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httpv:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qmuSeyLjI5Y<\/p>\n

If you’re following events in Iran, you know that what may soon be referred to as the Ashura<\/a> Revolution is underway throughout the country and particularly in Tehran, with crowds of protesters out in the streets daily in numbers that haven’t been seen since June and July.\u00a0 Young people especially continue to be targeted for beatings, rape and murder by regime thugs, the basij<\/a> militia.\u00a0 Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei<\/a> is now openly reviled.\u00a0 There is talk of a general strike, beginning as early as Monday.\u00a0 This illegitimate regime may finally be losing its grip.\u00a0 One telling sign is that the fraudulent “president” Mahmoud Ahmadinejad <\/a>is nowhere to be seen and is not mentioned even in state media.<\/p>\n

The video above features a nightly phenomenon: people at their windows or on their rooftops shouting “Allah akbar” en masse.\u00a0 Andrew Sullivan calls it the “cry of freedom,” and it is, as Frye would say, as primary as it is primal.\u00a0 Sullivan’s site is easily the best raw news source anywhere at the moment — his Iranian contacts are pouring in reports hourly, and he’s blogging around the clock on developments.\u00a0 If you want to know what’s happening in Iran in real time, then Sullivan’s Daily Dish<\/a> is the place to go.\u00a0 Be warned, some of the video he posts is disturbing.\u00a0 As Sullivan himself has put it, this revolution may not be televised, but it will be YouTubed.\u00a0 Welcome to the new world of New Media.\u00a0 It’s why CNN is withering on the vine and newspapers are hemorrhaging readers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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