Iranian Special Forces Protect Mousavi Protesters

It was interesting that the special forces - who normally take the side of Ahmadinejad's Basij militia - were there with clubs and sticks in their camouflage trousers and their purity white shirts and on this occasion the Iranian military kept them away from Mousavi's men and women.

In fact at one point, Mousavi's supporters were shouting 'thank you, thank you' to the soldiers.

One woman went up to the special forces men, who normally are very brutal with Mr Mousavi's supporters, and said 'can you protect us from the Basij?' He said 'with God's help'.

It was quite extraordinary because it looked as if the military authorities in Tehran have either taken a decision not to go on supporting the very brutal militia - which is always associated with the presidency here - or individual soldiers have made up their own mind that they're tired of being associated with the kind of brutality that left seven dead yesterday - buried, by the way secretly by the police - and indeed the seven or eight students who were killed on the university campus 24 hours earlier.


more:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/17/2600571.htm
via:
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/6/17/743596/-Iranian-Special-Forces-Protect-Mousavi-Protesters

I do know those special forces were schooled on the popular uprising (revolution) by students in 1979. the current unrest is actually a replay.
They fought for actual (honest) Democracy back then and now they are taking a stand for it once again.

GOOD for them.