Geo. Bush and US-Congress passing funding for the overthrow of the Iran-gov is at least suspicious. That the covert “Nat’l Endowment for Democracy” was involved agai) covertly (see the attempted overthrow of Hugo Chavez of Venezuela) leaves little to the imagination.

At best this is similar to US-TV drama and replay of 9-11 (Chile in Sept 11, 1973), the only surprise is Pres-Obama going back on essentially all of his canvassing statement and promises.

I am interested to know wether Mr. Hammond thinks that the recent events in Iran with the death of Grand Ayotallah Montaziri and the resurgence of mass protests against the regime would lead him to re-evaluate his analysis on the Iranian crisis.

I don’t know that “mass protests” is accurate. The answer is “no”. I don’t see any reason why recent events with the death of Montazeri should cause me to reevaluate my analysis. If you think there is a reason it should, I welcome you to explain it.

I am also interested to know what he thinks the position of the left should be on the Iranian Crisis now.

I find it interesting you specifically ask about “the position of the left”. What, should the position of “the left” be different than the position of “the right”? I don’t understand or relate to the assumption here, so I’ll ignore that and just speak to what I think the position of Americans should be: I think Americans should respect Iranian sovereignty and their right to self-determination and not interfere in Iranian affairs.

Jason Ditz @ antiwar.com… E.G. Thank You Very much for this comprehensive piece.. Also thank you for the ability to comment,,,,,,,, It keeps things HONEST..

I’m sure there was no effective fraud in election.
Also I participated in most of protests. Real Protests against the regime in Iran are not more than 3 millions but also are less. There was some strikes during the days after the election, especially the 30 Tir strike and trying to blackout the country in that time (July,21) by using high power devices such as iron at 21 o’clock. It was possible in Iran (at middle of summer) if at least 3 millions of people was doing this job. Although there was a lot advertisements for it during 2weeks before 30 Tir, But no type of blackout happened!!

As I searched and fund out the green revolution is going on. But the certain fact is that Ahmadinejad is the real winner of the election with no effective fraud. the fraud (if there has been existed) can not be more than 1.5 million votes.

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