Sunday, June 21, 2009

Ely’s Tehran Diary: 'Tear Gas Left White Trails, We Could Hear Gunshots'

IRAN: 'Street' newspaper is being distributed by protesters


Iranian photographer for Life magazine goes missing

Al Arabiya's Tehran bureau closed indefinitely

Iran asks BBC reporter to leave


Policeman to protesters: 'Please, please, please go home!'
In at least one incident Saturday, police wavered in their resolve to break up demonstrators who had turned out to protest last week's election results, a witness told CNN.


Former Mossad chief: In Iran, worst may be ahead
"Nobody believed that the results of the election could spark these kinds of events in the streets of Teheran, and no one can forecast how this will play out and what the ultimate results will be," Halevy said in an address to a gathering of The Jewish Agency Board of Governors meeting in Jerusalem. He noted that the key players in the nine-day old crisis were making decisions on a "daily basis," rendering speculation on its eventual outcome meaningless, and urged patience and circumspection on Israel's part.

"If you wanted someone to tell you what will happen, you would be better served by seeing a science-fiction movie," he said.
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In his wide-ranging address, Halevy cautioned that the extremist Revolutionary Guards in Iran, which he said was the most powerful entity in the Islamic Republic today and a key element of Iran's nuclear program, would become even more powerful if the 2009 "revolution" failed.

"The worst could be ahead of us," he said.


Arrests of Rafsanjani kin show Iran clerics split

Iran silences street protesters
Iran deploys thousands of security officers in Tehran and protesters stay silent for the first time since a disputed election.

Mousavi says people are entitled to protest fraud and lies



Psalm 72
(For Neda and the rest.)

Of Solomon.

1 Endow the king with your justice, O God,
the royal son with your righteousness.

2 He will judge your people in righteousness,
your afflicted ones with justice.

3 The mountains will bring prosperity to the people,
the hills the fruit of righteousness.

4 He will defend the afflicted among the people
and save the children of the needy;
he will crush the oppressor.

5 He will endure as long as the sun,
as long as the moon, through all generations.

6 He will be like rain falling on a mown field,
like showers watering the earth.

7 In his days the righteous will flourish;
prosperity will abound till the moon is no more.

8 He will rule from sea to sea
and from the River to the ends of the earth.

9 The desert tribes will bow before him
and his enemies will lick the dust.

10 The kings of Tarshish and of distant shores
will bring tribute to him;
the kings of Sheba and Seba
will present him gifts.

11 All kings will bow down to him
and all nations will serve him.

12 For he will deliver the needy who cry out,
the afflicted who have no one to help.

13 He will take pity on the weak and the needy
and save the needy from death.

14 He will rescue them from oppression and violence,
for precious is their blood in his sight.

15 Long may he live!
May gold from Sheba be given him.
May people ever pray for him
and bless him all day long.

16 Let grain abound throughout the land;
on the tops of the hills may it sway.
Let its fruit flourish like Lebanon;
let it thrive like the grass of the field.

17 May his name endure forever;
may it continue as long as the sun.
All nations will be blessed through him,
and they will call him blessed.

18 Praise be to the LORD God, the God of Israel,
who alone does marvelous deeds.

19 Praise be to his glorious name forever;
may the whole earth be filled with his glory.
Amen and Amen.

20 This concludes the prayers of David son of Jesse.

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