As are people around the world, members of the Obama administration are closely watching news from Iran, following June 12’s disputed presidential election.
“Like the rest of the world, we were impressed by the vigorous debate and enthusiasm that this election generated, particularly among young Iranians,” White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said in a press statement June 13. “We continue to monitor the entire situation closely.”
“We don’t have enough facts to make a firm judgment” of the election in Iran, Vice President Biden said June 14. “The hope is that the Iranian people, all their votes have been counted, they’ve been counted fairly,” Biden said, adding that the United States seeks better analysis of the results.
No matter the election’s result, Biden said, the United States interests are the same: for Iran to stop seeking nuclear weapons and to stop supporting terrorists.
Comments (14)
Linda
Location: Dubai
16 June 2009 at 00:39 EDT
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Mr. Obama is our hope for a peaceful middleeast and a better USA.
Mr. Ahmadinejad is the hope for Iran and the Iranians.
Mr. Nathan Yahoo is the hope for the Palestinian.
Let’s be positive and not greedy by the Isreali settlers.
Let the Iranians be with their chosen president.
I support Mr. Obama.
iranian
Location: iran
29 June 2009 at 04:16 EDT
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As Iranian government say there is only 14 million votes for other candidate the only possible choice some people had from the opposition (mosavi), are these people have the right to talk?
How and from which tribune, TV or news paper they can ask from the government or the protectors of Mr. Ahmadinejad about their rights peacefully?
Why the protectors of Mr. ahmadinejad or who are not from the oppositions always attack to opposition candidates are they afraid of corrupted election.. or the world reflexes?Isn’t30 years enough for such a situation? Don’t they think all Iranians want to live peaceful and calm with minimum standards of life like every little country in the world..
anonymous
Location: IRAN
16 June 2009 at 06:59 EDT
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Mr. Obama
Iranian nation highly needs international support now.
be aware that this nation will never forgive those who sacrify our right for democracy for political and financial affairs leading to recognize the coup government.
shahid hussain
Location: j&k
16 June 2009 at 09:30 EDT
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we want to say to obama that india had a great problem of militancy in many states and we want to destroy this problem.few months ago in kashmir two womens are alleged rape and killed by indian army and lot of inocent people and womens are killed by indian army in kashmir although the indian govt not take any action aginst army this is the another big reason of militancy.indian govt has not show the illegal activities of army and no mercy with girls every girl is a wife,sister,and daughter of someone, we kashmiri muslims have lot of hopes from you. sir you are our angle.do some thing for ur muslim world.
Ali
Location: United Arab Emirates
16 June 2009 at 12:28 EDT
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Dear Mr. Obama,
Your ideas these days that so many young boys and girls are beated by the cruel regime guards just because people want their rights to be respected is really encouraging. Unfortunately not all the nations in the world is showing respect to this issue. I am refering to the recent visit of Mr. Ahmadinejad to Russi! why!, This means that simply they don’t care for the people who are just walking on the eadge between life and death now a days in Iran. Please this is the voice of the poeple from Iran, whatever you want to do, please understand that the peoples’ rights is just ignored. Do you still want to negotiate with such a government?!
datooam
Location: tanzania
19 June 2009 at 03:35 EDT
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Dearest Leader
i have heard that US & israil have pumped about 400 million $ just for the sake of destabilizing Iran.
arent we going against the humanity ? all that happens, indeed we r responsible.
plz inquire if these allegations r true. u seem to be peace and tranquility lover. chk if few of your officers have done this.
wish u all the best in the ‘path of His Almighty Allah swt, and may He guide us to the right path. Ameen
thx
Iranian Voice
Location: IRAN
19 June 2009 at 06:22 EDT
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im vary angry with you mr obama you are not Mr Bush you are nothing except guy with big mouth ,Bush said we protect iranian people if they try revalotion in iran but you said its nothing to do with USA. for 30years amarica tryes to help people to do the revalotion and now right by the time you just said its problem of country and nothing to do with you . NOW we belive the right to say “down with the amrica” Good luck , i like you but now im against so hardly .if the war get start i will be there and people which got disappionted like me from you . Your real jork .Good luck for future war with iran.
Benjamin Gal-Or
13 July 2009 at 01:17 EDT
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Stop supporting Terrorism?
Peaceful Bin Laden?
Peaceful Iran?
Is a time-invariant Personal Fixation the Safest U.S. Policy for Security?
FACTS Vs QUESTIONS:
To seal a lasting peace with Japan, the U.S. had to drop two, not one, atom bombs on highly populated cities.
Was it a war crime?
Next the U.S. bombed the Islamic Terrorist State Libya, and that stopped it to act as a terrorist state.
Was that a war crime?
Is anyone honest and responsible to humanity has been trying, with past personal-fixation and humility to Islam, to negotiate with the Islamic Terrorist State Iran about being a bit less of a terrorist state while doing almost the same with Iran’s brother-state: Syria?
Should, for consistency, the U.S. negotiate next with Hamas and Osama Bin Laden to be moderate terrorists?
With N. Korea & Russia providing Iran with advanced weapons that Iran ships to terrorists in Lebanon, Syria, Gaza and around the world, Obama’s outreach to No. 1 state terrorist is unfolding as irreversibly weakening the U.S. and the West.
Should Americans, and in particular American law makers, follow such a personally-pre-fixed, begging-asking acts that do not even reach the level of being wrong?
Is this pre-fixation only encourages Islamic Palestinians Peace Imposters and other Islamic imposters-terrorists to increase their demands beyond their daily pogrom dreams in the name of GOD? [Photon03 SCRIBD]
Jacob Andrew
Location: NEW YORK
28 July 2009 at 16:53 EDT
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this all has to do with zionist Israel
who want to see iran destroyed.
iran will never wipe out Israel. It is zionist israel who wants to wipe out
good jews like us and good moslems and christians. American need to stand up against these zionist israeli’s who
STEAL OUR HARD EARN AMERICAN TAX DOLLARS.
I KNOW THAT ISRAEL HIDES THE TRUTH AND DOES NOT WANT THE WORLD TO SEE IT , BUT THE GOOD LORD ALMIGHTY SEE’S ALL AND KNOW’S EVERYTHING. NO ONE CAN HIDE FROM GOD ALMIGHTY NO ONE!!!
jokin
29 July 2009 at 06:16 EDT
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As for international law a country can’t monitoring another…but this is Malcolm Shaw and not used in my taugth country.
ronmossad
Location: www.ronmossad.com
12 August 2009 at 21:30 EDT
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Unfortunately - in this crisis no matter who wins Iran, democracy and freedom loses…
http://ronmossad.blogspot.com/2009/08/in-endit-doesnt-even-matter.html
Mousavi and Ahmedinejad are cut from the same radical, Islamist cloth.
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25 August 2009 at 01:48 EDT
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