Iran Deploys Revolutionary Guards to Quell "Sedition"

As I think Selena Zito pointed out, this is a sign that local police are refusing to beat, arrest, or kill protesters themselves. Thus Iran has to call in their Murder Gangs.

Let us hope cops and regular soldiers join the uprising.

Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards have deployed forces to three provinces to put down an eruption of anti-government unrest after six days of protests that have rattled the clerical leadership and left 21 people dead.
The protests, which began last week out of frustration over economic hardships suffered by the youth and working class, have evolved into a rising against the powers and privileges of a remote elite especially Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Defying threats from the judiciary of execution if convicted of rioting, protests resumed after nightfall with hundreds hitting the streets of Malayer in Hamadan province chanting: "People are begging, the supreme leader is acting like God!"
Videos carried by social media showed protesters in the northern town of Nowshahr shouted "death to the dictator" -- an apparent reference to Khamenei.
In a sign of official concern about the resilience of the protests, the Revolutionary Guards commander, Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari, said he had dispatched forces to Hamadan, Isfahan and Lorestan provinces to tackle "the new sedition".

And read this interesting post from sci-fi author John Ringo, who notes that while 2009's Green Revolution was mostly supported by women and soft-handed urbanites -- and opposed by stronger rural young men, who of course won out -- this current uprising is taking places in what you'd call rural or blue-collar areas of Iran, meaning the young, strong men they relied upon to crush the opposition last time might now be ranged against the mullahs.

Thanks to @Lauraw for that.

Posted by: Ace at 06:17 PM

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1 Getting real. And the prisons won't fill up but the graveyards will. May the Mullahs get buried.,

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at January 03, 2018 06:14 PM (ab78G)

2 "Death to...." Seems to be the go to phrase in that neck of the woods.

Posted by: Bosk at January 03, 2018 06:15 PM (fjMEv)

3
Are the men wearing MIHA hats?

Make Iran Haram Again.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 03, 2018 06:16 PM (mbhDw)

4 I even went to fetch the corgis...

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at January 03, 2018 06:16 PM (ab78G)

5 How many revolutionary guards are there?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 03, 2018 06:17 PM (IqV8l)

6 And the post's time stamp is 6:17

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at January 03, 2018 06:17 PM (ab78G)

7
Now would be the opportune time for the Mossad/Sayeret Matkal or Saudi operatives to attack the command and control infrastructure.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 03, 2018 06:17 PM (mbhDw)

8 " this current uprising is taking places in what you'd call rural or blue-collar areas of Iran, meaning the young, strong men they relied upon to crush the opposition last time might now be ranged against the mullahs."

So it's a Trumpian revolt.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 03, 2018 06:17 PM (cAXIk)

9 How many revolutionary guards are there?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 03, 2018 06:17 PM (IqV8l)

MOre Guards than the Pope has

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 03, 2018 06:18 PM (SjImc)

10 Do the ones dead in Syria count as still IRG?

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at January 03, 2018 06:19 PM (ab78G)

11
Revolutionary Guards are the Iranian version of Antifa

Posted by: Woke at January 03, 2018 06:19 PM (/zwDg)

12 10 Do the ones dead in Syria count as still IRG?
Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at January 03, 2018 06:19 PM (ab78G)

Syrian buzzards gotta eat, same as Syrian worms.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 03, 2018 06:19 PM (mbhDw)

13 If the RG turn, it's over, but I'd be amazed if they did.

Posted by: SloPitch Whiffer at January 03, 2018 06:19 PM (UZZHo)

14 The Internet has made it possible for people to get a glimpse of freedom. You can't keep em down on the farm after that.

Posted by: freaked at January 03, 2018 06:19 PM (UdKB7)

15 Which side is the media on?

Serious question. If the protestors/Trump wins, that's going to be a bad outcome, right?

Posted by: Moron el-Robbie - Bama's Boot Stomping on the Face of College Football Forever at January 03, 2018 06:19 PM (ks6bw)

16 I won't know what to think until the 9 year old Syrian girl with a verified checkmark tweets about it.

Posted by: Hope Solo at January 03, 2018 06:19 PM (rDF5j)

17 So in other words, the deplorables are rising up now, not just the soy boys.

The regime is in trouble then. it would be in more trouble if Iran's deplorables owned guns

Posted by: Donna&&&&&&&V my laptop died at January 03, 2018 06:20 PM (cX2gp)

18 MIZA -- Make Iran Zoroastrian Again

Posted by: Rob Crawford at January 03, 2018 06:20 PM (sN1d0)

19 six days of protests that have rattled the clerical leadership and left 21 people dead.

Ah, so the protests killed 21 people, not the Regime.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 03, 2018 06:20 PM (jn7FC)

20 11
Revolutionary Guards are the Iranian version of Antifa
Posted by: Woke at January 03, 2018 06:19 PM (/zwDg)

But armed to the teeth.

Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at January 03, 2018 06:20 PM (vgwv+)

21 11
Revolutionary Guards are the Iranian version of Antifa
Posted by: Woke at January 03, 2018 06:19 PM (/zwDg)

So that was the internal security force Obama wanted. The one with as much funding as the DoD.

Similar cadres too. Thugs and criminals.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 03, 2018 06:20 PM (mbhDw)

22 I was beginning to wonder when that dog would be unleashed. They are like the SS, totally committed fanatics.

Posted by: Old Blue at January 03, 2018 06:20 PM (gEvQ8)

23 The peasants are revolting!

I don't think the mullahs are putting this genie back in the bottle. They may put this uprising down but when everyone in the country hates you and wants you gone it never ends well.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 03, 2018 06:20 PM (/tuJf)

24 The money run out already for the mullahs?

Posted by: Archer at January 03, 2018 06:20 PM (gbWkA)

25 May the Lord be with those who are protesting Allah's Death Squads.

I hope we have a few stealth drones loitering and lobbing the occasional smart bomb or missile in a plausibly deniable way.

Posted by: Vanceone at January 03, 2018 06:20 PM (A9Gmy)

26 In this case MSM stands for Media Supporting Mullahs.

Posted by: Anna Puma (HQCaR) at January 03, 2018 06:20 PM (ab78G)

27 Which side is the media on"

Looks like you answered it yourself...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 03, 2018 06:20 PM (7LY+6)

28
How many revolutionary guards are there? Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 03, 2018 06:17 PM (IqV8l)

125,000-150,000

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at January 03, 2018 06:20 PM (lKyWE)

29 7. Nothing says they can't have their button teams out at the same time, does it?

I mean, since they're going to be there anyway.....

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at January 03, 2018 06:21 PM (fA1SL)

30 As I have previously stated, during the White House briefing today not one question was asked about the Iranian uprising. True the big stories are about the Bannon book excerpts and the Trump NORK tweets, but the Iranian uprising sheds light on the failures of the Obama foreign policy's.

This is true passive Fake News

Posted by: redenzo at January 03, 2018 06:21 PM (14qvS)

31 Is the Republican Guard really elite?

Posted by: MAGA at January 03, 2018 06:21 PM (LnOh3)

32 Where the fuck is Ezio Auditore when yo need him?

Is he still in the Bahamas?

Posted by: Marcus T at January 03, 2018 06:21 PM (ITji5)

33 24 The money run out already for the mullahs?
Posted by: Archer at January 03, 2018 06:20 PM (gbWkA)

Sheshbesh can be addictive.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 03, 2018 06:21 PM (mbhDw)

34 Ah, so the protests killed 21 people, not the Regime"

That's our take...

/ the illiterati

Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 03, 2018 06:21 PM (7LY+6)

35 31 Is the Republican Guard really elite?

Posted by: MAGA at January 03, 2018 06:21 PM (LnOh3)

Let's see: Kristol, Williamson, Boot, Rubin...

Elite... ists.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 03, 2018 06:22 PM (mbhDw)

36 *cough*

Posted by: Bob Corker at January 03, 2018 06:22 PM (sNwPN)

37 Has anyone else seen reports that the protestors have weapons and are firing back?

Posted by: Ben Had at January 03, 2018 06:22 PM (NcqYr)

38 "Elite"?No,foreign thugs they use to crackdown on their own peoole.

Posted by: steevy at January 03, 2018 06:22 PM (LiyEm)

39 Farmers are tough. They have to be. They wrestle food from the Earth, kill and butcher their own meat and repair any tool they have. That means a smithy.

You will find it hard to wrestle with a man who beats iron for his daily bread.

Posted by: jakee308 at January 03, 2018 06:23 PM (Liv96)

40 I ran, you ran, we all ran from Iran.

Posted by: bergerbilder at January 03, 2018 06:23 PM (lIZQs)

41 The republican guard high steps better than the rockettes

Posted by: Archer at January 03, 2018 06:23 PM (gbWkA)

42
So it's a Trumpian revolt.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 03, 2018 06:17 PM (cAXIk)

It would be funny if there were Iranian versions of Bill Kristol or George Will and what they'd be saying about this.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 03, 2018 06:23 PM (c1t3E)

43 2017, 2018, with all the winning past and coming up old Ben Rhodes is going to have his work cut out for him getting Obama all the credit for setting the table for Trump to run.

Posted by: geoffb at January 03, 2018 06:23 PM (zOpu5)

44 That's our take... "

Oh, and it's Trump's fault for something or other...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 03, 2018 06:23 PM (7LY+6)

45
The Basij are the thugs. I hear though that this time a significant number are on the side of the protestors so that could be a big factor.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 03, 2018 06:24 PM (mbhDw)

46 Is the Republican Guard really elite?

Posted by: MAGA at January 03, 2018 06:21 PM (LnOh3)

Right up there with Saddam's Republican Guard

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 03, 2018 06:24 PM (SjImc)

47 "Videos carried by social media showed protesters in the northern town of Nowshahr shouting "death to the dictator" -- an apparent reference to Khamenei."

By tomorrow, CNN will Photoshop these Iran protests to transform them into anti-Trump protests.

"Videos carried by social media showed protesters in the northern town of ~~Nowshahr~~ Seattle shouting "death to the dictator" -- an apparent reference to ~~Khamenei~~ Trump."

Posted by: zombie at January 03, 2018 06:24 PM (42M22)

48 Couldn't oppose the bill.

Wouldn't be prudent.

Posted by: Senator Ted Cruz at January 03, 2018 06:24 PM (sNwPN)

49 39 Farmers are tough. They have to be. They wrestle food from the Earth, kill and butcher their own meat and repair any tool they have. That means a smithy.

You will find it hard to wrestle with a man who beats iron for his daily bread.
Posted by: jakee308 at January 03, 2018 06:23 PM (Liv96)
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As a farmer, I agree.

Posted by: Weasel at January 03, 2018 06:24 PM (Sfs6o)

50 I hope the protesters have weapons. Gonna need em.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at January 03, 2018 06:24 PM (89T5c)

51 >>Has anyone else seen reports that the protestors have weapons and are firing back?

I've seen reports that some police have taken off their uniforms and are firing back. I've also seen some postings of supposed IRG resignations. Not all but a few here and there.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 03, 2018 06:24 PM (/tuJf)

52 You will find it hard to wrestle with a man who beats iron "

Paolo says qui?

Posted by: Paolo at January 03, 2018 06:25 PM (7LY+6)

53 40 I ran, you ran, we all ran from Iran.
Posted by: bergerbilder at January 03, 2018 06:23 PM (lIZQs)

"Bitch, please."

- - A Flock of Seagulls, 1982

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 03, 2018 06:25 PM (mbhDw)

54 But armed to the teeth.
Posted by: WinLinBSDAdmin at January 03, 2018 06:20 PM

You can't afford a decent weapon and that Sergio Armani military style jean jacket on the money mommy and daddy sent for books.

Posted by: Flyguy at January 03, 2018 06:25 PM (qCKDU)

55 sci-fi author John Ringo

Evidently Mr. Ringo's an educated man.

Now I really hate him.

Posted by: zombie Doc Holliday at January 03, 2018 06:25 PM (nNzLS)

56 Speaking of Trump's NORK tweets today, I had this little cartoon run in my head. Lil Rocket Man pulls out a little bitty button and pees on his shoes. Trump pulls out a bigly and beautiful button and pisses on Lil Rocket Man's shoes. I thought it was funny.

Posted by: Old Blue at January 03, 2018 06:25 PM (gEvQ8)

57 We need a little Lepanto right about now.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 03, 2018 06:25 PM (7UW64)

58 Like others have said, this is where some judicious insertions of certain operators would be timely and save lives.

Posted by: jakee308 at January 03, 2018 06:25 PM (Liv96)

59 We should have had a pussy hat March here in support by now right?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at January 03, 2018 06:26 PM (hLShT)

60 the revolution will not be televised!!!!!

Posted by: MSM at January 03, 2018 06:26 PM (14qvS)

61 I'll believe it when I see one swinging from a crane.

Posted by: jsg at January 03, 2018 06:26 PM (gSwpy)

62
I only watch NBC, CBS, ABC and CNN so I have no idea what's going on there.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 03, 2018 06:26 PM (Elvwz)

63 It would be funny if there were Iranian versions of Bill Kristol or George Will and what they'd be saying about this.
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at January 03, 2018 06:23 PM

Come on our cruise! We have only the finest most moderate goats.

Posted by: Flyguy at January 03, 2018 06:26 PM (qCKDU)

64 A revolution? In Iran? Impossible. Never happned before, so it can never happen now.

Posted by: well-educated American college student at January 03, 2018 06:26 PM (42M22)

65 Posted by: zombie at January 03, 2018 06:24 PM (42M22)

Check my comment to you in the weather thread....

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 03, 2018 06:26 PM (wYseH)

66 58 Like others have said, this is where some judicious insertions of certain operators would be timely and save lives.
Posted by: jakee308 at January 03, 2018 06:25 PM (Liv96)

Number 1 - Down the road we've just begun.
Number 2 - The guards are through.
Number 3 - The major's men are on a spree.
Number 4 - The major and Wodislaw go through the door....

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 03, 2018 06:27 PM (mbhDw)

67 "We can't have this thug regime fall,it will make Trump look good!"
The MFM

Posted by: steevy at January 03, 2018 06:27 PM (LiyEm)

68 We need a little Lepanto right about now."

Tough to have a naval battle on land, but ok...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 03, 2018 06:27 PM (7LY+6)

69 Check my comment to you in the weather thread....
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Will do.

Posted by: zombie at January 03, 2018 06:27 PM (42M22)

70 We should have had a pussy hat March here in support by now right?
Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at January 03, 2018 06:26 PM (hLShT)

You might have noticed as the temps dropped, the pussies all disappeared?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 03, 2018 06:27 PM (SjImc)

71 More than likely the cops don't have the manpower to deal with it. It would be like calling in the National Guard here to stop a riot.

The cops going over won't matter much unless they can get the military on their side...or even parts of the military.

Usually with these things there is some sort of figure the protesters can rally around. In 1979 it was Ayatollah Khomenei, and he was in Paris. I am unaware of any figure who could step in or serve as a rallying point to elevate this into an actual revolution.

But who knows? The Egyptian revolution a few years ago didn't have a central figurehead. They did appeal to the military to fix things so it ended up being Sisi.

So a military coup in Iran would likely lead to some general taking over. I don't see it happening, though.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 03, 2018 06:27 PM (4ErVI)

72 46 Is the Republican Guard really elite?

Posted by: MAGA at January 03, 2018 06:21 PM (LnOh3)

Right up there with Saddam's Republican Guard
Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 03, 2018 06:24 PM (SjImc)

-----

Oh, that type of elite.

Posted by: MAGA at January 03, 2018 06:28 PM (LnOh3)

73 FWIW- Iranian guy said this morning that PDT is the first President in 40 years to give the Iranian people hope and that he is well loved in Iran.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 03, 2018 06:28 PM (NcqYr)

74 Usually with these things there is some sort of figure the protesters can rally around. In 1979 it was Ayatollah Khomenei, and he was in Paris. I am unaware of any figure who could step in or serve as a rallying point to elevate this into an actual revolution.

----

Trump.

Posted by: MAGA at January 03, 2018 06:29 PM (LnOh3)

75 69 Check my comment to you in the weather thread....
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo

Will do.
Posted by: zombie

Well, someone else started the meme, so I was just continuing it! Apologies if you think it was too outr�.

Posted by: zombie at January 03, 2018 06:29 PM (42M22)

76 The Basij are the thugs. I hear though that this time a significant number are on the side of the protestors so that could be a big factor.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 03, 2018 06:24 PM (mbhDw)

The Basij are drawn from the same socio-economic groups as the protesters. Unlike the IRGC, the Basij live at home, which means they (and their families) have to worry about retribution on a very personal level.

The role of the ordinary police can be crucial. They can provide access to some waepons and ammo, but more importantly they have communication infrastructure apart from internet and telephone that the regime is limiting or shutting down.

Posted by: Miklos Molnar at January 03, 2018 06:29 PM (zCyNd)

77 73. He can give Persia to Barron. He'll need practice.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at January 03, 2018 06:29 PM (fA1SL)

78 Why should I research what's really going on in Iran when I can read about Obambi's favorite night?

Posted by: MSN reader at January 03, 2018 06:29 PM (YFnq5)

79 Franko goes in where the others have been.

Posted by: Archer at January 03, 2018 06:29 PM (gbWkA)

80 74 Usually with these things there is some sort of figure the protesters can rally around. In 1979 it was Ayatollah Khomenei, and he was in Paris. I am unaware of any figure who could step in or serve as a rallying point to elevate this into an actual revolution.

----

Trump.
Posted by: MAGA at January 03, 2018 06:29 PM (LnOh3)

Take Iran. Dump California. How many electoral votes?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 03, 2018 06:29 PM (mbhDw)

81 You are dreaming if you believe the mullahs will give up power. They would rather be Syria, The Sequel.

They have too good of a racket.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 03, 2018 06:29 PM (ITji5)

82 I thought it was funny and not to be taken seriously but my sense of humor can be dark...

Posted by: steevy at January 03, 2018 06:29 PM (LiyEm)

83 I was curious to check into Iran's gun control laws. They are very similar to California's, New York's and Illinois.

Posted by: Victor Tango Kilo at January 03, 2018 06:30 PM (jn7FC)

84

"13 - We all come out like it's Halloween..."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 03, 2018 06:30 PM (mbhDw)

85 I don't know what is going on over there, I just hope and pray the current regime and their Hezbollah terror outreach can be overthrown and a new era can begin for Iran. Persia used to be the most civilized and advanced culture on earth, it would be wonderful to see them regain some of that at least.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 03, 2018 06:30 PM (39g3+)

86 'Is the Republican Guard really elite? '

They get t shirts

Posted by: freaked at January 03, 2018 06:31 PM (UdKB7)

87 We need a hawt Persian chick revolution. Show those yokels out in the sticks what they are missing.

The Ayatollah thinks this is bad -> poster of dressed - miniskirted and skintight - but dressed - hawt Persian chick.

Posted by: blaster at January 03, 2018 06:31 PM (jHrzU)

88
68 We need a little Lepanto right about now."

Tough to have a naval battle on land, but ok...

Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 03, 2018 06:27 PM (7LY+6)

They don't need the boats, just the muzzie busting power. Maybe a few prayers in that direction, I would think.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 03, 2018 06:31 PM (7UW64)

89 Take Iran. Dump California. How many electoral votes?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 03, 2018 06:29 PM (mbhDw)

Well, there are about 800,000 Iranians in SoCal alone. Does that count?

Posted by: Miklos Molnar at January 03, 2018 06:31 PM (zCyNd)

90
Persia Monir Hyapatia Lee?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 03, 2018 06:31 PM (mbhDw)

91 82. As comrade Stalin observed, 'Dark humor is like food - not everyone gets it.'

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at January 03, 2018 06:31 PM (fA1SL)

92 I don't think the mullahs are putting this genie back in the bottle

Speaking of the bottle, is it any coincidence that Hillary Clinton Will Never Be President?

Posted by: t-bird at January 03, 2018 06:31 PM (clYld)

93 >>It would be funny if there were Iranian versions of Bill Kristol or George Will and what they'd be saying about this.

I've actually seen versions of this claim, largely against the Obama types.

There are claims that those who keep saying that we should support the "reformers" are really just saying we should support a somewhat less extreme version of the most extreme mullah types.

There really aren't any reformers in Iran. You either support the regime or you don't.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 03, 2018 06:32 PM (/tuJf)

94 The Revolutionary Guards are the Persian variant of Saddam Hussein's Arab Republican Guards. Basically, a whole bunch of Jar Jar Binks with Kalashnikovs.

Posted by: Fritz at January 03, 2018 06:32 PM (bJ0w+)

95 89 Take Iran. Dump California. How many electoral votes?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 03, 2018 06:29 PM (mbhDw)

Well, there are about 800,000 Iranians in SoCal alone. Does that count?
Posted by: Miklos Molnar at January 03, 2018 06:31 PM (zCyNd)

Dang. Forgot about that. Biggest ex-pat Iranian community in the world, IIRC. Meh, they probably all vote Democrat.

Or do they?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 03, 2018 06:32 PM (mbhDw)

96 I just went on match.com to meet that bleached out whore that can't get a date.

Posted by: Cherchez at January 03, 2018 06:32 PM (4u7kU)

97 Y'all heard about any fires in Chappaqua?

Posted by: Ben Quick at January 03, 2018 06:32 PM (bc2Lc)

98 The Trump Green Revolution.

I know we have "door kickers" in there. Covert. Trump says he is going to queer the $ deal, so, who knows.

Posted by: Redenzo at January 03, 2018 06:32 PM (14qvS)

99 Sounds a lot like the "Civilian Security Force that is just as strong and just as well funded as the military"....

Posted by: Mega at January 03, 2018 06:33 PM (rv0Fo)

100 The Iranian peoples central figure head is TRUMP!

Posted by: jakee308 at January 03, 2018 06:33 PM (Liv96)

101 I hope this is a turning point for Iran...

Posted by: IC at January 03, 2018 06:33 PM (a0IVu)

102 Kill Darius!

Posted by: Archer at January 03, 2018 06:33 PM (gbWkA)

103 97 Y'all heard about any fires in Chappaqua?
Posted by: Ben Quick at January 03, 2018 06:32 PM (bc2Lc)

Tell Ace to do a thread about it.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 03, 2018 06:33 PM (mbhDw)

104 At least we have an administration that is actively supporting and openly behind the protesters rather than lately, tepidly backing and condemning both. And, from reports, is doing more behind the scenes as well.

Very few revolutions in human history have succeeded without outside support.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 03, 2018 06:33 PM (39g3+)

105 "There really aren't any reformers in Iran. You either support the regime or you don't."

They were a figment of Ben Rhodes' imagination. He made them up and sold them to the Echo Chamber as cover for why Obama pursued a treaty.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 03, 2018 06:33 PM (cAXIk)

106 There are claims that those who keep saying that we should support the "reformers" are really just saying we should support a somewhat less extreme version of the most extreme mullah types.

There really aren't any reformers in Iran. You either support the regime or you don't.
Posted by: JackStraw

The "reformers" in 1930s Germany wanted to stick with Zyklon A.

Posted by: zombie at January 03, 2018 06:33 PM (42M22)

107 There are a lot of hot Iranian girls. I dated one in college. Her family escaped during the last revolution.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 03, 2018 06:33 PM (ITji5)

108 Well, there are about 800,000 Iranians in SoCal alone.

Tehrangeles. Mercedes would hate to lose their business.

Posted by: t-bird at January 03, 2018 06:33 PM (clYld)

109 This is just like Trump blocking people from his twitter feed!!!

Posted by: This is CNN at January 03, 2018 06:34 PM (3BFzK)

110 95 89 Take Iran. Dump California. How many electoral votes?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 03, 2018 06:29 PM (mbhDw)

Pretty sure that most of Iran doesn't even have electricity,yet

Posted by: Cherchez at January 03, 2018 06:34 PM (4u7kU)

111 Dack- The late Shah's son lives in the Us and has a large backing by the Iranian communities here. He has been very vocal about wanting to take Iran back to the Westernized country it was before Jimmah buttered his peanut all over it.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 03, 2018 06:34 PM (NcqYr)

112 I don't think the mullahs are putting this genie back in the bottle "

*Disney writers scribbling notes on next star wars/ alladin mashup*

Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 03, 2018 06:34 PM (7LY+6)

113 Kill Darius!

Posted by: Archer at January 03, 2018 06:33 PM (gbWkA)

Hey!!!!

Posted by: Miklos and the Blowfish at January 03, 2018 06:34 PM (zCyNd)

114 I don't get the Bannon story except as false flag. All the people who have wanted to open up on Bannon have done so. Including Trump.

Wolff reports Bannon said this. Wolff has a reputation for fabricating quotes. No, really, look it up. If Bannon wanted to go to war with Trump, why would he do it in a book by a left winger? For a guy as Bannon-centric as Bannon is reported to be - and I don't have any reason to believe that he isn't - why would he let this type of bombshell to come out on someone else's paper? It isn't like Bannon doesn't have a platform of his own.

I don't know if he is a backstabber or a Scaramucci-style frontstabber, but this seems to be a dumb way to go about it.

And then everyone is obliging the whole "let's you and him fight" game.

Posted by: blaster at January 03, 2018 06:35 PM (jHrzU)

115 Y'all heard about any fires in Chappaqua?
Posted by: Ben Quick at January 03, 2018 06:32 PM (bc2Lc)

The FAB was farting on a lite match...at least that is what I heard.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 03, 2018 06:35 PM (SjImc)

116 There are claims that those who keep saying that we should support the "reformers" are really just saying we should support a somewhat less extreme version of the most extreme mullah types.

There really aren't any reformers in Iran. You either support the regime or you don't.
Posted by: JackStraw

Well, all I can say is when the protestors are chanting down with sharia, that's a pretty good sign, n'est ce pas?

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 03, 2018 06:35 PM (mbhDw)

117 Apologies if you think it was too outre.

Posted by: zombie at January 03, 2018 06:29 PM (42M22)

Thanks.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 03, 2018 06:35 PM (wYseH)

118 Very few revolutions in human history have succeeded without outside support.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 03, 2018 06:33 PM (39g3+)

Heh.

Posted by: the Bolsheviks at January 03, 2018 06:35 PM (zCyNd)

119 The IRG is run like an extortion racket. They are well funded and oddly their leaders are all rich. Our cash was reported to give them an $8 billion infusion.

Posted by: Marcus T at January 03, 2018 06:35 PM (ITji5)

120 g'early evenin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at January 03, 2018 06:35 PM (KCxzN)

121 111 Dack- The late Shah's son lives in the Us and has a large backing by the Iranian communities here. He has been very vocal about wanting to take Iran back to the Westernized country it was before Jimmah buttered his peanut all over it.
Posted by: Ben Had at January 03, 2018 06:34 PM (NcqYr)

Also heard pro-Shah/Pahlavi chants as well and calls for the restoration of same.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 03, 2018 06:36 PM (mbhDw)

122 I had a Persian boss. He had a very hawt daughter, who he had come into the office to intern for a while.

One day she brought a banana for lunch.

It was so, so, wrong.

Posted by: blaster at January 03, 2018 06:36 PM (jHrzU)

123 This is an Iranian moment. The sooner these deplorables are quelled, the sooner Iran can resume devoting it's resources to the development purely peaceful fission reactors.

But please don't mistake our support for completely peaceful Iranian fission reactors as support for domestic nuclear power plants. Those things are an abomination that all need to be shuttered for good.

Posted by: DNC at January 03, 2018 06:37 PM (gDSJf)

124 The Revolutionary Guards probably have pretty significant fighting experience. They get sent everywhere.

I'm not sure if it is combat experience or thug experience, but in these circumstances it probably won't matter for the first few days.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 03, 2018 06:37 PM (wYseH)

125 As comrade Stalin observed, 'Dark humor is like food - not everyone gets it.'

..

Velly velly tlue.

Posted by: Little Button Man at January 03, 2018 06:37 PM (sNwPN)

126 122 I had a Persian boss. He had a very hawt daughter, who he had come into the office to intern for a while.

One day she brought a banana for lunch.

It was so, so, wrong.
Posted by: blaster at January 03, 2018 06:36 PM (jHrzU)

Jennifer Connolly on the rocking horse in "Career Opportunities."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 03, 2018 06:37 PM (mbhDw)

127 The killing, maiming and torturing would end tomorrow if the rebels would just heed the benevolent Iranian mullahs warnings and fatwas. The mullahs have nothing but the best intentions and want to stop killing the citizens of Iran if only those citizens would stop.

Also every Iranian killed by their government and the mullahs is in fact Trump's fault.

Posted by: This is CNN at January 03, 2018 06:37 PM (3BFzK)

128 One day she brought a banana for lunch. "

What did the banana have?

Heh

Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 03, 2018 06:37 PM (7LY+6)

129 118 That one didn't get outside support but it could have been strangled in jt's cradle by outside opposition.Which the British certainly wanted to give but the US did not....

Posted by: steevy at January 03, 2018 06:37 PM (LiyEm)

130 I just went on match.com to meet that bleached out whore that can't get a date.

Yeah, they didn't warn me this time when they were clorox'ing the portapotty.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 03, 2018 06:37 PM (/Ioag)

131 124 The Revolutionary Guards probably have pretty significant fighting experience. They get sent everywhere.

I'm not sure if it is combat experience or thug experience, but in these circumstances it probably won't matter for the first few days.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at January 03, 2018 06:37 PM (wYseH)

Doesn't take elite skills to spray ct

Posted by: Insomniac - Meet the New Year, same as the old year at January 03, 2018 06:37 PM (NWiLs)

132 Death to dictators, FREEDOM!

Posted by: MAGA at January 03, 2018 06:37 PM (LnOh3)

133 Good. Let the streets run red with blood and the death of Iranian Islamic fascists.

Death to Khamenei! Free Iran!

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 03, 2018 06:37 PM (EoRCO)

134 News was saying that fire at Chappaqua was in Secret Service outbuilding. Which was the fake news? That it was in main house, in the bedroom, or that?

I can trust absolutely nothing I hear from any news source.

Posted by: blaster at January 03, 2018 06:38 PM (jHrzU)

135 Dammit. Spray crowds with AK fire.

Posted by: Insomniac - Meet the New Year, same as the old year at January 03, 2018 06:38 PM (NWiLs)

136 The "reformers" in 1930s Germany wanted to stick with Zyklon A.

"Ve preferred ze old vays, wool filters soaked with sulfuric acid!"

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at January 03, 2018 06:38 PM (39g3+)

137 128 One day she brought a banana for lunch. "

What did the banana have?

Heh
Posted by: Anon a mouse at January 03, 2018 06:37 PM (7LY+6)

"Fuck you. It was an apple!"

- - Cuomo News Network

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 03, 2018 06:38 PM (mbhDw)

138 One day [hot Aryan] brought a banana for lunch. It was so, so, wrong

Don't remind me.

Posted by: the ficus at January 03, 2018 06:38 PM (/Ioag)

139 Seriously, how the hell did I do that? Sheesh.

Posted by: Insomniac - Meet the New Year, same as the old year at January 03, 2018 06:38 PM (NWiLs)

140 Pretty sure that Jimmah toppled the Shah because he hates teh Jooos. Now that Trump has moved to Jerusalem, that must give great hope to the anti-mullah folks.

Enough is enough.

Trump needs to see this through, quietly but carefully offering just enough push to topple that mess.

Being friends with the Mossad has its perks.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 03, 2018 06:39 PM (7UW64)

141 Why does Fox insist on showcasing dicky birds ???

Posted by: Cherchez at January 03, 2018 06:39 PM (4u7kU)

142 The FAB was farting on a lite match...at least that is what I heard.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 03, 2018 06:35 PM (SjImc)

--------------

Fake news!!!
No way the FAB could get a match anywhere near her blow hole.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at January 03, 2018 06:39 PM (3BFzK)

143 >>Well, all I can say is when the protestors are chanting down with sharia, that's a pretty good sign, n'est ce pas?

That's the most striking thing to me. The protesters don't seem to want a kinder gentler version of sharia, they want the mullahs and the whole theocracy gone.

If you're girl friend says she wants you to change your clothes that's one thing. If she doesn't like your unit, well you're kind of boned and not in a good way.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 03, 2018 06:39 PM (/tuJf)

144
Does Ilan need Looftop Koleans?

- - Looftop Kolean Bligade

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 03, 2018 06:39 PM (mbhDw)

145 I've actually seen versions of this claim, largely against the Obama types.

There are claims that those who keep saying that we should support the "reformers" are really just saying we should support a somewhat less extreme version of the most extreme mullah types.

There really aren't any reformers in Iran. You either support the regime or you don't.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 03, 2018 06:32 PM (/tuJf)

Good point. We don't even really know for sure what's going on with what's going on right now. Anyone trust the reasons being offered up by the MSM? I don't, but I also can't say it isn't dissatisfaction with basic amenities.

I did a google search earlier today for Iran protests and it looks like they're scrubbing the results. I went through six pages and it's all MSM articles. Usually you'll see many results that are smaller outfits or even THIS IS A FALSE FLAG, but nope it's all MSM articles.

Best case scenario we get regime change and a different Iran that is cautiously pro-western and not interested in promoting terrorism in the region.

Worst case scenario things keep going on with the regime.

Another bad scenario is that the regime collapses and we find out the new boss is about as bad as the old one.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 03, 2018 06:40 PM (4ErVI)

146 Posted by: Insomniac - Meet the New Year, same as the old year at January 03, 2018 06:38 PM (NWiLs)

That was like a triple somersault.

Posted by: jakee308 at January 03, 2018 06:40 PM (Liv96)

147 132 Death to dictators, FREEDOM!

Posted by: MAGA at January 03, 2018 06:37 PM (LnOh3)

Is this the part where Mel moons us?

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 03, 2018 06:40 PM (7UW64)

148 I've been hearing for years about the younger people in Iran supposedly being pro West and chafing under the religious dictatorship.....

Posted by: steevy at January 03, 2018 06:40 PM (LiyEm)

149 Has Jimmuh made a statement yet?

Posted by: bergerbilder at January 03, 2018 06:40 PM (lIZQs)

150 Well, all I can say is when the protestors are chanting down with sharia, that's a pretty good sign, n'est ce pas?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 03, 2018 06:35 PM (mbhDw)
Careful JJ, Jack Straw knows everything about everything in the fucking world.

Posted by: MAC SOG and nothing will happen at January 03, 2018 06:40 PM (czkHE)

151 Jennifer Connolly on the rocking horse in "Career Opportunities."

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 03, 2018 06:37 PM (mbhDw)

That was grade A epic.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at January 03, 2018 06:41 PM (aMlLZ)

152 146 Posted by: Insomniac - Meet the New Year, same as the old year at January 03, 2018 06:38 PM (NWiLs)

That was like a triple somersault.
Posted by: jakee308 at January 03, 2018 06:40 PM (Liv96)

I'm the Gabby Douglas of botched comments.

Posted by: Insomniac - Meet the New Year, same as the old year at January 03, 2018 06:41 PM (NWiLs)

153 "fire at Chappaqua was in Secret Service outbuilding."

The one the Clintons rent to the Secret Service at 1,000% mark-up?

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 03, 2018 06:41 PM (cAXIk)

154 149 Has Jimmuh made a statement yet?
Posted by: bergerbilder at January 03, 2018 06:40 PM (lIZQs)

Oh please, I cannot wait for that one.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 03, 2018 06:41 PM (mbhDw)

155 Didn't the Libyan all female protection unit rival the Swedish bikini team?

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at January 03, 2018 06:41 PM (hLShT)

156
I recall that last time, many of the "enforcers" were not members of any ethnic group living in Iran.

IIRC, very many of them were Hizballah, and everyone knew it, as they did not speak Farsi, or spoke it very poorly.

It looks like, with no local police help, things will be different.

Posted by: Arbalest at January 03, 2018 06:41 PM (FlRtG)

157 There are two communities that I noticed- the Shah's supporters who escaped. They don't have facial hair. Those opposed to the Shah ( the ones I knew were all 'students' in Germany or Iran) but were blindsided by what they'd help create. They escaped, too, but are still bitterly opposed to the idea of the Shah. Their relationship with Islam and the US is complicated, to say the least.

Posted by: t-bird at January 03, 2018 06:42 PM (clYld)

158 The Left is seriously going to lose its shit (even more) if Iran topples under Golden Scalpweasel.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at January 03, 2018 06:42 PM (oVJmc)

159 This is a Sunni v Shia conflict, not a revolution. They are AL m00hamedans

Posted by: Dave of Dodge at January 03, 2018 06:42 PM (VeBbo)

160 148 I've been hearing for years about the younger people in Iran supposedly being pro West and chafing under the religious dictatorship.....
Posted by: steevy at January 03, 2018 06:40 PM (LiyEm)

If the photographs are to believed they were pretty Westernized culturally before the mullahs took over.

Posted by: Insomniac - Meet the New Year, same as the old year at January 03, 2018 06:42 PM (NWiLs)

161 There are a lot of hot Iranian girls.
...........

I like the ones with two eyebrows.

Posted by: wth at January 03, 2018 06:42 PM (HgMAr)

162 As I have previously stated, during the White House briefing today not one question was asked about the Iranian uprising. True the big stories are about the Bannon book excerpts and the Trump NORK tweets, but the Iranian uprising sheds light on the failures of the Obama foreign policy's.

This is true passive Fake News
Posted by: redenzo at January 03, 2018 06:21 PM (14qvS)

Exactly. Those simple cockwipe propagandists breathlessly report some gossipy collection of lies by a hack instead of an uprising against tyranny and wonder why they're held in contempt.

Posted by: Captain Hate at January 03, 2018 06:42 PM (y7DUB)

163 Amy Walters staring at Guy on Fox, priceless.I guess the hatred of women outweighs the lessening of the competition

Posted by: Cherchez at January 03, 2018 06:42 PM (4u7kU)

164 And - in addition, they will use Pasdaran forces from different areas of the country to put down the uprising. (If they read their history; the Red Chinese tried to deploy local Beijing PLA units to do the Tiananmen Square massacre at first, but they were shamed and turned back by locals. When Red China finally did the deed, it was with PLA units from outside Beijing - units with little or no sympathy towards the students they would kill.)

Also note that on June 17, 1953, the East German government lost the country and required the Soviet military to intervene to put down the uprising. Even East German units were unreliable at some point.

With any luck, some Iranians with access to guns and ammo fire back. If it's got to be more like Romania 1989...so be it.

Posted by: CatchThirtyThr33 at January 03, 2018 06:42 PM (IoOAa)

165 "Jennifer Connolly on the rocking horse in "Career Opportunities."

If you asked my teenage self to invent the ideal girl, she'd be it.

Posted by: Ignoramus at January 03, 2018 06:43 PM (cAXIk)

166 Think how pissed the leftist progs are.

1. Their power grab in the USA has been thwarted.
2. Their power grab in the UN has been thwarted.
3. Their power grab in the middle east has been thwarted.
4. The Fat Assed Bitch lost.
5. AGW has been proven to be just another of their power grabs.
6. Trump and his Deplorables just keep winning!

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at January 03, 2018 06:43 PM (3BFzK)

167 159 This is a Sunni v Shia conflict, not a revolution. They are AL m00hamedans
Posted by: Dave of Dodge at January 03, 2018 06:42 PM (VeBbo)

Um, no, actually. It's all internal. And it has nothing to do with that but everything to do with a miserable kleptocracy and a repressive theocracy.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 03, 2018 06:43 PM (mbhDw)

168 Has Jimmuh made a statement yet?

Posted by: bergerbilder at January 03, 2018 06:40 PM (lIZQs)

Haven't heard him get quoted for a while.

He got McCain's disease maybe?

Or a touch of dementia. (well, more than normal for him)

Posted by: jakee308 at January 03, 2018 06:43 PM (Liv96)

169 160 Not so very long ago,the whole area was...

Posted by: steevy at January 03, 2018 06:43 PM (LiyEm)

170 I don't really know what's going on there but if there are people wanting to mess things up and take down the elite, I am 100% on board.

Need that type spine here.

Posted by: MAGA at January 03, 2018 06:43 PM (LnOh3)

171 God protect the Persian Landing Strips.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 03, 2018 06:43 PM (WbIyz)

172 Need the Revolutionary Guard to turn at least in large part.

Posted by: Gaius Julius Caesar at January 03, 2018 06:44 PM (FTPVM)

173 161 There are a lot of hot Iranian girls.
...........

I like the ones with two eyebrows.
Posted by: wth at January 03, 2018 06:42 PM (HgMAr)

One hump or two ???

Posted by: Cherchez at January 03, 2018 06:44 PM (4u7kU)

174 People are the same everywhere. There are probably people in Iran just like us who are fed up with the same old shit and want something better. Likewise there are people there that want everyone ruled by a bunch of weirdbeards.

Posted by: freaked at January 03, 2018 06:44 PM (UdKB7)

175 If Iran didn't have a population that was NOT totally Islamofascist, they would need the whole oppressive regime thing.

That's the whole point of it.

The Iranians rode the Ayatollah's horse against the Shah. They didn't get rid of the Shah because they wanted to join the 7th century - Iran had adopted Western dress under the Shah's father in the 30s.

But the Shah was a dick, the Iranians said, well, this guy will get rid of him, they brought him in.

And it turned out he was even more oppressive.

Posted by: blaster at January 03, 2018 06:44 PM (jHrzU)

176 Right up there with Saddam's Republican Guard

Hey Saddam's RGs were really good - until they ran into those mass B-52 strikes that shake the ground 50 miles away - then not so much.

Posted by: An Observation at January 03, 2018 06:44 PM (Rl9Tz)

177 161
There are a lot of hot Iranian girls.

...........

I like the ones with two eyebrows.

Posted by: wth at January 03, 2018 06:42 PM (HgMAr)

They have a double b-row?

Posted by: flounder, rebel, vulgarian, deplorable, winner at January 03, 2018 06:44 PM (Dp6qK)

178 I'd love to walk up to Jimmuh about now and whisper "IRAN" in his ear.

Watch him jump. Get all twitchy. Start babbling nonsense.

Tee hee.

That's probably how Rose gets back at him for peeing in his wheelchair.

Posted by: jakee308 at January 03, 2018 06:44 PM (Liv96)

179 "I like the ones with two eyebrows.

Posted by: wth at January 03, 2018 06:42 PM (HgMAr)"
==========
Me too but only if they shave the one above.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at January 03, 2018 06:44 PM (3BFzK)

180 148 I've been hearing for years about the younger people in Iran supposedly being pro West and chafing under the religious dictatorship.....

Posted by: steevy at January 03, 2018 06:40 PM (LiyEm)

The ones that were at my university in the 1980's were very westernized, and did everything in their power to NOT have to go back to Iran and become cannon fodder for the mullahs. And a lot of them came to the US for education, so, westernized in the extreme.

Posted by: tcn in AK at January 03, 2018 06:45 PM (7UW64)

181 164
With any luck, some Iranians with access to guns and ammo fire back. If it's got to be more like Romania 1989...so be it.
Posted by: CatchThirtyThr33 at January 03, 2018 06:42 PM (IoOAa)

At that point you had Gorbachev who within a year was about to lose the USSR. Iran has no one other than itself to rely on in this instance.

It will be bloody but we are one incident that incites the public away from touching off the whole thing.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 03, 2018 06:45 PM (mbhDw)

182 The FAB was farting on a lite match...at least that is what I heard.

The follow-up shart usually saves her.

Posted by: t-bird at January 03, 2018 06:45 PM (clYld)

183 People are also herd animals though so they need some momentum to get any real revolution done.

Posted by: freaked at January 03, 2018 06:45 PM (UdKB7)

184 Reading Lolita in Tehran" will tell you how far these people are willing to go to keep some normalcy.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 03, 2018 06:45 PM (NcqYr)

185 158 The Left is seriously going to lose its shit (even more) if Iran topples under Golden Scalpweasel.

Posted by: Mr. Peebles at January 03, 2018 06:42 PM (oVJmc)

I have said this from day one: A free NORK will be one of Trump's legacies.

Posted by: cicero Kaboom! kid at January 03, 2018 06:45 PM (JFzPI)

186 Dennis Prager had a guest in the beginning of his show but forgot his name, he was saying the Iranian protests are country wide and it is about a government change, it started somewhat with economics and lack of work but is past that alone reason.

Posted by: Skip at January 03, 2018 06:46 PM (aC6Sd)

187 153 "fire at Chappaqua was in Secret Service outbuilding."

The one the Clintons rent to the Secret Service at 1,000% mark-up?
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 03, 2018 06:41 PM (cAXIk)

-----

They make the SS use an outhouse?

Posted by: MAGA at January 03, 2018 06:46 PM (LnOh3)

188 OOh forbidden planet is on

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 03, 2018 06:46 PM (SjImc)

189 Bomb Bomb Bomb
Bomb Bomb Iran.

Posted by: John McCain at January 03, 2018 06:47 PM (QQ4UP)

190 Jimmy spent much of his time blaming the Israelis for anything wrong with the Near East, instead of himself for allowing Iran to fall to a cult. May rabbits nibble his bum throughout eternity.

Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at January 03, 2018 06:47 PM (/Ioag)

191 In my immediate neck of the woods we had many of the Shah's family locate here. They have some great property that I want. Never met any of them that I know of.

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at January 03, 2018 06:47 PM (3BFzK)

192 Posted by: MAGA at January 03, 2018 06:43 PM (LnOh3)

Please. The US has in place the means for reasonable transfer of power and laws that even though some in high places can subvert them they can't do so forever.

Not so far.

We do not yet need armed insurrection.

That will come if the system breaks down but that hasn't quite happened yet.

Posted by: jakee308 at January 03, 2018 06:47 PM (Liv96)

193 181. So be it. Romanian revolution was bloody but necessary. And, it was the only east bloc nation where anything like justice was done to the former regime.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at January 03, 2018 06:47 PM (fA1SL)

194 "Elite Revolutionary Guard"

I just got my next $mm idea: The bullet-proof kevlar jock strap.

Posted by: bergerbilder at January 03, 2018 06:47 PM (lIZQs)

195 Well as Joy Behar was explaining today. This could be our future, because just like citizens of Iran can't protest for fundamental freedoms in Iran without being shot, there are Americans that can't protest for free stuff without being called mean names in tweets.

Posted by: Axeman at January 03, 2018 06:47 PM (JhE5a)

196 Or is it Rosalind?

Posted by: jakee308 at January 03, 2018 06:49 PM (Liv96)

197 Axeman at January 03, 2018 06:47 PM (JhE5a)

===

LOL and LOL

Posted by: Jukin the Deplorable and Profoundly Unserious at January 03, 2018 06:49 PM (3BFzK)

198 So be it. Romanian revolution was bloody but necessary. And, it was the only east bloc nation where anything like justice was done to the former regime.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at January 03, 2018 06:47 PM (fA1SL)

That was done from within the regime. Some Securitate and army saw the writing on the wall, and decided to get themselves on the good side.

Posted by: Miklos, just Miklos at January 03, 2018 06:49 PM (zCyNd)

199 >>The ones that were at my university in the 1980's were very westernized, and did everything in their power to NOT have to go back to Iran and become cannon fodder for the mullahs. And a lot of them came to the US for education, so, westernized in the extreme.

We had lots of them running around Boston in those days because of all the local schools. They tended to have lots of cash and enjoyed the good life.

They were about as Islamic as my dog.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 03, 2018 06:49 PM (/tuJf)

200 Dennis was talking to Michael Ledeen senior fellow at the Foundation of the Defence of Democracies

Posted by: Skip at January 03, 2018 06:49 PM (aC6Sd)

201 Soon.

Posted by: Barak Hussien Obama, hiding in an Iranian well at January 03, 2018 06:49 PM (rDF5j)

202 Trump indicates the global shadow government is stumbling ... peoples want their countries back from those that plot the wars and conflicts, foreign and domestic.

viva la revolucion ... destroy the global deep staters

The EU was a coup (by unelected bureaucrats/'banksters') )against independent governments. Now some of the stronger men in the former eastern bloc, Poland, Czech Republic ... are saying "NO we will not let you force Islamists into OUR lands, OUR home"

Obama tried to force the Islamic Spring, force his Muslim Bro's into Egypt, Libya ... now is the real "Arab Spring". And the American Spring is coming.

Posted by: illiniwek at January 03, 2018 06:49 PM (otAqJ)

203 Has anyone spoke to the Saudi's? cough*Trump*cough BTW former President of Egypt Morsi was SENTENCED to 3 yeAn Egyptian court sentenced ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi to three years in prison along with 19 other defendants on Saturday for "insulting the judiciary," his lawyer said.
The other defendants include former members of parliament, activists and three journalists.
Morsi had already been sentenced to a total of 45 years in prison in two other trials after the military ousted him in 2013.
The defendants had all been charged with making statements deemed insulting to the judiciary.
Five other defendants, including jailed activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, were fined 30,000 pounds (about $1,680) each.
Morsi was also ordered to pay two million pounds to the head of the judges' syndicate and another judge, while 22 other defendants were ordered to pay one million pounds to the head of the syndicate.
Morsi's lawyer Abdel Moneim Abdel Maqsud told AFP that he would appeal the verdict.
Thousands of Islamists have been arrested and put on trial since the military ousted the divisive Morsi following mass protests demanding his resignation.
The crackdown extended to other opponents of then army chief now President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who was elected a year after Morsi's overthrow.ars in PRISON

Posted by: Voter Dude at January 03, 2018 06:50 PM (U5Xeq)

204 It is unconstitutional for the people of Iran to rebel!!!

Posted by: Chris Cuomo at January 03, 2018 06:50 PM (3BFzK)

205 The Leftists are already twisting themselves in pretzels trying to explain why they support the theocratic oligarchy and individual freedom. Its glorious

Posted by: Marcus T at January 03, 2018 06:50 PM (ITji5)

206 When these things turn, they tend to turn more quickly than you would expect. At some point, fear not longer keeps the outer systems in line.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 03, 2018 06:50 PM (WbIyz)

207 195 Well as Joy Behar was explaining today. This could be our future, because just like citizens of Iran can't protest for fundamental freedoms in Iran without being shot, there are Americans that can't protest for free stuff without being called mean names in tweets.
Posted by: Axeman at January 03, 2018 06:47 PM (JhE5a)

That loudmouth skeefo needs a rhetorical smack down. Except she does the Don Lemon No-No song and sucks the oxygen out of the room.

Cheap ignorant slag.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 03, 2018 06:50 PM (mbhDw)

208 194. Heh. So i guess you've seen the liveleak vids from Syria, yes? Hajji is aloha snackbarring at a SAA unit in a streetfight, and then - sniper nails his wedding tackle.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at January 03, 2018 06:51 PM (fA1SL)

209 200 Dennis was talking to Michael Ledeen senior fellow at the Foundation of the Defence of Democracies
Posted by: Skip at January 03, 2018 06:49 PM (aC6Sd)

Ledeen is an expert on Iran. Read his essays about this subject at PJ Media.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 03, 2018 06:51 PM (mbhDw)

210
Persian babes can be strikingly beautiful.

Do an image search of Mahlagha Jaberi, for instance.

Or this one, for instance:

https://preview.tinyurl.com/y8obxqhh

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at January 03, 2018 06:51 PM (8O3HH)

211 192 Posted by: MAGA at January 03, 2018 06:43 PM (LnOh3)

Please. The US has in place the means for reasonable transfer of power and laws that even though some in high places can subvert them they can't do so forever.

Not so far.

We do not yet need armed insurrection.

That will come if the system breaks down but that hasn't quite happened yet.
Posted by: jakee308 at January 03, 2018 06:47 PM (Liv96)

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I'm talking about massive protests.

The Feds are pretty much behaving as an illegitimate government as is. I'm 100% behind Trump but I'm not under any illusions.

Posted by: MAGA at January 03, 2018 06:51 PM (LnOh3)

212 Probably coincidental, but Israel has just done a legal reorganization of the entity that controls the pipeline that used to bring Iranian oil to Israel in the Shah's day. With a legal stipulation that all info is to remain secret.

Posted by: Miklos, just Miklos at January 03, 2018 06:51 PM (zCyNd)

213 So I guess Obozo's Egyptian speech won't be going down in the history books then? An Egyptian court sentenced ousted Islamist president Mohamed Morsi to three years in prison along with 19 other defendants on Saturday for "insulting the judiciary," his lawyer said.
The other defendants include former members of parliament, activists and three journalists.
Morsi had already been sentenced to a total of 45 years in prison in two other trials after the military ousted him in 2013.
The defendants had all been charged with making statements deemed insulting to the judiciary.
Five other defendants, including jailed activist Alaa Abdel Fattah, were fined 30,000 pounds (about $1,680) each.
Morsi was also ordered to pay two million pounds to the head of the judges' syndicate and another judge, while 22 other defendants were ordered to pay one million pounds to the head of the syndicate.
Morsi's lawyer Abdel Moneim Abdel Maqsud told AFP that he would appeal the verdict.
Thousands of Islamists have been arrested and put on trial since the military ousted the divisive Morsi following mass protests demanding his resignation.
The crackdown extended to other opponents of then army chief now President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, who was elected a year after Morsi's overthrow.

Posted by: Voter Dude at January 03, 2018 06:51 PM (U5Xeq)

214 As my super jeanus brother has said it is unconstitutional to give people tax cuts.

Posted by: Chris Cuomo at January 03, 2018 06:52 PM (3BFzK)

215 The Iranian deal is NOT Sunni v Shia.

It is standard version Shia v Ayatollah Shia.

Shia, generally, are render unto Caesar types. Like in Iraq. Into separation of church and state.

Khomeini's "fundamentalist" Shia was/is heretical.

I think that there are Sunni willing to back the protestors and help stir the pot, though, because they want the Iranian regime to fall. I suspect the Saudis are placing a lot of pressure, putting in a lot of money, and probably putting in special operator types. If they don't have their own, Blackwater types and ex-Mossad.

I would bet Jordanians have special-ops guys there too.

And I bet they all have the very latest US equipment.

Posted by: blaster at January 03, 2018 06:52 PM (jHrzU)

216 Jennifer Connolly on the rocking horse in "Career Opportunities."

If you asked my teenage self to invent the ideal girl, she'd be it.
Posted by: Ignoramus at January 03, 2018 06:43 PM (cAXIk)

Check her out in the Hot Spot with Virgina Madsen & Don Johnson ! WOOW

Posted by: MISH McConnell at January 03, 2018 06:53 PM (y3aQB)

217 The Romanian revolution is really incredible. There's a youtube video of the moment when it all changes. Nicky is on a balcony giving a speech and then...an hour or two or three later he's fleeing the building in a helicopter and it's total chaos. Then Securitate snipers started shooting people.

People died, but really they'd be lucky to get away with a Romanian style revolution. It really did go down very quickly. Almost as fast as it took Nick and his wife to hit the pavement outside the impromptu courtroom they'd just been sentenced to death in minutes before.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 03, 2018 06:53 PM (4ErVI)

218 Ahh, for a glass of real Shiraz...

Posted by: Miklos, Oenophile at January 03, 2018 06:53 PM (zCyNd)

219 Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 03, 2018 06:50 PM (mbhDw)

With a voice like a cheese grater dragged across a blackboard.

Posted by: jakee308 at January 03, 2018 06:53 PM (Liv96)

220 Godspeed to anyone seeking freedom

Posted by: the Butcher at January 03, 2018 06:54 PM (DIosY)

221 198. It's why my praise for it was heavily qualified. At least some commies got shot. It's a half-loaf sorta thing.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at January 03, 2018 06:54 PM (fA1SL)

222 7

Now would be the opportune time for the Mossad/Sayeret Matkal or
Saudi operatives to attack the command and control infrastructure.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 03, 2018 06:17 PM (mbhDw)

OK Here's the plan. We attack our command and control systems and then we win after the Iranians push us into the sea.

Shut up, Po!

Posted by: General Organa (I'm not a princess!) at January 03, 2018 06:54 PM (7+qdf)

223 Why is nobody talking about a sea change in Iran? A paradigm shift? A transformation of the zeitgeist?

Posted by: Fritz at January 03, 2018 06:55 PM (bJ0w+)

224 The daily replay will be on again at 9pm, it was only in the first segment so about 15 minutes
http://player.tritondigital.com/1201

Posted by: Skip at January 03, 2018 06:55 PM (aC6Sd)

225 Why is nobody talking about a sea change in Iran? A paradigm shift? A transformation of the zeitgeist?

Any man planning a sea change spends a night thinking outside the box.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 03, 2018 06:56 PM (WbIyz)

226 Bibi's brother was the lead commander in the raid on Entebbe.. not the movie but for realsies...

Posted by: Voter Dude at January 03, 2018 06:56 PM (U5Xeq)

227 I gotta laugh when I think of how Barky McFuckstick's minions are looking at this. They have be thinking to themselves "Is there ANYthing that shit Midas can't cfuk up?!"

I guess if you consider that for $140B, Lil Phat got his thermonuclear weapon and Iran got their ballistic missile up and running you could say the JEF actually did get something accomplished.

I just hope that Barky et. al are gonna be shown to be the traitors that they really are.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 03, 2018 06:57 PM (tnRJU)

228 Those are indeed some interesting thoughts by Johnny Ringo.

I was a big fan of his early novels, less so after his began dangling his dick between his pages. Not that I'm not sympathetic, if people paid me six figures to publish my porn, I'd do the same thing.

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards now with TLJ review linkage at January 03, 2018 06:57 PM (xJa6I)

229 Green shoots!

Posted by: Ex-Precedent Preciousness at January 03, 2018 06:57 PM (sNwPN)

230 You would think lefties would be getting off on the thought of the ruling party getting overthrown.

Posted by: jsg at January 03, 2018 06:57 PM (gSwpy)

231 ValJar has to be shitting blood.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 03, 2018 06:58 PM (WbIyz)

232 WOW, "Spittle" Chris Matthews has Jimmy Olsen sitting in for him tonight. WTF vacation is over.

Maybe he went to Africa and MSNBC had re-entry passport denied

#MatthewsAbusiveWorkplace.

Posted by: Redenzo at January 03, 2018 06:58 PM (14qvS)

233 If the Mullahs fall, she's toast.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 03, 2018 06:58 PM (WbIyz)

234 230. They think THEY are the ruling party.

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at January 03, 2018 06:59 PM (fA1SL)

235 Why is nobody talking about a sea change in Iran? A paradigm shift? A transformation of the zeitgeist?

Posted by: Fritz at January 03, 2018 06:55 PM (bJ0w+)
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Why not an Iran Spring?

Posted by: Axeman at January 03, 2018 06:59 PM (JhE5a)

236
WOW, "Spittle" Chris Matthews has Jimmy Olsen sitting in for him tonight.

He's got a pocketful of kryptonite.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at January 03, 2018 06:59 PM (IqV8l)

237 God please tell me this isn't true. Cuomo is suing to stop the new tax plan. Please tell me it's not true. I'm about to have a fucking stroke.

Posted by: Jewells45 at January 03, 2018 06:59 PM (CNHr1)

238 Persian babes can be strikingly beautiful.

Do an image search of Mahlagha Jaberi, for instance.
.............

whoa. She could sit on my fez.

Posted by: wth at January 03, 2018 07:00 PM (HgMAr)

239 Quick, bust out some hashtags.

Posted by: CSMBigBird at January 03, 2018 07:00 PM (xInes)

240 @202- illiniwek

Yeah, what he said.

Posted by: teej at January 03, 2018 07:00 PM (BN/jk)

241 blaster, I'm not so sure that the Khomeinist trend in Shi'a Islam - I think known as "velayet e faqih" - is a fringe element. In either Iran or Iraq.

I don't know. But how would you interpret the generally savvy and careful maneuverings/reticence of the Iraqi top dawg, Ayatollah Sistani? He didn't explicitly seek governmental power for his clerics, so I suppose he's in the render-unto-Caesar camp. But he clearly sought to influence political events.

Posted by: Farshimmelt AlteKocker, AKA rhomboid at January 03, 2018 07:00 PM (QDnY+)

242 231 ValJar has to be shitting blood.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 03, 2018 06:58 PM (WbIyz)

In a world where Jeff Sessionzzzzz was not on board the Discovery 1 heading to Jupiter, the Kalorama Kaliphate Kompound would be raided by SWAT teams and combed for every scrap of paper.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 03, 2018 07:00 PM (mbhDw)

243 The Leftists are already twisting themselves in pretzels trying to explain why they support the theocratic oligarchy and individual freedom. Its glorious
Posted by: Marcus T at January 03, 2018 06:50 PM (ITji5)

When some lefty dimwit was crowing to me when the Shah was tossed out, I said "one of the reasons he was thrown out was he supported women's rights, which your ilk claims to be for" and walked away. He's dead now so I'm spared any current stupidity.

Posted by: Captain Hate at January 03, 2018 07:00 PM (y7DUB)

244 Iran Deploys Revolutionary Guards to Quell "Sedition"

and Obama Deployed the FBI/FISA/Mueller Deep State Guards to Quell the Trump Movement "Sedition".

Both are criminal conspiracies to thwart mass movements for freedom.

And Obama funded both.

Posted by: The Gipper Lives at January 03, 2018 07:01 PM (Ndje9)

245 226 Bibi's brother was the lead commander in the raid on Entebbe.. not the movie but for realsies...
Posted by: Voter Dude at January 03, 2018 06:56 PM (U5Xeq)

Great documentary about Yonni's life on Netflix.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 03, 2018 07:01 PM (mbhDw)

246 175 If Iran didn't have a population that was NOT totally Islamofascist, they would need the whole oppressive regime thing.

That's the whole point of it.

The Iranians rode the Ayatollah's horse against the Shah. They didn't get rid of the Shah because they wanted to join the 7th century - Iran had adopted Western dress under the Shah's father in the 30s.

But the Shah was a dick, the Iranians said, well, this guy will get rid of him, they brought him in.

And it turned out he was even more oppressive.
Posted by: blaster at January 03, 2018 06:44 PM (jHrzU)

The Shah wasn't that big of a dick - he had to contend with a bunch of slimy commies, which made being a kubaya liberal a little hard in trying to maintain a more modern country with some freedoms.

The commies hitched their wagon to the Ayatollah and thought they would be the ones in charge when they chased out the ailing Shah, who if he were a bigger dick than he was could have suppressed the insurrection.

The commies ended up on the shitty end of the stick after the revolution and the mullahs consolidated their power by killing them. Back then they would shout Death to Russia as much as Death to America.

The Shah was the second generation of his father's attempt to make Iran westernized like Ataturk did for Turkey.

But the Islamists can't stand that so they screwed Iran up, like they are doing to Turkey.

Imagine if Pinochet had to contend with Islamists AND commies. That was the Shah's challenge.

Posted by: Minuteman at January 03, 2018 07:01 PM (A3b6q)

247 That damn Trump will lie about anything!

CNN@CNN
No, Trump doesn't have a big nuclear button on his desk | Analysis by @CillizzaCNN

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at January 03, 2018 07:01 PM (a+34K)

248 You would think lefties would be getting off on the thought of the ruling party getting overthrown.
Posted by: jsg at January 03, 2018 06:57 PM (gSwpy)

No no no, you've got it all wrong. Don't you see? We just bribed them, we can't have them go and fail before they've funneled more kickbacks to us.

Posted by: DNC at January 03, 2018 07:02 PM (gDSJf)

249 One point in Revolutions besides the rulers of the government any backing forces in this case the IRG have a stake in it. If the Mullahs fall the guard falls it would seem to me and they have the fire power to fight it out awhile.

Posted by: Skip at January 03, 2018 07:02 PM (aC6Sd)

250 So did DOJ cough up the docs to HPSCI?

Posted by: Farshimmelt AlteKocker, AKA rhomboid at January 03, 2018 07:02 PM (QDnY+)

251 You east coast morons all stocked up for the zomg!biggestblizzardevah?

Posted by: Tami at January 03, 2018 07:02 PM (Enq6K)

252
Usually with these things there is some sort of figure the protesters can rally around. In 1979 it was Ayatollah Khomenei, and he was in Paris. I am unaware of any figure who could step in or serve as a rallying point to elevate this into an actual revolution.

If memory serves, the students and commies were the ones who did all the heavy lifting back in '79. Khomenei and his cronies didn't come over until late in the revolution, when it was pretty much all over but the executions.

And of course, once the islamists usurped the revolution, the students and commies were among the first ones lined up against the wall, because they'd shown that they were willing to revolt against the powers-that-be.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 03, 2018 07:02 PM (eXA4G)

253 Persian babes can be strikingly beautiful.

Do an image search of Mahlagha Jaberi, for instance.
.............

whoa. She could sit on my fez.

Posted by: wth at January 03, 2018 07:00 PM (HgMAr)

Hell yeah, a nice game of carnival.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at January 03, 2018 07:02 PM (aMlLZ)

254 >> whoa. She could sit on my fez.

A culture that wants to cover that up under a burqa is obviously batshit insane.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at January 03, 2018 07:03 PM (8O3HH)

255 As I've posted a couple of times...

think if Iran had a Second Amendment?

And this type of situation is EXACTLY why we DO have one.

Posted by: Don Q. at January 03, 2018 07:03 PM (NgKpN)

256 251 You east coast morons all stocked up for the zomg!biggestblizzardevah?
Posted by: Tami at January 03, 2018 07:02 PM (Enq6K)

Only a few inches in NYC, but the east end of Lawn-Guylin is supposed to get hammered.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 03, 2018 07:03 PM (mbhDw)

257 Money changes everything.

Posted by: Bob Corker at January 03, 2018 07:04 PM (sNwPN)

258
And of course, once the islamists usurped the revolution, the students and commies were among the first ones lined up against the wall, because they'd shown that they were willing to revolt against the powers-that-be.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 03, 2018 07:02 PM (eXA4G)

Also known as 'French Revolution bugalloo'....

Posted by: Don Q. at January 03, 2018 07:04 PM (NgKpN)

259 257 Money changes everything.
Posted by: Bob Corker at January 03, 2018 07:04 PM (sNwPN)

If I had some, I'd change you into a slug. Oh, wait. Never mind.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 03, 2018 07:05 PM (mbhDw)

260 >>You east coast morons all stocked up for the zomg!biggestblizzardevah?

Bombogenisis cometh. I say, come at me bro!

Posted by: JackStraw at January 03, 2018 07:05 PM (/tuJf)

261 'No, Trump doesn't have a big nuclear button on his desk | Analysis by @CillizzaCNN'

I love how the left can't take a joke. What a bunch of assholes.

Posted by: freaked at January 03, 2018 07:05 PM (UdKB7)

262 @rhomboid Sistani was definitely influenced by the Iranian regime but I think that was mostly for convenience. They could give him power. Sistani wasn't like the Pope of Iraqi Shia - he was fringy. He got power the old fashioned way - from the barrel of the gun.

Posted by: blaster at January 03, 2018 07:05 PM (jHrzU)

263 242 231 ValJar has to be shitting blood.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 03, 2018 06:58 PM (WbIyz)

Don't tease me

Posted by: Mark Andrew Edwards now with TLJ review linkage at January 03, 2018 07:05 PM (xJa6I)

264 Only a few inches in NYC, but the east end of Lawn-Guylin is supposed to get hammered.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 03, 2018 07:03 PM (mbhDw)

Has it started snowing yet?

Posted by: Tami at January 03, 2018 07:06 PM (Enq6K)

265 261 'No, Trump doesn't have a big nuclear button on his desk | Analysis by @CillizzaCNN'

I love how the left can't take a joke. What a bunch of assholes.
Posted by: freaked at January 03, 2018 07:05 PM (UdKB7)

And that is exactly why the "Collusion" investigation has been going on for over a year now.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 03, 2018 07:06 PM (mbhDw)

266 Do an image search of Mahlagha Jaberi, for instance.

One of the engineers I worked with at NASA was an Iranian women - I made a video at her 50th Birthday party - she looked like a very hot 25 year old. Saw her last year - close to 60 - she still looked 25.

Posted by: An Observation at January 03, 2018 07:06 PM (Rl9Tz)

267 247 That damn Trump will lie about anything!

CNN@CNN
No, Trump doesn't have a big nuclear button on his desk | Analysis by @CillizzaCNN
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at January 03, 2018 07:01 PM (a+34K)

Uh.... and just where IS the football, when he is sitting at his desk???

Correct answer? Wherever the hell he wants it!

Posted by: Don Q. at January 03, 2018 07:06 PM (NgKpN)

268 ace - "this is a sign that local police are refusing to beat, arrest, or kill protesters themselves"

Maybe. It's a logical possibility.

But the IRGC is comparable to the SS. They have no future - outside of prison or lead injections - if the regime falls. They are implicated in all of the horrors, foreign and domestic, that any prevailing opposition considers criminal.

Who knows. But for now I'm sticking with inertia as the winner here - i.e., no regime collapse. For now. As eastern Europe and the USSR showed, tyrannies can come undone so fast it's almost they just dissolved into thin air.

Posted by: Farshimmelt AlteKocker, AKA rhomboid at January 03, 2018 07:06 PM (QDnY+)

269 264 Only a few inches in NYC, but the east end of Lawn-Guylin is supposed to get hammered.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 03, 2018 07:03 PM (mbhDw)

Has it started snowing yet?
Posted by: Tami at January 03, 2018 07:06 PM (Enq6K)

No. Expected later on around 11-12.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 03, 2018 07:06 PM (mbhDw)

270 Don't bombogenesis me bro!

Posted by: Weasel at January 03, 2018 07:07 PM (Sfs6o)

271 They think THEY are the ruling party.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at January 03, 2018 06:59 PM (fA1SL)

Bzzzztttt !

I'm so sorry. The correct answer is HCWNBPOTUS

Posted by: jsg at January 03, 2018 07:07 PM (gSwpy)

272 I love how the left can't take a joke. What a bunch of assholes.

Posted by: freaked at January 03, 2018 07:05 PM (UdKB7)

They turned into the very squares they railed against.

That's why mockery works oh so well.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 03, 2018 07:07 PM (4ErVI)

273 Mueller is being put into an indefensible position, how long before he starts to realize it. He should have declined his appointment as SC given his obvious conflicts of interest.

Posted by: CM9000 at January 03, 2018 07:08 PM (PvK0J)

274
The Persian women -- it's their eyes and faces. Exotic somehow. Their eyes can be just hypnotic.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at January 03, 2018 07:08 PM (8O3HH)

275 You east coast morons all stocked up for the zomg!biggestblizzardevah?

Is there a list of these stupid things? It would funny to see them with dates and "- fizzled out, predictions off by a factor of x"

Posted by: t-bird at January 03, 2018 07:08 PM (clYld)

276 I remember when the Shah was overthrown all the media could say was how "brutal" he was to the Iranian people blah blah blah.

Lies then and lies now. President Carter had to eat mooselim ass when the hostages were taken.

What a jack off he was and is.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at January 03, 2018 07:08 PM (EoRCO)

277 Bombogenisis cometh. I say, come at me bro!

Posted by: JackStraw at January 03, 2018 07:05 PM (/tuJf)

How much are you suppose to get Jack?

Posted by: Tami at January 03, 2018 07:09 PM (Enq6K)

278 Three hottest and most gracious Ladies going

Melania
Queen Renia- Wife of King Abdullah
Queen Letitia of Spain.

Posted by: Ben Had at January 03, 2018 07:09 PM (NcqYr)

279 blaster, not sure, but Sistani didn't seem fringy to me - and his sway within Iraq was considerable, part of which he cultivated by his aloofness (wouldn't meet, never did, with Bremer, or subsequent US ambassadors). Neither here nor there. There's definitely a big split in Shi'ism over this question of church/state.

Posted by: Farshimmelt AlteKocker, AKA rhomboid at January 03, 2018 07:09 PM (QDnY+)

280 I was listening to Hannity today; guy on the radio being interviewed is Iranian who has dealt with what is going on in Iran for the last 20 years and he said if the reports are of 21 dead, then that's 21 dead irrefutably caught on camera and that the real death toll is probably 10x higher.

Posted by: jim at January 03, 2018 07:10 PM (gjGvH)

281 PDT should send out a a video of his finger quivering over a big red button. The left would have a conniption.

Posted by: freaked at January 03, 2018 07:10 PM (UdKB7)

282 Show me yer bombogenesises

Posted by: jsg at January 03, 2018 07:10 PM (gSwpy)

283 ValJar has to be shitting blood

I could see Trump offering to open trade with the new republic in exchange for objective evidence of MB/Hammas operations abroad, and actionable intel on narco-terrorism operations that were going on over the last, oh I dunno..... decade or two. Maybe even a couple of HVTs to be extradited so they could be squeezed.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at January 03, 2018 07:10 PM (tnRJU)

284 BOMBOGENESIS?

GOD SAID MAN SAID DOT COM

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at January 03, 2018 07:11 PM (fA1SL)

285 Sort of like Tianamen Square massacre back in June of 1989. Chicoms said a few hundred died, but death toll was more like 10K+.

Posted by: jim at January 03, 2018 07:11 PM (gjGvH)

286 281 PDT should send out a a video of his finger quivering over a big red button. The left would have a conniption.
Posted by: freaked at January 03, 2018 07:10 PM (UdKB7)

Until he shows them the button.

"Overcharged"

Posted by: jsg at January 03, 2018 07:11 PM (gSwpy)

287 I told everyone that we should have given spare parts to the mullahs for those F14s.

Posted by: Jimmy Carter at January 03, 2018 07:11 PM (2cuLk)

288
Do an image search of Mahlagha Jaberi, for instance.

There is an Iranian Jewish Temple down the street from my house and I have seen some beauties going in and out of the place

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at January 03, 2018 07:11 PM (lKyWE)

289 You east coast morons all stocked up for the zomg!biggestblizzardevah?

Posted by: Tami at January 03, 2018 07:02 PM (Enq6K)

Mead, weed, and feed. Good to go.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at January 03, 2018 07:11 PM (aMlLZ)

290 Sometimes I think we could use the Revolutionary Guard in Berkeley.

Posted by: Leonero at January 03, 2018 07:11 PM (zSLqp)

291 And this type of situation is EXACTLY why we DO have one.

Yes, and the founding fathers said so. Read the minutes to the Constitutional Convention - when they were debating the second amendment.

Posted by: An Observation at January 03, 2018 07:12 PM (Rl9Tz)

292 I got your bombogenesis right here!

*pointing*

Posted by: Weasel at January 03, 2018 07:12 PM (Sfs6o)

293 I just realized that I have been commenting while shucking oysters.

Which is probably a crime, somewhere.

Posted by: Miklos, armed with oyster knife at January 03, 2018 07:12 PM (zCyNd)

294 "21 11
Revolutionary Guards are the Iranian version of Antifa
Posted by: Woke at January 03, 2018 06:19 PM (/zwDg)

So that was the internal security force Obama wanted. The one with as much funding as the DoD.

Similar cadres too. Thugs and criminals.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 03, 2018 06:20 PM (mbhDw)"

Pretty much what I was thinking, too.

This is what we would be seeing at home if Felonia von Pantsuit had stolen the election.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/365 at January 03, 2018 07:12 PM (oVWx5)

295 >> Queen Renia- Wife of King Abdullah
>> Queen Letitia of Spain.

It's Rania and Letizia.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at January 03, 2018 07:13 PM (8O3HH)

296 Lies then and lies now. President Carter had to eat mooselim ass when the hostages were taken.

What a jack off he was and is.

History's Greatest Monster.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 03, 2018 07:13 PM (WbIyz)

297 261 'No, Trump doesn't have a big nuclear button on his desk | Analysis by @CillizzaCNN'

Of course he doesn't. Where would you rest your feet?

Posted by: Barack Hussein Obama at January 03, 2018 07:13 PM (clYld)

298
PDT should send out a a video of his finger quivering over a big red button. The left would have a conniption.
Posted by: freaked at January 03, 2018 07:10 PM (UdKB7)

And have nuclear button spelled wrong on it.

Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at January 03, 2018 07:13 PM (lKyWE)

299 when the evolutionary guard steps in, LTFO

Posted by: Cherchez at January 03, 2018 07:13 PM (4u7kU)

300 Persian babes can be strikingly beautiful.

Knew a Persian fellow, he had a Persian wife. She wore a burka and had the most beautiful eyes.

He passed away. She took off her burka.
Oh, please, put it back on.

Posted by: gNewt at January 03, 2018 07:13 PM (ez1vH)

301 I just realized that I have been commenting while shucking oysters.

Which is probably a crime, somewhere.

All 13 states of the Old Confederacy.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 03, 2018 07:13 PM (WbIyz)

302 GOD SAID MAN SAID DOT COM

More kvass and slivovitz for that man!

Posted by: Miklos, armed with only beer at January 03, 2018 07:13 PM (zCyNd)

303 Be a shame if some of those IRGC heads got lost on the way home. Lotta desert between Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, etc.

Posted by: DaveA at January 03, 2018 07:13 PM (FhXTo)

304 Opps.

Posted by: gNewt at January 03, 2018 07:13 PM (ez1vH)

305 95 89 Dang. Forgot about that. Biggest ex-pat Iranian community in the world, IIRC. Meh, they probably all vote Democrat.

Or do they?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 03, 2018 06:32 PM (mbhDw)

The ones I know in Dallas and Houston tend to be conservative. They're also hard-working and hospitable.

Posted by: Michael the Texan at January 03, 2018 07:14 PM (nvMvs)

306 PDT should send out a a video of his finger quivering over a big red button. The left would have a conniption.

Posted by: freaked at January 03, 2018 07:10 PM (UdKB7)

He should dangle his nads over the button and really make them lose their shit.

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at January 03, 2018 07:14 PM (aMlLZ)

307
We need to liberate these Persian beauties. The men, who cares. But liberate the babes for sure. I'll volunteer to take some in, if need be.

Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at January 03, 2018 07:14 PM (8O3HH)

308 I always notice Trump's desk because it's usually bare except for a couple of phones.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 03, 2018 07:14 PM (4ErVI)

309 All 13 states of the Old Confederacy.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at January 03, 2018 07:13 PM (WbIyz)

And Maryland

Posted by: jsg at January 03, 2018 07:14 PM (gSwpy)

310 >>How much are you suppose to get Jack?

12 to 18 inches. The storm surge could be interesting.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 03, 2018 07:14 PM (/tuJf)

311 "I just realized that I have been commenting while shucking oysters"

Hard to do with one hand huh?

Posted by: freaked at January 03, 2018 07:14 PM (UdKB7)

312 Nood - Dreamer indulges in Mexican nascar

Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Booking Agent, Aero Pinochet at January 03, 2018 07:15 PM (fA1SL)

313 I can go to Jersey but if I think its not worth a trip down the Schuylkill expressway I can go to a closer job. Snow is supposed to start soon and snow through tomorrow morning

Posted by: Skip at January 03, 2018 07:15 PM (aC6Sd)

314 308 I always notice Trump's desk because it's usually bare except for a couple of phones.

And his feet aren't on it..

Posted by: It's me donna at January 03, 2018 07:15 PM (O2RFr)

315 I just realized that I have been commenting while shucking oysters.

Which is probably a crime, somewhere.
Posted by: Miklos, armed with oyster knife at January 03, 2018 07:12 PM (zCyNd)
---------

It is. The oyster part makes it a crime against humanity.

Posted by: bluebell at January 03, 2018 07:15 PM (kNasr)

316 He passed away. She took off her burka.
Oh, please, put it back on.

Posted by: gNewt at January 03, 2018 07:13 PM (ez1vH)

Hag in a bag, huh?

Posted by: Berserker-Dragonheads Divison at January 03, 2018 07:15 PM (aMlLZ)

317 >> "Who knows. But for now I'm sticking with inertia as the
winner here - i.e., no regime collapse. For now. As eastern Europe and
the USSR showed, tyrannies can come undone so fast it's almost they just
dissolved into thin air."

Let the mullahs mull that over.

Posted by: Anonymous 7 at January 03, 2018 07:15 PM (CmQ5p)

318
PDT should send out a a video of his finger quivering over a big red button. The left would have a conniption.
Posted by: freaked

The bombing starts in five minutes.

Posted by: Zombie Ronald Reagan at January 03, 2018 07:15 PM (IqV8l)

319 Nood

Posted by: Blutarski-0.0 at January 03, 2018 07:15 PM (+Tibp)

320 The funny thing is... who deserves credit for this uprising? Who's the hero?

Not Trump. Barack Obama is the one who by giving the Mullahs all that moola, exposed them as Clintonesque frauds screwing over their country.

Thank you Barack. You screwed us over and gave us Trump.

You screwed Iran over and hopefully you finally made them "woke" enough to throw off their shackles, you stinking, grinning imbecile narcissistic monkey shit head fuck face.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at January 03, 2018 07:17 PM (/qEW2)

321 12 to 18 inches. The storm surge could be interesting.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 03, 2018 07:14 PM (/tuJf)

PHRASING!

Posted by: blaster at January 03, 2018 07:18 PM (jHrzU)

322 I survived 18 inches of snow in 24 hours ... in St. Louis, MO.

Took 3 days to rent the snow plows from Chicago, or some such. But in terms of temps, not that bad.

Stay safe, all.

Posted by: Adriane the Meteorology Critic ... at January 03, 2018 07:18 PM (AoK0a)

323 You guys are gonna need a lot of wax

Posted by: The Jackhole Somewhere on fried to a crisp Ventura Highway at January 03, 2018 07:19 PM (M+Lyo)

324 The Romanian revolution was the most spectacular of all of the Eastern European events, and even at the time it was noticeable that it didn't get covered a lot here in the States.

Ceaucescu's biggest mistake was that he had built up a huge internal Security force that was outside of regular army control - but he gave them so much of each years budget that the Army was underfunded and badly equipped, and bitter and resentful about it. So, when everything started to break down, and Ceaucescu ordered his Security to start shooting the protesters, it was very easy for the army to switch sides and call in their tanks against the Security service. Once the Army made its move, Ceaucescu and his government was finished.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 03, 2018 07:19 PM (V2Yro)

325 298
PDT should send out a a video of his finger quivering over a big red button. The left would have a conniption.
Posted by: freaked at January 03, 2018 07:10 PM (UdKB7)

And have nuclear button spelled wrong on it.
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at January 03, 2018 07:13 PM (lKyWE)

The funny thing is that the whole process for launching a nuke doesn't involve buttons.

When I was on alert if I pressed the button I would be flushing the toilet.

Posted by: Minuteman at January 03, 2018 07:20 PM (A3b6q)

326 254 >> whoa. She could sit on my fez.

A culture that wants to cover that up under a burqa is obviously batshit insane.
Posted by: publius, the Persistent Poperin Pear at January 03, 2018 07:03 PM (8O3HH)

Covering up Persian women is definitely a crime against humanity. Against heterosexual men, anyway.

Posted by: rickl at January 03, 2018 07:20 PM (sdi6R)

327 Well, there are about 800,000 Iranians in SoCal alone. Does that count?
Posted by: Miklos Molnar at January 03, 2018 06:31 PM (zCyNd)

Dang. Forgot about that. Biggest ex-pat Iranian community in the world, IIRC. Meh, they probably all vote Democrat.

Or do they?
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 03, 2018 06:32 PM (mbhDw)

Back when I was a grad student grading tests for history classes, there was a student with an insane work ethic, who was always in my office in the days before the test to review what she needed to know for the test. And she was a straight-A student. Seeing her last name, I figured she was from an Arab family. That is, until the time when finals came and we were covering late 20th Century America. She said "My parents emigrated from Iran in '79 and they HATE Carter." (My own parents despise Carter for different reasons.)

So, would the Iranian community support Dems? An open question, I suspect. Especially if they came over here in '79.

Posted by: CatchThirtyThr33 at January 03, 2018 07:20 PM (IoOAa)

328 Chevy 3500 with V plow, studded tires, a couple of blunts and a case of peach schnapps.

From the Berkshires , Mr.Snowman, do your worst

Posted by: Cherchez at January 03, 2018 07:21 PM (4u7kU)

329 The Iranian "Leader of the Resistance" Hannity had on said he was sure the "regular army" would side with the People...... looks like he may have been right.....for now.

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at January 03, 2018 07:22 PM (br2jI)

330 No mystery who is in the revolutionary guard. Recon first, find them alone at a time and place of your choosing, hammer to the head, and one by one they all fall down. Or to be cruel to be kind, burn down their homes with no regard to collateral damage. Unintended Consequences is the bible of rebellion.

Posted by: colfax mingo at January 03, 2018 07:22 PM (C8LGv)

331 No collapse as long as the regime stays unified. However, if any part of the army or any other armed service decides to switch sides and fight with the people, then things will fall apart fast.

The Venezuelan Govm't survives in spite of all the protests because it has the absolute loyalty of its military, which are now mostly nothing but narcotraficantes in uniform.

Posted by: Tom Servo at January 03, 2018 07:23 PM (V2Yro)

332
Chevy 3500 with V plow, studded tires, a couple of blunts and a case of peach schnapps.

It's dark and we're wearing sunglasses.

Posted by: Elwood Blues at January 03, 2018 07:25 PM (IqV8l)

333 At that point you had Gorbachev who within a year was about to lose the USSR. Iran has no one other than itself to rely on in this instance.

It will be bloody but we are one incident that incites the public away from touching off the whole thing.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at January 03, 2018 06:45 PM (mbhDw)

True, but I was looking more at the "bloody revolution" thing. Out of all the revolutions in 1989 Eastern Europe, the bloodiest was far and away in Romania. I can't imagine the mullahs just rolling over the way the SED did in East Berlin or caving like other regimes in Eastern Europe. They got too much to lose.

Posted by: CatchThirtyThr33 at January 03, 2018 07:34 PM (IoOAa)

334 Imagine if Pinochet had to contend with Islamists AND commies. That was the Shah's challenge.

Moar Halal Helicopters - Stat!

Posted by: DaveA at January 03, 2018 07:37 PM (FhXTo)

335

Hello Darkness My Old Friend

(kitty vid)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtVBZso_Ww8

Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at January 03, 2018 07:39 PM (0rSP6)

336 204 It is unconstitutional for the people of Iran to rebel!!!
Posted by: Chris Cuomo at January 03, 2018 06:50 PM (3BFzK)

"We are just rebels with a good cause! We made it legal to break all your laws!" - Fearless Iranians From Hell

Posted by: CatchThirtyThr33 at January 03, 2018 07:39 PM (IoOAa)

337 (235)Iran Spring? Sounds like soap. What's it smell like?

Posted by: Burger Chef at January 03, 2018 07:41 PM (RuIsu)

338 217 The Romanian revolution is really incredible. There's a youtube video of the moment when it all changes. Nicky is on a balcony giving a speech and then...an hour or two or three later he's fleeing the building in a helicopter and it's total chaos. Then Securitate snipers started shooting people.

People died, but really they'd be lucky to get away with a Romanian style revolution. It really did go down very quickly. Almost as fast as it took Nick and his wife to hit the pavement outside the impromptu courtroom they'd just been sentenced to death in minutes before.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 03, 2018 06:53 PM (4ErVI)

One of my favorite ever Christmas stories. I saw a documentary of this. Watching the Ceaucescus get riddled with bullets not five minutes after the sentence was...well...it was beautiful...

I suspect the ONLY thing the firing squad felt was recoil.

Posted by: CatchThirtyThr33 at January 03, 2018 07:43 PM (IoOAa)

339 335

Hello Darkness My Old Friend

(kitty vid)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtVBZso_Ww8
Posted by: Soothsayer SLX Pro Series II Platinum Turbo at January 03, 2018 07:39 PM (0rSP6)

That is awesome.

Posted by: rickl at January 03, 2018 07:49 PM (sdi6R)

340 335 I melted.

I want to hug all the cats, but of course I can't hug them all, that's crazy. -EHarmony Girl

Posted by: Johnny at January 03, 2018 07:53 PM (kUotE)

341 324 The Romanian revolution was the most spectacular of all of the Eastern European events, and even at the time it was noticeable that it didn't get covered a lot here in the States.

Ceaucescu's biggest mistake was that he had built up a huge internal Security force that was outside of regular army control - but he gave them so much of each years budget that the Army was underfunded and badly equipped, and bitter and resentful about it. So, when everything started to break down, and Ceaucescu ordered his Security to start shooting the protesters, it was very easy for the army to switch sides and call in their tanks against the Security service. Once the Army made its move, Ceaucescu and his government was finished.
Posted by: Tom Servo at January 03, 2018 07:19 PM (V2Yro)

Don't forget that right after the massacre at Timisoara occurred and people realized things would get nasty in Romania, Operation JUST CAUSE kicked off, guaranteeing that the U.S. media would barely notice what was going on in Romania. But I remember as a young lad seeing some of the images of the revolution on Christmas Day, including an image of Nicolae Ceaucescu taken right as he was reaching room temperature.

Posted by: CatchThirtyThr33 at January 03, 2018 07:54 PM (IoOAa)

342 The Trump effect is going worldwide!!!! Get used to it... Next Trump will go to the parts of the world where kids eat from garbage dumps and human waste is running in the streets.... That's the kind of love I see in his heart.. Putin's eyes not so much..

Posted by: Voter Dude at January 03, 2018 07:56 PM (U5Xeq)

343 I keep hearing that some sort of deal is thiiiiis close for DACA amnesty. The "deal" of course will be instant amnesty for 800K illegals in exchange for enhanced border security sometime in 2020 that will of course never actually happen.

Posted by: #neverskankles at January 03, 2018 07:59 PM (1JAxC)

344 Yeah I remember watching a lot of the Romania stuff on TV as well. It was definitely covered by the MSM.

Posted by: #neverskankles at January 03, 2018 08:00 PM (1JAxC)

345 Yeah well when I was in the navy we were deployed in the Straights of Vermouth let me tell ya those Iranian battle skiffs put one helluva fight. I managed to capture one and rebuild it into this bottle here on my mantle... wanna see it?

Posted by: Steve Bannon Durnken Irishmen Extrordinaire at January 03, 2018 08:00 PM (U5Xeq)

346 Speaking of hot Iranian women, I would offer you need to look no further than a woman who isn't getting a lot of sleep these days. A woman who can be found at the intersection of brains and beauty.

I of course am talking about The Foreign Desk's founder, Lisa Daftari.

Posted by: CatchThirtyThr33 at January 03, 2018 08:02 PM (IoOAa)

347 I remember seeing footage from Romania with an army T-55, and armed civilians and/or police using the tank as cover, engaging Securitate troops holed up in some government building. That was pretty near the end for the Ceaucescus, I believe.

Posted by: Zapp Branigan at January 03, 2018 09:26 PM (UTKsr)

348 The mullahs told me that $175 billion in cash would be enough to stay in control.

I don't like being lied to, especially by my own kind.

Posted by: Barack Obama at January 03, 2018 09:39 PM (xpLJX)

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