Here’s an example of what Hadi Ghaemi’s talking about. Navi Pillay, the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights, has released a statement condemning the Iranian regime’ suppression of the opposition movement:
Pillay expressed particular concern about reported acts of violence by members of the Basij militia, which
Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, speaking at Tehran University for Friday prayers, says the elections are fair and the protests have gone far enough. According to this translation, there’s the predictable stuff about “Zionist, American [and] British” interloping, and he called President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the “legal president” More…
This dropped in the last hour and I’ve obtained the full text. Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.), the chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has changed Rep. Mike Pence’s (R-Ind.) resolution on Iran significantly, chopping out the more provocative preambles that David Weigel reported on. It now reads:
RESOLUTION
I noticed her quote in The Washington Post this morning, but now the Nobel laureate and human rights activist has her own op-ed up at The Huffington Post. Her prescriptions for ending the crisis:
1. The unconditional release of every individual arrested and imprisoned for having objected
The Huffington Post’s unstoppable Nico Pitney culls together some of the tweets that @PersianKiwi sent out on Mir Hussein Moussavi’s address to today’s huge demonstration in Tehran. Not really sure why Nico doesn’t Cite @PersianKiwi specifically, but whatever. Here’s what a liveblogged Moussavi reads like:
· I have
Nothing like a good old-fashioned inter-liberal argument on foreign policy. I have a lot of respect for George Packer, Hilzoy and Eric Martin, so I’m not going to get in the middle of their dispute. But this argument George makes is problematic, to say the least: More…
@PersianKiwi, the world’s most vital journalist — Mike Crowley should stop hating – tweets about today’s big Tehran demonstration:
Everybody is peaceful and quiet – everybody is wearing black – the number of people is unbelievable – SEA OF GREEN
S/he says s/he’s going to report back More…
Official now: Iranian presidential contender Mir Hussein Moussavi has rejected the Guardian Council’s selective recount, and is holding strong for the nullification of the election. (Juan Cole explains that the guy who would conduct it is a “notorious hard liner” and Ahmadinejad loyalist.) Moussavi has called for a More…
I’m something like 90 percent on board with Chris Brose’s proposals for a U.S. agenda toward the Iranian opposition.
Let’s demand that foreign journalists in Iran be free to report on events, not confined to their bureaus or have their press credentials revoked. Let’s put some of
Contrary to the calls for President Obama to explictly support the Iranian opposition that Weigel reported on today, here are two Republican voices calling for a more muted American response to the upheaval. First is Nicholas Burns, the Bush administration’s undersecretary of state for political affairs, who last week More…
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