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...Supreme Leader spoke for the best part of 100 minutes, offering no concessions whatsoever to protesters demanding that the vote be held again. He went on to say that the demonstrations should cease with protesters being "held responsible for chaos if they didn't end" and that a "street challenge is not acceptable." But Khamenei didn't just reserve his remarks for the Iranians. He called the British government "the most evil opponent" (The U.K. government has since summoned the Iranian ambassador to protest against the comment) and blamed external "enemies of Islam" for trying to stoke anger. "Some...
Things are moving fast. The old-timers, the ones who had seen 1979, tell us that it took months for their protests to get to the same point we are now. Then it began with the college students (it is in revolutionary memory and honor that Friday Prayers are held on Tehran University's campus). First the students came out, then the families, mothers famously sending their sons forward to face the soldiers of the Shah. We are not yet a week out from the voting and the movement is already filled with different ages and occupations...
...Gays have no real political alternative - it's not like anger will send them running to the warm embrace of the GOP. But the Administration realizes it has angered a crucial constituency and is intent on signaling that it will make good. On June 17, Obama held a signing ceremony in the Oval Office to announce new policies that made a number of minor changes to the benefits offered to the same-sex partners of federal employees and foreign-service officers, including sick leave and long-term-care insurance rights. But the core of the President's message was that...
...days before the Iranian election, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad held a big rally at the Mosallah Mosque - said to be the world's largest, if it is ever completed - in central Tehran. It was not very well organized. About 20,000 supporters of the President were inside the building, being entertained by a series of TV stars, athletes and religious singers. Many thousands more swirled outside. Inside, a TV host led the crowd in chanting "Death to Israel." "Squeeze your teeth and yell from the bottom of your heart," he implored. Later, the host said he had once asked Iran...
...almost certainly had a hand in the planning of the Iranian-backed truck-bombing attacks on the U.S. embassy in April 1983 and the Marine barracks in October of that same year. Mousavi, as my Lebanese contact reminded me, dealt directly with Imad Mughniyah, the man largely held responsible for both attacks. (Mughniyah was assassinated in Damascus last year.) The Lebanese said Mughniyah had told him over and over that he, Mughniyah, got along well with Mousavi and trusted him completely...