Weep For Iran, Cheer The Iranians


	Weep For Iran, Cheer The Iranians

merrie

6-22-2009 4:56 AM

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brutality, dictatorship, human rights violators, iran, repressive

merrie says:

What Americans now see is that Iranians are a people with spirit who are not easily broken. For all the claims that Americans are an unsophisticated bunch, they know that a regime and its people are not one and the same. What has happened in recent weeks has confirmed that instinct.

Are those protesting true believers in democracy? We do not know, because they have never been given the chance. What we do know is that they reject the dishonesty of a repressive theocracy. For that reason alone, we should stand with them.

Let us weep for Iran. Let us cheer the Iranians.

Posted by Howard Baskerville at June 21, 2009

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