Can't speak for anyone else, but my position - that claims that the
iranian election was stolen should not be supported until there is
some evidence for them - would be the same even if chavez were singing
mousavi's praises.
There is one connection, though. Many of us who follow Venezuela saw
how the opposition there cried fraud after it lost the 2004
referendum, despite a similar lack of evidence, and we recognized some
of the same dynamics - an opposition disconnected from the majority of
the country, western media largely unable or unwilling to tell the
story of majority opinion. A key difference was that the Venezuelan
election had international observers - the OAS and the Carter Center -
and when these observers pronounced the election substantially free
and fair, there was a substantial amount of pressure on the
"respectable" opposition and the media to concede - although even then
there was a lot of denial and resistance, and the last time I looked
there were still Venezuelan opposition people claiming the 2004
referendum was stolen - their 9/11 conspiracy story.
On Jun 29, 2009, at 8:12 PM, Doug Henwood <[email protected]> wrote:
On Jun 29, 2009, at 5:43 PM, Robert Naiman wrote:
Like many Iranians, including many Iranians who didn't vote for
Ahmadinejad and don't support Ahmadinejad, but whose voices have been
largely absent from Western media, even progressive media, Habib is
deeply skeptical of opposition claims that the Presidential election
on June 12 was "stolen," and has demanded that the opposition provide
specific evidence of its claims.
Are you all hypnotized by Hugo Chavez?
Doug
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