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I was reading the horrific accounts in Saturday's Times of torture of young pro-democracy protesters in Iran (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6805885.ece) and then stumbled across this video on YouTube which sets images of the protests in Iran to "Bella Ciao", the song of the wartime anti-fascist partisans in Italy:
posted by Luke Akehurst at 9:31 pm
Labour MP for North Durham since 2024. Labour Party activist since 1988 - firmly on the moderate wing of the party. Member of Labour’s NEC 2010-2012 and since 2020. National Secretary of Labour Students 1995-6. Parliamentary candidate for Aldershot (2001) and Castle Point (2005). Hackney Councillor (Chatham Ward) 2002-2014, Labour Group Chief Whip 2002-09, Chair of Health Scrutiny 2010-2014. Dad. Unite and GMB union member. All views expressed in a personal capacity. The rest will become evident from reading the blog.
9 Comments:
Iran is a pretty ghastly place. However, there clearly is a strong opposition, and the question is how they can be assisted constructively without an unwanted invasion, which they too would oppose
10:40 pm, August 23, 2009
Actually Iran is a pretty nice place. We visited last summer and were astounded by the hospitality and friendliness. Many other tourists were there -- even a few Yanks. And, there's really no evidence of election fraud in Iran despite all the chatter.
3:45 pm, August 24, 2009
"And, there's really no evidence of election fraud in Iran despite all the chatter."
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4:09 pm, August 24, 2009
Maybe you are right about no evidence of election fraud.
But there is Certain evidences of torture, raping and killing hundreds of people in Iran and according to the government himself about five thousands of those friendly Iranians you talked about, were arrested last month in post election protest. Can you tell me how many million people were in that protest that five thousands of them were arrested? See just four pictures in this post on my web log
http://arshiapage.blogspot.com/2009/08/blog-post_09.html
5:50 pm, August 24, 2009
No one doubts that there were abuses in prisons (rape has yet to be proven though) and in fact the Iranian government itself has said so, and closed down a prison and is prosecuting people for the abuses. Note that the US has not done the same when it comes to CIA abuses of detainees. Nor did the UK do the same for abuses of Irish detainess. So where does that leave us?
8:05 pm, August 24, 2009
It leaves you exposing yourself as a Quisling for theocratic repression, anonymous.
10:50 pm, August 24, 2009
Oh for god's sake. If you want "theocratic repression" have a visit to Saudi Arabia, our closest and bestest ally in the Mideast, or Kuwait, the country we went to war for, or any number of other dictatorships that are close US allies. Iran doesn't even come close. LOL!
11:07 pm, August 24, 2009
This is a great site that you have here. I have a site myself where people can freely express their opinions towards controversial debate topics. After looking at your site, I see that you have some valuable insight you can provide us. This is why I left this comment.
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12:08 am, August 25, 2009
The USA and Britain support a government in Afghanistan that actually has the right in law for a husband to rape his wife and then we selectively complain about oppression in Iran what a load of right wing hypocaracy?
9:51 pm, August 25, 2009
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