Leading Clerics Defy Ayatollah on Disputed Iran Election
“CAIRO — The most important group of religious leaders in Iran called the disputed presidential election and the new government illegitimate on Saturday, an act of defiance against the country’s supreme leader and the most public sign of a major split in the country’s clerical establishment.
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“I don’t ever remember in the 20 years of Khamenei’s rule where he was clearly and categorically on one side and so many clergy were on the other side,” Mr. Milani said. “This might embolden other clergy to come forward.” [source: NY Times]
threaten to arrest him and see where he runs…
Iranian Details Alleged Fraud
Mousavi Is Also Accused of Treason
In a 24-page document posted on his Web site, Mousavi’s special committee studying election fraud accused influential Ahmadinejad supporters of handing out cash bonuses and food, increasing wages, printing millions of extra ballots and other acts in the run-up to the vote. [Source: Washington Post]
he said it
Creative
Some Iranian text messenger — “Take your own pen with you, because at the ballot box they may hand out pens whose ink turns invisible after a while”
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Vladimir Putin Wages a Cold War With a Heating Fuel – Mr. Putin’s regime plainly intends to use Europe’s dependence on Russian energy to advance an imperialist and anti-Western geopolitical agenda. The only rational response is a dramatic acceleration of the European Union’s search for alternative sources of energy — and greater support for those countries that Russia seeks to subjugate.
perspective
If Iraq invaded the United States and killed hundreds of thousands of my fellow Americans, destroyed American infrastructure, ruined millions of lives and showed no inclination of actually leaving anytime soon… then I probably wouldn’t apologize either if I threw a shoe at the President of Iraq.
He said it: Gerald Celente, Economic Forecaster extraordinaire
Commentary: Nostradamus Redux: “There will be a revolution in this country,” though not until 2012, and it will take the form of a bloodless coup and the meteoric rise of a third party.
He said it
Dick Cavett, on Sarah Palin’s poor grasp of the English language
The Wild Wordsmith of Wasilla: “It’s admittedly a rare gift to produce a paragraph in which whole clumps of words could be removed without noticeably affecting the sense, if any.”
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