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Turborama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-21-09 07:08 PM
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An army of Iranian protesters rushing the police
 
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I can't believe the MSM is saying that the streets of Tehran were quiet on Sunday.

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vow66 Donating Member (167 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-21-09 07:19 PM
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1. BBC Video - Huge Crowd Chases Police
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FreakinDJ Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-21-09 09:35 PM
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2. Interesting: The age range of the protesters
I was led to beleive this was mostly college age Iranians but the video showed a lot of middle aged men out there throwing rocks right along side the college aged kids

I wonder who has better aim
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PatrynXX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-21-09 10:00 PM
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4. It mostly is, but
they'd been saying that they are having a harder time cracking down because many of the people who led the 1979 revolution are taking part in the protests.
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Turborama Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-22-09 06:48 AM
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5. I just heard an AJ English reporter who's in Iran right now saying that the demographics
Edited on Mon Jun-22-09 06:48 AM by Turborama
are across the board. He said something about the protesters are from both genders, all ages and levels of Iranian society. There was another guy on Inside Story who was saying that it's going off all over the country, not just in Tehran.

I'll add that program when it's added to their YouTube channel.
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PatrynXX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jun-21-09 09:59 PM
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3. Was on CNN a little bit ago.
Saw the same video. right down to the tree line. I remember because I was thinking.. the tree leaves are blowing and all this is going on.
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