Revolutionary Ferment Continues in Iran
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The mullahs haven’t entirely won the day:
A sermon by powerful cleric and opposition supporter Ayatollah Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani reignited Iran’s simmering protest movement Friday, heartening thousands of supporters who braved tear gas and club-wielding militiamen to march and chant slogans across Tehran.
In a highly anticipated speech, Rafsanjani slammed the hard-line camp supporting President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, criticized the June 12 election results and promoted several key opposition demands. Analysts said his description of the unrest as an ongoing “crisis” was a signal to keep the pressure on Ahmadinejad and supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
Rafsanjani is, of course, his own version of creepy – but he’d not be as creepy as those currently in power, and even an incremental change for the better is to be welcomed. It might, after all, end up being a way-station on the road to Iranian liberty.
We should be doing more to encourage and support Iran’s democratic movement – even if parts of that movement bear no love for us. We don’t want the love of other nations – we just want them to be free.
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8 Responses to “Revolutionary Ferment Continues in Iran”
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The mullahs were never anywhere close to having won the day. That fact that the US media found other things to cover has very little to do with the situation in Iran. I don’t think even Rachel Maddow mentioned it when Qum came out in favor of the protesters. For the last several weeks, Iran has been a police state, and most of the important events have been happening behind the scenes. That doesn’t make them any less important, just less photogenic that Sarah Palin’s parents singing “Billy Jean” in Argentina.
You know that the Iranians don’t want our help… Right?
Maria Chapur fishing for salmon ethics complaints at Neverland ranch?
Sarah Palin’s parents sang “Billy Jean” in Argentina??? How did I miss that?!!
[a whisper enters my ear...]
OH… Never mind.
Now, what’s this about Maria Chapur fishing for salmon ethics complaints at Neverland ranch?
Oh… You guys!! Lol!
rico, no lol. Didn’t you learn that it is bad form to laugh at the guys on the short bus?
“You know that the Iranians don’t want our help… Right?”
Wrong. Or so said the Iranians interviewed during the election uprising, and the expat Iranians here in the United States.
But what do they know? A Rabidly Radical Lib has made a pronouncement, which is all that matters.
Examples…?