Community | June 22, 2009 | 6 comments

A troubled week in Iran - The Big Picture

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In the ten days since Iran's disputed presidential election, street demonstrations have taken place every day. Iranian citizens, supporters of opposition candidates, continue to take to the streets and document what they encounter there, despite explicit government bans, the danger of arrest (many hundreds placed in custody), or possible physical harm (at least 19 deaths so far). Iranian officials maintain their stance that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was the undisputed winner, and have increased restrictions and pressure on opposition members, protesters, foreign media and communication networks as they work to regain control.
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  • Birdmanbob4
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      Birdmanbob4  
    • I am deciding weather Obama's responce falls under the old saying: "A day late and a Dollar short" Or "Better late than never" The words he said were like reading my mind or my blog post's or hundreds of thousands of Blog post's just like mine. Or maybe it was Neda who got to him and woke him up! He mentiond her twice. in his news Confrence. He was asked weather he recived a lot of pressure from John McCain and others he replied with a smile. "What do you think" Reglardless of what woke him up I hope he stays awake. When the leaders of the world want to start to act like Hitlers or little Hitlers the best thing they could here from America is Scilence. It does not matter weather you are Republican or Democrat nobody wants to see American Blood spilled to Stop a Hitler. witch is why the last time the Real Hitler commited the Murdering of innocent got to continue for so long. There was a Lesson to be learned from that war and our sitting on our hands for so long. The invention of the internet this time will open our eyes to all the killing of the Nedas much sooner than before. The World now can see that the brutal un elected Government of Iran is a Hitler. it is inevitable he will be taken out. How long we wait is the Question. The soonen we act the less Nedas have to Die. We all hate to be forced to be the Police of the World. We all agree that is the case. President Clinton used US forces to go in to Bosniea to Stop the Murdering of Thousands of Muslams and no one refers to that as Meddeling. President Obama must do the same....It is time to lead Mr. President

    • 2 years ago
  • Robroy1
  • nate_the_great
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      nate_the_great  
    • I think America needs to take a serious look at the policy of isolationism unless there is a clear American national interest at stake, we can't meddle in others countries' internal issues too much, not just because it is so expensive and we can't afford it especially in a time of recession, but also because of the law of unintended consequences, that often when we intervene into another nation's internal affairs (even though with the best of intentions) it messes things up even more than had we done nothing. Let other countries solve their own issues and problems, including Iran and Iraq.

    • 2 years ago
  • P_Lewis
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      P_Lewis  
    • And the BBC is reporting that Nokia Siemens is partnering with the Iranian government to enable the monitoring of cell phone traffic to identify and target protesters. Nokia Siemens has become a global provider of technology used by repressive regimes. They are a key provider to the Chinese government as well as to Iran.

    • 2 years ago
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