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Wednesday, August 05, 2009
Karoubi speaks out
Defeated presidential candidate, Mehdi Karoubi, has called on the government of Iran to stop squelching democratic protests."Using frightening methods to suppress people will bear no result. Allow people to protest in the streets and to chant slogans ... an imposed state of security will harm our national security ... mass arrests of moderates and having such mass trials will endanger the country's national interests."Full story from Reuters is here.Labels: brutality, election, free speech, Iran, vote
posted at 12:39 PM
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