CAIRO — Thousands of Iranians poured into the streets of Tehran on Thursday, clapping, chanting, almost mocking the authorities as they once again turned out in large numbers in defiance of the government’s threat to crush their protests with violence.
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In Tehran, police officers fired tear gas, and they and militia members reportedly beat protesters. More Photos »
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These people are courageously challenging a brutal regime for the right to have a true Deomocracy with real elections and not suppression of protests. A more moderate government, a secular government, is what they desire.
Pray for these brave people. Their victory will be a victory for religious tolerance in a nation that has become a brutal persecutor of any religion but Islam, a nation where the Zoroastrians and Christians and others have token rights in theory, but persecution is what they receive if they make a public display of thier religion, or proselytize.
Proselytizing, and leaving Islam are punishable by death.
