Riots in Tehran
There are riots in the streets of Tehran tonight after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was 're-elected' yesterday. The government announced this morning that Ahamdinejad had won yesterday's election, even though all the polls showed otherwise.I have a couple of videotapes for you. Here's the 'victor' speaking to the Iranian people on television after the election results were announced.
Let's go to the videotape.
And here's raw video of the riots in Tehran. Let's go to the videotape.
If anyone other than Obumbler were in power in the US, I would say this is the best result possible for the West, because it's the result that's most likely to convince the Iranian people to rise up against the Mullahs.
But given that Obama is trying to 'engage' the Iranian regime (and many reports in the US are talking about how this will 'complicate' that 'engagement') and may not back an uprising by the Iranian people, things may not be so simple.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 10:25 PM
2 Comments:
The Iranian regime, the entire theocracy, is discredited in their peoples' eye. We may be witnessing the dawn of a civil war within Iran.
This is the first time the Iranian chimp in chief has been discredited within his own country. Your video and many, many others are fascinating. If I am right, I think this is a war against the Mullahs.
Even if the Mullahs hold on, I think a future Israeli strike against Natanz et al will actually be viewed with favor from a large proportion of the Iranian people.
The fact the clerics were willing to steal an election for their favored candidate shows they can't trust Iranians to vote they wanted even in a rigged election. Iranians had a revolution only to witness a substitution of one autocracy for another. The country's formal democratic system was always a facade but the mullahs have moved to dispense even with the facade. Nothing will stop them - not domestic scruples or international opinion from their drive to attain nuclear hegemony.
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