{"id":294,"date":"2009-06-18T13:01:04","date_gmt":"2009-06-18T20:01:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/?p=294"},"modified":"2009-06-18T15:34:52","modified_gmt":"2009-06-18T22:34:52","slug":"irans-elections-dear-supreme-leader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/the-war-diaries.com\/?p=294","title":{"rendered":"Iran’s Elections: Dear Supreme Leader"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nKeep that momentous pixelated video coming!<\/p>\n

I posted a piece addressed to Ayatollah Khamenei last night on the HP here<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

According to the Guardian<\/a>, during the called-for day of mourning, protests are not letting up from Kurdistan<\/strong> to Baluchistan<\/strong> and Ahmadinejad has not been spotted since Monday’s meeting of the the Shanghai Cooperation Organization<\/a> in Yekaterinberg. Today, the arm and headbands morphed from green to black in memory of those killed in the demo’s thus far. The democracy movement now appears to have gained enough momentum that real change may be afoot. It is up to the strength of the masses of the people at this point. Obama has not and really does not have a place to interject in Iran’s internal dynamics. People in the East have a long memory and if Baghdadis can bitterly compare the American sacking of Saddam Hussein to Hulagu Khan’s destruction of the libraries of the Abbasid Caliphate\u00a0<\/a>in 1258, then certainly Iranians will recall Operation Ajax<\/a>\u00a0just fifty-six years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Keep that momentous pixelated video coming! I posted a piece addressed to Ayatollah Khamenei last night on the HP here.\u00a0 According to the Guardian, during the called-for day of mourning, protests are not letting up from Kurdistan to Baluchistan and…<\/p>\n

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