Today, I wear green.
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kyburgBecause I can, and nobody will kill me for it.
In his first public remarks after days of protests, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the outcome had to be decided at the ballot box, not on the street.
He said political leaders would be blamed for any violence.
Demonstrators calling for a new election earlier vowed to stage fresh protests on Saturday.
But the governor of Tehran province, Morteza Tamadon, has said no permission has been given for such a rally and he hoped it would not be held.
I smell Tiananmen. It smells like burning.
In other news, they say Uncle Walter is really getting to leave the building - at 92, it would hardly be surprising, but I'd miss knowing he was around, even if he was only sitting quietly in a corner shaking his head at the current status of broadcast journalism.
But for today, I wear green. For all the good it will do. For someone who can remember the days of the Shah, the kidnapping of the embassy staff (and Reagan's part in it) and work with an Iranian Jew...it's another bit of hope mixed with sad. You never know.
Somewhere, Boris Yeltzin has his fingers crossed.
In his first public remarks after days of protests, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said the outcome had to be decided at the ballot box, not on the street.
He said political leaders would be blamed for any violence.
Demonstrators calling for a new election earlier vowed to stage fresh protests on Saturday.
But the governor of Tehran province, Morteza Tamadon, has said no permission has been given for such a rally and he hoped it would not be held.
I smell Tiananmen. It smells like burning.
In other news, they say Uncle Walter is really getting to leave the building - at 92, it would hardly be surprising, but I'd miss knowing he was around, even if he was only sitting quietly in a corner shaking his head at the current status of broadcast journalism.
But for today, I wear green. For all the good it will do. For someone who can remember the days of the Shah, the kidnapping of the embassy staff (and Reagan's part in it) and work with an Iranian Jew...it's another bit of hope mixed with sad. You never know.
Somewhere, Boris Yeltzin has his fingers crossed.
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Date: 2009-06-19 06:42 pm (UTC)Either way... not pretty.
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Date: 2009-06-20 03:56 am (UTC)I sure don't want the Chinese or the Saudis or anybody else thinking that shutting down the communications will stop the revolution in its tracks when they bloody well earned their own overthrow the old-fashioned way.