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21-Jun-2009
According to an article printed in the April 30th issue of “Iran”, a Tehran Persian daily forty-two days before the actual Iranian presidential election, the Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in a speech to a large gathering of Iranian nurses, teachers and workers of the country warned about the smear campaign waged against the election. He said that “there are some unfair individuals among us…who are eager to be at the center of peoples’ attention, but ungratefully go against the nation, and by echoing the lies of our foe, they cast doubts on the soundness and legitimacy of the system of our elections.”
The warnings of Iran’s Supreme leader showed that the plans of the current social crisis, executed now by Mir Hossein Mousavi and other players such as U.S.-inspired loosely-knit networks of “Iran experts” in lock-step with the lieutenants of U.S. and British corporate media, and battalions of foot soldiers - monarchists, Mojahedin-Khalq terrorists and disenchanted pro-western Iranians - were conceived long before the recent presidential election.
The election of June 12, 2009 provided these well-financed and well-equipped strata with unprecedented opportunities to carry out the first stages of their “velvet revolution”. The crisis has de-stabilized the Islamic Republic of Iran by splitting the nation along class lines – the pro-Western landlord, capitalist and well-to-do middle classes on one hand and pro-Ahmadinejad poorer city dwellers, the working class at the lower economic end and a vast class of small farmers. A great number of supporters of defeated candidate Hossein Mousavi live predominately in the luxury houses (called villas) and apartments in northern Tehran, expensive high rises in Shiraz and Esfahan. A two-bedroom living space in Northern Tehran costs over $450,000, much higher than properties in the New York metropolitan area in the U.S.
Western Connection
The U.S. Congress, the European Parliament and corporate media of the countries across the Atlantic Ocean have magnified the voices of the key opposition figures, giving all sorts of backings and encouragement to remain on the street, violate the laws, challenge the security forces, burn and destroy public and private properties and ultimately undermine the power of the state. On Wednesday, June 17, Mohsen Makhmalbaaf, the spokesman of Mr. Mousavi overseas, was given carte-blanche access to the Tribune of the European Parliament to spread lies and half-truths, claiming fraud by the Interior Ministry in the Iranian election. It should come as no surprise these same representatives who have demonized Iran’s president and been the backer of the U.S. false accusations about Iran’s nuclear energy program gave a standing ovation to this faker. Moreover, Makhmallbaaf does not hide his close connections with the Monarchists (past Shah supporters), and followers of Reza Pahlavi, the son of the Shah who was overthrown by the 1979 Islamic Revolution.
The person closer to Mousavi, his wife Zahra Rahnavard, has had several opportunities to use BBC’s television and radio facilities to cry on the shoulders of her husband’s British backers. In the last week, the major U.S.-U.K. mass media, including CNN, NBC, CNBC, MSNBC, New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times and Guardian and many radio broadcasts out of California that were funded during the Bush regime by the neo-con/Zionist organizations to saturate the Iranian elite with pro-capitalist propaganda could not be more delighted in their daily staple of demonizing Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and picture Iran on the verge of another revolution that could send the country along with its human and natural resources – oil, gas, uranium, cooper, silver, chromium, iron ore, lead, manganese, zinc and sulfur - back into the arms of the American empire. This is wishful thinking on their parts.
James Petras, puts the subject of interference clearly when he writes in this article: Iranian Elections: The ‘Stolen Elections’ Hoax, which appeared in Information Clearing House.
Almost the entire spectrum of Western opinion makers, including all the major electronic and print media, the major liberal, radical, libertarian and conservative web-sites, echoed the opposition’s claim of rampant election fraud. Neo-conservatives, libertarian conservatives and Trotskyites joined the Zionists in hailing the opposition protestors as the advance guard of a democratic revolution.
Organization of Iranian Elections
Let’s go back to examine the charges leveled by Hossein Mousavi against Iran’s Interior Ministry with regard to the presidential election results. In order to do so we need to demonstrate the structural framework within which the Iranian elections takes place. The framework consists of three independent groups: the first group assigned from the Interior Ministry manages the practical aspects of the election, including preparing the ballots, ballot boxes and providing information as to their whereabouts (voting stations). The second body of managers consists of the 12 members of the Guardian Council whose responsibility is to assure the soundness and fairness of the election, so that no manipulation or irregularities would take place. The Council also manages the announcement of the outcome of the votes. The third body is composed of observers made up of staff members from all the parties and individual candidates who watch to detect any mistakes or acts of manipulations. The groups have separate tasks, but work together to have a successful and fair election. In the process of gathering, recording, counting and reporting the votes if any violations occur, the observers have the responsibility of writing up the incident and gathering signatures of witnesses. This documentation is necessary for investigation and future correction if irregularities are found.
Let us for a moment assume that certain irregularities, violations of election law and manipulation, such as shortage of ballots, and denying some Mousavi observers access to the polling places had taken place, which led Mousavi to protest that there was wide-spread fraud in the election. The first question is why Mr. Mousavi, instead of calling demonstrations of his supporters “crying foul” for three consecutive days, did not present the Guardian Council with the violation reports and testimonies? In place of doing so as required by the well-known election procedures, he wrote a letter to the Association of Combatant Clerics (Jamaat-e-Ruhuniyat) Mobarez (Olama) in the City of Qom, complaining about the work of the Interior Ministry and even the Guardian Council and charging them with partiality. On the fourth day when he decided to present the Guardian Council with his letter of complaint, he still did not substantiate his charges.
Charges of “Wide-Spread Corruption”
Mousavi’s letter of complaint consists of seven paragraphs with seven claims:
1) the opening paragraph, which should have dealt with his essential claim of “wide-spread electoral fraud”, discusses the irrelevant issue of Ahmadinejad’s verbal attacks during their campaign debates against Haashemi Rafsanjani, the head of the Assembly of Experts and Nategh Noori, a member of the Expediency Council, a group whose function consists of breaking stalemates between the Majlis (Parliament) and the Guardian Council. What relations are there between the charge of election fraud and the content of the first paragraph remains to be explained.
2) In the second paragraph, like the first, Mousavi complained that during the campaign debates Ahmadinejad questioned the authority of Ayatollah Khomeini and also harmed Iran’s national security by alleging that the Islamic Republic in the 1980’s had the policy of cutting off youth’s hair and tearing the necktie of those who dared to wear them. Once again, all these have nothing to do with election fraud.
3) The third paragraph, while complaining about the non-cooperative work method of not only the interior ministry, but also the office of the governors, he claims in some instances accreditation cards necessary to certify their observers at the polling places were not issued. But again, the rational way of going about resolving the issue would have been to attach witness-signed descriptions of the alleged violations to the letter handed to the Guardian Council.
4) In the fourth paragraph Mousavi states that the collection and counting of the entry votes was supposed to be done by hand and hence using computers to report the final results would be considered a violation. Perhaps Mousavi’s campaign directors were expecting to deliver the results using horses or carriages.
5) In the fifth paragraph Mousavi’s complaint is about shortages of ballot papers in some stations. He may not know that in the U.S., the most technologically developed country, there have been instances that the whole computer system has gone down for hours, until they are further repaired or substituted.
6) The claim in paragraph six is too general to be considered a description of a concrete violation.
7) In the seventh and last paragraph, his complaint is that during the electoral campaign Ahmadinejad had been given more time by the state television and radio stations. He further stated that Ahmadinejad in his pre-election campaign used the government facilities, such as cars and planes, to pay visits to cities and towns around the country. Perhaps he doesn’t know that the incumbent presidents and congressmen and women use the means of transportation made available to them while in office. Therefore, the use of such means by an incumbent president is not a violation and after all these issues raised in the letter doesn’t prove “wide-spread fraud” in the election.
Privatization of National Assets
The bitter truth is that the major cause of the differences among the upper echelon of Iran’s political leadership goes much beyond the dichotomies concerning the election results. One of the most crucial issues discussed much before and during the election campaign has been the problems with the economy of Iran and its critical components, such as high rates of unemployment and inflation, low levels of labor productivity, and handling the monetary and fiscal policies.
But among all these vital parts, privatization of the state’s industrial, financial, mining and infra-structural assets attract the most attention of the domestic and foreign owners of capital – this is the focal point where the political agents of social forces fight to the death. Privatization of the state assets is the greatest motive force for capturing the state power for use as a tool to shape Iran’s wealth distribution and concentration of capital in the hands of a few for decades to come.
While the working class, small shop keepers and family farmers are mainly concerned with the hazards and pain of unemployment, high prices of necessities of life such as food, shelter, means of transportation, health care services and educational expenses, the big landlords, owners of private banks, insurance companies and shareholders in the stock markets are busy purchasing the state-owned factories, railways and bank assets at fire-sale prices, an arrangement which had methodically been the fast track of becoming wealthy over-night at the expense of the entire nation.
While Tehran, Shiraz and Isfahan college students aspire to gain employment opportunities, cultural and social freedoms, the big capitalist class is networking the strategy of how to use the vigor and vital energy of the intellectuals, artists, university professors, along with the entire middle class to capture the state power, not for its own sake, but as a bridge to the national wealth, whose thousands of factories are awaiting to be auctioned soon after the election. Mir Hossein Mousavi cannot wait to be in charge of giving these establishments away to the rich Iranians.
Therefore, while the upper middle and educated class dreams of widening its social space, the moneyed class is busy dreaming about the easy access to the wealth of the nation that it took the state a century or more to accumulate.
The experience of Russians after the collapse of the Soviet Socialist state and the immediate rise of a class of oligarchy that attained the status of billionaires is still fresh in our minds, the charges and counter-charges between the reformists, which in fact is a misnomer, and the Ahmadinejad administration has been centered around the depth and breadth, but more so, on the pace and the kind of economic sectors which would be up for grabs on the auction block. This current election and the ensuing upheaval is in essence more about who - the capitalist class or the workers - will get the lion’s share of the people’s assets.
AUTHOR
Ardeshir Ommani is an Iranian-born writer and an activist in the U.S. anti-war and anti-imperialist struggle for over 40 years. During the past seven years, he has participated in the U.S. peace movement, working to promote dialogue and peace among nations and to prevent a U.S.-spurred war on Iran. He holds two Masters Degrees: one in Political Economy and another in Mathematics Education. Co-founder of the American Iranian Friendship Committee, (AIFC), he writes articles of analysis on Iran -U.S. relations, the U.S. economy and has translated articles and books from English into Farsi, the Persian language. After many years of absence, he has been traveling back to Iran and is witnessing first-hand the myriad of changes in all spheres of life inside his homeland. Please visit AIFC’s website to learn more about Iran and Global issues at www.iranaifc.com. The author may be contacted at: ardeshiromm@optonline.net.
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Now
by jeromeco on Fri Jul 03, 2009 02:40 AM PDTEach One of Us is A Very Precious Creation /There is no difference /We All Live Here Together on Our Shared Planet Earth & We Can Choose to offer Appropriate Love / Compassion / Generosity of Spirit / Wisdom & Understanding / and the quiet stillness of valid truth /There is no room across Our Shared Planet for Any Kind of Violence to Any Human Being /We Can Choose to hold hands together - All of Us – /We Are Each One of us Responsible for what We See & Hear on Our Streets /TV screens/Radios & Newspapers /When new choose not to help we bring into being other peoples’ Perspectives /When We Choose to Contribute Our Own Perspective We confront our own Unwillingness to take Personal Responsibility and we begin to leave that behind /We All Live Here on the Same Planet Together & We Have Our Chances to Choose Appropriate Love & Compassion alongside Wisdom & Courage /We Have the Challenge to try and understand there is no “Them-and-Us” / There is Only “Us” /There is No Difference
iranian voting was never rigged
by lena3d on Thu Jun 25, 2009 11:52 AM PDTFrom the beginning I would ahmadinejad would win months before the lection happend I told a friend of mine Omid .So It wasn't a big shock last week when he did I was just shocked by the aftermath ,everything is this article is true .From the bbc and nbc refusing to show pro Ahmadinejad rallies ,to the mko and Mossad involvement.People like Jahanshah Rashidian ,
Not you Anonymous^2,and What a bunch of crap! Obviously cannot handle the truth of the the biast, Zionist,thuggish ,and darn right racist tendencies of the anti Islamic republic .Everyone who is against Mousavi is either a anti democratic (which coming from imperialist ,elitist un democratic Shah supporters) is a joke...quite literally,Muzzies ,Arab lovers, or communist! Is that what you label people who are trying to fight a back of savage wolves!Would you call a rabbit that? .That's ahmadinejads supporters the rabbits! the poor, the elderly,the working class,the rich elite will be taxed less and will have all the money in the world so it makes sence that his supporters would be apparantly pro monarchist,anti Islamic,Racist, biast ,and above all middle and upper class!.I believe this article 100 percent ,people are blinded by western and zionist influence in the media and I will pass this on to everyone I know.Thank you Iranian.com !
From the beginning I would
by Anonymousb (not verified) on Thu Jun 25, 2009 11:46 AM PDTFrom the beginning I would ahmadinejad would win months before the lection happend I told a friend of mine Omid .So It wasn't a big shock last week when he did I was just shocked by the aftermath ,everything is this article is true .From the bbc and nbc refusing to show pro Ahmadinejad rallies ,to the mko and Mossad involvement.People like Jahanshah Rashidian ,
Not you Anonymous^2,and What a bunch of crap! Obviously cannot handle the truth of the the biast, Zionist,thuggish ,and darn right racist tendencies of the anti Islamic republic .Everyone who is against Mousavi is either a anti democratic (which coming from imperialist ,elitist un democratic Shah supporters) is a joke...quite literally,Muzzies ,Arab lovers, or communist! Is that what you label people who are trying to fight a back of savage wolves!Would you call a rabbit that? .That's ahmadinejads supporters the rabbits! the poor, the elderly,the working class,the rich elite will be taxed less and will have all the money in the world so it makes sence that his supporters would be apparantly pro monarchist,anti Islamic,Racist, biast ,and above all middle and upper class!.I believe this article 100 percent ,people are blinded by western and zionist influence in the media and I will pass this on to everyone I know.Thank you Iranian.com !
From the beginning I would
by Anonymous3d (not verified) on Thu Jun 25, 2009 11:45 AM PDTFrom the beginning I would ahmadinejad would win months before the lection happend I told a friend of mine Omid .So It wasn't a big shock last week when he did I was just shocked by the aftermath ,everything is this article is true .From the bbc and nbc refusing to show pro Ahmadinejad rallies ,to the mko and Mossad involvement.People like Jahanshah Rashidian ,
Not you Anonymous^2,and What a bunch of crap! Obviously cannot handle the truth of the the biast, Zionist,thuggish ,and darn right racist tendencies of the anti Islamic republic .Everyone who is against Mousavi is either a anti democratic (which coming from imperialist ,elitist un democratic Shah supporters) is a joke...quite literally,Muzzies ,Arab lovers, or communist! Is that what you label people who are trying to fight a back of savage wolves!Would you call a rabbit that? .That's ahmadinejads supporters the rabbits! the poor, the elderly,the working class,the rich elite will be taxed less and will have all the money in the world so it makes sence that his supporters would be apparantly pro monarchist,anti Islamic,Racist, biast ,and above all middle and upper class!.I believe this article 100 percent ,people are blinded by western and zionist influence in the media and I will pass this on to everyone I know.Thank you Iranian.com !
Brilliant comedy
by Anonymous22221 (not verified) on Mon Jun 22, 2009 08:30 PM PDTROFLMAO! Great piece of comic writing! What wonderful satire! I doubt if The Colbert Report writers could have done it any better! I am not sure how many people "get the joke" but you sir, have written a great parody of an addled, morally bankrupt Marxist Leninist.
It's all here: bald unsupported assertions masquerading as "class analysis", justification of mass human rights abuses, denigration of individual worth, gratuitous and unsupported accusations against the US. Just like its 1975 and we are listening in on some Tudeh party meeting. Too bad all those chaps got shot.
Ardeshir Ommani
by Dariush (not verified) on Mon Jun 22, 2009 06:57 PM PDTLet us not deny the truth. The images at first gave me such impression, but later proved the number of people were in millions not thousands and mostly from the middle class and below not wealthy, and many with hejab.
Regardless of who, how or what, the solution is not stabbing, shooting and killing.
The unjust and wrong decisions of khamenei has turned the velayateh-fagheeh to sheghavateh-fajeeh. Now, he is not only exposed and should be embarrassed for the fraud, he is also responsible for murdering innocent people. Cooperation of government and opposition would have only kept everything calm and under control and neutralize any other possibilities. They showed they have the power to make the right decision, but decided to make the wrong. With all that happened, i still don't see Mousavi organizing the movement. He still is calling people to get out and get killed. I was wrong about the lack of security personnel. There were some, but just for the leaders. People don't count. They are just numbers.
Hi, I am schocked by the
by Farvardin (not verified) on Mon Jun 22, 2009 05:47 PM PDTHi,
I am schocked by the comments I see here. They are full of hate and does definitly not represent the people who long for freedom of speech and in that includes hearing what one do not like. This article shows another perspective of what happening today, and that may not fit Into the "dominated" views in some communities. In any case, these info was valuable.
Ardeshir O. Have you seen JJ's youtube today? Queen?
by I Have a Crush on Alex Trebek on Mon Jun 22, 2009 07:39 AM PDT"I WANT TO BREAK FREE". I think he should put one for the people who are still trying to deny the human rights problems in Iran which are related directly to these uprisings! That vide would be "YOU'RE MY BEST FRIEND". You and Mahmoud can eat chello Kabob in Libya when it's all over. Iranians aren't THAT revenge seeking. Enjoy him.
You are exactly like the poeple who you are criticizing...
by Mammad Dammagh (not verified) on Mon Jun 22, 2009 06:51 AM PDT...a pro censor hypocrite that you are.
And Shame on you all that are mixing struggle for Palestinian rights with your racial biases.
Shame on You
What?
by AnonymousWhat? (not verified) on Mon Jun 22, 2009 05:47 AM PDT"burn and destroy public and private properties"?
Mardake ahmagh! What about those who are killing and destroying lives? Does that matter to you at all?
Old fossils like you should stay out of this.
Ommani
by AnonymousX (not verified) on Mon Jun 22, 2009 05:39 AM PDTThose who support Khamenei are accomplices to the killings. You could have remained silent, at the very least. But you have now drawn your lines. You are a supporter of murderers.
I am ashamed to call you an Iranian.
Jahanshah Rashidian
by Ramtin (not verified) on Mon Jun 22, 2009 04:07 AM PDTThey have been chanting "death to diktator" since 1999 protests. Now the numbers are bigger. That's it. Just more uncoordinated bikar wealthy North Tehrani's with nothing better to do hiding behind masks and throwing rocks/molitovs. What's more IRI was in a great deal more fragile state then than it is now. Quit criticising others.
Great article Ardeshir!
here's for you Baji
by little helper (not verified) on Mon Jun 22, 2009 12:59 AM PDTone sheepeshoo speaking a long time ago
does anyone have the video
by sheepeshoobaiji (not verified) on Mon Jun 22, 2009 12:50 AM PDTdoes anyone have the video of Khomeini's speech following the aftermath of the Shah's forces killing the demonstrators?
Ardeshir Ommani- Listen sonny boy and listen good:
by 1 Hamvatan (not verified) on Mon Jun 22, 2009 12:33 AM PDTMr. Ommani- Just forget the election ok? this ain't about election anymore. The demonstration is about legitimacy of the Islamic Terrorist State.
We the people of Iran are NOT interested in what the regime has to say, none whatsoever. Now be a good boy take that message and let you dieing masters know and hope that they move to Palestinians since they have moved so much money over there, even though they are NOT welcomed there.
Now, We the people of Iran, needs democratic presidential/ NON-affiliation with religious group of any kind including Islamic kind.
Oh by the way, we the people of Iran are a lot smarter than 30 years ago. We won't make the same mistake twice.
Mr. Javid, Please Remove This Shameful Piece
by Jahanshah Rashidian on Mon Jun 22, 2009 01:59 AM PDTIf anyone needed proof of the IRI’s illegitimacy, they had only to look at the mass demonstrations who now target the Supreme Leader in full,"Death to the dictator!"
A front page - pro-IRI propaganda on this site cannot fool people, unless the owner of this site shares the idea of Ahmadinejad that all angry Iranians of these massive demonstrations are merely "layers of dust".
Any totalitarian regime needs various mouthpieces (nationalists, leftists, women...) to fool people--see Toudehi propaganda for another IRI faction, namely the Mousavi's "Green" movement. But the author of this piece is supposed to further support the more reactionary faction of the regime, Ahmadinejad / Khamenei.
Mr. Javid please remove this shameful piece from the front page!
Same old from 70s..
by Anonymous Irani (not verified) on Sun Jun 21, 2009 11:44 PM PDTThis is the same non-sense that Khomeini was vomiting on people in 1979, except that it is now regurgitated 30 years later and smells far more disgusting.
When Iran and Iranians have friends like the islamic republic, who needs enemies, let it be BBC, MI6, Mosad, CIA, or whatever. Islamic republic has been doing just fine without them: killing, looting, oppressing, torturing, imprisoning, raping iranians for 30 years a billion times more than all of those foreign so-called enemies combined. All those foreign enemies, and the monarchists, and the shah, all look like a bunch of angels compared to the islamic republic.
Fool me once (as in 1979 devolution), shame on you; fool me twice (as in 1999 slaughtering of students), shame on you; fool me three times (as in 2009), shame on me!
Monarchy is a blessing compared to these islamic bastards; the only unforgivable mistake of the shah was to let these SOBs out of his prisons and that he did not get rid of Khomeini when he could. I WANT someone like reza shah, nader shah, yaghoob leith, ... to rise and kick the hell out of mullas and bring them justice. I would love to see that they are pushed out by force, as they will not free iran and iranian on their own. Who cares what foreigners want; what iranians want is what matters, and if that aligns (or does not align) with foreign interests, SO BE IT!
As for AN's followers, whoever they are, if they don't like it, that is just fine, so be it. They have been peeing on iran for the past 30 years and making the country unlivable for others (including the author), it is time for them to be pushed aside, even by force as they have shown that they deserve no better than what they see in AN, and they can take him with them for a trip to Mecca and stay there.
The author must be a left-over of 70s. Iranian youths today are much wiser than their stupid forefathers who goofed in 1979.
Anything BUT islamic republic and bastar* mullas.
I wonder why the author is living in the comfort of the west that he despises rather than joining basiji force!
What a bunch of crap!
by Asghar_Massombagi on Sun Jun 21, 2009 09:41 PM PDTTake your nose out of your outdated text books. The reason people are willing to die fighting well equipped thugs of your beloved regime is that they are sick and tired of being ruled over like an occupied people. Making this sound like class war shows the depth of your ignorance. There are pro-Mousavi demonstrations in Nazi Abad and Javadieh in Tehran. If you knew anything about Tehran you'd know these neighbourhoods are as working class as you get. Even during the 1979 revolutions, all people from all parts of Tehran converged on Enghelab street. It was the theatre of revolution. The same thing is happening now. It doesn’t mean all who demonstrate are from Northern Tehran. Talk about class war to Mansoor Ossanlo, the labour leader who is spending his fourth year in prison in Iran. And he is not the only labour leader who has been arrested, beaten up and harassed. Most of the middle class people who are pouring into the streets are one generation removed from their working class parents. Ahamadinejad wouldn't know socialism if it reached up and kicked him in the pants. You're mistaking dilapidated state capitalism wrapped in a proto-fascist ideology for socialism. And remember this. Iran's middle class has been in the vanguard of change in Iran for the past 100 years. Even Husseinie Ershad where most of the future Islamic revolutionaries got their start sitting at Shariati's feet was located in Northern Tehran. And one last thing. I’m no fan of Makhmabaf, but calling him a faker takes some gall. Here is a former Hezbolahi who spent time in the Shah’s prison; a true believer in the Islamic revolution. Do you have any evidence that he is connected to the monarchists or are just throwing this gem in the mix a la Ahamadinejad?
Shame on Ardeshire Ommani, an Iranian Traitor
by Anonymous^2 (not verified) on Sun Jun 21, 2009 04:54 PM PDTEvery one knows that you have been a traitor and supporter of the criminal regime of the Islamic Republic. Soon, you will be brought to justice or justice will be brought upon you whichever suits your desire.
Death to the Islamic Republic in its entirety.
Very well written
by Concerned For Iran (not verified) on Sun Jun 21, 2009 02:30 PM PDTMore good read on Coup in Iran.
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//www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&...
//www.atlanticfreepress.com/news/1/10223-iran...
//newsfromrussia.com/opinion/columnists/21-06...
CFI
Not you
by Fred on Sun Jun 21, 2009 02:17 PM PDTPut a cork in it, your egalitarian Islamist republic has been exposed to all for what it is, a murderous gang of cutthroats with the trappings of a government.
Over the hill commies who have been touting the goodness of the Imperialist fighting Islamist republic and have still some semblance of humanity left in them would just fade away. But in your case that is not the case is it?