Thursday, June 25, 2009

The Iranian election

After the presidential election on June 12, thousands of Iranian demonstrators took to the streets demanding honest election. president Mohamoud Ahmadinejad was declared the winner, while opposition leader and former Prime Minister Mir-Hossein Mousavi claimed fraud. They were the tow leading candidates out of four contenders approved by the Council of Guardians to campaign in the election. Security forces struck down hard on protesters, killing several. Although the government tried to block access to online social media like Twitter, Face book, you Tube, Images and description of events have flowed from citizen in Iran to the rest of the world. Once foreign journalists were also banned on reporting, pictures and words by ordinary citizens transmitted over the Internet became a crucial source of news. President Obama would offer support for human rights in Iran generally and would not back away from his diplomatic outreach. The Obama administration insisted that it would not interfere with the struggle for power between regime-backed President Mahmoud Ermengarde and the thousands of demonstrators who contend the election was stolen. "Ultimately the election is for the Iranians to decide. Obama said: "Whoever ends up winning the election in Iran, the fact that there's been a robust debate hopefully will help advance our ability to engage them in new ways." In my opinion, I know it is very hard and shameful to see all this violence against human rights with out doing anything, but I believe that no one should interfere in this issue because any intervention will make things worse.

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