Updates on Iran

Wolf Howling A great blog I am sorry I only just found has this

Shown in the video below, 5 basij retreated into their headquarters to escape mob justice last night. According to the write-up on this video, the mob managed to fire the natural gas lines leading to the building. Five basij were believed dead in the explosion and fire.

 

Wolf also talks at length about the faultlines starting to show in Iran

Yesterday, Michael Ledeen wrote about “cracks in the regime’s instruments of repression,” noting reports that “many [IRGC] commanders” have refused to carry out orders. Further, he reprints an extraordinary appeal from several former IRGC soldiers who, on their farsi blog, accuse the regime and the IRGC of having become wholly corrupt and “calling on their brethren to defect, and join the revolution.” This is perhaps the most critical of all the faultlines, for if the security apparatus fails, there can be no doubt that the theocracy will be swept away soon after.

 

The question is how long will the protesterts keep going? They are already on day nine, can they keep going, and will enough of the security forces defect and join their efforts? If so, we all may be watching the beginning of a new birth of freedom for Iran.

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