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1. El Jefe Maximo:

You’re kidding, right? We have no diplomatic relations with these people and we let their representatives operate in LA? Probably Houston too for that matter. Not even we’re that stupid.

Oh, wait a minute…Never mind.

Jun 12, 2009 - 1:16 pm 2. Winston:

When they get to bribe ex Rep. Bob Ney and bunch of others, then why would we not expect them to operate within the continental United States? I wonder if State Dept gave them permits to run these polling stations.

Jun 12, 2009 - 5:30 pm 3. David Thomson:

The Iranians are dark skinned individuals. That explains just about everything. Our politicians and government bureaucrats dare not say no to these “victims” of American imperialism. The Shah of Iran was supposedly a scum bag and puppet of the United States. Thankfully, the kind and merciful Ayatollah Khomeini came to their rescue. Try imagining blue eyed and blond haired Aryans allowed to behave similarly. Well, can you? I don’t think so. Race guilt is destroying our nation. We need to put a stop to this nonsense—or we will not survive.

Jun 12, 2009 - 8:23 pm 4. Steve Schippert:

They’re not dark skinned individuals. They have a diverse population and are Persian, not Arab. In fact, it was a blonde-haired, blue-eyed excellent-English speaking Iranian who talked past guards convincingly American enough to get into the Karbala compound and kill a US soldier while taking 4 others. The four other Americans abducted were summarily executed on the side of the road in the race back to the Iranian border.

This is the foremost state sponsor of international terrorism, with gallons of American blood on their hands in just recent years. And we permit them to conduct polling places right in the belly of the Great Satan?

That this does not spark popular outrage is astonishing. I suppose someone would have to actually report it, and then do so outside the context of supporting or fostering democracy.

Jun 12, 2009 - 10:03 pm 5. David Thomson:

“They’re not dark skinned individuals.”

They are predominantly dark skinned—like probably 99.95%. Blue eyed and blond haired Iranians are the great exception to the general rule. And that’s all that matters in our politically correct culture and political milieu. Far too many people are guilt tripped over race issues. This also why Barack Obama is now president of the United States. A white man possessing his thin resume would have been eliminated early in the Democratic Party nomination contests. Denying reality is not doing anyone any favors.

Jun 12, 2009 - 10:15 pm 6. David Thomson:

The irony is that politically correct left-wingers essentially agree with the “one drop rule” of the Old South. If the individual could “pass for white”—it’s didn’t matter one iota if the person was 1/8th black. They were still perceived to be totally black! The leaders of Iran without exception are “men of color.” Nothing else matters.

Jun 12, 2009 - 10:32 pm 7. winston:

@David Thomson

According to the US census bureau Persians pass for WHITE individuals. That being said, I don’t see why ethnic/racial background is relevant to this discussion. What are you implying?

Jun 12, 2009 - 10:50 pm 8. David Thomson:

“What are you implying?”

You can say all you want—but our politically correct culture still perceives every last single one of Iran’s political leaders as dark skinned individuals. The Ayatollah Khomeini, for instance, will never be mistaken for a “Bubba” living in Mississippi! This alone guilt trips the crap out of them. White Aryan Europeans would not be allowed to cast their ballots for a hypothetical greater Nazi Germany in Los Angeles. Thus, my point is very “relevant to this discussion.”

Jun 12, 2009 - 11:07 pm 9. exorcist:

PhD ledeen,
As I say before your country is disunited states! Not united state.
Iranian regime (mullah’s) looking for pimps for their politics and desires, so they have petrodollars and unfortunately pimps are exists everywhere in world! Money …ck!
If your country act like before did, mullah’s get fatter and fatter like ascaris! And more Americans will die.
Choose your destiny with your hands, and cut the mullah’s throat.
Tomorrow will be very late.

Jun 13, 2009 - 2:20 am 10. ali tehrani:

PhD ledeen,

As I say before your country is disunited states! Not united state.

Iranian regime (mullah’s) looking for pimps for their politics and desires, so they have petrodollars and unfortunately pimps are exists everywhere in world! Money …ck!

If your country act like before did, mullah’s get fatter and fatter like ascaris! And more Americans will die.

Choose your destiny with your hands, and cut the mullah’s throat.

Tomorrow will be very late.

Jun 13, 2009 - 2:22 am 11. Alireza:

At this time I’m SO SHOCK and MORE SHOCK about election result in Iran that I will not go into your topic about dual citizenship. I cannot believe Ahmadinejad and his gang is this anti people to take such a fraudulent action to make him the winner. I’ll say more later, but at this time I’m speechless….

Jun 13, 2009 - 4:15 am 12. Saahel Manesh:

To all of those Iranians who actually went out and voted for this fraud and phony “electiocns”– You deserve it!

To all the anglo-saxon “experts” and media outlets like Ayatollah BBC and Hojat-al-Islam Voice of America, etc, who tried to pass a swine MI5 operative, Mir UK Mousavi and his medieval black crow wife(Hajieh Zohreh) as “reformists” and the greatest thing on earth since Lech Walesa: condolences on your wasted propaganda and huge failure to preserve Islamic Republic of “Gohh”(that means melarkey in Farsi) under your ‘reformist’ lap dogs– Glad it did not work for you! :)

Iranians are realizing now that they cannot rely on western ‘experts’ to pull out of the garbage rotting corpses of this regime, like UK Mousavi, after 25-years again and re-furbish them as’intellectuals’, re-paint them and shove them down the Iranian peoples’ throats.

Iranians are now realizing that the only way to genuine freedom is to topple the whole of this abominable regime:EU-backed “reformists” and KGB/PRC-backed “fundamentalists”, and All!

And to think that some people actually got excited about Mousavi and his backward wife is amazing. Or were they also humming along with that British tune? Shameful or ignorant, you pick.

Now, let’s all relax, sit back, and enjoy the next 4-years under Ahmadinejad – it’s gonna be a great show, Don’t Miss It!

p.s.

Oh and on that L.A. thing, it was Fareed Zakaria who set the booths up – you know he gets bribes from the Iran regime, too. He also has dual citizenship:Pakistan, USA– Oh, sorry, he has triple citizenship:Pakistan, Britain(by providing his lap dog services to MI5 propaganda department), and US(by stupidtiy of US officials to grant him one)
I don’t see anybody stopping Fareed, Dr. Ledeen, why pick on poor Tehrangeles richies?

Jun 13, 2009 - 8:54 am 13. Winston:

@ DT

I am not sure if I am following you. What are you implying? I don’t see the relevance between the race and elections in Iran.

Jun 13, 2009 - 1:26 pm 14. Don:

Well while we’re on the topic, Can a Muslim actually be an American? I grant you that being an American means different things to different people, we’re all hyphenated now, but you don’t see most diverse Americans dropping their secular values and allegiance to the secular state just to kill other Americans by going on the warpath on a mission from god. Or putting the question differently, Does it make any sense to be a Muslim, if you can’t act like a Muslim? Or, is being an American in the great multicultural melting pot meaningless at best, and a thought crime at worst?

Jun 13, 2009 - 3:14 pm 15. frieda:

this is a fake velvet revolution and I hope poeple will not fall for it. Sheema Kalbasi had a great blog:

Yesterday even before the news of Ahmadinejad’s win was released I declared in my blog that something funny was going on. Today it is even more evident that something really really funny is going on. Rafsanjani’s house is apparently surrounded by security forces. Let’s face it Rafsanjani has the most to lose here. His and his sons head is on the line. If there is any chance that this trend is going to be reversed, Rafsanjani will be the key player. Today is the day that the Islamic Republic officially transformed from a theocracy supported by Pasdaran to a Junta supported by a handful of clerics. Whether or not the mullahs who were apparently outraged by Ahmadinejad’s statements during televised debates sit on the sideline and watch remains to be seen. The people should not become pawns in this power game.

zaneirani.blogspot.com

Jun 13, 2009 - 6:37 pm 16. David Thomson:

“I don’t see the relevance between the race and elections in Iran.”

The aspect of race has virtually nothing to do with the elections IN Iran. However, it is a very important factor OUTSIDE of the country. The Obama administration considers Iranians as dark skinned victims of western imperialism. It therefore feels inhibited in taking to task Iran’s thuggish leadership. Does this sound irrational? Well, that’s the way it is. Political correctness damages the ability of those under its influence to think and follow a logical argument.

Do the majority of Iranians perceive themselves as caucasians? This is mildly interesting. But that’s not how the leftists of the West perceive the citizens of Iran. Please don’t blame me—I’m just the messenger.

Jun 13, 2009 - 6:47 pm 17. Mikey:

Actually Iranians/Persians are ‘caucasian’. People that reside in the caucauses Mountains area. For centuries Persia was the crossroads of the old world. Traders, explorers and conquerors all came thru Persia, leaving their seed behind. Persians are very dark to very lightskined, with most being lighter skinned and better featured that most Arabs.
FYI. The LA Persian community is very tight knit hard working and absolutely HATE the mullahs and government of Iran. A large part of the community is Jewish and Christian, expelled in 1979 revolution.

Not too many of them actually voted , or voted against AmMadinJeHead out of hatred, just to get him out of office.

Jun 13, 2009 - 10:38 pm 18. whataloadacrap08:

For the record:
Most citizens Iran are of Indo-European origin, which means they’re as white as any other “whitey” who stepped off the Mayflower or any other “teeming refuge” scow to pull into port from the North Atlantic. Iranians are part of the Iranic linguistic group that occupies an area from western Turkey and going east to the Ostetias.
Now does that mean all Iranians are dead-ringers for the Swedes? Nope! The tides of history have washed over the Iranian plateau and deposited all sorts of goodies into the gene pool there, just like in Europe.
Now concerning the mullahs, and Iran in general. Even though he was a commie, and a tyrant, and an overall $hitstain on the jockey shorts of life, ol’ Joe Stalin did have a rather directness about him when dealing with situations such as this. He’d have given the mullahs a one-way ticket to Kaboomistan, then asked if anybody else had any issues to discuss with him.
Not that I’m saying this is the way to go, but I really do admire the simplicity of the solution.

Jun 13, 2009 - 11:41 pm 19. David Levavi:

I haven’t read your post above, Michael but It is 4:00 PM appx in Teheran as as I write. I’m trying to get info on unfolding events in Iran and there’s precious little on a Sunday but official speeches and releases. I wondered who I could complain to and I thought of my most reliable source of Info from there.

My big question: I agree that it is best that Obama not make a statement supporting the protests because it would backfire. But why aren’t ordinary Americans holding rallies in support of the protests. Most especially where are the feminist?

I don’t know what darkness will reveal in Teheran tonight. Will the day have strengthened the resolve of the protesters or dissipated it?

Effort must be made immediately to hearten the protesters, especially the women and to let them know they have the support of ordinary Americans.

Jun 14, 2009 - 6:32 am

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