You would, hippie. ;)

well their most friendly regime is prolly North Korea these days hmm?

but yeah, if it got them out of Iran and brought democracy i'm sure a lot of Western countries would offer them a place

The article says they would live in exile in Russia if they have to flee.

Straight into an AIM-120 AMRAAM, one hopes.

This could make for a very interesting February 4th.......

Splits in Iranian Police Forces Could Spell Trouble for Government - International News | News of the World | Middle East News | Europe News - FOXNews.com

Wonder where they will be investing that $100 billion they saving by cutting food subsidies to their people???

Andrew Sullivan discusses the widespread protests that are expected next week..........

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.co...statement.html

Couple of articles in the build-up to tomorrow's protests.

Interesting article detailing an ultimatum to the Supreme Leader..........

UPDATED Iran Analysis: The Rafsanjani “Ultimatum” to the Supreme Leader | Enduring America

Preparing for the protests expected on Thursday, 2/11............

Iran Analysis: On the Eve of 22 Bahman | Enduring America

Andrew Sullivan doing a great job covering the protest today. Lots of people in the streets, with reports of protesters being killed. Of course, that means more protests in seven and 40 days to mourn these deaths.

Reporters were taken directly to the pro-government protest by bus and were not being allowed to cover the much larger anti-government protests. Military presence is much larger than in previous protests, showing a greater concern by the government about the effect these protests are having on the current leaders and their power base.

Interesting video leaked showing the attack on Tehran University students on June 14th, 2009. It's taken by a Basij member and shows the blatent attack on dorms. Discussion over at Andrew Sullivan's blog is that this video was leaked by a disgruntled member of the Basij after a police government official claimed in a speech that the protests were quelled without any violence or death.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGSn5...layer_embedded

Seems like a big increase in covert attacks of late.......

Bomb kills Iranian nuclear expert - Yahoo! News

More interesting times in Iran

Iran unrest: 'Ten dead' in further protests overnight - BBC News

Is there any weight behind these protests to actually affect change?

Don't know but sure hope so.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...636_story.html

There's going to be some awkward conversations when those guys reach shore again.

Iranian Navy Ship Sinks After Catching Fire in Gulf of Oman

Well isn't that a shame.

Just for kicks, I put this into Google translate.

Indonesian. WTF?

It's nice that we're welcoming a more diverse crowd of spambots these days

SI

I don't get this at all. Another Indonesian spam bot. Here's what Google Translates to:

"The locations are all in the Japanese area. Can't wait, what anime will mimin recommend? Check out the explanations and recommendations for the best romantic anime of all time, check this out guys version of Oploverz"

SI

In a year or so, after the Iranian invasion of Indonesia, we'll look back and wonder how we missed all of the signs.

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Google translate says its Indonesian. WTF?