Anger in the Tehran Streets (Photos)


	Anger in the Tehran Streets (Photos)
dulios
6-13-2009 11:56 PM
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6-14-2009 12:20 AM
dulios
Update: first deaths reported,communication cut off.

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6-14-2009 2:21 AM
darkeforce
Hopefully the will of the Iranian people will be realized at the end of this. Unfortunately, Iran won't allow foreign monitors for their elections any more than the US will (boy, what foreign monitors of the US 2000 and 2004 elections might have prevented!)
6-14-2009 2:41 PM
Richclips777
From 1965............

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8SfiCnwF28

I try not to be negative but sometimes it's fitting.
6-14-2009 7:52 PM
masbury
Yup, I doubt that this will go away.
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