Iranian Government Paranoia

MA-Caver

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Here we have a country infamous for it's scorching heat because they're in a desert land. People have got to find a way to cool off. Watergun fights sound pretty cool and are probably a lot of fun... as long as they're done in fun. Yet the Iranian government smells something rotten and have arrested people. They fear counter-revolutionaries are behind the flash mobs and it's a prelude to what's happened in Egypt, and Libya.

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Milad Beheshti - In this picture taken on Friday, July 29, Iranian youths celebrate with their water guns, during their water fights at the Water and Fire Park in northern Tehran, Iran. Iran is trying to put down a new wave of civil disobedience - flash mobs of young people who break into boisterous fights with water guns in public parks. A group of water fighters was arrested over the weekend, and a top judiciary official warned Monday that "counter-revolutionaries" were behind them. Throughout the summer, Iranian police have been cracking down. In the first incident, in July, hundreds of young men and women held a water fight in Tehran's popular Water and Fire Park, spraying each other with water guns and splattering bottles of water on one another. Police detained dozens of those involved.(AP Photo/Milad Beheshti)
http://news.yahoo.com/water-gun-fight-park-iran-sees-dark-designs-150629272.html
 

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Good to see they can't stop Iranians being Iranians even with the government intimidation. The government are really starting to lose their grip (seemingly on reality as well as the people), hopefully they will fold entirely sooner rather than later.
 

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"When everybody's out to get you, paranoia is just good thinking."
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Mass watergun shootouts beat the hell out of AK47 shoot outs, which are almost the norm for the mid east...
 
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Mass watergun shootouts beat the hell out of AK47 shoot outs, which are almost the norm for the mid east...
By and large a majority of Middle Eastern people that I've known personally seem to prefer peaceful lives among themselves and with others. It's the relatively few radicals that screw it up for everyone else. We got some here of our own, not to forget.
 
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