“The result of the election comes from the ballot box, not from the street...”
Despite the varied internal and external reports of more ballots being counted than the number of voters in a particular city or town, etc. Right...okie dokie.
Maybe you can threaten to hold your breathe till they stop protesting?
In other news, Obama still continues to stay detatched from the popular uprising for freedom and democracy in Iran while continuing to dictate terms of a two state solution to the state of Israel.
Way to go Barack. Not too hard to figgure which side you are on!
The protesters outnumber the thugs 100 to 1. March your happy asses to the government buildings and take them over. Send the mullahs packing. Standing around in the street is great for the first week, but now its time to back up the protest with revolution, or back down and await your beating.
The Iranians need to cut off the head of this snake.
Khamenei just threw the gloves off in a way that everyone living in Iran understands, a thinly veiled threat of murder.
He speaks for the true power base there and pretty much told the crowds that you either submit or you will be killed, and that includes the losers of the election who are behind the protests as well.
It either stops today or tomorrow or there will be indiscriminate killings of protesters until it does, or people finally explode and they get the revolution they so desperately need.
Whatever the eventual outcome I think a lot more people will die before this is over.
You have to give the Iranian people credit when they get pissed they hit the streets.
Excerpt:
We just have to keep the demonstrations so big that they cannot attack us. If the crowd is just 2,000 strong, they can scare us with 200 soldiers. But if we are a million, what can they do? * * *
For the moment Mr Rafsanjani is silent, and we don't know what he's doing. But he's a very powerful man. He's the leader of the Assembly of Experts which selects supreme leader. He brought Khamenei to power, so he will be the one who brings him down.
Could it just be that Dubya had it right and once freedom got a foothold in the Middle East it just might propagate?
Of course you will never hear this theory mentioned in the main street media.
Riiiight. More likely the results come from some imams in the smoke-filled back room at the hookah bar.
Hey, it's kind of like Chicago but with different crooks!
And that's who's really running things, anyway. Elections and presidency in Iran is all a fraud. It's almost as laughable is Saddam Hussein's "re-election".
This, a blog from a young Iranian protester, tells what I think is the TRUE story here:
“Amir, Mashhad, aged 23: Please let the world know the people of Iran are using the election and its outcome as an excuse, their real problem is the whole system and the corrupt regime of the Islamic Republic. Anything that happens to us is because of this religion. How can I make you understand, religious beliefs are personal and should not be enforced on the public.”
It’s not about Mousavi. It’s about rooting out the muslim fanatics who have ruined that nation. Whether they will be successful is yet to be determined, but apparently they’re not going to be placated by a “prayer” and threatening words from a dried-up old mullah.
And our Supreme Leader Ayatollah Obama says we should not meddle and cannot bring himself to express support for the cause of liberty.
Like you guys did in 1979?
the iranians that twitter seem to think much of the military will refuse orders to fire on the citizens.
Unfortunately it looks like it’s going to come down to seeing if that is true - or not.
“If there is any bloodshed, leaders of the protests will be held directly responsible,”
I always find this sort of statement interesting. Kind of like, “if you make us shoot you, it’s your own fault”. Why didn’t they use that excuse at Kent State?
In a free country you give a rambling incomprehensible speech and you'd get booed off the stage.
In a totalitarian country, you boo, and you disappear.
Intimidating citizens is how these thugs get their "god/Barney Frank complex". We keep our freedom by standing up to them. The Iranians are getting off their knees.
It'll be over for us and them when we're afraid to boo a puffed up ego maniac. And when they slink away in fear.
Castro was a rambling fool and his beaten down citizens would stand in the heat for three and four hours listening to his drivel. Same with Kim IckyPoop in North Korea.
Same with the thugs in Iran. They have the "God/Barney Frank " complex - big time.
Yep, shooting 8 people and stabbing many others to death, not to mention the ones who have been beaten to death isn't bloodshed I guess. I suppose the people ran into the bullets, jumped on the knives and put their heads in the way of the clubs just to start trouble.
They have the mullahs scared and, God bless and protect all those who are truly standing for their freedom, they need to push all the harder.
Just like Obama, with these demigods there is always something that everyone needs “right now”. When the Mullahs took over they needed a revolution, now they need calm.
I hope the crowds will swell until they threaten Khameini directly.