Gateway Pundit and news from Iran

Glenn links a lot to this guy, and for good reason. He's always got some interesting story from the Middle East that we don't hear about in the mainstream media. Just today there was a protest in a mainly Kurdish area of Western Iran that got put down by brute force. Iranian military helicopters (yes, they had to call in helicopters like any other civilized government) reportedly opened fire on the crowd, killing 11 people. Now that's the way to get the populace on your side.

A few comments: I think that Iran is slowly building up to "powderkeg status," and by that I mean eventually it's going to explode with anti-government riots. Because let's face it, the regime there has not lived up to the revolutionary appeal that allowed it to overthrow the Shah in the first place. The current generation of Iranian youth are tired of the ultra-conservatism that the mullahs are constantly spitting out at them. They want to be progressive and modern like any other state in the Middle East right now. I believe it's only a matter of time before that whole country begins to erupt...