Basiji, Pro-Moussavi Women Kick Off Summer Season
Tehran (June 25, 2009) For Basij militiamen and pro-Moussavi protesters, dressed-down for the occasion, Thursday's rally in Tehran Square was the event of the clubbing season, giving ruling clerics much to mullah over.
“I was hitting on everything with a pulse,” said militiaman Alkhutmeini Yukhutmawr.
Did he get any phone numbers?
“I axed,” he said.
Pro-Moussavi women outnumbered Basiji two-to-one, as the puritanical militiamen struggled to hold their own. Strict Islamist women looked on with veiled contempt.
“It was a gas,” said one woman. “you could feel the repressed desire everywhere. I’m beat.”
Not everybody could get a ticket. One mournful onlooker held a sign familiar to American deadheads, if somewhat inexpertly translated: “A Neda Miracle.”
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