re: #154 Rexatosis

Re #144 razorbacker

Good numbers if you have a second amendment to protect the citizenry against dictatorial governments but Iran doesn’t have such an amendment.

Slightly OT:

Where the hell is the news coverage of this on MSNBC or CNBC? Are they news networks or f***ing info commercial centers?

They have been forbidden to report on the protests or pretty much anything else. They’re sticking around merely to maintain a legal presence there, awaiting a thaw in their constraints.

Faced with an edict not to report on what they see, it would be tempting - if I were in charge of a media outlet under such a ban - to announce quite loudly and publicly that we were pulling all of our assets out of the country until such restrictions were lifted.

But that’s just me. Others might argue that maintaining a presence, even a circumscribed one, keeps the door open to at least continue collecting information for later distribution.

Reporting anything now, however, would mean immediate expulsion (at best) or imprisonment (at second best). Or something worse.