The biased Canadian liberal media tells of yet another anti-American story from Iran today, while they totally forgot to tell you that huge violent rioting broke out again last night in Tehran… against the Islamofascists running the place. That certainly isn’t anti-American, so if I bend really sharply to the left, I can see their point from their perspective I guess.
The Tehran University dormitory complex is set ablaze as Iranian students demonstrate. (AFP/ISNA)
More on that in a bit. First, here’s all the news that the liberal Globe and Mail found about Iran yesterday and today:
More than 100 Iranians pledge lives as ‘suicide bombers’
BRIAN MURPHY
Associated PressTehran, Iran — Under a banner showing coffins draped with American, British and Israeli flags, more than 100 Iranian men and women pledged Thursday to become suicide bombers — if necessary — to defend their country and Islam.
The event, held in a burial area for war dead and martyrs, was similar to others in recent years, with Islamic chants and songs and volunteers donning white coverings to symbolize their willingness to die.
But this gathering — coming at a time when many Iranians worry their country could come under attack by the United States or Israel — was tailored to send a message of defiance against any possible military action over Iran’s nuclear program.
“The threats from America have swelled our ranks and given us added conviction,” said 27-year-old Margess, who like the other volunteers would only give her first name and used a scarf to cover all but her eyes. “We will stand up against them with our lives.”
OK Canada, you know the drill: drink in all that anti-Americanism. It’s yummy!
Meanwhile, they forgot to cover this story as ably covered by blogger Gateway Pundit (via Little Green Footballs):
Tehran Universities Erupt in Violence Overnight
Iranian Protests:
* After fighting with police and vigilantes on Wednesday, Tehran University students set their dorms on fire Thursday as protests grew more violent overnight.* Violence rocked the northern Tabriz region again on Wednesday as up to 16 were reported killed in the clashes including three students.
* Students at Ahwaz University in the southern Khuzistan Province also held protests on Wednesday against the regime.
Iranian student protesters continued their battle over governmental restrictions at universities in Tehran. On Wednesday:
Students who covered their faces with scarves lit fires outside dormitories through Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, photographs showed. By dawn the streets were littered with hundreds of stones they had thrown.
Deputy Tehran Governor Abdollah Roshan told the ISNA students news agency 40 policemen and four students had been injured. He said the police had arrested six people.
Senior student leader Abdollah Momeni said up to 2,000 students had gathered for the protest over the expulsion of some students and the way authorities had been handling critics.
He added 20 had been seized by Islamic vigilantes who broke into the dormitories.
“The main reason for the objections in recent days goes back to the limitations imposed on universities and political students after the new government came to power,” Momeni said.
ISNA added that the demonstrators chanted slogans against the Islamic republic’s top officials.
Iran is accusing the US and its allies of provoking the violence in the country.
The New York Sun is reporting:
In Qom, the theocracy was absorbing the aftershocks of a candid interview from Grand Ayatollah Montazeri, who told an Iraqi news agency that the current Islamic Republic has failed to deliver the democracy it promised in the 1979 revolution.
The stirrings inside Iran are the most serious challenge to befall the mullahs since the protests that accompanied the 2003 commemorations of the July 9, 1999, Tehran University student rebellions. They also suggest the regime that America and Europe are now hoping to cajole into suspending its nuclear program may be more fragile than intelligence agencies recognize.
One of the steering committee members of Iran’s largest student organization chapter at Tehran Polytechnic University, Abbas Hakim Zadeh said in an interview from Tehran Tuesday that his organization was now 90% in favor of rejecting slow reform in favor of nonviolent resistance.
[… read the whole blog entry and see pictures …]
The state-run CBC has nothing about any of this. They don’t think we need to know about this.
Perhaps the mainstream media in Canada is busy preparing still more whiney tendentious “news articles” for tomorrow’s papers and TV and radio broadcasts, about that nasty Conservative Stephen Harper, who despite their whining and temper tantrums that practically dominated the politics shows on both the state-run media and their competition today, still fails to kiss their fat, lazy, rude, petulant liberal-left biased media backside.
They might want to just do their jobs. Or as Laura Ingraham says, Shut Up and Sing.
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