the crumbling sidewalks of tehran

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My comment there to dear Pedestrian:

As someone who spends a chunk of every single day working for election integrity and upholding the constitution, I have a great deal of empathy for all this, and in a world or time when Iran was not under such heinous threat from Israel and the United States, I would be in 100% agreement with those who wish for free, fair, constitutional and transparent elections in Iran.

But that isn't the case, now is it?

Most experts and honest Iranians say that approximately a third of the population is prosperous enough, educated enough and cosmopolitan enough to be straining under the strictures of the Islamic regime, and, as is readily apparent, virtually all Iranian expats are as embarrassed by the hotly defamed populist bumpkin who stands with certain others in the leadership between Western Corporations and the Holocaust Industry and their control of Iran's resources and people.

You did not seem to understand the significance of all the work done by Seymour Hersh to expose the U.S. Congress' allocation of hundreds of millions of dollars to send in assassination teams, destabilization agents and to fund terrorist groups who want to topple the regime. You do not seem to be paying attention the fact that Obama is not only in 100% accord with the policies of the last administration, but is upping the pressures in all the areas everyone, everywhere, agreed were appalling and evil and a menace to humanity. You don't seem to understand that your discontent with what two thirds of the Iranian people endorse is being used to help Obama get the American people behind an attack on Iran. You don't seem to wonder how many of these hot propagandists and Down With The Dictator screamers are actually funded by that allocation of hundreds of millions of dollars by our congress, and lobbied for by AIPAC. You don't seem, either, to count the consequences of this sellout to the less fortunate population in Iran.

You seem to suffer from the delusion that a more Western-friendly government in Iran would keep Iranians safe, that abandoning Iran's support for freedom fighters in Lebanon and Palestine, and letting Big Oil in to suck all the profits off Iran's natural resources, would make Iran more cosmopolitan and free, rather than just flat out an oligarchy of the 1% over struggling and starving masses.

Again, if you were not having to trade the entire worth of your homeland and the livelihoods of most of your people to gain these ends, I would be on your side, but the huge play to the American media with the filthy protest signs in ENGLISH and the massive fraud being fed to the Zionist news outlets through Twitter, when there are actually mountains of evidence that this is a [relatively] privileged minority throwing in with fascist American and Israeli operatives to throw off the yoke of the Islamist bumpkins with the gall to use our oil to benefit their people, completely appalls me.

I know you don't want to think it, when victory seems within your grasp, but you are helping doom millions of Iranians, whether or not your points and complaints are righteous. There were other ways to go about relaxing the strictures and gaining a more democratic state, but you do not seem to have been able to resist the help from squads of agents who mean you, and your countrymen great harm.

No amount of my begging you to think seems to have made the least impression. How many of the members of those exalted organizations you cite as calling for a revote are living off funds from that AIPAC-lobbied allocation? Hmmm?

I am so sick with worry over this mess, and so appalled by the heedlessness and selfishness of everyone engaging in this evil destabilization effort as though it were no part of the neocon/corporatist/Israeli effort to take back control of the peoples and resources of the Middle East.

I am aching over the manipulation of everyone's feelings of self-righteousness to gain completely evil ends, that their hopes have been stoked to put them living in the hallucination of freedom, and dying for it for decades to come, by the sociopaths of plutocracy, the chosen. Literally. I feel as though I have a bad case of the flu, and have gained an acute understanding of the terror felt by all those "religious extremists" giving everything to stand against the evil tide washing over them.

It was somehow easier to cope with this when it was the pinhead from Texas and his filthy minions, but now that it is a... no... the Silver Tongued Devil, The Audacity of Hubris, Cinderella, President Go Fuck Yourself, himself, I begin to feel this physically ill in the knowledge of the transcendental damage being done.