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Friday, June 26, 2009
Mousavi Silenced; Cleric Calls for Executions
Ominous developments in Iran....
AP reports:
Iran's increasingly isolated opposition leader effectively ended his role in street protests, saying he'll seek permits for future rallies. A leading cleric demanded in a nationally broadcast sermon Friday that leaders of the unrest be punished harshly and that some are "worthy of execution."
Iran's ruling clergy has widened its clampdown on the opposition since a bitterly disputed June 12 presidential election, and scattered protests have replaced the initial mass rallies.
The official Web site of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi, his main tool of communicating with his supporters, was hacked Friday, leaving it blank, an aide said.
Mousavi has said victory was stolen from him through fraud, challenging the proclamation of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the winner.
However, Mousavi has sent mixed signals to his supporters in recent days, asking them not to break the law, while pledging not to drop his challenge of the election results.
Hundreds have been detained in recent weeks, including journalists, academics and university students, and a special court has been set up to try them.
In Friday's central Muslim sermon at Tehran University, a senior cleric, Ayatollah Ahmed Khatami, called for harsh retribution for dissent.
"Anybody who fights against the Islamic system or the leader of Islamic society, fight him until complete destruction," he said in the nationally broadcast speech.
The cleric claimed some involved in the unrest had used firearms.
"Anyone who takes up arms to fight with the people, they are worthy of execution," he said. "We ask that the judiciary confront the leaders of the protests, leaders of the violations, and those who are supported by the United States and Israel strongly, and without mercy to provide a lesson for all."
Khatami said those who disturbed the peace and destroyed public property were "at war with God," and said they should be "dealt with without mercy."
He reminded worshippers that Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, rules by God's design and must not be defied.
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The key questions:
1. WIll the Obama administration persist in attempting to appease/engage the nuclear-arming Islamist regime?
2. WIll the civilized world unite to isolate Islamist Iran?
3. Will the reform movement morph into a revolutionary struggle? Are conditions ripe for a viable underground?
4. Will members of the regular armed forces secretly organize themselves to save the Iranian people from fascist hell?
5. WIll American Islamist-sympathizers and supporters and their useful idiots in the Obama adoring media revamp their propaganda and find new ways of blaming Israel for all the problems and troubles in the Middle East?
Answers to the above:
1. Yes.
2. No.
3. Maybe. Possibly
4. Maybe.
5. Most definitely.
On Violence and Clerical Fascism
Violence is common to fascism and clerical fascism and includes severe punishment meted out to all enemies of the regime. Allah may be merciful, but his fundamentalist representatives on earth are not.
-Walter Laqueur, Fascism: Past, Present, Future
Thursday, June 25, 2009
White House Spokesman Describes Slaughter of Innocent Iranian Democracy-Seekers as 'Debate'
Words matter....Obamaspeak is Orwellian--and stupid. But an adoring mainstream media is too dense or biased to question the nuanced nonsense. On the contrary; reporters, pundits, and anchors are crediting--or blaming--the Appeaser-in-Chief and his mouthpiece for seemingly toughening their Iran-related rhetoric.
AFP reports:
The White House Thursday accused President Mahmoud Ahamdinejad of seeking to cast the United States as the villain in Iran's post-election political turmoil, escalating a war of words with Tehran.
The latest sharp US comments directed towards the Iranian government came after Ahmadinejad accused Washington and the West of interfering in Iran and fomenting unrest.
"There are people in Iran who want to make this not about a debate among Iranians in Iran, but about the West and the United States," said White House spokesman Robert Gibbs.
"I would add President Ahmadinejad to that list of people trying to make this about the United States."
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