Don’t let the tyrants wear you down.

I fear what I was thinking about these mother f…s that they are different species than those in other countries fighting for change. The Shia sect was able to be what it is by fighting the Arabs and Saudi’s Islam, so it ended up being what it is. So seeing Ahmadinejad coming out and lashing out with such a confidence makes me wonder.

Personally I’m deeply hopeless and as I read today’s Nazila Fathi’s article form Tehran, indeed my mood is an extension of what is happening in Iran. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/28/world/middleeast/28iran.html?hp

Setting up strike fund? This is an excellent I D E A! Let’s talk DETAILS, lets talk ACTUAL and PRACTICAL ways of applying them, and not just throwing ideas WITHOUT making them workable.

Idea like Internet is no longer idea, but rather actual reality that is working. Otherwise such support becomes the oppression tool, like U.S. democracy funding for Iran that causes SO MUCH damage to freedom fighters in Iran. Thank you Mr. Bush for your creativity!!!???

I think more than anything right now what Iranians need is seeing, feeling and BELIEVING in a bright light waiting for them at the end of the tunnel. Yes, we need massive injection of hope, optimism and victory that awaits us all at the next station. Young and old in Iran have been waiting to arrive at this station for 30 years. It is only now that people around world to notice what we been waiting for.

I am confronted with any number of those who would lay the causation for Iran’s demonstrations at the feet of Obama’s Cairo speech. I had not read any such reasoning amongst the many twitters – do you see any basis for this claim?

Very well-said. These two, if done properly, will weaken the regime to the point of breaking. Iranian people need a simple push to topple this theocratic regime once and for all. That push can only come from the international community mainly western European countries, Canada and US. This is the best time to get rid of the mullahs once and for all.

This reinforces your comment about the protestors’ need for news in the face of the Mullah’s media blockade.

Maybe the protestors’ mov’t also would benefit from leadership from an influential. politically connected expatriate Iranian living in the US or UK who may have access to a bigger picture & can centralize the movement’s goals like the Iraqi expatriate did.

Before a clear leader emerges, the movement can take a cellular form, with no central leader, only local leaders. In any case, the religious authorities presently discussing the removal of Kamenei, or even the post of “supreme jurist” itself, have not rendered their verdict, yet.

Let’s remember that there exist a part of the clergy (composed of older figures, obviously) who have not squandered their moral authority by going along with the revolution, and is now in communication with Grand Ayatollah Al-Sistani, the highly respected Iraqi scholar who has supported authentic elections in Iraq, which did take place.

This is an extraordinary precedent, and yes, Teleprompter master Barry Hussein Obullah, it came out of American “meddling”, to put it diplomatically.