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- RSS14, on 06/15/2009, -1/+83In other news, Ahmadinejad's challenger, Mir Hossein Mousavi, has committed suicide. He shot himself twice in the back of the head.
- WordsnCollision, on 06/14/2009, -3/+69Illegal left turn in Iran? That's a beheading.
- ManUnitdFan, on 06/15/2009, -1/+58"Iran is the most stable country in the world."
I know Ahmadinejad is a ***** master, but how could possibly say that with a straight face? - lucy22, on 06/14/2009, -2/+41What is he on? Traffic rules-yeah right.
- nesagwa, on 06/15/2009, -3/+36No, he was saying in a round about way "We arent going to invade Iran and enforce their election for them."
- ColinCampbell, on 06/15/2009, -2/+34No, but the United States has a long history of meddling in Iran's domestic politics and having it back-fire. If the Obama Administration is seen as stepping over the bounds, the government there will be able to use it as evidence of a conspiracy and will crackdown. They're already using the foreign medias coverage as reason for violently disrupting the protests.
The administration is taking the right approach in saying little and watching what happens. It's not for them to decide, anyway. - Shaggy3, on 06/15/2009, -1/+31All I hear is some girl moaning.
Oh.. Damn tab browsing. - inactive, on 06/15/2009, -2/+31Mahmoud went in full big brother mode, with is thugish army of police and back by the islamic moral police to crack a few heads, blacking out the medias and pulling the propaganda machine. To everyone that bitched that the US was a police state, well now you see what is a real one in action.
- NMRgentleman, on 06/15/2009, -4/+31Also from CNN, "Iranian students say they're doomed if Obama recognizes Iran's election result": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BcFx380pFA
- Tiak, on 06/15/2009, -0/+22I feel like I'm watching a comedic parody translation or something.
"Oh, it's cool, Iran is the most stable country in the world right now, we have an absolute rule of law, everyone is friends here too. You see, those beatings happening in the streets? They're just jokes between friends, it's no big deal really. We're all equal here, especially the women, and we don't have any partisanship at all, let alone special police forces loyal to me that can ride around clubbing people in the streets at random. Really, everything's fine, don't look into it too much. - ghettojafar, on 06/15/2009, -1/+21Hey, could I get a new translator ? all I'm hearing is some idiot blathering on about traffic lights ...
- Shaggy3, on 06/15/2009, -0/+19Judging by every poll there has been in the recent weeks, its pretty unlikely he got 63% of the vote.
- drmangrum, on 06/15/2009, -1/+19I stopped listening after "Iran is the most stable country in the world." That was the sign that everything coming from his mouth was complete and utter *****.
- makkaveli19, on 06/15/2009, -1/+17TRAFFIC VIOLATION!? you've got to be ***** kidding me!
- makkaveli19, on 06/15/2009, -0/+14he mistranslated. he said one of the most, but still COME ON!
- jba68, on 06/15/2009, -4/+16Exactly what could we do about it, if we wanted to?
- dlan4327, on 06/15/2009, -0/+12Paddling the school canoe? You'd better believe that's a paddling.
- wizzroom, on 06/15/2009, -9/+21President-elect Im-a-dinna-jacket.
- jba68, on 06/15/2009, -3/+12Because he is a figure head essentially. The ayatollah runs that country....
- NMRgentleman, on 06/15/2009, -3/+12I don't think we're feeling sorry for Moussavi - as others have said, he's kind of "Ahmadinejad-lite." Hardly our first choice. No, we feel sorry for democracy, as best as they have it, and for all they want it.
- Gloony, on 06/15/2009, -0/+9From a building 400m away.
- maz2331, on 06/15/2009, -0/+8With a single-shot rifle.
- argagarg, on 06/15/2009, -0/+8America, take this as a lesson: if you do not question your government and those in power (and that includes corporate power!), your country WILL be just like this.
...assuming it isn't already, in a much more subtle way... - deltageek, on 06/15/2009, -1/+9Because she and the BBC prefer it attached to her shoulders.
- argaen21, on 06/15/2009, -0/+8Ya, like other people have said: any comments from the US government supporting the opposition party in Iran will destroy them. It will give Ama-doofus more power by being able to say "see look they are western supported subverters, kill them!"
- caspy7, on 06/15/2009, -0/+7How about the statistically impossible manner in which the votes came it?
http://ehsanakhgari.org/blog/2009-06-13/dark-days - rabidjester, on 06/15/2009, -2/+9I guess I'm looking at this wrong, but I'd think the regime is just begging for us to give them an example of American meddling/prodding. I'd think our president going too far would only hurt the opposition in the long run.
I've been watching more and more of the video coming out of Iran, I really hope it doesn't get too bloody. And why the hell is POLICE written in English on all the riot police uniforms? I can't be the only one wondering that.. - adrenalinerush, on 06/15/2009, -0/+7with his hands bounds and his eyes blindfolded
- alanocu, on 06/14/2009, -24/+31Iran’s Capitol is on fire because of post-election riots, Yeah, all is swell in Iran President “I’m-a-nut-job”. It seems Ahmedinejad did lose the Iranian Presidential elections, as his propaganda machine went into full BS mode and his Gestapo-like thugs spread out to try and beat back the cries of outrage. It was all so obvious even the NY Times was outraged instead of fooled or covering it up: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/15/opinion/15iht-ed ...
Asked about the voting in Iran, Obama said, “Ultimately the election is for the Iranians to decide. You’re seeing people looking at new possibilities. And whoever ends up winning the election in Iran, the fact that there’s been a robust debate hopefully will help advance our ability to engage them in new ways.” For someone who sees false choices everywhere, he sure was snoozing on this one.
Obama’s was a depressingly bad answer. What does this now say about America’s attitude toward Friday’s insult to democracy? Does Obama really believe that the Iranian public decided the outcome? - Tiak, on 06/15/2009, -0/+7Obama calling him out on it and denouncing him would:
A) Give him more political power amongst those which gave him his current power in Iran, only helping them
and B) Give him an excuse to avoid negotiations despite popular political pressure to negotiate. - T8erT0T, on 06/15/2009, -0/+6Because they order their gear from Western/English speaking countries. Ironic.
- Ajajadude, on 06/15/2009, -2/+8Well, it's pretty refreshing to see our government try and keep it's nose out of another country's affairs (publicly, anyway). It's not as if we could do much about it, anyway, other than write some strongly worded letters and maybe get the UN to get up on it's soapbox.
- superkendall, on 06/15/2009, -3/+9At least express outrage that protestors were being beaten and killed, instead of assisting the Iranian government whitewashing it by re-lableling the violence as "robust debate".
- Subduction, on 06/15/2009, -0/+6Really?
So Joe Bob and Charlton Heston with their stash of AKs are going to wrestle democracy back from people who control the US Army and the National Guard?
The intent of the founders with regard to the right to bear arms has not been compromised away by making citizens' gun rights weaker, it has been completely eliminated through the formation of a standing army. - inactive, on 06/15/2009, -0/+6I heard it from a dude in Iran who was doing another dude.
- Sil369, on 06/15/2009, -0/+6susan boyle again?
- FonWin, on 06/15/2009, -0/+6I'm about as anti-obama as you can get, but his answer was elegeant.
"robust debate hopefully will help advance our ability to engage them in new ways.."
That's about as diplomatic of a way of saying, go go anti-Ahmedinejad as you can get, without outright saying it. - k1prime, on 06/15/2009, -1/+6He's infamous for his attitude of telling big lies without blushing.
I'm very concerned for Iranian people on the streets getting brutally supressed by those monsters. - dlan4327, on 06/15/2009, -1/+6He... Had to go away...
- Subduction, on 06/15/2009, -2/+7@Arizonabay:
1) Actually managing to shoot back is not the same as "wreaking havoc."
2) "Wreaking havoc" is not the same as "getting ***** changed."
3) You're really kidding yourself that the US army was fighting some sort of second amendment populist uprising? The opposition in Iraq were, and still are, well-trained, battle-hardened troops from all over the radical Muslim world, with weapons and supplies coming over the border from Iran. You're thinking Colonial Army when you should be thinking Hessians.
4) But still, even though it's dead wrong, let's take your premise at face value. So, with the full clarity of 20/20 hindsight, how have things worked out for your armed populace against the well-equipped and standing army? Have they taken their government back? Have they "gotten ***** changed?"
5) How fast do you think they could have been in control if they didn't fight to begin with, let some stupid donkey government fall into place over there, and then grabbed political control behind the scenes like everyone else with half a brain in the region has?
No matter where you are in the world or what the political situation is, guns are the dumbest, slowest, most expensive and least reliable way to get what you want.
Brains are by far faster, but among gun advocates those seem to be in pretty short supply. - NMRgentleman, on 06/15/2009, -1/+6I don't know what we should do here. But one thing that struck me when reading the autobiographies of people in communist prisons behind the Iron Curtain was that they hoped and prayed that America would come rescue them. America! When there were closer free nations, when people in their own countries hated the communists, they still looked to America. Like it or not, a lot of people see us as freedom's beacon and defender.
- inactive, on 06/15/2009, -2/+6Remember, Iran is a few hours ahead of the Western countries. They might know things we do not.
- diggerpleez, on 06/15/2009, -0/+4This press conference is the equivalent of my 5 yr old son coming to me with chocolate all over his face telling me he didn't get into the box of Oreos.
- fangor, on 06/15/2009, -1/+5Interesting analogy, considering he used it twice. It's also important to point out that every Iranian knows that Iran's traffic is perilous, and if you make a wrong move, swift death can come without you knowing it.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e52_1217310776 - RuSTeDs, on 06/15/2009, -0/+4Thats how conservatives do the politics-talk to their constituency, i.e, rural, traditional, religious and somewhat uneducated people outside the big cities. Just take any of John McCain's "straight talk" townhalls during the election. His "simple" talk is worse than Mahmoud's soccer match analogy.
Point being that conservative folks tend to use simpler, more colorful analogies so their supporters can use them as soundbites. - Foot56, on 06/15/2009, -0/+4It's not the first time; the crowd was pretty much laughing at him.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said, "In Iran, we don't have homosexuals like in your country. We don't have that in our country. In Iran, we do not have this phenomenon. I don't know who has told you that we have it." -September 24, 2007 Columbia University - Agamemnon582bc, on 06/15/2009, -0/+4You are an idiot.
- Gr1nch, on 06/15/2009, -0/+4Jasper discipline ftw.
- jbmcb, on 06/15/2009, -0/+3Translation:
Lie, lie, exaggeration, lie, non-sequitur, dodge, lie, lie. - suprememilo, on 06/15/2009, -4/+7I am not saying Ahmadinejad won and I want him out of there as much as everyone else, but he did have HUGE support from the working class and Moussavi only recently started campaigning...
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