President Ahmadinejad Angered By President Obama’s Words
Last weekend, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad expressed his displeasure with President Obama’s response to Iranian repression of demonstrators after the country’s recent election. As most of the world may know, Iranian streets turned into an uproar after the presidential election last month.
The Iranian people decided to express their outrage with the outcome of the election that declared Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s victory in the race in which many Iranian’s feel was a stolen victory.
Prior to the election and shortly after his presidential victory, President Obama made and attempt to ease relations with the Iranian Government. However, after Obama’s comments regarding the unjust treatment of protestors and President Ahmadinejad expressed anger of Obama’s words, the main question is; what now?
According to the AP, President Ahmadinejad vowed in a speech that the U.S. will regret its criticism of the way the Iranian government is handling post election crackdown. The Iranian President also made the statement of the U.S. removing its mask.
What I would like to know is; why does the U.S. have to remove a mask all of a sudden because of our president speaking up for protesters and supporting the right to freedom of speech? I feel Obama was genuine when making the decision to send a greeting to Iran shortly after winning the presidency. However, the recent treatment of protesters being beaten, shot, and even killed in the street like Neda is ridiculous and deserves to be criticized.
In addition to the repression of demonstrators, the Iranian government has also banned journalist from reporting on the streets and ordered them to stay inside. In my opinion banning the media is just unheard of. This is starting to sound like a dictatorship.
Because of Iran’s media ban, the information that is learned comes from witnesses and official statements carried on Iranian media.
