THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
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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.
1 comment:
A sham Presidential Election where there were more votes then voters. Now two countries are known for that type of corrupt elections Iran and the United States. The Supreme Leader took the fraud plan right from Karl Rove's blueprint. Americans didn't march or even complain with the US had two elections that were fixed. 2000 millions of uncounted ballots, hanging chads, millions of missing ballots and then the fix by the US Supreme Court, which Judges say we should just get over it. 2004 Florida was given to Bush and Ohio had more votes then voters and fixed voting machine. Yes in the end both Elections were found that Gore and Kerry won. But Americans don't mine having a corrupt President. Let's see if Iran citizen allow it in their country.
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