Sunday, December 12, 2004

News From Iran

Strategypage has a nice recap:

December 11, 2004: Many Iraqi Shias are hostile to Iranian attempts to influence the upcoming parliamentary elections. This has resulted in some of the Iranian backed Iraqi political leaders getting threatened or killed. Iran, in the meantime, denies such interference. Iraqis know about the oppressive religious government in Iran and don't want religious police running around Iraq.

December 10, 2004: An increasing number of students, and young Iranians in general, are visibly fed up with attempts to peacefully reform the cleric dominated government. At the same time, the number of young men joining the Islamic militia forces has declined. The reformers still have the support of over two thirds of the population. But the Islamic conservatives still have the guns.
There is more, go ye and read.

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