With very few exceptions, the comments of the mainstream press about the events that followed the Iranian presidential election were in the West of shyness.
What happens is nevertheless of considerable importance. Whatever the future, the system established by Ayatollah Khomeini thirty years ago lived. Khamenei and Ahmadinejad Or drown the rebellion in a bloodbath and they will show a somewhat more adult for what they are, dictators and unscrupulous fanatical murderers. Or the revolt and overwhelm the regime change takes place.
While wishing, of course, the second issue, I fear the former. But even this would be the first to occur, it would become much more difficult for a diplomat or a Western politician to pretend that we can still negotiate anything with such people and it would not close their eyes more the dangers that nuclear weapons in the hands of such characters might represent.
What happens now is a lesson in dignity and ethics against the "pragmatism" of those who do stop saying that the Muslim people can not aspire to freedom. The Iranian people today, right now, demonstrated immense courage and expresses that thirty years is enough. Those listening to the chants in the streets of Tehran and all major cities across the country know what is meant is not a request for a recount of votes, but, more often, cries say: "Death to tyrants" or "Death to dictators."
calls are made towards Mousavi, but it is carried by a movement that goes far beyond which there is nothing in the organizer. It may be his leader, but only on condition that he put himself listening to the people.
We also hear, amid shouts, "Allah is greatest", but no better than Ahmadinejad or Khamenei does this mean, that neither Ahmadinejad nor Khamenei, some dignitary or Islamic, is legitimate.
Among the Iranians who are in the streets today, many people have passed through Iraq and saw what no one spoke in Europe: a country freed from a tyrant who was tried and executed, a countries where the press and elections are free. In the demonstrations in Iran, the reference in Iraq is clear. The protesters believe that the fate of Saddam Hussein should wait Khamenei and Ahmadinejad.
The destabilization of the autocratic order that prevailed in the Muslim world and thought that George Walker Bush has effect. Those who think that free elections in Muslim lands are still in power of the Islamists should examine more closely the results of the recent Iraqi elections, the Lebanese elections which saw a net decline of Hezbollah, or elections in Kuwait.
Nobody emphasize the blindness and cowardice, cynicism and lack of perspective Obama administration. Two weeks ago, Barack Obama, in his speech in Cairo was courting the Islamists and licked the feet of Khamenei and Ahmadinejad. For more than eight days of riots in Iran, he chose the camp of those in power and repression in the name of "stability", and eventually hold about minimalist vaguely favorable to liberty.
I remember the time when the United States were at the outset of the side of freedom against totalitarianism. This was the case under Presidents Kennedy left such, preservatives such as Reagan or George Walker Bush. Obama embodies an American left that is nothing left once idealistic, but a far left, radical Third World, opened to Islam, holding hands with dictators.
There are people that Obama still dreaming. It was the dreams we can. I prefer to hope for freedom of Iranian people.
I wrote a year ago that even if elected, Obama would not be President, I persist and I sign. No, Obama does not behave as President of the United States!
Guy Milliere Truths for 4 weekly
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