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'Moussavi is also a villain'

Published on : 26 June 2009 - 1:20pm | By Henk-Sjoerd Oosterhoff

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US President Barack Obama has harshly criticised Iran and called the crackdown on demonstrators 'heartbreaking'. But he refuses to take sides in the battle over the June 12 election. In short: no support for opposition leader Mir-Hossein Mousavi.

In the US as well as abroad, President Obama is getting a lot of blame. For the first time his ratings are going down - not in the least because of his position on the Iran matter. Senior foreign affairs correspondent Bernard Hammelburg is interviewed by Henk-Sjoerd Oosterhoff.

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louis kelman 28 June 2009 - 6:25am

As a country you have been occupied several times and did not like it. Since 1918, 'Recent History' Iran has been 'twiddle with' by Chief of the Queen's Navy W, Churchill, Russia, UK again, America's Hoover, UK again, Eisenhower with Dulles + Dulles, and always the CIA the 'Meddlers'. Shah Reza Khan. was 'Designated Ruler', not by Iranians. Afghan Rulers were even installed as Rulers of Iran. Things will quiet down when Reza's son is back Was it not Cyrus the Great that freed the Israeli people and installed them in Galilee? I am confused. Was it the Iranian and Iraqi people that attacked the WTC in New York? Did they not killed the thousands during WW II? I guess that there are more Jews in the USA than Islams ts.