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Imam Khomeini International University, Qazvin, Protesting Visit by Hamid Rasaee (Part 1--- Part 2 below)



Tehran University Protest of 11 November Execution of Ehsan Fattahian

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Imam Khomeini International University (Part 2)

Comments

[Somebody]

I couldn't view the embedded videos of the Imam Khomeini University protest. If anyone else had the same problem, you can watch the videos here:

http://www.4shared.com/file/153558753/63e25fc
http://www.4shared.com/file/153548996/ed1f9ac5

[Mike Dunn]

They're working for me, Somebody, but thanks for providing the alternative links.

[Adam]

The clip at Khomeini University is amazing. It is becoming increasingly apparent how isolated a clique the coup plotters are. I can't understand why this rebellion hasn't reached the next level. I would imagine that it is increasingly apparent to military personnel how isolated the regime is as well. I have never been more convinced that Khamenei's days as dictator are numbered, and it may be only a few months.

[retrothunderboy]

I really think an eye for an eye should be taken as gospel and every single person who is executed then execute 10 guards are members of the parliament our banji militia time has come to fight back Iran should be secular and always should have time to up the campaign and fight back

[Somebody]

@ Adam

What I find incredible about those videos is Rasaee's chutzpah. What kind of person can stand up in front of an entire student body that is demanding their rights and shamelessly defend dictatorship? It's shocking!

[Iranyar]

@ Adam

"I have never been more convinced that Khamenei’s days as dictator are numbered, and it may be only a few months."

Agree on the first part BUT...may only be only a few months..big NO.....

I honestly think (without any foreign strike....) it will take around 7 more years. Not so fast as we think..or hope it will. 2016 somehwere...

[Barry Ward]

Hmmm - 7 tears.

Something I have not read much about is discussion of the question - "What would happen if Khamenei were to die sometime?. He is after all 70 years of age - and there have been reports of ill health.

Would Iran people have another "Supreme Leader" foisted upon them - if so, who? What kind of internal in-fighting would there be in the process. Would this trigger revolution in Iran? Or would Iran simply revert to a Military Dictatorship - but then who would be the Dictator?

Barry

[Adam]

7 years is a good estimate if you think that the (coup) regime will only fall when oil export revenues by themselves can no longer support an expanding security apparatus. It is also a good estimate if you think it will fall around the time of Khamenei's death.
However, seeing the loud and open protest (the Khomenei University speech above is a great example) and the maintained urgency of the protest movement makes me think that this looks more like the end of a regime. By the time this was happening in eastern europe in the late 1980s, it was over. The only reason the regime didn't collapse back in June is because oil revenues can maintain a very large security apparatus despite lack of popular support.

So without oil money the regime falls, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the regime will last as long as the oil money.

[Iranyar]

@Adam
Of course, If it wasn't for the oilmoney, I belive they would've maybe even be gone before june-elections. Yes the death of Khamenei will trigger everything so much more faster but the guards will only tighten their grip by then and then ruin irans economy so much more so they'll selfdestruct. But imagineing that this regime will go away anywhere very soon is too much. We dont even know clear goals of the greens. What will come after? leader/leaders? how shall they overcome this regime? still alot of answers. bUt its a large underground movement which won't go away, it's here to stay and with the way things r ging ...grow.

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