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Very black pot calls kettle black

This is worse than the typical case of the pot calling the kettle black. As bad as the riots in London may be, I have yet to hear - and do not expect to hear - any reports of police beating, torturing or raping protesters. But that doesn't stop the Iranian regime from orchestrating 'protests' against the violence in London.

Some 200 students held a demonstration outside the British embassy in Tehran on Sunday to protest at what President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called the "savage" police treatment of people involved in street unrest in London last week.

Watched by around 50 riot police, some students threw eggs towards the embassy compound and at the end of the protest they held up masks of Mark Duggan, the man whose shooting by police sparked the protests and riots in Britain.

Some protesters carried anti-British placards. One read: "London 2011, Tehran 1979, throw off your shah!" a reference to Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution which overthrew a Western-backed king.

For many years Iran has been on the receiving end of criticism from Western countries over its human rights record, especially the crushing of demonstrations after the re-election of Ahmadinejad in June 2009 [pictured. CiJ].

Iranian politicians have called on the United Nations to condemn Britain. The leader of the Basij militia, which battled anti-Ahmadinejad protesters in 2009, offered to send his forces to London, Liverpool and Birmingham "to act as a peacekeeping force and a buffer between repressive forces of the royal regime and the British people".

It gets worse. The level of shameless hypocrisy from the Iranians is incredible. Read the whole thing.

Labels: Iran, Iranian revolution, London riots

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 10:54 AM