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Video: Iranians Hold Massive Protests, Chant Message To Obama

Chris Jones — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:06:56 +0000

Iranians have once again taken to the streets of Tehran to face down the brutal regime they’ve suffered under for 30 years. Today is the 30th anniversary of the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, but instead of celebrating the crowd is protesting the regime.

The protesters are chanting “Obama, Obama are you with regime or with us?”

Sadly, I think most Americans already know the answer to that question.

Here’s even more protest footage. This time the crowd is chanting “die, die dictator!”

Here is some footage of the protesters stomping on a picture of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei:

(hat tip Gateway Pundit & Planet Iran)

Iran Allegedly Agrees To Deal On Exporting Nuclear Fuel

Chris Jones — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 20:44:02 +0000

From The NYT:

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency said Wednesday that Iranian negotiators had agreed to a draft of a deal to ship much of Iran’s stockpile of nuclear fuel to Russia, but cautioned that it would still have to be approved by Friday in Tehran and Washington.

The draft, which came after three days of talks here, adds important details to an agreement in principle made on Oct. 1, after a preliminary round of negotiations. If approved, the deal would commit Iran to temporarily exporting 75 percent of its known stockpile of low-grade nuclear fuel to Russia for additional enrichment. Negotiators say that would prevent the possibility that Iran could turn the fuel into weapons-grade material anytime soon.

I don’t buy a word of this. First of all, anything the head of the IAEA says is suspect to begin with. Secondly, the keywords in the above paragraph are “known stockpile”. The Iranians have never been honest about their nuclear program and there’s no evidence to suggest that has changed.

Exporting 75% of the fuel we know they have means nothing as long as they keep 100% of the fuel they’re hiding and continue to enrich in secret.

This entire thing is a farce and unless Israel takes military action the Iranians will become a nuclear power.

Obama Ends Funding For Iranian Human-Rights Watch

Chris Jones — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 17:12:56 +0000

In another sad ass act of capitulation to our enemies, President Obama has cut funding for the Iranian Human Rights Watch — at exactly the time when human rights are being publicly violated in Iran. Nice job.

Video: McCotter Keeps It Real On Iran

Chris Jones — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:12:42 +0000

Well said.

Iranian Protests Rage On

Chris Jones — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:06:26 +0000

This from the AP:

Thousands of protesters streamed down avenues of the capital Thursday, chanting "death to the dictator" and defying security forces who fired tear gas and charged with batons, witnesses said. The first opposition foray into the streets in 11 days aimed to revive mass demonstrations that were crushed in Iran’s postelection turmoil.

Iranian authorities had promised tough action to prevent the marches, which supporters of opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi have been planning for days in Internet messages. Heavy police forces deployed at key points in the city ahead of the marches, and Tehran’s governor vowed to "smash" anyone who heeded the demonstration calls.

In some places, police struck hard. Security forces chased after protesters, beating them with clubs on Valiasr Street, Tehran’s biggest north-south avenue, witnesses said.

Obama Gives Iran Their Terrorists Back

Chris Jones — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:35:43 +0000

In January of 2007, the U.S. military captured five Iranian “diplomats” in Iraq.

These so-called diplomats were in fact Iranian Quds Force members sent to Iraq to assist the insurgency.

The Quds Force is an elite unit of the Revolutionary Guard tasked with fomenting terrorism around the world.

Tehran’s ambassador to Baghdad says U.S. forces have now transferred custody of the men to Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki so they can be returned to Iran.

I’m betting we got absolutely nothing in trade for those guys. Obama is once again acting like a pussy-in-chief on the world stage.

How pathetic is it that this moron actually gave the Iranians their terrorists back.

Israel Needs To Bomb Iran

Chris Jones — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 14:50:46 +0000

Former UN Ambassador John Bolton wrote an excellent piece in the (pay 2 play) Washington Post yesterday suggesting it was time for Israel to strike Iran.

As usual, Bolton is right. I came to realize the moment Obama was elected what his real game plan for Iran was.

As Ace masterfully points out this morning, Obama is attempting to buy time much like the mad Mullahs are.

Obama never had any intention of stopping Iran from developing nukes regardless of his rhetoric. He’s simply trying to put off what he sees as the inevitability of Iran’s weapons program.

Like Jimmy Carter, Barack Obama has the mindset of an appeaser.

The most important thing to keep in mind is that president Obama will under no circumstances go to war with Iran. It’s not going to happen and was never going to happen.

The question is whether or not Israel will decide to buck the USA and go it alone against Iran. There’s no doubt a nuclear armed Iran is a threat to the entire world, but for Israel it’s a nightmare.

President Ahmadinejad’s hatred of Jews is comparable only to that of Hitler. He would take great pleasure in annihilating Israel, even if it meant certain destruction of his own country.

My hope is that Israel is merely waiting as long as possible to attack Iran so as to allow Obama to save face at home. In other words, allow Obama to play his Kabuki theater of “vigorous diplomacy” for as long as possible.

Israel should remember that president Obama is only the president for a little while, but a nuclear armed Iran is forever.

Video: McCotter On Iranian Protests

Chris Jones — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 18:07:10 +0000

Rep. Thaddeus McCotter had some inspiring words about the protests in Iran…

(hat tip Big Hollywood)

Kasparov: America Should Support Iranian Protesters

Chris Jones — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 17:19:18 +0000

A man who certainly knows a thing or two about protesting for freedom is Russian chess champion Gary Kasparov.

Vladimir Putin has no greater foe in Russia than Kasparov. He’s been arrested too many times to count for leading marches in Russia against the authoritarian regime that Putin has created.

If Kasparov were not famous the world over, he would have been killed long ago. His fame is the only thing that has kept him alive under a regime that routinely murders journalists and jails people who speak out against the government.

Therefore, when Kasparov speaks out on issues like the protests in Iran he has a certain amount of credibility.

In today’s Wall Street Journal, Kasparov has an excellent Op-Ed about the protests in Iran and offers an interesting perspective.

Mr. Putin has a great deal riding on the outcome in Iran. With the Russian economy teetering, he needs a steep increase in oil prices to stave off the collapse of his government. So he has been working to increase tension in the Middle East and now sees the Iranian crisis as potentially helpful — if Ahmadinejad comes out on top.

…For Mr. Putin, the unknown factor in all of this is how the West will respond to what’s happening in Iran. It could give him pause if Iran faces penalties of real significance for using lethal force against nonviolent protestors. Surprisingly, European leaders are showing unusual assertiveness in condemning the Iranian regime.

Kasparov goes on to say that president Obama is wrong to sit on the sidelines while everything plays out.

He says the president’s warning that “the world is watching” is meaningless, because the behavior of the Iranian regime over the last 30 years proves they don’t give a damn who’s watching.

Sen. Richard Lugar and CNN’s Fareed Zakaria are singled out by Kasparov as well for supporting president Obama’s timidity.

Kasparov concludes by saying there’s no reason for America to hold back if we can do something that would potentially tip the balance inside Iran.

There is no reason to withhold external pressure that can tip the balance inside Tehran. Iranian opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi is not an ideal democrat. But should he and his supporters win power they will owe their authority to an abruptly empowered Iranian electorate. It is reasonable to expect that the people will hold a Mousavi government accountable for delivering the freedoms that they are now risking their lives to attain.

Millions of Iranians are fighting to join the Free World. The least we can do is let the valiant people of Iran know loud and clear that they will be welcomed with open arms.

Unlike many on the right, I actually thought president Obama’s statements at the beginning of this crisis were correct. I think his measured response in the beginning was appropriate.

However, as images and video of Iranian citizens being brutalized and killed by Iran’s Nazi brownshirts are being broadcast around the world, America has a moral responsibility to throw our support behind the protesters.

We should be condemning in the strongest possible language the treatment of protesters.

This is a chance for president Obama to go on national television and ask the Ayatollahs of Iran to let their people have freedom.

New Iran Crackdown Reported

Chris Jones — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:34:58 +0000

This from CNN:

Security forces wielding clubs and firing weapons beat back demonstrators who flocked to a Tehran square Wednesday to continue protests, with one witness saying security forces beat people like “animals.”

At least two trusted sources described wild and violent conditions at a part of Tehran where protesters had planned to demonstrate.

“They were waiting for us,” the source said. “They all have guns and riot uniforms. It was like a mouse trap.”

“I see many people with broken arms, legs, heads — blood everywhere — pepper gas like war,” the source said.

I hope the protesters have the courage to keep this up, because it’s only going to get worse.

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