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Ahmadinejad
is to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as Biden is to Obama. A
lap dog with no real power of his own. Iran's quest for nukes
started with Khamenei long before Ahmadinejad crawled into the
sunlight. But they are here joined at the hip in what has turned
into a battle for survival. What a sweet thing if we could turn
tables on them by sending our own "insurgent volunteers" into the
battle. Here's some more ...
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'#CNNFail': Twitterverse slams network's Iran absence
Even as Twitter became the best source
for rapid-fire news developments from the front lines of the riots in
Tehran, a growing number of users of the microblogging service were
incredulous at the near total lack of coverage of the story on CNN, a
network that cut its teeth with on-the-spot reporting from the Middle
East.
Tehran warns, 'There will be no velvet revolution!'
Speaking from Ramallah, the esteemed Jimmy Carter—known for monitoring
elections worldwide—diminished the importance of the Iranian
presidential elections and said he hoped in his second term,
Ahmadinejad would moderate his positions. Hamas welcomed Ahmadinejad’s
victory, while several Israeli politicians already announced that his
reelection signals a need for external forces to intervene.
Do No Harm ( Belmont Club)
Michael Ledeen notes that Ahmadinejad’s opponent, Mir Houssein Mousavi,
is no democrat. His qualification for popularity is tsimply hat he is
not Ahmadinajad. Some of the emotion we are witnessing now can only be
understood as a protest against the status quo. Whether Ahmadinajad or
Mousavi won isn’t the central fact. The central fact is that the
Ayatollahs remain in power by fraud and coercion.
Old Spook
I believe this will most likley burn itself out,
because nobody is there to give the "revolutionaries" in outlying areas
any support, and those in Tehran cannot sustain it themselves. There is
a smaller chance that the riots continue and the Mullahs move the other
fellow in, and an even smaller case that the Mullahs get thrown out in
a revolution (mainly if the Army comes in and forces things).
I hope the Mullahs collapse, but without a push, I do not see it happening.
The most frightening thing?
We have an ignorant rank amateur and feckless fool in charge at a time
when NKorea is rumbling, and Iran is in turmoil. The only way things
could be worse from a military/diplomacy standpoint would be Jimmy
Carter in charge.
I guess they were right when they said the Obama presidency would be the second term of Jimmy Carter.
Brave Iranian Woman Swing-Kicks a Regime Thug (Video) +++
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