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Iran Employing Nazi and Communist Tactics to Fight Opposition
News Type: Event — Seeded on Tue Nov 24, 2009 10:00 AM EST
Article Source: The New York Timesadvertisement
It is implanting 6,000 Basij militia centers in elementary schools across Iran to promote the ideals of the Islamic Revolution, and it has created a new police unit to sweep the Internet for dissident voices. A company affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards acquired a majority share in the nation's telecommunications monopoly this year, giving the Guards de facto control of Iran's land lines, Internet providers and two cellphone companies. And in the spring, the Revolutionary Guards plan to open a news agency with print, photo and television elements.
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...the government appears to be starting a far more ambitious effort to...re-educate Iran’s mostly young and restive population...
...Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has been using the phrase “soft war” regularly since September, when he warned a group of artists and teachers that they were living in an “atmosphere of sedition” in which all cultural phenomena must be seen in the context of a vast battle between Iran and the West...describing new efforts to re-Islamize the educational system, purge secular influences and professors, and purify the media of subversive ideas...
Brig. Gen. Muhammad Bagher-Zolghadr...outlined the “soft war” concept in a speech: “In a hard war, the line between you and the enemy is clear, but in a soft war there is nothing so solid. The enemy is everywhere.”
...the government has teamed up with private companies to begin giving out free home Internet filtering software...
The authorities have also cracked down on dissent within the educational system, hinting that professors who do not toe the official line will be purged...
...the group was opening the elementary school centers because “students of this age are more open to influence than older students, and for this reason we want to promote and establish the ideas of the revolution and the Basij...”
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#1 - Tue Nov 24, 2009 10:07 AM EST{"commentId":10866615,"authorDomain":"go-google"}
sounds more like the spanish inquisition. usually when gov'ts like this become more repressive than ever they begin to fall apart and crumble.
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#2 - Tue Nov 24, 2009 10:29 AM EST{"commentId":10879878,"authorDomain":"mwestenfelder"}
I would call it "getting even".
Or who hasn't noticed that elementary school children already pray to and salute the flag in the US while homeland security screens the Internet like mad.
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- 4 votes
#3 - Tue Nov 24, 2009 8:28 PM EST{"commentId":10879990,"authorDomain":"mwestenfelder"}
Actually I was tempted to throw in tens of thousands of Internet activists controlled by the state.
But that would be unfair to the US, given that it is Israel that pays and controls them. The US only pays so far that it hands the money to Israel to pay-and-control them (one bloody stupid deal for America, but anyhow).
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