As with any Iranian video making the rounds on Twitter, I can’t prove that it is what it claims to be but it’s certainly plausible. Reports of students being killed by regime goons have been steady since the weekend, with 60 kids supposedly detained at Isfahan U. and others allegedly thrown out of upstairs windows. Clips of their injuries were being uploaded as early as Sunday but the one below takes it to a whole new level.
These are indeed scary times for the citizens of Iran. Obama’s weak leadership on this situation is shameful to this county. He’s spending more time complaining about Fox news than addressing the situation in Iran.
From HotAir
Fun fact: Whereas The One was “shocked and outraged” by the murder of George Tiller, the most he can muster here for mass beatings and cold-blooded killings across Iran is that he’s “troubled.” Make of it what you will. Video [here].
Twitter and Facebook have become a lifeline for the people of Iran and their need to let the world know how they’re being treated. You can follow postings on Twitter at this link, and on Facebook here and here.
The first of the challenges thrown at the President-elect, who received his first national security intelligence briefing yesterday, came from the Russian President Dmitry Medvedev.
He threatened to base warheads along the Polish border if Obama goes ahead with a Bush administration plan to create a missile shield in Eastern Europe.
Then Israel warned Obama last night that his claim that he was ready to open talks with Iran could be seen in the Middle East as a sign of weakness.
Obama has already said the thinks too much has been done for Israel. If he’s not careful with this issue the middle east could implode.
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During the day he ventured out twice, once to visit his local gym and then his downtown offices.
Each time he was escorted by a convoy of black vehicles carrying heavily armed secret service agents.
It also emerged that both Obama and McCain’s computers were hacked into by a ‘foreign entity’ during the campaign.
Newsweek magazine revealed the FBI and the Secret Service had been called in, with one agent warning the Obama campaign: ‘You have a problem way bigger than what you understand… You have been compromised, and a serious amount of files have been loaded off your system.’
Federal agents told Mr Obama’s team in late August that Mr McCain’s campaign computer system had been similarly compromised, with a McCain aide confirming to
Newsweek that the computer system had been hacked and the FBI involved.
The hacking may have been Obama’s first skirmish with what was believed to be a foreign entity. More here.
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