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Iranian Elections #2

June 16, 2009
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On a more serious note than my immediately preceding post, HuffPo has some good coverage of the situation in Tehran. Unlike the rubbish served up by TVNZ who were more concerned about the weather and Swine Flu.

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3 Comments
  1. BraveJeWorld permalink
    June 18, 2009 7:29 am

    The protests are impressive but will it create a change immediately? Probably not. Will it create a change in the long run though? Most likely. Ahmedinajad will have a much harder time over the next 4 years in how he manages his country. Should he get slapped on the wrist by the international community over his nuclear programme, which is very likely, he will have a hard time coming back to find comfort from his own people. Change could well be in the air.

  2. Serum permalink
    June 17, 2009 3:02 am

    While the worlds news media focus their attention on the embryonic developments emerging in Iran – with the possibility of a new counter-revolution forming to out the mediaeval repression and injustice of a fanatical and incompetent governing leadership and opting for a more open society with a governing system free of the Morality Police and the elimination of discriminating measures taken against women resulting in equal rights with men – the President of America, supposedly the land of the free, has stood out with his shattering silence while the world has been confronted with an Iranian regime that by all accounts has abused its people of a legitimate election and now appears to be bringing down its clenched fist on its own population.

    With this conspicuous silence, Obama finally voiced a feeble statement of how he was deeply troubled by events and that Iran’s leaders should respect the universal values of the democratic process, only to highlight his stunted knowledge of the undemocratic processes engineered in Iran. By all standards, it is inexcusable that The President of America refrained from immediately condemning in the strongest possible terms this developing brutal onslaught against people trying to claim their democratic rights, and supported them as an act of faith.

    It is of worrying consequences that after Obama’s Cairo speech in which he reached out to the Muslim world with a flawed foreign policy of appeasing the tyrannical leaders of the many despotic regimes in the M.E. and simultaneously undermined any democratic movements there and effectively abandoning them, that he has reached for the wrong people.

    It is of no coincidence that the recent election in Lebanon defeating the chances of Hezbollah winning at the ballot box – as opposed to the previous climb to power at end of a gun – after Obama and his administration wrongly figured that Hezbollah would win and let it be known that it would deal with Hezbollah in government, the people of Lebanon preempted Obama and displayed that while he was prepared to bow to a terrorist organization, they were not. It is of the same thought that a growing number of Iranians seeking a less tyrannical regime see that with Obama’s abandonment of them after having shown weakness to Tehran rulers and merely emboldening that regime, that they are now showing a resistance which may very well be the start of a counter-revolution.

    Obama having now been badly caught out clearly doesn’t know what to do.

  3. macdoctor01 permalink
    June 16, 2009 10:15 pm

    Thanks for the link, Adam. It was good to see some actual news. NotPC also had quite a lot on Iran as well. USA today had Obama expressing horror, but it wasn’t clear at what. The Beeb had halfway decent coverage. New Zealand coverage was utterly hopeless.

    It’s a sad day for the MSM when you get all your news from the blogosphere (though I’m not sure if Huffington Post counts as blogosphere any more!)

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