Deadly clashes rock Iran's main southern port

Really now... wouldn't things be MUCH better if we had no dialogue at all? Maybe the rootin' tootin' Texas Cowboy will deal with them more effectively.

And of course, there's all that kindloving dialogue between the Royal Family of America nd and the Royal Family of Saudi Arabia... that's PERFECTLY fine, because... well... I know there MUST be an acceptable reason.

The hypocrisy reminds me of the way we deal with Cuba compared to the way we deal with China. Of course, we aren't really talking about American diplomacy here, we are merely trying to bash Kerry, so whatever. Maybe if Kerry loses we can talk about jihad.

The best idea, when it comes to us dealing with Iran would be to bombard a thousand reems of crud out of their nuke-facilities, and let the Iranian people do the rest.... i.e- annihilate the mullahs( the perfect opportunity for the much needed Iranian uprising).

Keith, my friend,

If I had EVER posted anything remotely suggesting that the Bush Administration's love for the Saudis is "perfectly fine", or even approving of the Saudi regime, you may have a point, but I haven't, so you don't.

FYI I'm not in favor of playing ball with either Iran nor Saudi Arabia. The human rights records of both make them outlaw regimes.

Neither candidate is perfect. If you really think Kerry will do better against Islamic terror than Bush, pull the appropriate lever. Other assessments will differ.

Cordially
Robert Spencer

Keith Joys favourite and only weapons( popular weapons of choice for all bleeding hearts):

Putting words in peoples mouths, and telling one side of every story (the side which best fits their agenda -ie- usually the anti-christian, anti-israel, anti-west, anti-american side of the story).

One of the many excellent features of Jihad Watch is its linking to source material. Thus, I discovered in the foregoing article that SMCCDI, a new group to me, stands for the "Student Movement Coordination Committee for Democracy in Iran." In the SMCCDI banner is the statement: "The Home Page of the Iranian Secularist 'Third Force Movement.'" As with JW, there is a place to sign up for emailings.

I know that all of us know far too little about what is going on in Iran. This site may prove to be a good source.

Iran kicked the contemporary Islamic jihad movement into high gear when Khomeini took power in 1979. He could not build terrorist training facilities or train jihadists fast enough. Many others in other Muslim countries followed his lead. Though dead, Khomeini's terrorist training and outreach go on at full strength, funded by Iranian oil.

In a sense, Saudi Arabian sponsored jihadists compete with the Iranians for the who-is-the-worst award.

Saudi Arabia and Iran are THE states sponsoring Islamic jihad, with strap hangers like Syria tagging along. Saudi Arabia and Iran fund global terrorism with oil money. Why we put up with this, I do not know.

A couple of months ago, I heard Mansoor Ijaz interviewed on the Tony Snow talk radio show. Mansoor said that he expected that the Iranian mullocracy would collapse after the USA elections in November. He indicated that things are much worse in Iran than we are being told.

Let us, then, fan the flames of revolution in Iran and do it as overt, proud USA policy. Perhaps this SMCCDI could play a part in keeping us informed.

Uprisings in ports have been bellwethers before. In 1962, a ship was being loaded at the port of Odessa, bound for Cuba. Its cargo: meat. This was at a time when, in all of Odessa, there was only one store that sold meat – or rather, a collection of bones, gristle, and fat that was offered as “meat” by the Soviet government. That single store, open only 2-3 hours a day (for a city that had several million inhabitants) was known to the populace as “the Museum of Meat.” Since the Soviet authorities did not trust the regular dockworkers, they had students from a local institute (akin to a community college) come in to do the loading. But even the students rebelled, and were taken, and locked up in their dormitories, let out only after lengthy sessions of ideological re-indoctrination.

At the same time, workers in another Black Sea port, Novorossiisk, heard that the ship with meat was bound not for Novorossissk, where the meat situation was even worse than in Odessa, but for Cuba. There was a protest march.. The leaders of the protest were seized and summarily shot (that is how the Soviet Union functioned). But what happened in these two ports, Odessa and Novorossiisk, was a harbinger of things to come, just as, back in the earliest days of Soviet power, the uprising by sailors at the naval base of Kronshtadt was a harbinger of unhappiness to come.

Within the Soviet Union, a variant of Castro's chant about "Cuba si, Yanqui no" circulated. It went: "Kuba si, myasa net." ("Cuba yes, but meat there isn’t.”)

One hopes that less time than that which elapsed between the Novorossiisk and Odessa incidents (1962) and the collapse of the Soviet regime, will be necessary before the Iranian regime comes tumbling, in all its hideousness, down.

Hugh, my friend,

Then there was Gdansk, and Walesa, and oh, those were heady days.

Best
RS

Rikki~ You and I are in complete agreement. But then, lying sucks will always try to impugn the reasons and reasoning of decent people, ignoring anything those people say in favor of what they 'drool' (to use a word KJ used some time back).

George Mason,
Thanks for the suggestion.
I really thought this article is worth noting:

http://www.daneshjoo.org/article/publish/article_3217.shtml

I was just disgusted too to see the pictures of what the Islamic government does to its people.
Indeed the biggest enemy of muslims is islam - a relgion (cult!) that pulls the eyeballs off a prisoner.. (see the pictures section!!!) disgusting and terribly sad.. NO Islamic government should be allowed anywhere.
Is islam the culminator of all religions as mohamad claimed or is Islam just a tool and excuse for evil to prosper on earth

Robert,

You are right. Englishmen in 1939 may have vowed they would not "die for Danzig" (and few would even be able to refuse to "gdie for Gdansk"), though they then proceeded to die for England (and, by the way, Danzig), but I should have recalled those Polish shipyward workers.

From bits and pieces of news seeping out of Iran there is growing opposition to the mullah regime.This may be in large part because the opposition are embolden by real or perceived U.S assistance and the U.S presense in the area. Any such confidence however could quickly erode with a Kerry victory as there is no doubt in my mind at least,that his minions will start to orchestrate an anti war movement before Bush has even finished his concession speech. A Bush victory is absolutly essential for the security and the future of the USA.

Reports over the past 24 - 48 hours via several important information services such as SMCCDI, Peykeiran, Zagros and direct email reports and phone calls from Iranian citizens is beginning to shine light on what at this time looks to be country-wide fighting and quickly escalating into what could potentially become a freedom revolution.

Several independent citizen sources have reported the formation of significant crowds throughout the country, and have heard many loud explosions and gun shots, including in the cities of Tehran, Esfahan, and Shiraz.

SMCCDI and Peykeiran have both reported intense battles between freedom-loving Iranian citizens and the regime's fanatical militias in the village of Meeyan Do Ab. Both sources are reporting many deaths and injuries both to the villagers and regime's forces.

In the past week and recent days, many regional commanders and leaders of the regime's militias have been targeted and killed along with many of their militiamen.

Initial reports from Iranian online news sources as well as from western satellite news media are reporting intense fighting throughout Iran, and report that such fighting is increasing at a constant rate.

On September 28th, SMCCDI reported that in Iran's main southern port of Bandar-Abbas located by the Hormoz Strait on the Persian Gulf, heavy fighting between Elite commandos of the Pasdaran Corp and Iranian residents who were protesting the regime's murder of three fishermen broke out. Angry residents attacked several public buildings as well as regime vehicles with incendiary devices.

Reports also indicate that Bandar Abbas is the main commercial entry to Iran and its paralysis could help spark unprecedented chaos that would severely threaten and likely cause the fall of the Islamic Regime.

Regime forces are also acknowledging the discovery of several ammunition depots used by Iranian citizens against the Mullah's militias.

At this time and for several months now, regime security forces have remained heavily deployed in the most strategic areas of Iranian cities in an effort to prevent the spread and growth of any major uprising.

The current situation appears to be quite explosive at this time.

Iranians continue to email and phone reports out of Iran - ActivistChat.com will continue to monitor and relay such information.

The Boston Tea Party took place in port and kindled a fire yet to be matched.Our freedoms came from those kindlings hopefully the people of Iran will be able to know this one day.

"YKWH AKBAR"

And yet nothing from the dhimmi BBC on the unrest in Iran. The BBC's silence on the situation there shows that they refuse to televise ANYTHING which might show islam in a bad light. At the same time these little PC trolls can't wait to report on the slightest disturbance in Iraq. Anyone working for the BBC should be ashamed - you are traitors to freedom.

krkrjak,
This opposition is more than just an opposition to the Mullah Regime, it's an opposition to islam.
How long, in this day and age can we expect certain nations to go before they get sick to death of islam.
Remember, Iran used to be Persia, there are a lot of Dhimmis there , and I dare say (without any research, so I might be wrong...all you perfectionists out there) that many of the current muslims were forced, or pressured into converting, many born as muslims, and longing to become apostates.

If we take down this dirty regime of walking-talking jokes, I'm convinced the Iranian people will do the rest, they aren't as gullible as the primitive sand people of Arabia.