Quote :

"Hey - what if the United States clandestinely supported the resistance movement in Iran? We don't have to invade - we just need to arm the revolutionaries! Then we'd have a legitimate, stable, pro-US government in Iran and no American casualties. How could it go wrong? "

Bay of Pigs

7/5/2009 7:12:36 PM

You do realize that was a specific reference to the cause of the problems in Iran to be begin with, right?

7/5/2009 9:28:54 PM

lol @ Republican18

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms-for-hostages

7/5/2009 10:21:26 PM

^


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7/5/2009 10:33:23 PM

Ok, I guess we can ignore republican18 in this thread.

7/5/2009 10:45:07 PM

Or just in general.

7/5/2009 11:11:02 PM

ldkjlafjsd

[Edited on July 5, 2009 at 11:33 PM. Reason : nvm]

7/5/2009 11:32:55 PM

A few days ago read on the news that China and Cuba had blocked footage of the Iranian protests lest the respective populaces got any ideas....

Well today there were protests in China by a minority group, and they were brutally suppressed. Iranians were harsh? Nah... the first few days the protesters got away with everything. China? Just on the very day the protests started, there were images of bloodied protesters om the streets--including young women--all over the news stations.

7/6/2009 6:56:34 PM

yea China doesn't have to keep up the face of being democratic or anyway a representative government.

7/6/2009 7:06:50 PM

^ true.

156 dead in the first day or two???

7/6/2009 8:55:01 PM

I just really wish these demonstrations would turn to open revolt. It's the only way any real change is going to come to these 2 particular places. It's gotta come from within, without any semblance of US or other western involvement. Neither country has a military or government that could withstand total open revolt.

7/6/2009 9:39:22 PM

fail

[Edited on July 7, 2009 at 1:51 AM. Reason : sorry]

7/7/2009 1:50:57 AM

knuckleheads, watch and learn

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRwUZ-u6KFo

especially you, froshkiller


per your own abc news

7/7/2009 11:59:41 AM

KNUCKLEHEADS, WATCH AND LEARN

ESPECIALLY YOU, FROSHKILLER

7/7/2009 12:02:41 PM

do you really want to get on froshkiller's bad side

7/7/2009 12:49:51 PM

Hey, she's tuff man.

She knows the CIA's fingerprints.

She took a fucking class on it.

She's also got the meanest car to ever hit the streets near NCSU that wasn't made by the germans.

Basically, fuck her.

7/7/2009 1:11:06 PM

Quote :

"lol @ Republican18 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arms-for-hostages "

and ^......haha

[Edited on July 7, 2009 at 3:06 PM. Reason : ]

7/7/2009 3:06:04 PM

I'm still waiting for Republican18 to come back in here and be all like GUISE I TOTES NEW THAT I WAS JOKING LOL

7/7/2009 5:41:06 PM

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iran-prayer18-2009jul18,0,6890660.story

After the speech, downtown Tehran erupted in violence as security forces attacked crowds of demonstrators, older and grayer than recent gatherings, who were chanting "Death to the dictator!" and "God is great."

Tear gas filled streets as demonstrators sought to enter the gates of Tehran University, which riot police had locked. The crowds swarmed through downtown, chanting slogans as the afternoon wore on, lighting cigarettes and putting them in front of one another's faces to ward off the effects of the tear gas.

Masked demonstrators also set trash fires in the middle of roadways to burn off the tear gas, videos posted on YouTube showed. Another group shut down two highways, while yet another handed flowers to smiling policemen and kissed them on the cheeks, according to witnesses.

Another large group gathered in front of the Ministry of Interior, which is under the control of Sadegh Mahsouli, a wealthy ally of Ahmadinejad.

"Mahsouli! Mahsouli! Give my vote back," they chanted, according to a video posted to YouTube.

7/17/2009 3:16:06 PM

just a small FYI, i heard a native Iranian commentator on Bill Maher a few weeks ago, I think actually the week of or after the election, who said all the "Death to _____" business that we hear about is overblown. That is, when we hear them say "Death to America", "Death to Israel", "Death to the Dictator", etc, they don't (necessarily) mean literal "death to".

He said in Persian, that "death to ___" is just an expression, and a better translation would be "down with ____" or simply "damn ___". For example, if an Iranian does something stupid, they often say, literally, "death to myself", but obviously they don't mean it as such.

he wasn't trying to defend Iran, or at least the Iranian administration, but was making it clear all the "death to" business is different over there than it is here

7/17/2009 5:34:31 PM

either hes really loyal to his family or ahmadinejad purposely put the guy that said iranians are friends to even the jews as 1st vp

7/19/2009 1:25:01 PM

Quote :

"Official speakers: "Death to England..." People answer: "Death to Russia..." Official speakers: "The blood in our veins is a gift to our Supreme Leader" People answer: "The blood in our veins is a gift to our nation" "

nice

http://raymankojast.blogspot.com/

7/20/2009 6:45:13 PM

wtf man are yall not following the news at all? more stuff happened in the past 3 days than the previous 3 weeks combined

7/21/2009 12:24:14 AM

^x

no it's true, there is a bit of the meaning lost in translation.

7/22/2009 10:47:26 AM

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090722/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_politics

15 minutes ago but idk if they were just updating the article. apparently ahmadinejad went against the supreme leader today after supreme leader wanted new VP removed

7/22/2009 1:02:40 PM

and forty days after neda's death, protests are cropping up again today.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iran-protests31-2009jul31,0,7400028.story

7/30/2009 11:50:19 AM

didnt want to make another thread with iran in the title...

but i just cant see why ppl would pick iraq to tour out of anywhere to be a tourist

8/4/2009 6:27:19 PM