The Ahmadinejad government - faction? - has moved to active repressive measures using police, military, or Revolutionary Guard helicopters to drop CS crystals mixed with water, according to reports, and the basij are out shooting and beating protesters.

There are also reports some of the Greens are out "basij hunting" at night.

This could get really ugly, very quickly.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist. -- Jean-Paul Sartre