This comment on a Guardian article about the Iranian Green movement makes a lot of sense. You would have thought that the Iraq war had taught the neocons and their media friends something about imposing sanctions for non-existent WMDs or alleged support for democracy in the Middle East. Apparently not. One can be opposed to the brutal repression by Iran's regime without supporting the policy of sanctions over Iran's nuclear development. Iran does not have a bomb, unlike Israel, the USA and the UK, who all fail to comply with the NPT treaty.
"The stolen election"
Even Robert Fisk finally admitted that Ahmadinejad won:
"But few news organisations have the facilities or the time or the money to travel around this 659,278 square-mile country – seven times the size of Britain – and interview even the tiniest fraction of its 71 million people. When I visited the slums of south Tehran on Friday, for example, I found that the number of Ahmadinejad supporters grew as Mousavi's support dribbled away. And I wondered whether, across the huge cities and vast deserts of Iran, a similar phenomenon might be discovered. A Channel 4 television crew, to its great credit, went down to Isfahan and the villages around that beautiful city and came back with a suspicion – unprovable, of course, anecdotal, but real – that Ahmadinejad just might have won the election.
"This is also my suspicion: that Ahmadinejad might have scraped in, but not with the huge majority he was awarded."
When will you people learn that these lies will get you nowhere? Where are the media shills who peddled the WMD lies about Iraq now? Disgraced and discredited, forced to bench their media careers and sell their services on the right-wing talk circuit. Is that where Timothy Garton Ash wants to end up?
Iran has no nukes - it was tempted, but decided it wasn't worth it. Iran's leader has popular support. Mousavi - nobody knows who he is outside of Tehran. The Yanks' real beef with Iran has nothing to do with either nukes or democracy. The neocons were warned before they went ahead and demolished Iraq that doing so would empower Iran, which it has. Now the Yanks and Arab states are terrified of a Shiite revolution, one that has already taken place in Lebanon (thanks to Israel's serial invasions) and Iraq (thanks to the Yanks), where Sunnis have been ethnically cleansed out of power and their homes. That's why the Yanks, Israel, and Sunni Arab states all see eye-to-eye when it comes to putting the screws on Iran and its proxies, like Hamas and Hezbollah.
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