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Soral Donating Member (344 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 09:08 AM
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Over 1 MILLION protesters in Azadi Square Iran.
Edited on Fri Feb-18-11 09:53 AM by Soral


Here is a video of police just shooting away....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmalY0QOLD8&feature=player_embedded

Opposition leader has been on house arrest for almost a week... and in has been on a hunger strike during that time.
http://www.rahana.org/en/?p=10051

Video from CNN.
http://www.cnn.com/video/data/2.0/video/world/2011/02/18/sayah.iran.protest.deaths.cnn.html
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eilen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 09:09 AM
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1. Power to the People!!!!! nt
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FBaggins Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 09:13 AM
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2. Been praying for this since about 1979.
It's the start of something huge. No telling at this point whether the end results here (or in Egypt) will be positive... but it sure won't be boring.
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Soral Donating Member (344 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 09:15 AM
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3. It's been ongoing for a week... They are pushing even larger on Sunday. See this link
This is an excellent facebook page to follow for info in Iran.

http://www.facebook.com/25bahman

(You may need to use google translate)

Or just do a realtime search on google for #Iran

Great info out there, and our news sources have no idea.
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iamtechus Donating Member (868 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 09:19 AM
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4. Ahem.... Tahrir Square is in Egypt
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shraby Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 09:21 AM
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5. there are Tahrir Squares in other countries also. Tahrir means
liberation and it's not just in one country.
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Recursion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 09:26 AM
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9. But the Farsi word is "Azadi"
They didn't name their liberation square in the language of one of their many historical occupiers.
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jberryhill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 09:24 AM
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6. It's like those weirdos who think Portland is in Oregon instead of Maine
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-19-11 01:29 AM
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23. All over the place
means liberation
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madmax Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 09:25 AM
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7. Solidarity to all those who protest and make themselves
heard and recognized for the greater good. POWER TO THE PEOPLE :patriot:
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myrna minx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 09:25 AM
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8. I have to say that 2011 is turning out to be my favorite year in quite some time.
:grouphug:
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 09:30 AM
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11. yes, people are freeing themselves from oppression
Edited on Fri Feb-18-11 09:31 AM by bdamomma
finally. Strength in numbers we are seeing that first hand.
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Recursion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 09:28 AM
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10. Azadi, not Tahrir
Same meaning, different language
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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 09:52 AM
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12. Yes , Azadi Square , and calling it anything else just confuses the issue.
I also doubt it would hold a million without severe crowd crush problems. As was the case with Egypt the numbers are being exaggerated somewhat for whatever reason. In the case of Egypt their Tahrir Square would've needed to be 1km sq to have held the crowds mentioned - its not 1km sq.
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Badfish Donating Member (543 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 09:56 AM
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13. You better look again...
there are at least 6 million in the picture in the OP.
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dipsydoodle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 10:01 AM
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15. It would need to be
over a mile square to take that number and it isn't.
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Badfish Donating Member (543 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 10:04 AM
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16. At least 9 million.
get a clue.

Do I really need the sarcasm tag ?

They might have 200,000 ... in reality , but thats no fun.
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Recursion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 10:08 AM
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18. Clearly it's 17 billion people (nt)
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Recursion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 10:08 AM
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17. The rule of thumb is that in a dense crowd a person takes up 2.5 square feet
So a crowd of six million would take up 15 million square feet, or .53 square miles (that seemed low to me, but it's right), or 1.4 million square meters.

Azadi Square is 50,000 square meters; too small for 6 million by a factor of 30.
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Lisa0825 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 09:56 AM
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14. K&R!
:woohoo:
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sufrommich Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-11 10:18 AM
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19. Have been watching Al Jazeera this morning. The streets of
Libya are bloody.The Libyan government is warning people who are protesting that they are "committing suicide". It's hard to watch the footage coming from there.
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thereismore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-19-11 12:59 AM
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20. Ahmadinejad may be wishing he'd listened the first time around. nt
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Starry Messenger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-19-11 01:02 AM
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21. Holy shit. k&r
I had no idea it had gotten so big.
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Jack Rabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-19-11 01:27 AM
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22. Don't forget to tell former President Ahmadinejad to bring his dancing shoes
He needs to be ready for that performance under the lamp post.
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nadinbrzezinski Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-19-11 01:30 AM
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24. The whole region is exploding
that flu is ahem spreading.
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