Footage of enormous Mousavi crowds at protest in Tehran from CNN, Reuters, BBC & Sky

[Turborama]

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That looks like hundreds of thousands of people, if not a million.

Reuters raw footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_Whgup9OHs

BBC Footage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d6_2MrkN1lM

Sky footage: http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/video/Tens-of-thousands-of-supporters-of-Irans-opposition-leader-Mir-Hossein-Mousavi-have-defied-a-ban-to-attend-a-rally-in-Tehran/Video/200906315306746?lpos=video_News_in_Video_Home_Region_1

[chill_wind]

1. Thanks. Video link here (Sky News footage) as well. K & R.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x5852528#top

[Turborama]

3. Thanks a lot,

Just added it to the list above for easy access

:thumbsup: ;-)

[KansDem]

2. The sign, "This is not election. This is selection."

Now, where have I seen that one before...:shrug:

[ihavenobias]

4. K & R n/t

[ooglymoogly]

5. The dictatorship is scared and is hoping 10 days is enough to calm down

and eliminate the leaders of folks who do not want to be under a dictatorship. They need to strike while the iron is hot, as they did when they overthrew the king. kr

[ellenfl]

6. they're just waiting out the protesters. nothing will change.

the mullahs are in charge . . . totally.

ellen fl

[Turborama]

7. Not according to this guy...

Commentary: Iran's hardliners are the real losers

Editor's note: Fawaz A. Gerges holds the Christian A. Johnson Chair in Middle Eastern Studies and International Affairs at Sarah Lawrence College. His most recent book is "The Far Enemy: Why Jihad Went Global."

(CNN) -- With an apparent political coup in Iran by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his supporters over the weekend, the ruling mullahs have dispensed with all democratic pretense and joined the ranks of traditional dictators in the Middle East.

The hardliners in Tehran, led by the Revolutionary Guards and ultra-conservatives, have won the first round against reformist conservatives but at an extravagant cost -- loss of public support.

Widespread accusations of fraud and manipulation are calling into question the very legitimacy and authority of the mullahs' Islamic-based regime. The electoral crisis has exposed a deepening divide between female and young voters, who represent about 70 percent of the population, and a radical conservative ruling elite out of touch with the hopes, fears and aspirations of young Iranians.

=snip=

Moussavi's warning to the mullahs that stealing the election would weaken the very foundation of their regime and ultimately bring about its collapse carries weight because he has been part of the political inner circle of the Islamic Republic, not an outsider.

Full piece: http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/15/gerges.iran.election/index.html

A really interesting insight that's well worth reading in its entirety...

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/15/gerges.iran.election/index.html

[ellenfl]

9. i hope you're right.

those tasked with investigating the election are the same group who ran the election. surely you don't think they will indict themselves? again, i hope you right but in the words of jospeh stalin 'it's not the people who vote that count, it's the people who count the vote'.

i hope the people prevail. i think that would be a very good thing for us, even though moussavi is no liberal or even moderate.

ellen fl

[Wednesdays]

8. K&R

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