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 »
As tear gas canisters cracked and hissed in the middle of crowds, and baton-wielding police officers chased protesters up and down sidewalks, young people, some bloodied, ran for cover, but there was an almost festive feeling on the streets of Tehran, witnesses reported in e-mail exchanges.
A young woman, her clothing covered in blood, ran up Kargar Street, paused for a moment and said, “I am not scared, because we are in this together.”**************************************************************************************
TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's supreme leader has imposed his will on the streets with security forces that crushed mass protests over the country's disputed election. But he faces an unprecedented level of behind-the-scenes political discontent among the Muslim clerics who form the theological bedrock of the Islamic Republic.
The bitterness could represent a deeper, long-term challenge to the rule of supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. The outright rejection by some clerics of election results that Khamenei ruled valid breaks a basic taboo against criticizing the man who in the philosophy of the Islamic Revolution literally represents God's rule on earth.
We also would like to see an end to the brutality towards women by the religious enforcers of Iran. How about an end to honor killings and hanging women for adultery who were raped, not adulterers. Homosexuals? I believe they have a right to live, work, have a place to live. I don't hate them, thought some will claim I do, because I believe that practicing homosexuality is a sin against God. The homosexuals who know me as a friend or acquaintance know that I love them, and pray for them.
We don't hang homosexuals in the United States. I don't deny that some people show them hate, like the Phelps group, the Ayatollahs of American Christianity. In Iran, they are hung, sometimes after being raped by men as a punishment. How sick is that.
God's love and peace.
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