Who's Behind Tehran's Violence?

The Israeli's are just salivating knowing they have been proven right. There will be blood, and its a shame the innocents in the streets will have to suffer due to men with apocalyptic views, that ooze hatred and are intolerant. Divinely inspired??? LMAO!!! They really must think they have a direct line to the Big Guy...wat idiots.

Iranian deserves a democratic election to include all real opposition. I am very disappointed to see Newsweek allowed the writer to dehumanize the Iranian opposition using recycled misinformation fabricated by the Iranian intelligent service.
MEK enjoy wide support inside and outside of Iran.

Undertaking a three-decade long, relentless and unwavering struggle against a barbaric theocratic regime which now the world can see how far it is willing to go to stay in power and defy democratic demands of its people, is the noblest value for an opposition group like the Mujahedin of Iran. Last year 70,000 Iranians gathered in Paris to voice support for the MEK and call for democratic change in Iran by replacing the ruling clerics. Today that call is heard loud and clear from all corners of Iran. Tomorrow, Saturday June 20, that call would be voiced even louder from Paris in unity with millions of Iranians. Maziar Bahari is parroting the mullahs when he suggests the opposition MEK, and not the government forces and Bassij are not behind the violence. Why does not Maziar Bahari ask the parents of six students killed in Tehran University who murdered their loved ones?

Is this journalism or a futile attempt at smearing the heroic uprising of millions of defenseless Iranians aspiring for democracy? Once again Maziar Bahari comes to the aide of the ruthless ruling clerics whose Bassij hooligans have been committing the most barbaric acts of violence against students, women and ordinary Iranians in recent days, by placing the blame for the unspeakable acts of violence on Iran???s democratic opposition, the Mujahedin Khalq. 'The Fear Is Gone' (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124537040666029677.html) in today???s Wall Street Journal to see how Bassijis under order of Khamenei and Ahmadinejad are attacking, maiming and killing Iranians and are behind the violence. He should read ???Shadowy Iranian Vigilantes Vow Bolder Action??? (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/19/world/middleeast/19basij.html) to see how Bassijis attack people in their houses and students in dormitories when the night falls. Bahari knows all this but chooses the headline ???who is behind the Violence??? to suggest that it is not the regime but the opposition MEK. He flatly lies when he says the MEK has killed ???thousands of innocent Iranians in the early days of the revolution.??? Maybe he means those plainclothes, un-uniformed Bassijis who under their shirt carry weapons, hand-grenades, knives, clubs, etc. While he so quick to smear the MEK, he does not say a word about tens of thousands of MEK members who were executed by the regime with tens of thousands more tortured in the mullahs??? dungeons or languishing in jails.

IIranians behave like they are electing real ruler. In fact, they are choosing clerics' lap dog, and difference between these two is that one is a pincher and another is a pit bull. It is a kitchen fight.

This article is so off base when it comes to what is taking place in Iran. To revive old lies and baseless allegations against MEK at this juncture is shameful. We must pay attention to the voice of people who are risking their lives and shouting "down with dictators." Iranian people are rejecting this regime and all its factions. They are pushing for real change and Mr. Bahari seem to have totally missed that message and instead focus on serving the regime with its propaganda against the MEK!! this is outragous and unacceptable. I hope Newsweek editors will take this message to heart and listen to the real story in Iran and not regime's version!

I guess Mr. Bahari is not watching the T.V. reports, and does not see how the regime thugs are attacking unarmed people. Mr. bahari's co-workers in the mullahs' shack troops have managed to kill number of people including university students!! Shame on you Mr. Bahari

People are rejecting the dictatorship in Iran and willing for the regime change. They are chanting: "Death to dictator", ???death to Khamene???i???, is it really hard to understand? It is obvious that savage members of ayatollahs' Revolutionary Guards and plainclothes IRGC members and Bassijies are behind the violence. Shame, shame, shame on you for accusing Iranian opposition for that. How dare you? There should be a new election in Iran by United Nation supervision under the role of the people not the terrorist regime of Iran. This is what Iranian people want. This simple map shows what is the truth behind the sham election. According to Iranian Interior Ministry, on Friday June 12 in Tehran 7,521,540 people have voted (source http://www.moi.ir/ostan.pdf) in 6,086 voting places (source http://www.moi.ir/jadid.pdf). Thus, in average, 1235 people have voted in each voting place. If voting process of each person lasted even one minute, then, in average, each voting place should be open for at least 20 hours and 32 minutes. In fact, they were open for at most 14 hours! In another words, for every voter in Tehran, in average, it took only 41 seconds to vote!

All Iranians,

What help are you looking for other than moral help (which is already there in abundance)? Material help is farfetched at this stage. Any intervention from outside will be used to the advantage of incumbent president and your fight will be downplayed simply as antinational and pro-western. So fight it out on your own, for now. Believe me, entire world is watching very closely and searching for any info that comes out of Iran. All of us want to know why Iran cannot become a free democracy when many other countries are enjoying the fruits of democracy. Thorough introspection is needed by you all.

Iranians expect change without ever initiating a national dialogue on core issues weighing down their governance. Open debates criticizing fundamentalist oriented mindset of Teheran establishment is necessary. If the mullahs/ayatollahs continue to wield veto power and run the country thru parallel governance, the elected parliamentarians and president function just like an extended arms of the sepah, Basij or other outfits serving the theocracy. So long as the law makers (parliamentarians) do not function fearlessly and without restrictions on their powers, as you see in Japan, India, France and US no single leader (in this case Mousavi) can bring in freedom for Iranians.
Separate first the religion from politics. Having lived in Iran from 1985 to 90, I can say it is not possible. Simply Iranians cannot make a Gandhi out of Khomini. My sympathies and good wishes.

There are of course English equivalents for the Farsi words Efraat and Tafrit , and it's remarkably foolish to claim otherwise. Whatever's going on in Iran at the moment -- and the reporting is so poor and so changeable that I certainly claim no ability to understand it -- it's clear that at least one factor is active anti-government extremism probably engineered from countries outside Iran. Israel and the United States seem the most likely sources, American taxpayers the main targets.

As Daniel Politi of the online newstasting service on Slate pointed out the other day, The New York Times and Washington Post watched the same street demonstration in Tehran this week. One reported it as remarkably silent, the other as noisy and boisterous.

Some few days ago, it was reported that police in Tehran had shot dead a demonstrator engaged in storming a police station -- excellent way to get shot in many nations. Now we're told that it wasn't a police station at all, but a building occupied by an armed militia attached to the government, with the sinister name of the Basij. What's the Basij? How does it differ from the LAPD? Why was it being stormed? By whom? Not most of the demonstrators -- they're clearly peaceful people.

It's clear that the Iranian authorities have turned to physical measures to discourage some street demonstrators. It's also clear that this involves hitting people with some sort of flexible wand: hit a man with such things a half-dozen times and he does not bleed or fall down, and is not disabled. The wand guys, presumably the police or the Basij, are not interested in smashing their victims to the ground, but pass on promptly to their next targets. Rodney King should be so lucky.

Some video coverage makes clear that some organization is hell-bent on tricking us: I refer particularly to the three bounding bearded men in blue t-shirts, jigging in some street -- possibly within Tehran, possibly not -- chorusing "We want freedom" repeatedly, in English. That's not what the demonstrators want. They're calling for honest elections. The video of the three bounders were clearly addressing the US TV audience, and probably were an example of the nation's tax dollars at work.

All the hooha about the "Twitter revolution" is dissipating as an increasing number of investigators show that many hate-the-Iranian-government tweets are being feed into the internet by people who ain't in Iran. Such lying message are nothing new, except in their medium. They are direct heirs of the print tradition that produced the Protocols of the Elders of Zion, and the Zinoviev letter, earlier lying confections designed to create hatred, fear, and death. Welcome to the real world, twitter.

It is obvious that savage members of ayatollahs' Revolutionary Guards and Bassij are behind the violence in Tehran and other major cities as a result of which nearly 50 people have lost their lives with hundreds of others wounded and arrested. They are very same forces which in the past 30 years have subjected Iranians particularly women to the most barbaric treatment from rape and stoning to public lashing and execution. The UN General Assembly, Amnesty International and other human rights organizations have systemically condemned the ruling ayatollahs for committing violence against the Iranian people. In recent post-election uprising of the Iranian people, it was again the Bassij and plainclothes IRGC members who attacked the student dormitories in Tehran and other major cities and savagely killed and wounded hundreds of them. They are also the very same force which killed 7 protestors on Monday according the state media. Phone calls made to Tehran says the real number is larger. So it is utterly deplorable that Maziar Bahari, in unison with Ahmadinejad???s mouthpieces of lies and fabrications in the state-run media, once again, insinuates the Iran???s main opposition group, the People???s Mujahedin of Iran, might have been behind the violence. Bahari???s whitewashing of the mullahs??? crimes and atrocities in recent days is doubly despicable when it is done at the expense of an organization which according to all human rights organizations has been the primary victim of ayatollahs??? barbarity and violence in the past thirty years with more the 100,000 of its members and sympathizers killed by the ruling theocracy since 1979.

Shame on you!
You are trying to change the place of victims with the agressor and murderes but it does not work.
People in Iran rejecting all the factions in Iran when they are shouting '"death to dictator ". This not about Mousavi or Ahmadinejad, is about peole rejecting the dictatorship in Iran and want the regime change.
The regime forces killed 43 peole so far and you are saying that they didn't do it and some other groups are responsible for this crime!
Shame on you!
Regarding the main democratic opposition ( MEK ), they are the only hope for a free, secular and democratic Iran.
Iranian regime is so afraid of their popularity in Iran that first day of the demonstrations in Iran send its officials on TV and warned peole about them and thretning peole by that.
MEK believes in tolerant Islam and seperation of church and state and has been fighting the terrorist regime in Iran for past 30 years and paid a hevy price for that. 120,000 of its members and supportes got excecuted by mullah's regime.
MEK is responsible for revealing Iranian regime secret nuclear activities to the World and they could do this only by having deep roots and supports in Iran which it shows in peoples slogand in demonstrations.
People in Iran have faithin MEK and Mr.Maziar Bahari and his colleagues can't change that.
As Mrs. Marya Rajavi The Iranian president elect of NCRI said in her latest statement: There should be a new election in Iran by United Nation supervision under the role of the people not the terrorist regime of Iran.
Down with the Dictator , power to the peole.

Shame on you!
You are trying to change the place of victims with the agressor and murderes but it does not work.
People in Iran rejecting all the factions in Iran when they are shouting '"death to dictator ". This not about Mousavi or Ahmadinejad, is about peole rejecting the dictatorship in Iran and want the regime change.
The regime forces killed 43 peole so far and you are saying that they didn't do it and some other groups are responsible for this crime!
Shame on you!
Regarding the main democratic opposition ( MEK ), they are the only hope for a free, secular and democratic Iran.
Iranian regime is so afraid of their popularity in Iran that first day of the demonstrations in Iran send its officials on TV and warned peole about them and thretning peole by that.
MEK believes in tolerant Islam and seperation of church and state and has been fighting the terrorist regime in Iran for past 30 years and paid a hevy price for that. 120,000 of its members and supportes got excecuted by mullah's regime.
MEK is responsible for revealing Iranian regime secret nuclear activities to the World and they could do this only by having deep roots and supports in Iran which it shows in peoples slogand in demonstrations.
People in Iran have faithin MEK and Mr.Maziar Bahari and his colleagues can't change that.
As Mrs. Marya Rajavi The Iranian president elect of NCRI said in her latest statement: There should be a new election in Iran by United Nation supervision under the role of the people not the terrorist regime of Iran.
Down with Dictator , power to the peole.

I am not iranian actually from NO WHERE the middle east, but it just concerns me that the people speak and aren't heard. It's like Ahmadinejad or whatever his name is is an undercover dictator, speaks of freedoms but dont actualize them.

WOW, there are lots of MEK and Al-Qaida members comment here.
The protest on streets of Iran is just to make sure the people votes are counted correctly. There is no any intention of regime change or abolish the Islamic Republic.
I believe, some must stop advertising for their organization/ideology. Iran did not lose plenty of its people for nothing over the last thirty years. Those demonstrators went to poll stations, knowing very well, that they were voting for Mousavi, as the one who stands on the other side of spectrum from Ahmadinejad.