That’s what Ol’ Beady Eyes is promising his supporters after his “surprising” electoral margins in the Iranian presidential election.
Looks like he’s giving that over on an installment plan:
Huge swaths of the capital erupted in fiery riots that stretched into the early morning Sunday as Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad declared victory in his quest for a second four-year term amid allegations of widespread fraud and a strident challenge of the vote results by his main challenger, who was reportedly placed under house arrest.
As Ahmadinejad promised a “bright and glorious future” for Iran in a televised address, supporters of his reformist rival Mir-Hossein Mousavi clashed with police and militiamen in riot gear and throughout Tehran in the most serious clashes in the capital since a student uprising 10 years ago.
Searing smoke and the smell of burning trash bins and tear gas filled the night sky. Protesters poured into key squares around the capital, burning tires, erecting banners and hurling stones at riot police on motorcycles, who responded with truncheons.
In the same streets and squares where young Iranians were dancing and waving green banners in support of Mousavi days ago, baton-wielding police chased and beat mobs of hundreds of demonstrators chanting, “Down with dictatorship!” and “Give me my vote back!
Perhaps if they offered to negotiate with the president. Without, you know: Preconditions.
It’s all a grand charade in any case – the power holders in Iran do not suffer themselves up to the whims of the populace. Unlike Ahmadinejad, they do not even admit to the pretense.
Reports are that tens of thousands of Iranians have taken to the rooftops on Tehran shouting their displeasure with the election results, and that was 4am Tehran time. Iranian “modesty” police were attempting to arrest several women protesters and were beaten by mobs of angry protesters.
Now, I am all for change in Iran, and I won’t shed a tear over seeing Tehran burning, and mobs rioting in the street. Welcome To Watts, Harlem and LA. I hope they burn down the whole of Persia, for that would be a service to Western Civilization.
Anyone who thinks that Mousavi is a “moderate” is dillusional. He is directly linked to the Lebanon Marine Barracks bombing that killed more than 200 Marine and Navy men. He is from the same mob of revolutionaries and terrorists who stormed the US Embassy in 1979 and took Americans hostage. The whole election, from candidate selection to voting has been a sham, no better then the 1932 plebiscite in Germany.
For some 3000 years Persia has been the Athlete’s Foot of civilization. Persia delenda est. It’s time.
Respects,
I remember seeing the Iranian ’students’ on the Mall in DC and in the airports all over the US collecting funds to support the downfall of the Shah and the death of SAVAK. 10 years later I used to see the same folks out there beating the drum to raise funds to get rid of the Ayatollah and the Baseeji.
The actual rulers of Persia, the mullahs, permitted 3 religious fanatic fascists to run for the office of president and the poor people are rioting in the streets because the fascist religious fanatic they voted for failed to win the election. Only in Iran…..OK, only Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, UAE, Qatar, Somalia, Yemen, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Kirghistan, Turkmenistan, Turkey, Indonesia, Malaysia, Nigeria, Sudan, Libya, Egypt, Syria, Chad, Western Sahara, Tunisia and Morocco would anyone find such an amazing and appalling state of electoral affairs….outside of Sweden, Netherlands, UK and Belgium and France.
I find it rather sad to watch countries that shared in and even led the great enlightenment of the Renaissance go into the dark. It’s like watching Gondor being conquered by the orcs, eastmen and southrons from Mordor. Had there been any redeeming features whatsoever to rule by Mordor I could perhaps adjust my attitude but every realm on earth that suffered defeat by Islam suffered almost unimaginable setback. Only 2 countries managed to throw the invaders out after many centuries of occupation.
I’m not one to cast stones. I’m watching Mordor overwhelm my own country and take it down into the dark with it’s single minded destruction of free markets, capitalism, enterprise and the imposition, by fiat, of fascism imposed by the rulers of us all. It’s rather sad.
Hey — it was a perfectly legitimate election…
…for Chicago, that is…
- SJS
I am sure that this election is being closely studied by President Obama.
Looking for ways he can “improve” his results next time.
John/
LOL! You beat me to it! I was just thinking EXACTLY the same thing!
I remember classes being disrupted at Tennessee State by Iranians who thought it was more important to protest the Shah than go to class. I’d bet a dollar to a donut, most of them wish they had the Pahlavis back..