Still Going Strong in Iran
By PrivatePigg ~ June 16th, 2009. Filed under: Iran.
Update: Everyone needs to go to this site and see the pictures. #17 especially.
Update #2: To hell with it. Here it is (AP has copyright):
Go see it in context at the link above. See it large there, too. This photo should win some type of award. Unbelievable.
Original post:
Mother-in-law spoke with grandmother-in-law who still lives in North Tehran (Mousavi area) and the demonstrations and “riots” are still going strong. Grandmother-in-law has been unable to get out of the house for days. All of the cousins, aunts, and uncles are participating in the protests.
Throw the bums out!
PS - Obama, please stop with the Carter-like “let’s not saying anything so that we can be on good terms with whomever the winner is” crap. Denounce the oppression. Denounce the suppresion of free speech and peaceful demonstration. Denounce the killing of protesters by security forces.
I’ve also heard that Obama will not say anything because he wants to be able to “work with” Ahmadinejad if he is, in fact, the winner. Hmmm. Sounds like Bush’s Saudi Arabian policy: do not criticize too harshly those with whom you need to work. We’ll wait with bated breath as the liberal MSM gets around to criticizing Obama
And don’t forget that the last time Iran erupted it was a Democratic President who sat idly by and let the mullahs come to power. I’m not advocating medling, or even declaring that the election was a fraud (we can’t possibly actually know whether it was or not). But now would be the time to harshly and very sternly and publicly denounce the oppression and restrictions placed by the regime on the people of Iran. The people of Iran are the most favorable to the West than any others in the region (outside of possibly Israel). Iranians like the US, they like American things, and they want to be a Western country. Unlike their Arab neighbors, they do not want theocracy (for the most part). They are also very highly educated.
Obama also seems to forget that unlike the other dictatorships in the Middle East, the Iranian one has only been around for 30 years. Young people can actually remember what it was like to live under some other type of regime. In the Arab world, most people have been under lock-and-key since their grandfather’s time (or worse). They are conditioned. Iranians still remember what it was like to wear Western clothes, listen to Westen music, meet Westerners traveling through their country to see the history and culture, etc.
Azadi bareya Iran!
Others:
- Pajamas Media: “[T]he BBC…estimates between one and two million Tehranis demonstrated against the regime on Monday. That’s a big number. So we can say that, at least for the moment, there is a revolutionary mass in the streets of Tehran. There are similar reports from places like Tabriz and Isfahan, so it’s nationwide.”
- Boston.com: Unbelievable photography of the riots. I love picture #17, where the women, covered by their chadors, run to the aid of a man being beaten by security forces.
- Politico.
- The Hill: “House Minority Whip Eric Cantor (R-Va.) lambasted the White House in a statement Monday afternoon, as reports came out of Iran of at least one protester killed in the tumult after President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claimed a landslide victory over challenger Mir-Hossein Mousavi on Friday. “The Administration’s silence in the face of Iran’s brutal suppression of democratic rights represents a step backwards for homegrown democracy in the Middle East,” Cantor said. “President Obama must take a strong public position in the face of violence and human rights abuses. We have a moral responsibility to lead the world in opposition to Iran’s extreme response to peaceful protests. “In addition, Iran’s clerical regime has made clear that its nuclear program will move forward,” he said. “The United States cannot trust the aspirations of a nation that is a state-sponsor of terrorism, and the Administration must work with Congress to do everything in its power to deny Iran nuclear weapons.”
- Hot Air.
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