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		<title>By: Iranian Lawyer Shadi Sadr Released! &#124; Human Rights Now - Amnesty International USA Blog</title>
		<link>http://blog.amnestyusa.org/iar/ominous-message-from-the-iranian-supreme-leader/comment-page-1/#comment-5592</link>
		<dc:creator>Iranian Lawyer Shadi Sadr Released! &#124; Human Rights Now - Amnesty International USA Blog</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2009 18:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] the scenes, Iranian authorities have conducted a campaign to silence dissident voices &#8212; like human rights lawyer Abdolfattah Soltani &#8212; through arbitrary arrests and [...]</description>
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		<title>By: Sheridan Peterson</title>
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		<dc:creator>Sheridan Peterson</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 20:30:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Deja Vu: This is a CIA coupe lead by Dick Cheney&#039;s daughter. Ex-prime Minister Mir Hossein Mousavi is an evil, corrupt far right cleric. He is no reformer. He has a bloody history of executing hundreds of reformers.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Deja Vu: This is a CIA coupe lead by Dick Cheney&#8217;s daughter. Ex-prime Minister Mir Hossein Mousavi is an evil, corrupt far right cleric. He is no reformer. He has a bloody history of executing hundreds of reformers.
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		<title>By: lee</title>
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		<dc:creator>lee</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:02:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>It is needful to differentiate between peaceful protest and violent anarchy.

The rules put into force to restore order and safety in an emotional nationwide crisis have been made clear to all, both native and foreign.  If we were to have &quot;Rodney King-type riots&quot; going on all over the USA over an election we did not like, we would not permit our news media to encite and entice our young people to come on down and join in the anarchy and destruction.  What else is a government supposed to do other than to restore order in their streets?

Peaceful demonstrators do not carry clubs and scream out for the deaths of their religious and political leaders.  Rioting mobs and street gangs do.

It is an Iranian problem and America certainly has no right whatsoever to tell the Iranian people what to do or to interfere with propaganda and incitement to do anything, either disapprove of the election or approve of the election.

It is sad that people are being killed.  It is sad that most of those are claimed to be innocent.  A prudent person does not go into areas where there is known rioting and armed police, military or militia, unless they are lacking common sense.  Some of those young people are acting like this is a gang war and they are the &quot;Bloods and the Crips.&quot;  They are not doing Ghandi, or Dr. King, type of peaceful resistance and non violent protest.  They are rioting and advocating violence and death.  They are out of control and no country, no nation, no government would be fulfilling their obligation as a government if they did not make every effort to get the disorder under control.

I know I am out of step with most folks on this issue, but I am becoming more and more out of step as each new outrage and each new deceit becomes exposed.  Your organization has done so much of the exposing, so  much of the investigating, that your organization, and others, have taught me to look at things more closely and to examine the information I am receiving and the interests of the organizations, governmental or private, that are giving me their &quot;take&quot; on what is going on.  I cannot see that this is a time for American citizens to do anything whatsoever to interfere in Iran, but it is a time to recognize once again the grief, the insanity, the deaths, the injustices, that those who are governed must endure because there is each and every day, less and less likelihood that world leaders have the interests of the average citizen,ANYWHERE, at heart.  The power is all corrupt and none have escaped the hypocrisy.  

We are a pathetic lot.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>It is needful to differentiate between peaceful protest and violent anarchy.</p>
<p>The rules put into force to restore order and safety in an emotional nationwide crisis have been made clear to all, both native and foreign.  If we were to have &#8220;Rodney King-type riots&#8221; going on all over the USA over an election we did not like, we would not permit our news media to encite and entice our young people to come on down and join in the anarchy and destruction.  What else is a government supposed to do other than to restore order in their streets?</p>
<p>Peaceful demonstrators do not carry clubs and scream out for the deaths of their religious and political leaders.  Rioting mobs and street gangs do.</p>
<p>It is an Iranian problem and America certainly has no right whatsoever to tell the Iranian people what to do or to interfere with propaganda and incitement to do anything, either disapprove of the election or approve of the election.</p>
<p>It is sad that people are being killed.  It is sad that most of those are claimed to be innocent.  A prudent person does not go into areas where there is known rioting and armed police, military or militia, unless they are lacking common sense.  Some of those young people are acting like this is a gang war and they are the &#8220;Bloods and the Crips.&#8221;  They are not doing Ghandi, or Dr. King, type of peaceful resistance and non violent protest.  They are rioting and advocating violence and death.  They are out of control and no country, no nation, no government would be fulfilling their obligation as a government if they did not make every effort to get the disorder under control.</p>
<p>I know I am out of step with most folks on this issue, but I am becoming more and more out of step as each new outrage and each new deceit becomes exposed.  Your organization has done so much of the exposing, so  much of the investigating, that your organization, and others, have taught me to look at things more closely and to examine the information I am receiving and the interests of the organizations, governmental or private, that are giving me their &#8220;take&#8221; on what is going on.  I cannot see that this is a time for American citizens to do anything whatsoever to interfere in Iran, but it is a time to recognize once again the grief, the insanity, the deaths, the injustices, that those who are governed must endure because there is each and every day, less and less likelihood that world leaders have the interests of the average citizen,ANYWHERE, at heart.  The power is all corrupt and none have escaped the hypocrisy.  </p>
<p>We are a pathetic lot.
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		<title>By: Eshvish</title>
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		<dc:creator>Eshvish</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 03:31:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Peace Vigil Urging End to Violent Crackdown in Iran

DATE: Saturday, June 20, 2009

TIME:4 p.m. - 7 p.m.

WHERE: CNN Center (headquarters)
190 Marietta St NW 
Atlanta, GA

Note to Photo Editors: Event will feature high-impact visuals -- hundreds of
activists with banners and placards.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Peace Vigil Urging End to Violent Crackdown in Iran</p>
<p>DATE: Saturday, June 20, 2009</p>
<p>TIME:4 p.m. &#8211; 7 p.m.</p>
<p>WHERE: CNN Center (headquarters)<br />
190 Marietta St NW<br />
Atlanta, GA</p>
<p>Note to Photo Editors: Event will feature high-impact visuals &#8212; hundreds of<br />
activists with banners and placards.
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