Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Iran: supporters of the regime and its opponents

Both sides are nauseatingly hypocritical.  I have chided in Arabic Hizbullah and other supporters of the oppressive Syrian and Iranian regimes to cool it when it comes to celebrating the Egyptian uprising. That they are in no position to be effusive about their praise for the Egyptian and Tunisian uprising.  But the stance of opponents of the regime, like Saudi Arabia (its media suddenly discovered demonstrations of opposition groups somewhere in the Middle East, when they dismissed the protests in Tunisia and Egypt at first) and US are rather nauseating.  I mean, every time an American official vomits a statement about the right of protesters in Iran, I feel a strong urge to name the pro-US puppets throughout the Middle East. Give me a...potato.