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Sunday
Mar212010

Iran Video and Summary: Karroubi's New Year Message

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TodPGumtlvk[/youtube]

Amidst the Nowruz messages inside and outside Iran, Mehdi Karroubi made his contribution yesterday. There was a lot more beside New Year Greetings --- Mr Verde analyses:

Karrroubi says that he does not believe in an Islamic Republic which is limited to a few clerics like Ahmadinejad supporters such as Mesbah-Yazdi, Jannati, Shojooni, Hassani, Hosseinian, Ahmad Khatami or an Iran which only includes officials like Ahmadinejad, Mohammad Reza Naqdi, Gholam-Hossein Elham, Saeed Mortazavi, and Jalalladin Farsi (who he says is a murderer). Ridiculing Ayatollah Khamenei's reference to the "ship of the regime", he says that the current regime is like a "meagre barge" not a large "galleon".


Karrtoubi also talks about the martyrs of the street protests, the tortures, the detentions, the press closures and imprisoned journalists and former regime officials.

He says that he will give his life in order to defend the country, Islam and the Islamic Republic, but he adds that he does not believe in a regime that belongs only to a small group and their beliefs

Reader Comments (4)

G*d I love this guy. Balls of steel if you ask me.

March 21, 2010 | Unregistered CommenterJack

I love him as well; his speech is frank and candid and he's too brave ! he should have been SL .

March 21, 2010 | Unregistered Commenterange paris

[...] for Iran’s economy. Mehdi Karroubi, another opposition leader, also posted a video message condemning the government and pledging his life to defend his country, Islam and the Islamic [...]

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