Sunday, March 30, 2003 1:00:09 AM · by SAMWolf · 48 replies · 10,297+ views
http://www.islandnet.com/~citizenx/bonus.html ^ | Brian R. Train
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.
love that picture
out!
standing!
I was thinking the exact same thing today - enough about world upheaval, enough about taxing us back into the stone age, enough about global warming lunacy, enough about our constitutional rights, let’s hear more about Wacko Jacko!
The government has rolled tanks on protestors before, but I can’t remember what the name of the situation was.
A bunch of military veterans were camped in DC protesting a pay irregularity and if I recall correctly, they were threatened with deadly force by the active duty military. Can a freeper help me out here?
It was in the 1950s, I think.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2280680/posts?page=1
Natan Sharansky op ed. Good read.
Yes, THANK YOU! The bonus army!
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.
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I know exactly what you mean. You know what that if we fear our government, we have already submitted to tyranny. They are supposed to fear us.
“When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty.”
Thomas Jefferson
You are absolutely right. The founders wanted the least government possible, and even then beholden to the people. They understood human nature very well and recognized the danger of the base human desire to tyrannize and dominate others.
Yeah, I was going to say - I don’t hunt much with my SKS....
oh no. We’ve now entered Tiananmen Square territory. :-(
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOL
I broke down last night and went to twitter.com to see what all the hubub was about. I looked up a local newscaster who's always inviting me to "follow her day" at twitter. Wow, what a joke. Seriously, what is this good for? The majority of the newscaster's messages are cryptic and obviously meant for an inner circle; the rest are along the lines of, "go outside and look at the beautiful sunset!!!!". I looked around at some other twitter accounts--same thing. I asked my wife if I'm missing something (she's a little more plugged in on things like this) and she didn't get it either. Perhaps the only people that get it are the "Look at me!" generation of reality show wannabes...? Either that or twitter has the best marketeers on the planet. Probably some from both columns.
I feel like Foghorn Leghorn talking to you guys...Is this stuff going way over your head, you gotta reach for it???
Most of the people in the US are Democrats...Most of the hunters are Democrats...Most of the Democrats don't give a flip about the 2nd Amendment as long as they can go kill some animal...
In our war of Independence, about 15% of the people got involved in fighting the British...
For you guys to think all of the gun owners in America would rise up to defend this country in the face of tyranny is ludicrous...
Legs, thanks so much for remembering and don-o thanks so much for finding the history. I had never heard of this.
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