BREAKING: Militia fires on Iranian protestors. #iranelection

@jaketapper

AP News alert FROM IRAN: AP photographer sees pro-government militia fire at opposition protesters, killing at least 1.

And if this is true:

@StopAhmadi (via AoSHQ)

The Basiji police that killed 4 ppl in Tehran got killed by the ppl! eye for an eye! #iranelection

…we’re now at the cusp of something. If the crowds start thinking that the militia are going to shoot at them anyway – well, they stop being ‘crowds,’ and become the Mob.

No, that is not good. The whole point of having a Velvet Revolution is to avoid waking up the Mob.

Moe Lane

PS: Jules Crittenden has put together a roundup of some of the reactions to the Iranian situation in general.

PPS: Via @magnolia_tree (her website, btw), these pictures. Whoa.

Crossposted to RedState.

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  4. I respectfully disagree. While I deplore violence in general, I will not hesitate to pick up a gun to defend my freedom or life.

  5. Well the reason that the Velvet Revolution worked was because the threat of violence was implicit. Prague, at the time, had a population of about two million. Eight hundred thousand joined the demonstrations. There’s simply no way for a government to stand against those numbers.

    I don’t think things are quite to that extent in Tehran, yet.

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