Iran...no big deal right?

[JerkInTheBox]

For serious. Will someone please tell me that they or their associated faction is saying something about the administration's bassackwards approach to the middle east right now?

My mind is reeling at the thought of our leadership going on the record to take a big dump on Israel for settlemets, and paying minimal lip service to the egregious human and civil rights violations happening in Iran right now. Whose side is this administration on?

Someone please, for the love of grod, make some noise about this for those who can't. (like us servicemembers)

-el ghurba

 

[waltky]

Wha'd dey do with `em?...

Mystery of missing Iranian opposition leaders deepens
Wed, Mar 02, 2011 - ACCUSATIONS AND DENIALS:The families of Mir Hussein Moussavi and Mehdi Karroubi say the men and their wives are in jail. Fars news agency says that is not so

The mystery over the whereabouts of the two main Iranian opposition leaders, Mir Hussein Moussavi and Mehdi Karroubi, has deepened, with contradictory reports over whether they had been jailed on the eve of a nationwide protest or remained under extreme house arrest, completely cut off from the outside world. The two have not been seen in public or by their adult children since just before the Feb. 14 protests which they called for, ostensibly in solidarity with Arab uprisings, but which quickly transformed into anti-government rallies nationwide.

The Web site Kaleme, published by Moussavi supporters, said both men and their wives were now incarcerated at Heshmatieh prison in Tehran, but it was unclear when exactly they were removed from their homes. Another Web site, Saham News, which is run by Karroubi’s supporters, quoted one of his sons as saying that a neighbor saw the couple carted off to an undisclosed location about midnight on Thursday. Eight security vans surrounded the house before Karroubi and his wife were taken away in a car, and the house has been dark at night since, neighbors said.

Moussavi’s children had approached their house many times, but security guards turned them away with ambiguous and contradictory answers about their whereabouts, Kaleme said. The same happened to the Karroubi children, they said. The official IRNA news agency on Monday quoted an official as confirming the report, at least obliquely. Iranian Prosecutor General Gholam Hossein Mohseni-Ejehi said the government severed all outside contact with the opposition leaders to end sedition and would take unspecified other measures if required.

However, the semiofficial Fars news agency denied that the two couples were imprisoned. Fars quoted an unidentified official as saying the two men remained under house arrest, if isolated. The families insisted yesterday that the two men and their wives were still held in a jail despite a judicial official denying it.

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[asterism]

For serious. Will someone please tell me that they or their associated faction is saying something about the administration's bassackwards approach to the middle east right now?

My mind is reeling at the thought of our leadership going on the record to take a big dump on Israel for settlemets, and paying minimal lip service to the egregious human and civil rights violations happening in Iran right now. Whose side is this administration on?

Someone please, for the love of grod, make some noise about this for those who can't. (like us servicemembers)

-el ghurba

One step at a time. No widespread riots in Iraq now right? Thanks for your contribution to that.

We never went to war with Egypt, Tunisia, Algeria, Syria, Oman, or Yemen, so apparently not invading those regions didn't help. Iraq? Slow progress.