As A Man Who Speaks With A FORKED Tongue,
BOTH SIDES of Obama’s MOUTH Are WEARING Out,
Leaving a considerable question as to what he’s About,
As we see the Iranian terrorist Government leave no Doubt,
His diplomatic dialog and eloquent speeches are without Clout!
His fighting ability and stamina are only good for a two round Bout!
Khamenei: ‘Which One of these Remarks are We Supposed to Believe?’
June 25, 2009
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
Proverbs 17:7 – Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.
Begin Excerpt 1 from DEBKAfile
Iran media: Obama sent secret letter of support to Khamenei before election
DEBKAfile Special Report
June 24, 2009, 11:05 PM (GMT+02:00)
US and Iranian sources report that before Iran’s presidential election, the Obama administration sent a secret letter to its supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei calling for “cooperation in regional and bilateral relations” and a resolution of the dispute over Iran’s nuclear program.
The Iranian media gave great prominence to the disclosure – for which they cited the Washington Times of Wednesday, June 24 – in order to underline US president’s backing for Khamenei and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in contrast to his latest words of condemnation for the regime and support for the “reformists.”
According to the WT, a senior Obama administration official speaking on condition of anonymity refused to confirm or deny that this letter had been sent to the supreme leader or whether there had been a response.
DEBKAfile’s Iranian sources say the Iranians are using this expose to embarrass president Obama for telling a news conference in Washington Tuesday that Iran’s rulers are on the wrong side of history.
The secrecy of the communication can only add to the awkwardness because it points to Obama being convinced that once the protest movement dies down, he can go back to his plan for engaging Iran’s leaders in dialogue.
Khamenei himself referred indirectly to the missive when he commented in his sermon last Friday:
“On the one hand, they write a letter to us to express their respect for the Islamic Republic and
for re-establishment of ties, and on the other hand, they make these remarks. Which one of these remarks are we supposed to believe.”
Following the disclosure of the Obama letter, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs announced: “Given the events of the past many days, those invitations [for Iranian diplomats to attend July 4 events in different world capitals] will no longer be extended.”
The events going back and forth in a single day, Wednesday, signaled a conspicuous retreat in the process of US-Iranian rapprochement.
Begin Excerpt 2 from DEBKAfile
Small protest turnout outside Iran’s parliament is violently dispersed
DEBKAfile Special Report
June 24, 2009, 6:37 PM (GMT+02:00)
Seeking to revive his flagging protest movement, opposition
leader Mir Hossein Mousavi scheduled a demonstration for Wednesday afternoon, June 24, outside the Iranian parliament building on Baharestan Square. According to eye witnesses, several hundred demonstrators turned up and were brutally dispersed by Iranian security forces and arrests made.
Some said they opened fire on the crowd and one young woman was injured.
DEBKAfile’s Iranian sources report that after Tuesday went by without street demonstrations for fear of the brutal Basijj, or even God is Great!
shouts from the rooftops, Mousavi tired to breathe new life into the protest movement, drawing from the strongest condemnation of the regime’s repressive methods heard so far from US president Barack Obama, especially his comment ” …those who stand up for justice are always on the right side of history.”
But those words came only on Day 11 of the protests against a forged election – too late by 72 hours for the men and women whose bravery he commended. By then, the Islamic government had already seized the momentum, ruling out a new poll and fixing a timeline for the swearing-in of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as president for a second term.
Furthermore, although the US president placed Ahmadinejad and his powerful camp – led by supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and backed by the Revolutionary Guards, the Basijj and the clerical hierarchy – on the wrong side of history, he nevertheless did not rule out his promised dialogue with Tehran.
But while Obama appears willing to go through with his commitment to test the negotiating track on Iran’s nuclear program during the months remaining until the end of this year, he faces an unforeseen difficulty: Khamenei and Ahmadinejad, who have established their authority against the dissidents, are expected to punish the US president for his condemnation and play hard
to get.
This expectation shed light on the White House’s abrupt decision Wednesday to send a US ambassador back to Damascus, four years after US-Syrian relations were ruptured over the assassination of the Lebanese politician Rafiq Hariri in Beirut.
This step will speed up the US reconciliation with Syria and is meant as an olive branch for Tehran’s closest ally and has been fulsome in its championship of Iran’s Islamic regime against the opposition.
Mousavi’s movement started running out of steam when Ali Khamenei’s powerful threat to opposition leaders staging ‘street riots” went unchallenged, leaving them without support.
The odds against them are formidable.
Since then, the regime’s bully-boys have demonstrated that they, not the protesters, control the streets. Iranian intelligence computer experts have been able to pre-edit and distort messages from their leaders, so generating confusion in the ranks over scheduled events and the sources of directives. Young dissidents have been arrested and their “confessions” aired.
The dissidents’ attempt to make the young student Neda, who was shot dead by a mounted Basijj thug, an icon of the uprising gained more traction overseas than inside Iran. Footage of how 10 students were murdered in a raid of Tehran University’s dormitories, with their names and photos, would have been more effective. But these victims remain unnamed.
A sensitive date still to come is July 8, the 10th anniversary of the Tehran university student uprising. Opposition leaders are preparing to make their voice heard on that day, but the regime will certainly make sure that it is not.
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