Imagine being a fly on the wall in the Islamic Republic's water fight contingency planning meeting. Sadly, no one probably stops to consider how silly it all sounds. An update on this story. "Iranian Students Prepare to Test Authority by Staging Another Water Fight," by Lisa Daftari for Fox News, August 5 (thanks to Yeaborg):
Iranian students, who've used protests, boycotts and sit-ins, have found a new and innovative way to express their disenchantment against the oppressive rule of the mullahs-- the water gun fight.
After last week’s large-scale water fight in Tehran resulted in the rounding-up and arrests of young participants, students are now preparing to once again take on the theocratic regime by organizing another water fight this weekend, and could set off a ripple effect of other water fights in the future.
Almost 1,000 young Iranians gathered on a hot summer day at Abo Atash Park in Tehran last Friday, at an event organized on Facebook, called “Tehran’s Water Gun Fight,” which invited young Iranians to bring water guns, bottles, and any other water games to the park.
Student organizers declared, “Water fights are our undeniable rights!” paralleling President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s claim about nuclear arms.
The event called the attention of government hardliners who dispatched authorities to the park to crackdown on the fun and games. Several male and female participants were rounded up and arrested.
Despite regime threats and arrests, the “Tehran’s Water Gun Fight” Facebook page is calling for another gathering this weekend and a larger event Sept. 2, following the end of the month of Ramadan.
Students in Tehran have told Fox News that the regime has prepared for another water fight by fortifying security and police presence at the park a day in advance, this time possibly preparing for an event that can have more serious consequences.
“They don’t think that water fights will cause a revolution, but it’s a start,” said Bahar Milani, a United Kingdom based activist working for the Iran Solidarity movement. Milani helped to create an English version of the Water Gun Fight Facebook page to link and unite the rest of the world to Tehran.
“It’s been a while that we haven’t heard any news from the people of Iran, but the young people are showing they world that they want change, and they want to challenge the regime,” Milani said.
More than 15,000 people have “liked” the original Facebook page in Persian and many have actively used the page, connecting to other participants and posting comments, pictures, videos and links.
Pictures from last week’s event have been plastered across the Internet on Facebook, blogs and other sites, showing the young people happy, laughing and soaking wet....
“This is a warning to young people that we will not accept these types of organized activities and unacceptable behavior anywhere in our country,” the head of Tehran's morality police, Ahmad Roozbehani said about the arrests.
Those who participated in last week’s water fight said hejabs, or the Islamic headscarves, on the females in attendance had either fallen off or moved back, revealing the hairline.
The comfort with which males and females interacted, in a country where gender segregation exists is all aspects of life, also irked authorities.
Confirming the arrests, city police chief Hossein Sajedinia placed fault on participants for acting "abnormally" and going against Islamic values.
Videotaped confessions for a water fight:
Iran's state television aired a segment Wednesday interviewing some of the participants with their backs to the camera, confessing to having played with water guns and describing details about the event.
“The first goal was just to have fun. The second might have been a political agenda,” said one male participant who was not identified....
The savage Iranian Mullah Nazis are trying to divert attention from their nuclear power game, especially in attacking Israel and the Jews, in the future with nuclear bombs! But don't expect Caliph Hussein Obama, that most evil suspected Muslim Brotherhood agent and Trojan Horse into the White House, to come and help Israel, like how he's so enthusiastic about helping his Islamic rebel brothers in Egypt and Libya! Hussein won't even do anything to Iran but kept bullying Israel and the Jews! See - http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=231839
Obama’s hollow claim of commitment to Israel’s security
By MORTON KLEIN AND DANIEL MANDEL
08/01/2011 00:03
For a year, Obama prohibited any new US sanctions to stop Iran developing nuclear weapons – a looming existential threat to both Israel and the US.
….INDEED, FAR from holding Palestinians accountable, Obama has consistently rewarded them, increasing aid to almost $1 billion per year. A Palestinian Media Watch report just presented to the US Congress documents that, in May 2011 alone, the PA paid $5,207,000 in salaries to Palestinians in Israeli jails, including blood-soaked terrorists. Last year the US provided $225 million to the general Palestinian budget from which these salaries are paid.
If Obama was genuine about holding the PA accountable, he would be demanding the disbanding of Fatah’s own Al Aqsa Martyrs Brigades – a US- recognized terrorist group. He would demand the abrogation of the PA’s unity agreement with Hamas (which calls for a genocide of Jews) as a precondition of any future talks. He has done neither.
It is also difficult to imagine what conception of American and Israeli security interests led Obama in January to ditch Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and call for political “transition… now” when protests erupted in Cairo. Still less clear is why his administration spoke immediately of involving “non-secular actors” – a clear allusion to the Muslim Brotherhood – given its virulent hostility to the US and Israel. Now, Obama has legitimized the Brotherhood by initiating contacts with it…..
For a year, Obama prohibited any new US sanctions to stop Iran developing nuclear weapons – a looming existential threat to both Israel and the US. Indeed, further measures which must be taken to stop Iran is precisely what Obama left untouched in his recent speeches……
"Iran's state television aired a segment Wednesday interviewing some of the participants with their backs to the camera ..."
Monty Python and the "Mouse problem":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK92NYwBMts
“The first goal was just to have fun. The second might have been a political agenda,” said one male participant who was not identified....
It's a good thing he is not identified he just confessed to a conspiracy to have fun...he could do years for that in prison...The Ayatollah does not allow it...
“Water fights are our undeniable rights!” When a mohammadan citizen, especially in a repressive country like Iran, especially a YOUNG citizen, claims he has ANY rights, the status quo is in BIG trouble.
My intial reaction? A movie...
The place: Tehran
The Time: 10 minutes past tomorrow
When his father divorces his mothe and renounces him Young Iranian student Jameel Weladah (played by with flavor by Lahimah Himzir Mohdad) moves from his properly Islamic small town to wild and bustling Tehran he can hardly imagine the wonders and agonies that await him in his quest to perfect his submission to Allah.
Jameel is entered into a mutah marriage by his evil uncle with the wild-eyed, corrupt daughter of a virtuous Imam played with a souless mercenary perfection by the lovely Lori Mohtrib.
Watch as Mohtrib's heartless character manipulates naive Jameel into promoting a sinful and rebellious water fight to celebrate the end of the school term; she hopes by this action to tain the souls of as many of her virtuous peers as possible to offset her shame for her many sinful acts and desires.
Will Jameel give in to this Satanic attempt to bring "fun" to Islam or will he find the strength to stone this harlot in the public square by the side of her father and cleanse his honor?
This Summer, have your calm enhanced, see the biggest blockbuster in Iran...or face arrest!!!
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My second reaction, after reading this and seeing that the pictures were everywhere, was to go back to the Ynet article from the 1st that broke the story and do a full post at http://hereticscrusade.com
"Monty Python and the "Mouse problem":"
Ah....predominantly hilarious. It suffers from the usual Python characteristic of carrying on a funny skit far, far too long.
I'm not quite sure of the relevance to the subject at hand, but it is appreciated nevertheless.
Thanks for the link, Guy. I enjoyed the pictures.
It makes me see why the Iranian Mullahs are so fixated on keeping women covered and shuttered. Those Iranian babes are HOT. Imagine if a Shaykh had to deal with a mature, lovely woman with her own mind, rather than a pliant 9-year old.
I can't help thinking Iran is better off with Obama keeping his hands off. In my opinion, there are very few situations where anyone has benefited from US intervention in their internal affairs, including the US. The regime is clearly losing the loyalty of the people, especially the bright young people. I would just as leave avoid a revolutionary bloodbath in Iran, and let the regime just die off, as the younger people come in to fill the positions. The last thing the Iranians need is to think that they will get any material support from the US in an actual confrontation.
Frankly, I think that US support for the Iranian opposition would be a lose-lose proposition for both. In any event, the strongest force in the Iranian opposition has long been the Mojaheddin-e-Qalq, who, I understand, always claimed to be the first "revolutionary fighters" into the "nest of spies" back in 1979. They represent a mix of Marxism and Militant Islam, about as poisonous a combination as you can get.
The Iranian people have a long-standing grievance with us over the 1953 ouster of their hero Mossadegh, that fierce lion over British oil interests in his country and meek, timid, crippled mouse towards Soviet oil interests and out-and-out looting, whose policies would have led to Iran's suffering in the late 1950's and '60's the fate Afghanistan suffered in the 1980's.
While I sympathize with the desire of young Iranians to enjoy a watergun battle on a hot, summer day,and would certainly accept any Iranian attempt to improve relations with the USA, I say that US policy ought to be to let Iran stew in its own political juices. Their irresponsible and foolish "thinking" class needs to be deprived of any plausible scapegoats and excuses.
Kepha,
I always greatly appreciate your sharing your knowledge and insights with us. I'm not sure, though, if I share your opinion about the consequences of Mossadegh's staying in office, especially if the US had stayed out of any fight (perhaps wistful thinking). At the time, no one was thinking about realistically toppling the Soviet Union, so perhaps the US would not have funded a full-scale war, the way they did in Afghanistan in the 1980's.
You omitted any clear referances to the Joosh. This is a cardinal sin in islamic films. You can't have an average Iranian girl misleading an innocent pious man. You have to make Lori Mohtrib an agent of Zionist Joosh. Perhaps an unwitting agent but an agent nevertheless. Perhaps allah punishes this Zionist agent in the end with a lighteinig bolt from the clear blue heaven. Thats how you create an islamic film. Thats how you will make the Ayatolahas love you and your film.
Muhammad used to have "fun" with men. He also used to wear mascara, dye his hair and wear women's clothing.
Aisha, his beloved child bride, used to have "fun", also with men. But first, they need to go through the "Adult Breast feeding" ritual. More "fun" !!!
http://crossmuslims.blogspot.com/2011/01/prophetess-of-islam.html
Lol, the similarities are the charges for "crimes" and bizarre habits, the back to the camera, the blacked out faces, the fake compassion, the sobbing confession. Wholly bizarre, but a connection between a "Mouse Problem" and a waterfight can be found. The Show Trials of the Moscow 'thirties are never far away, nor the rejection of any aberration. It's all in a day's work for a tyranny.
OMG.....OMG!!!
Those are great pictures!
It makes you wonder what could be if only people were just left alone to be themselves.
Sigh.