Things apparently going straight to Hell in Iran

According to this website, (note: unpleasant photo on that site) the Iranian thugocracy has finally started massacring protestors:

An Iranian blogger (whose URL I will not publish) (Unwanted Blog Note: it’s a Twitter account, located right here… Google ain’t that hard to use, people) live blogging from Baharestan Square in central Tehran today captures but brief glimpses of the unimaginable horror that took place today. Bus loads of protesters were stopped and unloaded from their buses by “black-clad police” and literally herded. When the massing was sufficient, as the barely controllably distraught Tehran caller to CNN described first hand, hundreds of the regime’s Basij thugs poured out of an adjoining mosque and commenced a massacre with axes, clubs, guns and gas.

From the live blogger’s eyewitness account:

>More than 10.000 Bassij Milittias get position in Central Tehran, including Baharestan Sq.
>Army Helycopters flying over Baharestan and Vali Asr Sq.
>The streets, squares and around BAHARESTAN (Approx. South-eastern of Tehran) is swarming with military forces, civilian forces, the security motorists
>The croud have moved to the south of baharestan, the situation is bad, the shooting has started
>In Baharestan Sq. in the Police shooting, A girl is shot and the police is not allowing to let them help
>In Baharestan we saw militia with axe choping people like meat – blood everywhere – like butcher

Another Twitter Blogger posted these:

we must go – dont know when we can get internet – they take 1 of us, they will torture and get names – now we must move fast – #Iranelection

about 8 hours ago from web Everybody is under arrest & cant move – Mousavi – Karroubi even rumour Khatami is in house guard – #Iranelection –

about 8 hours ago from web they pull away the dead into trucks – like factory – no human can do this – we beg Allah for save us – #Iranelection

about 8 hours ago from web Lalezar Sq is same as Baharestan – unbelevable – ppls murdered everywhere – #Iranelection

A YouTube video showing an apparently shot-dead protestor.

A YouTube video of a CNN broadcast includes a phone conversation with a supposed witness. Witness begs the CNN for “you people” to do something. “You people” probably meaning Westerners/Americans/US Military/Barack-“The One”-Obama.

One must be careful to view this sort of thing with some skepticism. Remember the “Iraqis dumping Kuwaiti babies out of incubators” thing before Desert Storm.

My view: civil wars are best to not jump into once they’ve started. Iraq and Iran have differences… we took down a thugocracy and got in the way of a *real* civil war (as bad as it was, imagine the bloodbath had Saddam been simply taken out, and a civil war broke out with nothing to try to moderate it). But jumping into Iran now would be a propaganda coup for the Surt-worshipping nithingrs who currently run the joint, and would very likely piss off the very people we want to help. The best the US could do is provide moral support, medical support and news/information support for the Iranian people. If an all-out civil war truly breaks out, *then* we provide more, in the form of small arms if needed, and the occasional special forces crack shot who can pick off selected targets. The rare F-15 or AH-64 or Predator zipping in and blowing the crap out of helicopter gunships or armored vehicles being used to wipe out civilians might be a good thing as well, but boots on the ground should be invisible.

It must also be remembered that in the first Obama administration (also called the “Carter years”) the President of the US totally botched an Iranian revolution, with disastrous consequences.  Learn from past mistakes.