Iran’s highest election authority said on Tuesday that there was no major fraud in the presidential vote and the results will stand, but U.S. President Barack Obama responded by saying there were “big questions” about the election.
At a news conference, the president said what has happened in Iran is “profound,” and he was more critical than he has been of the election and the violence against demonstrators that followed.
Iran’s security forces have been intensifying their crackdown in recent days, sometimes brutally.
Richard Bulliet, a professor of Middle Eastern history at Columbia University, joins Martin Savidge to discuss what the future holds for Iran’s protesters and what role the U.S. will play.
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07/29/2009 :: 10:47:19 PM
Anahita Says:
The problem in Iran is not the recent allegedly fraudulent election. The existence of the Islamic Republic is the main problem in Iran. Thousands of young Iranians have been executed when Mir Husain Moosavi was the prime minister in Iran. The Islamic Republic constitution undermines the freedom individuals and refutes the human dignity. I believe, if president Obama wants to stabilize the region, he should learn from president Jimmy Carter and the way that he supported Khomeini, while everybody mistakenly believed he was supporting the Shah! I agree with the Anjell that any obvious involvement of the US would damage the recent movement in Iran against the Islamic regime. However, I also believe that President Obama has the stamina to break the backbone of terrorism by taking out the Islamic Republic. Let’s make history; the world would be a better place without the Islamic regime in Iran.