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Friday, March 25, 2005
Update on Protests
Reports are coming in of demonstrations taking place all over Iran (Tehran, Esfhan, Tabriz, Abadan, and others) against the regime, using the soccer victory over Japan as an excuse to go into the streets. The victory is an excuse for people to go into the streets. The people can claim the are celebrating their victory while those in their midst demonstrate against the regime.
The reports say that the demonstrations are dispersed in neighborhoods all across Iran. The streets are being jammed with traffic and thousands are gathering in the center of each of these demonstrations. These traffics jams are apparently protecting the demonstrators. The reports further state that those in the center of these demonstrations can be heard making statements against the regime. In a new development, there are calls for "armed resistance" and some are raising guns (a capitall offense against the regime).
Due to the extremely high volume of traffic in the streets, the regimes security forces are unable to send reinforcements to those areas where the demonstrations are getting more out the regime's control. Some are reporting that the security forces in many areas are frightened by the increasing size of the crowds.
It is now midnight in Iran. I have been told that people are continuing to go into the streets.
It is my sense that this is not the event we are all waiting for but one more step in that direction.
Still, I will continue to report these events as they unfold.
I will begin cataloguing these reports here.
The Student Movement website daneshjoo.org has published several reports: See them here, here and here.
