Masked gunmen kill local commander of Iran's

[aztek]

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Masked gunmen on Wednesday ambushed and killed the local commander of a paramilitary security force in southwestern Iran, an associate of Iran's top general recently killed in an American drone strike in Baghdad, the official IRNA news agency reported. 

The slain commander, Abdolhossein Mojaddami, headed the Basij forces, a paramilitary wing of the Revolutionary Guard used for internal security and other tasks, in the town of Darkhoein. He was gunned down in front of his home in the town in the country's oil rich Khuzestan province.

The case is under investigation and a motive was not immediately clear, but Basij units had been involved in violent clashes with demonstrators in the area in November in which many protesters were injured and killed. Amnesty International has reported that more than 300 people were killed in the unrest across the country, though Iran has not announced a death toll.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/masked-gunmen-kill-local-commander-094504012.html

Edited January 22, 2020 by aztek

[+joc]

18 minutes ago, aztek said:

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Masked gunmen on Wednesday ambushed and killed the local commander of a paramilitary security force in southwestern Iran, an associate of Iran's top general recently killed in an American drone strike in Baghdad, the official IRNA news agency reported. 

The slain commander, Abdolhossein Mojaddami, headed the Basij forces, a paramilitary wing of the Revolutionary Guard used for internal security and other tasks, in the town of Darkhoein. He was gunned down in front of his home in the town in the country's oil rich Khuzestan province.

The case is under investigation and a motive was not immediately clear, but Basij units had been involved in violent clashes with demonstrators in the area in November in which many protesters were injured and killed. Amnesty International has reported that more than 300 people were killed in the unrest across the country, though Iran has not announced a death toll.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/masked-gunmen-kill-local-commander-094504012.html

Looks like an uprising has begun after all....?

[RoofGardener]

20 minutes ago, joc said:

Looks like an uprising has begun after all....?

Wow. 

Just... wow. 

[Setton]

Oh look, another opportunity to blame the US and continue retaliation. 

Convenient. 

[RoofGardener]

2 minutes ago, Setton said:

Oh look, another opportunity to blame the US and continue retaliation. 

Convenient. 

Oh come ON. The Mullah's can blame America for the rising of the sun or a flight of birds. They don't need a logical reason to hate America.  

[+joc]

8 minutes ago, RoofGardener said:

Wow. 

Just... wow. 

Okay...what would you call it?  Isolated incident?   

[RoofGardener]

2 minutes ago, joc said:

Okay...what would you call it?  Isolated incident?   

I have no idea @joc. But if this IS an attack - by Iranian citizens - against the Armed Mlitia of the Iranian Theocratic State, then this MIGHT suggest that .. well... it may presage a true uprising. 

If the Basij leaders keep getting assassinated, then their grip of fear on the populace could indeed break. 

[+and-then]

5 minutes ago, joc said:

Okay...what would you call it?

Justice  

[Setton]

1 hour ago, RoofGardener said:

Oh come ON. The Mullah's can blame America for the rising of the sun or a flight of birds. They don't need a logical reason to hate America.  

That. Was. The. Point... 

[RoofGardener]

2 minutes ago, Setton said:

That. Was. The. Point... 

But... but.. but.. you didn't use the Joke sign ?

 

[+Hammerclaw]

Tip of the iceberg. He was too prominent for his death to be swept under the rug. Persian revolts start slowly, almost innocuously before gradually building up steam and becoming a juggernaut. 

Edited January 23, 2020 by Hammerclaw