Huge protests throughout Iran yesterday. Please see the above video.
I was really confused as to where the Ayatollah could go from here. It seems that he's painted himself into a corner. Either he doubles down and sticks with the current party line, that the elections were fair, or he announces that he was wrong earlier in the week when he endorsed Ahmadinejad. Today, we found the answer. He doubled down.
From WaPo:
Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Friday demanded an end to street protests that have shaken the country since a disputed presidential election a week ago and said any bloodshed would be their leaders' fault.
He defended Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as the rightful winner of the presidential vote and denied any possibility that it had been rigged, as Ahmadinejad's opponents have asserted.
"If there is any bloodshed, leaders of the protests will be held directly responsible," Khamenei declared in his first address to the nation since the upheaval began. (more... )
Many on the right continue to be clueless about exactly what is going on in Iran and America's role. Everything is not about us. Of course, Charles Krauthammer doesn't understand this.
There is a fundamental shift taking place throughout world where people are trying enlighten themselves by shaking off old ideologies that have for so long keep the human race in a state of apathy as those that profess to be our guardians, reach ever-deeper into not only our pockets, but our lives. It's exactly like in the movie "The Matrix" where we need to wake up to the world around us. And wake up we will!!!
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