Babak Namdar

I’m glad an Iranian singer has decided to use their fame for educating Iranians.

The track’s chorus basically says that when you are choosing between bad and worse its no longer an election.  Basically Ebi is saying boycott the [s]election.

There’s this idea that the reason Ahmadinejad came to power was because Iranians “boycotted”, um… according to the numbers released by the Islamic Republic, last term’s [s]election numbers certainly don’t support this idiotic assertion.

If you compare now the slogans of what Iranians are saying during protests and with what was said four years ago, you’ll definitely notice a shift towards more radical slogans.  There are youtube clips floating around with people yelling “death to the dictator”, “revolution again, again” and “we women and men are are warriors, start the fight so we can end it”.  Why is this significant, because many “experts” claim that Ahmadinejad has drastically stifled dissent, and yet we see an increase in the number of protests and more and more radical slogans being used.

This demonstration took place at Shiraz University.

I’ll paraphrase the slogans for those that don’t understand Persian.

“Jombeshe daneshjoo-e amadeye giam hast” means “The student movement is ready to revolt”.

The next slogans “Ma zando marde jangim, bejang ta bejangim” roughly means we women and men are warriors, fight, so we can fight you back.”

Obviously the movement is getting more and more radical as we had predicated in statements years ago.  The slogans the youth are now screaming is a lot more violent then what was uttered during the uprising of 1999.