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"Hey Hey, Ho Ho, Khamenei has got to go." How utterly rude.

What do protesters around the world know, after all? Mass hysteria. People do react in predictable ways, do they not? First it was a mass wail-in for Michael Jackson. Now it's a unified global call for change in Iran. "Freedom ... Now!" the crowd roars during the globally-staged "Iran Global Day of Action", taking place in 85 cities around the world. Not in Syria. Not in North Korea. Not in Russia. Not in China. Not in Iraq. Not in Pakistan. Not in Afghanistan, I daresay.*

But the country does have its detractors. From among both the non-Muslim and the Muslim world, to be fair. "United We Stand again Dictatorship in Iran." "Stop mass arrest and torture of Iranians." "Release all political prisoners and prisoners of conscience." Those tedious slogans. There were no signs of note pleading for "Recognize Israel", or "Stop Nuclear Weaponization". But we can read those message into the total, if we so desire.

Expatriate Iranians living in democratic freedom elsewhere in the world than Iran say they want Iranians to enjoy democratic rights and freedoms. They claim that President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a criminal. That he must be deposed. Nothing about the Supreme Leader, and the other ayatollahs whose program President Ahmadinejad prosecutes? He is where he is, after all, at the behest and the connivance of the ruling theocratic council.

No protests against the growing and extremely sinister militarization of the country under the increasing control of the fanatic Islamist Revolutionary Guards? Who are increasingly in control of the country's nuclear program. As in the Guards commander-in-chief's statement: "If the Zionist Regime attacks Iran, we will surely strike its nuclear facilities with our missile capabilities."

Secure in the belief is Mohammad Ali Jafari, that as the world's fifth-largest oil exporter, and the country that controls the passageways in the Persian Gulf, the world would not tolerate such an attack on Iran, disrupting natural gas and oil pipelines and beggaring multinational oil refining corporations and sending the world's economy into a financial and energy-procurement panic.

No intelligence on President Ahmadinejad's father-in-law, Esfandiar Rahim Mashaie's loving statement on Israel? And Ahmadinejad's forgiving installment of his father-in-law to the post of first vice-president? And Ayatollah Khamenei's refusal to accept this choice, and Ahmadinejad's eventual reversal? And the resignation of the newly-assigned culture minister, the firing of the intelligence minister?

Conceivably because the intelligence minister discovered a clear lack of same within the cerebellums of the ruling elites? Next up, please.

*Whoops, forgot Venezuela, didn't I?

Labels: Middle East, Technology, Traditions, Troublespots

posted by Pieface @ Monday, July 27, 2009