On a lighter note -- if a lighter note is even possible given the current protests and regime violence -- this has to be one of the most poorly translated news updates from Iran I've ever seen.
Witnesses described fierce clashes after some 3, 000 protesters, many enervating dusky, chanted ” Fatality to the dictator! ” and ” Cessation to dictatorship! ” near Revolution Square in downtown Tehran. Police fired tear gas, water cannons and guns but perceptible was not shining if they were firing enormous ammunition.
The protestors were "eneverating dusky"?
And chanting "Fatality to the dictator" and "Cessation to dictatorship"?
They really need better chants.
Some protesters appeared to be fighting back, spot fire to fortify members ‘ motorcycles, witnesses said. Skillful were no immediate confirmed reports of fatalities and the head of Iran ‘ s police said his manhood had been ordered to act with restraint.
His manhood was ordered to act with restraint?
. . . . A massive rally in Abandonment Square Monday set execute three consecutive days of protests demanding the government cancel and rerun June 12 elections that ended with a the call of provocative profit for hardline President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Reformist presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi says he won and Ahmadinejad stole the selection cleft up general charlatan.
Abandonment Square? Would that be anywhere near Revolution Square?
Mousavi has not been empirical since a rally Thursday, but dilatory Saturday he regular his demand for the picking to be annulled.
I haven't been very empirical this week, either.
In a letter to Iran ‘ s Guardian Council, which investigates voting charlatan allegations, Mousavi listed violations that he says are proof that the June 12 vote should be annulled. He said some picking boxes had been sealed before voting began, thousands of his representatives had been expelled from polling stations and some animated polling stations had poll boxes filled with fabricated ballots.
Picking boxes? That must mean ballot boxes. (But yes, the violations do sound serious.)
” The Iranian nation will not conceive this unreasonable and lawless ” act, Mousavi said in the letter published on one of his authenticated Mesh sites. . . . .
Khamenei ‘ s account during Friday prayers effectively closed the door to Mousavi ‘ s interrogate for a otherwise feeler.
This almost made sense until the last six words.
As reports of vagrancy clashes became patent, Iran‘s English - tongue state TV said that a suicide bombing at the obelisk of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini about 12 miles ( 20 kilometers ) south of household Tehran had killed one part and disconcerted eight. The statement could not be independently confirmed seemly to government restrictions on surface reporting.
The suicide bomber disconcerted people? I'll bet!
The conduct more confirmed that police had used batons and various non - lethal weapons against what unimpeachable called unauthorized demonstrations.
Amateur recording showed dozens of Iranians great by oneself a gate after police fired tear gas at them. Shouts of ” Allahu Akbar! ” — ” Blessing mover is Great ” — could be heard on the minutes, which could not be independently verified.
Helicopters hovered, ambulances raced distinguished the streets and atramentous roll in terra cotta over the city.
Helicopters hovered! Ambulances raced!
And atramentous roll in terra cotta! Wuh?
The witnesses told The Associated Repeat that between 50 and 60 protesters were hospitalized after beatings by police and notice onions - government revitalize. Humanity could be experimental dragging dashing comrades bloodied by aeronaut strikes.
The Associated Repeat? Perfect! Finally we have an accurate name for the Associated Press!
But about the "notice onions" -- that can't be good.
And I don't even want to think about how humanity could be experimental.
Police clashed with protesters around Tehran these days after the presidential election. Gunfire from a possess multiform left at early seven commonplace, but supplementary outline had remained in tremor on until Saturday.
Possess muliform?
The supplementary outline had remained on tremor?
Eyewitnesses said thousands of police and plainclothes fortify members filled the streets to stop rallies. Fire trucks took development positions in Revolution Provide and absurd police surrounded Tehran University, the berth of delicate clashes between protesters and fairing forces, one estimate on said.
And if the absurd police have axes, is that still absurd or just scary?
Tehran Monarchy Police First-rate Ahmad Reza Radan said that police would ” liveliness select on bobby-soxer habit or challenge boost which are being path present by some folk. ” The boundary of the State Passion Council supplementary reiterated a warning to Mousavi that he would be skirmish liable if he florid - colored protests.
It's hard to picture anyone on Iran with a bobby-soxer habit.
And it's even harder to believe there's a State Passion Council.
Tehran University, which sits in the emotion of downtown Tehran, was cordoned put right away by police and plead while students inside the university chanted ” Tomb to the aloof! ” witnesses said.
"TOMB TO THE ALOOF!" These Iranians are new to this protest thing, aren't they?
Shouts of ” Viva Mousavi! ” and could be heard. Witnesses said protesters wore pitch-dark - shaded as a occasion of bewail for the insipid and the allegedly stolen choosing, with wristbands in pullulating, the boon of Mousavi ‘ s self - described ” Unfledged Greater ” drop.
Bewail for the insipid? Pullulating? Unfledged Greater?
Huge - garb witnesses spoke on contrariety of anonymity as they feared government reprisals for vocalization with the notice. Iranian authorities have placed boon source on the talent of independent media to invention glum grassy events, banning reporting from the means and allowing only phone interviews and deadline from officials sources similar as state TV.
I hate glum grassy events.
” I credit the regime has counsel an vast risk in confronting this directive in the invest that they have, ” said Mehrdad Khonsari, a consultant to the London - based Meeting place for Arab and Iranian Studies.
” Paired joust they ‘ ll have to determination their allegory and reliance that lands don ‘ t accumulate coming back. But history has taught us that persons in these situations duck their initial sense of iced sweat and become emboldened by disorder, ” he said.
Wow. I guess I'll have to determination my allegories today too.
Just the thought makes me break out in iced sweat.
Mousavi and the two other candidates who ran against Ahmadinejad had been invited to equitable with Iran ‘ s Guardian Council, an unelected body of 12 clerics and Islamic code experts close to Khamenei that oversees elections. Its supporter told state TV that Mousavi and the reformist candidate Mahdi Karroubi did not instant in.
The council has said solid was prepared to conduct a limited recount of ballots at sites whereabouts candidates claim irregularities but Mousavi ‘ s supporters did not withdraw his demands for a distinct choosing.
Both houses of the U. S. Congress agreeable a resolution on Friday condemning ” the unfolding aptitude ” by the Iranian government and its suppression of the Internet and cell phones.
You know, it's not really the "unfolding aptitude" that bothers us.
The government has blocked Mesh sites close as BBC Farsi, Facebook, Twitter and several licensed - Mousavi sites that are conduits for Iranians to proclaim the delightful body about protests and uproar.
Matter messaging has not been working normally for many days, and cell phone service in Tehran is frequently down.
In an prattle taped Friday with CBS, Obama said he is stand up concerned by the ” tenor and tone ” of Khamenei ‘ s comments. He further said that how Iran ‘ s leaders ” accession and deal with tribe who are, ended peaceful means, rigid to be heard ” will signal ” what Iran is and is not. ”
Finally, someone calls Obama's prattle what it is!
A attorney for Mousavi said Friday the opposition dignitary was not under cut but was not allowed to speak to journalists or stand at a microphone at rallies. Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf told the AP from Paris unaffected was matching becoming onerous to extent nation close to Mousavi. He said he had not heard from Mousavi ‘ s comical since Khamenei ‘ s directions.
The end.
And, hey, if I had to get an urgent message to Iran right now, I might be tempted to use a computer translation service too, which I assume must be partially responsible for this story. But wow! -- Use at your own risk. Results may vary.
For the record, I stand for freedom for the people of Iran and for all people around the world.
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