While every news break I see here in Australia rambles on about some email Kevin Rudd may or may not of sent and just about anything that can be even minutely related to a rugby league player, something important and distressing has been happening on the streets of Iran.
Maybe it’s the fact that I am an international news junkie. Maybe it’s the fact that injustices really piss me off. More likely it’s the fact that I find Iranian women incredibly hot, but I find what is happening in Tehran really horrifying.
Now I am not one to jump on the USA bandwagon and instantly slander any leader that doesn’t fit into their mould of the new world, but Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s blatant disregard for the democratic process and the rights of his people makes me feel about as healthy as he looks in the picture above.
While at this point there is no proof that the Iranian election was rigged, let’s be realistic here – it sure looks that way. As matter of fact, there is not much proof of anything that has happened in Iran over the past week, due to the fact that the world’s media has been banned. Banned from reporting the valiant protests of people angered by feeling rendered insignificant through the disappearance of their vote. Banned from reporting the brutal bashings and murders being unleashed by the pro-government Basij militia. Only chilling grainy videos from mobile phones have given any real glimpse of what is really going down in Iran.
But never fear! Iranian State TV here! Forget CNN or the BBC, luckily the Iranian “government” have decided that only one “media” outlet is capable of properly covering the crisis.
According to ‘Press TV’, the USA are to blame for the current shitstorm that the country is engulfed in. Yes, Barack and his crew are guilty of "intolerable" interference in Iran.
Now obviously the boys in red, white and blue got up to some intolerable interference in Iran back in 1953. In 2009, If anything, the problem is that the world community are guilty of intolerable non-interference.
The international community – particularly the influential USA and United Nations, must refuse to acknowledge the dodgy Ahmadinejad regime. He has cheated his people and the world.
To be continued.
