Videos: Iranian protesters force government Basij thugs to retreat

Filed at 4:45 pm, Saturday June 20th 2009
by Arlen Parsa


Nice going. I wish I could say that the rest of Tehran looked as good as this… This next one is really something to watch for a couple of different reasons: it starts off with a few interesting things: a man wearing a suit flashes a peace sign to the camera, and a woman can be seen gathering up rocks and putting them in her purse to throw later on. Both of these are interesting for demographic reasons. What happens next though is disturbing: a man gets shot by the Basij seemingly producing a retreat by the protesters in what looks like a scene from a horror movie:

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