Protests In Iran To Election Results

"In the struggle of the Iranian People to be able to Peacefully disagree with their government ... today I and all Americans pay tribute to a brave young woman who was trying to exercise her fundamental human rights and was killed on the streets of Teheran." John McCain June 22,2009

I believe, I hope, I pray
that for the Iranian People
there too
are MANY brave guardsmen and officers
filled with God's love of justice
who will stand for what is Right
stand unwilling to shoot nor beat nor harm
their own People of Iran
walking in Peaceful disagreement

Hugh Sykes, BBC NEWS, June 22,2009 : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8111695.stm : "They want to be able to sing and dance. They wonder why the Iranian leadership continue to ban such expressions of human joy. ... "The Iranian leadership is falling into the same trap that their arch-enemy the Shah of Iran fell into in the 1970s. They are not listening to the people."

President Barrack Obama, June 23,2009, 12:30 noon:
"The United States and the international community have been appalled and outraged by the threats, beatings, and imprisonments of the last few days. I strongly condemn these unjust actions, and I join with the American people in mourning each and every innocent life that is lost."

"I have made it clear that the United States respects the sovereignty of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and is not at all interfering in Iran's affairs. But we must also bear witness to the courage and dignity of the Iranian people, and to a remarkable opening within Iranian society. We deplore violence against innocent civilians anywhere that it takes place .... This is not about the United States and the West; this is about the people of Iran, and the future that they - and only they - will choose." ..... "the most important thing for the Iranian government to consider is legitimacy in the eyes of its own people..."

"I think it is not too late for the Iranian government to recognize that there is a peaceful path that will lead to stability and legitimacy and prosperity for the Iranian people. We hope they take it."


HUFFINGTON POST, June 23,2009 : click link below to read more http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/13/iran-demonstrations-viole_n_215189.html
10:34 AM ET -- Clerical association releases statement. The NIAC has the full statement by the Organization of Combatant Clergy released today.

"Millions of informed and decent people who believe that their votes have been tampered with, and that their intellect has been insulted, and for the defence of their rights and dignity have in a spontaneous manner come into the streets to express their pain and sense of oppression. You (the regime) insult them, and have stolen thousands of them from the streets and from their homes and taken them to unknown places. You have attacked the students and to these people who call out God is Great or Ya Hossein - you attack them like Moghuls. "

"This damage is the responsibility of those who turned our city into a barracks. They should be identified, arrested and charged."

9:39 AM ET -- The power of Iran's women. In the Washington Post, Anne Applebaum

Via reader Chas, the National Iranian American Council prints a note from Tehran :

"I cannot sleep and not write this. "

"Today in Haft-e Tir, there were so many members of basij that they outnumbered the demonstrators 3 or 4 to 1. They were less focused on women. This must be related to the murder of poor Neda. ... whenever they got hold of a man, women would surround them and shout don't beat him, don't beat and they would turn and say we didn't beat him. It was astonishing....... They explained; they talked."


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\/ hopefully there will be more dialogue - rather than violence