Just cause this stuff is important...
The writer of the blog and these twitter posts is an Iranian that Gregg met through a friend. He is in Iran presently.
South is South
Homeboy on Twitter
There's a lot of information, misinformation, and rumor going around, and this is probably the last I will post on the matter (as I am neither there, nor informed enough to be a source of quality info). His description of the protests seems similar to what we do in Istanbul on May 1, except that paramilitaries and cops are shooting people. I watched an incredibly disturbing video on Facebook, of a woman bleeding from several bullet wounds: one to the breast, one to the eye.
She is most assuredly dead now.
The tactics and approach of the Iranian leadership are nothing short of fascist. I don't know if the term "Islamo-fascism" is being thrown around stateside, but I wanted to offer that the term is misleading. What we are witnessing in Iran is typical of how states behave, when their power is seriously challenged. Islamic, Catholic, Communist, Democratic... everything happening in Iran right now has happened before elsewhere.
From what little I know of Musavi's politics, I know that I don't like them. This is surely the situation for many protesters on the street, who are agitating for wholesale reform of the Iranian mechanisms of government and economics. Revolutions make for strange bedfellows, just as they did in Iran's previous revolution. I hope that the Iranian left has enough sense to get armed and prepare for a backlash from the political right, should the present stage of dissent succeed.
Otherwise, we will probably witness a repeat of the 1980s, with a new pro-western face for the fascism.
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