Iranian cleric: British Embassy staff to be tried

Saturday 04th July, 04:39 AM JST

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jeancolmar at 11:26 AM JST - 4th July

The phony election that has retained the current president has wrecked the credibility of Iran's theocratic state in ways that all the shrill propaganda from the Bush gang and Israel's Zionist fanatics could not. The arrest of the British embassy staff is in reality a desperate move to prove that what was obviously homegrown indignation over the phony election was really part of a foreign conspiracy. The terrible truth that the current crisis has proven is that once religious fanatics gain control of government you can expect only repression and corruption--all justified because the oppressors claim to be doing God's will.

I have few worries about the British Embassy staff. After a show trial they will be given suspended sentences and kicked out of Iran. I do, however, worry about the Iranian people, who will suffer years of murderous repression from their theocratic tyrants because they dared protest the phony election.

It is up to the Iranian people alone, not anyone else, to dismantle the theocratic state and build a secular democratic government on its ruins. Iran's greatest national scientist, philosopher, mathematician and poet, Omar Khayyam, a secularist, had just the right words for the sort of religious fanatics running Iran today: "And do you think that unto such as you,/A maggot-minded, starved, fanatic crew,/God gave the secret, and denied it me?—/Well, well, what matters it! believe that too." May Khayyam be the inspiration of those brave Iranians who have had enough of the theocratic monsters running their country.
Badsey at 12:36 PM JST - 4th July

I would like to see the proof that Iran has against these two.

Still Iran is freer than the US where the Federal Reserve, Bilderbergs, CFRs, and Tri-Laterals control the show (and have killed every President that has tried to abolish the Federal Reserve).
Triumvere at 12:45 PM JST - 4th July

Jean, its not he British they are talking about its the Iranians who worked for the embassy. They will certainly not be "given suspended sentences and kicked out of Iran."
Madverts at 04:32 PM JST - 4th July

Dark days in the dwindling Islamic Republic.