Obama Cuts Funding to Democracy Protesters In Iran.

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Newsmax has learned that the Obama administration also has zeroed out funding for pro-democracy programs inside Iran from the State Department budget for fiscal 2010, just as protests in Iran are ramping up.

Funding for pro-democracy programs began in 2004, when Congress earmarked $1.5 million of the State Department budget for “educational, humanitarian, and non-governmental organizations and individuals inside Iran to support the advancement of democracy and human rights in Iran.”

The funding ramped up dramatically two years later, when Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice requested $75 million for pro-democracy programs. More than half of the $66.1 million Congress finally appropriated went to expand U.S. government-funded Persian language broadcasting services at Voice of America and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.

But no money has been earmarked for such programs in the administration’s fiscal 2010 foreign operations budget request. Congressional sources told Newsmax they doubted that a Democrat-controlled Congress would add it when the budget comes before a committee next week.

Controversy has surrounded the programs from the start, with pro-regime lobbying groups, such as the National Iranian-American Council urging the State Department to cancel the funding.
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Newsmax.com - Obama Erases Pro-Democracy Money for Iran

Meanwhile, Iraqis back Green Revolution in neighboring Iran...but not Obama.

AFP: Iraqis back Iranian protesters' call for change

Yete, he is still looking for the Iranian regime to send the international community a clear signal "on what it is -- and is not." Which is a pathetically weak response from an American president. Even Egypt condemned Obama's cautious stance on Iranian uprising.
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He's either in support of a regime or not. Judging from his actions, he's for the regime and their killings of protesters who do not have the backings of international support, including Obama.


Shame on him.
 
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Kokonut - I think that disturbing video should not be displayed in here. It belongs to ogrish.com, not AD.

Looks like Obama is going to destroy what previous Administrations including Clinton have long worked for.... yep shame on Obama. Shame on him being a girly man. :mad2:

I have read the link that Obama's strategy to Iran situation is to let it collapse itself. That is a very dangerous strategy.... even more dangerous than being a hard-ass to Iran because when Iran collapses, the revolution will become much more violent and longer. It leaves an open hole for any fanatic to take over Iran.
 
Jiro said:
Kokonut - I think that disturbing video should not be displayed in here. It belongs to ogrish.com, not AD.

Looks like Obama is going to destroy what previous Administrations including Clinton have long worked for.... yep shame on Obama. Shame on him being a girly man. :mad2:

I have read the link that Obama's strategy to Iran situation is to let it collapse itself. That is a very dangerous strategy.... even more dangerous than being a hard-ass to Iran because when Iran collapses, the revolution will become much more violent and longer. It leaves an open hole for any fanatic to take over Iran.
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I agree with you about the youtube link. He should put just a link with NWS warning.

Also I suggest you to follow #iranelection on Twitter. Many entries have been interesting. The Twitterers in Iran have posted many youtube links and images there.

Some of the entries that I have read are:

The pro-government milita group called Basijis use ambulances to grab injured and dying protesters.

Some injured protesters have been turned up in some foreign embassies so they can be taken in for medical care.

The injured protesters have been taken away from hospital by Basijis, the pro-government milita.
 
Jiro said:
Kokonut - I think that disturbing video should not be displayed in here. It belongs to ogrish.com, not AD.

Looks like Obama is going to destroy what previous Administrations including Clinton have long worked for.... yep shame on Obama. Shame on him being a girly man. :mad2:

I have read the link that Obama's strategy to Iran situation is to let it collapse itself. That is a very dangerous strategy.... even more dangerous than being a hard-ass to Iran because when Iran collapses, the revolution will become much more violent and longer. It leaves an open hole for any fanatic to take over Iran.
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Be ready for fresh vote on congressional election in next year and I could imagine if it going be repeat of 1994.
 
Jiro said:
Kokonut - I think that disturbing video should not be displayed in here. It belongs to ogrish.com, not AD.

Looks like Obama is going to destroy what previous Administrations including Clinton have long worked for.... yep shame on Obama. Shame on him being a girly man. :mad2:

I have read the link that Obama's strategy to Iran situation is to let it collapse itself. That is a very dangerous strategy.... even more dangerous than being a hard-ass to Iran because when Iran collapses, the revolution will become much more violent and longer. It leaves an open hole for any fanatic to take over Iran.
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I just included the YouTube link. I had no idea it would show up like that.
Oh well. May the victim rest in peace.

As for a collapse, which is why the United States helped fund educational, humanitarian, and non-governmental organizations and individuals inside Iran to support the advancement of democracy and human rights in Iran in order encourage the idea of democracy for the people of Iran, it's better to help the Iranian people to have the means to overthrow a brutal regime at this point than to send in troops.
 
We have no business to meddle with Iran, no matter how violent it gets there.
 
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Due to the bloody graphic nature of the youtube video and to the sensitivity of some members here, I have to take that down.
 
Calvin said:
Mod note:

Due to the bloody graphic nature of the youtube video and to the sensitivity of some members here, I have to take that down.
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What about use link to youtube instead of embed it with warning words?
 
kokonut said:
Already did. I just realize that if you use the entire http://www.youtube...... it will pop up a picture of a YouTube video still.
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It already showed on CNN and other news networks as her face and injury were simply blurred. I guess it is now in public domain.
 
That YT video that was displayed here before is flagged at the site because of graphic and not suitable for minors. The video is not blurred there and it did not come from CNN or any of our news network.
 
"Like most Iran in power, Moussavi rejects the existence of Israel. He defended the taking of hostages at the U.S. Embassy in Iran in 1979, which led to the break in ties between the countries.

He was part of a regime that regularly executed dissidents and backed the fatwa, or religiously-motivated death sentence, against author Salman Rushdie.

Rushdie's novel "The Satanic Verses" came out in 1988. Iran's leaders said the book insulted Islam. The country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, called for the death of Rushdie, and Moussavi, in a radio broadcast, said the order would be carried out."

Moussavi: Improbable challenger for Iranian regime - CNN.com

And you're saying that we should keep funding them?
 
netrox said:
And you're saying that we should keep funding them?
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Who them you're talking about? Again, I said,

Funding for pro-democracy programs began in 2004, when Congress earmarked $1.5 million of the State Department budget for “educational, humanitarian, and non-governmental organizations and individuals inside Iran to support the advancement of democracy and human rights in Iran.”
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Vid (link that was removed) not suitable for minors? That's a matter of perspective when it comes to issues like war and violence over the internet where the truth sometimes need to be seen and heard. After all, protesters smply want greater freedom and democracy but get bullets instead. All one has to do is go to YouTube and type in "Iran" and "protest" in the search engine box and you'll find a whole list of the most recent protests as well as those protesting over those who got killed by the Iranian police.
 
Foxrac said:
What about use link to youtube instead of embed it with warning words?
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Apparently, that is also unacceptable. :roll: Even with a warning come attached with the link address.
 
netrox said:
We have no business to meddle with Iran, no matter how violent it gets there.
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Exactly. We cannot force democracy down the throats of a culture that has never experienced such and expect it to work.:roll:
 
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