Unrest in Iran

June 3, 2006 in Ahmadinejad, Iran

The First portion of this post including the video is from Winsotn and his blog "The Spirit of Man".  

This is an eight minute long video clip showing thousands of people marching down the streets of Tabriz during last week protests.

The massive protests in Tabriz and later in Tehran were about more than a useless cartoon. They were part of a bigger problem and showed us a great deal of dissatisfaction with the regime among the people of Iran.

Here is the Video

The Spirit of Man has More Here

The second portion of this post is from Today.Az, a news organization in Azerbaijan.

According to reports from Iran over 10,000 people demonstrated on Wednesday in Tabriz, provincial capital of East Azerbaijan, despite undeclared marshal law.

People took to the streets of central Tabriz chanting anti-regime slogans, NCRI informs.

Special guards intervened to disperse the crowd but they faced stiff resistance which led to clashes in many parts. According to eye witness accounts the sound of fire arms did not stop throughout the demonstration which lasted for hours. People attacked banks and other government buildings and broke their windows.

To neutralize the effect of tear gas, the young people set fire to tires on streets and clashed with the suppressive forces.

Similar protests were reported in Orumieh, Naghadeh and Ardabil, major cities in Azeri speaking provinces in northwestern Iran.

Security forces have been going door to door in Naghadeh in search for young people. Those found have been transferred to unknown locations. The regime is refusing to hand back corpses of those killed in Naghdadeh during riots over the past week and the lives of many wounded are threatened as they do not receive medical attention.

The MSM has reported next to nothing on this. MSNBC and the AP did have a story about demonstrations in Tabriz about a cockroach cartoon, but nothing of the magnitude shown here.

Here are some other reports from Today.Az that are Interesting to say the least.

South Azerbaijan National Freedom Army established in Iran
Azerbaijani newspaper publishes collage insulting Imam Khomeini and Khamnei      

Turkish Daily News: "Iranian minority groups seeking US help to topple regime"
Diplomat denied US involvement in events in northern Iran

The Power and Interest News Report: "Iran's territorial disputes with its Caspian Sea neighbors"
Things in Iran somehow don't seem as rosey as the Iranian Regime portrays it. Perhaps they are in far more trouble at home than anyone in the west realizes.

 Big hat tip to Gateway Pundit