How long shall we observe?
Joe Fleishman
June 22, 2009
Iran's most powerful security force threatened Monday to crush any further opposition protests over the disputed presidential election if they take to the streets again. The news is stunning and the language their Revolutionary Guard used on their own people is more like mob rather than official forces. What they said is "be prepared for a resolution and revolutionary confrontation with the Guards". Can you believe it? They are threatening like about to start a war with Mousavi supporters.
This sort of language is generally used in dictatorial leadership not any democratic nation. Few days ago world observed 20 years of Tiananmen Square crackdown. Tehran´s Freedom Square crackdown seems no lesser than China in 1989.
Country´s Guardian Council said they have found irregularities in at least 50 regions still this will not affect the election result as Government projected result is far shorter than Mousavi requires. Official result showed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claims landslide victory over his rival Mir Hossein Mousavi.
Mousavi in his website asked his supporters to continue demonstration for the people´s rights. But he also told them to stay careful from government forces.
Thousands of amateur videos are now available online. If you keep eyes on them you will have shear feelings of horror from some of those videos. One video shows woman´s scream at the dark night at the presence of security forces. The video was taken from a nearby apartment very secretly. Another video shows a young woman protester was shot dead by the security forces. She was dying in the street her co-protesters were desperately praying to save her. Different other video shows a young protester was shot, other protesters were trying to bring him back which ultimately ends without success. These disturbing videos are really difficult to stand.
It is not very difficult to understand people´s emotion. Government´s rude threat is challenged by the protesters. Monday several hundred people took to the streets which were immediately confronted by the Riot police. Everyday so many videos are coming to the YouTube and other interactive websites ignoring governments warning indicates people´s belief on Mousavi and his reform plan. It is not just a congregation of some uncoordinated people, people are giving their life in the streets, ignoring government´s threat, pushing their life at risk, they are taking risk of getting arrested –nothing is matter for them now. You cannot underestimate this wave of emotion.
This sort of massive emotion has definitely some outcome. Pressing them down could overturn. Although at this moment everything is very uncertain. But the point is you can scare people for a moment but no one can rule on people´s mind.
World reaction is little slow in this case. World should play much better role to pressurize Iran for transparency of their election. May be it is their internal affairs but shall we let these people die in the street just because they have expressed their opinion? Shall we allow these deaths by the name of "Not interfering in the internal affairs"?
This sort of language is generally used in dictatorial leadership not any democratic nation. Few days ago world observed 20 years of Tiananmen Square crackdown. Tehran´s Freedom Square crackdown seems no lesser than China in 1989.
Country´s Guardian Council said they have found irregularities in at least 50 regions still this will not affect the election result as Government projected result is far shorter than Mousavi requires. Official result showed President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad claims landslide victory over his rival Mir Hossein Mousavi.
Mousavi in his website asked his supporters to continue demonstration for the people´s rights. But he also told them to stay careful from government forces.
Thousands of amateur videos are now available online. If you keep eyes on them you will have shear feelings of horror from some of those videos. One video shows woman´s scream at the dark night at the presence of security forces. The video was taken from a nearby apartment very secretly. Another video shows a young woman protester was shot dead by the security forces. She was dying in the street her co-protesters were desperately praying to save her. Different other video shows a young protester was shot, other protesters were trying to bring him back which ultimately ends without success. These disturbing videos are really difficult to stand.
It is not very difficult to understand people´s emotion. Government´s rude threat is challenged by the protesters. Monday several hundred people took to the streets which were immediately confronted by the Riot police. Everyday so many videos are coming to the YouTube and other interactive websites ignoring governments warning indicates people´s belief on Mousavi and his reform plan. It is not just a congregation of some uncoordinated people, people are giving their life in the streets, ignoring government´s threat, pushing their life at risk, they are taking risk of getting arrested –nothing is matter for them now. You cannot underestimate this wave of emotion.
This sort of massive emotion has definitely some outcome. Pressing them down could overturn. Although at this moment everything is very uncertain. But the point is you can scare people for a moment but no one can rule on people´s mind.
World reaction is little slow in this case. World should play much better role to pressurize Iran for transparency of their election. May be it is their internal affairs but shall we let these people die in the street just because they have expressed their opinion? Shall we allow these deaths by the name of "Not interfering in the internal affairs"?
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