very-hard-read.html
And just look at this on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/#search?q=iranelection%20hijab%20protests

By: Catherine

Catherine — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:52:51 +0000

@ Ali Khamenei
“I told Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to get a translation of Saul Alinsky’s “Rules For Radicals” to see what the Great-Satan-President Obama’s Reverend Ayatollahs in the holy city of Chicago have taught him to use as strategy.”

Very funny! Whole post quite inspired. Thanks for the laugh.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:10:50 +0000

@ WitteKr+Rev Magdalen
Thanks for the information. I did a search on the ‘Why We protest’ forum but came up with 0 results. Could you please post a link to the page in the forum where the details are mentioned. I’d like to alert some female friends in Tehran.
Thanks!

By: Ali Khamenei

Ali Khamenei — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:54:09 +0000

     Regarding 1325gmt: Mir Hossein Mousavi, The naked and complex full truth must be withheld from the masses who are often confused by foreign influences. Certain dangerous temptations must be veiled although they are still part of the body of truth. The nuanced statements by the Islamic Republic’s properly installed leaders are never lies. They are focussed and directive clarifications of the rulings of the faithful Servants of Allah.
     We will not be outmaneuvered. I told Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to get a translation of Saul Alinsky’s “Rules For Radicals” to see what the Great-Satan-President Obama’s Reverend Ayatollahs in the holy city of Chicago have taught him to use as strategy. But Mahmoud got involved with custom’s agents confiscating copies of a DVD, “Best of Abbott and Costello.”
     The Minister of Culture and Propaganda and poor Mahmoud are having a problem understanding the coded messages in the DVD. The hardest one, about a horse race has been, “Every Mudder must eat its fodder.” Costello, speaking a regional dialect, seems to hear it as “Every Mother must eat its Father.” Abbott says a “Mudder” is a horse that runs well on muddy race tracks, and fodder is food for horses. “Rules for Radicals” seems to be fodder for mudslinging. The West is devious and incoherent.
     Our rules are clear, God willing. But as necessity dictates, for every exigency there is a fatwah, for every rose a thorn, and for every hypocrisy a grand fatwah will transform it into justice. The West has their silly rules for radicals, but we have our magnificence of being right.
     The Revolutionary Guards are tracking down all the references. They have found some sites that will be banned from the univerisities:
   Abbott and Costello biography
Abbott and Costello Website

By: Rev Magdalen

Rev Magdalen — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:24:37 +0000

Hmm Mousavi’s about to lose his job, and suddenly starts taking an interest in the revolution again. Way to shoot yourself in the foot YET AGAIN, Ahmadinejad!

By: Rev Magdalen

Rev Magdalen — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:07:16 +0000

@Catherine and @WitteKr Yes, those are the protests I meant. It’s said the ladies will gather in different places all around the cities to do it so that Basiji won’t have time to mobilize and attack them in just 15 minutes.

By: WitteKr

WitteKr — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 21:51:10 +0000

@Catherine,

I just found on the ‘Why We protest’ forum that from 5th Azar women are being invited to take their scarves off for 15 minutes at 5.00 every day until 16th Azar. It’s all over twitter too.
I’m not sure about the importance of the dates: 16 Azar is Student Day, but 5th is the day of the Navy… ?

By: Catherine

Catherine — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:34:58 +0000

@ Rev Magdalen – “flashmob-style hijab protests”? That sounds cool. Can you tell us some more about this, even if they are just rumours?

By: Rev Magdalen

Rev Magdalen — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:33:22 +0000

The thing I’ve learned about Iranians is, when you think they’re not doing anything they’re just doing something they don’t want to tell everybody about. The rumored upcoming flashmob-style hijab protests will certainly shake things up if they come to pass! We must wait and see, as always.

By: mangybear

mangybear — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 08:04:12 +0000

When the movement gets to the current stage, surely, what is most needed is a relatively clear if flexible set of goals. SoG will need to arrive at some kind of clear formulation of what it wants, how it might attempt to obtain it, and (more privately) what it would settle for. Any articulation would, of course, lose it some supporters; but it might gain in strength what it would lose in breadth. Also, it needs to learn how maximally to exploit the differences in the leadership without necessarily helping to hand the country to Sepah on a plate. But thanks for keeping up the coverage when everyone else is going to sleep!