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Looks like it’s coming apart over there today, and Mousavi Appears, Says “I Am Prepared For Martyrdom”.

Some embassies are taking in the wounded.

President Obama remains silent.

Guess he’s voting present on this one . . . What a dude.

[Update: Finally a statement from the White House]

THE WHITE HOUSE

Office of the Press Secretary
_______________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release June 20, 2009

Statement from the President on Iran

The Iranian government must understand that the world is watching. We mourn each and every innocent life that is lost. We call on the Iranian government to stop all violent and unjust actions against its own people. The universal rights to assembly and free speech must be respected, and the United States stands with all who seek to exercise those rights.

As I said in Cairo, suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away. The Iranian people will ultimately judge the actions of their own government. If the Iranian government seeks the respect of the international community, it must respect the dignity of its own people and govern through consent, not coercion.

Martin Luther King once said – “The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” I believe that. The international community believes that. And right now, we are bearing witness to the Iranian peoples’ belief in that truth, and we will continue to bear witness.

“[W]e will continue to bear witness” — stand around and watch and do nothing else — that ought a scare the bejeesus out o’ the Mullahs — sure.

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