Ayatollah waves the red flag at bulls on parade
This week, Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei,
accused the UK government of being evil. Which doesn't make sense because there can only be one axis of evil, and Iran's already in it. Perhaps Gordon Brown did receive invitation to join the club... only to have it revoked for breaking the rules (The first rule of evil club is you do not speak about evil club). Still, it's nice to see British Foreign Office start kicking up a fuss in this school yard name-calling game.
What's more interesting though is Iran's democracy that is currently under the world's spotlight. The quasi-dictatorship, authoritarian control seems to be
splitting at its ends as pressure from civilian protesters take to the streets marching like bulls on parade. This is something hardly even totalitarian nations like China would be able to shield from global eyes. The incumbent are pulling out all the stops now, signs of desperation, utilising everything under their sleeves like media censorship, propaganda, and tastiest of all, persecution against the people.
"Iranian TV Thursday night aired confessions from people who authorities say were paid to destabilize Iran. It aired remarks from some "terrorists" who said the United States paid them to enter from Iraq to committing terrorist acts against the Iranian leadership." - CNN
Those "terrorists" are of course Wikipedia, and social networking websites like...
Facebook. So far there are no reports of "violent acts" comitted by the aforementioned organisations, thankfully. So it seems the biased Khamenei has got no qualms labelling people who participate in civil disobedience as "terrorists"... effectively labelling anyone promoting freedom of information as enemies of the state. Hmm, this seems
all too familiar. US politician, Karl Rove, comes to mind. Afterall, his dirty tactics are often shared and favoured by authoritarian quasi-democratic governments. In the end, the flow of information and truth will prevail in a campaign of fear and smear. Your
people will speak. And the world will be waiting to listen.
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