Excuse me, but does this look like a riot to you?
A Tehran blogger has
amazing photos (h/t
Andrew Sullivan). Throngs of cars line up rushing to fill up on gas as quickly
as possible.
Here’s ABC’s take.
Angry Iranians set fire to a Tehran petrol station and chanted anti-government
slogans in a north-west area of the capital in protest against fuel rationing
introduced in OPEC’s number two oil producer.
Setting fire to one petrol station and chanting anti-government slogans does
not constitute a riot. Protest, maybe. Hyperbole, definitely. Now it’s
up to 12 petrol
stations that have been torched, so we’re getting close to “furious,”
but riots have not broken out. BBC gets it right: Iran fuel rations spark
violence.
Gas rationing can make unhappy campers of anyone. The trouble with Iran’s gas
rationing is that they have no refining capacity and import 40% of their oil,
so they’re feeling the crunch. It would have helped if the government had properly
warned the poeple, but the religious thugs who run Iran don’t care about them.
LingerieMedia
is doing the proper flacking for the boss. Because this latest news of some chaos out of Iran no doubt comes as comforting
news to Deadeye
Dick.
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