Among the most horrifying videos I've seen on the brutal repression by the Basij and IRGC thugs of the Iranian regime. Caution, very graphic. Found via the #iranelection feed on twitter. Via Italian TV? http://www.breakingtweets.com/...
Sorry, I have very little else to say except to bear witness. I knew a bunch of Iranian-american student radical leftists in the late 70's. Supporters of the various Marxist-Leninist-Maoist orgs. on the Iranian Left that helped to overthrow the Shah's SAVAK regime. Not Tudeh Party, which was moderate in the spectrum of the Left there but, ahem the armed struggle orgs. like the Fedeyeen and what became the MKO. Likely ended up tortured in Evin Prison when the regime rounded up thousands of secular leftists in '88.