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daba64 · Post by **daba64** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 4:13 am

freemason9 wrote:So, why are those signs written in English?

I think both the protest signs and the riot shields that say "police" are in English to communicate to the western media.

§ê¢rê†§ · Post by **§ê¢rê†§** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 5:51 am

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wintler2 · Post by **wintler2** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 8:03 am

Robert Fisk says protests are against Ahmadinejad personally rather than proMoussavi, and that its the militia doing the violence rather than army or police; do they have First World shields and body armour? may none suffer in vain.
Lester Brown/Earth Policy Institutehad interesting things to say about Irans family planning program.

sunny · Post by **sunny** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 10:05 am

What possible reason would the Iranian police have English lettering on their uniforms? It doesn't make any sense, but I'm willing to entertain reasonable explanations.

stefano · Post by **stefano** » Wed Jun 17, 2009 11:28 am

I reckon they bought them wholesale from a Chinese manufacturer and haven't got round to / can't afford printing the stickers in Persian. But I like justdrew's idea of an international authoritarian Esperanto...

AJ Hidell · Post by **AJ Hidell** » Thu Jun 18, 2009 2:04 pm

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marmot · Post by **marmot** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 1:39 pm

HaAReTZ collection of images, videos and Tweets from the streets of Iran

marmot · Post by **marmot** » Tue Jun 23, 2009 9:18 pm

rigorousintuition.ca

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