Iranian Political Annual Review
Date: 2009/04/05
Iranian people staged 6,480 protests against Iranian regime last year

According to recorded statistics and figures, various stratums of Iran’s society staged more than 6,480 protests against the clerical dictatorship in Iran last year.
The year 1387 (Persian year from March 24, 2008 to March 24, 2009) was the year of resistance and perseverance for the Iranian people in all fields. According to recorded figures, the Iranian people staged more than 6,480 strikes, sit-ins, gatherings, and clashes with suppressive forces.
According to these figures, approximately 540 protests were staged every month and about 18 protests daily. There were 1,590 more recorded protests last year than the year before. These protests included 1,800 student protests, 1,215 worker’s protests, 320 protests staged by teachers and 3,145 protests by other stratums in the society including political prisoners. We also witnessed uprisings in Ivan Qarb and Marivan. In the month of Ordibehesht (April 20, 2008 – May 20, 2008) the people of Ivan Qarb in the province of Ilam attacked government centers setting them on fire after state security forces opened fire on them killing three people. In the last month of 1387, people in Marivan in Kurdistan clashed with suppressive forces and set fire to RGC cars after the execution of a plan to close the border. The Iranian regime was forced to back down from executing this suppressive plan. Members of Tehran’s Bazaar also staged a strike for more than two weeks against the plundering policies of the Iranian regime. This widespread strike forced Ahmadinejad to back down. In the month of Isfand (February 19, 2009 – March 20, 2009) 1,500 students of Amir Kabir University in Tehran chanted “death to dictator” and showed their anger and resentment towards the plan to bury the bones of fallen soldiers who were victimized in the Iran-Iraq war in their university and clashed with State Security Forces.
On the eve of Ashura (religious Shiite ceremony for the death of Imam Hussein, son of Imam Ali) the Iranian people in Homayun Shahr, Darache, Zeinabieh and other cities clashed with government agents.
On Tuesday March 17, despite high security measures and even a de facto curfew set by security forces to prevent Feast of Fire celebrations, the Iranian people especially the youth turned these celebrations into widespread protests against the Iranian regime. Young people used handmade bombs and firecrackers to clash with security forces.
With their persistent protests and strikes, political prisoners also lighted the fire of resistance in the regime’s notorious torture chambers. On June 19, 35 imprisoned supporters of the PMOI in Gohardasht Prison and Isfahan Central Prison went on a hunger strike for 10 days.
Therefore, in the year 1387 the Iranian people met the Iranian regime face to face in various fields showing that they want nothing other than regime change.

You seem to try to convey the impression that Moussavi will bring “real change and freedom for the people (in Iran)”. That could be construed as an endorsement, no?

Moussavi, when he was PM 2.5 decades ago, had secret ties with the west and the US as well. But he also had close ties with the Communist Tudeh Party, and he is an ‘Islamist-Marxist” as the term used to be common in Iran under the Shah.

So the notion that somehow this “artist and archotect”(again glorification, he is neither.) could “bring more freedom to the people” does not make sense. Not only that, but it also flies in the face of “regime change” mantra.

I’ve been here, that’s why I question this now.

p.s.
Ahamdi-Nejad all the way!

Saying Dr. Ledeen is somehow supporting Mousavi is clearly coming from your chossy-thinking. Otherwise, you would not have said that if you have read many many articles by Dr. Ledeen.

So stop goozing and chossing.