Posted on 06/27/2009 3:59:33 AM PDT by don-o
A leading Iranian religious leader has called for the execution of "rioters" who have led a series of anti-government protests following the country's disputed June 12 presidential election.
Ahmad Khatami, a member of Iran's Assembly of Experts, told worshippers during a sermon at Friday prayers that Iran's judiciary should charge such rioters as "mohareb", or one who wages war against God.
"Anybody who fights against the Islamic system or the leader of Islamic society, fight him until complete destruction," Khatami said in the nationally broadcast sermon at Tehran University.
"We ask that the judiciary confront the leaders of the protests, leaders of the violations, and those who are supported by the United States and Israel strongly, and without mercy to provide a lesson for all."
Under Iranian law, the punishment for people convicted as mohareb is execution.
'Healthy' elections
Khatami's comments came as the Guardian Council, Iran's electoral watchdog, dismissed opposition allegations of fraud during the election.
The council said on Friday that the vote was the country's "healthiest" since the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
"After 10 days of examination, we did not see any major irregularities," Abbas Ali Kadkhodai, a Guardian Council spokesman, said.
"We have had no fraud in any presidential election and this one was the cleanest election we have had. I can say with certainty that there was no fraud in this election."
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The statement leaves the opposition little room for further legal challenges over the election result, with the council previously rejecting a call for the vote to be annulled.
Supporters of Mir Hossein Mousavi, the main challenger to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's president, have led a series of mass demonstrations in the capital, Tehran, to protest against the results of the election.
At least 19 people are believed to have been killed in violent clashes between demonstrators and Iranian security forces.
Ghanbar Naderi, the economic and political editor of the state-owned Iran Daily newspaper, told Al Jazeera on Friday that the situation is now under control.
"Those who voted for Mr Mousavi in the capital have come to their senses now," he said.
"They are slowly getting along with the reality that yes, most of them voted for Mr Mousavi in the capital, but the rest of the country voted for Mr Ahmadinejad.
"After two weeks ... there are no violent demonstrations on the streets anymore and the last few people who used to take advantage of the situation have now been detained by the police forces and they will be put on special tribunal."
War of words
The protests have also led to a war of words between Iran and the US, which has criticised the conduct of the June 12 election.
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Barack Obama, the US president, has warned that Tehran wanted to blame the US for opposition protests.
But Ahmadinejad, Iran's president, called on Obama to "avoid interfering in Iran's affairs" during a speech broadcast on Iranian state television on Thursday.
"This is our friendly advice; we don't want to see the big disgraces of the Bush era to be repeated in the new US era," he said.
Ahmadinejad's speech came days after Obama said that he was "appalled and outraged" over threats, beatings and imprisonments of opposition protesters following the polls.
The latest comments by both presidents could complicate any attempt at a dialogue, which Washington hopes will include talks on the scope of Iran's nuclear programme.
“It could happen here.”
I breezily mentioned to my husband yesterday that I wish 5 million patriotic Americans would show up in D.C. on the 4th. Without missing a beat, my husband retorted, “We’d probably get shot.”
I’m 57, nearly 58, and for the first time in my life, I feel fear of my own government and president—a brand new emotion that I still don’t know how to handle. Thinking about tyranny has heretofore been strictly a theoretical exercise.
those who are supported by the United States and Israel
Uhhh that would be whom? And how is that done, when there are no relations?
Then there is this: “The protests have also led to a war of words between Iran and the US, which has criticised the conduct of the June 12 election”.
Don’t think so Tim. What was criticized was the treatment of Iranian citizens after the election.
Then there was this: “This is our friendly advice; we don’t want to see the big disgraces of the Bush era to be repeated in the new US era”. Those would be what? Freedom in Iraq, Spanking the Taliban and Al Qaeda world wide. Keeping Iran in the box. What?
Then there was this: The latest comments by both presidents could complicate any attempt at a dialogue, which Washington hopes will include talks on the scope of Iran’s nuclear programme. I don’t think Washington is at all concerned with the scope of Iran’s nuclear program. More like Iran’s nuclear aspirations, considering its radical Islamic view of Israel, and the USA.
The emotion I feel is not Feat but Anger!
mark
I eagerly await the calls to assassinate the muslim clergy. And hope that these calls succeed.
I wish I knew how to post jpg.’s like that-! America would have dropped thousands of these to those good people if we had a REAL President-!!
This is a direct admission that these demonstrations have not been about the legitimacy of the recent election.
ML/NJ
Most of the guns we have are for hunting...Outlaw hunting and most will give up their guns...In my humble opinion...
Well, this certainly shows the whole world that America no longer stands with those who will go out on a limb for freedom anymore.
We now are a shameful country led by a marxist kook
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To which I find this number fitting for those in Iraq fighting for freedom, Øbama’s comfort is as good as a stoning, axing, shotting, and the moment realized dying;
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Queensryche - No Sanctuary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czPbIkC2JTk
There’s a certain feeling
Known to all who hear the sound
The call of morning rising
You’re in a mystic space
Can’t you feel the force embrace, the chill of the wind
As it names you
Oh, can’t you see the lies in front of you
Your journey ends so far, and still the distance
Spins round and round you
Now you cry - give me sanctuary
You scream but no one listens
Again you cry - give me sanctuary
Until the end I’ll fight and die, to be free
Oh! No sanctuary
You’re walking halfway in
But crawling halfway out
There’s a void in your mind that you cling to
You feel lost in time, you’ve got no words to rhyme
No more charms, no more spells to protect you
Oh can’t you see the lies in front of you
Your journey ends so far, and still the distance
Spins round and round you
Now you cry - give me sanctuary
You scream, but no one listens
Again you cry - give me sanctuary
Until the end I’ll fight and die
Oh I’ve got to be free
A leading Democrat Party leader has called for the execution of "rioters" who have led a series of anti-government protests following the country's disputed 2010 mid-term election.
It will happen here before long. You don’t question a “messiah”
That’s the kind of post that gets FR labelled “racist” and a bunch of Ku Klux Klanners.
Very poor taste.
IYO
This is so disgusting, this is what it is like to have an IVY league liberal, who actually believes all the godless garbage he was taught, in the white house. These people have no soul. It hit me yesterday, these people truly are like the Godless ones Israel fought against in their promised land. After all, these modern day nitwits sacrifice their own babies. This is why our country is being destroyed. Obama is incapable of leading since he has been indoctrinated by those soulless ones! He doesn’t have a soul either, he is probably enjoying that people who are standing up for freedom are being slaughtered. I wonder if I am being too harsh? I don’t think so, not at all!!!
Don't get out much, do you?
“Standing by for White House reaction “
That wasn’t the White House?
That is the silliest thing I have ever read.
lol.
How do you say “ACORN” in Farsi?
Welcome.
The line forms at the rear.
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