White House Blog: Reports on President Obama's new message to Iran and its people. The President states the following, " First, I'd like to say a few words about the situation in Iran. The United States and the international community have been appalled and outraged by the threats, the beatings, and imprisonments of the last few days. I strongly condemn these unjust actions, and I join with the American people in mourning each and every innocent life that is lost.....we must also bear witness to the courage and the dignity of the Iranian people, and to a remarkable opening within Iranian society. And we deplore the violence against innocent civilians anywhere that it takes place......Some in Iran -- some in the Iranian government, in particular, are trying to avoid that debate by accusing the United States and others in the West of instigating protests over the election. These accusations are patently false. They're an obvious attempt to distract people from what is truly taking place within Iran's borders. This tired strategy of using old tensions to scapegoat other countries won't work anymore in Iran. This is not about the United States or the West; this is about the people of Iran, and the future that they -- and only they -- will choose.....The Iranian people can speak for themselves. That's precisely what's happened in the last few days. In 2009, no iron fist is strong enough to shut off the world from bearing witness to peaceful protests [sic] of justice. Despite the Iranian government's efforts to expel journalists and isolate itself, powerful images and poignant words have made their way to us through cell phones and computers, and so we've watched what the Iranian people are doing. This is what we've witnessed. We've seen the timeless dignity of tens of thousands of Iranians marching in silence. We've seen people of all ages risk everything to insist that their votes are counted and that their voices are heard. Above all, we've seen courageous women stand up to the brutality and threats, and we've experienced the searing image of a woman bleeding to death on the streets. While this loss is raw and extraordinarily painful, we also know this: Those who stand up for justice are always on the right side of history....The Iranian people have a universal right to assembly and free speech. If the Iranian government seeks the respect of the international community, it must respect those rights and heed the will of its own people. It must govern through consent and not coercion. That's what Iran's own people are calling for, and the Iranian people will ultimately judge the actions of their own government. " This is the statement that Obama should have put out days ago, in pure political terms it allowed the Republicans to define him, never a good idea in politics to allow the opposition to define your policy. Just ask Jimmy Carter! On the actual Obama policy towards Iran, the idea of talks are out of the window, Obama can not afford to be seen as another Jimmy Carter and Neville Chamberlain. Thus it can be postulated that the regime in Iran through violence and fear will cow the people, the regime will carry on with its policy of becoming a nuclear power, as Obama has set a deadline for the end of the year for talks, it can be theorized that Israel will bomb the nuclear plants of Iran in the new year, Obama can not talk to regime that steals elections, kills its own people and with a President that wants to destroy Israel. Thus the protesters in Tehran and other cities in Iran have defined the regime to the people and the outside world, also it has gutted any idea of talks between Iran and the USA. Thus the brave people of Iran has done a world favour, it has shown that there is evil, the Government of Iran, and that evil has to be contained and destroyed.
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