Iranian Cleric Urges Harsh Punishment - Where is Obama?

by CynicalPatriot | June 26, 2009 at 09:56 am

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EDITOR'S NOTE: Iranian authorities have barred journalists for international news organizations from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay in their offices. This report is based on the accounts of witnesses reached in Iran and official statements carried on Iranian media. (June 25, 2009) —

Iran's increasingly isolated opposition leader effectively ended his role in street protests, saying he'll seek permits for future rallies. A leading cleric demanded in a nationally broadcast sermon Friday that leaders of the unrest be punished "strongly and with cruelty." Iran's ruling clergy has widened its clampdown on the opposition since a bitterly disputed June 12 presidential election, and scattered protests have replaced the initial mass rallies.

I have reserved comment until recently. I waited to see if Obama's strategy and overtures to Moslems and Countries in the Middle east were going have a positive effect. I waited for improvement. I gave President Obama the chance and time to succeed as so often has been called for my his supporters.

I can wait no longer wait, when our President Obama, the leader of the free world, stands idly by and allows a true, grassroots protest in Iran be violently crushed.

President Obama, the Carrot has not worked. It is time for something other than the carrot.

The Arab's have a saying. My Enemy's Enemy is my friend.

Iran's Ruling Elite have been ignoring pleas to compromise on nuclear issues. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been recalcitrant in these matters.

And now we do not even know if he truly represents the will of the Iranian people.

In this case, the right thing to do happens to coincide with the best interests of the USA.

It is time for President Obama to call for a REVOTE with foreign observers from the UN to make sure it is a fair vote.

Before we are led into another World War, Am i unreasonable to suggest that we should know whether that confrontation is the desire of the Iranian People rather than a few Tyrants who only continue to rule through fraudulent elections?

What will be President Obama's response when the TEA Partiers take to the streets on the 4th of July, 2009? Already, local Obama supporters have tried to use the bureaucracy to kill the gatherings. They have refused to allow public property to be used for the demonstrations. They have required expensive permits and/or permits that include expensive plans to be approved. And they have done many other beaurocratic and/or otherwise underhanded tactics to prevent the expression of free speech and freedom of Association. President Obama's Homeland Security has lumped the TEA Partiers in with the White Supremicists and the Returning War Veterans as Security and Terrorist Risks. Does President OBama's initial turning of a blind eye to the brutality of the Government of Iran forbode what his plans for the TEA Party Movement are?

These thoughts were on my mind.

Respectfully,

Don Mashak

The Cynical Patriot

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Babel-Fish

at 18:41 on June 26th, 2009

Important questions:

Don't you think that Obama has already thought to tread path you have suggested?

Why wouldn't it work anyway?

Answers:

UN does not really have the power and Russia would use its veto.

Iran would just put up two fingers.

Why is what you suggesting dangerous anyway?

Because it could lead to a war with Iran because Iran would put up two fingers.

Global Chess is a very difficult game and the real answer is to support Iran's opposition leader and the people of Iran as only they can change the situation and that is their rights alone. Obama is being very sensible by just observing.

CynicalPatriot

at 20:05 on June 27th, 2009

Hello Babelfish:

I did not say we should have the UN force a revote.

I said we should call for a revote, thereby letting protesters no the US supported fair elections.

I guess if you call wanting the truth dangerous, ok, this is dangerous.

I guess if you think I want to know that the Iranian people truly want the war their apparently fraudulent President is rumbling towards, i guess my suggestions are dangereous.

There is going to be war with Iran because they will not be permitted to have nuclear weapons with the threatening posture they have taken. It is like Hilter rising again, dissent is snuff out while the leadership becomes aggressive.

I don't think the majority of Iranian people want to live with the stress and risk that their government is bringing upon them.

If the will of the Iranian people is for a less acrimonious relationship, I dont see how supporting the Iranian populations own self determination is more dangerous than us rattling our sabers to put the possibility of Iranian Nuclear warheads in check.

I was looking for a internal resolution to remove the necessity of foreign intervention.

Isreal will be forced to take out the nuclear facilities before they can produce war grade nuclear material. Their proximity makes that preventative strike inevitable.

So, again i say, I don't know how supporting the will of the Iranian people is more dangerous than military intervention.

Respectfully,

Don Mashak

The Cynical Patriot

Neda of Iran (not verified)

at 05:02 on June 28th, 2009

I came to United States 33 yrs ago. US in my home, I have served her as a good citizen all hese years.

I don't care for Ahmadinejad nor Mosavi. God knows how many lives Mosavi has taken while in power. We know hat he was one of the founders of Islamic Repuctican, but if he wants to lead the people to rid of the reigm, more power to him.

Talking to my cousin in Iran last niht, he said tha he calm right now is the fire hiding under the ashes...they will be ou in the streets again and many of them will loose thier lives.

Let us help those brave soles even if it comes in the form of validating them. Who cares if those sub-humen think that US is behind all of these? They think that anyways...they always justify themselves by pointin fingers to other directions.

let us hear thier crys and wipe their tears, to watch and let injustice to go on is also a crime.

Obama, get those animals.

Sincerely,

Neda of Iran

CynicalPatriot

at 20:01 on June 28th, 2009

Hello Neda:

I agree with most of your sentiments.

I have to say though that the USA must tread lightly to avoid inflaming anti us sentiments.

Also, there are many other considerations that must be made.

However, I can think of no reason why Obama was so limp-wristed in asserting that the will/voice of the people, through their vote, be adhered to.

I personally think it was foreseeable that Iran intended to kill the protesters when they threw out and censored the foreign Media.

Obama should have spoke more forcefully to the condemnation of the foreseeable escalation of force and probable killings. Let the tensions be the USA and Iran exist if they are real, but let us not be led down the road of military action because the people's will has been subverted, and the sable rattling against the United States is the machinations of illegitimate leadership.

Those were my thoughts.

Respectfully,

Don Mashak

The Cynical Patriot.