President Obama told Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Friday to clean up his act before demanding apologies from the U.S. for ripping the strong-arm treatment of election protestors.
“I don’t take Mr. Ahmadinejad’s comments seriously, about apologies,” Obama said at a White House news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel.
“I would suggest that Mr. Ahmadinejad think carefully about the obligations he owes to his own people,” Obama said.
“He might want to consider looking at the families of those who have been beaten or shot or detained,” added Obama, whose concerns about the validity of Iran’s elections and complaints about the crackdown on protesters has rattled Ahmadinejad.
The bloody suppression of protests after the disputed June 12 elections exposed the authoritarian nature of the Islamic regime, Obama said.
“We see it and we condemn it,” Obama said.
But Obama also made clear he was not cutting off the possibility of negotiating with Iran to stop the development of nuclear weapons.
In Tehran, a hard-line cleric called for the execution of “rioters” to end the unrest.
“I want the judiciary to punish leading rioters firmly and without showing any mercy to teach everyone a lesson,” Ahmad Khatami told worshipers at Tehran University.
Iran’s top legislative body, the Guardian Council, also said it had found no major violations in the presidential election that gave about two-thirds of the vote to Ahmadinejad.
The Council ignored a call to void the vote by moderate former Prime Minister Mir Hussein Mousavi, who finished a distant second in the official count.
(Source: NY Daily News)
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Thank you for always keeping us posted with the news in a frum way without having to revert to secular news.
I would like to request that you not put in pictures of reshaim. Why do we have to look at them? We all have the mitzvah of shemiras einayim.
There is also the issue of expecting woman who try to look only at tahor things. Please take this into consideration as it makes it very difficult to read articles without stumbling.
Thank you.