ABC reports: Iranian protesters took to the streets today as they do every Nov. 4 to mark the 30th anniversary of the U.S. embassy takeover. But this year, opponents of the Iranian regime used the government sanctioned day of street demonstrations to challenge the hard line administration. While supporters of the regime led chants of “death to America,” crowds nearby shouted “death to the dictator,” a veiled reference to President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his political ally, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. |
| And via this video report, CNN adds the protestors had a direct message for America’s president too: “You’re Either With Us or With Them” |
| Meanwhile, somewhere on another planet, a pointy-eared man with a peculiar name had this to say about the takeover by Iranian militants of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran: “This event helped set the United States and Iran on a path of sustained suspicion, mistrust and confrontation,” he said in his statement. Read more at directorblue.blogspot.com |
British delegates joined a series of other nations in staging a walk-out in protest at remarks made by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a speech to the UN. |
Canadian delegates left the room before Mr Ahmadinejad had even begun to speak |
In his address, Mr Ahmadinejad launched a scathing attack on Israel, a frequent target of his fury, accusing it of adopting “inhuman policies” in the Palestinian territories. |
He claimed greater global freedom and the “awakening of nations” would force Israel to abandon its “hypocrisy and vicious attitudes”. |
British delegates joined American and French representatives in leaving the room at the UN headquarters at this point. |
A spokeswoman for the UK delegation said the walk-out was prompted by “anti-Semitic” rhetoric. |
Ahmadienjad’s presence was met with protests outside the UN headquarters |
He lashed out at capitalism, arguing it had reached the end of the road and would suffer the same fate as Marxism. Read more at news.sky.com |
“The pretext (Holocaust) for the creation of the Zionist regime (Israel) is false … It is a lie based on an unprovable and mythical claim,” he told worshippers at Tehran University at the end of an annual anti-Israel “Qods (Jerusalem) Day” rally. |
“Confronting the Zionist regime is a national and religious duty.” |
“This regime (Israel) will not last long. Do not tie your fate to it … This regime has no future. Its life has come to an end,” he said in a speech broadcast live on state radio. |
Britain was swift in condemning Ahmadinejad’s remarks, calling them “abhorrent as well as ignorant”. |
Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah which fought a 34-day war with Israel in 2006, defended Ahmadinejad and said he was criticised for supporting “the ‘resistance’, the people of the region and Palestine.” |
“Our belief and creed … remain that Israel is an illegal entity, a cancerous tumour, that must cease to exist,” he said in a televised address. Read more at patdollard.com |
On 12 June, many Iranians voted for the first time because they believed there was a real chance to get rid of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a man whose every utterance leaves them feeling humiliated. But a great many of the millions who came out on to the streets in the aftermath of the stolen election weren’t just releasing their outrage at Ahmadinejad or his plain-clothes thugs. They were expressing a message far more dangerous to the mullahs: the Islamic Republic does not legitimately represent the Iranian Nation. |
| From morning to night, we are told that while the Islamic Republic is well on its way to delivering divine virtues, the rest of the world is in a state of moral and economic collapse. |
| But even if they won’t admit it, our rulers must be worried. They know that after last month’s unrest and the violent suppression that followed, the nation is still in deep crisis. And they also know that something profound has changed.Read more at www.independent.co.uk |
First, the setting: on June 26, Obama |
praised protesters for showing “bravery in the face of brutality,” described violence against them as “outrageous” and said opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi has “captured the imagination” of Iranians who want a more open society. Obama also dismissed Ahmadinejad’s demand for an apology for previous criticism and suggested that the Iranian leader apologize to the families of those who have been arrested, beaten or killed in the crackdown. |
The reply came a day later: |
| Noting that Obama has spoken of “reforms and changes,” Ahmadinejad asked, “Why did he interfere and comment in a way that disregards convention and courtesy?”Read more at www.danielpipes.org |
| And his anti-nuke foreign policy plans! |
| NYT reports despair in Tehran as the anti-regime protests that threatened Obama’s peace plans sputter out, thanks to violence, arrests, tortured confessions and the threat of executions. |
| Former Spanish PM Aznar at WSJ: silence, inaction have consequences. You remember Aznar. He believed in facing down evil |
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. via Gateway: Iran detains embassy personnel. |
| … a top Obama foreign policy advisor told me the president still wants negotiations as soon as possible. “We do not believe that talking is a reward for good behavior, or that not talking is a good punishment for bad behavior,” he said |
Of course, Obama should never mute U.S. condemnation of internal repression in Iran or U.S. support for human rights as a price for nuclear talks — and he will not, aides say. |
You have to wonder if Ahmadinejad has checked out Twitter, and if he went through the whole “what the hell do I need with a site that lets me tell the world what I had for lunch” sorta thing we all went through. …Ha-ha. What a dick. Read more at www.youtube.com |
IF YOU CANNOT SPEAK PERSIAN, PLEASE TWITTER AND RESEND THIS TO OTHERS THIS NEEDS TO BE SEEN BY THE WHOLE WORLD
DISCLAIMER:this video was sent to me from Iran which has video proof of ahmadinejad proposing to change the islamic republic system in IRan at the moment to chane it to a dictatorship where people do not have the right to vote. The Voter Fraud of June 12 is a direct result of this proposition. PLEASE RT
PLEASE USE YOUR FARSI TRANSLATORS TO VERIFY THIS. |
I became aware of the vid after Allahpundit posted a request for a translattion via twitter. I then emailed several of Jawa’s helpers asking for a translation. I have a summary translation below the fold and also here at Sevenload. It appears to me the video was taken shortly after Ahmadinejad’s was elected to his first term of office. I did not see any gray in his beard. |
| The seeds of this coup were planted four years ago with the election of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. And while he has since disappointed his public, failing to deliver on promised economic and political reforms, his allies now control the country. |
| This creeping militarization has not been restricted to the central government: provincial governors, press commissars, film directors, intelligence officers and business leaders are increasingly former members of the guard. The elite force controls much of the economy either directly — the Basij has rights to oil extraction — |
| Technically, the pinnacle of power in Iran remains Ayatollah Khamenei, along with the 12-member Guardian Council. Yet he has proved eager to fall in with the president’s overthrow of the clerics. |
| Why would he deliberately undercut his own clerical class? Survival. |
| The unusually speedy certification of the election and Ayatollah Khamenei’s quick blessing — “a divine miracle” — only served to underscore an obvious sham.Read more at www.irantracker.org |
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Iranian Protesters to Obama: “You’re Either With Us or With Them”
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