Nazila and I give each other a there-but-for-the-grace-of-God look. There are hundreds like Bahari. Iran since June 12 has veered into a paranoid bunker. President Barack Obama has been too weak on human rights abuses in Iran.
To say “the world continues to bear witness” to the “powerful calls for justice” of Iranians, as he did on Nov. 3, is not good enough. He needs to express the outrage of the United States of America.
and I understand HIS outrage (NYPD, take note)
A few days later, I did leave and found my parting in the hands not of God but of the Revolutionary Guards at Imam Khomeini International Airport. The stubble-faced ghouls duly toyed with me, leaving me humiliated, before letting me go.
...but I suspect most citizens of the USofA have little attention left for Iran's internal politics due to economic hardships.
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And, of course, it's a bit
And, of course, it's a bit disengenuous to be outraged by how they treat their prisioners, when we still have Guantanamo, Bagram...
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P6 - You're right of course. Although, the plight of opressed foreigners has never been very prominent in American awareness.
More fundamentally though - what credibility would any leader of the GREAT SATAN have in Iran? They had a democratically elected government about 55 years ago, and we overthrew it to install the Shah. I think he might have been a tad opressive as well, and we were just fine with that.
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