Iran clerics declare election invalid and condemn crackdown (as Obama praises MJ)

Times UK ^ | 7/8/09 | Marty Fletcher

[pissant]

Iran’s biggest group of clerics has declared President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s re-election to be illegitimate and condemned the subsequent crackdown.

The statement by the Association of Researchers and Teachers of Qom is an act of defiance against the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has made clear he will tolerate no further challenges to Mr Ahmadinejad’s “victory” over Mir Hossein Mousavi.

“It’s a clerical mutiny,” said one Iranian analyst. “This is the first time ever you have all these big clerics openly challenging the leader’s decision.” Another, in Tehran, said: “We are seeing the birth of a new political front.”

[pissant]

Obama has had time to lie about where he met his wife, mix up Putin and Medvedev, sing the praises of a dead pedophile, and agitate for the return of a marxist to power in Honduras......but no time to encourage the Iranians to demand their freedom.

[Buckeye McFrog]

this is big....

[Chi-townChief]

bttt

[AliVeritas]

I would like to thank the US military; Without their sacrifices, the people of Iran might not have been as vocal.

Now when do we start fighting for ours?

P.S. O also met her at church.

[AliVeritas]

ping

[BeerLover NYC]

I want to see this play out a little more before I get overly excited. There is obviously a big old power struggle going on among the Iranian political elite. It would be funny if the mullahs in Qom were to make a move toward the more traditional Shia view of religion and politics—that clerics should not be the government—this is where Ruhollah Khomeini totally inverted the traditional Shia view in 1979.

[colorado tanker]

Zero has just confirmed the probable Russian opinion that he's a lightweight they can easily roll. There’ll be a new relationship alright, but not the kind Zero is talking about.

[stephenjohnbanker]

Obama being Obama.

[sono]

Yes ... Once again, the Drive-by Media is missing a great story.

[Riodacat]

Obama has had time to lie about where he met his wife, mix up Putin and Medvedev, sing the praises of a dead pedophile, and agitate for the return of a marxist to power in Honduras......but no time to encourage the Iranians to demand their freedom.

Yah, we need to make this about us!

[antiRepublicrat]

This is the best news so far. The Teachers of Qom are the ones who run Muslim teaching in Iran. They even grant Shiite religious titles, including Khamenei’s current one, and not all of them even approved his. In the religious heirarchy, I believe they are above him.

So going against Qom could start a real rebellion that Khamenei couldn’t quash.

[SoCalPol]

Thanks for the ping Ali

Obozo is to busy kissing up to his South American Marxist Thugs.

He also has a story for all events and it is beginning to catch up with this POS

[STE=Q]

We are seeing the birth of a new political front

Let us pray it is so!

STE=Q

[Eleutheria5]

“It would be funny if the mullahs in Qom were to make a move toward the more traditional Shia view of religion and politics—that clerics should not be the government—this is where Ruhollah Khomeini totally inverted the traditional Shia view in 1979.”

And this when the principle rival to Khameni’s title of “supreme guide” is Sistani, who adheres to the traditional view and has been instrumental in getting Iraq as far along as it now is on the road to democracy and sanity. The pieces of this puzzle have been assembled, and while I agree it’s not yet time to get excited, when Sistani goes public with a statement, it will be. Things turn international then.

[MissDairyGoodnessVT]

this is wonnnnnnnnderful news sounds like “i’m mad as he!! and not going to take it anymore scenario!!

[halfright]

BTTT !

[SunkenCiv]

pissant: Obama has had time to lie about where he met his wife, mix up Putin and Medvedev, sing the praises of a dead pedophile, and agitate for the return of a marxist to power in Honduras......but no time to encourage the Iranians to demand their freedom.

Wow! Well put!