Guardian | June 11, 2010

INN Comment: This is an ABSOLUTE MUST SEE VIDEO. This is one of the best videos yet on the situation in Iran. Well done Guardian! Please distribute this far and wide. We will discuss the significance shortly as there are many ground-breaking allegations in this.


A two-month investigation by Guardian Films and the Bureau of Investigative Journalism reveals how hundreds of members of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard are defecting – in protest at what they see as a ‘betrayal’ by the Iranian government

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKomKeC2ifc

The original link on The Guardian.

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