Obama will condemn Iran abuses

Posted By Laura Rozen Tuesday, June 23, 2009 - 1:38 PM Share

President Barack Obama will condemn Iranian government use of violence against peaceful protesters and other human rights abuses at a 12:30pm news conference, sources in touch with the administration say. The president's planned news conference was moved from the Rose Garden to the James Brady briefing room.

The announcement will come after a weekend in which Iranian paramilitary and security crackdown killed from 10 to 19 demonstrators and onlookers, arrested and detained opposition supporters, kicked out most of the foreign press corps, arrested a dozen journalists and banned the rest from covering protests, and accused the United States, Britain and other nations of meddling. The British Embassy is reportedly evacuating families of diplomatic staff.

Iran's Guardian Council, a top clerical body, today declared that there was no fraud in the vote count that found incumbent President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad the landslide winner of elections, and that the elections would not be annulled.

 

AHMADI

4:17 PM ET

June 23, 2009

Ban Iranian regime's diplomat from 4th of july celebration

will he rescind his invitation to iranian diplomat that are supposed to celebrate 4th of july with him.

this is sick and outrageous...will any journalist dare ask him this simply question....will you or wont you rescind the invitation????

 

SETH EDENBAUM

12:52 AM ET

June 24, 2009

Has Obama condemned Israel for anything?

Israel's policy in Gaza and the west bank are far and away more violent than anything the Iranian government has done in the last week. There's no comparison. And what about Egypt? Obama's last words on that subject were that the dictator Mubarak is "a force for good."

And what about the New America Foundation Panel:
Iran's Election What Happened? What's Next?
Massive fraud? A coup? Watch the video and read the comments.

None of the discussion here is about democracy in Iran.
The moralizing here, at FP and by you Laura, is disingenuous to say the least.
Elsewhere it's sincere but not where the interests of the US are the priority.
The interests of the US and those of democracy as such have never been synonymous.
If they were we wouldn't be in this mess.

 

Josh Rogin reports on national security and foreign policy from the Pentagon to Foggy Bottom, the White House to Embassy Row, for The Cable.

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