Iran's Tragic Joke
New York Times / Roger Cohen
20-Jul-2009 (2 comments)

Iran is not some banana republic. The events since the night of June 12 have been a shameful interlude. Iranians have not digested this grotesquery.

No, Iran is not a banana republic. It’s a sophisticated nation of 75 million people. It pretends to a significant role in the affairs of the world. It’s a land of poets who knew how to marry the sacred and the sensuous and always laughed at the idea of a truth so absolute it would not accommodate contradiction.

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Fred

Clueless Roger

by Fred on Mon Jul 20, 2009 10:48 AM PDT

Clueless says:

"Respecting that duality — the clerical and the republican — means that the price Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has to pay for his lifelong authority is the quadrennial holding of presidential elections that cannot remove him from office but must inform his actions. Because Khamenei trampled on this principle, ignoring the will of the people, he created the “crisis” of which Rafsanjani spoke."

The clueless needs to read article 110 of the Islamist cutthroats republic's constitution to see how clueless he is when he talks about "will of the People" and realize the unlimited, absolute power which he calls "authority" of the turban-in-chief which includes firing the President should he wish to.


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Abarmard

Cohen got it right

by Abarmard on Mon Jul 20, 2009 09:09 AM PDT

But the current government does not want to listen.


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