Bomb Blasts Rock Tehran Today--At Least Nine Dead

A news article just released by Editor & Publisher gives the headline to Sean Penn ("Camera of Sean Penn, Journalist, Confiscated in Iran") but the meat of the story is this: The worst violence in ten years has broken out in Iran as the ruling Mullahs attempt to choreograph the Presidential elections scheduled for this coming Friday.

Numerous bombs have gone off in Tehran and elsewhere killing nine; and a gathering of several hundred women gathered in front of Tehran University demonstrating for a return to pre-revolution rights for women. Police and plainsclothed security forces kept others from joining the women. Cell phone service was also cut off from the area.

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Women in Tehran demanded equal rights today (click to enlarge)

Poor Sean Penn even had his video camera confiscated for a brief time today. Could it be that the Mullahs are worried about all this international exposure to the growing evidence of domestic unrest and dissatisfaction with their iron-fisted, theocratic rule?

As always look to Regime Change Iran for the latest on this and other developing stories (one of which is that, according to US Representative Curt Weldon, Osama bin Laden has been in and out of Iran several times during the past several years.....).