The Iranian democratic struggle continues:
Hundreds of protesters have been injured or arrested following the sporadic but often violent clashes which rocked, on late Thursday and early Friday, several Iranian cities. Popular demonstrations took place, following last Sunday's unrest and as many Iranians seized a state sponsored religious ceremony and then a consecutive banned Ancient Iran's tradition named "Mehregan", in order to break Islamist taboos and show their rejection of this ideology and its concordant regime.Cities such as, Tehran, Esfahan, Hamadan, Ardebil, Shiraz, Kermanshah, Ahwaz, Falavarjan, Oroomiah (former Rezai-e) and Yazd were widely affected by these unrests. The most violent clashes have been reported from Esfahan where the crowd attacked public buildings, banks, Islamist centers and patrol cars in retaliation to the brutal attack of militiamen which were sent to stop their public peaceful demonstrations.
...The [ferocity] of some of the clashes, which were reported immediately by SMCCDI in the very early hours of Friday, were to the point that even the official Baztab Daily has acknowledged [today] the seriousness of some of them and the damage made to some of the regime's institutions, homes of officials and symbols of Islamist power.
Washington should testify that there is far more at stake in Iran than Islamists' acquisition of nuclear weapons.
SPEAK OUT: Via Glenn Reynolds, Jonah Goldberg laments the radio silence from Washington and the greater free world on Iran. We don't need another Hungarian Revolution; a pile of dead heroes for history to shuffle past.