Well i have been really writing nothing impressive during the past 10 days at least. There is much hot news or interpretations. There is a deadlock situation in Iranian political scene, and not many people express opinions. The only case is that it seems the people still continue chanting late in the evenings on the roofs! Well, behind the scenes there still stuff going on. Some of the most soft spoken officials in Iran have spoken against the election process and results, and the hardliners are continuing their hardline talks and speeches against Mousavi and his supporters, and in favor of Ahmadinejad! by the way he is also dead quiet!
There is a sort of superficial report from yahoo! news that i share with you. It is in fact a summary of some different reports being put together in a way i call low profile!
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090708/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_iran_discontented_clerics
Tomorrow is the anniversary of the attack of paramilitia fores to the camp0us of University of Tehran and University of Tabriz, and a few days of unrest following the event. Somethign like a decade ago, in the first term of the reformist president Khatami, some news papaers have been closed by the order of justice department due to political reasons. A famous one was "Salam" news paper. It was a well structured newpaper managed by a group of politically active iranian reformists, and had criticized the politics of Iran strongly at that time. The hardliners who were not happy with president Khatami's popularity and his reformist politics, started to close the papers close to his camp! When salam was shuted down students have started mass rallies inside and outside the universities. But mainly inside the campus of Tehran University. The paramilitary forces with support of secret services attacked the dorms and injured many students and killed a few of them (depending on the prapagand you read). The result was students and youth in the streets doing rallies of thousands of people (much smaller as what happened after this election). After two day it was sort of quiet again, and the reformist government has apologised the people for it and has condemned attacks on dorms, even fired the chief of Tehran's police forces if i am not mistaken. All this was a short story of that time. That time, i was still in the last year high school.
Every year students comemorate the anniversary of that bitter event. The security forces never like this comemoration and they always try to sort of avoid any demonstration, but the students continue each year in a way or another. This year there are some rumors and also observed activities to make it a huge nationwide rally against what happened at that time, and more specially against the election results and its confirmation through the guardian council and the supreme leader. I don't know if it's going to be big or small, if it's going to be quiet or loud! or if thesecurity forces want to stop it or they just let the people demonstrate under their observation. Tomorrow can be a key date, the reason is that there is much symbolism behind the event, and potential demonstration. Let' see.
I don't know if i tomorrow find the time to write something or not. But i am going to a one week trip for some professional reasons, and i will probably won't take any labtop with me. Maybe i don't write during the week to come.
Till the next post
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