Police Pouring Acid on Protesters?

From NIAC: "According to Moussavi’s Facebook page, the police are pouring acid on the demonstrators."

Remember, "police" can be defined a number of ways. Does this include the Basij or is it just regular uniform police officers? So who exactly is it that's pouring acid on protesters? And how do you define "acid"? Could it be more like a mace spray, a pepper spray? Remember, sometimes things are getting translated from Farsi into English; how to translate things can almost always be debated.

This could mean that uniform police have big vats of acid and are laughing as people's arms are melted away.

This could mean the Basij are armed with pepper spray.

Either way, there are some very unhappy protesters in Iran today.

UPDATE: there are reports that there's some kind of additive in the firehoses that makes the skin burn. My guess is pepper spray.

Basij Hunting?

What the heck is this Basij force we keep hearing about? The BBC wants you to understand.

Basically, they're the cruel, heartless, brainwashed, suicidal/homicidal maniacs who dress in all black uniforms or no uniforms at all who have been committing random acts of violence against the protesters and against people's property in Iran during the recent protests.

I think just about every country in the world has forces like this. I'm trying to think about what the US equivalent would be. They're kind of like a cross between the US Army's super-secret, unacknowledged Delta Force on the one hand, and maybe a swat team on the other. Anyway, they're secret because they do bad things....like breaking into student dorms and beating students to death at random.

...and the Iranian public has begun hunting them down.