Reply #2: More from the article. C'mon DU! This is "hugh"

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"(The agents) only told me I should not be worried, he is safe," she said. "They told me they took my husband to ask him a few questions. They said he would be back soon but they did not tell me where he is now and how we can pursue his situation."

An official of the bus drivers' syndicate told Radio Farda that drivers will begin new work stoppages on 25 December if those arrested are not released."

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Please read the above and tell me this is not eerily similar to what is going on here!

People being quietly spitited away for "questioning", union busting, all in the name of "homeland" security, workers conducting an "illegal" strike, etc.

Someone should throw this at Snotty McClellan at a press conference.

I'd love to see Chimpy and the neo-con Pubs forced to either defend workers rights to assemble and strike, or Iran's right to arrest union members.

The unions are the last line in the battle between the "haves, and the have-nots".