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Posted: **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.

Posted: **Wed Jun 17, 2009 5:51 am**

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Posted: **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.

Posted: **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.

Posted: **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...

Posted: **Thu Jun 18, 2009 2:04 pm**

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Posted: **Sun Jun 21, 2009 1:39 pm**

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

Posted: **Tue Jun 23, 2009 9:18 pm**

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POLICE in China - click the pic for story