Heroic Iranians Demand Liberty; Mullahs Bully Obama

Mass demonstrations against the government continued for a sixth day in Iran.

So far the American President has painstakingly avoided showing solidarity with or support for courageous Iranians and their rebellion against the illegitimate theocracy that runs their country.

The cartoon expresses the reaction of the Iranian People to President Obama’s limp-wristed response.

The Iranian presidential election was a sham, not only because the vote count was rigged, but because the office of President is subservient to the  supreme potentate, Ayatollah Ali Khameneii, who was selected by his cronies in the ruling council of Islamic Mullahs and does not submit to the election process.

Today, Khameneii pronounced the election final and not subject to appeal, contradicting his earlier promise to conduct an investigation into the vote counting process, a promise President Obama had called encouraging.  Khameneii also vowed to punish protest leaders if there were any more violence, even though his own troops, police and militias have apparently been the source of most if not all the violence so far.

Throughout his career, Obama has shown himself fully capable of hard-ball politics, against domestic political adversaries.  An example was the ruthless reprisal against physicians and nurses who dared to disagree with his abortion dogma.

Yet, when it comes to dealing with foreign dictators Obama is ever the soft, compliant diplomat.  One of Obama’s comments on Tuesday was:

It’s not productive given the history of US Iranian relations for the US president to be seen as meddling in Iranian elections.

Predictably, Iran’s ruling Mullahs reacted by accusing the United states of “meddling” in their internal affairs, the very next day.  So far the only response from the American Administration came from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton:

The people of Iran deserve the right to have their voices heard and their votes counted…The outcome of any election should reflect the will of the people and it is for the Iranians to determine how they resolve this internal protest concerning the outcome of the recent election.”

Translation:  “Oh please Mr  Ayatollah, don’t embarrass us in front of our hard-left supporters by telling the world we’re “meddling.”

Ms. Clinton’s lame statement fails to acknowledge the reality that the election was a ruise since the real political power rests in the Mullahs who rule by force and cannot be voted off their thrones.

The  Mullahs are fully capable of barbaric means to “resolve this internal protest”.  But as the protests grow, so also does the possibility that Iranian troops and police could become reluctant to enforce the will of the Mullahs against the people.  Indeed there are indications that military and police discipline is already breaking down.  This is a crack in the dictatorship’s control that a US President should try to exploit.

But apparently President Obama is so wedded to his commitment to “engage” the worlds dictators, he cannot bring himself to say anything that might encourage the liberty seeking demonstators and thus offend Iran’s ruling thugs.