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NYC speaks out on Iran’s protests

Published: 21 June, 2009, 10:24

Supporters of defeated Iranian presidential candidate Mirhossein Mousavi protest (AFP Photo)

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Barack Obama has urged Iran to end the violence against protesters. The Iranian government in turn says it faces not demonstrations, but riots.

Thousands of Iranians have taken to the streets as a result of the recent presidential elections. Several people have already been killed in clashes with the police, and many more have been detained.

Web-journalist and RT's 'The Resident', Lori Harfenist, takes to the streets of New York to gauge people's reaction on deadly protests in Iran and to find out where the line is drawn between protests and riots.

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Count Cash June 23, 2009, 17:39
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Killing their own citizens; the west has been doing this for years, especially in protest, look at bloody sunday in Northern Ireland, just shooting a few Brits by the British regime, and the beating of people to death in the G20 protests in London and kettling them to provoke them, and about the Los Angeles riots, New York riots, Chircago riots ..... the list goes on and on. that's just killing your own, at home, killing your own abroad in Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan ...... for the banking class, just adds to it. Then wiping out foreigners, ostensibly civilians, is their real forte, just a few gone in a nuclear clean up in Japan, just a few gone in Iraq, Iran, Parkistan...... Do we see the western press drawing comparisons, oh no, do we see them focusing in perfect unison, under perfect western regime control, yes. Do we see the west, continually working to cerate the violence, yes. Their banking class hands are perfectly directed, inciting violence, training and arming terrorists. Interfering in every nation to create capital opportunities. The US will always be on the side of any capital or geopolitical opportunity in favour or the self interested banking class. Freedom for the institutional US, is freedom for them to exploit you, by breaking your nation and your home. They are thugs from the street.

C June 22, 2009, 22:18
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The United States will always be on the side of the people of Iran. These people are tired of living under a theocratic government which is ruled by the brutal Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who is willing to murder his own people to silent them. Gee... I wonder if the signs in English by the Iranian people are meant for the Russian people to see? Apparently Russia wants to continue with the "business as usual" stance with the current Iranian regime. After all - the Russian Government wants to sell their multi-million dollar surface-to-air missile defense to Iran.... It's all about the money with Russia! Let's talk about the real hypocrisy my comrades....