Iran Election: What can we do about Iran?
History will show that the 2009 Iranian election was illegitimate. Official government “counts” had it as a landslide victory for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but the people have spoken through demonstrations and protests which resulted in arrests and deaths. There is enough outrage to see that the election was not a landslide. Some say this was all a plan to “out” the “troublemakers”.
Anyone who has been following Middle-East current events knows what Amadinejad is all about…he’s about nuclear weapons, threatening Israel, oppressing Iranians, and slavery. He and his cohorts (his superiors and workers) have power while the people suffer. Civil rights and liberties are not in his vocabulary.
Large segments of the population are trying to express their displeasure. It’s all over the Internet. For many, this was the first time they have been exposed to communicating via the Internet. This is a journalists dream: to have a forum where oppressed people can tell the world about the truth.
President Obama said the U.S. can’t get involved, and he hopes the Iranian people work to change their government if they don’t like it. Although Iran is a rogue nation, and has no diplomatic relations with the U.S., Obama said he respects their sovereignty.
Should be interesting to see how history will interpret this.
I mean, what can we do about Iran, right?
Become the world’s supervisor of elections?
Overthrow the government and appoint a rebel leader?
Occupy Iran?
Pressure other countries to get involved?
Fund the protesters with arms and money?
Get behind and rally the nations to call for a “redo”?
Get in touch with the dissent groups and formulate a plan?
Write a letter to Iranian leaders asking to stop the violence?
Spread the word?
You know as much as everyone is using Twitter and forums and blogs and YouTube to spread the word, it’s only a matter of time before this news story goes away in the U.S., and gets filed away in the same section in the newspaper as those Somalian pirates.
Anyway, in the fairness of balance, here are comments from the do-nothing school of thought I found on the mutant forums:
“Iran… need[s] to feel like they are controlling their own government without outside influence and they should and should be. The rest of the world needs to keep it’s mouths shut so they will not be able to try and other for their own troubles. I mean they are already blaming the west for interfering. No, as far as I’m concerned we have already said too much and we just need to butt out and let them sort it out for themselves. The US and the rest of the world are not the all knowing saviors of the world, shoot look at us we have enough problems of our own, what makes us think we can offer any useful advise to anyone. How would the US feel if the republicans of the US got all pissed and threw a fit because they lost the election and started riots, protests and stuff?”
It is wrong for us to do *anything*, military, humanitarian or political, until there is one clear voice speaking. Then they need to be treated as any other country.
[Congress] said that the Iranian National Guard is a “terrorist” organization. Yet, Obama wants to now talk to and neogtiate with “terrorists.” If you were the Iranian President, would YOU trust the States?
Any attempt to intervene WHEN NOT INVITED by those in power will be met by strong resistance.The world already has enough inter-country conflicts and you don’t want this situation to escalate into one which it can if the Iranian government feels significantly threatened from the outside.
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