What if the schoolyard bullies in the basijis got punched back in the face? Any American kid like me knows what happens when you punch the bully in the snout. He goes home and cries to his mommy. They don't know what to do when the target hits back.
Posted on 06/20/2009 8:12:54 PM PDT by Eric Blair 2084
With Iranians demonstrating daily to protest their disputed presidential election, the Iranian-American community has also taken to the streets in major U.S. cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Boston and Washington.
Sheida Jafari was among several hundred Iranian-Americans who gathered last week in front of a Washington office that houses the Iranian Interests Section to protest what they viewed as rigged election results that gave a landslide victory to incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad over challenger Mir Hossein Mousavi.
"For me, it's more about showing my solidarity with all my friends in Iran, my family in Iran, everyone who has to live under a regime that prevents them from living their lives freely," she said.
The Iranian-American community is estimated at more than 1 million. Many Iranians immigrated to the United States following the 1979 Islamic revolution; some came to escape the 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war; others moved here in pursuit of economic opportunities and education.
Despite differences in political views, the community seems united in its concern for the fate of Iranians back home.
Pouya Gharehdaghi said he wished he could be in Iran right now.
"It's my brothers and sisters - literally, it is my family," he said. "They're in the streets, and I wish I could be with them."
Mr. Gharehdaghi said he moved to the United States as a teenager and recently returned to Iran to work with the children of Afghan refugees and to produce a documentary.
For Iranian-Americans, the scenes of massive protests in the streets of Tehran evoke powerful memories.
"I remember going to all the parts of the city, and I can only imagine that what's going on in those same streets right now," said Ms. Jafari, a designer who spent a year in Tehran recently.
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This would have been a great moment in history, if we didn't have a POTUS who thinks he can change dictators, autocrats and authoritarians by dazzling them with his self perceived brilliance as one of them.
....so much for his “apology tour:”????
Meanwhile, we got 40 year old punks skateboarding down the hallways of The White House.
Can be expected when an immature man-child is in charge.
Sad but true.
Yada, yada about freedom for inanians. How do they feel about the existence of Israel. That’s what I want to axe these expatriates.
” when an immature man-child is in charge.”
You’d think eight years of Clinton would be enough to teach America never to make such a mistake again/s
They have some retarded pre-conceived notions. Nothing that a couple of decades in America and a culture of freedom can’t cure. Provided that they want to assimilate and become like us.
Well, if they can say from the heart, “Live and let live vis a vis Israel”, then I am 100% in their camp.
Good point. There are a lot of ethnic minorities from the Arab world here.
Good point. There are a lot of ethnic minorities from the Arab world here.
You would think. However, do to white guilt, Obama was elected … despite his Democrat credentials. Now we, and the rest of the world, are paying.
The CIA and Mossad need to do whatever they possibly can to help ovethrow the Islamic regime, and replace it with a more Turkey-like secular state.
Over 600 Iranians rallied in San Diego the other day
and several hundred more today.
What if the schoolyard bullies in the basijis got punched back in the face? Any American kid like me knows what happens when you punch the bully in the snout. He goes home and cries to his mommy. They don't know what to do when the target hits back.
Turkey-like secular state
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Not anymore. It needs to be free of islam. We can’t make another Iraqi Constitutional mistake of allowing the mandating of Islam being the Official religion and “No Law shall contradict ISLAM”.
IF IT AIN’T FREE OF ISLAM, IT AIN’T FREE.
Too bad they didn’t do enough to keep the previous one 30 years ago!
FWIW, my parents are Christians who escaped an Islamic country because of the persecution. I don’t think that natural born Americans (unlike Hussein Obama) know the half of it.
They have no idea how lucky they are to live in this great country. They just bitch and moan because they don’t have enough gubmint cheese.
The ROP is a tyrant.
Good reply
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