It’s good to see some things will stay the same.
“Iranians burn pictures of President Obama, all is right with the world!”
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It’s good to see some things will stay the same.
“Iranians burn pictures of President Obama, all is right with the world!”
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Arrgh. I like Michelle, but she falls for the same thing too many other people (left, right, or center) fall into.
A) Iran is not an Arab country and never has been. They don’t speak Arabic, and they aren’t ethnically or racially Arab either.
B) Iran is a totalitarian theocracy, and the only protests allowed are those approved by the government–and their government sometimes even coerces people to attend these rallies.
I get why she’s snarking on this, but a little more accuracy would have made the point better. The truth is that the people in Iran are not free, and you thus cannot trust that any images of Iran you see are not orchestrated by the government. They almost always are.
So, the Iranian regime still hates us and wants to stick it to the new President. It IS sadly amusing.
Amusing indeed. Like I said, some things never change. It’s almost comforting.
Heh. Yeah. Comforting.
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