When Wahabbi Isn't Enough

Found a whole series of interesting photos and stories about the recent Iranian demonstrations. I though that they might be of some interest even though they've been discussed quite a bit in the blogosphere already.

Now we all know about the protests, now heading into their sixth day. Apparently tonight, the hardliners were shooting in the area of the demonstrations and were just generally being pretty heavy handed in their approach to ending the movement.

But they haven't exactly been peace loving little thugs the last few days either:

A broken door of a student's room is seen at the Hemmat dormitory of Allameh Tabatabai University in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, June 14, 2003. Dozens of militants stormed at least two university dormitories, beating up students in their beds and detaining several of them as violence aimed at silencing government critics raged through Iran's capital. (AP Photo/ILNA)

Broken doors of the student's room are seen at the Hemmat dormitory of the Allameh Tabatabai University in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, June 14, 2003. Dozens of hard-line militants stormed at least two university dormitories, beating up students in their beds and detaining several of them as violence aimed at silencing government critics raged through Iran's capital. (AP Photo/ILNA)

And they're not just going after property either. There is a human toll to their evil:

An injured student from the Hemmat dormitory of Allameh Tabatabai University in Tehran, Iran, Saturday, June 14, 2003 shows a knife wound in the back. Dozens of militants stormed at least two university dormitories, beating up students in their beds and detaining several of them as violence aimed at silencing government critics raged through Iran's capital. (AP Photo/ILNA)

At least the demonstrators aren't being cowed by the terror tactics of the hardliner militants, as evidenced by the photo from the day after the ones above:

Iranian students chant during an overnight anti-government demonstration outside the campus of Tehran University.(AFP/File/Atta Kenare)

The demonstrations by both students and residents:

Local residents join students at the gates of the Tehran University dormitory complex June 13, 2003. Protests against clerical rule continued in the Iranian capital for a third night Friday. REUTERS/Morteza Nikoubazl

are starting to have an effect on the security of the current regimes of the region, as evidenced by this offer from Saudi Arabia of refuge to 300 Iranian clerics in case of revolt. The end is getting near for the Iranian nutcases.

And as our "friend" Saudi Arabia decides that Wahhabi isn't enough extremism for one nation and takes these nuts in, well then they're sowing the seeds of their own destruction.

I wonder how long it will be before Bashar of Syria and Arafat make the move to the sands of Arabia.

Sanity is coming to the region, one totalitarian dictatorship at a time.