In Iran, Canadian/Iranian blogger Hossein Derakhshan has been sentenced to 19.5 years in jail for his unsanctioned writings about the state of Iran. It’s a sad day for him, of course, but also for the Iranian people, who, governed by a grotesque set of fascist thugs masquerading as representatives of God, are no more free…
Category: Iran
Obama Still Doesn’t Get Iran
President Obama has been in office for nearly a year now and one of the most pressing issues in the realm of national security still seems to escape him, namely what to do with Iran. The Washington Post, no right-wing, war-mongering rag, says that Iran may very well be at the tipping point. That means…
Iran’s Protests Ending After Clerics Calls for Executions?
The New York Times thinks so after Ahmad Khatami, a senior Iranian cleric, called for the execution of protesters and the Guardian Council stated that the elections in held in that country were “healthy”. The direct confrontation over Iran’s presidential election was effectively silenced Friday when the main opposition leader said he would seek permits…
Iran’s Guardian Council: Vote Fraud Only in 50 Cities
These words speak for themselves: “Statistics provided by Mohsen Rezaei in which he claims more than 100% of those eligible have cast their ballot in 170 cities are not accurate — the incident has happened in only 50 cities,” [Iran’s Guardian Council’s Spokesman Abbas-Ali] Kadkhodaei said. Are young Iranians supposed to be comforted by that?…
Roger Cohen from Iran
Roger Cohen’s report from Tehran is a must-read. I hate to chop it up here, but there are some points I want to make. Iran’s women stand in the vanguard. For days now, I’ve seen them urging less courageous men on. I’ve seen them get beaten and return to the fray. “Why are you sitting…
Excellent #IranElection Tweet Cloud
(HT: Hugh Hewitt) From Jeff Clark at Neoformix:
U.S. House Supports Iranian Demonstrators
The U.S. House of Representatives, not put off by President Obama’s peculiar reticence to embrace the millions of Iranians desperate to have the kind of freedom first fought and died for in America, just voted overwhelmingly to pass a resolution in support of those protesting in favor of free elections in that country. Makes me proud to be an American, in a small way.
The West’s Moral Imperative on Iran
Charles Krauthammer’s latest re the standoff in Iran is an absolute must-read. Those who advise President Obama to equivocate now, at a crucial moment in history, must believe – mistakenly – that there can be a meaningful dialogue with the current government in Tehran on the subject of nuclear weapons and terrorism. But as Krauthammer says, the hope that non-confrontationalist appeasement will ever wring any important compromises from the pitiless regime that rules Iran is a chimera.
Hope n’ Change re Iran
Mr. Polite says: after just excusing a Black Panther for intimidating white voters with a nightstick, he doesn’t want to look like a hypocrite just because a few Iranian voters get beaten. Or worse. Very succinct and very apt, methinks.
Why Iranians are Still in the Streets
Two days ago I wrote that all people, in every nation around the world, are born with the inalienable right to elect their own government. The Declaration of Indepdence also indicates that we have the right to dissolve the state. The government of Iran has rejected this right, which is why the people refuse to be driven off the streets.