Posted on 06/20/2009 11:50:03 AM PDT by The Klingon
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary _______________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release June 20, 2009
Statement from the President on Iran
The Iranian government must understand that the world is watching. We mourn each and every innocent life that is lost. We call on the Iranian government to stop all violent and unjust actions against its own people. The universal rights to assembly and free speech must be respected, and the United States stands with all who seek to exercise those rights.
As I said in Cairo, suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away. The Iranian people will ultimately judge the actions of their own government. If the Iranian government seeks the respect of the international community, it must respect the dignity of its own people and govern through consent, not coercion.
Martin Luther King once said - "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." I believe that. The international community believes that. And right now, we are bearing witness to the Iranian peoples’ belief in that truth, and we will continue to bear witness.
Obama believes in talking big and carrying a soft stick.
“The last thing I want to see, is the Iranian people put their lives on the line thinking the U.S. will swoop in and rescue them. If they were given hope, and that didn’t happen, it would be a betrayal of sorts.”
the other side of the coin is that the iranian govt may be given hope that the US won’t intervene and are emboldened to get even tougher on the protesters.
Yeah there is. It's called the Swiss embassy. ;-)
But I stand humbly corrected. :)
That’s a valid observations.
You are right, its beasically the de facto US Embassy. Have a ood Father’s Day/weekend.
Is Barry saying the I.U. does not respect the Iranian government?
Gee. To speak for the "international community" strikes me as arrogant.
Which reminds me...didn't Barry just go on an extensive tour of international communities to apologize for the arrogance of his predecessors?
0booooooombashiite....what a horse’s a$$!!!
0boooooooombashiite’s future gestapo members!!!!
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