11:35 am
Iran to Italy: Do As We Say, Not As We Do
The smug brutally repressive dissident-murdering vote-stealing illegitimate peace-loving huggybear democratic government of Iran is shocked — shocked! — that a government would use violence to silence dissent (h/t):
Iran summon[ed] the Italian Ambassador to Tehran Alberto Bradanini in protest against the violent suppression of anti-G8 protesters. Bradanini was summoned to the Iranian Foreign Ministry on Friday to hear Tehran’s concerns about the “violent suppression of justice-seeking protesters by the Italian police.” A Foreign Ministry statement included Iran’s “strong condemnation” of the “suppressive actions…which are clear breaches of civil freedoms and fundamentals of democracy.”
This is not to make light of the Italian response to the protests, which may have been a little over the top. But I do find a bit of irony in this quote from one of the protestors:
“We are sick of the powerful governing without consulting the people,” said Martina Vultaggio, 29, one of the [G-8] protest organisers.
No wonder the Iranians are upset. There is only one thing worse than the “powerful governing without consulting the people.”
The powerful governing after consulting the people and then blatantly ignoring their will.
I wonder when Khatami-Ahmadinejad clique will get around to filing a protest against itself.