tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10594493.post3846850755592850709..comments2024-03-14T11:27:52.369-06:00Comments on Stoner: Suggestion to Supreme Leader of Iranian Islamic RepublicChin Shih Tanghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00852129729584273400noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10594493.post-75195684396920443082009-06-30T17:01:26.785-06:002009-06-30T17:01:26.785-06:00Additional note, July 1:
I heard an interesting ev...Additional note, July 1:<br />I heard an interesting evaluation of the political confrontation--essentially, Khamenei and Ayatollah/Former President Rafsanjani are the head of two rival, corrupt "Mafias", each with its popular protege--Moussavi for Rafsanjani, and Ahmadinejad for Khamenei. This puts the two camps on morally equivalent terms, the difference that one had the guns and sticks to beat the others' supporters. <br /><br /> May be, but there is definitely another difference: one is arguing for a legitimate vote count rather than a fix and a rubber stamp. The decision to suppress the Moussavi camp, always likely, probably came down to two things: <br />1) feminist women (a/k/a "whores" in crude fundamentalist consideration) were with Moussavi and the Green Movement; <br />2) that "Death to the Dictator" chant--revived from the Revolution against the Shah--didn't sound so good to Khamenei.Chin Shih Tanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00852129729584273400noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10594493.post-68873446533872815372009-06-30T04:02:13.673-06:002009-06-30T04:02:13.673-06:00Unfortunately, they didn't take my recommendat...Unfortunately, they didn't take my recommendation. Instead they did the Dictator Thing: turned loose their trained militia thugs on unarmed protestors, with considerable but unknown loss of life, and pressured the Guardian Council to certify the "recount" results. <br /><br />The beneficiary of this violence and fraudulence, Ahmadinejad, had the impudence to liken Obama to Bush as a meddler (which he most clearly has not been). My response, Mahmoud: you're just like the Shah.Chin Shih Tanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00852129729584273400noreply@blogger.com