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Iran Still Unsettled
What has happened to this religious system that it orders the killing of innocent people during the holy day of Ashura?
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The sins that you have committed today cannot be forgiven by God. If you don’t have a belief in God, at least be a human.
-- Mehdi Karoubi
The streets of Iran are in turmoil again, as the dissension over the disputed re-election of Ahmadinejad last June reaches another critical point. The deaths include the killing of the nephew of Mousavi, the leader of the protest movement and the man held to be the rightful winner of that June election.
The Obama Administration, after being criticized for being too soft on the Iranian regime during the initial protests last summer, now seems to be taking a stronger line on behalf of the protesters:
I only learned about this when I checked in at Andrew Sullivan's The Daily Dish today, and it's a great source for the breaking news of these demonstrations, and I got some of the Karoubi quote from Reuters.
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The sins that you have committed today cannot be forgiven by God. If you don’t have a belief in God, at least be a human.
-- Mehdi Karoubi
The streets of Iran are in turmoil again, as the dissension over the disputed re-election of Ahmadinejad last June reaches another critical point. The deaths include the killing of the nephew of Mousavi, the leader of the protest movement and the man held to be the rightful winner of that June election.
The Obama Administration, after being criticized for being too soft on the Iranian regime during the initial protests last summer, now seems to be taking a stronger line on behalf of the protesters:
We strongly condemn the violent and unjust suppression of civilians in Iran seeking to exercise their universal rights. Hope and history are on the side of those who peacefully seek their universal rights, and so is the United States.Even so, one supposes that necessity dictates that this cannot mean much more than moral support, but that is more than what has been given before, as President Obama did not want to offend the government with whom they would have to be dealing. The odds would still seem to favor Ahmadinejad and the regime, as they presumably will only exercise harsher levels of repression to keep power, but this is a stunning uprising that keeps going on and has only gotten stronger and more determined. History may be in the making.
I only learned about this when I checked in at Andrew Sullivan's The Daily Dish today, and it's a great source for the breaking news of these demonstrations, and I got some of the Karoubi quote from Reuters.