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by Sassafras on Sun Jun 28th, 2009 at 11:14:36 AM EST
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Oh, and a coup in Honduras or something.

This is gonna be a lovely day.

I see shoots of green,
Red Velvets, too,
Pasdaran threats,
Honduran coups,
And I think to myself,
What a wonderful world!

Yes, I think to myself,
What a wonderful world!


Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin

by Drew J Jones (myfriends@thisispancakes.com) on Sun Jun 28th, 2009 at 11:22:41 AM EST
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According to Al Jazeera, the arrests have taken place over a couple of weeks.

Al Jazeera's Jonah Hull in London, quoting British embassy officials in Tehran, said the arrests had taken place over the course of the last two weeks.

"This is a sort of running total - if you like - of a number of arrests and detentions of British embassy employees believed to be local Iranians rather than British citizens," he said.

Which is even more upsetting, in a way. I imagine/hope it's been kept quiet up to now because diplomatic measures were being tried first. But it's horrible to think of people being picked off one by one. If any remaining local staff and their families want a plane ticket and a visa (if that's enough), I really hope we're seeing to that.

by Sassafras on Sun Jun 28th, 2009 at 11:56:10 AM EST
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BBC R4 says five were released this morning.
by Sassafras on Mon Jun 29th, 2009 at 02:45:29 AM EST
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