White House calls Ahmadinejad elected leader of Iran
Lieberman: Attack May be Only Option on Iran
The go get 'em Joe. Leave America out of it, scum-suck.
I put these up for you, world, so you know why wees Amurkns are so 'tucking 'too-pid!
This is what we get for "news" here in New England.
"In Iran, call goes out for renewed protest; Confrontation is expected to greet inaugural today" by Nasser Karimi, Associated Press | August 5, 2009
TEHRAN - Opposition groups called for protesters to prepare for a new round of street demonstrations today to coincide with the inauguration of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
The appeals - carried on reformist websites and blogs - showed a willingness by protesters to confront the massive security operation expected outside parliament and other areas of the capital Tehran during the swearing-in formalities. Authorities have increasingly dispatched waves of riot police in preemptive moves before high-profile events....
There were scattered clashes Monday in Tehran after a ceremony where Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei formally endorsed Ahmadinejad’s second term. Another cause for anger is a mass trial scheduled to resume tomorrow for more than 100 people, including many prominent reformist activists and political figures....
Then the article goes on to say that Iran is CLOSING PRISONS and FIRING PEOPLE -- so SHADDUP, torturing U.S. government and enablingly complicit Zionist AmeriKan MSM!
Ahmadinejad’s main conservative election challenger Mohsen Rezaei - who served as commander of the powerful Revolutionary Guards - has led the demands for high-level probes into abuses. Yesterday, he warned that Iran could be moving toward a “religious dictatorship’’ if the ruling establishment tried to cling to power at all costs, according to a speech posted online.
Iran’s most senior dissident cleric, Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, also compared the mass trial and several public confessions to the tactics of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin, Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, and other authoritarian rulers.
Ever try a Gitmo military commission on for size?
“Why they do such things that the people compare their courts to Stalin’s, Saddam’s, and other dictators’ courts and trials?’’ said Montazeri in a statement posted on his website. He said Islamic teachings say confessions in jail “have no religious or legal validity.’’
Mousavi and his backers alleged widespread vote rigging and other fraud in Ahmadinejad’s landslide reelection. Many protesters have now broadened their anger toward the wider Islamic leadership, which they claim has trampled rights by supporting the election results and launching blanket crackdowns on dissenters.
But one of the pro-reform candidates, Mahdi Karroubi, insisted he still backs Iran’s Islamic system despite claims that Ahmadinejad’s reelection does not reflect the will of the nation.
Neither did George W. Bush's here (stolen), or his succesor's trickery at fooling us.
“The truth is that the majority of people don’t accept the methods, language, and style of governing of Mr. Ahmedinejad. . . . We do not consider this government to be legitimate,’’ Karroubi was quoted by the Spanish newspaper El Pais in an interview published yesterday.
“We are going to continue protesting,’’ he was quoted as saying.Ah, so what? Protest till you are blue in the face, USraeli tools.
I'm getting done with this one-sided, Zionist war-promoting crap.
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"Defiant Iranian president sworn in; Ahmadinejad faces emboldened opposition camp" by Borzou Daragahi and Ramin Mostaghim, Los Angeles Times | August 6, 2009
BEIRUT - Dogged by allegations of election fraud and battered by some from within his own conservative camp, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad limped defiantly into his second term as Iran’s president yesterday, vowing to strive for “national greatness.’’
Sounds like the beginning of Bush's second term.
As he was sworn in, the seats of reformist and moderate politicians were empty inside the Parliament building while police fired tear gas and swung truncheons to quell a demonstration outside. Both highlighted the domestic challenges Ahmadinejad faces in attempting to consolidate power and implement his hardline agenda.
Ahmadinejad told lawmakers and dignitaries he would dedicate himself to serving the Iranian people and to taking bold steps on the world stage. “It is not important who voted for whom. What we need is national greatness,’’ he said in a speech broadcast live on television after he was sworn in by the judiciary chief, Ayatollah Mahmoud Hashemi Shahroudi. “We are representing a great nation. It needs great decisions and great deeds. We need to take great steps.’’
But Ahmadinejad might find achieving greatness a long, hard road, analysts said. He has built his political base on populist economic giveaways and a defiant foreign policy that have won him the fealty of Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, but might be difficult to maintain. His unyielding drive may have endeared him to some but also has led to significant clashes with his own hardline camp, some of whom skipped the ceremony.
“He is facing problems and disputes even among his own . . . faction, let alone a widening gap with the people outside the government,’’ said Ahmad Shirzad, a political analyst and physicist. “Ahmadinejad started his second term in abnormal condition, and his popularity is low and weak.’’
Then he SURE ISN'T a DICTATOR, is he?
The Obama administration has said it would recognize Ahmadinejad as Iran’s leader, although Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton praised the opposition yesterday during an appearance in Africa. Governments in the United States, Britain, France, and Germany have said they will not send him a customary note of congratulations. Ahmadinejad responded with characteristic defiance. “No one in Iran is waiting for your congratulations,’’ he said. “We do not value your congratulations, and we don’t value your smiles.’’
You tell 'em, Mahmoud!
Despite such bluster, Ahmadinejad faces an emboldened, savvy opposition camp unlike anything Iran has experienced in recent years. The unpredictable and loosely organized protest movement continues to defy authorities and the traditional blunt instruments of state.
During the inauguration, amateur video showed thousands gathering around Parliament before they were forcefully dispersed by as many as 6,000 security personnel wielding truncheons and tear gas....
--more--"Did you NOTICE something MISSING, readers? Yeah, it tells you I am TIRED of the ZIONIST SELECTIVITY and BULLS*** of the American media!
Let's wrap it up, shall we?
"Gibbs clarifies remarks on Ahmadinejad election
It’s usually White House spokesman Robert Gibbs who has to clarify remarks by administration officials when they veer off message - like when two top economic advisers suggested over the weekend that President Obama might raise taxes on the middle class to pay for healthcare or cut the deficit.
But yesterday, Gibbs had to clarify some of his own remarks. In his daily briefing Tuesday, he called Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the “elected leader’’ of Iran, a country that is one of Obama’s diciest foreign policy challenges. That description raised eyebrows because opposition leaders in Iran and Western observers have questioned the fairness of the election.
The CHUTZPAH and LOCK-STEP FEALTY that is required to the great s***-stink state of Israel is overwhelming at the echelons of power in Washington, isn't it
Yesterday, Gibbs told reporters he wanted to “correct a little bit of what I said yesterday. I denoted that Mr. Ahmadinejad was the elected leader of Iran. I would say it’s not for me to pass judgment on. He’s been inaugurated, that’s a fact. Whether any election was fair, obviously the Iranian people still have questions about that and we’ll let them decide that. But I would simply say he’s been inaugurated and we know that is simply a fact.’’
See what happens when you ACKNOWLEDGE FACTS in the BIZARRO WORLD of ZIONIST-OCCUPIED Washington D.C.
Pressed on whether the White House believes the election was fair, Gibbs replied, “That’s not for us to pass judgment on. I think that’s for the Iranian people to decide, and obviously there are many that still have a lot of questions.’’
Just like in AmeriKa in 200 and 2004, huh, Gibbsy?!!!!
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