Iran Election Protests Draws Responses Around the World

Remember what Obama said just this last Saturday June 13th.
Obama Takes Credit for “Robust Debate” in Iranian Sham Election

“….after the speech that I, uh, made in Cairo we tried to send a clear message that we think there is the possibility of change, uhhh, aaaand — ehhh, yuh– oh — Ultimately the election is for the Iranians to decide, uh, but, uh, just a-as has been true in Lebanon, what’s, uh — can be true in Iran as well is that you’re seeing people looking at new possibilities. And, uh, whoever, uh, ends up winning, uh, the election in Iran, uh, the fact that there’s been a robust debate hopefully will help, uh, advance our ability to engage them in new ways.”

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This phot below is of a man shot by pro-government militia near a rally supporting leading opposition presidential candidate Mir Hossein Mousavi in Tehran, Iran, Monday, June 15, 2009.
* Also The Guardian is also reporting that 12 Iranian students killed in crackdown after violent clashes.
* And this: TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) Eight people were killed and several wounded in the incident

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Iran is spinning out of control. On the surface it is a hopeful sign. But the bottom line is the Presidency is not the highest office in Iran. The mullahs are in charge. The election is a show …..Mousavi was as radical as Ahmadinejad, but smoother. Nothing would have changed. The Islamic Republic of Iran is going nuclear and annihilationist.
H/T Atlas Shrugs

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The Muslim in the Oval Office responds….
Yesterday Monday June 15th
Unrest in Iran forces President Obama’s hand
Politico

“I am deeply troubled by the violence that I’ve been seeing on television,” Obama said Monday, more than two days after protests began to break out Saturday in Tehran. “I think that the democratic process, free speech, the ability of people to peacefully dissent — all of those are universal values and need to be respected, and whenever I see violence perpetrated on people who are peacefully dissenting, and whenever the American people see that, I think they are rightfully troubled.”

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GERMANY
“The German government is very concerned about the current situation,” Merkel said Monday in Berlin.
She strongly criticized the “wave of arrests” during the demonstrations and the fact that foreign media were being hampered from reporting on the developments. Allegations of election fraud called for a “transparent investigation,” she said.

FRANCE
Sarkozy condemns Iran’s “violence directed at demonstrators”
Nicolas Sarkozy, president of France, today “condemned the violence directed at demonstrators” in Iran and called for Iran to shed “full light” on the result of the presidential election, AFP reports.
In a strongly-worded released statement, Sarkozy said he “condemned the violence directed at demonstrators, the arrest of opposition members and political figures, restrictions on public liberties, freedom of expression and communication and the constraints imposed on Iranian and foreign nationals.”
“It would be unacceptable if vote-rigging had falsified the result of the elections, against the democratically-expressed will of the Iranian people,” Sarkozy said in a statement, adding: “Full light must be shed on this situation.”

UK
Brown: Iranians deserve democracy
Iran’s leaders have “serious questions” to answer over the disputed presidential election, British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said today amid growing protests in Tehran.

CANADA
“The government of Canada calls for freedom, democracy, human rights and the rule of law in Iran, and urges the country to fully respect all of its human rights obligations, both in law and in practice. We also continue to call on Iran to comply immediately with its legal obligations concerning its nuclear program.”

UN
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is urging Iran’s leaders to respect the will of their people as they investigate allegations of fraud in Friday’s presidential election.

EU
EU urges Iran to clarify election outcome
The European Union’s 27 member states are to issue a joint call on Iran to clarify President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s landslide election victory, Spain’s foreign minister said on Monday.
“There is a need to clarify the situation and to express our concern that a sector of the population are having difficulties in expressing its opinion,” Miguel Angel Moratinos told reporters after talks in Luxembourg with EU counterparts.
“The Iranian people deserves to have its voice heard, and we call for a fully transparent investigation into electoral discrepancies,” Cannon said in a statement.
Sources for the above quotes:
Deutsche World
Washington TV ( clilck for English translation)
The Montreal Gazette

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Wild Thing’s comment…….
I can’t stand it, he is soooo such a bore when he speaks. Can you imagine this jerk going through a drive through and having to order. The vehicles behind him would be backed up for blocks while Obama was still on his first dozen UH- Uh- UH- Uh’s.
One of the reasons I truly believe this guy is a plant is because we were told over and over by dems and even a lot of republicans what a great speaker he was, how charismatic he was……… hello, he doesn’t have a charismatic bone his entire body.
“It would be wrong to remain silent, so I’m not.”
Brilliant. Right up there with “we shall fight them on the beaches, we shall fight them on the streets, we shall never surrender.” Somebody probably sat up late last night writing that one.